Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Work of life

The days I don’t work
He doesn’t work on the weekdays, he doesn’t work on the weekends. So When does he work? Well for him it seems like he is always working on something but not for money. He works for his parents around the farm and the house. He works on his schoolwork, which seems at times to conspire and eat his soul. He works for the community with his volunteer work. And he works for God in any way he can. But to no use, he just cant seem to get a good part time job, for which to fund his social life and his hobbies. Why did you do what you did? I did what I did to make my life better, no. I don’t work because I have not the time, or the drive to work. School and other parts of my life seem to attack me, and suck up my time, and just drain me of the energy expected of a young man. But I say I like to work, which is true, but the opportunity dose not come often enough to support my wants, my needs are still given to me by my parents, which I need to remember will not be doing that for long, for when one has a large family, you need to move on with your life when you can. Don’t be a burden. The social activities that I take part in often need some if not a large amount of money to be successful in. I wander around with friends in the large towns of McMinnville and Newburg, now walking there is fun, but time consuming, and so I choose to drive, which takes Petrol, and that is not a cheep commodity these day. And so I keep looking, and jobs come and they go, but I get neither work nor money, if you whish to get a hold of me, I will be at work.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Texting and the money

I have one DAMN QUESTION.
Texting. My generation is obbsesed with it, I like it also, but have you ever thought about it.
A text is a typical length of only 190 bytes (incl. protocol overhead), more than 350 of these messages per minute can be transmitted at the same datarate as a usual voice call (9 kbit/s).
So, after just looking for a second, a phone company can send 350 texts in one min compared to once voice conversation. This means that the company can make 349 times more money making moves than just someone talking.
The Texting (SMS) crazy is starting to hit the U.S hard. (Read below)

Popularity

Short message services are developing very rapidly throughout the world. By mid-2004, SMS messages were being sent at a rate of 500 billion messages per annum. At an average cost of USD 0.10 per message, this generates revenues in excess of $50 billion for mobile telephone operators and represents close to 100 text messages for every person in the world. Growth has been rapid; in 2001, 250 billion short messages were sent, in 2000 just 17 billion. SMS is particularly popular in Europe (excluding France), Asia (excluding Japan; see below) and Australia. Popularity has grown to a sufficient extent that the term texting (used as a verb meaning the act of mobile phone users sending short messages back and forth) has entered the common lexicon. In China, SMS is very popular, and has brought service providers significant profit (18 billion short messages were sent in 2001 [2]).


The Point I wanted to make is that Cellphone Companys are making a KILLING of of text messages. They use hardly any room on the phone lines and systems, but they charge so much for so little. That is one reason that Cell companys are doing so well.

I just wanted to rant about the stupidiy of me and my fellow peers for using such a nice little system.



(Info gatherd from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging) Wikipedia