I'm not sure about what other area codes around the D.C. area had this, too, but I'm willing to bet that very few have had 10-digit dialing for local calls for very long. I've spent time in a few, and local dialing has usually been a 7-digit affair.
At least two years... In 301... My dialup number (just down the street) was changed to 240-something over a year ago...
10 digit dialing (not 11) so you only have to dial 212 before the number. I live in Maryland, we've had to do this already for a few years (to the point where it feels odd to only dial 7 digits now). It's not that hard, really. There's so many more needless wastes of time out there, this isn't something to get worked up over...
Quoteth the Parent: "And Napster has done extremely little to change that."
In using the ISP example, the ISP is protected by it's common carrier status. Why wouldn't this protect Napster? And wouldn't they lose it if the did anymore than they do now?
Napster users are abusing the generosity of their service providers and hurting everyone else in the process?!?!?!?!?!
It is the service providers job to make bandwidth available to those it serves. If an ISP wants to limit the bandwidth to a user or group of users, they have every right to do so. And you have every right to find an ISP that won't do this to you. I can imagine a system where users pay a premium for "unlimited bandwidth internet" and a connection limited to say, 500k/sec is much cheaper (just like modem dialup is cheaper then cable or DSL).
But nowhere in this does generousity play into this. It's Business.
If you distribute movies to theatres digitally via satellite or laserdisc, you solve all those problems at once. But would it be eligable for an Oscar???
The original story said the web. digital on laserdisc = web? I think not.
This patent seems to cover pretty much the entire Internet. Remember gopher? It could be navigated by entering a key for the information that you want and brought pages of information to be displayed on your CRT.
I use a laptop with a LCD screen... So BT can suck it!
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540 doesn't, at least here in beautiful Blacksburg...
Go Hokies!
I'm not sure about what other area codes around the D.C. area had this, too, but I'm willing to bet that very few have had 10-digit dialing for local calls for very long. I've spent time in a few, and local dialing has usually been a 7-digit affair.
At least two years... In 301... My dialup number (just down the street) was changed to 240-something over a year ago...
10 digit dialing (not 11) so you only have to dial 212 before the number. I live in Maryland, we've had to do this already for a few years (to the point where it feels odd to only dial 7 digits now). It's not that hard, really. There's so many more needless wastes of time out there, this isn't something to get worked up over...
Or my previous company, which had about 10 gigs on a server on the LAN, including plenty of Metallica (the server was in Germeny )...
Go, dot-coms!!!
Quoteth the Parent: "And Napster has done extremely little to change that."
In using the ISP example, the ISP is protected by it's common carrier status. Why wouldn't this protect Napster? And wouldn't they lose it if the did anymore than they do now?
Napster users are abusing the generosity of their service providers and hurting everyone else in the process?!?!?!?!?!
It is the service providers job to make bandwidth available to those it serves. If an ISP wants to limit the bandwidth to a user or group of users, they have every right to do so. And you have every right to find an ISP that won't do this to you. I can imagine a system where users pay a premium for "unlimited bandwidth internet" and a connection limited to say, 500k/sec is much cheaper (just like modem dialup is cheaper then cable or DSL).
But nowhere in this does generousity play into this. It's Business.
The US parking its Navy off the coast of Britain ???
:-)
Makes me want to go join the US Navy
If you distribute movies to theatres digitally via satellite or laserdisc, you solve all those problems at once. But would it be eligable for an Oscar???
The original story said the web.
digital on laserdisc = web?
I think not.
This patent seems to cover pretty much the entire Internet. Remember gopher? It could be navigated by entering a key for the information that you want and brought pages of information to be displayed on your CRT.
I use a laptop with a LCD screen... So BT can suck it!