Obviously it's slowly being paid off by my monthly subscription. But since I wasn't under any sort of contract I could have cancelled any, and left them on the hook for the investment they already made.
Uh Verizon has spent 23 billion dollars building up their FTTH Network. That was before any (broadband stimulus) Federal Tax incentives, and there were no incentives at my local city level to speak of.
At any rate, whatever breaks there may have been are a drop in the bucket when compared to the massive amount spent building the network. Oh! And if you are talking about the rights to install fiber from the utility companies own pole to my house, then SURE I gave them permission. After all they were supplying me with an 3K installation for free.
Don't get me started on who owns the land the poles are on, because, again, it's usually private property and utility companies pay the owners an easement.
Stick that in your commie pipe and smoke it!
I think we need to face up to the fact that we will need to make our communications technologies public owned, like the roads. Too much innovation will be hijacked by the greed factor. The good of all the people outweighs the greed of a few corporations. Are we the public going to stand by and be raped by another corporation?
Yeah. That worked out great for the commies.
Oh! And BTW, my privately owned and paid for FIOS service is VASTLY superior to my shitty publicly funded and managed crumbling pot-hole ridden roads.
This makes me pretty mad as well; any and all GPS tracking should require a warrant. Period. Sad thing is, with just about any cell phone, you can be tracked just by your position in relation to cell phone towers--not to mention all the devices that are GPS-enabled--without your knowledge.
Any dope dealer knows you can buy a Trac phone at 7-11, and remain anonymous. I am all for getting a warrant for these things, but with minimal effort you can remain pretty damn anonymous.
Error correction?
Y-Modem G all day!
Come-on kids. You know you have to roll the U.S. Robotics Courier Dual-Standard if you want to get on any elite boards for warez.
I think I "carded" my first one when I was 15!
Don't be a tool. 137 Albums 2122 songs so far, and there is about 4 gigs to spare. Be real. I don't want a hard drive based mp3 player. My SanDisk was a flash based player too. It's not like I don't sit in front of a computer all day if I want to change some albums out.
I just got a 16 MB HD Zune and frankly it's everything I ever wanted out of a MP3 player.
Plays MP3's. Check.
Sounds Great. Check.
Awesome Interface. Check.
As for the Zune Desktop software. Bitchin is the only word I can used to describe it. Made me put Winamp down after more than 10 loyal years!
I only download and listen to full albums and this thing lets me manage them with ease.
And you haven't seen visualizations until you've seen the Zune pull up photos of your artist over a psychedelic background and start panning and zooming while "tracks plays" and the artists biography scroll across the screen.
Sad but not unexpected move from the Death Star. Move to a territory with FIOS and (preferably) another large cable company if you're a big time leacher like a I am. Still even with 30/30 FIOS I doubt I hit 250 Gigs a month, though I would need to check my Newsbin to be sure.
Well all of us programmers don't have backgrounds in engineering or sit around in a cube programming widgets. Some of us come from small shops where we have to do complete life-cycle development, database administration, package and installation, and everything else at one time or another so, we're pretty familiar with the roles that a dedicated IT department should be responsible for. In fact I wouldn't hire any developer that doesn't know have at least intermediate level knowledge of server OS's and networking.
So you can color me unimpressed if the network admin says his job is as difficult as mine, when I consider something like IT support and network administration a stepping stone.
And I was under the impression that we had to migrate our apps every couple of years because the IT staff spends half it's time in Microsoft brainwashing seminars that tout how much easier to administrate, and more secure their latest XYZ is even though they made that claim just a few years ago with OS ZYX.
If the IT department guys knew what they were doing they would be programmers. I don't care what they do I just don't want to help do their jobs for them. Oh yeah, and if you upgrade a server to a new OS because you have a wild hair up your ass, it's your responsibility to migrate the apps.
The DMCA. A law that made reverse engineering illegal. As though anyone ever built a better mousetrap without tearing someone else's apart first. Oh well the Chinese have no such illusions.
What a bunch of commie bs. The free market built the Internet to turn a fast buck not to equalize anything.
The Internet should NOT be "built around ideas of low cost access to all." It should be built with an eye on making a buck. That way it will continue TO BE BUILT. Network infrastructure isn't what it is to day out of a sense of benevolence. It's that way because it's profitable to invest capital in it.
The Net is "neutral" now. True "neutrality" comes from competition. Once the FCC steps in and says we want one size fits all pipes for everyone one the Internet and they can host x, y, and z, all pretense of neutrality is lost. Now you have the government (and those that control the government) dictating to you the consumer. Right now I have a choice of DSL (Verizon), FIOS (Verizon), Road Runner Cable (Time Warner), and I suppose Satellite. If I don't like the way my ISP is treating me I can switch providers. If I want to pay for the $190 a month for 150 Mbps/35 Mbps I can, and screw that the neighbor down the street is stuck on DSL. Enter "net neutrality" and you can forget ISP's making the substantial infrastructure investments required to get speeds like I am talking here (I have 35/35 Mbps right now) because part of the goal of net neutrality is to bring "everyone up" to a certain level of broadband. So now rather than a company like Verizon continuing to invest in speeding up installed infrastructure where it's profitable to do so they will have to act to make sure all of their customers have a certain "minimum" level of service, even if it's unprofitable to do so. It's a crock, totally unworkable in country the size of ours with many rural areas, and will just result in one size fits all pipes and plans. But what about the "blocking" of peer to peer for example you say? Again competition is the cure not regulation. Verizon doesn't block or slow peer to peer on their FIOS. In fact if anything they (wink) (wink) encourage downloading by reminding you that it only takes X amount of time to download an entire DVD on FIOS (from where again?) I'm sorry if a crappy cable ISP is you have available in your particular area, but further regulating the Internet (The FCC is already pining for the power to shut down websites without due process) is not the answer. I suggest changing providers or moving to a location with more competition, not regulating the rest of us that are happy with our broadband or slowing innovation. Companies only innovate to compete and this net neutrality rule does nothing to spur competition.
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Obviously it's slowly being paid off by my monthly subscription. But since I wasn't under any sort of contract I could have cancelled any, and left them on the hook for the investment they already made.
Uh Verizon has spent 23 billion dollars building up their FTTH Network. That was before any (broadband stimulus) Federal Tax incentives, and there were no incentives at my local city level to speak of. At any rate, whatever breaks there may have been are a drop in the bucket when compared to the massive amount spent building the network. Oh! And if you are talking about the rights to install fiber from the utility companies own pole to my house, then SURE I gave them permission. After all they were supplying me with an 3K installation for free. Don't get me started on who owns the land the poles are on, because, again, it's usually private property and utility companies pay the owners an easement. Stick that in your commie pipe and smoke it!
Amen.
I think we need to face up to the fact that we will need to make our communications technologies public owned, like the roads. Too much innovation will be hijacked by the greed factor. The good of all the people outweighs the greed of a few corporations. Are we the public going to stand by and be raped by another corporation?
Yeah. That worked out great for the commies. Oh! And BTW, my privately owned and paid for FIOS service is VASTLY superior to my shitty publicly funded and managed crumbling pot-hole ridden roads.
Dish Network still plugs, but nobody actually buys their service.
With 14.1 million subscribers. I wouldn't say "nobody." That's that third largest base of subscribers in the WORLD after Comcast and DirecTV, btw.
This makes me pretty mad as well; any and all GPS tracking should require a warrant. Period. Sad thing is, with just about any cell phone, you can be tracked just by your position in relation to cell phone towers--not to mention all the devices that are GPS-enabled--without your knowledge.
Any dope dealer knows you can buy a Trac phone at 7-11, and remain anonymous. I am all for getting a warrant for these things, but with minimal effort you can remain pretty damn anonymous.
Error correction? Y-Modem G all day! Come-on kids. You know you have to roll the U.S. Robotics Courier Dual-Standard if you want to get on any elite boards for warez. I think I "carded" my first one when I was 15!
Y-Modem G baby! Y-Modem G. ;-)
Don't be a tool. 137 Albums 2122 songs so far, and there is about 4 gigs to spare. Be real. I don't want a hard drive based mp3 player. My SanDisk was a flash based player too. It's not like I don't sit in front of a computer all day if I want to change some albums out.
The Zune software is fantastic, and the visualizations are brilliant.
The Zune desktop software is a thing of beauty. And I was a hardcore Winamp loyalist!
I just got a 16 MB HD Zune and frankly it's everything I ever wanted out of a MP3 player. Plays MP3's. Check. Sounds Great. Check. Awesome Interface. Check. As for the Zune Desktop software. Bitchin is the only word I can used to describe it. Made me put Winamp down after more than 10 loyal years! I only download and listen to full albums and this thing lets me manage them with ease. And you haven't seen visualizations until you've seen the Zune pull up photos of your artist over a psychedelic background and start panning and zooming while "tracks plays" and the artists biography scroll across the screen.
Sad but not unexpected move from the Death Star. Move to a territory with FIOS and (preferably) another large cable company if you're a big time leacher like a I am. Still even with 30/30 FIOS I doubt I hit 250 Gigs a month, though I would need to check my Newsbin to be sure.
Well all of us programmers don't have backgrounds in engineering or sit around in a cube programming widgets. Some of us come from small shops where we have to do complete life-cycle development, database administration, package and installation, and everything else at one time or another so, we're pretty familiar with the roles that a dedicated IT department should be responsible for. In fact I wouldn't hire any developer that doesn't know have at least intermediate level knowledge of server OS's and networking. So you can color me unimpressed if the network admin says his job is as difficult as mine, when I consider something like IT support and network administration a stepping stone.
And I was under the impression that we had to migrate our apps every couple of years because the IT staff spends half it's time in Microsoft brainwashing seminars that tout how much easier to administrate, and more secure their latest XYZ is even though they made that claim just a few years ago with OS ZYX.
If the IT department guys knew what they were doing they would be programmers. I don't care what they do I just don't want to help do their jobs for them. Oh yeah, and if you upgrade a server to a new OS because you have a wild hair up your ass, it's your responsibility to migrate the apps.
The DMCA. A law that made reverse engineering illegal. As though anyone ever built a better mousetrap without tearing someone else's apart first. Oh well the Chinese have no such illusions.
What a bunch of commie bs. The free market built the Internet to turn a fast buck not to equalize anything. The Internet should NOT be "built around ideas of low cost access to all." It should be built with an eye on making a buck. That way it will continue TO BE BUILT. Network infrastructure isn't what it is to day out of a sense of benevolence. It's that way because it's profitable to invest capital in it.
The Net is "neutral" now. True "neutrality" comes from competition. Once the FCC steps in and says we want one size fits all pipes for everyone one the Internet and they can host x, y, and z, all pretense of neutrality is lost. Now you have the government (and those that control the government) dictating to you the consumer. Right now I have a choice of DSL (Verizon), FIOS (Verizon), Road Runner Cable (Time Warner), and I suppose Satellite. If I don't like the way my ISP is treating me I can switch providers. If I want to pay for the $190 a month for 150 Mbps/35 Mbps I can, and screw that the neighbor down the street is stuck on DSL. Enter "net neutrality" and you can forget ISP's making the substantial infrastructure investments required to get speeds like I am talking here (I have 35/35 Mbps right now) because part of the goal of net neutrality is to bring "everyone up" to a certain level of broadband. So now rather than a company like Verizon continuing to invest in speeding up installed infrastructure where it's profitable to do so they will have to act to make sure all of their customers have a certain "minimum" level of service, even if it's unprofitable to do so. It's a crock, totally unworkable in country the size of ours with many rural areas, and will just result in one size fits all pipes and plans. But what about the "blocking" of peer to peer for example you say? Again competition is the cure not regulation. Verizon doesn't block or slow peer to peer on their FIOS. In fact if anything they (wink) (wink) encourage downloading by reminding you that it only takes X amount of time to download an entire DVD on FIOS (from where again?) I'm sorry if a crappy cable ISP is you have available in your particular area, but further regulating the Internet (The FCC is already pining for the power to shut down websites without due process) is not the answer. I suggest changing providers or moving to a location with more competition, not regulating the rest of us that are happy with our broadband or slowing innovation. Companies only innovate to compete and this net neutrality rule does nothing to spur competition.