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I haven't thought of WiFi as a available infrastructure until this year, the development was so slow to arrive I missed it actually coming. And this is the Cit

I haven't thought of WiFi as a available infrastructure until this year, the development was so slow to arrive I missed it actually coming. And this is the City Of London, I live close enough to consider the city home. Ironically, I only noticed the ubiquity of WiFi in the city as a result of testing the lowest end phone and prepaid options possible. This is in reaction to the most ridiculous dispute with my contract network provider, over the fate of the premium number I've used for a long long time being held hostage. I only wanted it to move to another account.. I remember the Palms very well. At the time I carried a treasured HP 209LX, secretly wishing for a Psion 5 keyboard but not their systems environment. (I had the HP a while if you note the overlap) I wish I could find the story again, but I think the sadness was just the classical combination of blunt management and silicon valley egos. This is the canonical answer for every technological near miss, isn't it? I mean cost driven aggressive B School management plus idealistic impatient but always sufficiently talented to change the world software and hardware Engineers, Always Always Always the same, WHY DO YOU GUYS KEEP DOING IT??!!! I honestly care about the answer, because I thought this was the past and not the normal, when I learned to program, oh, thirty five years ago... As for the infrastructure WiFi... The Result has been I learned that I am almost entirely independent of any cellular carrier network for my voice connectivity. I haven't quite yet, but I actually could drop the Networks out of my life! The UK is blessed with a ISP called Andrews and Arnold, www.aaisp.net who will port my (once freed) precious memorable number to a SIM card that resides on their MVNO. This cuts my recurring payment to merely £2.40pcm! And, as desired, I can have more lines on that number. I must avoid starting in how good AAISP really is. If you want to be recognised by voice when you call, and get enterprise grade services, please mention John owes Phil Boddy one, and hadn't forgotten... Oh, and my Networks- free telephonic life? I am seriously contemplating whether it's worth the hassle of applying to install a VHF/UHF D-STAR Repeater, which our building management seems happy to let us do, to cover the Bank / St. Paul's areas. AAISP let you port your number (any number, cellular numbers are new) to their VOIP services. I can route them as I please, so apart from the slight lack of duplex, why not over HAM RADIO? I have figured out how to use a freephone number to call in and take over the call, from a payphone, and the idea amuses me greatly. But the fact is, I'd rather carry a dedicated WiFi access device that provides me with use of a headset and the radio /audio processing power possible in a shoulder strapped battery and module, than I would carry another$1000 phone obsolete the moment the manufacturer cares to not update it. I guess I'd just love to be serious about putting my call sign on my business card!

amygdyl 8y ago
If I could edit still, I'd cut out the bulk about cellular carrier substitution etc, because it's silly long, But I sure do wish moderation would take place concomitantly with the briefest reason why. I think I'm shadow banned because of moderation I still can't figure out any reassuringly likely problems with. I accept,"too many problems", even, the effect would be a complete rewriting or withdrawal. But I was recently nodded Dow after I was missed Dow after a reply stated I was wrong, and I was moderated down again when I supplied a linked source proof I had been correct, all along. That one, about law enforcement and entrapment, my comment exchange concerning England, if my reply is not seen could gravely mislead someone. It's also poor to worsen the general public mythology about criminal law in any event. I know I should write the mods not here, but I feel actually so disenfranchised by this situation that I feel, wrongly I admit, I act in a better way by attracting the attention here, which, again I would put this over the borderline if I was moderating, I feel like I'm entitled to use for comments while apparently invisible. I am not wanting to begin a new handle because I made a couple of personally very difficult comments, early on, that I feel shouldn't be abandoned. I don't want to be thinking about my self regard, when I know I wrote a unbiased and factually accurate comment of potential real value. But because I want to be of value to the community, and because historically I discarded a privileged education to painstakingly reconstitute a maturing passion for intellectual rigor despite a almost comically disadvantaged progress through later life, I find it hard to swallow what I can explain no other way than are gratuitous dismissals of knowledge and in the past case the sanctity of law, without explanation. Ironically I the sort of person who grew up defending a frequent attack that claims that because I was presumably better educated therefore I think myself socially superior. And here I am actuallyfeeling I think how such people may have felt i fever I was too brusque, or felt to be dismissive. My funny fate took me from being almost the biggest dreamer of a ... Friends didn't know how to answer where they're from, because growing up with a globetrotting household and six homes is confusing. I know that now I merge with a "down to earth" stratum so alien to my past, that friends have disbelieved my early life, and said that they were just teasing me about being a snob. If you told me in my teens, copy of UNIX Review in my hand, and told me that I'd be distinguishing social class concerns, in a computing engineering forum, I'd have given you the address for a rehab clinic. I underwent such a upheaval in life as I've blamed for disconnecting me to my cost, for a very long time, but I think I missed something else, and I'll accept the suggestion I am lacking in insight by nature of my nature, if you can attempt to illuminate how. But honestly, I actually feel hurt, the fact of which I am incredibly surprised by suddenly.

amygdyl 8y ago

If I could edit still, I'd cut out the bulk about cellular carrier substitution etc, because it's silly long, But I sure do wish moderation would take place concomitantly with the briefest reason why. I think I'm shadow banned because of moderation I still can't figure out any reassuringly likely problems with. I accept,"too many problems", even, the effect would be a complete rewriting or withdrawal. But I was recently nodded Dow after I was missed Dow after a reply stated I was wrong, and I was moderated down again when I supplied a linked source proof I had been correct, all along. That one, about law enforcement and entrapment, my comment exchange concerning England, if my reply is not seen could gravely mislead someone. It's also poor to worsen the general public mythology about criminal law in any event. I know I should write the mods not here, but I feel actually so disenfranchised by this situation that I feel, wrongly I admit, I act in a better way by attracting the attention here, which, again I would put this over the borderline if I was moderating, I feel like I'm entitled to use for comments while apparently invisible. I am not wanting to begin a new handle because I made a couple of personally very difficult comments, early on, that I feel shouldn't be abandoned. I don't want to be thinking about my self regard, when I know I wrote a unbiased and factually accurate comment of potential real value. But because I want to be of value to the community, and because historically I discarded a privileged education to painstakingly reconstitute a maturing passion for intellectual rigor despite a almost comically disadvantaged progress through later life, I find it hard to swallow what I can explain no other way than are gratuitous dismissals of knowledge and in the past case the sanctity of law, without explanation. Ironically I the sort of person who grew up defending a frequent attack that claims that because I was presumably better educated therefore I think myself socially superior. And here I am actuallyfeeling I think how such people may have felt i fever I was too brusque, or felt to be dismissive. My funny fate took me from being almost the biggest dreamer of a ... Friends didn't know how to answer where they're from, because growing up with a globetrotting household and six homes is confusing. I know that now I merge with a "down to earth" stratum so alien to my past, that friends have disbelieved my early life, and said that they were just teasing me about being a snob. If you told me in my teens, copy of UNIX Review in my hand, and told me that I'd be distinguishing social class concerns, in a computing engineering forum, I'd have given you the address for a rehab clinic. I underwent such a upheaval in life as I've blamed for disconnecting me to my cost, for a very long time, but I think I missed something else, and I'll accept the suggestion I am lacking in insight by nature of my nature, if you can attempt to illuminate how. But honestly, I actually feel hurt, the fact of which I am incredibly surprised by suddenly.