The Roswell Park Cancer Institute Memorial Mace
Yes, an honored stick with which to beat people, in a glass class by Human Resources.
And even better, an illustrated history of the evolution of medicine:
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Including these highlights:
Centaurs curse humankind with illness, including cancer.
Greeks like to have sex with other men and also fail to cure cancer.
An old Jew wears pointy shoes and withholds secret knowledge of how to fight cancer.
Some guy invented very small drippy zeppelins that fail to cure cancer.
Madam Curie returns from the dead in radiant form, but no one can see her cure for cancer.
There is another secret ghost hiding behind the ghost of Madam Curie. We do not know his story.
Scientists are too poor to own chairs, so you should donate money to RPCI. To help them cure cancer.
Cacti are taking over the world, a new form of mega-cancer.
An African looking mask likes to leer at reclining nude women. Something something cancer.
by opening up their social graph? That is my dream come true! xfn and openid, distributed digital social networks not under anyone's thumbs.
You can definitely use a GSM modem with sim card attached to a server to send out the messages. Then you just buy an unlimited messaging account from tmobile for that sim card.
I think that SMS is in its death throws. Honestly, after years of closely following mobile telfony I am sure that it is yesterday;'s technology and that most cell phones are going to go in the direction of email very soon. Many, many of them already have.
Hey Jim, someone smeared geek all over your journal.
I mostly need to send outgoing SMS's at this point, so doing without a short code isn't that big a deal for my project.
I think the better browsers and get (mobile safari for example), and mobile email too), the less relevant the SMS racket will be.
Yeah, Paul was telling me that I should just tether a cell phone to a server and send them out that way, but my server is in a rack in San Diego, and so...
So you pay per month for your short code, and then you pay per-message for using the API. GOD THIS INDUSTRY IS SO SHADY. Network providers screw service providers and service providers screw content providers and everyone screws the end user. How many people could you possibly bill for sending one 160-byte packet over the network? Let's find out ...
Now that I think about it, my previous phone [Sony Ericsson T616] could operate over Bluetooth as a Hayes-compatible modem. There were special AT commands you could issue to it; there was probably one for sending SMS.
- Z
Well you don't need a short code, but whether or not you have a shortcode you need either a web gateway API to call or a cell system interface terminal. The costs for sending a message seem to be around $0.05 per text, and you have to buy at least $25 worth at a time.
It's an API call, usually just in an encoded url like this describes: :::link:::
But some of the you have to submit XML packets with the message info. You need to pay for a short code, and then pay a gateway service for an API connection, and your site can send SMS messages directly.
Alternatively there are actual cell devices that you'd hook up to your server and send messages with over the regular cell networks, but I am not too clear on what's involved with that route.
Funny, we were just solicited by a mobile service provider. Question: once you have a short-code, how do you submit SMSes to the network?
- Z