> Mobile phones aren't only for work. In fact I rarely use mine for work, > even > though they pay for it.
Yeah, my company pays for mine. It's great. We have a Nextel "free incoming" plan. So all my business clients get my cell number and they think they are on the inside track - special treatment. And it's not costing me a dime when they call. And I have all my servers setup to send me text messages whenever there is trouble. So I get 24/7 monitoring for free. And I have a "sleep" profile that doesn't buzz whenever it receives messages, just phone calls. So during the night I can "turn off" the monitoring system and still have all the messages there waiting for me in the morning. (Ehsan, that's how I know when your cron job is acting up - process count and system load go through the roof.) About 3 years ago I predicted in the US that we would begin to commonly see households that have no land line, just cell phones. And now it's true. Next big wave will be highspeed wireless access delivered to the home from one or two central places in a town. And some of the big cities already have it. With the domination of satellite TV, I can see a future when the only wire you have coming to your house will be electric - you won't need any other wires. I can't remember the name of the man, but there was a scientist in Yugoslavia that invented a way to generate electricity by placing rods in the ground. I can't remember how feasible it was or the exact outcome. Perhaps one day we won't even have an electric line coming to the house. _______________________________________________ msvc mailing list [email protected] See http://beginthread.com/mailman/listinfo/msvc_beginthread.com for subscription changes, and list archive.
