The Telecom Digest for November 09, 2010
Volume 29 : Issue 302 : "text" Format
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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:39:34 +1100
From: David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
Message-ID: <pan.2010.11.08.02.39.31.657441@myrealbox.com>
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:11:24 -0400, Monty Solomon wrote:
>
> iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
>
> This is how smartphone users see each other
>
> http://www.csectioncomics.com/2010/11/iphone-vs-android-vs-blackberry.html
Where are the drawings of the look on their faces once they have smashed
the faceplates of their respective devices?
The amount of "smartphones" I see these days that have been stepped on (or
just dropped) is growing and they don't look so "smart" when full of
cracks.
--
Regards, David.
David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
measure of how many questions you have.
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:17:06 -0800
From: Steven <diespammers@killspammers.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
Message-ID: <ib9er5$afa$1@news.eternal-september.org>
On 11/7/10 6:39 PM, David Clayton wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:11:24 -0400, Monty Solomon wrote:
>
>>
>> iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
>>
>> This is how smartphone users see each other
>>
>> http://www.csectioncomics.com/2010/11/iphone-vs-android-vs-blackberry.html
>
> Where are the drawings of the look on their faces once they have smashed
> the faceplates of their respective devices?
>
> The amount of "smartphones" I see these days that have been stepped on (or
> just dropped) is growing and they don't look so "smart" when full of
> cracks.
In the 2 years I have had my Palm 755p I have never dropped it, yet if I
do I bought a bumper that goes around the edge of the phone.
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***** Moderator's Note *****
Didn't you know that bumpers have anti-gravity features built in? As
soon as you buy one, you obviate any chance of ever dropping the
phone!
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:56:52 -0500
From: tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: iPhone vs. Android vs. BlackBerry
Message-ID: <op.vlvds2p0itl47o@acer250.gateway.2wire.net>
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:39:34 -0500, David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com>
wrote:
> The amount of "smartphones" I see these days that have been stepped
> on (or just dropped) is growing and they don't look so "smart" when
> full of cracks.
Not even a Motorola SLVR (aka L2) looks too great with a crazed glass cover
over its display screen. And, in these benighted states, nobody repairs such
devices -- instead, Motorola offers to replace the entire handset with a
refurb, for the price of a new handset.
I found salvation in a third-world country -- in Guatemala, every village
market has a cell-phone specialist or five who'll remove the faceplate from an
L2, scrape out the crazed glass cover (along with all errant slivers of
glass), glue in a fresh glass cover, and reassemble it all, for the princely
sum of ... the local equivalent of about six bucks :-) .
Cracked smartphones probably cost just a buck or two more than that to fix
(more glass).
Cheers, -- tlvp
--
Avant de repondre, jeter la poubelle, SVP
***** Moderator's Note *****
Well, how about setting up a cottage industry. You get the guys in
Guatemala, and charge 50% of the "repair" price people pay up here:
you'll be rolling in dough.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 02:46:25 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Telephone database
Message-ID: <ib7oa1$bcl$2@news.albasani.net>
Randall <rvh40.remove-this@and-this-too.insightbb.com> wrote:
>"Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> wrote:
>>>What's interesting is this year's cover claims "yp.com" is the
>>>new "yellowpages.com".
>>>Interesting. Looks like "yp.com" finds businesses by name or number
>>>(reverse lookup?) and is also a people-finder. I didn't bother to
>>>enable javascript to test it, but that capability could be useful.
>>It's not a people finder. It's yet another front end to Intellius.
>>Right now, there are no on line databases left except Intellius and
>>whitepages.com.
>There's at least one other: http://www.zabasearch.com
That's a combination of Intellius and some phone book search with very
fuzzy matching. Notice that most of the links go back to Intellius.
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:49:01 -0500
From: Matt Simpson <net-news69@jmatt.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Verizon-Penna gets ok to end phone books
Message-ID: <net-news69-129E75.12490008112010@news.toast.net>
In article <t5j8d65egme7b3oasjh9ln8q2t0n5qrd1r@4ax.com>,
Richard <rng@richbonnie.com> wrote:
> In my town of Pahrump, NV, besides the usual AT&T white and yellow
> page directory, two other companies distribute phone directories with
> both types of pages: One from a local newspaper, the other from a
> company based in Utah.
It's hard to count how many phone books I get every year.
I live in a somewhat rural area served by ATT (BellSouth). Every year I
get the "official" phone book, which has the White Pages for my local
calling area, and a Yellow Pages section containing ads for businesses
in the area. The book is less than 1/4 inch thick.
We're within easy driving distance of a more urban area (Lexington KY),
currently served by Windstream, although with the last several years
it's also been served by Verizon and Alltel, as the big guys keep
playing the buy and divest game.
I get Yellow and White Pages directories for the Lexington area and
surrounding counties from ATT, Verizon, and Windstream, each one being
several inches thick. I also get a couple of independent directories
with Yellow and White Pages for the counties bordering Lexington, but
not including Lexington. These are maybe 1/2 to 1 inch thick.
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:39:24 -0600
From: Hudson Leighton <hudsonl@skypoint.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983
Message-ID: <hudsonl-B830BD.15392408112010@news.isp.giganews.com>
Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983
With this posting of the Bell System Technical Journal from volume 1
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Here's the question: why does a T1 line have 24 channels?
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