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@Home Network Approaching Shutdown
David Harris writes: "A bankruptcy court ruled today that the @Home network will be shutdown at midnight, unless the company reaches new deals with its cable partners and creditors. The decision is a victory for bondholders, owed $750 million by Excite@Home, whose motion asked the court to shutdown the network on grounds that AT&T's $307 million offer to acquire @Home's broadband network is not adequate and fair value for the network could only be found if a shutdown was forced." Read about it on excite.com, while you can. CNet has a good analysis of where things stand. 45% of the cable modem users in North America! Ouch.
Well, I expect my spam-load to drop. That is one plus from this.
Michael Loves Me!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I won't be able to read Slashdot tommorow!
*goes and collapses on the floor*
" @Home Network Approaching Shutdown
Posted by michael on Friday November 30, @04:57PM
from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-code-red dept. "
my response when it happens:
" Slashdot Shuts Down
Posted by wifflefan on Friday November 30, @04:57PM
from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-jerks dept. "
Geez.
w|f
Comece para baixo com seu self mau.
Eu sei que I, para um, terá uma estadia muito difícil encontrar um fornecedor da qualidade em minha área. Endireite agora, todo o fornecedor do DSL tem já uma lista de espera rather longa, e é limitado somente para começar mais por muito tempo. Eu tenho o sentimento horrible que eu estarei empurrado para trás para o dialup logo.
Eu sei uma coisa para certo, será um dia frio no inferno antes que Comcast ou toda a companhia relacionada para excitar comecem meu dinheiro outra vez. Quanto tempo souberam sobre este? Era somente depois que eu vi a história em Slashdot que eu recebi toda a notificação do provérbio de Comcast o que estava acontecendo, e aquele era pelo E-mail, não letra...
caro Comcast @Home cliente,
Como você pode saber, Excite@Home, o Internet Service Provider para Comcast @Home, arquivado para a proteção da bancarrota do capítulo 11 no fim de setembro 2001. Durante este processo, nós somos cometidos a mantê-lo informado sobre todos os desenvolvimentos novos e a fornecê-lo com o serviço Internet da mais melhor velocidade elevada.
Este mês, Excite@Home peticionou a corte de bancarrota para que a permissão termine acordos com suas filiais do cabo - including Comcast, Cox e AT&T - novembro em 30, 2001. Se a corte concedesse o pedido de Excite@Home's, poderia haver um rompimento provisório nos serviços excita fornece aos mais de quatro milhão clientes servidos por suas filiais norte-americanas.
Por favor seja assegurado que nós avaliamos seu negócio e está fazendo tudo possível assegurar-se de que não haja nenhum interruption de seu serviço de Comcast @Home. Adicionalmente, nós fizemos exame das seguintes etapas para minimizar toda a inconveniência se um rompimento provisório do serviço ocorrer em conseqüência de governar da corte:
Nós temos trabalhado também para desenvolver uma rede Comcast-controlada que o fornecesse sempre- no serviço que Internet da velocidade cabo-cable-powered, elevada você veio apreciar. Nós faremos este serviço novo disponível como rapidamente como possível e fornecê-lo-emos com mais detalhes na correspondência futura.
Cinco anos há, Comcast transformou-se uma das primeiras companhias de cabo para oferecer a clientes a velocidade elevada serviço Internet. Nós remanescemos cometidos a fornecê-lo com o serviço de qualidade elevada agora e no futuro e agradecemo-lo escolhendo Comcast.
Sincerely,
Vice-presidente Do Sr. De David Juliano & General Gerente
Parafuse-o David! Eu estou completamente!
- Reliable bandwidth. While DSL doesn't have the same "potential" bandwidth of cable, you get the 1.5Mbps to yourself, since you have your very own copper loop to your telco's central office (i.e. your phone line). Cable lines are shared throughout your neighborhood, so your maximum transfer speed varies astronomically depending on how many people have their TV or cable internet connections on at the time.
- Cheap setup. In most cities these days, the phone lines are already DSL-ready, and chances are you have at least one phone line going into your house. If you don't already have cable TV installed, you'll have to pay big bucks to get the cable line.
- Support. Cable companies still make the majority of cash from cable TV, and because of this tend to treat their Internet subscribers as second-class citizens.
Really, the death of cable is just the free market choosing the better technology in the end, and that is what capitalism is supposed to do, isn't it? I feel sorry for all the cable subscribers, but you all really should have done more research before picking a broadband provider.Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
You get cox at home? Faggot. Unless you're a chick, but I doubt it since slashdot is nothing but fags.
Weeelllll -
my cunt is a'drippin',
your lips are a'sippin',
my ass is a'crappin',
your mouth is a'lappin'
all that comes out of an oracifce
you eat for a main course-ifice
Poop and pee, all a'yummy
Sitting proud inside your tummy!
Thank you, thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Tip your waitstaff.
Fuck you all and goodnight!
This seems like a very grim statement indeed for @Home customers, but I stumbled upon this link at yahoo that seems to offer much larger bandwidth at a lesser cost. Look at it before your connection cuts off at midnight folks!
A loud public audit (one of those 'what is going on here, anyway?' things) that reveals that the 'old' Internet was never used for much that was productive. Then public subsidy (i.e. universities, governmental bodies) start losing their funding.
Then the elite finds themselves using a slightly updated version of UUCP to bucket brigade their usenet around again.
I think it sounds excellent. But you're all going to have to start ordering your Linux distros from Cheapbytes. apt-get just isn't feasiable on that modem, suckers.
How am I going to keep my precious negative karma in place if I can't keep getting slammed by cranky Europeans?
I don't think that I can live another day without being called an arrogant, bomb-crazy warhead who likes to kill children... every time I point out that I enjoy being an American.
After all, I do like more than to bomb innocent children with missing limbs, I mean, who doesn't?
Cmon, admit it. Puuuut ooon the Cooowboy Haaat. LOL.
WTF?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? How was that off topic, you dipshit cock smocking dong riding jack ass moderators?
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