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From: mmcirvin@world.std.com (Matt McIrvin)
Subject: Re: What I Got For Hmas
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In article <F4nA6K.LBr@world.std.com>, bdc@world.std.com (Brian "JARAI"
Chase) wrote:

>I have yet to purchase a cell phone, though I have considered it.  My
>decision to go ahead and get a cell phone was set back by a few years when
>they started airing those annoying blind guy cellular service commercials. 
>I'm waiting for the cool CDMA digital service developed by Qualcomm to get
>a little more mainstream.  I figure the st00pid pager they gave me for
>work is good enough for the moment.  Maybe next Hmas I'll get a cell phone
>too.

I want to make enough money someday to use the Iridium global wireless
phone service, the only phone service whose rocket launches dominated the
space navigation warning posts on sci.space.news for MONTHS.*  I had no
clue what these things were-- I thought they were some kind of military
doodads-- then the ads started playing on TV.

Apparently they wanted to let people make global satellite calls without
that annoying-as-hell time lag, and the only way to do it within the
confines of ordinary non-Usenet-style physics was to send up about a
gadzillion satellites orbiting at an altitude of forty feet.  DUCK!



* Someday, somebody will actually get all their space navigation hazard
information off Usenet.  I think that contemplating this possibility for a
while should put the "year 2000 problem" in proper perspective.

-- 
Matt McIrvin    http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/