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COIMBATORE: A new computed tomography (CT) scan equipment costing Rs. 2 crore was commissioned at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Thursday. Dean (in-charge) of the hospital V. Kumaran said it replaced the old equipment that had been given to the Government Hospital at Palani after doing three lakh scanning at the CMCH.
"This is not a multi-slice scanner. It is only a basic one for trauma cases, but it is slightly faster than the old one," the Dean said.
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There were plans to renovate the scan room and the waiting hall at Rs. 6 lakh. Two air-conditioners had already been installed.
The objective was to make the scan wing at the CMCH as good as any private centre.
The Dean said that the hospital had gone without a CT scanner for about 10 days after the old one was shifted.
"We tied up with a private scan centre with the permission of the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation.
We put up boards in the casualty and the scan department of our hospital, mentioning that scanning could be done at the private centre at Rs. 1,000.
We had to inform the public of this option, in order to avoid charges of misleading them."
The CMCH had also appealed to the TNMSC for reducing the fee for the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The TNMSC had fixed Rs. 2,500, Rs. 3,500 and Rs. 5,000 for different types of cases.
"We have appealed for reducing the charge to Rs.1,500 so that more cases will come to our centre. At present, we are doing three to four cases a day and have done 180 cases since the commissioning of the equipment in March this year," the Dean said.
The medical services corporation had said that it would study the flow of cases over a period of six months and decide on reducing the charge.
The Dean said that the government hospital in Tirunelveli had a steady flow of cases for MRI scan despite the high fee.
He pointed out that the Coimbatore situation was different as there were four to five private MRI scan centres in the city whose charges were the same as the ones at the CMCH.
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● 2011 WAC Outdoor Triple Jump Champion 2013-2014 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 Prior to Fresno State: Personal: CAREER BESTS
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Competed in eight meets and two events, specializing in the triple jump ... tabbed a career-best 50'-5.50" (15.38m) triple jump at the Mountain West Championships and placed second overall - distance finished as the No. 2 ranked mark for the 2012-13 season in the MW ... qualified as the No. 30 ranked triple jumper at the NCAA first-round preliminaries in Austin, Texas ... registered a 50'-3.25" (15.32m) triple jump and improved ranking to No. 22 at the NCAA first-round.
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Competed in four meets and two events ... finished 23rd at the NCAA Preliminary Round in the triple jump ... won the Western Athletic Conference triple jump title with a mark of 15.33m ... finished second in the long jump at the WAC Championships ... set personal record mark of 7.19m in the long jump and won the triple jump with a 15.10m mark at the Cal Poly Dual Meet on March 10 ... won the triple jump at the ShareSlo.com Cal Poly Invitational on March 24 ... recorded longest mark for the triple jump in the WAC.
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Cottage cheese – 24 oz.
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"I hope the exhibition becomes an eye opener for the new generation. I want them, not only to love the wildlife, but to see its glory for themselves," said Goel.
Tourism in Kerala, which has so far targeted beaches, forests and backwaters, will soon showcase the glory of the 3000-year old Muziris port, unveiling the state`s heritage to the world. The Muziris Heritage Project, claimed to be the first of its kind in the country, is expected to turn Muziris into a major destination for cultural tourism, Chief Project Consultant Benny Kuriakose said.
The Desert Festival is an annual event organized in the beautiful city of Jaisalmer. This three day festival is held in the month of February and is organized in association with the Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation. The Desert Festival represents the rich and colorful Rajasthani folk culture.
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By Coach Tim Walker - It happens when a puncher's maximum force connects at an exact point of breathing. You can't prepare for it. You can't teach it. It just happens when it happens, and when it happens we are all caught unexpectedly. Possibly even the thrower of that precise punch is off guard. That rare knockout by body shot. It is a thing of power, beauty and is as debilitating as any head shot. When a fighter goes down by body shot he seldom gets up by the count of 10. Guillermo Rigondeaux (2-0, 2 KO), one of the most prolific amateur boxers in history, successfully dismantled challenger Robert Guillin with one of the aforementioned body shots.. If left most of us saying Woah! and Guillin in amazing pain on the canvas clutching at his side as he rolled from his knees to his stomach to his side over and over again. The worst thing about this kind of shot is that unlike being taken out by a shot to the head fighters are fully cognizant threw all the pain. Fighters aren't woozy from this type of shot they feel every agonizing moment and there is nothing they can do except ride it threw.
Possibly more impressive than Rigondeaux' win, which at this stage is expected against lower tiered competition, was the statement he made in his pre-fight interview. During that interview he very calmly and matter-of-factly stated that he expects to be fighting for his first world title after his seventh or eighth pro fight. Again, Woah! Let's get in the archives here guys.
I recall Evander Holyflied boldly confronting Dwight Muhammed Qawi back in 1986 for the WBA Cruiserweight Title after only 12 fights. Challenging Qawi was one thing, winning the world was something altogether different. I can even remember Iron Mike Tyson becoming the youngest heavyweight champion in history at the age of 20 back in 1986. Still he won that title in
his 28th fight. Wilfred Benítez, at the age of 17, took on and beat champion Antonio Cervantes for the WBA Light Welterweight title back in 76. An amazing feat!
Still, it was his 26th professional fight. Floyd Patterson won his first title in his 32nd fight.
Muhammad Ali in his 21st fight. George Foreman in his 38th fight. Even the great Joe Louis and Max Baer didn't lay claim to title greatness until their 33rd and 46th fights respectively. Seventh or eighth fight! Really?
Is that even possible?
To answer that question we must first evaluate the current landscape of the super-bantamweight division. Let's consider all the straps out there IBF, IBO, WBA, WBC, WBO and even the WBF. Man is that too many titles or what? Don't really know if the WBF is still in existence but their website says they have a champion so we'll look at him too. Celestino Caballero (IBF, WBC): The only unified champ at this weight. He hails from the country (Panama) where the little men are the big dogs. His style is very jerky with extremely long jabs and crosses.
Awkward at times. His hooks and upper cuts are a bit non-fundamental as is his bouncing back and fourth footwork. When he punches his weight is slightly unevenly distributed over his lead foot. Surprisingly he remains mobile during this. He wants to be aggressive in the ring and this would play into the counter-puncher style of Rigondeaux. With a 5-11 frame he is certainly one of the longest and most unorthodox super-bantamweights in the game and would not be an easy fight for Rigondeaux.
Mike Oliver (IBO): (Oliver is the most recent champ for this organization) He is a bit slick and a bit undisciplined. He has shown that he will hold his lead hand low from the onset of fight and will jump in with shots totally exposed. Occasionally he smothers his own shots in close and can be outworked at times. His southpaw stance may cause an initial pause from Rigondeaux. However, Oliver's lack of punching accuracy and power will ultimately yield to Rigondeaux's strengths. Has skill not a lot of power, maybe not enough of either to deal with Rigondeaux.
Poonsawat Kratindaenggym (Interim WBA): Say that 3 times fast. He is a fundamentally sound boxer with two handed power. Excellent hooks to the body and good head movement and slips especially on the inside. But at 3 inches above 5 feet he wants and would need to fight in close and I'm not sure that he has the speed to close the gap against the taller, quicker southpaw. This would be a heck of a fight though.
Juan Manuel Lopez (WBO): World class power. Short precision punches in combination at distance and in close quarters though he has 70 inch wingspan. 10 first round knockouts spread out over his entire career is suggestive of how substantial his power is. He is always in punching position and seldom gets off balance. He is a southpaw as well but his style is to press the action. That might play into the counter-punching style of Rigondeaux but he would offer a more than significant challenge. This too would be an awesome fight.
One deeper, Israel Vasquez (according to the WBF website he is the champ, don't know if they still exist but champ it is): Hasn't fought since March 2008. Undergone 3 surgeries to repair a detached retina incurred during the final fight of his trilogy with Rafeal Maquez. He has tremendous heart but his defense seems to only be a bit of ducking and a high cover. He isn't extremely fast either. With ring rust surely building up it would not be in his best interest to face Rigondeaux assuming he is ever cleared to box again.
Based on how busy Rigondeaux has been, fighting about every 2 months, it should take him 1 year to eclipse the 8 fight mark. Can he possibly have learned enough of the pro game to fight for let alone win a world title? He has certainly seen his share of boxing styles and faced the world's best time and time again. He is in fact considered the best amateur boxer in history and possibly intends to add the title of worlds best boxer to his list of accomplishments as well. Can he do it? That my friends is the joy of boxing. Watching it all unfold. Many prolific amateurs have failed as professionals. I for one wouldn't put it past him.
Boxing fans always crave greatness. I think Rigondeaux is primed for great things.
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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Indeed. What merger? Is this some kind of US thing? I have no idea WTF this poll is for, nor how it affects me on the other side of the globe if it indeed is a US thing.
Why do people do this? If you come to Slashdot, you must have seen articles about this by now. Yes, we get it...you aren't in the US, but really what is the point of making these comments? This has been all over the internet and whether or not you live here, you've seen it unless you live under a rock and only check Slashdot like once a week (apparently just to make witty comments on the polls).
by MightyMartian (840721) on Friday September 23, 2011 @04:18PM (#37495856) Journal
Ak, a foreigner! Don't you have some heads to shrink or some cannibalistic ritual to take part in. And who taught you how to read? How can we exploit your resources and leave you all living in the Third World version of a trailer park if you can actually read. I'm sending this on to the Privy Office so they can come, lop out your tongue and chop off your hands, you filthy savage.
What merger indeed. There isn't a proposed merger. It's a proposed take-over of assets and customers. A buy-out. The end result is not AT&T + T-Mobile, it's AT&T with T-Mobile's old customers, some of their old staff, plus a shitload more spectrum and towers.
Beyond the usual cries of "The government must never interfere because it's always worse than the market!", I don't see any sane reason to support this. A bad company buying a good one. Great. Yay for free markets or some such. Bastards.
Re:How should I know? So, Pox it is. (Score:4, Informative)by flaming error (1041742) on Friday September 23, 2011 @12:37AM (#37488042) Journal
The pros are that this is a value-added proposition which will strengthen the position of stakeholders with a synergistic marriage of complementary solutions.
The cons are less competition, higher prices, poorer service, and a general trickle-down effect that smells like salty ammonia and colors snow yellow.
The pros are that this is a value-added proposition which will strengthen the position of stakeholders with a synergistic marriage of complementary solutions.
Excellent! You win today's buzzword bingo.
I don't know. There wasn't a reference to cloud. I'm taking a point off. But, since the cons were spot on, I'll add
By 2050, it will be an Olympic sport.
This merger will be a disgrace for capitalism.
We should get better shit when more players compete.
The cold hard reality is that they poo on customers and by merging even the illusion of competition disappears.
This is not about a 'free market', but about putting the effects of real capitalism into effect by blocking this shit.
What happens if the merger is blocked (Score:4, Interesting)by CuriousGeorge113 (47122) on Thursday September 22, 2011 @11:27AM (#37480492) Homepage
Ok, lets say the Fed's block the merger. What happens next? T-Mob continues to bleed itself to death? Their parent co has already said they are unwilling to make the capital investments necessary for T-Mob to compete against Sprint, ATT and Verizon. If the Feds block the merger, are they going to force T-Mob to stay in business?
I'm not excited about the wireless market looking like the residential broadband market right now (a duopoly or monopoly in some markets). But, there is not guarantees to T-Mob's continued success, and this merger has seemed only to accelerate their subscribers running out the door.
I've been a T-Mobile customer since waaaay back when they were VoiceStream, somewhere around 1998 I think. I've been an ATT customer a few times. The thing that stinks about this merger is that T-Mobile has good support and systems, ATT has awful support and awful systems. This is due to ATT's extremely complex integration and sourcing of their customer service systems. ATT is not very customer friendly, mostly due to the bad and complex integration of their setup, service, support and billing systems. I'm
T-Mobile also offers the unlimited data, talk, and text for a pretty reasonable price (if you have two lines, they are only $49 each) (throttled, but it's mobile... who cares).
The main thing I would hate about this is AT&T swallowing TMO and ruining the best pricing available on the market, that I have seen.
The smart money is on AT&T acquiring T-Mobile to ruin those plans. Given how poor its service and price has been in recent years, that's the only conclusion I can come to. There's not much point in having 3G service with AT&T as most of the time you're dealing with at most EDGE anyways.
T-Mobile also offers the unlimited data, talk, and text for a pretty reasonable price (if you have two lines, they are only $49 each) (throttled, but it's mobile... who cares).
Meanwhile, Boost Mobile (Sprint) gives you unlimited everything for $50/month, and it drops $5 every 6 months until you bottom out at $35/month.
Virgin Mobile (also Sprint) gives you unlimited everything for $55/month. But personally, I prefer their $35/month plan, which only gives you 300 minutes of talk, but everything else is unlim
Not 100% sure, but I think the catch with Virgin is slow data. I could swear I read somewhere that they're 1xRTT-only (in English: ~153kbps nominal speed, ~50-80kbps real-world speed, compared to 300-600kbps real-world speeds seen by Sprint customers using EVDO).
Nope, Virgin is EVDO, though I've never seen RevA speeds on my wife's phone. We bought in when it was $25/month for 300/unlimited and it was by far the best deal in wireless (she was spending roughly the same with T-Mobile for voice only on their pay as you go program, she now gets a LOT more value for the same price).
$80/mo with reduced speeds after 10G is what I see. Is that what you are talking about?
Re:What happens if the merger is blocked (Score:4, Informative)by Dragon Bait (997809) on Thursday September 22, 2011 @01:36PM (#37482176)
Ok, lets say the Fed's block the merger. What happens next? T-Mob continues to bleed itself to death?
From What ATT Owes T-Mobile if Deal Doesn't Go Through [allthingsd.com]:
As part of the deal, AT&T has agreed to pay T-Mobile $3 billion and promised valuable spectrum and a roaming agreement should the deal fail to garner approval.
If the deal doesn't go through, T-Mobile wins ($3B payday). If the deal does go through, T-Mobile share-holders win (big payday).
I just hope that there's a fairly speedy (as in three to five years, not a decade) resolution to the court battle that will undoubtedly ensure if the federal government successfully blocks the merger, and that it comes out in t-mobile's favor. They have had excellent rates for unlimited service, and if everyone remembers, back when ISPs used to offer only so many minutes per month for internet usage it was an awakening when they all switched to unlimited.
Since the FCC is planning on auctioning very desirab
T-Mobile should just take that money and put it all towards an iPhone exclusive contract. That's the main reason they are losing their lunch to AT&T right now.
Of course, now that Apple is in such a dominant smartphone position, they'd be stupid to take exclusivity at any price. Release a duel GSM/CDMA phone that works on any network and they could double their US market share in a couple years...
Right, T-Mob get a $3B payday, but there is no certainty (or indication) that they are going to invest that back into their network.
They are probably going to take the money and run all the way back to Germany.....
Ok, lets say the Fed's block the merger. What happens next? T-Mob continues to bleed itself to death? Their parent co has already said they are unwilling to make the capital investments necessary for T-Mob to compete against Sprint, ATT and Verizon. If the Feds block the merger, are they going to force T-Mob to stay in business?
If the feds block the merger, AT&T has agreed to provide favorable roving terms, spectrum and money. That is, the bridge so the capital investment is less dire, the primary good
T-Mobile gets an iPhone?
T-Mobile goes out of business which allows their customer to leave their contract?
T-Mobile Continues as it?
Whatever. AT&T means no options, higher costs, and worse service.
If the deal gets blocked, they still come out a few billion a head in in free spectrum and money that AT&T put up to demonstrate the seriousness of their bid. So, in the short term, it all works out pretty well for T-Mobile. In the long run, however, they probably end up making nice with sprint so that instead of 2 MASSIVE providers and 1 little one, we end up with 3 "pretty big" providers. That's still a slight improvement. Alternately, someone else might wish to buy them and continue operating th
T-Mobile isn't bleeding to death, they've made at least $1B in profit in each of the last 5 years.
AOL continued to make profit, even as its customers fled in droves to faster, broadband connections. My reference to 'bleeding itself to death' refers to their continued subscriber losses, especially in the profitable post-paid contract market.
Losing 0.2% customer base per quarter is hardly arterial bleeding.
They can go under. The biggest problem with cell phone mergers is that once the merger takes place its forever, no new national level competitor can enter the market without an existing provider selling them bandwidth (which would pretty much be a lose/lose for said provider). If T mobile goes under and its spectrum is given to a new competitor it prevents us from falling all the way to three national providers forever.
Ok, lets say the Fed's block the merger. What happens next?
Somebody else buys T-Mobile. CenturyLink, a consortium of US cable companies, a private capital investment firm, a different foreign telecom (say, América MÃvil) . . . there are lots and lots of people who aren't AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint Nextel out there.
What happens next?
T-Mobil reduces prices and sell accounts with higher caps than the competition. Capitalism is: "Give customers what they want to stay in business", not, "Keep the cartel alive or sell out to another member of the cartel". If T-Mobil offered an unlimited data plan while all of the others are capping the shit out of their customers they will bounce back.
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There's a reason that Ma Bell was cut into pieces. 1 company with too much power is not good. Maybe we need to remember that when looking at other companies, too.
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keep them seperate, I like the t-mobile chick
Prohibit a direct acquisition, and encourage T-Mobile to auction its assets (spectrum, patents, etc) to the highest bidder. Selling off small chunks at least makes it possible for the other two, and possibly some smaller carriers (lol) to partake.
After years of regulatory failure in the US and Canada when it comes to mobile phone standards you have a situation where phones are almost irreversibly bound to the network. CDMA is a horrible almost proprietary system without SIM cards that lends itself well to invasive branding practices on handsets, charging different rates for 'mobile' data usage and 'tethered' data usage.
With any GSM network I have ever used I simply buy an unlocked phone (not expensive, in brick & mortar shops they are sold a
If it were up to me, I'd accept bribes from ATT, T-Mobile and any of their competitors. Whichever question gave the biggest total bribe (for or against), would tell me whether to allow it.
I would then inform them that I don't in fact have the power to make that decision and tell them to go bribe someone else, as I run off with the money.
Spoken like a true member of Congress. Except you confuse "bribe" with "campaign contribution."
bloody hell, now that's some good thinking!
"Whichever question gave the biggest total bribe (for or against), would tell me whether to allow it." Wait, you're only gonna take money from the highest bidder? You're supposed take the money from all of them, give them vague promises, and half-hearted attempts/speeches (to make it look like you're actually working for the money) for 3 or 4 election cycles, gathering bribes from them the whole time, then when you see they are finally losing patience, go with the highest bidder.
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Read my Sig (Score:5, Funny)by Nom du Keyboard (633989) on Thursday September 22, 2011 @12:38PM (#37481452)Read my Sig.
I oppose the AT&T/T-Mobile merger because I don't want to lose the hot T-Mobile girl ads.
And we have a winner. +1000000000 to you for that very solid and persuasive argument.
What hot T-Mobile girl ads? I haven't seen any hot girls in their ads since they got rid of Catherine Zeta-Jones.
I've been reading stories and comments about this acquisition since it was announced and across the board about 9/10 people are against it. The reasons vary, but among T-Mobile customers (and I am one) the attitude is pretty much, "anybody but AT&T!". AT&T is astoundingly customer-hostile. They always seem to be the first to raise rates and curtail services. When the other telcos see them get away with it they follow suit. While AT&T was counting their iPhone money Verizon built an LTE network.
120 people so far voted for "I would encourage the ATT/T-Mobile merger", which is fine, whatever one thinks.
But 222 people have voted for the "let the market decide" option. This is nonsense, however one thinks. What has the market had to do with Verizon, or AT&T, or Sprint? For one thing, the local loop is de facto, and in many cases de jure, completely divided up in the country between Verizon and AT&T (and Qwest too, although all Qwest states are west of the Mississippi, minus large states lik
Had Cingular, and all was well. AT&T took over Cingular, and all was not well. So disgusted with the customer service we got with AT&T we moved over to T-Mobile.
I wept when the merger was first announced.
You've got that backwards. Cingular took over AT&T Wireless (and only Wireless). Years later, Cingular's parent company SBC bought the remnants of AT&T and renamed themselves as AT&T.
Detailed version:
Cingular was a joint venture between Cellular One (McCaw Communication) and SBC, the mega-baby-bell that started as just one of the 6 or 7 after the AT&T breakup of the 1980s. Cingular became the brand name for the wireless service of SBC, and eventually SBC owned it all.
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1. What does "I'm ambivalent, but would let the market decide" mean? The decision making players are AT&T and T-mobile management, and the federal government. "The market" has essentially nothing to say about it and no way to really even weigh in on the matter. Anyone who thinks that "the market" can or will put a stop to a bad merger - two words: HP Compaq.
2. "A pox on both their houses". What the hell? Which are the two houses you want to put a pox on? AT&T and T-Mo? AT&Tmo and the USG? AT
2. "A pox on both their houses". What the hell? Which are the two houses you want to put a pox on? AT&T and T-Mo? AT&Tmo and the USG? AT&Tmo and Verizon/Sprint?
As long as they keep putting that cute girl in the taffeta dress on my computer, I don't care!
I'm pretty sure she's history as soon as AT&T have their way with her.
Oppose a single GSM carrier (Score:5, Insightful)
As a regular VISITOR to the US, I would oppose anything that reduces your already meagre choice of 2 major GSM networks, to 1. (A visitor from almost any other country is going to be carrying a GSM phone, making Sprint and Verizon non-options from the start)
At the moment, a visiting tourist's two options are:
a) AT&T, who prefer to sell you a crappy GoPhone handset rather than just a SIM. Oh and if you find an AT&T store that actually understands what you're trying to do, and you insist on just a SIM, make sure you don't tell them it's for an iPhone, because they won't let you activate a normal (i.e. non AT&T locked down) iPhone on their network. Just tell them it's for some old Nokia or something, activate the SIM using said old Nokia (and it's associated non-iPhone IMEI), then transfer the SIM to your iPhone. And BTW that doesn't include any data by default and you have to call some number to add a data pack taken from your existing credit blah blah.
b) T-Mobile is a lot friendlier to tourists wanting some prepaid voice + data and are happy to sell you a SIM without caring what kind of phone you put it in. Hooray! BUT
I have no idea what a merger between the two companies would look like from a visitor's perspective but I can't imagine it would be good. Probably more like the current AT&T than the current T-Mobile. Either way, why does it have to be so much more complicated (and expensive) than in every other country where you can literally pick a SIM up for $2 bucks in the arrivals hall at the airport and have it instantly activated? You can't seem to do this in the US since the carriers don't seem to have shops in most airports like carriers do everywhere else.
From 'our' perspective, the mobile phone market in the US is bizarre. It's overpriced and relies on coupling particular phones to particular networks. You overhear comments from Americans along the lines of "I want a *phone X* but it's only available on *network Y*" - a concept foreign to most of the rest of the world. I also understand that even if you DO buy an unlocked phone outright in the US, and you go to your carrier to get a plan for it, you still have to go on a contract, and you still have to pay handset repayments as part of the cost of the plan anyway (!?!) (i.e. the plan cost doesn't change if you bring your own handset). It would make me rage uncontrollably if I lived there full time
From 'our' perspective, the mobile phone market in the US is bizarre. It's overpriced and relies on coupling particular phones to particular networks. You overhear comments from Americans along the lines of "I want a *phone X* but it's only available on *network Y*" - a concept foreign to most of the rest of the world. I also understand that even if you DO buy an unlocked phone outright in the US, and you go to your carrier to get a plan for it, you still have to go on a contract, and you still have to pay handset repayments as part of the cost of the plan anyway (!?!) (i.e. the plan cost doesn't change if you bring your own handset). It would make me rage uncontrollably if I lived there full time
That's one more reason to block the deal. T-Mobile does have non-contract rate plans that are lower without the phone subsidy. I think they called them "Even More Plus" plans last time I checked, but it may have changed since then.
Replying to my own post, but they did change the plan name. There's a no contract section with both prepaid and monthly plans. Right now the Unlimited talk+text+web(5GB before throttling) is $70 vs. $90 for the same plan under contract.
From the perspective of an American, I'm always amazed when I go to other countries, carrying my unlocked phone. When I arrive, I'm greeted in the airport by a number of various phone companies, who are all more than happy to sell my a SIM card. For my first overseas trip, I learned about the number of options for using mobile phones, and I was so amazed that all the carriers seemed to use similar standards and frequencies. Before this, I had the typical American attitude that every phone had to be used wit
I forgot where I read it, but I vaguely remember hearing that Verizon and AT&T are likely to somehow use incompatible forms of LTE. It might be related to the operating frequency. If that's the case, then we're stuck with the same "locked into a single carrier" issue you're describing.
The whole thing, as you've aptly described, is ridiculous. When I was in high school, our entire marching band traveled to London to march in a parade. All of the chaperones were shocked to learn that their cell phones
why does it have to be so much more complicated (and expensive) than in every other country where you can literally pick a SIM up for $2 bucks in the arrivals hall at the airport and have it instantly activated? You can't seem to do this in the US since the carriers don't seem to have shops in most airports like carriers do everywhere else.
1. Because they don't give a shit to make it simpler. The rate of international travel flux in the US is simply much lower than in Europe. While I agree it sucks bot
While I generally agree with your post, and would prefer to have unlocked phones that could be moved from network to network, one thing I will say in defense of American cell phone companies is this: no other country has had four companies cover such a vast geographical area with such a dispersed population. It's easy in these small, densely populated European or Asian countries to have lots of competition in the cell phone market. You want to become a competitor? Just set up a few hundred to a couple thous
My comparison is largely with Australia though, which is the same size as the lower 48 US states with a similarly dispersed population. And it has three nationwide GSM networks (access to which is wholesaled to other companies meaning we end up with something like 5 or 6 major nationwide carriers). And that's all to serve a population smaller than some individual US cities. So it can be done.
Agree with your comparisons with Europe though, it IS obviously a lot easier in that kind of area.
There is a reason AT&T was broken up the first time. It was a monopoly and bad for the customers. Nothing has changed and it should be stopped from buying any other companies, ever! They have lied about prices and service for at least 40 years.
Me too. And after, crossing fingers, the deal goes through, I will be voting against all of its directors at the next shareholders' meeting. Why in God's name would anyone agree to pay $3 BILLION as a breakup fee even if the breakup occurs for reasons outside the buyer's control?! Everyone knows that US regulators have become completely arbitrary and capricious as the rule of law has disintegrated. To put $3 billion of your shareholders' money on the line betting that they would "allow" the deal (as if
So they have another excuse not to invest in their network...
"Well, we would have invested in more backhaul capacity, but our $3BN payment to T-Mobile caused us to have to defer those investments."
Take the AT&T and T-Mobile bandwidth resources and place them into a holding company that operates the system and wholesales bandwidth back to the retail operators (AT&T/T-Mobile) under standardized contract terms. Terms that another reseller can sign up for and give consumers even more choice.
And those skimpy tight skirts.
I wouldn't only prohibit the merger, I'd break up AT&T and Verizon into at least three different companies each. Seems like something that needs to be done every couple of decades. They'll glom back together again, and then we should break them up again. The markets need a reset every once in a while to work properly.
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AT&T leads the way in throttling bandwidth, the other companies follow, now AT&T are buying people out. Shouldn't it go the other way?!? People should be abandoning AT&T's ship to companies that don't throttle. WTF went wrong?


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I hung drywall in my basement a couple months ago and now the seams are cracking. I used mesh tape. It is only cracking on the cealing. Do I now have to rip all of it down and use paper tape? I am thinking the mesh is the cause. Whats the best way to repair?
Mesh is for chemical-dry compounds, not regular mud. Paper is stronger than mesh. You could paper tape over but it may show, depending on your lighting. And your level of expertise. Room temperature plays a huge part when taping with air-dry mud.
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Sara Van Donge joins the ranks of community contributors to The Walla Walla Valley Weekly with this column. A lifelong resident of the Valley, her Deja Views columns will focus on things in Walla Walla's past and how they have changed to present day.
Out on the town. Who doesn't anticipate a romantic, elegant, entertaining or just plain fun evening out?
I so enjoy walking through our lovely downtown, visiting the latest restaurants or stores, seeing friends and visitors. But, oh, how our town has changed.
When I was a child in the '80s we went to the Eastgate Mall to see and be seen -- Hatfields! Fabricland! Payless! And to see a movie we had the Liberty Theater and the Plaza Twin Cinema.
Really, at the time none of these places were really very elegant or even attractive, merely just a reflection of the bustling functionality of the time.
But a generation before it was a different experience altogether. At that time there were no videos, Netflix or on-line movies; there were occasional 8mm home movies, the Milton Freewater Drive-In theater we are still fortunate to enjoy, and the Liberty Theater downtown that's now a Macy's store.
My Aunt Florene described to me how wonderful it was at that time to go to the Liberty with her husband Barry: "Oh, Barry and I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED going to the movies downtown and always sitting in the loges, these really comfy seats in the balcony. It was so cool because you could look down on all the kids below.
"The bathrooms were old world elegance. It seems like they used to have a maid in there also. Maybe I'm just imagining that," she continued.
"When you walked up and down the stairs, I always felt very glamorous. Especially coming down, alone. We still wore dresses and you could imagine yourself being a movie star coming down the long stairway."
Today you can still see some of the vestiges of the Liberty. When it was initialy bought by The Bon Marche the store did a nice job of paying homage to the glory days of cinema. I remember when they first expanded into the movie theater space in the mid-eighties all the dressing rooms were named after classic movie stars.
Going to the movies now is no longer as stylish an experience, although it is certainly high-tech and comfortable at The Grand Cinemas, especially if you splurge on a 3D movie.
Going to live theater, however, is still an elegant way to spend an evening just as it was a generation ago. I was lucky enough to attend "Through the Looking Glass: The Burlesque Alice in Wonderland," at the Power House Theatre in October. Amazing! Not just the fantastic show, which I can't describe adequately other than to say the women were gorgeous and classy.
But the entire experience made me feel, as my Aunt Florene did all those years ago, like a celebrity. I wore a cape and a mauve cloche hat over a fancy red dress. We had wine and visited before the show and partied afterward with the cast while DJ Adam Whiteside played a fun mix of dance music.
The Little Theatre is another part of Walla Walla that has survived from that era. Today it seems a little more reserved, but as social and elegant as ever. I recently saw "White Christmas," directed by Brian and Becky Hatley and featuring a talented, energetic cast. My whole family absolutely loved it.
Walla Walla has changed through the years, but in many ways has stayed the same. Going out on the town is still a wonderful way to experience our lovely city.
Sara Van Donge is a Walla Walla native and middle school dual language teacher. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default installation.
My experience with scanning in Fedora is so awful that I dropped any expectation: I have an old HP ScanJet 5370C, for which according with sane-project.org the support is "Good" (avision backend). For me the best was around F9, when it worked 50% of the time: a scan operation produced garbage, the next one was usable, the next one garbage and so on. I always had to scan twice to get something acceptable.
F8 and earlier it produced garbage most of the time and in F10 the application just got frozen, doing nothing and I had to kill it.
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Novice Member
Joined: 6/26/07
Did many of you that desided to buy the game actually do research about this game?
After looking into this game and searching for imformation about it i desided to buy it. It plays exactly how I thought it would from researching it. The game is not a sand box. The game is linear duh its story driven dialog, its much easier to make it linear than make it choose as you wish other wise conversaions will be messed up.
The game has BGs, little to no world PvP, raids. What did all of you really expect? Everything was laid out infront of you and Bioware hid nothing. I am personally having a blast playing the game for what it is. I really can not understand the complaints about it.
You knew it was a WoW clone with dialog + story driven quests. What did you expect?
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Joined: 7/31/06
No amount of research captures how boring it can get. On paper it looks like if you liked WoW you would like it, but that's apparently not the case.
This seems like an odd thing to ask also. Most fanboys will tell people who ask if they will like the game not to do research, but to just buy it and play it. I'd like you to think about whether or not that's something you'd tell people.
Really? WoW Clone? Did anyone every think of how stupid that is? WoW was not the first to do the 'typical' mmorpg layout. There were a few games that were successful that came before it., aka Everquest for example. Man people are so dumb.
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Joined: 6/18/04
"Those who fight and run away live to fight another day."
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
You are correct HofmeisterM, but you need to take into account that many players started their gaming experience with WoW and can only reference gaming mechanics by what they have used/played - hence the abundant "WoW Clone" comments.
You need to be nicer to these uneducated players.
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Joined: 8/24/04
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
WoW made mmorpgs massively popular and accessable. Tons of MMORPGS have came out since WoW more or less cloned because of it's success hence the WoW term. Most people are highly aware WoW wasnt the first made or even teh first to create it's current style ....FFS
ffs? lol im right what is so 'ffs' about that? Im aware WoW made the genre REALLY popular but it shows you how many wowtards actually exists by how popular that coined term is.
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Joined: 3/10/07
Originally posted by onlinenow25
SWTOR is not a wow clone at all. .. . Perhaps in quest design only.
SWTOR dissapointed me and suprised me because the world/zones did not give me the "wow" feeling ... they felt very confining. ( In fact you can't even run between speeder points on some planets ( tatooine for example )
The world itself does not nearly have the depth and OPEN style that wow does.
SWTOR is the Most Linear game I have played in years, even more than BioWare Sinlge player RPGs including DA, ME and ME2.
SWTor is more like "story areas" almost like a movie setting where obviously we don't see all of tatooine / Hoth / cloud city etc etc etc in the movies, TOR behaves like this in its design... WoW sure did not.
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Joined: 1/26/10
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
ARRRGGG another of love/hate TOR threads i really wish the Mods would stamp on these and stop the blame bait threads.. getting really tiring
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Joined: 7/27/10
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
The term works perfectly well. A clone of something that is a clone of another thing, is still a clone of that something. It is assumed that most clone-developers clone a famous clone rather than cloning the original, which practically means that they extract DNA from WoW directly rather than any of its predecessors.
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Joined: 1/28/10
I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city.
I expected:
-Fluid combat. Not the delay nonsense we got with abilities not firing.
-An actual decent character creator. Anything short of Aions is not acceptable.
-More class quests and less filler. 70% of the quests are shared by every class which makes leveling alts dull. Better than most games but still dull.
-A decent UI. Seriously, what we got is junk. Why can't i resize and move everything? Why is there no target of target? Why can't i have 3 skill bars on the bottom?
-Guild functionality. How about for starters, a list that works. Perks. Something to build towards. I still can't invite people to group from the guild list.
-A public quest system to encourage grouping and working together instead of against each other to complete tasks. Waiting for mobs to respawn instead of getting credit for helping someone out of party kill them is silly.
-Dye system
-Appearance tabs. Item modding is a good start but it needs to be expanded on.
-No daily's. Seriously, this is the best BW could come up with at 50? The entire concept needs to go.
If you cannot see what people are complaining about then i can't help you.
Alders be patient. So many games start out and people expect WoW Cataclysm right out the gate. Give SWTOR a while and they will have everything in working order. Seriously people, if your unhappy leave, if your happy stay and play.
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Joined: 7/27/11
I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you.
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
Except companies arent trying to copy those past games. They are trying to directly copy WoW. Why? Because WoW is perhaps the most successful game ever made. Thus thats why games try to copy that SUCCESS.
See how that works? Therefore the term WoW clone is very valid especially in this case where Bioware said themselves they were modeling most of the games mechanics after......WOW. Hence WoW clone.
When developers decide to copy an mmorpg they look at WoW. WoW might not have done it first, but it was the most successful at what it did. Extremely successful. Thus? Thats whats copied.
I get tired of trying to explain this to people like you. Oh but its OTHER people who are dumb. Right.....just keep telling yourself that.
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Joined: 3/20/10
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
A game doesn't need mulitple expansions to have those things, that's a rather silly comment to make.
Weren't all those things Alders mentioned in Rift when it came out?
It's also rather silly to think that just because someone read about a game before they played it that they shouldn't be disapointed with it, afterall they did read about it. I followed darkfalls development for a couple of years, read all there was to read about it, that sure didn't prepare me for what I got when it released.
Reading about what something offers is not the same thing as experiencing it first hand. I tried explaining how to paint lifelike coulds to my younger brother, which for me literally boils down to putting a little bit of paint on a round brush and scrubbing it onto the painting surface. Literally just scrub the brush around until it looks like a cloud. No amount of me telling him and showing him allows him to do it himself and he still wants me to paint clouds on his daughters bedroom ceiling.
I don't care if you read a 300 page disertation on something, until you experience it first hand you have no idea what it's like. A video game especially.
An incredibly pointless thread is incredibly pointless. I gotta side with the person that said the mods should be squashing these sorts of threads. It really does just boil down to flame baiting.
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Joined: 12/14/08
Originally posted by onlinenow25
Sorry dude but they forgot to advertise "the most lifeless and dull mmo world around" on their hype machine......
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Joined: 7/27/11
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Yeeea....but its just a term used to identify a game as being very much "like" another. Or a game thats modeled in mechanics based on another game.
And again Bioware stated they were modeling this game AFTER WOW. Does it not get any more clear to you?
Its you who's not understanding a simple concept not the other way around.
Its like I always say, " Being unintelligent is one thing. Being incredibly stubborn and unintelligent? Thats the worst mixture possible in a human being."
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Joined: 3/20/10
Originally posted by Slowdoves
Like i pointed out in my other responce, just released has nothing to do with what he was asking for. Other games have all those things they day they release.
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Joined: 12/24/04
Because they're unhappy with everything. Sure they'll give you any number of minor reasons blown all out of proportion. Usually all repeating the same ones because they can't be bothered to actually look at why they're unhappy. The game isn't perfect but no game is. They would hate perfection too. They just want to wallow in their unhappyness and try to make everyone else miserable too.
"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause" ~Victor Hugo
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Joined: 8/08/06
Many folks like SWOTR and enjoy the new story focused play style but...
EA/Bioware spent a huge amount of Time, Money and Effort Hyping the game. So players have a right to complain when many basic elements are poorly implemented. Sure they can fix it after launch, heck they could redesign the entire game and add space pandas but that doesn't make ok to releasing it in the state they did.
You may be happy paying $ 50.00 for what SWOTR has to offer but many of us aren't and wanted more from EA/Bioware.
So the Fanbois can go on crying about the complaints, trying to deflect the objective criticism and the dissapointed players can keep getting the word out that the game isn't worth it even with all the TV advertising and cool looking comercials.
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Joined: 12/04/09
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
Here is where your argument is invalid. Let me use an example.
Lets take Iphones.
Here's part of a table from WIkipedia, showing different features between generations of Iphones:
If i was HTC and i wanted to put out a phone to compete with the Iphone, why would i not include these features? So i can put them in later, because Iphone didn't start out with all of the features? The mindset of "Well 4 years ago, Iphone didn't have 3g, so i dont need 3g." doesn't apply ANYWHERE, so using that mindset to defend that a game doesn't work.
How about cars, if a 2012 Ford F-150 got 3 miles to the gallon like a 1950 Ford F-150, noone would buy that, because they can get a car from a competitor that has better gas mileage.
When people are exposed to something, like lets say the UI customization level of WoW, they start to take it for granted. When they take it for granted, if you take that away from them, they notice it, and it bugs them, and hurts their enjoyment.
If you notice, RIft, Aion, Guild Wars 1, WoW, basically EVERY MMO/CO RPG has UI customization for a reason. People expect it. EVERY video game sequel (ME1 vs ME2) has tried to improve on the formula of their predecessor (Oblivion vs Skyrim). WoW improved on it's predecessors (EQ, others) why shouldn't MMOs these days be expected to improve on THEIR predecessors.
The issue might be that the genre is oversaturated with games that are all "Wow-Clones" and not enough games that break the mould, and introduce something new. The consumers want to see improvement, but the companies see that they can make more money keeping that phone 3G instead of 4G because there's maybe 2 4G phones versus 20 3G, the 4G phones are not that popular, and the 3G is easier/faster to make.
TL;DR: If you make a product that doesn't improve on similar products that came before it, that product is described with one word: failure. However, if the market is stagnant (not changing for you illiterates), then we see what we do now. "New" product comes out, everyone floods the "New" thing and then they drop it. It seems that MMOs have hit a stage that I've nicknamed "Fad Gaming".
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Joined: 9/13/06
Fools find no pleasure in understanding, but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Originally posted by HofmeisterM
Ironic. The difference between EQ1 and WOW is miles apart where as the difference between WOW and its many successors is a very small degree, not even fair to call WOW a clone of EQ1.... they really aren't that much alike at all.
Back to the OP, people bought the game because as many so often advise, no one can tell you whether or not you like a game, you have to try it for yourself first.
And its not surprising that with the huge backing behind this title they might have expected it to exceed what WOW currently offers in terms of features, but probably shouldn't have knowing EA's track record in the MMO space and Bioware's lack of experience in the same.
As to the complaining, all just part of forum PVP, but I have to ask the OP, why does he care so much? It's just a game after all.
Arrogant, Condescending, Dismissive, Elitist, "Meany", you speak as if these are bad things?


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