uswest has local phone service att has local phone service
uswest has high-speed internet (dsl) att has high-speed internet (@home)
uswest can use the bandwidth to send cable tv att OWNS the cable. we laid the lines back when we were TCI. there was a vote in november to see whether att should renew its franchise aggreement with the city, and att won that vote, hands down.
we have to pay the city to keep access to our own lines. and they make alot of money off of it.
meanwhile we cant touch uswests lines (locally speaking)
seems fair to me. i work for att, but i hate my job so you cant hold that against me:)
you still have a black ad white tv ? damn dude, take a jump ahead to the 1970's:)
seriously, why would you want a black and white tv ? the only person i know who has one is my grandmother and she keeps it in the closet and never uses it (she now has a colour).
unless your colour blind or an extreme fundamentalist, i dont see the big deal in upgrading.
i work for AT&T (@Home support), and our network is all digital. that is, the parts of the network that provide net connections are digital. the max ive ever heard anyone getting is about 3Mbps. one lady said she got 5 once, but she only has 4 people on her node. keep in mind that we dont cap download speeds, but we do limit upstream to 128Kbps in some areas
my mom was recently the victim of cc fraud, and heres how it went down.
she was up in the mountains for the weekend and made a few purchases. a few days later her bank contacted her that someone had made fraudulant charges on her card. the police investigated.
it turns out that the charges were traced back to a girl that worked at one of the shops. evidentally the girls *FRIEND* who just happened to be hanging out with her that day had gotten ahold my moms card and charged some stuff.
the point is that the police took less than a day to go through all of this crap to find the person who did it and get her to admit it.
finding someone who stole your cc from 'real' shopping is a hell of a lot easier than finding the culprit when its online theft
does this mean were all going to be developing for game boy now ?
is that even possible(seriously)?
it actually doesnt sound like a bad idea. i would suggest doing n64 games or whatnot, but we would all fight over which system is better, and new systems would be coming out too fast.
at least with gameboy you KNOW its gonna be around a while
i pay for stuff, when its worth it. i can justify software pirating. i wouldnt pay for photoshop, so adobe loses no cash. its an old excuse, sure, but its the truth.
same with movies. i couldnt buy ep1 on vcd 9 months ago, but i wanted it. so i got it.
and whatever the reason, everyone and their brother has a copy of it, and SOMEONE at lucasfilm should know that. the collectors might get it, but all in all hes gonna pass the majority of us over. and in the process hes losing some devoted fans who have waited 20+ years by making them wait longer, and trying to pass off a second rate format in the meanwhile
the point is, whether or not your an ewreet w4rez haxxor/p1rate, if you own a dvd player, you want dvds. and since alot of people have the vcd for whatever reason, its all the worse
dvd comes out, its great and a much needed successor to vhs everyone loves dvds dvd becomes widely used dvd players are made for computers(yay) linux geeks want to watch dvds linux geeks make their own player DVD assoc. sues linux geeks other clueless linux geeks boycott dvd clueless geeks convince clueless nongeeks to boycott cluelessness spreads dvd sales go down dvd dissappears or gets hard to find the geeks(and nongeeks) with a clue are robbed of a great format original linux geeks have wasted their time on a now worthless peice of software that nobody uses any more dvd winds up on the shelf next to divx
is this what you want ? didnt think so this is NOT the way to get things fixed
Why release ep1 on vcd ? I've had ep1 on vcd(illegal) since about a week after it hit theatres, and its a damn good copy. i even copied it to VHS for a friend. So why the hell would i shell out 15-20 bucks on something ive had for free for months ?
Any kid with a decent connection, some time, and a cd burner already has this or can get it if he/she/chooses.
Now if it were coming out on DVD with all sorts of bonuses and commentary and so on, i would happily fork over 15, 20, even 30 bucks for it, and so would alot of other/.ers and SW fans in general.
Lucas fucked up in '99 with Jar Jar Now he's topping himself in 2000 by charging us for something we got for free 9 months ago
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if MS DOS and DR DOS got married, would they be MR and MRS DOS ?
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if MS DOS gave birth to windows, would that make windows a bastard ?
they will pay with OEM versions of the windows operating system.
when they try to return the disks for their money, MS will turn them away
to make us have to memorize yet ANOTHER random and situationally ambiguous set of numbers
im tellin ya, its a conspiracy
PCMCIA - people cant memorize computer industry acronymns
*cry*
i know this is ot, so feel free to moderate
but i damn near pissed myself laughing at this one.
incidentally, there arent even any pics on that page
sad pathetic spam. didnt even ask me for a credit card
around here, there is USWEST and AT&T
:)
uswest has local phone service
att has local phone service
uswest has high-speed internet (dsl)
att has high-speed internet (@home)
uswest can use the bandwidth to send cable tv
att OWNS the cable. we laid the lines back when we were TCI. there was a vote in november to see whether att should renew its franchise aggreement with the city, and att won that vote, hands down.
we have to pay the city to keep access to our own lines. and they make alot of money off of it.
meanwhile we cant touch uswests lines (locally speaking)
seems fair to me. i work for att, but i hate my job so you cant hold that against me
you still have a black ad white tv ? :)
:P
damn dude, take a jump ahead to the 1970's
seriously, why would you want a black and white tv ? the only person i know who has one is my grandmother and she keeps it in the closet and never uses it (she now has a colour).
unless your colour blind or an extreme fundamentalist, i dont see the big deal in upgrading.
unless theres some huge price difference.
ill GIVE you a color tv
i work for AT&T (@Home support), and our network is all digital. that is, the parts of the network that provide net connections are digital. the max ive ever heard anyone getting is about 3Mbps. one lady said she got 5 once, but she only has 4 people on her node. keep in mind that we dont cap download speeds, but we do limit upstream to 128Kbps in some areas
Unfortunately, things arent that simple.
my mom was recently the victim of cc fraud, and heres how it went down.
she was up in the mountains for the weekend and made a few purchases. a few days later her bank contacted her that someone had made fraudulant charges on her card. the police investigated.
it turns out that the charges were traced back to a girl that worked at one of the shops. evidentally the girls *FRIEND* who just happened to be hanging out with her that day had gotten ahold my moms card and charged some stuff.
the point is that the police took less than a day to go through all of this crap to find the person who did it and get her to admit it.
finding someone who stole your cc from 'real' shopping is a hell of a lot easier than finding the culprit when its online theft
"information wants to be free"
yeah, your credit card information
AFAIK DVDs are capable of holding up to 17GB of data. I'll go see if i can verify this and ill probably reply to my own post
does this mean were all going to be developing for game boy now ?
is that even possible(seriously)?
it actually doesnt sound like a bad idea. i would suggest doing n64 games or whatnot, but we would all fight over which system is better, and new systems would be coming out too fast.
at least with gameboy you KNOW its gonna be around a while
its old, we dont care anymore, and if you dont like the topic, dont read it.
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trolls should be seen and not HURD
(im sorry, i couldnt help myself - but at least its kinda on-topic)
this looks like the lyrics to a kid rock song
but it seems the topic has changed very very drastically.
/. complains about these guys, they must make a fortune off of all of our refreshes
i dont know why
any chance we can get these guys working on windows millenium ? i know *I* would feel alot better if they took over develeopment
Bowix
/. bank idea) wouldnt it be cool to have a ./ credit card ?
i still think tux is cooler
with that in mind, (and with the
ATMs accross the nation would get slashdotted
>There's just too few of us
your forgetting the slashdot effect
i pay for stuff, when its worth it. i can justify software pirating. i wouldnt pay for photoshop, so adobe loses no cash. its an old excuse, sure, but its the truth.
same with movies. i couldnt buy ep1 on vcd 9 months ago, but i wanted it. so i got it.
and whatever the reason, everyone and their brother has a copy of it, and SOMEONE at lucasfilm should know that. the collectors might get it, but all in all hes gonna pass the majority of us over. and in the process hes losing some devoted fans who have waited 20+ years by making them wait longer, and trying to pass off a second rate format in the meanwhile
the point is, whether or not your an ewreet w4rez haxxor/p1rate, if you own a dvd player, you want dvds. and since alot of people have the vcd for whatever reason, its all the worse
and with the release of audio DVD, ill own yet another copy of the white album
heres how this works
dvd comes out, its great and a much needed successor to vhs
everyone loves dvds
dvd becomes widely used
dvd players are made for computers(yay)
linux geeks want to watch dvds
linux geeks make their own player
DVD assoc. sues linux geeks
other clueless linux geeks boycott dvd
clueless geeks convince clueless nongeeks to boycott
cluelessness spreads
dvd sales go down
dvd dissappears or gets hard to find
the geeks(and nongeeks) with a clue are robbed of a great format
original linux geeks have wasted their time on a now worthless peice of software that nobody uses any more
dvd winds up on the shelf next to divx
is this what you want ?
didnt think so
this is NOT the way to get things fixed
this obviously OT, and possibly a troll. but i have to say its funny
george was not elected to watch his people suffer and die
>Is he afraid it will be pirated (which would be a silly reason not to release) or is he just trying to get people to buy two copies?
read my above post. its too late
not long ago i would have defended the man to the death. now im convinced that hes just dicking with us
Why release ep1 on vcd ? I've had ep1 on vcd(illegal) since about a week after it hit theatres, and its a damn good copy. i even copied it to VHS for a friend. So why the hell would i shell out 15-20 bucks on something ive had for free for months ?
/.ers and SW fans in general.
Any kid with a decent connection, some time, and a cd burner already has this or can get it if he/she/chooses.
Now if it were coming out on DVD with all sorts of bonuses and commentary and so on, i would happily fork over 15, 20, even 30 bucks for it, and so would alot of other
Lucas fucked up in '99 with Jar Jar
Now he's topping himself in 2000
by charging us for something we got for free 9 months ago
we all go to redmond and moon the ms campus
i got your full moon right here