Personally I think a open diolague about a broken system at all levels is a Good Thing. It's even better though when people start proposing solutions. Kim Sorvig noted that the US economy is basicly run by gambling-ie investments in Wall Street. I don't have enough game theory or economics to show why that's a bad thing. I can show that as far back as Wall Street has existed it's become a increesingly bad design though. Speeking of "the man"- with T-Mobile US future somewhat in doubt i've been doing some diging and came across something interesting: http://www.shopstraighttalk.com/ offers for 45USD a plan that includes unlimited data- the downside is that in newmexico they don't offer droid phones (yet). As much as I like the idea of going to verizon- how do they get off on charging 50USD for a REQUIRED unlimited Data package-unless you go through the webstore and get 4g data as a addon package? I point this out because IF my friends start up gets off the ground she wants me on bord in some copacity-but that'd meen moving back the bay. I can't justify paying 95 dollars for cellphone service just because i'd need directions. The other interesting one is: http://www.earthtones.com/ they claim that if a phone isn't offered you can get ahold of them and try to make arangements. Plus they have midling coverage. Here's another interesting question: Why does CDMA from verizon have bad ass coverage compared to T-Mobile that's spoty at best where you need it? (like roads or hotels.)
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson > <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> Dear Local Friammers, >> >> >> >> <snip> > > Thank you for the report, interesting. > >> >> I stipulate that this is not the place for a political discussion and that >> many of you would probably disagree with me vehemently on many matters, so I >> will leave it at that. As soon as there is a local distribution list or >> equivalent, there will be no need to discuss such matters in this forum, for >> which, I assume, many of you will be grateful. > > WTF? Why *not* talk about things of this nature here? We've often done so > in the past. > >> >> Back to the discussion of cellphone apps. > > Ah, now your talking! But usually not about apps as far as I recall, more > about core tech and being fucked over by The Man. CDMA, GSM, 2G, 3G and > more, but appps? Not much but to congratulate Tyler on his success. > >> >> Nick > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
