They're aiming for PROs, eh? Should be a lttile more enlightended than your base XP user, right? Unless of course "Pro" doesn't refer to IT or TECH pro features - but instead is a label designed to entice users to spend extra bucks for the "Pro" version...
You could refuse - ditto MaOS - if this is no longer the case, they could be on very shaky ground. You cannot be successful in the long run by simply writing agreements that obviate existing rights, such as privacy.
This is good to know. This is a number that you need if you're thinking about Doing Something On The Internet - half the US can *possibly* get to you. This is not trivial info, though I doubt we had to wait for the Gummint to tell us this.
Frinstance - you want to open a bookstore. 50% of the people you want to sell to can click into your store. 100% of the people can head thru the door of a meatspace store. Your call. Jeff? Jeff? Anyone? Anyone?
If you hang around techie sites long enough, you'd think everyone who matters has it, and anyone who doesn't is a mouthbreathing fool. T'ain't so. Apparently upwards of 100 million first-world citizens get along just nicely, thank you very much without direct access to the net.
Though I get paid to deal with it on an hourly basis, I can easily see going back to 1970's time by removing my cell, laptop, fax, and voicemail, and pretty much not only living a full life and probably getting more of the 'real' life things done too.
Sounds vaguely luddite, but it's really only a reality check.
Of course, if I weren't online, I'd be muttering all this rant to the cat. Sad. Especially for the poor cat.
And remember - there are more houses with televisions than telephones, cuz you have to pay for the phone once it's in - and ditto^2 online access. Anyone have a good reason why an internet box of any sort would ever move up from third place?
Dope-slap the parents AND the kid.
And get a christless life.
Two years of pain from an ELECTIVE activity?
I suggest a sublethal category for the Darwin awards. Oxymoronic, but necessary.
Only saving grace is that this slob will likely never be given the occasion to reproduce.
I DL'd and read the manual. It really does seem just that easy. It costs $100+ per node, but you pays fer yer time & headaches, doncha?
The faster the machine and traffic the better of course, but you could do this with the cheapest iMac ($799 new, ~$400 used) or a bunch of cubes (banking finally on their close packing ability) if you want Altivec in the mix.
Gosh, a reason to make a headless iMac2 - that would be quite the aesthetic eh? Seventy six of those snuggling on a ping pong table...
Communication can be over Airport, too - so you can imagine ad hoc Mac Clustering begin setup during the first half of every Jobs keynote - you know, the part where he just says stuff - to go thru all possible iterations of the product to be intro'd in the second half of the keynote...
'pellino' is a fairly rare name. Only a few hundred in the US - so I doubt the dictionary / random spelling was thrown at a system with only 800K users... and the ones with disclosed recipient names were very specific to *my* combo, and didn't have apellino, bpellino, cpellino, etc...
my november bill as AS BILLED to my bank statement was $45.95
January ON MY STATEMENT was $50.95
delta $5,
divided by $45.95
= 11.69590643274854% increase.
Any questions?
look - they took tci and att - two of the most maddening companies in the world from a customer support view, and married them - and is anyone surprised? i was hoping they's learn, but guess not.
remember, aids testing is anonymous in the US because certain
school districts were caught drooling over the prospects of being able to use the info to fire suspected gay teachers.
if you can't configure via a wizard or mac assistant, you probably can't operate a mouse either.
pop will still work when you're on the cable modem itself - what we want is pop anywhere - so i can stop having to throw a switch every time i want to check all my mail on all my addresses - i have 6 to check between personal and admin respoonsibilities,
i'd like to give out my @home as it's the easiest to give by voice, but now i can't integrate it into a mail client unless i'm playing couch potato.
and for what good reason? certainly none on the customer end - have both - like every mom and pop isp.
- i never used my @home address to sign up for anything;
- only used that address to respond to official mail from them to that address;
- and still got epic amounts of spam thru my @home account.
- the buzz is that they had a massive absconding of email records but nothing more, they deny it absolutely.
-any confirmation of this?
they took away the abilty to use a standard client when not hooked to your actual cable modem - so i can't use mail.app or entourage unless i'm at home.
they will only let you get remote mail via an att web page, so it's no longer integrated into the client with all your other mail..
they claim this is an improvement. in order to let you access mail remotely - which every other tin-horn isp can let you do anyway...
1. half speed since dec 1
2. 11% price jack
3. dns sux
4. dhcp pool sux
5. toy mail
if i'm gonna grab my ankles like this, i at least want a free pair of better looking sneakers.
How many times will they seemingly solve The Big Mystery... then again in a movie.
Gimme the original cast and the occasional guest like Peter Boyle.
Robert Patrick may have been a recognizable face, but you need an actual actor with some skills, if only for wry humor like Duchovny, not a digital clothes horse with dozens of b-movies plus Striptease.
Mac ads show you what you can accomplish. Windows ads promise you can fly. Truth is you can't fly and it's going to hurt a lot when you finally hit the ground/wall/window.
To paraphrase a visionary in the field, you can be successful two ways. (1) build a better mousetrap or (2) build a mediocre mousetrap and market the hell out of it.
Apple makes a better price/performance machine than anyone - iMac and iBook leading. Beat it. Try. You'll be within $10 for the hardware against a real machine in the Wintel world. Dell, Gateway, Compaq. Even-steven for features, not a beige Celeron box built by seven chinese brothers.
Then factor in the package - single-vendor integration, each Mac ships with AppleWorks, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Firewire, USB, modem & enet & Airport ready.
(heh heh - a student just stopped by to try and get his d-link 802 pc card on our net... turns out you gotta spell everything out for the little sucker - i mean that literally - you have to type in the name of the network you want to join, so I just pulled down the menu icon on myiBook which can figure it out for itself and spelled it slowly and carefully for him...heh heh... And the little patch antenna dongle that has to peek out of the side of the machine - good for holding your gum, I guess...)
Macintosh runs *nix out of the box, runs Mac OS on top of that *or* out of the box, and can run Windows for another $100.
Lemme get this straight - we should turn up our noses at a still-great-looking indigo imac and head out and plop a beige box in the living room?
The iMac was the first desktop that wasn't beat with the ugly stick, and the Wintel world responds by painting some color on a beige box.
If the mac's not worth all the fuss, then why does XP ape the OSX model right down to the moniker, and everyone else is mee-tooing the port lineup, wireless, etc...
It just don't add up.
Unless of course it's a rambling rationalization for not having or wanting a Mac.
The response trend is correct - this article basically tells you to give up wanting and needing a BMW and drive an Escort, because there are so many of them.
Reminds me of an old MS comparison - millions of flies eat $hit - doesn't make'em right, doesn't make it any easier to swallow.
Oh yeah - and one other lilttle teenie point - count yer blessings that there's now a *nix box for small coin that made the cover of Time and that your Aunt Tilly can recognize on sight.
"Waiting for Star Wars is an art project designed to capture the evolution and journey of one person's wait for a single event (Star Wars Episode II).
We wanna.
It will be captured by time-indexed photographs taken every hour as well as pictures and video of the people we interact with.
We know that the citizens of Seattle will see right thru this ruse and we're armed to the teeth with the Big Book of Geek Snaps and a fart machine. Bring it on, coffee boy.
This project also explores the issue of the pursuit of happiness.
We wanna we wanna we wanna!
It asks how much will a person sacrifice for a temporary acquisition, and questions whether a person can be happy with just food and shelter in pursuit of that acquisition.
Yeah, and peeing. Oh, the peeing. Dude, we sooooo underestimated the peeing thing. So just "food, shelter and a place to pee". The catheters cost way too much and we've never seen a Jedi wearing one.
It also asks, will society as a whole fear or accept people for not desiring the things they desire, or for desiring things they consider frivilous or ridiculous.
It also asks, will scientists be able to detect the altered precession of the earth due to all the spin we're putting on this crapfest.
Finally, as we move into the next millennium, I wonder if our fast-paced society has become unwilling to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy.
Oooh! 'Millennium'! Doh! We forgot to use 'paradigm'!
This wait will test my mettle as I attempt to do just that."
It will really test my mettle when children in their parents' arms on this very sidewalk speak their first word - "Feh,"
I remember my mom telling us that when she was a kid in the 30s, the 'rule' was that you had to have 27 cents on your person or else they could haul you in for vagrancy... wonder if there is in fact a number value still? There's always the 'attractive nuisance' statutes.
"Waiting for Star Wars is an art project designed to capture the evolution and journey of one person's wait for a single event (Star Wars Episode II). It will be captured by time-indexed photographs taken every hour as well as pictures and video of the people we interact with.
This project also explores the issue of the pursuit of happiness. It asks how much will a person sacrifice for a temporary acquisition, and questions whether a person can be happy with just food and shelter in pursuit of that acquisition. It also asks, will society as a whole fear or accept people for not desiring the things they desire, or for desiring things they consider frivilous or ridiculous. Finally, as we move into the next millennium, I wonder if our fast-paced society has become unwilling to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy. This wait will test my mettle as I attempt to do just that."
By these standards you could relieve yourself in public and call it an "art project"
Buy some freaking crayons and go home.
Hire a battlebot to stand in for you, put a web cam on it, remote it from your cubicle, head over once a day to change fuel, and you can keep your job.
That spinning one made by the nice amish-hat guys would do nicely, methinks.
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They're aiming for PROs, eh? Should be a lttile more enlightended than your base XP user, right? Unless of course "Pro" doesn't refer to IT or TECH pro features - but instead is a label designed to entice users to spend extra bucks for the "Pro" version...
You could refuse - ditto MaOS - if this is no longer the case, they could be on very shaky ground. You cannot be successful in the long run by simply writing agreements that obviate existing rights, such as privacy.
What happened to "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose".
the companies that whine over this can blow it out their collective corporate asses.
Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.
This is good to know. This is a number that you need if you're thinking about Doing Something On The Internet - half the US can *possibly* get to you. This is not trivial info, though I doubt we had to wait for the Gummint to tell us this.
Frinstance - you want to open a bookstore. 50% of the people you want to sell to can click into your store. 100% of the people can head thru the door of a meatspace store. Your call. Jeff? Jeff? Anyone? Anyone?
If you hang around techie sites long enough, you'd think everyone who matters has it, and anyone who doesn't is a mouthbreathing fool. T'ain't so. Apparently upwards of 100 million first-world citizens get along just nicely, thank you very much without direct access to the net.
Though I get paid to deal with it on an hourly basis, I can easily see going back to 1970's time by removing my cell, laptop, fax, and voicemail, and pretty much not only living a full life and probably getting more of the 'real' life things done too.
Sounds vaguely luddite, but it's really only a reality check.
Of course, if I weren't online, I'd be muttering all this rant to the cat. Sad. Especially for the poor cat.
And remember - there are more houses with televisions than telephones, cuz you have to pay for the phone once it's in - and ditto^2 online access. Anyone have a good reason why an internet box of any sort would ever move up from third place?
Dope-slap the parents AND the kid.
And get a christless life.
Two years of pain from an ELECTIVE activity?
I suggest a sublethal category for the Darwin awards. Oxymoronic, but necessary.
Only saving grace is that this slob will likely never be given the occasion to reproduce.
I DL'd and read the manual. It really does seem just that easy. It costs $100+ per node, but you pays fer yer time & headaches, doncha?
The faster the machine and traffic the better of course, but you could do this with the cheapest iMac ($799 new, ~$400 used) or a bunch of cubes (banking finally on their close packing ability) if you want Altivec in the mix.
Gosh, a reason to make a headless iMac2 - that would be quite the aesthetic eh? Seventy six of those snuggling on a ping pong table...
Communication can be over Airport, too - so you can imagine ad hoc Mac Clustering begin setup during the first half of every Jobs keynote - you know, the part where he just says stuff - to go thru all possible iterations of the product to be intro'd in the second half of the keynote...
'pellino' is a fairly rare name. Only a few hundred in the US - so I doubt the dictionary / random spelling was thrown at a system with only 800K users... and the ones with disclosed recipient names were very specific to *my* combo, and didn't have apellino, bpellino, cpellino, etc...
my november bill as AS BILLED to my bank statement was $45.95
January ON MY STATEMENT was $50.95
delta $5,
divided by $45.95
= 11.69590643274854% increase.
Any questions?
look - they took tci and att - two of the most maddening companies in the world from a customer support view, and married them - and is anyone surprised? i was hoping they's learn, but guess not.
i want them to scale price and service like anyone else does.
the 'everyone gets 1.5 fair and square' argument doesn't hold water. you think they can guarantee everyone on the block 1.5?
feh.
paranoia is underrated in this arena
m
remember, aids testing is anonymous in the US because certain
school districts were caught drooling over the prospects of being able to use the info to fire suspected gay teachers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jun/burr.ht
if you can't configure via a wizard or mac assistant, you probably can't operate a mouse either.
pop will still work when you're on the cable modem itself - what we want is pop anywhere - so i can stop having to throw a switch every time i want to check all my mail on all my addresses - i have 6 to check between personal and admin respoonsibilities,
i'd like to give out my @home as it's the easiest to give by voice, but now i can't integrate it into a mail client unless i'm playing couch potato.
and for what good reason? certainly none on the customer end - have both - like every mom and pop isp.
it dies when you're hooked to anything else, like my fallback dialup, my office t1, 802.11 anywhere.
they must think we sit at home bug-eyed to their pipe.
a case of 'depends' and you never have to leave the house.
it went from $45.95 to $49.95 +tax
i don't care about most places - i care what comes out of my checkbook.
service went from 3 mbps to 1.5 mbps
i'm getting half the speed for more money.
if that's your idea of fair, good luck.
suppose they cut your cable channels by half and the price went up. what would you do?
we don't care how they do it in dsl land.
i can't get dsl to my door
the dsl in ct sux anyway
if they can do this what else can they do - the data side of their biz is unregulated, doncha know.
- i never used my @home address to sign up for anything;
- only used that address to respond to official mail from them to that address;
- and still got epic amounts of spam thru my @home account.
- the buzz is that they had a massive absconding of email records but nothing more, they deny it absolutely.
-any confirmation of this?
-JP
weak as kittens, dumb as a sack of hammers.
they took away the abilty to use a standard client when not hooked to your actual cable modem - so i can't use mail.app or entourage unless i'm at home.
they will only let you get remote mail via an att web page, so it's no longer integrated into the client with all your other mail..
they claim this is an improvement. in order to let you access mail remotely - which every other tin-horn isp can let you do anyway...
1. half speed since dec 1
2. 11% price jack
3. dns sux
4. dhcp pool sux
5. toy mail
if i'm gonna grab my ankles like this, i at least want a free pair of better looking sneakers.
Carter is simply being merciful.
How many times will they seemingly solve The Big Mystery... then again in a movie.
Gimme the original cast and the occasional guest like Peter Boyle.
Robert Patrick may have been a recognizable face, but you need an actual actor with some skills, if only for wry humor like Duchovny, not a digital clothes horse with dozens of b-movies plus Striptease.
Mac ads show you what you can accomplish. Windows ads promise you can fly. Truth is you can't fly and it's going to hurt a lot when you finally hit the ground/wall/window.
To paraphrase a visionary in the field, you can be successful two ways. (1) build a better mousetrap or (2) build a mediocre mousetrap and market the hell out of it.
Apple makes a better price/performance machine than anyone - iMac and iBook leading. Beat it. Try. You'll be within $10 for the hardware against a real machine in the Wintel world. Dell, Gateway, Compaq. Even-steven for features, not a beige Celeron box built by seven chinese brothers.
Then factor in the package - single-vendor integration, each Mac ships with AppleWorks, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Firewire, USB, modem & enet & Airport ready.
(heh heh - a student just stopped by to try and get his d-link 802 pc card on our net... turns out you gotta spell everything out for the little sucker - i mean that literally - you have to type in the name of the network you want to join, so I just pulled down the menu icon on myiBook which can figure it out for itself and spelled it slowly and carefully for him...heh heh... And the little patch antenna dongle that has to peek out of the side of the machine - good for holding your gum, I guess...)
Macintosh runs *nix out of the box, runs Mac OS on top of that *or* out of the box, and can run Windows for another $100.
Lemme get this straight - we should turn up our noses at a still-great-looking indigo imac and head out and plop a beige box in the living room?
The iMac was the first desktop that wasn't beat with the ugly stick, and the Wintel world responds by painting some color on a beige box.
If the mac's not worth all the fuss, then why does XP ape the OSX model right down to the moniker, and everyone else is mee-tooing the port lineup, wireless, etc...
It just don't add up.
Unless of course it's a rambling rationalization for not having or wanting a Mac.
The response trend is correct - this article basically tells you to give up wanting and needing a BMW and drive an Escort, because there are so many of them.
Reminds me of an old MS comparison - millions of flies eat $hit - doesn't make'em right, doesn't make it any easier to swallow.
Oh yeah - and one other lilttle teenie point - count yer blessings that there's now a *nix box for small coin that made the cover of Time and that your Aunt Tilly can recognize on sight.
"I think people will get over the sticker shock," he added. "They will like the convenience."
Heck, we bought the Hollywood Diet and pet psychologists.
http://mauler.net/archives.html
8 lb axe at 200+ mph
We wanna.
It will be captured by time-indexed photographs taken every hour as well as pictures and video of the people we interact with.
We know that the citizens of Seattle will see right thru this ruse and we're armed to the teeth with the Big Book of Geek Snaps and a fart machine. Bring it on, coffee boy.
This project also explores the issue of the pursuit of happiness.
We wanna we wanna we wanna!
It asks how much will a person sacrifice for a temporary acquisition, and questions whether a person can be happy with just food and shelter in pursuit of that acquisition.
Yeah, and peeing. Oh, the peeing. Dude, we sooooo underestimated the peeing thing. So just "food, shelter and a place to pee". The catheters cost way too much and we've never seen a Jedi wearing one.
It also asks, will society as a whole fear or accept people for not desiring the things they desire, or for desiring things they consider frivilous or ridiculous.
It also asks, will scientists be able to detect the altered precession of the earth due to all the spin we're putting on this crapfest.
Finally, as we move into the next millennium, I wonder if our fast-paced society has become unwilling to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy.
Oooh! 'Millennium'! Doh! We forgot to use 'paradigm'!
This wait will test my mettle as I attempt to do just that."
It will really test my mettle when children in their parents' arms on this very sidewalk speak their first word - "Feh,"
I remember my mom telling us that when she was a kid in the 30s, the 'rule' was that you had to have 27 cents on your person or else they could haul you in for vagrancy... wonder if there is in fact a number value still? There's always the 'attractive nuisance' statutes.
Hire a battlebot to stand in for you, put a web cam on it, remote it from your cubicle, head over once a day to change fuel, and you can keep your job.
That spinning one made by the nice amish-hat guys would do nicely, methinks.