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This broadband thing is a con,
When i first got the evdo 3 mnths ago they told me its boardband only in ABJ(i got it in kd),
I've been using it in ABJ(even right now),but i never see the broadband speed the claimed(2.3mbps).
The link speed is a disappointing 115kbps anly twice did it go up to 230kbps.
U can only open pages,forget fast downloads.
It took me close 2 1 week to download 800mb,even with leaving my pc overnight 4 like 2 dayz.

And can u imagine i got it for N21000 and N16000 suubscription evry month.
I'm just giving them some time,if they dont deliver i dey cut out.

texazzpete:
But i didn't insult you! If it's reasonable to compare the best selling phone in the US, and the No 2 Smartphone marketshare in the US (second only to Nokia) to a rock, then it's reasonable to compare you to a rock too.

@texaz
texas,u ar so naive.
U dont even know the facts behind the gadget.
U and all ur i phone fanatics,when confronted,cannot give a single,convincing reason why u like i phone.

let me explain it to you:

I-phone = brilliant marketing = over-exaggerated hype over nothing new with less usability and interoperability = waste of money = regret

Anybody I-phone owner that sees sony ericsson xperia,samsung omnia,HTCs and other good smartphones,
Will surely regret falling for the con of steve jobs.

texas u better go and sell ur i-phone(thats if could afford 1 ),or if u are fasting,starving and saving to buy 1 to look at that picture again.
Dont say i ddnt warn u.

Texas dnt let me start with u.
We are discussing I phone here,
If you cant defend these allegations just keep quiet,

Why should i ever use an I phone?
i craze ne?

That rufai guy too get liver,
instead of him to resign, apologize and return his share of the kick back,
He looked us in the face without remorse and ask for another 500m.
Devil fire him yansh.
We are waiting to see what baba-go-slow will do.

Apple are only good at 2 things,
Marketing, Deceit,

Ex Inferis:
he is obviously canvassing for folks to switch from iphones to rocks.

This guy is funny o,
Tell me i'm wrong about the i phone,

;d ;dlmmfao!

Ex Inferis:
I'm guessing you use the "device" on the left.

I'm i lying,talk true

Check out this killer app

To make you mine,theres nothin i wudnt risk or sacrifice,
To hav u by my side wud be paradise in advance,
I wud want to make you realize,
that i'll compromise all that is mine and all that has price so you wudnt say gudbye.

Apple has done it again(deceived us ),
The way they market their products you would think that the ultimate gadget is here finally,only to come across it and feel cheated and deceived .
When i used an i phone i was disappointed to say the least.
When the i phone came out,people criticized it for not having 3g ,
Then Steve got an opportunity to correct his mistake but blew it by making an equally worthless gadget.
With phone like samsung omina,sony ericsson xperia and the new HTC phones,i wonder what anybody will be doing with an i phone.
I advise anyone to stay clear of i phone and go for other emerging smart phones esp the HTCs,
they can do all and even more that the i phone does.
Don't say i ddt warn you ,

Categorically,i'm the best mentally,
no gain sayin,i'm the cutest physically,
No doubt me,i go bring home grammy,
credible,remarkable,unbetable,palatable,reliable, -9ice-street credibility

After playing with our intelligence that they parked the satellite like a car,as if theres a car park or parking space in space.
Yar adu,if u no do something God no go forgive u,That rufai guy should be behind bars,

I pray it lands somewhere in the sea,And that rufai of a guy should be nabbed and prosecuted,
and can u imagine,the guy was planning to launch nigcomsat 2 and 3.
The guy is a fraud.Let the govt catch him and let him identify his acompli.

Its a disgrace,Nigeria has exported her power prob to space,

Congrats Adams,I hope he lives up to and even beyond our expectations.

Let them start a public hearing on NigCom sta cos i dont think the minister is telling us the whole truth.(Remember Felix Hyet and the beechcraft plane).
Or better still they should call the greatest crook Nigeria ever had,who even at over 80 years when he should be think of the hear after,hes still looting naija blind.When is that guy going back to Yola or Kirikiri.

There is no need blaming anybody, This Chinese and those HAUSA people who gave them the contract will have to go to the orbit and locate the sat.

@SAM
I don't expect a foolish ethnic bigot like you to know when the contract for the satellite was signed.Let me tell you that the contract was signed during the tenure of the most corrupt,wicked,greedy, leader Nigeria ever had, Obasanjo.
For the revelations of the various probes you would know that your brother injured us no be small.You and your brothers will not smell power anytime soon cos you got 2 chances 20 yrs apart and you blew it.We will not make that mistake a third time.And for your information the M.D of NigCom sat is Ahmed Rufai,an igbira man from kogi state.So dont bring Hausa in.

Damn!
I couldn't believe my eyes,I'm now doubting if they even launched it in the first place.

THISDAY

Nigeria’s N40bn Satellite Missing from Orbit
By Efem Nkanga, 11.12.2008

The Nigerian Commun-ications Satellite (NigComSat), which was launched into orbit over 18 months ago, is said to be missing.
THISDAY gathered last night that with the satellite missing from orbit, the huge amount spent by the Nigerian government, about N40 billion may have gone down the drain.
The satellite was found to have run into a technical hitch for some weeks now, according to a source, when it was discovered that it was using a technological standard that was not meant for Africa but Asia.
The materials used in the building of the satellite by the Chinese that built it were said to have also been in question.
The solar panel was said to be faulty and not working. All this was being battled with while, the Managing Director of NigComSat, Ahmed Rufai, was said to be angling for the launch of the second satellite.
The contract for the NigComSat project which was signed on December 15, 2004 in Abuja between China Great Wall Industry Corporation and the National Space Research and Development Agency was said to have cost the Federal Government over N40 billion. China was awarded the deal after it outbid 21 international.
The cost of the satellite include items such as construction, insurance, value added tax as well as the price for building one ground control station in Abuja and a backup control station in Kashi, China.
The satellite has four gateways said to be located in South Africa, China, Italy and Northern Nigeria.
The satellite, which has a lifespan of 15 years, is being monitored and tracked by a ground station built in Abuja while the Chinese firm, Great Wall Industry Corporation, has a ground station in Kashgar, in northwest China ’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
It will be recalled that NigComSat which is 100 per cent owned by the Federal Government, was recently given a 15 per cent stake from the Federal Government’s 49 per cent stake in NITEL.
Nigeria in May 2007 launched NigComSat into orbit with expectations of tremendous gains to the nation’s telecoms sector.
The NigComSat is a super hybrid geo-stationary satellite designed to operate in Africa, parts of the Middle East and southern Europe and was expected to digitalise the Nigerian economy and promote technological advancement in Nigeria and Africa.
The expectation from many quarters was that NigComSat’s carrier rocket, Long March 3-B, which blasted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province and entered the orbit accurately on May 14, would set the stage for Nigeria to consolidate on its growing profile as the technological hub of Africa and an emerging player in the global terrain.
The satellite project was supposed to enable Internet access to even the remotest rural villages, a major quest of stakeholders in recent times. It was also expected to enhance government’s economic reforms, particularly in the areas of e-learning, e-commerce, tele-medicine, tele-education, and rural telephony.
The project, according to experts, was expected to help African users save more than $900 million spent for telephony trunking and data transport services, $660 million in phone call charges and broadband access which is more than $95 million spent each year, as well as create more than 150, 000 jobs for Nigerians.
Rufai had before the launch disclosed that Nigeria would earn about $1.05billion which is N128billion yearly from NigComSat. A major part of the earnings was expected to come in from the sale and leasing of transponders from NigComSat.
Rufai had stated that each transponder, forty in all will be sold for between $60-70 million. NigComSat currently has forty transponders, with 28 active and 12 inactive.
However despite the huge expectations of Nigerians, NigComSat has not performed to expectations. Rufai at a recent media interaction agreed that NigComSat had not been able to capture the market principally because of the challenges it faced from the regulatory authority.
Government sources confirmed to THISDAY the failure of the satellite in orbit. While admitting that the level the failure has gone is mindboggling, the source disclosed that the Federal Executive Council will meet today on the matter and issue a statement on how the failure will be addressed.

I came,i saw and conquer,from record sales to sold out concerts.-Jayz

If you hav a strong 2.2 you can get,cos i know someone that had 2.2 and he got the scholarship and left this sept.

I'd suggest u use vmware.with vmware u can run multiple operating systems on ur pc.No need to partition ur hard disk.

I'll give you all that this guy is talking about free,u dont need to pay a dime.

Never send a sheep to kill a wolf,
They were just the decoys,Good bye Mr X, (Wanted 2008)

canachy
pls can you give me links or resources that i can learn ASM.
thanx.

My Laptop is a SONY VAIO VGN-FE41s

*Intel core 2 Duo Proccessor 1.86Ghz which supports Enhanced intel SpeedStep^TM Technology
*2GB DDR2 SDRAM
*160GB Hard disk
*15.4' WXGA X-black LCD with double lamp tecnology
*DVD_+RW/_+R DL/RAM Optical drive
*802.11 a/b/g/n WLAN
*NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
*Windows Vista Business
*Sony Motion Eye webcam
*Bluetooth
*SD/mini SD/MMC/Pro Stick card reader

'm not trying to bragg even though the post says so but i'll say that there only a few PC ahead of mine.
I've not yet come across any PC faster than mine,
I hav a multi-purpose entertainment,gaming & development PC.I have loads of software from Jcreator,XAMPP,MySQL,Auto CAD & several other softwares.
The NVIDIA card is awesome theres no game that cant be played smoothly at the highest settings ,From FIFA 08,GTA,NFS,HITMAN, Its just too good!
The screen has a double lamp tech such that u can view the screen clearly from every possible angle.In this area Sony has defeated every PC.
My Windows Experience Index Base score is 4.1,The highest i've seen.There ar ppl that call my PC Buggati,

I'm considering Changing to a 64bit operating system and upgrading to 4GB Ram.
If i'll ever another PC it have to be a VAIO