Deadly Sins of YES 4G - especially Buzz Phone

DON'T READ if you already BOUGHT from YES !!

Should you really say YES to YTL's 4G ? Well, may be you should consider these deadly sins that I have observed . . .

First of all, they said, "pay only what you use". But there is a minimum charge of RM 30 every month if you engage one of their packages. As far as I know, this 4G network is a closed network. Meaning the only way you can engage their services is by buying one of their devices. And once you DO NOT use their services anymore, your device is ABSOLUTELY USELESS !! Hence the only way to engage them is by buying one of their packages. So how is that "charge only what you use" with this RM30 monthly ?

Note: You still can BUY their device separately and then TOP UP with credits. In that case, I suppose you will NOT be charge the minimum RM 30 a month. But the question remains . . . You HAVE TO buy their devices ! How is this a fair trade ?

FYI : RM 30 = 1GB usage or 333 SMS or 5 hours 33 minutes.

The next big hu ha is you pay only 9 cents. BUT there is NO WAY you can find out how much you have used so far from your phone. How many calls have you made ? How many minutes have you called ? How many SMS have you sent ? How many MB have you used ?

The only way to find out your usage is by login to their web site. And once you login, all you can view is your usage up to yesterday.

The good thing is, they said login to their web site to check usage does not incur cost. But there is really NO WAY you can tell whether charge does incur or not when you browse to 'their web sites. Simply because there is NO details of your browsing bandwidth.

The phone . . . is basically not a phone. It is just a device for you to log in and log out to their 4G network. Below screen shows where you do just that. At the moment you sign in, you basically leave your fate to them. There is NO WAY you can track or measure your usage. There is NO WAY you can find out if there is a background application using bandwidth without asking for your prior approval.

As a matter of fact, in order for 4G phone to work, your phone WILL check the connection and other info 'from time to time' and it will DEFINITELY use some bandwidth. They may say those do not incur charges, but then again there is NO WAY you can be sure either way.

OK, even if we assume YTL is your god and you trust them fully. But once you install some of your own application ie. facebook !? Then how do you tell if that application is continuously using bandwidth even when you are NOT using it !? You DON'T !!

The only way you can CONTROL your usage is by log out of the network. But once you log out, you will not be able to receive call or sms. So you HAVE TO keep yourself login.

You HAVE TO keep yourself login

Once login, you have NO CONTROL of the usage

When you buy the package, you get nothing else but a receipt. So basically you are just buying a 'thing' like any other trade transaction. They DID NOT promise their up time, NOT their coverage and NOTHING about provide you a fair services like a proper way for you to track your usage.

As long as the 'thing' / device you get is still working and their 4G network is still up, you basically have NO LEGAL RIGHTs whatsoever against them. It doesn't matter at all if you can't make call, your sms didn't get delivered and your usage has been abused etc. You just DON'T have any legal rights against all those situations.

You PAID and you GET the 'THING'.

There were NO other service warranty / guarantee at all.

Since when is the voice and internet NOT together ? It has always been internet on top of voice even during those dial up era. Now with their so called 4G, its voice on top of internet. Which really is no different than Skype, which has been existed for ages. Either way, voice and internet has ALWAYS been 'together' !

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There is a "Auto Sign In" check box on the phone, even if you don't check that, the device will still sign me in without me asking it to do so.

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Once you login to their web site, your usage up to yesterday will be reported. However, the account details seems NOT changing even after 3 days of usage. Says I have used 9MB so far for example but my total credits in my account remains the same RM XXX. So even if I know my usage, I have no ideas how they are going to charge me in future. We will see but I am quite sure "PREPAID" is suppose to mean deduct immediately after each call/sms/bandwidth usage.

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The general perspective of YES Buzz 4G Phone

Facebook Dead

After much talks, the moment I use facebook for work .... its dead. :)

dated 22 April 2010 11:40pm ( GMT +8 )

SEX - a computing word

SEX

/seks/ [Sun Users' Group & elsewhere] 1. Software EXchange. A technique invented by the blue-green algae hundreds of millions of years ago to speed up their evolution, which had been terribly slow up until then. Today, SEX parties are popular among hackers and others (of course, these are no longer limited to exchanges of genetic software). In general, SEX parties are a Good Thing, but unprotected SEX can propagate a virus. See also pubic directory.

2. The mnemonic often used for Sign EXtend, a machine instruction found in the PDP-11 and many other architectures. The RCA 1802 chip used in the early Elf and SuperElf personal computers had a "SEt X register" SEX instruction, but this seems to have had little folkloric impact.

DEC's engineers nearly got a PDP-11 assembler that used the "SEX" mnemonic out the door at one time, but (for once) marketing wasn't asleep and forced a change. That wasn't the last time this happened, either. The author of "The Intel 8086 Primer", who was one of the original designers of the Intel 8086, noted that there was originally a "SEX" instruction on that processor, too. He says that Intel management got cold feet and decreed that it be changed, and thus the instruction was renamed "CBW" and "CWD" (depending on what was being extended). The Intel 8048 (the microcontroller used in IBM PC keyboards) is also missing straight "SEX" but has logical-or and logical-and instructions "ORL" and "ANL".

The Motorola 6809, used in the UK's "Dragon 32" personal computer, actually had an official "SEX" instruction; the 6502 in the Apple II with which it competed did not. British hackers thought this made perfect mythic sense; after all, it was commonly observed, you could (on some theoretical level) have sex with a dragon, but you can't have sex with an apple.

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snake oil IT businesses

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Infoworld reported TOP 6 IT businesses that they classified as Snake Oil ... I spotted 3 of them out loud (3-5), did not agree with 2 of them (1,6) and had some reservation on #2

1. AI - is FAKE intelligence really smart or just plain stupid ?
2. CASE - I am a supporter on this but Program for the Program ? I have to admit, not everyone gets it!
3. Thin Client - when a thick client is cheap, its a THIN client, period !
4. ERP - All in ONE ! All in ONE ! But what is ALL ?
5. B2B - One of the most stupid Internet terms of all time and yet still being bought by many investors.
6. Social Webs - Let's have a serious meeting over a not-so-serious coffee table

Artificial Intelligence may be vague by itself but through the journey, we can

• know more about ourselves, how we think, why we act etc.
• eventually come up with something that is more 'natural' than today's machines

so even if AI will never be achieved, its OK. We will get somewhere. We will still CREATE somethings even if we are NOT god.

Social web by itself is NOT an engineering break through, its NOT a business so they say, because it has NOT business ground ! But then again, the whole entertainment industry started out as FREE shows, some social events etc. Until idols came out and money started flowing big time in entertainment industry. Idols are already coming out in social web ... money already started flowing ... so what if we can't get something serious out of social web, we can just earn good money out of non seriousness.

behind Microsoft, there is an Apple

Look carefully what notebook they use while explaining how useful Microsoft is ...

Do you know that there is NO washroom in Microsoft ?

Internet Business Tips

The first thing to do in Internet Business is to think of a NAME ... then your TITLE ...



Dont forget the main purpose is to earn some money, so even if you don't know what your buyer want, just ask for some money. You don't ask, you don't get.



Ain't everyone wishes to be bought out by Bill Gates ....



Yes, now they have Internet on Computer, Homer ....

Notebook without keyboard

I once predicted the next break through in computer hardwares is to do away with its input and output devices, ie. the keyboard and the monitor !

And Apple comes up with this, which is one of the biggest joke I have ever seen ....

Major pitfall of ERP : Enterprise Resource Planning

ERP is the software solution that claims to solve all your business need.  One software for ALL !

More often than require, ERP vendors always claim ERP is a very complicated software.  Therefore they cann't let you use the software right away.  Giving you access to the software will only confuse you.  They will have to configure it first before you can use it.

In order to configure it, they have to know what you need.

First of all, what a bussiness need today is not necessary the same tomorrow.

2nd, whatever needs you told the ERP consultants, he probably understand less than half of it since he is not "IN" your business.  He may understand what you 'Told" him but he would NOT be able to "Feel" it like you do !

So guess what !  At end end, whatever he configured for you will almost certainly NOT match your real needs.

By then, you already paid 80% of the 1 million dollar project.

Let me recap .... ERP is very complicated, you cann't just start by using it.  You have to pay first for consultants to configure it.  After months or years down the road, you will certainly obtain a configured system that is really NOT that usuable anyway.  By then you should repeat the process again because its 'complicated'.

:) I know where u live ...

The transition between new and old generation ... its going to take a while to narrow down the gap ... or will it ever be ?

:) future of email

Not surprisingly, some people still find it hard to distinguish between sci-fi fictions and today's technology.

Did I watch it from a movie or Discovery channel ?

:) the affair btw IT and coffee

:) Help ! Help !

:) name, no password ?