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August 10, 2004
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AT&T may end the licensing of it's name to AT&T Wireless. they're worried that 3 quarters of defections and (according to some surveys) 2nd to the bottom of the barrel customer support ratings have hurt their brand. AT&T Wireless has been sold to Cingular. MSN reports: "Of the six largest cell-phone carriers, AT&T Wireless generated the most complaints overall and the most complaints per subscriber last year, according to FCC records obtained by Consumers Union. AT&T Wireless had 3.39 complaints per 10,000 subscribers, compared to best-ranked Verizon’s 0.76. (Cingular, which is expected to complete its purchase of AT&T Wireless by the end of the year, ranked fourth with 1.33 complaints per 10,000.)"
Forbes reports RFID has been hacked, and prices have been changed. Cool. This could mean a slow down in the roll out. Or at least less dependency on RFID for prices. It won't stop it's being used as a tracking tool.
A review of the larger version of my Western Digital "lightshow" hard drive. Mine has proved problematic of late, becoming very glitchy when daisy chained to another drive, but it's still the best lit drive in the west...
Windows Xp service pac 2 is now available as a Bitorrent file. so Is Apple's Xcode 1.5 update.
Apple has also released Os X 10.3.5, iSync 1.5 and a security update.
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I had some fun removing the rfid tags from some books I bought a couple of weeks ago, and depositing them in interesting places.
Posted by: Great Satan at August 10, 2004 05:49 PM
I remeber when ATT was a good corporate citizen that gave great customer service, didn't do predatory marketing. Now they are just another slime ball having no shame in squezing every dime out of you. What happened?
Posted by: Oakey at August 10, 2004 06:44 PM
What happened is Ronald Reagan. Aside from his pervasive deleterious effect on the culture as a whole, his Justice Department's settlement of the AT&T case virtually guaranteed a culture of predation in telecommunications.
Actually, what happened to AT&T is emblemmatic of Reagan's effect on the whole culture.
That stuff about Reagan defeating communism is fantasy. Reagan's principle impact was here, in the U.S.A.
Think about it, Jim. You're old enough to remember the pre-Reagan days. It's a different country now, and it started with Reagan.
Posted by: Great Satan at August 11, 2004 12:16 PM
I'm older than both of you and yes, I do remember what a life was like and how reasonably easy it was to live it, and rather well at that, NO MORE!
Too bad we just didn't say NO then, we might not have the bullshit today
Posted by: little Richard...the younger at August 11, 2004 12:34 PM
No shit our country has become meaner, public discourse has become poorer, the culture has sufered, the middle class has taken a huge hit. I live in Applicaia by the Sea. Schools are good but we have lots of kids living in cars. Journey man carpenters are lucky if they get $10. an hour. Yes that is the price of paradice, but the poverty is spreading instead of getting better
Posted by: Oakey at August 11, 2004 08:13 PM
Your right Richard is was much easier to live back then and much more genteel.
Posted by: Oakey at August 11, 2004 08:14 PM
Within 3 weeks I am going to try and get back to some of that old fashionedness, but what I am so afraid of is that it [the meanness] has taken over, almost as if it is the new "rightousness". This scares the hell out of me. I see it in what used to be the self-employed working middle class, late twentys to mid thirties, a deep mistrust of people my age and in general. The values I was raised with are gone in the young.
By the way, this is what makes me think bush could win, that group is his. Kerry has to get louder, clearer, and just attack the Bush lies till he is blue in the face
attack unrentingly, and offer a complete alternative.
One of Reagan's legacy's is the $95 I have to pay to the phone co to re-attach the wire they stripped out of my phone box under the guise of verification. There will be a crash before this is all over. It is culture wars, and we are losing at the moment.
Posted by: little Richard...the younger at August 12, 2004 09:55 PM