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join:2008-09-03
Olmsted Falls, OH
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| Gaming industry! Sweet! I'll be out of school with my bachelor of science by then!
Game and Simulation programming is such a sweet major!!
I'm actually less concerned about the money thing and more focused on actually getting a job in the gaming industry but if profits will be strong like this then jobs should be plentiful.
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join:2001-02-26
CWCville USA
1 edit | Re: Gaming industry! said by TCub:if profits will be strong like this then jobs should be plentiful. You'd think so... but you know how big greedy companies are.
The amusing thing is that most amazing games are made by smaller companies, and then they're ruined by the big gaming conglomerate that buys them up and starts pumping out crap while firing as much of the creative staff as they can.
Ie: Westwood, Bioware etc being bought up by EA. EA has actually admitted they made a mistake by doing that sort of thing in the past, so I'm hopeful as far as the future goes. | |
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join:2008-09-03
Olmsted Falls, OH
kudos:4 Reviews:
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| Re: Gaming industry! I totally agree. I'd really like to work for Valve. I think they're one of the few cmpanies dong it right. If that doesn't work with the way content is being distributed these days I can see myself doing my own indie thing. Just imagine how well purchase games in 2012. Steam has hundreds of games, you've got the app store on the iphone, wii ware. This is just the start for great indie games making it in the scene. | |
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| |  KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
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| Re: Gaming industry! Blizzard always takes forever--- but when they come out, it's game of the year every time.
They do it right.
Now game waiting till the end of time still supposed to come out one day been waiting forever winner goes to:
3d Realms, Title: Duke Nukem Forever
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Mullica Hill, NJ | it is generally blizzard that is very slow, but considering every major release has been a smashing hit their parent company lets em do their own thing(never mind that WoW rakes in 100+ million a month).
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| U.S. Cellular It don't really surprise me to here about another regional cellular carrier on the market for sale. They do cover a lot of holes between some of the major carriers out in the urban parts of the country. Even with the aconomy in the dumps someone will gobble them up in a heartbeat. | |
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join:2002-08-06
Boothbay, ME
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·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | Re: U.S. Cellular US Cellular has fantastic coverage here in Maine.
IF----- Verizon buys them. Verizon already bought and converted Unicels GSM which covered allot of US Cellular area. Thus, just about all US Cellular areas would be redundant.
So, who else would buy them?
ATT? But they would have to convert to GSM... (Which I wouldn't mind)
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: U.S. Cellular said by Dominokat:US Cellular has fantastic coverage here in Maine. IF----- Verizon buys them. Verizon already bought and converted Unicels GSM which covered allot of US Cellular area. Thus, just about all US Cellular areas would be redundant. So, who else would buy them? ATT? But they would have to convert to GSM... (Which I wouldn't mind) it's either going to be Sprint or Verizon. I'm not sure Verizon could get approval though. | |
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join:2002-08-06
Boothbay, ME
kudos:2 Reviews:
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1 edit | Re: U.S. Cellular Why only Sprint or Verizon?
Verizon bought a GSM system and converted it to CDMA. Why can't ATT buy US Cellular's CDMA and convert it to GSM?
It would be the only GSM here now.
ATT currently covers only the southern half of the state. North, you roam onto Unicel (Verizon keeps the GSM going for roaming)
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join:2002-08-06
Boothbay, ME
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| Re: U.S. Cellular said by swintec:said by Dominokat:Verizon bought a GSM system and converted it to CDMA. Why can't ATT buy US Cellular's CDMA and convert it to GSM? Everything in the press releases and such had Verizon saying they were also going to hold onto the GSM equipment on the towers just so they could make roaming revenue off of it. I wish I knew if this was the case. I can vouge that it is true.
I have a Verizon phone that suddenly went to full bars (from barely usable) when they converted Unicel.
BUT! I also have an ATT iPhone that roams onto Unicel (Verizon) and still does.
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| ATT would have to be bothered enough to do something that involves brains.
If you remember, this is the same company that built a fios to the node system and used 1.5 million boxes to send it to house, and will one day HAVE to wire fiber to houses, wasting 1.5 million per box. | |
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Dominokat:Why only Sprint or Verizon? Verizon bought a GSM system and converted it to CDMA. Why can't ATT buy US Cellular's CDMA and convert it to GSM? because they won't do it. at&t is too busy and financially tied down trying to get U-verse out everywhere. And as soon as they get u-verse out everywhere they'll realize they just should have done FTTH in the first place and start doing that. | |
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join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
kudos:1 | Re: U.S. Cellular said by BF69:said by Dominokat:Why only Sprint or Verizon? Verizon bought a GSM system and converted it to CDMA. Why can't ATT buy US Cellular's CDMA and convert it to GSM? because they won't do it. at&t is too busy and financially tied down trying to get U-verse out everywhere. And as soon as they get u-verse out everywhere they'll realize they just should have done FTTH in the first place and start doing that. AT&T will never have it everywhere, they don't even have DSL everywhere (my home of Redwood Valley being one), and they've had well over 10 years to get it out. | |
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Camden, TN | Re: U.S. Cellular said by RR Conductor:said by BF69:said by Dominokat:Why only Sprint or Verizon? Verizon bought a GSM system and converted it to CDMA. Why can't ATT buy US Cellular's CDMA and convert it to GSM? because they won't do it. at&t is too busy and financially tied down trying to get U-verse out everywhere. And as soon as they get u-verse out everywhere they'll realize they just should have done FTTH in the first place and start doing that. AT&T will never have it everywhere, they don't even have DSL everywhere (my home of Redwood Valley being one), and they've had well over 10 years to get it out. My point is that at&t is not buying US Cellular | |
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join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | IMHO US Cellular doesn't bring much value to Verizon Wireless. What value would they bring to Sprint and where would Sprint get the money to buy them? | |
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join:2002-04-02
Redwood Valley, CA
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1 edit | said by swintec:Maine is one of the states they have a presence in....there coverage isnt horrible as I roam on them sometimes with Sprint...they actually just put up a bunch of new towers in the state. I'd love to see Sprint buy them. They cover Northern California very well too, in fact, in the counties they cover (Mendocino (my county), Lake, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, Siskiyou, Modoc, Lassen, Plumas) they are the coverage leader. They still don't have EVDO up here yet, while Verizon has the entire North State covered in EVDO. USCC also has a huge presence in Oregon and Washington, and has great coverage there as well. | |
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| Re: U.S. Cellular There coverage in western Maryland and West Virginia is also excellent. Of course a lot of people dont realize that U.S. Cellular had used USF money over the years to bring wireless service to remote parts of West Virginia were no one would ever bother covering. As far as EV-DO they have been really tight liped about that, never even shows it on there web site. | |
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I would worry if they got gobbled up by a bigger company, things would just go down the drain - as many acquisitions tend to go.
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join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Re: U.S. Cellular Ya. I'm worried where my unlimited data plan is going to go if Alltel is grabbed by another company here.
I can't do 5GB caps in my profession. I use that in a week. | |
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join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | That is so true, with regards to their network speed
My Sister has the 1x and it is so slow I want to pull my hair out! I don't know that much about the economic health of the potential buyers of US cellular, so who do you think will get them? | |
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join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | Verizon already pissed me off by buying Alltel. I don't think they need to get any bigger.
How about this, let Verizon buy *ALL* of the existing CDMA providers and let the monopolize the technology.
I'm sick of stockholders and the companies' board of directors always taking the easy and most profitable way out. They have no clue what real damage they're causing to competition.
Eventually we'll have 2 Cell Companies, one for CDMA and one for GSM. Then they'll charge whatever price they want and we can't do a damn thing about it.
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Saint Louis, MO | Wouldn't this be an excellent opportunity for Comcast to get into the cell market? | |
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join:2008-10-10
New Freedom, PA | Re: U.S. Cellular How about Cox Communications since they are now getting into the biz??? Would be a good start | |
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