It's worse than that. Back when I "cut the cord" they were popping up commercials at the bottom of the screen while you were trying to watch a show. And they wanted me to pay $12,000 a decade or more for that? That was the final straw for me.
Perhaps, but DirecTV requires you pay for a shitload of channels that you probably don't won't, so they are a no go for anybody with an ounce of brains.
56K!? Seriously, you had 56K! You lucky SOB! In my day we felt lucky to be able to cradle our handsets into 300 baud modem. The data had to climb uphill, in the snow, both ways.
Once computers are fully capable of taking and following verbal directions I'm quite sure that a great majority of English speaking people will have no problem programming them.
Google Fiber is starting construction of its gigabit internet network next week in West Louisville.
The lucky winner of the starting point is the Portland neighborhood — a seeming homage to Google Fiber's promise to the city to be socially conscious internet providers.
Grace Simrall, chief of Civic Innovation and Technology at Louisville Metro Government, confirmed Wednesday the technology giant's intention to start building. She said the quick turnaround from the original "Google Fiber is coming" announcement in late April to the start of the build is encouraging.
"They're assured us that they've come up with a strategy to be able to turn peoples' services on faster than other markets," she said. "They're aiming to do this in a matter of months, not years."
Simrall said the next neighborhood the gigabit service will come to is Newburg. Other neighborhoods are in the works, but she could not confirm plans past Newburg.
When the first announcement came, Google said it planned to test innovative ways to deploy the infrastructure, including through wireless technologies, microtrenching, and possibly through simply hanging the cables on utility poles.
The last method is under fire in Louisville. Don't forget that AT&T and the Louisville Metro Government are duking it out in court over a 2016 city ordinance that was crafted to help Google and other third-party internet service providers deploy networks quicker.
Maybe to totally avoid the issue, the deployment in Portland will be done by microtrenching, which is literally burying the fiber optic cable underground. The cable will be laid block by block, with the goal to finish one block each day, Simrall said. It will reach from 22nd and 30th streets between Market and Bank streets.
She said she couldn't say the company's goals, but Simrall and other government officials have talked with the Google Fiber team about bringing better, more affordable internet connection to the underserved, lower-income neighborhoods in West Louisville.
Simrall has said she thinks this will help to start closing the opportunity gap in the city, because access to good quality, high-speed internet service is a major economic driver.
Citation needed here. I mean I've turned down ecery offer from AT&T and Spectrum waiting on Google. The former two can't see anything but profits and have no interest in bettering the community.
Really? Our murder rate has nearly doubled of the last couple of years. It seems that only drugs and death are seen as the only way to the middle class in these woods.
While AT&T focused on building out fiber in profitable areas, Google started with the poorest most neediest and less served areas. Take care of people and people will take care of you.
It is obvious that Hollywood does. What real man would lust after a shapeless, bossomless, and hairless person than child molestors? Hell, it isn't even uncommon to see requests for shaved pussies on almost every meet up site around. The real question here is why men, instead of seeking the company of natural women, have become so attracted to prepuscence.
Guess that depends on how much you value your money. Personally, especially considering how much so many here harp on personally responsiblity, I'd rather not take the chance. Afterall, if you know your banks practices are weak, doesn't the onous fall on you?
Probes are just too danged limited. I really doubt that a probe would have figured out that there is profit to be made from a lethal plant such as tobacco. Humans spotted the opportunity immediately.
WTF does that have to do with content of the post? All real slashdot readers browse at -1 so as to avoid the political bullshit that has taken over the moderation system.
If that is true, wouldn't it be better for everybody if nobody had to pay anybody for premium content? One price includes all would be the best outcome of all of us, including the bloodsuckers.
...content providers still haven't got this by now. When you pay for internet access you expect access to all the internet. This paying a premium for premium access will never fly.
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So moving to Win/Win philosophy might save the company?
Maybe be a bit more Linux friendly? Hope they don't go the way of SCO. In the meantime, Redhat keeps chugging along.
Seriously, people are paying nearly $20,000 a decade to watch TV? Holy shit!!
It's worse than that. Back when I "cut the cord" they were popping up commercials at the bottom of the screen while you were trying to watch a show. And they wanted me to pay $12,000 a decade or more for that? That was the final straw for me.
...of those on /. who want everyone to be logged on before they are allowed to comment. Talk about stifling free speech.
Perhaps, but DirecTV requires you pay for a shitload of channels that you probably don't won't, so they are a no go for anybody with an ounce of brains.
Really? Any of those sites worth visiting?
56K!? Seriously, you had 56K! You lucky SOB! In my day we felt lucky to be able to cradle our handsets into 300 baud modem. The data had to climb uphill, in the snow, both ways.
...why do you need ESPN, Starz, and MTV Live? What in your life is improved by being able to view them?
$200 a month is $24,000 a decade!!! That could be a down payment of a frakking nice house in most areas of the country. What were you thinking?
But of course they know that.
Once computers are fully capable of taking and following verbal directions I'm quite sure that a great majority of English speaking people will have no problem programming them.
"A keyboard, how quaint".
Is this really the type of posters you want to attract Slashdot? This site is going to hell in a handbasket!!
I'm about as left leaning as left leaning one can be, but this continous trolling by the editors really needs to stop. Please stop it now.
Okay.
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Google Fiber is starting construction of its gigabit internet network next week in West Louisville.
The lucky winner of the starting point is the Portland neighborhood — a seeming homage to Google Fiber's promise to the city to be socially conscious internet providers.
Grace Simrall, chief of Civic Innovation and Technology at Louisville Metro Government, confirmed Wednesday the technology giant's intention to start building. She said the quick turnaround from the original "Google Fiber is coming" announcement in late April to the start of the build is encouraging.
"They're assured us that they've come up with a strategy to be able to turn peoples' services on faster than other markets," she said. "They're aiming to do this in a matter of months, not years."
Simrall said the next neighborhood the gigabit service will come to is Newburg. Other neighborhoods are in the works, but she could not confirm plans past Newburg.
When the first announcement came, Google said it planned to test innovative ways to deploy the infrastructure, including through wireless technologies, microtrenching, and possibly through simply hanging the cables on utility poles.
The last method is under fire in Louisville. Don't forget that AT&T and the Louisville Metro Government are duking it out in court over a 2016 city ordinance that was crafted to help Google and other third-party internet service providers deploy networks quicker.
Maybe to totally avoid the issue, the deployment in Portland will be done by microtrenching, which is literally burying the fiber optic cable underground. The cable will be laid block by block, with the goal to finish one block each day, Simrall said. It will reach from 22nd and 30th streets between Market and Bank streets.
She said she couldn't say the company's goals, but Simrall and other government officials have talked with the Google Fiber team about bringing better, more affordable internet connection to the underserved, lower-income neighborhoods in West Louisville.
Simrall has said she thinks this will help to start closing the opportunity gap in the city, because access to good quality, high-speed internet service is a major economic driver.
Citation needed here. I mean I've turned down ecery offer from AT&T and Spectrum waiting on Google. The former two can't see anything but profits and have no interest in bettering the community.
Really? Our murder rate has nearly doubled of the last couple of years. It seems that only drugs and death are seen as the only way to the middle class in these woods.
While AT&T focused on building out fiber in profitable areas, Google started with the poorest most neediest and less served areas. Take care of people and people will take care of you.
It is obvious that Hollywood does. What real man would lust after a shapeless, bossomless, and hairless person than child molestors? Hell, it isn't even uncommon to see requests for shaved pussies on almost every meet up site around. The real question here is why men, instead of seeking the company of natural women, have become so attracted to prepuscence.
Guess that depends on how much you value your money. Personally, especially considering how much so many here harp on personally responsiblity, I'd rather not take the chance. Afterall, if you know your banks practices are weak, doesn't the onous fall on you?
Probes are just too danged limited. I really doubt that a probe would have figured out that there is profit to be made from a lethal plant such as tobacco. Humans spotted the opportunity immediately.
Have you considered changing banks?
You don't post Anonymously, and your score is 0.
WTF does that have to do with content of the post? All real slashdot readers browse at -1 so as to avoid the political bullshit that has taken over the moderation system.
If that is true, wouldn't it be better for everybody if nobody had to pay anybody for premium content? One price includes all would be the best outcome of all of us, including the bloodsuckers.
...content providers still haven't got this by now. When you pay for internet access you expect access to all the internet. This paying a premium for premium access will never fly.