Cute. Who the hell gets high speed Internet for $20/mo? Most of us are stuck with cable, which costs far more than that. Even though I don't live in the sticks, DSL is not an option available to me because I'm between two stations. And even where DSL is an option, it's speed is unreliable and not great to begin with. So I have two choices - Time Warner, or EarthLink - which just resells...Time Warner.
The problem is the cable companies being in control of the majority of the broadband services in the country. They want to keep up the status quo and everyone in the dark ages as long as possible. The entire industry is anti-competitive to begin with, we should have a slew of cable providers to choose from, but we don't because they grease so many palms in Washington. They get to be anti-competitive like a utility (I can't change water or sewer companies, either) but don't have the same restrictions and other controls to keep them from overcharging for their services.
Not me, that's for dang sure. We have one option, DSL, with one provider. They say are pushing "80% of line capacity" to us with their 3Mbps down / 768K plan. So, we're boned.
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Cute. Who the hell gets high speed Internet for $20/mo? Most of us are stuck with cable, which costs far more than that. Even though I don't live in the sticks, DSL is not an option available to me because I'm between two stations. And even where DSL is an option, it's speed is unreliable and not great to begin with. So I have two choices - Time Warner, or EarthLink - which just resells...Time Warner. The problem is the cable companies being in control of the majority of the broadband services in the country. They want to keep up the status quo and everyone in the dark ages as long as possible. The entire industry is anti-competitive to begin with, we should have a slew of cable providers to choose from, but we don't because they grease so many palms in Washington. They get to be anti-competitive like a utility (I can't change water or sewer companies, either) but don't have the same restrictions and other controls to keep them from overcharging for their services.
Not me, that's for dang sure. We have one option, DSL, with one provider. They say are pushing "80% of line capacity" to us with their 3Mbps down / 768K plan. So, we're boned.
How did it take $10M and 4 Months to re-image a Windows desktop ?
It was Windows 7 on 5 1/4" floppies.
Oh well, according to Scott Adams, they were only there so as to do the least amount of possible damage anyway.
... selling out support contracts. Which is fair game all day long. In other news, the sky is often blue.