I miss Newton. It did rev 1 what palm still is unable to do - parse and integrate what you WANT.
Hell, I miss the Magic Link!
Compared to a real GUI/OS, using PalmOS is still like trying to talk to the Frankenstein/Tonto characters from Saturday Night Live.
As for compatability - who cares about the device os as long as it syncs with anything - like palm does.
Hardly a troll. It's called perspective.
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Attack of the Clones
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Look at the face of this issue again.
It seems the alarum was sounded because he's (*gasp*) signing pop stars with little acting experience into what many people seem to think is an unassailable classic series. In fact, Mark Hamill has a singularly undistinguished acting career except for the three SW movies. Even he knows it and parodies himself a lot. Jay & Silent Bob, numerous TV walk-ons, etc.
Corvette Summer? Shoot me now.
Star Wars stopped being about the mythology a long time ago - the 9 scripts were outlined ages ago, and he's painting himself into smaller and smaller corners by having to make everything work out according to what we all know happened in the original. We should all be able to recite the screen play for III by thte time we walk out of II.
But look at Titanic - we all know the outcome, three hours long, nails-on-the-blackboard performances, but put the right pop-idol's name on the marquee and call it an epic, and you get a license to print money.
So, at least in the studio's eyes, all that's left is to hang onto those frames whatever it takes to get people to sit in theatres for the remainder. I could watch any of these movies until my eyes popped out, but let's be honest - high art they ain't.
And it's easy to get wrapped up: when a sci-fi wonk claims - with a straight face - the term 'blockbuster' was invented for one of the SW premieres, we all need to take a moment.
And consider the converse - casting two highly regarded nearly-shakespearean actors didn't save Phantom from the wailing and rending of cloth by die-hard SW standard-bearers.
So in the scheme of things, boy-band extras is hardly a big deal, is SOP on some level, and guess what - Lucas is not immune.
Umm, right. And Mark Hamill was from where?
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Attack of the Clones
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· Score: 4, Troll
This isn't exactly a big departure from Lucas's stable...
Hamill wasn't exactly a Royal Shakespearean himself...
89. "Eight Is Enough" (1977) TV Series - David Bradford (1977)
90. City, The (1977) (TV) - Eugene Banks
91. Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence (1976) (TV) - Joe Celi
92. Eric (1975) (TV) - Paul Swensen
93. Delancey Street: The Crisis Within (1975) (TV) - Philip Donaldson
94. Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975) (TV) - Ken Newkirk
95. "Texas Wheelers, The" (1974) TV Series - Doobie Wheeler
96. "Jeannie" (1973) TV Series (voice) - Corey Anders
97. "General Hospital" (1963) TV Series - Kent Murray
Eventually? They're already used in discount drug stores to let you choose shampoo, and on the back of every other airplane seat and inside every $100 handheld game...
seems people would rather have cheap no matter the quality than wait for some esoteric breakthru...
-- it's #1 with women on imdb, which means it's not just male geeks voting;
-- the external reviews have been very good, so it's not just sci-fi-fantasy types lauding it;
-- if you look in the top 10 grossing films - 6 of 10 are sci-fi in both the us box and worldwide box - no other genre is close;
-- i've always been a sci-fi fan, and a tolkien nut, and have always deferred to mainstream films when it comes time to high praise - i was glad annie hall won best pic in 1977 - star wars deserved technical awards, but was not the best film made that year...
-- but this has me thinking - sci fi movies are great entertainment and make for outstanding cinematic experiences - this stuff makes good movies in a more rounded way than i'd imagined.
-- now if only hhgg can still be made, we'd have the best of all worlds! as funny as anything that won an oscar, just techie enough and honestly good plot/story arc/characters, all that good stuff.
they cut the speed in half and are charging the same.
if an isp did that they'e be gored in no time.
if they did that with the cable channels they'd be in court.
the data side of the cables is unregulated, that's the worst part.
they got caught with their pants down - attbi can't do this - it's too hard for them - all they were was a pass thru for @home compared with what they had to learn to do dec 1.
dns is silly and sucks - we have to go elsewhere. nice. someone's not doing their job.
they can't keep up with the dhcp demands - near daily depleted pools. someone's not doing their job.
every problem is greeted with 'trash your tcp/ip prefs' from the reps - really? on a mac? in 7 years with 50 machines on a campus - never had to do that - they don't realize the much simpler fix that maintains all other connection profiles... 2nd most common response from cs - reinstall your system software. right.
can the cs scripted sessions and get people who know networking.
cable lost the per set license battle a long time ago - they think they can pull the same crap with their anti-nat attempts. they'll lose that one too, but the arrogance is so thick around the cable types...
btw they still advertise they're the fastest way to the internet. last i checked, 1.5 mbps didn't fit that bill.
we're getting half the speed for the same amount of money.
if their cable side dropped half the channels for the same amt, they'd be up against the wall in a matter of days.
the mystery of their dns is just silly - there used to be local dns at every cable system's town-level network.
dhcp runs into depleted pools every couple of mornings
Erm, I'm pretty sure you have 46, in 23 pairs. 22 autosome pairs and two sex chromosomes. If you have 24 somethings, you are either a sentient form of tomato (24 chromosomes) or you suffer from something like trisomy 21, otherwise known as down (or down's) syndrome - well if you do, bravo for coping with the challenge.
We anticipate no changes to your service. As we have done in the past, any future changes or enhancements to your service will be announced well in advance.
Erm, at 11 PM Nov 31 CS had no clue as to what was going to happen in less than an hour.
AT&T Broadband's prices reflect the cost of providing service and operating the business. There are no price increases associated with the announcement of this merger.
Funny, when you cut our speeds to half of what they were you kept the price the same. In my book you just raised your rates 100%
Plus lookit all the money you're saving by having two flaky DNS servers as opposed to the regional ones that worked just fine for two years. Have a tag sale. Kripes - I'm ready to setup MacDNS in the den - I'll let you tickle it locally for pocket change. What is so christlessly difficult about a DNS server at the local head end?
The Internet business is a rapidly changing and developing industry. Over the past four years, we have worked hard to provide the latest technology and best-in-class service. Companies and brands have changed as there have been mergers, acquisitions and partnerships.
Plus making up clute little names and logos is funner than learning to spell b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s p-l-a-n
Your bill and billing cycle will remain the same for the time being. Any changes to your billing cycle or the appearance of your bill will be announced and explained prior to the change.
Nanoseconds are technically 'prior'
Your customer care contacts won't change as a direct result of the planned merger with Comcast. Our Online Customer Support Center will continue to provide chat and e-mail links so you can reach a specialist 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Also, you may call the same phone number for Customer Care, as there are no immediate changes planned for telephone support numbers.
A java chat client that makes playing whack-a-mole seems like a relief...
I believe the correct terminology is that it TAKES 24 hours to reach a live CS...
The original CS number 262-6300 is now a hired CS desk that knows nothing of substance, and they no longer will give out the number for tier 2 / tech support because apparently customers tried - oh, actually calling them.
The previous disruption to your high-speed cable Internet service was result of Excite@Home's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing. There are no planned disruptions to your AT&T Broadband service as a result of the proposed merger.
So it *wasn't* the result of a childish game of chicken being played with the livelihoods and money of 800,000 innocent customers?
Cuz that's what everyone else except you thinks.
Funny how with more than a quarter's notice you can't ramp up to stave off the results of a game that everyone else including several species of invertebrates knew you were going to lose. (If your contract says you can't do so, but you know you're going to lose, then cut bait and Do The Right Thing.) You can please your board all you want, but with no customers / income stream, your directors and investors will be sitting in the dark twiddling their - um - thumbs.
- just keep it running and stay solvent. We'll decide what to do with it. 1.5/128 is what you promised - are you saying now i can't use it all?
Can you imagine if the telcos did this? If you call your boss the monthly line charge goes from $13 residential to $39 business?
Please.
This is what happens when you have zero regs on a business. We can't complain to any ombudsmen agency, govt or otherwise.
First they fail to give local cable any competition, then they grant it only after the market is saturated, then they allow them to carry data and do it in an unregulated fashion.
Grab yer ankles, sports fans!
We wrote a science book of BASIC programs for the Coleco Adam.
*Poof*
We re-wrote it for the PC-Jr.
*Double Poof*
The standing joke around the office was we were going to write a million-dollar ransom note to Apple...
Somehow Apple survived our publication. Guess we really weren't cursed after all.
(Before you snicker about the Adam, it was the start of Steve Perlman's "lets-get-large-amounts-of-readble-text-on-a-tv-di splay" fetish, which led to some of the first decent video convolution filters at Apple, and contributed to WebTV's set-top abilities, etc. etc...)
(OK - it also had a howitzer for a printer.)
(OK they did just as well at selling computers as IBM would do selling Cabbage Patch Kids.)
...about the difference between addiction and behavioral disorders.
cocaine is physically addictive. heroin. methadone. nicotine we think.
gaming is a learned behavior that needs to be managed thru behavior mod at best.
but addiction? highly doubtful.
or maybe endless gaming is the manifestation of OCD for the wired set;-) sure is more fun than washing your hands seventeen times an hour. ( and no flames from OCDs - like ray romano says, nothing worse than complaints from compulsives - check the stove, write the letter, check the stove, write the letter.... )
remember, steve makes sure he has either michael or ted in his sights every time they intro a new box - and usually makes a point of it in the presentation.
if gateway can do a legacy box with an lcd for $999 - no reason apple can't put the well-paid-for imac guts in one - they already match gateway & dell in price for the low end (approx $800) - it was finally a $200 delta in the price of their monitors anyway - $399 crt vs $599 lcd when the cube ended.
"We should have kick-ass laptops, but no one else needs them." - seems to be the tone here.
Plenty of schools have plenty of laptop programs. They work. They have roughly 5% overstock for the repair stream. Remarkably few ever get run over by cars. iBooks don't need no stinking dongles 99% of the time.
The kids do a higher level of work. Remember when your only vehicles for expression were book reports and clay-filled shoeboxes? Wanna go back to that? This is the direction the world is going. Once again, some want the kids to be last in line.
There is no best way to teach, there is no best way to outfit a school. This you learn only by experience in a school. There are plenty of good ways, and this is one of them.
I've been in education for 20 years. I've been running Mac & Win labs fo the past ten. Never had to unload a teacher machine because it was full. Kids, on the other hand, overdrive any machine you give them, and that's without games contributing to the fray.
The guns or butter arguments don't wash either. If you weren't harping about spending school money before, don't do it now.
Plenty of schools don't have laptops and still have lots of problems that - surprise - aren't being solved by anyone of their critics.
Only thing that worries me - they'll lose these shiny white boxes in all that snow... tsk.;-)
Yup. Picked one up at Amazon. Little bugger surfs and everything. Think WebTV but with a very annoying controller. WalMarts still have a number of DC games - they're dumped in piles in the glass cabinets under the PS2 displays over in the tech dept. They had Resident Evil(s), Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, NFL2K NBA2K and assorted others when I checked on Saturday... bet they go fast. Seem to be at least 33% off, some half off or better. Also found out that pawn shops are a great source of consoles and games - must be after a cerrtain amount of sitting on the couch with no income, out goes the game console for some quick cash. Wonder if it's the first or last thing to be hocked?;-)
Ditto - I've never used my @home address for email - and that's where the vast majority of spam is coming from.
My email name is pretty rare, there's maybe 100 of us in the country - so they didn't just rumplestiltskin me either.
Legend has it there was a massive dump of customer emails some time back, which @home always denied, but apparently was confirmed in some lawsuit or another.
Things went south saturday morning. I still have a cabnle light on, power of course, and enet - then usually only send lights when i try to connect - have tried a brand spanking new dhcp config and other DNSs - the old ones don't work, and substituting others' dns server addresses hasn't worked so far.
Back to my local ISP dialup, glad I kept a back door..
Got the voice mail, and got an email welcoming me to the new service, undisclosed addressee list but when I reply it wants to send thru the ATTBI mail address I swapped in... so some mail is working.
They say 2 to 10 days.
I was 345 in queue at the java chat client last night. Which is an abomination - move / change anything about the window you're chatting in and the text display and buttons go poof until they refresh it... nice.
The CS phone front line seems to have gone to a 3rd party - when they couldn't tell me anything they gave me a # for "real" att CS...
What's the quote from Microserfs? "Weak as kittens, dumb as a sack of hammers." Though she was referring to IBM...
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simply calculating back from orbit means you can never have enough fuel to lift the fuel you just added, ad infinitum
You have to factor in the fact that your craft gets lighter as you ascend - because it is shedding fuel when it burns it.
I miss Newton. It did rev 1 what palm still is unable to do - parse and integrate what you WANT.
Hell, I miss the Magic Link!
Compared to a real GUI/OS, using PalmOS is still like trying to talk to the Frankenstein/Tonto characters from Saturday Night Live.
As for compatability - who cares about the device os as long as it syncs with anything - like palm does.
Look at the face of this issue again.
It seems the alarum was sounded because he's (*gasp*) signing pop stars with little acting experience into what many people seem to think is an unassailable classic series. In fact, Mark Hamill has a singularly undistinguished acting career except for the three SW movies. Even he knows it and parodies himself a lot. Jay & Silent Bob, numerous TV walk-ons, etc.
Corvette Summer? Shoot me now.
Star Wars stopped being about the mythology a long time ago - the 9 scripts were outlined ages ago, and he's painting himself into smaller and smaller corners by having to make everything work out according to what we all know happened in the original. We should all be able to recite the screen play for III by thte time we walk out of II.
But look at Titanic - we all know the outcome, three hours long, nails-on-the-blackboard performances, but put the right pop-idol's name on the marquee and call it an epic, and you get a license to print money.
So, at least in the studio's eyes, all that's left is to hang onto those frames whatever it takes to get people to sit in theatres for the remainder. I could watch any of these movies until my eyes popped out, but let's be honest - high art they ain't.
And it's easy to get wrapped up: when a sci-fi wonk claims - with a straight face - the term 'blockbuster' was invented for one of the SW premieres, we all need to take a moment.
And consider the converse - casting two highly regarded nearly-shakespearean actors didn't save Phantom from the wailing and rending of cloth by die-hard SW standard-bearers.
So in the scheme of things, boy-band extras is hardly a big deal, is SOP on some level, and guess what - Lucas is not immune.
This isn't exactly a big departure from Lucas's stable...
Hamill wasn't exactly a Royal Shakespearean himself...
89. "Eight Is Enough" (1977) TV Series - David Bradford (1977)
90. City, The (1977) (TV) - Eugene Banks
91. Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence (1976) (TV) - Joe Celi
92. Eric (1975) (TV) - Paul Swensen
93. Delancey Street: The Crisis Within (1975) (TV) - Philip Donaldson
94. Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975) (TV) - Ken Newkirk
95. "Texas Wheelers, The" (1974) TV Series - Doobie Wheeler
96. "Jeannie" (1973) TV Series (voice) - Corey Anders
97. "General Hospital" (1963) TV Series - Kent Murray
Eventually? They're already used in discount drug stores to let you choose shampoo, and on the back of every other airplane seat and inside every $100 handheld game...
seems people would rather have cheap no matter the quality than wait for some esoteric breakthru...
They say sex is a virus that infects every other endeavor.
Sounds like there's another.
-- it's #1 with women on imdb, which means it's not just male geeks voting;
-- the external reviews have been very good, so it's not just sci-fi-fantasy types lauding it;
-- if you look in the top 10 grossing films - 6 of 10 are sci-fi in both the us box and worldwide box - no other genre is close;
-- i've always been a sci-fi fan, and a tolkien nut, and have always deferred to mainstream films when it comes time to high praise - i was glad annie hall won best pic in 1977 - star wars deserved technical awards, but was not the best film made that year...
-- but this has me thinking - sci fi movies are great entertainment and make for outstanding cinematic experiences - this stuff makes good movies in a more rounded way than i'd imagined.
-- now if only hhgg can still be made, we'd have the best of all worlds! as funny as anything that won an oscar, just techie enough and honestly good plot/story arc/characters, all that good stuff.
Sony eVilla?
THEY'RE BUYING THEM BACK FROM THEIR CUSTOMERS!
They won't even let them out as museum pieces!!!
(I know - I asked!)
they cut the speed in half and are charging the same.
if an isp did that they'e be gored in no time.
if they did that with the cable channels they'd be in court.
the data side of the cables is unregulated, that's the worst part.
they got caught with their pants down - attbi can't do this - it's too hard for them - all they were was a pass thru for @home compared with what they had to learn to do dec 1.
dns is silly and sucks - we have to go elsewhere. nice. someone's not doing their job.
they can't keep up with the dhcp demands - near daily depleted pools. someone's not doing their job.
every problem is greeted with 'trash your tcp/ip prefs' from the reps - really? on a mac? in 7 years with 50 machines on a campus - never had to do that - they don't realize the much simpler fix that maintains all other connection profiles... 2nd most common response from cs - reinstall your system software. right.
can the cs scripted sessions and get people who know networking.
cable lost the per set license battle a long time ago - they think they can pull the same crap with their anti-nat attempts. they'll lose that one too, but the arrogance is so thick around the cable types...
btw they still advertise they're the fastest way to the internet. last i checked, 1.5 mbps didn't fit that bill.
no, we're complaining that speed was cut in half and charges were not.
that their dns suddenly sucks.
that they can't do dhcp without hitting their heads.
we're getting half the speed for the same amount of money.
if their cable side dropped half the channels for the same amt, they'd be up against the wall in a matter of days.
the mystery of their dns is just silly - there used to be local dns at every cable system's town-level network.
dhcp runs into depleted pools every couple of mornings
and nat is now considered a high crime.
ain't much else left for them to screw up.
Erm, I'm pretty sure you have 46, in 23 pairs. 22 autosome pairs and two sex chromosomes. If you have 24 somethings, you are either a sentient form of tomato (24 chromosomes) or you suffer from something like trisomy 21, otherwise known as down (or down's) syndrome - well if you do, bravo for coping with the challenge.
We anticipate no changes to your service. As we have done in the past, any future changes or enhancements to your service will be announced well in advance.
Erm, at 11 PM Nov 31 CS had no clue as to what was going to happen in less than an hour.
AT&T Broadband's prices reflect the cost of providing service and operating the business. There are no price increases associated with the announcement of this merger.
Funny, when you cut our speeds to half of what they were you kept the price the same. In my book you just raised your rates 100%
Plus lookit all the money you're saving by having two flaky DNS servers as opposed to the regional ones that worked just fine for two years. Have a tag sale. Kripes - I'm ready to setup MacDNS in the den - I'll let you tickle it locally for pocket change. What is so christlessly difficult about a DNS server at the local head end?
The Internet business is a rapidly changing and developing industry. Over the past four years, we have worked hard to provide the latest technology and best-in-class service. Companies and brands have changed as there have been mergers, acquisitions and partnerships.
Plus making up clute little names and logos is funner than learning to spell b-u-s-i-n-e-s-s p-l-a-n
Your bill and billing cycle will remain the same for the time being. Any changes to your billing cycle or the appearance of your bill will be announced and explained prior to the change.
Nanoseconds are technically 'prior'
Your customer care contacts won't change as a direct result of the planned merger with Comcast. Our Online Customer Support Center will continue to provide chat and e-mail links so you can reach a specialist 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Also, you may call the same phone number for Customer Care, as there are no immediate changes planned for telephone support numbers.
A java chat client that makes playing whack-a-mole seems like a relief...
I believe the correct terminology is that it TAKES 24 hours to reach a live CS...
The original CS number 262-6300 is now a hired CS desk that knows nothing of substance, and they no longer will give out the number for tier 2 / tech support because apparently customers tried - oh, actually calling them.
The previous disruption to your high-speed cable Internet service was result of Excite@Home's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing. There are no planned disruptions to your AT&T Broadband service as a result of the proposed merger.
So it *wasn't* the result of a childish game of chicken being played with the livelihoods and money of 800,000 innocent customers?
Cuz that's what everyone else except you thinks.
Funny how with more than a quarter's notice you can't ramp up to stave off the results of a game that everyone else including several species of invertebrates knew you were going to lose. (If your contract says you can't do so, but you know you're going to lose, then cut bait and Do The Right Thing.) You can please your board all you want, but with no customers / income stream, your directors and investors will be sitting in the dark twiddling their - um - thumbs.
"Weak as kittens, dumb a as a sack of hammers."
And I tossed mine out - eBay ho!
- just keep it running and stay solvent. We'll decide what to do with it. 1.5/128 is what you promised - are you saying now i can't use it all?
Can you imagine if the telcos did this? If you call your boss the monthly line charge goes from $13 residential to $39 business?
Please.
This is what happens when you have zero regs on a business. We can't complain to any ombudsmen agency, govt or otherwise.
First they fail to give local cable any competition, then they grant it only after the market is saturated, then they allow them to carry data and do it in an unregulated fashion.
Grab yer ankles, sports fans!
We wrote a science book of BASIC programs for the Coleco Adam.
i splay" fetish, which led to some of the first decent video convolution filters at Apple, and contributed to WebTV's set-top abilities, etc. etc...)
*Poof*
We re-wrote it for the PC-Jr.
*Double Poof*
The standing joke around the office was we were going to write a million-dollar ransom note to Apple...
Somehow Apple survived our publication. Guess we really weren't cursed after all.
(Before you snicker about the Adam, it was the start of Steve Perlman's "lets-get-large-amounts-of-readble-text-on-a-tv-d
(OK - it also had a howitzer for a printer.)
(OK they did just as well at selling computers as IBM would do selling Cabbage Patch Kids.)
This may be just the thing we're looking for! Spare no expense in loading this guy up with your AOL CDs - maybe, just maybe...
wow! bigger AND slower!
but it runs under windows, so let's all party!
*sigh*
...about the difference between addiction and behavioral disorders.
;-) sure is more fun than washing your hands seventeen times an hour. ( and no flames from OCDs - like ray romano says, nothing worse than complaints from compulsives - check the stove, write the letter, check the stove, write the letter.... )
cocaine is physically addictive. heroin. methadone. nicotine we think.
gaming is a learned behavior that needs to be managed thru behavior mod at best.
but addiction? highly doubtful.
or maybe endless gaming is the manifestation of OCD for the wired set
remember, steve makes sure he has either michael or ted in his sights every time they intro a new box - and usually makes a point of it in the presentation.
if gateway can do a legacy box with an lcd for $999 - no reason apple can't put the well-paid-for imac guts in one - they already match gateway & dell in price for the low end (approx $800) - it was finally a $200 delta in the price of their monitors anyway - $399 crt vs $599 lcd when the cube ended.
be nice to see what it actually looks like...
then we'd know what we're talking about.
"We should have kick-ass laptops, but no one else needs them." - seems to be the tone here.
;-)
Plenty of schools have plenty of laptop programs. They work. They have roughly 5% overstock for the repair stream. Remarkably few ever get run over by cars. iBooks don't need no stinking dongles 99% of the time.
The kids do a higher level of work. Remember when your only vehicles for expression were book reports and clay-filled shoeboxes? Wanna go back to that? This is the direction the world is going. Once again, some want the kids to be last in line.
There is no best way to teach, there is no best way to outfit a school. This you learn only by experience in a school. There are plenty of good ways, and this is one of them.
I've been in education for 20 years. I've been running Mac & Win labs fo the past ten. Never had to unload a teacher machine because it was full. Kids, on the other hand, overdrive any machine you give them, and that's without games contributing to the fray.
The guns or butter arguments don't wash either. If you weren't harping about spending school money before, don't do it now.
Plenty of schools don't have laptops and still have lots of problems that - surprise - aren't being solved by anyone of their critics.
Only thing that worries me - they'll lose these shiny white boxes in all that snow... tsk.
Yup. Picked one up at Amazon. Little bugger surfs and everything. Think WebTV but with a very annoying controller. WalMarts still have a number of DC games - they're dumped in piles in the glass cabinets under the PS2 displays over in the tech dept. They had Resident Evil(s), Shenmue, Crazy Taxi, NFL2K NBA2K and assorted others when I checked on Saturday... bet they go fast. Seem to be at least 33% off, some half off or better. Also found out that pawn shops are a great source of consoles and games - must be after a cerrtain amount of sitting on the couch with no income, out goes the game console for some quick cash. Wonder if it's the first or last thing to be hocked? ;-)
Ditto - I've never used my @home address for email - and that's where the vast majority of spam is coming from.
My email name is pretty rare, there's maybe 100 of us in the country - so they didn't just rumplestiltskin me either.
Legend has it there was a massive dump of customer emails some time back, which @home always denied, but apparently was confirmed in some lawsuit or another.
Things went south saturday morning. I still have a cabnle light on, power of course, and enet - then usually only send lights when i try to connect - have tried a brand spanking new dhcp config and other DNSs - the old ones don't work, and substituting others' dns server addresses hasn't worked so far.
Back to my local ISP dialup, glad I kept a back door..
Got the voice mail, and got an email welcoming me to the new service, undisclosed addressee list but when I reply it wants to send thru the ATTBI mail address I swapped in... so some mail is working.
They say 2 to 10 days.
I was 345 in queue at the java chat client last night. Which is an abomination - move / change anything about the window you're chatting in and the text display and buttons go poof until they refresh it... nice.
The CS phone front line seems to have gone to a 3rd party - when they couldn't tell me anything they gave me a # for "real" att CS...
What's the quote from Microserfs? "Weak as kittens, dumb as a sack of hammers." Though she was referring to IBM...