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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (4615)	5/6/2002 11:18:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

M, I had the unpleasant experience of living through the maximum pollution time, when harbours were used as toilet bowls and rubbish dumps, oil was tipped on the ground to dispose of it, lead was in petrol and sprayed into the air, lead was in house paint and used as fruit spray, mercury was used in teeth after being badly mixed with silver by a dental nurse by hand. And a lot more besides! Chemistry had been invented, made universal, but not controlled. I really can't get excited by 'pollution' these days! CO2 is plant food and plants are the foundation of the food chain and life cycle. Warm is good. Ice age is bad. Meanwhile, the Koreans are so busy counting their money, they don't have time to whine like a fleet of 747s about how extorquerationate CDMA royalties are damaging CDMA development. Korea, the only mass CDMA country on earth, where they are up to the technological leading edge, is making a fortune from CDMA and the citizens are enjoying the best data and voice mobile services available anywhere. Message 17427517 <...South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co on Monday posted a better-than-expected net profit of 442 billion won ($344.2 million) for the first quarter, powered by wireless data services. Net profit rose 10.5 percent from 400 billion won a year ago, but was down from 499 billion won in the previous quarter. Sales rose 36 percent to 1.93 trillion won, SK said in a statement. SK's stellar growth has been largely driven by the fact that South Korea is one of the world's busiest mobile Internet markets. Almost 40 percent of cellular users subscribe to some form of mobile data service.... > While Korea gets rich from CDMA, W-CDMA [aka VW40] continues to fail to perform as promised, the Bleeding EDGE is still going nowhere fast, GPRS has turned out to be a spectrum, battery and money gobbling slow-moving failure. The GSM world must be starting to think they are in a spot of trouble while the cdma2000 world roars along the well laid out technological trajectory with few problems. However, GSM handsets continue to lead the way and maintain a strong position for GSM over CDMA. Battery life for great little Ericsson GSM phones is amazing! CDMA has got a way to go to catch up. Mqurice PS: <This is an important book containing direct warning against the misuse of the environmental and human resources at the disposal of today's culture. <<I think that she would say the same about CDNA/CDMA chips under our skull, with cochlear implants and retina scans with electronic brain stimulation.>> > Moenmac, after you've tried it, I bet you like it and refuse to give it up! Luddites always fear the future. Sure, there might be a few fried brains while they get the bugs out, but that's life in the fast lane. Look how many Comets fell out of the sky before they got that metal fatigue business fixed up. Not long ago a Concorde did a spectacular flameout and crash but they are flying still, full of people. It takes a bit more than a frying, fragmentation or crushing to put the rest of us off. We have the numbers and it takes a lot to stop us! Already, most people vote for lots of government because it saves them thinking for themselves. They prefer to be a state appendage, with a role somewhere as a little cog in a giant machine, being told what to do, what not to do and how to do it. They prefer to give their money to the government and let them spend it. They'll absolutely love the CDNA/CDMA brain chip, cochlear implant, retina scan, voice nerve transducer, pleasure centre stimulation world of It. Imagine being permanently linked to SI anywhere you go. Siers will be enthusiastic early adopters of this CDNA/CDMA stuff - we'll always be 'on', connected and cerfing cyberspace, rewarded for good inputs with a dose of endorphins by It.