That's sad. Frontier rolled out tons of DSL to way out in the rural middle of nowhere in Southern Illinois. I think they stopped rollout, but I know people who are 10 miles from town who have good quality DSL. I think they are the only phone company around here that has DSLAMs anywhere but the CO. AT&T definitely doesn't run fiber or power to remote DSLAMs. Or even fix their rotting copper.
If I were your dad, I'd get one of those cordless phone systems that will bluetooth to your cell phone. Put the base station and an older cell phone on a charger in the attic that still has an external antenna port on it. Put a GSM antenna outside of the house wired to it. Tada, you have cordless phones in your house that at least receive calls over cellular. Don't know if they can send. It would take a more complicated solution to do that (I know asterisk has chan_bluetooth).
But if you live in the right neighborhood, cable wins out because nobody is using the bandwidth but you. It's only a matter of time, but I'm happy for now.
That would be relevant if they were quoting the article where the reporter says that. Click through and read. The word penetrate doesn't appear in the article.
This was the summary writer using quotation marks for emphasis of some sort. If they were quoting something, we don't know from where.
Yeah, 'hard'. Take the street address and get the public property record from the purchase and assume a 30-year loan from the date of purchase. Not hard to estimate at ALL unless there was a substantial down payment.
How do you expect people to measure their consumption of goods such as public roadways?
Hardly matters. Commercial trucks do all the damage to roads and that's the reason for the upkeep expenses. But that "stimulates the economy" too much for anyone to try to go after more money from them.
Apparently another commenter recompiled the source through a newer version of Unity to be WebGL compatible - runs in the browser directly: https://e309ac2f88e3628091cd5d...
Right - and once you become a monopoly, you behave like one without tight regulation - which we're lacking. That's why it's time for municipalities to start offering Internet along with water, sometimes electricity, contracted group trash pickup, etc. The Internet still needs a backbone and lots of secondary networks, but I think last mile is no longer a viable consumer product thanks to the telcos screwing that up.
Pretty sure just increasing a timeout or two at most
Depends on the company. If they're large enough that this requires changing at the server level - not every employer is just going to change server settings for one employee.
And what about VoIP? The guy works from home. Just Googling over a Satellite link is too high of a latency to maintain your sanity.
I would prefer that. I would pay as much as a few hundred just to have that assurance before closing on a house. I just bought a home with no assurances of broadband, but for some of my choices I really wasn't sure and it weighed heavily in my decision.
I'm just waiting for a "free market" troll to come in here and say that this is self-regulating. Just don't buy service from them, they'll say, and the market will sort it out..somehow. And...I really don't know how that argument will make any sense.
Exactly - unless it's somewhere like Sam's Club where you're under contract to do so. And I always go out my way to be patient with them, as annoyed as I am that they exist. Or at least when I had a membership - it's not generally worth it to me.
They're not just not doing business, first of all. They're pulling out of a contract at the city level (if even that), when what the state does is out of the city's control. Or at least threatening to. Now what's the definition of extortion?
the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
I've been threatened and shouted at for just walking out with a $3.99 Blu-Ray and even held out my receipt while walking by. Guess it depends where you live, but I'm not in a major city or even a large suburb.
Or at the very least, the business can make a cake / work of art that is generic and has no message - but is that really possible if it's not off-the-shelf? Being forced by law to put a particular message on a cake for someone is a violation of your freedom of speech. Refusing to sell a standard product to someone is discrimination, and I don't support that.
That's when you say in your gruffest voice "I'm a lady!" And then see if they apologize profusely.
I actually did that one the phone with cable Internet tech support when they questioned whether I was really the customer. I wasn't, I was calling on behalf of a woman whose computer I was working on. They were extremely apologetic and it was hilarious.
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That's sad. Frontier rolled out tons of DSL to way out in the rural middle of nowhere in Southern Illinois. I think they stopped rollout, but I know people who are 10 miles from town who have good quality DSL. I think they are the only phone company around here that has DSLAMs anywhere but the CO. AT&T definitely doesn't run fiber or power to remote DSLAMs. Or even fix their rotting copper.
If I were your dad, I'd get one of those cordless phone systems that will bluetooth to your cell phone. Put the base station and an older cell phone on a charger in the attic that still has an external antenna port on it. Put a GSM antenna outside of the house wired to it. Tada, you have cordless phones in your house that at least receive calls over cellular. Don't know if they can send. It would take a more complicated solution to do that (I know asterisk has chan_bluetooth).
But if you live in the right neighborhood, cable wins out because nobody is using the bandwidth but you. It's only a matter of time, but I'm happy for now.
That would be relevant if they were quoting the article where the reporter says that. Click through and read. The word penetrate doesn't appear in the article.
This was the summary writer using quotation marks for emphasis of some sort. If they were quoting something, we don't know from where.
Wow, so getting scammed by former co-workers is easy. As is anyone who knows how to Google LinkedIn.
Yeah, 'hard'. Take the street address and get the public property record from the purchase and assume a 30-year loan from the date of purchase. Not hard to estimate at ALL unless there was a substantial down payment.
How do you expect people to measure their consumption of goods such as public roadways?
Hardly matters. Commercial trucks do all the damage to roads and that's the reason for the upkeep expenses. But that "stimulates the economy" too much for anyone to try to go after more money from them.
That really doesn't mean it needs quoted.
But they couldn't act on it in advance or they'd risk revealing just how much they know. /paranoia
What's the point of quoting a single word? Is their word choice relevant?
Being dressed as women has nothing to do with putting 'penetration' in quotes, unless there is some sort of joke I'm missing. Why is it in quotes?
It was a demo of what can be done with the Unity engine. A full demo of a level of Mario64 was just the developer getting carried away.
In fact, another commenter recompiled this via Unity with WebGL support - no plugin required:
https://e309ac2f88e3628091cd5d...
Apparently another commenter recompiled the source through a newer version of Unity to be WebGL compatible - runs in the browser directly:
https://e309ac2f88e3628091cd5d...
Right - it's part of your contract when you become a member at Sam's Club. Better to be banned than sued for breach of contract.
Right - and once you become a monopoly, you behave like one without tight regulation - which we're lacking. That's why it's time for municipalities to start offering Internet along with water, sometimes electricity, contracted group trash pickup, etc. The Internet still needs a backbone and lots of secondary networks, but I think last mile is no longer a viable consumer product thanks to the telcos screwing that up.
Pretty sure just increasing a timeout or two at most
Depends on the company. If they're large enough that this requires changing at the server level - not every employer is just going to change server settings for one employee.
And what about VoIP? The guy works from home. Just Googling over a Satellite link is too high of a latency to maintain your sanity.
because when new homes are built it's not like they are magically added to comcast's database.
That's why their database should be of serviced addresses. That way you're not magically covered when a new address exists.
I would prefer that. I would pay as much as a few hundred just to have that assurance before closing on a house. I just bought a home with no assurances of broadband, but for some of my choices I really wasn't sure and it weighed heavily in my decision.
I'm just waiting for a "free market" troll to come in here and say that this is self-regulating. Just don't buy service from them, they'll say, and the market will sort it out..somehow. And...I really don't know how that argument will make any sense.
Exactly - unless it's somewhere like Sam's Club where you're under contract to do so. And I always go out my way to be patient with them, as annoyed as I am that they exist. Or at least when I had a membership - it's not generally worth it to me.
They're not just not doing business, first of all. They're pulling out of a contract at the city level (if even that), when what the state does is out of the city's control. Or at least threatening to. Now what's the definition of extortion?
the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
This is exactly what they are doing.
I've been threatened and shouted at for just walking out with a $3.99 Blu-Ray and even held out my receipt while walking by. Guess it depends where you live, but I'm not in a major city or even a large suburb.
Or at the very least, the business can make a cake / work of art that is generic and has no message - but is that really possible if it's not off-the-shelf? Being forced by law to put a particular message on a cake for someone is a violation of your freedom of speech. Refusing to sell a standard product to someone is discrimination, and I don't support that.
That's when you say in your gruffest voice "I'm a lady!" And then see if they apologize profusely.
I actually did that one the phone with cable Internet tech support when they questioned whether I was really the customer. I wasn't, I was calling on behalf of a woman whose computer I was working on. They were extremely apologetic and it was hilarious.
So they're taking the moral high ground with extortion? Yeah, that doesn't seem right.