Posts by Stephen Judd
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Interesting take from Libby Hakaraia on the march.
Summary: concerned about the look of the thing too. But not everyone was from Tuhoe; not everyone there was there for the same reason.
"You're seeing a whole lot of different agendas being vented on a protest like this."
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The orange jump suit thing is interesting. I must admit that my immediate thought was that it was an unjustified allusion to Guantanamo Bay. I bet that's what everyone who saw it thought too.
I guess this is why there is such a thing as the PR professional (and look how often they get it wrong too).
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It's important to you Russell, but voice quality has never made much difference in the mobile market - I doubt that it will in fixed either.
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When you think about it, the business case for providing POP email as an ISP sucks.
You have to invest massive amounts in hardware and staff time to filter out shit that no one wants, and people hate you when you screw it up, which is absolutely inevitable. Unless people use webmail with ads, there's no way to get revenue from it.
If I were starting a new barebones ISP, I'd say that we don't offer email - email's just another service you can get from a 3rd party - and remove an enormous cost centre from the business. Let those suckers at Google pay for it.
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Why on earth would you use your ISP provided email address for *anything*.
Because most people don't have the knowledge to set up a hosted domain for mail (or the willingness to pay to keep it registered). I know it's really really easy but it's all relative. And it didn't used to be that easy either.
My observation from managing mailing lists is that there is a class of person who changes email address promiscuously, from hotmail to gmail to ISP to work and back again, blissfully unconcerned with maintaining a consistent identity.
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Can someone tell me this - what parts of Telecom, other than sales and marketing, aren't outsourced?
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I browse Pricespy to see who's got the best deal, and then generally go with Ascent anyway, because I've always had such fab service from them.
But I'll say this for DSE: not only can you order through their website, but if you want to go a store to buy, the site tells you which stores have the item. They're very convenient when you're at work and you need a replacement thingy NOW.
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There is no excuse for sitting people in jail without being charged.
They all have bail now as far as I know.
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You, if only some enterprising journo would ask Sharples whether he meant these guys instead. (A hugely inappropriate simile if so).
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I am prepared to bet that a large group of New Zealanders, maybe even a majority, think "Stormtrooper" refers to the white-armoured minions in Star Wars.