One guy I know pirates this service by putting a cheap PC inbetween their satellite and their DirectTV receiver, thus eliminating the "shutdown" signal they occasionally send out to cancel the pirates' signal. When the PC locks up due to the signal, all you have to do is reboot the PC. I don't know how it works, but it does.
Why you can't get DSL even though you are less than 3 miles from the CO is because your line rides over copper to one of those big green Verizon cabinets sitting along the road somewhere. At that point, your copper is multiplexed into hundreds of other customers phone line connections and beamed to the Central Office over fiber...much more cost effective than running thousands of pairs of copper to begin with. There is no DSLAM multiplexer in those cabinets, thus that is why your copper phone line cannot be powered by a DSL circuit.
I don't necessarily think you read Mr. Katz right. By going to a sofa vendor, you are almost always guaranteed to have someone to hear your complaint and offer a replacement if the sofa is defective. With tech companies, before anyone hears your complaint you must go through dozens of automated menus, wait on hold for hours at a time, and give the company every personal detail before they will usually help you diagnose the problem with your computer hardware/software. This is what he's talking about. He's not talking about the knowledge that any tech company must have, he's talking about what the companies CAN do for customers REGARDLESS of what knowledge they have.
By that comment, I meant that the Internet probably wouldn't exist as it is. Secondly, Windows probably wouldn't exist as it currently does. I've read that Windows is actually compiled on Unix systems. Can anyone verify this?
Yet another lawsuit just so people can make a quick buck. I say this one will fall through the cracks, not to be on AOL's side or anything but they haven't done anything, except DISTANCE themselves from the whole Gnutella community.
Well, OK. The weather patterns also change in the years, decades, centuries, millennia. That's why last year they touted this thing called "El niño" and this year it's "La niña." It was hot last year and they had to describe the global weather patterns using a term that most of us are unfamiliar with. But I've never seen a meterologist on TV saying "Due to global warming, the next few summers are going to be very hot...we're talking.00001 degrees higher on average than the past 25 years, folks."
If anything, this is part of the earth's natural climate change. Everyone knows that the earth's climate changes over the centuries...this is just a normal phenomenon that will continue. One day you will all be complaining that we're making the earth too cold.
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Just because they worked hard to be successful and don't give out their source code for free doesn't make someone bad.
I guess if you're a communist, you might think otherwise.
Purdue was probably gonna have a fit. I deleted it about an hour after it was posted. Sorry!
http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~meyerds/quake2.zip
One guy I know pirates this service by putting a cheap PC inbetween their satellite and their DirectTV receiver, thus eliminating the "shutdown" signal they occasionally send out to cancel the pirates' signal. When the PC locks up due to the signal, all you have to do is reboot the PC. I don't know how it works, but it does.
Why you can't get DSL even though you are less than 3 miles from the CO is because your line rides over copper to one of those big green Verizon cabinets sitting along the road somewhere. At that point, your copper is multiplexed into hundreds of other customers phone line connections and beamed to the Central Office over fiber...much more cost effective than running thousands of pairs of copper to begin with. There is no DSLAM multiplexer in those cabinets, thus that is why your copper phone line cannot be powered by a DSL circuit.
I don't necessarily think you read Mr. Katz right. By going to a sofa vendor, you are almost always guaranteed to have someone to hear your complaint and offer a replacement if the sofa is defective. With tech companies, before anyone hears your complaint you must go through dozens of automated menus, wait on hold for hours at a time, and give the company every personal detail before they will usually help you diagnose the problem with your computer hardware/software. This is what he's talking about. He's not talking about the knowledge that any tech company must have, he's talking about what the companies CAN do for customers REGARDLESS of what knowledge they have.
Where am I supposed to get my porn clips and movies now??!
By that comment, I meant that the Internet probably wouldn't exist as it is. Secondly, Windows probably wouldn't exist as it currently does. I've read that Windows is actually compiled on Unix systems. Can anyone verify this?
If it weren't for the Unix operation systems, we probably wouldn't be reading this right now.
Yet another lawsuit just so people can make a quick buck. I say this one will fall through the cracks, not to be on AOL's side or anything but they haven't done anything, except DISTANCE themselves from the whole Gnutella community.
And I thought at one time it was a crime to play Mario Brothers on my TI-86 in English class. The things people will do to play their games.
Well, OK. The weather patterns also change in the years, decades, centuries, millennia. That's why last year they touted this thing called "El niño" and this year it's "La niña." It was hot last year and they had to describe the global weather patterns using a term that most of us are unfamiliar with. But I've never seen a meterologist on TV saying "Due to global warming, the next few summers are going to be very hot...we're talking .00001 degrees higher on average than the past 25 years, folks."
If anything, this is part of the earth's natural climate change. Everyone knows that the earth's climate changes over the centuries...this is just a normal phenomenon that will continue. One day you will all be complaining that we're making the earth too cold.