You know, I wouldn't mind the bandwidth caps as long as they are temporary, and I can understand iffy service, but damnit;
DNS SERVICES ARE A TAD WEE BIT FRIGGIN CRUCIAL.
Bleh, darn thing is so friggin iffy, bleeeeh.
Also cannot upload to webspace account if you are not on a computer on the ATTBI network, darnit, there goes my file drop, heh. Signed up for a free one, bleh.
Back on the topic of DNS though, I suggest that people now take the time to switch over to one of the many alternative DNS providers out there are are free and give ya lots of nifty TLDs to play around with.:)
Why not just raise fees by $10 a month? Even if they lost 1.33 million customers from it they would at least break even.
I actualy recently (in the middle of summer rather) got a notice saying that the bill was going to increase by $10 a month.
Hehe.
But my current licence agreement apparently prohibited @Home from changing the monthly rate charges right away if I had signed up before a certain day (I got it almost the month it become available:)) so the price changes were not going to take effect until april or so.
@Home would have at that time obviously started making money, so why did the investors just not wait awhile? Or put some more money in? Or Excite cut costs a bit? (err, ditch the friggin portal, bleh, and STOP REDESIGNING YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICES SITE!!! Three redesigns already, yeesh! That must cost a bit of cash!!! ) Or even (God Forbid) implement a 10GB a month download limit or something? Or more competitvly sell their @Work program (uh, it sucked, DSL was about 1/2 the price of what @Home wanted for compariable @Work service, bleh)?
Help, network dying, all users going online do download pr0n and MP3z, ARG!!!
This is (almost?) worse then the first (2) times Napster was going to be shutdown, but then the entire internet slowed down as users ran to download MP3s, hehe, funny stuff.
Not so funny this time, I am pinging 500 to google and help.broadband.att.com is not working at all:(
My area as the old TCI@Home network up and running for it, but still, err, hey
somebody mind explaining to me how Excite@Home going down the drain would hurt ANYBODY though? Why is service even going out, I mean shoot, each city is just an @Home affiliate right? With their own network gear and cables and whatnot (well, already using Cable TV lines so the physical layer of the network is defintly staying, unless the fucktard beancounters come around house to house and rip those out too!), so, err, how is anything going to go down? Uh, whaaat?
Considering that AT&T recently bought out TCI and therefore OWNS most of the cable infostructure this shouldn't be all that hard for AT&T to manage. Hell they ARE AT&T after all, hehe.
I just hope that they don't set any download bandwidth limits (my area is currently uncapped::crosses fingers::) and set the upload cap a tad wee bit higher (128kbit is not quite fast enough:(:(:( )
Why should it? I used to be with TCI@Home until AT&T bought them up. Hell shouldn't any assets go back to the main @Home company if Excite loses them, including the inforstructure?
Oh well, whatever, I'm sitting on top of the NW Gigapop so theres no f*cking way that my bandwidth is leaving me, hehe, the Pacific Northwest DOES have some major advantages to it.:)
Uh, but still though, TCI@Home ---> AT&T@Home, where now does Excite@Home come into all of this?
Sure its a max of 3, but shit, thats why I am setting up a NAT, if they offered me more I'd pay it, alot less trouble on my end (I'll pay for some convienence:) )
Long as I get to keep'em static, I love my static IPs:):):)
Man it sucked. Really, I tried to give it a chance, but shit, that dude just cannot act. At all. (the plastic costumes in the first few episodes didn't help any either apparently they got rid of those quickly though.:) ).
Its not that I don't like him, but, err, he's good at pounding things in. And beating things up. Kinda like that fish episode on ST:TOS where Kirk is fighting that giant fish looking thing, that is a good episode probebly one of my favorites just cuz it is so lame and the costumes so horrible that is funny and cracks me up every time I see it.
Why did they get herc to even try and act? Seriously, have him stick to what he's good at doing, beating people up. Period.
Have the other charecters talk, just have Herc land on planets when its neccisary to, err, well, beat shit up:)
I cannot spell worth a shit but I can easily remember where I have placed my files. Hell, I am the one who put them there! Sure I cannot remember where I left my keys, but files, heck.
For instance, until the last format I had my video files in my music folder and my music files in my video folder and my picture files in my text documents folder and my text documents where in along with my video files inside of my music folder.
Whats so hard to remember about that? No, seriously, it is easy as hell for me to remember that sort of crud. Damnit, I cannot even remember my own name some times but hell, file locations are easier then anything.
I have even at times been known to label files 00001 00002 00003 and so on and have no trouble at all remembering what they are. Sometimes I will just add an extra random charecter to a files name thus allowing for me to know the files version number based soly upon the file names length.
Then again, I am also the type of person who assigns version numbers to my burned music CDRs rather then names.::shrugs:: Easier that way.
No self respecting wizard (male witch, warlock, whatever, thats a seperate line of discussion) rides on a broomstick.
The brooms that witchs were said to ride on were meant to be seen as phallic symboles originaly. That is why no self respecting wizard rides on one. Unless he's gay, and while I have nothing against homosexuals, a supposed school of magic that teachs its underaged male students to ride around on giant phallic symboles is just. . . . wrong. Period.
Any halfway decent wizard/warlock/etc uses a CARPET DAMNET USE A FRIGGIN MAGIC CARPET. Or learn how to fly like a _REAL_ Man and don't use any of those wussy ass tools at all.
Alternativly, magic boots, capes, hats, shirts, belt buckles, ring, braclets, necklaces, neckties, and so forth, all work quite well for imbuing with magical flight spells.
Not to mention that Raistlin could KICK harry potter's ass even when Raistlin was just potter's age.
It was when the service first came out granted, but it was still rather kick ass. Actualy it was 2.2MBp/s but still . . . . ah, at those speeds it it is just quibbiling over details:)
After that time I got those 2MBp/s download speeds over my cable modem, there was no way that I was going back.
I reguarly get 300KBp/s per file transfer from fileplanet.com, and even faster tranfers from other sites.
Being able to download a 5meg Shockwave Flash file in the time that it takes a companies logo to fade onto the screen also helps.
Alot.
Ping times under 100ms are also great. So is that nice west coast backbone that @Home has for its users.
I originaly started out with TCI@Home then AT&T bought them up. Now I have AT&T Internet Access, Cable Television, and Cell Phone service.
And you know what? I am being treated great. The few times that I have had to call text support were great, hell, the tech guy and me were swapping anti-MS jokes back and forth. The uptime is incredible, especialy after AT&T took over from TCI, and I have not had a service interuption for, God, almost a year now! The few service interuptions that I did have in 1q01 all lasted less then 10 minutes except for one that had was 30 minutes. After that there has not been a single problem for ages now.
Hell, when my power went out my UPS kicked in and I was still able to surf the internet. Cable Modem service was still up. Now _THAT_ is what I call robust service.
Am I the only one who would rather have this made out of steel and weigh about 3 pounds? I miss steel made consumer appliances. Damnit those types of products rocked. Anything that could double as a anchor for a boat and be used to prop up a wobbly table is Ok by me.
Darn friggin plastic small sized pieces of crud, GIVE ME STEEL!
Too bad way to many DirectX games/do not/ run under windows!
:P
Ah, the joys of keeping code bloat in there for the sake of 'backwards compatibility" and yet still somehow managing to break anything even remotly resembling backwards compatibility.
Damnit, all of the/. crew probebly have some and are currently busy burning hundreds of gigs to them as we speak! Damn you/., DAMN j00!
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There is already the BTCS which can make new games in the Bards Tale vein quite fine. A graphical update of it is all that is really neccisary, would hacking in some new graphics really be all that hard? 256colors is really enough for an RPG anyways (See: Fallout1/2) and the construction set itself is very simple to manipulate and play around with, and as I recall new spells can even be created (!!!)
While I am still opposed to awful legislation like this, I must say that the people whom I am truly mad at are those people who have pirated large amounts of RIAA CDs and shared them over the internet for everybody else to download.
It is quite attrocious that people who will get flaming mad over software piraters will think nothing at all about pirating CDs.
Fact is people have broken the laws. And after Napster was shutdown people still broke the laws. People continue to this day to break the law. If people did not illegialy pirate CDs then there would not be a need for the RIAA to so viciously defend their copyrights.
OK yah sure the music they put out is shitty (uh why are -you- pirating it then, eh?) and the artists get paid craptacuarly little amounts of money, and the legal CDs cost ---WAY--- to much, but that -STILL- _IS NOT_ and excues to pirate CDs.
Quite frankly I myself have solved the problem for myself quite simply. I do not listen to RIAA CDs at all. Problem solved.
It is so hard to find songs from independent lables that are freely (legaly!) distrubted at over 128Kbit Mp3 anyways, that shoot, I don't really have much of a choice.
Oh boy, the bloat, and the slowness with which apps are launched, wow, GUI based OSs just own so much. . . .
Seriously now, much easier to just script it all out so that you just type in a programs name and it runs. You just type in the program name, and it would launch, simple as that!
Oh yah sure GUI interfaces for various TYPES of -APPLICATIONS- is a good thing, heck, Photoshop/Gimp/Etc would defintly NOT be the same if they where CLI based, but that is not my point.
Seems to me that after all of the desired features have been added to a program that it is time to go in and reduce the programs size and apply any other acceptable optimizations.
Why wish for new features, why not instead wish for current features to be done better?
Last time I went camping all that was taken along was a Debit card and nothing else. Things went along just fine, the debit card was used to buy supplies as they where needed.
Debit cards work wonders, and quite frankly I see them as the 'smart' cards that everybody has dreamed of for so long but they do not need to be 'smart'.
Even emulators written in C require at least a pentium 133 while the ASM ones only need a 386 33mhz. No matter how optimized and tight the C code is, it just/cannot/ compete with well written ASM ^_^
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You know, I wouldn't mind the bandwidth caps as long as they are temporary, and I can understand iffy service, but damnit;
:)
DNS SERVICES ARE A TAD WEE BIT FRIGGIN CRUCIAL.
Bleh, darn thing is so friggin iffy, bleeeeh.
Also cannot upload to webspace account if you are not on a computer on the ATTBI network, darnit, there goes my file drop, heh. Signed up for a free one, bleh.
Back on the topic of DNS though, I suggest that people now take the time to switch over to one of the many alternative DNS providers out there are are free and give ya lots of nifty TLDs to play around with.
Ah, Excite@Home was losing just 6 million a week?
:)) so the price changes were not going to take effect until april or so.
Lets see here now;
6 million a week
24 million a month.
3.73 million customers.
Uh
Why not just raise fees by $10 a month? Even if they lost 1.33 million customers from it they would at least break even.
I actualy recently (in the middle of summer rather) got a notice saying that the bill was going to increase by $10 a month.
Hehe.
But my current licence agreement apparently prohibited @Home from changing the monthly rate charges right away if I had signed up before a certain day (I got it almost the month it become available
@Home would have at that time obviously started making money, so why did the investors just not wait awhile? Or put some more money in? Or Excite cut costs a bit? (err, ditch the friggin portal, bleh, and STOP REDESIGNING YOUR CUSTOMER SERVICES SITE!!! Three redesigns already, yeesh! That must cost a bit of cash!!! ) Or even (God Forbid) implement a 10GB a month download limit or something? Or more competitvly sell their @Work program (uh, it sucked, DSL was about 1/2 the price of what @Home wanted for compariable @Work service, bleh)?
Help, network dying, all users going online do download pr0n and MP3z, ARG!!!
:(
This is (almost?) worse then the first (2) times Napster was going to be shutdown, but then the entire internet slowed down as users ran to download MP3s, hehe, funny stuff.
Not so funny this time, I am pinging 500 to google and help.broadband.att.com is not working at all
My area as the old TCI@Home network up and running for it, but still, err, hey
somebody mind explaining to me how Excite@Home going down the drain would hurt ANYBODY though? Why is service even going out, I mean shoot, each city is just an @Home affiliate right? With their own network gear and cables and whatnot (well, already using Cable TV lines so the physical layer of the network is defintly staying, unless the fucktard beancounters come around house to house and rip those out too!), so, err, how is anything going to go down? Uh, whaaat?
Considering that AT&T recently bought out TCI and therefore OWNS most of the cable infostructure this shouldn't be all that hard for AT&T to manage. Hell they ARE AT&T after all, hehe.
::crosses fingers::) and set the upload cap a tad wee bit higher (128kbit is not quite fast enough :( :( :( )
I just hope that they don't set any download bandwidth limits (my area is currently uncapped
Why should it? I used to be with TCI@Home until AT&T bought them up. Hell shouldn't any assets go back to the main @Home company if Excite loses them, including the inforstructure?
:)
Oh well, whatever, I'm sitting on top of the NW Gigapop so theres no f*cking way that my bandwidth is leaving me, hehe, the Pacific Northwest DOES have some major advantages to it.
Uh, but still though, TCI@Home ---> AT&T@Home, where now does Excite@Home come into all of this?
I don't get it.
:) )
:) :) :)
@Home already rents IPs out for $4.95 a month.
Sure its a max of 3, but shit, thats why I am setting up a NAT, if they offered me more I'd pay it, alot less trouble on my end (I'll pay for some convienence
Long as I get to keep'em static, I love my static IPs
I watched it a few times.
:) ).
:)
Man it sucked. Really, I tried to give it a chance, but shit, that dude just cannot act. At all. (the plastic costumes in the first few episodes didn't help any either apparently they got rid of those quickly though.
Its not that I don't like him, but, err, he's good at pounding things in. And beating things up. Kinda like that fish episode on ST:TOS where Kirk is fighting that giant fish looking thing, that is a good episode probebly one of my favorites just cuz it is so lame and the costumes so horrible that is funny and cracks me up every time I see it.
Why did they get herc to even try and act? Seriously, have him stick to what he's good at doing, beating people up. Period.
Have the other charecters talk, just have Herc land on planets when its neccisary to, err, well, beat shit up
Huh? Problems remembering where files are at?
::shrugs:: Easier that way.
I cannot spell worth a shit but I can easily remember where I have placed my files. Hell, I am the one who put them there! Sure I cannot remember where I left my keys, but files, heck.
For instance, until the last format I had my video files in my music folder and my music files in my video folder and my picture files in my text documents folder and my text documents where in along with my video files inside of my music folder.
Whats so hard to remember about that? No, seriously, it is easy as hell for me to remember that sort of crud. Damnit, I cannot even remember my own name some times but hell, file locations are easier then anything.
I have even at times been known to label files 00001 00002 00003 and so on and have no trouble at all remembering what they are. Sometimes I will just add an extra random charecter to a files name thus allowing for me to know the files version number based soly upon the file names length.
Then again, I am also the type of person who assigns version numbers to my burned music CDRs rather then names.
I was going to buy bleem.
any day now
yah
right
errr. . . .
Oh wait, PS1s are selling for less then copies of Bleem! DOH!
No self respecting wizard (male witch, warlock, whatever, thats a seperate line of discussion) rides on a broomstick.
The brooms that witchs were said to ride on were meant to be seen as phallic symboles originaly. That is why no self respecting wizard rides on one. Unless he's gay, and while I have nothing against homosexuals, a supposed school of magic that teachs its underaged male students to ride around on giant phallic symboles is just. . . . wrong. Period.
Any halfway decent wizard/warlock/etc uses a CARPET DAMNET USE A FRIGGIN MAGIC CARPET. Or learn how to fly like a _REAL_ Man and don't use any of those wussy ass tools at all.
Alternativly, magic boots, capes, hats, shirts, belt buckles, ring, braclets, necklaces, neckties, and so forth, all work quite well for imbuing with magical flight spells.
Not to mention that Raistlin could KICK harry potter's ass even when Raistlin was just potter's age.
No, I mean 2MBp/s. 2 Mega Bytes Per Second.
:)
It was when the service first came out granted, but it was still rather kick ass. Actualy it was 2.2MBp/s but still . . . . ah, at those speeds it it is just quibbiling over details
After that time I got those 2MBp/s download speeds over my cable modem, there was no way that I was going back.
I reguarly get 300KBp/s per file transfer from fileplanet.com, and even faster tranfers from other sites.
Being able to download a 5meg Shockwave Flash file in the time that it takes a companies logo to fade onto the screen also helps.
Alot.
Ping times under 100ms are also great. So is that nice west coast backbone that @Home has for its users.
I originaly started out with TCI@Home then AT&T bought them up. Now I have AT&T Internet Access, Cable Television, and Cell Phone service.
And you know what? I am being treated great. The few times that I have had to call text support were great, hell, the tech guy and me were swapping anti-MS jokes back and forth. The uptime is incredible, especialy after AT&T took over from TCI, and I have not had a service interuption for, God, almost a year now! The few service interuptions that I did have in 1q01 all lasted less then 10 minutes except for one that had was 30 minutes. After that there has not been a single problem for ages now.
Hell, when my power went out my UPS kicked in and I was still able to surf the internet. Cable Modem service was still up. Now _THAT_ is what I call robust service.
I submited a story on SNK going outa biz. . . . think that'd be relevent with the whole Anime connection going on.
Am I the only one who would rather have this made out of steel and weigh about 3 pounds? I miss steel made consumer appliances. Damnit those types of products rocked. Anything that could double as a anchor for a boat and be used to prop up a wobbly table is Ok by me.
Darn friggin plastic small sized pieces of crud, GIVE ME STEEL!
I have convinced at least 10 people to switch over to a *nix OS when they become forced to use XP by microsofts standard bullying practices.
;)
How many people have you converted? What are your success stories?
Too bad way to many DirectX games /do not/ run under windows!
:P
Ah, the joys of keeping code bloat in there for the sake of 'backwards compatibility" and yet still somehow managing to break anything even remotly resembling backwards compatibility.
I read from two too three novels a day worth of text and information on the internet.
And I want more.
If it wasn't for the fact that I am forced to leave my computer screen (and sleep/eat/etc) I would do nothing at all but take in more information.
I do not suffer from information overload, I suffer from information withdrawls if I am taken away from it for more then a few minutes.
I
Want
I
_NEED_
more
DATA!
Umm
;( ;( ;(
/. crew probebly have some and are currently busy burning hundreds of gigs to them as we speak! Damn you /., DAMN j00!
HELP
/. reported on this 2 years ago
I am still drooling over it waiting
;(
Oh editors, why doth thouh tempt me so?
Damnit, all of the
There is already the BTCS which can make new games in the Bards Tale vein quite fine. A graphical update of it is all that is really neccisary, would hacking in some new graphics really be all that hard? 256colors is really enough for an RPG anyways (See: Fallout1/2) and the construction set itself is very simple to manipulate and play around with, and as I recall new spells can even be created (!!!)
While I am still opposed to awful legislation like this, I must say that the people whom I am truly mad at are those people who have pirated large amounts of RIAA CDs and shared them over the internet for everybody else to download.
It is quite attrocious that people who will get flaming mad over software piraters will think nothing at all about pirating CDs.
Fact is people have broken the laws. And after Napster was shutdown people still broke the laws. People continue to this day to break the law. If people did not illegialy pirate CDs then there would not be a need for the RIAA to so viciously defend their copyrights.
OK yah sure the music they put out is shitty (uh why are -you- pirating it then, eh?) and the artists get paid craptacuarly little amounts of money, and the legal CDs cost ---WAY--- to much, but that -STILL- _IS NOT_ and excues to pirate CDs.
Quite frankly I myself have solved the problem for myself quite simply. I do not listen to RIAA CDs at all. Problem solved.
It is so hard to find songs from independent lables that are freely (legaly!) distrubted at over 128Kbit Mp3 anyways, that shoot, I don't really have much of a choice.
Oh boy, the bloat, and the slowness with which apps are launched, wow, GUI based OSs just own so much. . . .
Seriously now, much easier to just script it all out so that you just type in a programs name and it runs. You just type in the program name, and it would launch, simple as that!
Oh yah sure GUI interfaces for various TYPES of -APPLICATIONS- is a good thing, heck, Photoshop/Gimp/Etc would defintly NOT be the same if they where CLI based, but that is not my point.
GUI OSs suck, period.
Seems to me that after all of the desired features have been added to a program that it is time to go in and reduce the programs size and apply any other acceptable optimizations.
Why wish for new features, why not instead wish for current features to be done better?
Last time I went camping all that was taken along was a Debit card and nothing else. Things went along just fine, the debit card was used to buy supplies as they where needed.
Debit cards work wonders, and quite frankly I see them as the 'smart' cards that everybody has dreamed of for so long but they do not need to be 'smart'.
Even emulators written in C require at least a pentium 133 while the ASM ones only need a 386 33mhz. No matter how optimized and tight the C code is, it just /cannot/ compete with well written ASM ^_^