I had no idea Brian L. Roberts had a /. account. Stick around you might actually learn something.

But then you couldn't afford to pay your cable bill every month and the cable lobby simply cannot have that!

Fuel Tax in the USA
IRS definitions for non-taxable fuel uses "On a farm for farming purposes"
You might want to do a little research BEFORE embarrassing yourself on /. which is pretty hard given all the competition but you have won the /. lottery this night my friend.

Which is all relatively pointless when their connection to the backbone is fscked on purpose to keep your streaming choppy.

SBC (formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation) acquired the rights by buying the original AT&T in 2005 for 16 billion so it's still part of the same company. SBC had already swallowed up numerous other baby bells prior to acquiring AT&T.

Well according to Level 3 they refuse to upgrade their circuits now anyway so it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to the end user.

I believe your were attempting to say electricity derived from a mobile fuel cell is less efficient than electricity derived from the electric grid and stored in mobile batteries since the only difference between the two cars is where the electricity is generated. Because I can install a fuel cell system (propane or natural gas) at home and charge my EV and it is relatively efficient.

Since you didn't specify what device you are using I will assume from your comment you are using a BB OS 7 device which the OP indicated was a several years old device. I highly doubt you are are using a BB OS 10 device since current gen BB OS 10 phones (even the Z10 is over a year old.) can run the bulk of Android apps while maintaining the devices security. The Z30 uses the same Snapdragon S4 Pro chip as the Moto X and a host of other devices meaning it can hang with the big dogs just fine. BlackBerry has done a commendable job re-engineering the ideas from the original BB OS into a next generation OS ready to compete with the modern mobile world.

Comparing BES to ActiveSync (EAS) is like comparing Exchange to IIS. While BlackBerry's bread and butter was its push email functionality the things you could do with a BlackBerry connected to a BES were impressive even by today's standards. Because of BlackBerry's end to end encryption a BB phone connected to a BES is always connected to the corporate network just like any PC sitting in your office. Meaning if I left an important file on the computer at the office I could connect to it from my phone and open/save it. Applications which need to fetch data from the corporate DB can be installed to the phone and work without the need to constantly log in. Even today with every MDM I have worked with I still have to manually connect over VPN when I want to do anything on the company network with an Android or iOS device. And if the screen times out it disconnects the VPN connection forcing me to start over. Good, Mobile Iron, Knox, et al are still some distance from providing such a robust feature set.

This is a good move for BlackBerry but if a company truly wants a secure and robust solution they should still choose BES IMHO.

OH NO SIR! You will not break Betteridge's law of headlines. This is /. and that will not be tolerated.

I might even be tempted to take a db admin job in Boulder, Co...

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I would dance a jig if I could get the BU I support to switch to SQL. They are currently building a database of vendor and partner well data. They get the data from a UniData sourced db...upload it to a server that converts it to SQL (Using the corporate licensed Oracle db) just so the Microsoft ACCESS db can pull in the data. Of course for smaller projects why bother with anything but an Excel spreadsheet with thirty or so user generated add-ins that require your credentials which are parsed in plain text.

You poor kid. Would the other kids not play with you as a child?

Tit for Tat and all of that.