The difference is clear here in Tampa Bay. Verizon's DSL customers are constantly complaining about unreliable connections, and even those who have reliable connections are not thrilled with the speed. It seems equivalent to ISDN.
I just got Time Warner cable access last night and I am very impressed. At peak, I got 4Mbits (512Kbytes/second)! I averaged 230KBytes/second on most downloads. My friends with Time Warner here in they Bay and in Orlando have had the same experience. I haven't heard anybody complain about it.
It is precisely freedom that allows companies to create any restrictive covenant that they want. The point is that you are not forced to join. If you don't like a program's EULA, don't use it. If you don't like the TOS for an internet account, don't sign on. If you don't like the fact that CocaCola doesn't list the amount of caffeine in their drinks, don't buy them. You have the freedom to choose which companies you do business with.
It's just capitalism. If there's no demand for an internet service with a rediculous TOS, it will change or go out of business.
The Constitution gives the government no means to protect you from making bad decisions. Anyway, it's not as though there aren't hundreds of places for those of you who can't handle freedom to go.
I think the Allegro project (founded by Shawn Hargreaves) deserves the award for improved opensource project. For anybody who doesn't know, Allegro is an awesome cross-platform game library. Personally, I've used Allegro for projects at work, because of the portability, not just games. Programs written with Allegro will compile and run under Linux (svgalib, framebuffer, or X11), Windows, DOS, or BeOS.
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The difference is clear here in Tampa Bay. Verizon's DSL customers are constantly complaining about unreliable connections, and even those who have reliable connections are not thrilled with the speed. It seems equivalent to ISDN.
I just got Time Warner cable access last night and I am very impressed. At peak, I got 4Mbits (512Kbytes/second)! I averaged 230KBytes/second on most downloads. My friends with Time Warner here in they Bay and in Orlando have had the same experience. I haven't heard anybody complain about it.
It's just capitalism. If there's no demand for an internet service with a rediculous TOS, it will change or go out of business.
The Constitution gives the government no means to protect you from making bad decisions. Anyway, it's not as though there aren't hundreds of places for those of you who can't handle freedom to go.
I think the Allegro project (founded by Shawn Hargreaves) deserves the award for improved opensource project. For anybody who doesn't know, Allegro is an awesome cross-platform game library. Personally, I've used Allegro for projects at work, because of the portability, not just games. Programs written with Allegro will compile and run under Linux (svgalib, framebuffer, or X11), Windows, DOS, or BeOS.
You should check it out for yourself.