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Comment Physical keyboard (Score 1) 505

Nokia are still "gauging demand"
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Technology/2013/02/28/Nokia-holds-off-on-QWERTY-phone-keyboards/UPI-98831362092469/

That's nice. We might be deploying Nokias if they actually just got off their ass and made some, but instead we'll continue to wait on Blackberry Q10 as the only other enterprise ready device with a physical keyboard, which is what our USERS want.

Comment Jim Balsillie (Score 1) 114

From the Summary: This has to be seen as a massive vote of 'no confidence' from someone who was on the inside long enough to know what's going on in the company."

The guy who was desperately trying to buy an NHL franchise while Blackberry were spinning its wheels in the face of Android and iPhone? Yeah, that guy knew what was going on all right.

Comment You could teach all of chemistry with a whiteboard (Score 1) 372

and give your students eyestrain while they learned because DAMMIT MY PROF COULDN'T PRINT OR DRAW EITHER.

I had one prof who spoke in a low voice and thus half the class became disinterested and talked among themselves so you really learned nothing unless you snagged a chair in the first three rows. Naturally, they promoted him to Dean.

Comment Student ID number? (Score 1) 383

Student Joe P. Bloggs enrolls in 2013 and receives Student Services ID 13123456, IT therefore gives him:
username jpb.23456@college.edu

You're not giving away the store by embedding the full ID number but 3 initials (could use X for those who don't have one) and 5 digits would probably have few collisions

Comment What is their obligation to you? (Score 1) 376

You got a free, uncontracted bonus from their cable service in the form of analog channels. Now you won't, but describe this as giving you the finger. Why should they continue to provide you content at no cost over their infrastructure when it is not mandated by statute that they do so, particularly when you retain an alternative, albeit one you consider unsightly?

I can only assume you have some sort of crazy high bandwidth cap - otherwise how will you rationalise the extra expense of a more expense net plan to take the hit Netflix will impose?

I realise this may not be a popular opinion but I really don't see what it is you think the cable company owes you.

Comment Make an offer (Score 1) 241

There are companies out there with IP allocations from the dawn of time they are not (or should not) be using since most clients don't need fully routed addresses. Time to set a market price on IPv4 addresses. At the right price we might throw one of our two class Cs in the pot - not much, but there's a lot more out there.

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