No more government subsidy for calls received == a shortfall for Verizon == they will raise my rates. Oh well. The USF is probably better-diverted to the hookup of rural internet anyway.
>>>I've got an original Macintosh II here. Works great.
For what? Certainly not games. Ba-bum-dah!
Wow it's like the 1988 Amiga v. Mac v. PC flamewars again!;-) "Yeah sure the IBM PC is great for business software..... but I'm at home. I want entertainment! Not a boring work PC. The Amiga is THE best music, video, and gaming machine by far."
>>>There is actually a CD format that is just called CD?
Yes the ones you buy in stores and are already *pressed* with music data. The keyword there is press, because they won't fade over time. Like records the recording is permanently etched in the disc.
>>>Flash memory 25 year longevity prognosis: good,
Then how come I keep reading articles about flash drives dying after only 2-3 years of use. Not just minor failures, but complete and utter loss of all data w/ no warning.
You don't have a 5 and 1/4 inch drive?:-o Put in the whole PC. I recently uncovered an old laptop at work with Windows 3.1 and it was fun playing with it again. (Mainly reinforcing what I already knew: Microsoft Windows prior to 95 and NT4 was complete garbage.)
It will be fun to look at the old Windows XP or Vista OS and say, "Man things were primitive back then. Only 2 gig of RAM? How did they ever manage to run with so little?"
It's been over 30 years now, and as long as DVD or Bluray players still exist, the CD will still be readable. CDs aren't going anywhere. (Note I said CD not CD-R or CD-RW which are self-erasing when the dye fades.)
VHS video will still be readable too (if necessary you can buy a used VCR from ebay in 2037). It's analog so even if it degrades it will still be watchable..... I know this from personal experience with 25-30 year old tapes.
That's about it. I wouldn't trust hard drives or flash drives to still work 25 years from now. I have an HD that I left sit for just 2 years, and already it's sluggish as if it doesn't want to start spinning.
Yesterday Google-Youtube asked me for my real name. Well actually they already KNOW my real name via my email account, but they wanted me to start using it on youtube so everybody else would know too. (Posted by cpu6502, Bill Smith)
I refused. Now I can't reply to comments. I can post new ones on videos, but the reply button is disabled. What a crummy thing for Google to do (try to take-away my anonymity). I don't want thousands of posts hanging-round with my real name for the next 60 years.
And here's another reason to dislike google: Quoting Rob âCmdrTacoâ(TM) Malda article: "Google doesnâ(TM)t really need you to use Google+ to post status updates with your friends as much as they simply need you to log in and tell them your age. If you do this, suddenly they can tie together your iPhone, your work machine, and your laptop. Your 3 machines become one person. You. And you are broadcasting signals all the time. If you don't* explicitly tell Google where you live, what you do, and how old you are, they will be able to make fantastically informed guesses."
On facebook almost everything is faked. My age, my location, only thing's that real is my name & my school (to reconnect with alumni).
* *Why is Opera telling me that don't is mis-spelled? *:-o
Yes this stuff doesn't come for free. I used to subscribe t the "limited" locals-only service and Comcast charged $7 a month. Since local TV is free, I figure 7 dollars is how much it actually costs to maintain the antenna, the cable, and associated equipment. Just like it costs ~7 dollars for basic phone service with no included calls.
As for the original poster, I've seen cities that have ala carte charge $2 per channel.
So HBO + Syfy + Food would be $10 + $2 + $2 plus the $7 hookup fee I discussed above. About $21 per month..... still a hell of a lot cheaper than the $70 Comcast normally charges for basic+HBO.
>>>Cold day in hell before any american CEO would do this
There was an American company I saw profiled by ABC's John Stossel back in 2009. Unfortunately I forget the name, but the CEO decided not to have layoffs. Instead he agreed to take a cut in pay to the same level as the workers' pay, in order to keep everyone employed. I guess hell froze over that day.
>>>In a world without political calculations (& Unicorns!) I think he'd have done away with said insurance megacorps...
And then we'd have an insurance monopoly run by government. I would have to rely on them to take care of me if I got some expensive illness that I could not pay for. That would be even worse. Nothing is as horrible as being trapped in a monopoly. It's basically anti-choice and anti-liberty.
>>>to 'education' as a business where the primary goal is to profit and make money for the bureaucratic overhead.
You just described "college" for the last 200 years. They all have the same goal of extracting as much money as possible from the student, in order to fund their internal plans (such as inventing some new gadget or process that they can make money from).
People have corrected me when I said the free market is like a pure democracy (people vote with their $'s for the companies they like). They say that democracy is a form of *government* and does not apply to private transactions. Well..... the same applies here with the private transaction between this guy and his colleagues within the corporation. It's not communist. It's not government.
Which has been true since before recorded history. Education has always involved paying a tutor or lecturer to teach the younger generation, and thus the tutors were actually businessmen selling a service.
I've been buying their product since the 90s when they were called "The Great Teachers" company. I took advantage of their once or twice-a-year sales to clear the warehouse. A customer can buy an entire course (~50 hours) for about the same cost as a month of cable. I learned more about history, language, philosophy from those audiocassettes than 5 years of actual college.
My Kindle just lit-up with an ad from this company. 2 online courses for Excel at $35 (instead of 200). I was tempted to click "buy" however I know nothing about this company. I don't just hand money to random corps.
>>>eventually smartphones will last a whole week. When they reach that point, I'll know how to use them to their full extent. You however will be a while behind on that learning curve.
Yes. Because 30 years of using text-only Atari 800s & Commodore 64s, primitive Amigas/Macs/DOS machines, and more-modern OSX Win7 GUIs, has left me completely in the dark about how to use a smartphone OS.:-|
You must think you've stumbled in to the "news for blithering idiots" website. I'd rather have a phone that lasts my entire 12 hour workday, so I know I can rely upon it when someone needs to call me. It sounds like smartphones fail in this most-basic of functions.
Here's a thought: Don't connect these things to the internet. Run them with men, not by remote control. You wouldn't think of endangering people by flying a 747 by remote control, so why do it with a train or power generator?
>>>If Bush and the GOP think that Dems are government solution crazy....why in the hell did they start the massive gov't surveillance programs in the first place.
Exactly. I'm happy to say I never voted for Warmonger Bush. Nor Obama the insurance megacorps' best friend. Or Romney the corporate prostitute AND warmonger. (We just keep getting one lousy president after another.)
There's no strawman. Obama really has expanded the TSA to busstops, train depots, post offices, et cetera. It's not my fault you don't keep-up with the news and remain unaware of that fact.
Obama does a good job of scaring the shit out of people and saying, "Let the government be the solution. Let us spy on your web habits via your ISP, and your cellphone via tracking. And oh yeah, we've decided to expand the TSA's mission to busstops, train stations, along highways, and at pulic facilties like malls and hotels."
In that respect he's a hell-of-lot-smarter than George "duh" Bush but ultimately it's the same fucked-up destination. Let both the (D) and (R) president burn in hell.
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I still use old telephone service for dialup. $7/month and unlimited data. None of those 3 GB caps for me! LOL.
No more government subsidy for calls received == a shortfall for Verizon == they will raise my rates. Oh well. The USF is probably better-diverted to the hookup of rural internet anyway.
>>>I've got an original Macintosh II here. Works great.
For what?
Certainly not games.
Ba-bum-dah!
Wow it's like the 1988 Amiga v. Mac v. PC flamewars again! ;-) "Yeah sure the IBM PC is great for business software..... but I'm at home. I want entertainment! Not a boring work PC. The Amiga is THE best music, video, and gaming machine by far."
>>>There is actually a CD format that is just called CD?
Yes the ones you buy in stores and are already *pressed* with music data. The keyword there is press, because they won't fade over time. Like records the recording is permanently etched in the disc.
>>>Flash memory 25 year longevity prognosis: good,
Then how come I keep reading articles about flash drives dying after only 2-3 years of use. Not just minor failures, but complete and utter loss of all data w/ no warning.
You don't have a 5 and 1/4 inch drive? :-o Put in the whole PC. I recently uncovered an old laptop at work with Windows 3.1 and it was fun playing with it again. (Mainly reinforcing what I already knew: Microsoft Windows prior to 95 and NT4 was complete garbage.)
It will be fun to look at the old Windows XP or Vista OS and say, "Man things were primitive back then. Only 2 gig of RAM? How did they ever manage to run with so little?"
Maybe by 2037 the Macbook will look like my remote after the batteries leaked all over the place. White corrosion everywhere.
It's been over 30 years now, and as long as DVD or Bluray players still exist, the CD will still be readable. CDs aren't going anywhere. (Note I said CD not CD-R or CD-RW which are self-erasing when the dye fades.)
VHS video will still be readable too (if necessary you can buy a used VCR from ebay in 2037). It's analog so even if it degrades it will still be watchable..... I know this from personal experience with 25-30 year old tapes.
That's about it. I wouldn't trust hard drives or flash drives to still work 25 years from now. I have an HD that I left sit for just 2 years, and already it's sluggish as if it doesn't want to start spinning.
>>>Do they not realize what the point of grammar and orthography is?
We were educated by the government. What do you expect? Good outcomes from a government program???
Yesterday Google-Youtube asked me for my real name. Well actually they already KNOW my real name via my email account, but they wanted me to start using it on youtube so everybody else would know too. (Posted by cpu6502, Bill Smith)
I refused.
Now I can't reply to comments. I can post new ones on videos, but the reply button is disabled. What a crummy thing for Google to do (try to take-away my anonymity). I don't want thousands of posts hanging-round with my real name for the next 60 years.
And here's another reason to dislike google: Quoting Rob âCmdrTacoâ(TM) Malda article: "Google doesnâ(TM)t really need you to use Google+ to post status updates with your friends as much as they simply need you to log in and tell them your age. If you do this, suddenly they can tie together your iPhone, your work machine, and your laptop. Your 3 machines become one person. You. And you are broadcasting signals all the time. If you don't* explicitly tell Google where you live, what you do, and how old you are, they will be able to make fantastically informed guesses."
On facebook almost everything is faked. My age, my location, only thing's that real is my name & my school (to reconnect with alumni).
*
*Why is Opera telling me that don't is mis-spelled?
*:-o
Yes this stuff doesn't come for free. I used to subscribe t the "limited" locals-only service and Comcast charged $7 a month. Since local TV is free, I figure 7 dollars is how much it actually costs to maintain the antenna, the cable, and associated equipment. Just like it costs ~7 dollars for basic phone service with no included calls.
As for the original poster, I've seen cities that have ala carte charge $2 per channel.
So HBO + Syfy + Food would be $10 + $2 + $2 plus the $7 hookup fee I discussed above. About $21 per month..... still a hell of a lot cheaper than the $70 Comcast normally charges for basic+HBO.
Guess I'd be held in contempt of court then.
Do police have the ability to sit in my house & use my number 555-0796 to pretend to be me to entrap my friends/colleagues?
>>>Cold day in hell before any american CEO would do this
There was an American company I saw profiled by ABC's John Stossel back in 2009. Unfortunately I forget the name, but the CEO decided not to have layoffs. Instead he agreed to take a cut in pay to the same level as the workers' pay, in order to keep everyone employed. I guess hell froze over that day.
>>>In a world without political calculations (& Unicorns!) I think he'd have done away with said insurance megacorps...
And then we'd have an insurance monopoly run by government. I would have to rely on them to take care of me if I got some expensive illness that I could not pay for. That would be even worse. Nothing is as horrible as being trapped in a monopoly. It's basically anti-choice and anti-liberty.
>>>to 'education' as a business where the primary goal is to profit and make money for the bureaucratic overhead.
You just described "college" for the last 200 years. They all have the same goal of extracting as much money as possible from the student, in order to fund their internal plans (such as inventing some new gadget or process that they can make money from).
Haha.
People have corrected me when I said the free market is like a pure democracy (people vote with their $'s for the companies they like). They say that democracy is a form of *government* and does not apply to private transactions. Well..... the same applies here with the private transaction between this guy and his colleagues within the corporation. It's not communist. It's not government.
>>>became a business.
Which has been true since before recorded history. Education has always involved paying a tutor or lecturer to teach the younger generation, and thus the tutors were actually businessmen selling a service.
I've been buying their product since the 90s when they were called "The Great Teachers" company. I took advantage of their once or twice-a-year sales to clear the warehouse. A customer can buy an entire course (~50 hours) for about the same cost as a month of cable. I learned more about history, language, philosophy from those audiocassettes than 5 years of actual college.
My Kindle just lit-up with an ad from this company. 2 online courses for Excel at $35 (instead of 200). I was tempted to click "buy" however I know nothing about this company. I don't just hand money to random corps.
>>>eventually smartphones will last a whole week. When they reach that point, I'll know how to use them to their full extent. You however will be a while behind on that learning curve.
Yes. :-|
Because 30 years of using text-only Atari 800s & Commodore 64s, primitive Amigas/Macs/DOS machines, and more-modern OSX Win7 GUIs, has left me completely in the dark about how to use a smartphone OS.
You must think you've stumbled in to the "news for blithering idiots" website. I'd rather have a phone that lasts my entire 12 hour workday, so I know I can rely upon it when someone needs to call me. It sounds like smartphones fail in this most-basic of functions.
Here's a thought:
Don't connect these things to the internet. Run them with men, not by remote control. You wouldn't think of endangering people by flying a 747 by remote control, so why do it with a train or power generator?
>>>If Bush and the GOP think that Dems are government solution crazy....why in the hell did they start the massive gov't surveillance programs in the first place.
Exactly.
I'm happy to say I never voted for Warmonger Bush.
Nor Obama the insurance megacorps' best friend.
Or Romney the corporate prostitute AND warmonger.
(We just keep getting one lousy president after another.)
>>>Strawman. Stop using them.
There's no strawman. Obama really has expanded the TSA to busstops, train depots, post offices, et cetera. It's not my fault you don't keep-up with the news and remain unaware of that fact.
Obama does a good job of scaring the shit out of people and saying, "Let the government be the solution. Let us spy on your web habits via your ISP, and your cellphone via tracking. And oh yeah, we've decided to expand the TSA's mission to busstops, train stations, along highways, and at pulic facilties like malls and hotels."
In that respect he's a hell-of-lot-smarter than George "duh" Bush but ultimately it's the same fucked-up destination. Let both the (D) and (R) president burn in hell.