...but not necessarily convenient. I live in NJ, the most densely populated state in the country, and I'd have to get into midtown Manhattan to go the nearest one. It's only 13 miles as the crow flies, but about an hour by car (not to mention $10-20 to park somewhere for a few hours).
Meanwhile, I already have two Meetup clusters within 20 minutes of my house.
Submitted this on Tuesday night. *yawn* 2002-04-24 02:12:10 Segways on Patrol in Atlanta (articles,tech) (rejected)
Anyhow, this will either make the Segway a legitimate mainstream technology or be flagged as a $90K boondoggle during the next local election in Atlanta.
Hell, I've got about zero respect for Gateway products. They have effectively filled the consumer space crappy OEM PC manufacturer vacated by Packard Bell.
FYI, Gateway won Consumer Reports' 2002 OEM PC comparison a few months back, gaining high marks for build quality and reliability, among other things.
Wow, it's a good thing you don't work in marketing. Unless you do, in which case your employer should fire you.
There's no such thing as a product user who can't be persuaded to switch brands. Everyone has their price. It's just up to the vendor/mfr to determine whether that customer's price is affordable.
I watched his cartoon about a dozen times between my original viewing and subsequent showings to friends. The guy genuinely cracked me up, and gave me a great voice to add to my impression repertoire, to boot.
I was giving a small gratuity to someone who made me laugh. I'll also drop dollar bills in the hats/boxes/instrument cases of competent NYC street performers. In all cases, it seems decent thing to do for someone who, rather than just holding their hand out (and, optionally, hassling me), is making a genuine attempt to entertain in return for the donation. Does the fact that he uses a computer instead of a saxophone make him less deserving?
Yeah, I like Megapath, for the most part. They were the company who resold Northpoint/Rhythms to me. They're pricey, but their support guys are knowledgeable without being patronizing, and they sell what they claim to sell.
On the flip side, I tried to use them as a provider for telecommuting services at my company, and they just couldn't cope with the idea that the bills for certain people's residential service should be consolidated and sent to a corporate address.
Their install coordination process was a three-ring circus, too, but I attribute that more to Verizon's grudging compliance with Telco '96 than I do to Megapath.
I'm a Comcast customer. Before that, I was an @Home customer. Before that, I was a Rhythms customer. Before that, I was a Northpoint customer. All within the last calendar year. If you're reading this thread, I probably don't need to tell you why I'm no longer a customer of Rhythms or Northpoint.
Perhaps the Bay Area has benefitted from its status as a traditional technology hotbed, but in my upscale, densely-populated, northern NJ suburb (which is only 12 miles from NYC), the only other residential broadband game in town is Verizon. Their service levels are inferior, and their TOS is comparable.
Rock, hard place, etc. I've written to Covad and pleaded my town's (the same one that Jon Katz lives in, incidentally) case -- the area is filled with well-off technology hobbyists who would likely jump at DIY-oriented broadband service. But Covad doesn't have any plans to come here. My only hope is for a Verizon reseller like AceDSL to come across the river from NYC and provide a policy buffer that would let me use Verizon's bandwidth on my own terms.
Being on Comcast doesn't mean I don't know any better. It means I have no choice.
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It seems to me that if we'd caught a guy in August who claimed that two jet planes were going to be hijacked and used as flying bombs on the World Trade Center, our authorities might have dismissed such a claim as "too theatrical to believe." Hell, I had trouble believing it as it unfolded in front of me.
Fiber backbone, maybe, but...
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...do you really want to have to standardize on fiber adapters for all your devices?
Besides, GigE over copper is here now. I've just purchased an old house that needs a lot of electrical work -- while the walls are open, I plan on running Cat 6 STP cabling to my drops.
GigE might be the last gasp for copper. Then again, some were saying that about Fast Ethernet when that debuted.
Trying to build in anticipation of what the standard will be in 2012 is an expensive crapshoot. Go with what works now (i.e. Cat 5e/6) and count on the size of the installed base to ensure continued support for it.
Doesn't surprise me much. A lightsaber prop sitting on a shelf or in a display cabinet doesn't necessarily look like anything special (especially if it's not part of a larger collection on display). You might even think it's a flashlight or something. But it's pretty tough to mistake a Stormtrooper helmet for anything else.:-)
Some folks in this thread have already mentioned SETI@Home, but I thought I'd point out that the collective (albeit highly specialized) processing power of the current SETI@Home array is twice that of ASCI White.
I'm not sure why this is "playing hardball". The implication that retailers could bundle other manufacturer's games with the unit, as long as they're willing to forego the financial incentives, is what's interesting to me. I don't remember any Activision titles coming with my Atari 2600.
They're not working at McDonald's. A comforting thought, but it's bogus.
They're all around you, wearing suits, having power lunches, going to their own happy hour, meeting at the health club for racquetball games that you're not invited to.
They still laugh at you, they still think they're better than you, and most of their perceived success is still driven by their membership in a virtual fraternity. They're merely constrained by law or company policy from grinding your head into the dirt of the recess yard.
And they still resent you. Never forget what they are, or they'll make you pay.
...Dejanews used to be a useful USENET search engine?
It's so clogged with feature creep (like these inane polls) now that you have to go through 2 queries just to do a simple "All newsgroups, all messages" search on a single argument. I understand the desire to avoid stagnation and add value to a site, but this is ridiculous.
I've switched to Remarq for my newsgroup searching. They seem to understand the value of simplicity.
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...but not necessarily convenient. I live in NJ, the most densely populated state in the country, and I'd have to get into midtown Manhattan to go the nearest one. It's only 13 miles as the crow flies, but about an hour by car (not to mention $10-20 to park somewhere for a few hours).
Meanwhile, I already have two Meetup clusters within 20 minutes of my house.
Sounds suspiciously like a chat room program with a clunky Flash interface. Woo.
I hadn't been planning to submit a report on the neat lint formation I found in my navel this morning, but I'm reconsidering that decision.
Submitted this on Tuesday night. *yawn*
2002-04-24 02:12:10 Segways on Patrol in Atlanta (articles,tech) (rejected)
Anyhow, this will either make the Segway a legitimate mainstream technology or be flagged as a $90K boondoggle during the next local election in Atlanta.
Actually, I suppose it could do both.
Hell, I've got about zero respect for Gateway products. They have effectively filled the consumer space crappy OEM PC manufacturer vacated by Packard Bell.
FYI, Gateway won Consumer Reports' 2002 OEM PC comparison a few months back, gaining high marks for build quality and reliability, among other things.
I own one, and I'd buy another.
Wow, it's a good thing you don't work in marketing. Unless you do, in which case your employer should fire you.
There's no such thing as a product user who can't be persuaded to switch brands. Everyone has their price. It's just up to the vendor/mfr to determine whether that customer's price is affordable.
I gave OddTodd a buck a few weeks ago.
I watched his cartoon about a dozen times between my original viewing and subsequent showings to friends. The guy genuinely cracked me up, and gave me a great voice to add to my impression repertoire, to boot.
I was giving a small gratuity to someone who made me laugh. I'll also drop dollar bills in the hats/boxes/instrument cases of competent NYC street performers. In all cases, it seems decent thing to do for someone who, rather than just holding their hand out (and, optionally, hassling me), is making a genuine attempt to entertain in return for the donation. Does the fact that he uses a computer instead of a saxophone make him less deserving?
Yeah, I like Megapath, for the most part. They were the company who resold Northpoint/Rhythms to me. They're pricey, but their support guys are knowledgeable without being patronizing, and they sell what they claim to sell.
On the flip side, I tried to use them as a provider for telecommuting services at my company, and they just couldn't cope with the idea that the bills for certain people's residential service should be consolidated and sent to a corporate address.
Their install coordination process was a three-ring circus, too, but I attribute that more to Verizon's grudging compliance with Telco '96 than I do to Megapath.
I'm a Comcast customer. Before that, I was an @Home customer. Before that, I was a Rhythms customer. Before that, I was a Northpoint customer. All within the last calendar year. If you're reading this thread, I probably don't need to tell you why I'm no longer a customer of Rhythms or Northpoint.
Perhaps the Bay Area has benefitted from its status as a traditional technology hotbed, but in my upscale, densely-populated, northern NJ suburb (which is only 12 miles from NYC), the only other residential broadband game in town is Verizon. Their service levels are inferior, and their TOS is comparable.
Rock, hard place, etc. I've written to Covad and pleaded my town's (the same one that Jon Katz lives in, incidentally) case -- the area is filled with well-off technology hobbyists who would likely jump at DIY-oriented broadband service. But Covad doesn't have any plans to come here. My only hope is for a Verizon reseller like AceDSL to come across the river from NYC and provide a policy buffer that would let me use Verizon's bandwidth on my own terms.
Being on Comcast doesn't mean I don't know any better. It means I have no choice.
It seems to me that if we'd caught a guy in August who claimed that two jet planes were going to be hijacked and used as flying bombs on the World Trade Center, our authorities might have dismissed such a claim as "too theatrical to believe." Hell, I had trouble believing it as it unfolded in front of me.
...do you really want to have to standardize on fiber adapters for all your devices?
Besides, GigE over copper is here now. I've just purchased an old house that needs a lot of electrical work -- while the walls are open, I plan on running Cat 6 STP cabling to my drops.
GigE might be the last gasp for copper. Then again, some were saying that about Fast Ethernet when that debuted.
Trying to build in anticipation of what the standard will be in 2012 is an expensive crapshoot. Go with what works now (i.e. Cat 5e/6) and count on the size of the installed base to ensure continued support for it.
Doesn't surprise me much. A lightsaber prop sitting on a shelf or in a display cabinet doesn't necessarily look like anything special (especially if it's not part of a larger collection on display). You might even think it's a flashlight or something. But it's pretty tough to mistake a Stormtrooper helmet for anything else. :-)
Some folks in this thread have already mentioned SETI@Home, but I thought I'd point out that the collective (albeit highly specialized) processing power of the current SETI@Home array is twice that of ASCI White.
I'm not sure why this is "playing hardball". The implication that retailers could bundle other manufacturer's games with the unit, as long as they're willing to forego the financial incentives, is what's interesting to me. I don't remember any Activision titles coming with my Atari 2600.
...is that if an asteroid slams into the bridge of your Star Destroyer during a transmission, you'll lose the connection.
They're not working at McDonald's. A comforting thought, but it's bogus. They're all around you, wearing suits, having power lunches, going to their own happy hour, meeting at the health club for racquetball games that you're not invited to. They still laugh at you, they still think they're better than you, and most of their perceived success is still driven by their membership in a virtual fraternity. They're merely constrained by law or company policy from grinding your head into the dirt of the recess yard. And they still resent you. Never forget what they are, or they'll make you pay.
Don't laugh -- Citadels are alive and well. I'm an active participant on a very vibrant Citadel system. Shameless plug:
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It's so clogged with feature creep (like these inane polls) now that you have to go through 2 queries just to do a simple "All newsgroups, all messages" search on a single argument. I understand the desire to avoid stagnation and add value to a site, but this is ridiculous.
I've switched to Remarq for my newsgroup searching. They seem to understand the value of simplicity.