Well, if you want proof. then just look at the benchmarks, and the overall chip design.
I thought that there was a modified saying like "There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks" or something like that. What about proper linux preformance and cheap price.
That should be noted as well. Also remember that you can't pick up a really nice system with an AMD chip extremely cheaply. Personally I want hard evidence that it's really "better". Isn't the AMD an x86 compatable and not really an x86 because intel defines what an x86 is right?
Personally I have never even used an AMD processor simply because every one of the machines that I have are from about 1981-1993. I don't think AMD really mattered then. Furthermore all of my machines have never needed to have their CPUs replaced. In fact they work like a rock.
Which is why Nike is a zillion-dollar company right now, even though their shoes are no better than what you can get for half or less the price.
It's called disinformation that's what. It's not subliminal messaging in the least. It's lieing pure and simple. It started with Jabul "Honest" Wakkiem the salesman of pots in Summeria and it's going on today with Nike except Nike has more money.
Which is why Nike is a zillion-dollar company right now, even though their shoes are no better than what you can get for half or less the price.
That's different how from saying that Joe Domagio endorces this product or service. Still not a conspiracy and still not subliminal it's an entirely misinformed opinion. People have done that since the 1920's or even earlier. Check out an archive of old newspapers and look at their advertisements the same old stuff.
There was a study a while back (Sorry, no links or references) that found that users of expensive athletic equipment (mostly shoes and cleats) actually injure themselves more often and worse than users of cheaper stuff. People with cheap equipment didn't have as much trust in their equipment, so they exercise some caution. People who have spent four or five times the money think they must be getting much better protection, so they play more dangerously. Of course injure themselves more, because the more expensive shoes are no better than the cheaper ones.
So I would (if I didn't know better) think that if I paid more money for something that it should at least work better. It's just a little misplaced logic. That dosn't qualify for conspiracy status quite yet. You have to have the unexplained concept or the hard to disprove little kernel of doubt. I don't see it.
Fact is, the extra money they spent doesn't go toward making better shoes, it goes to putting Michael Jordan's name on the side of the shoe. And that's what sells shoes.
I have no beef with that. Most people in most industries in the past didn't give a shit about their products until people got irritated and the laws were eventually changed. See the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act under Teddy Rosevelt.
Grocery stores are in fact not a monopoly
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Having not the slightest idea what country and what area you live in I am going to make some big assumptions about you: 1. You live in a town of at least 100,000+ people 2. You live in the USA 3. You have multiple grocery stores 4. at least one of the stores in item 3 has in fact some ability to have lower prices than the others. With this these conditions met you have to realize a few falacies. In principal ther is very little alternative to capitalism that dosn't really royally screw the little guy. If you look at *history* you see that every stinking revolution, war, brawl, battle that was ever fought for the cause of the common man was in fact a cause that tghe common man never really got a fair shake in. American revolution? Nope the revolution was actually fought and actually started by a group of wealthy arrogant American tea merchants who didn't want the British dumping low priced goods to the Americans and actually give them much cheaper tea. The Russian revolution of 1917 in fact was nothing but a farce "Bread, Land, and Peace" didn't help the millions of starving Russian peseants who still got screwed like they did under the old system the Czar had in place except they got the random political pruge and their leaders thinking they were in complicity with the "evil" rich (how they equated farmers with the rich I don't know) Communism is a total flop in almost any country that uses it. Basically the little guy gets, screwed again, and again, and again. In fact the US is the fairest when it comes to helping the little guy not loose his shirt or tax the hell out of everyone or make them wait in long, long, long lines for 5 hours just to get a couple of bruised potatoes before they can actually eat anything. A system which supports lazy people and industrious people and pays them the same damn wage and then productivity suffers and everyone looses. Look at the construction of the ISS and the recent Russian addition. Ever wonder why it took so long? Well the most recent addition was given to the Russians to work on their own whereas the rest were basically used with the Russians as consultants not the sole contractor. They fubbed that one up royal. I don't make a whole hell of a lot of money but I don't wish to go into communism where there are still rich administrators and even more of my money is gone. Grocery stores are not in the business of stealing the bread before it gets to you in any way. If you don't like the grocery store that you shop at go to another one and shop there. In may area alone There are at least 3 large grocery stores that sell anything that you need. In fact 2 are in walking distance from my home. And yes I must admit one of them does gouge the people but if they do they start to loose their customers and they go to the other store which is happy for their business. Then the store changes that particular policy and then gets some customers. Basically there is something called elastic and inelastic demand. Food is inelastic for the most part for the necessities but we usually we have choice. The more speciality items that are the focus of most of the marketing research (like nacho flavored cookies or whatnot) are elastic and if it's done improperly they loose and it's all over.
Then I guess you won't be ripped off will you?
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Oh please give me a break. As a informed member of the public who actually knows history I say you are really, really, really stretching it big time. Ok for your information this can be seen in any number of old publications I suggest the major ones from the 1920's and before. In particular the Ivory soap compaign which was essentially a false one. They advertised that their soap was in fact incapable of sinking in a bathtub of water. There was a well known political cartoon of the day (I believe in the New York Times) which was entitled "The day a cake of ivory sank" which depicted a great deal of confusion and shock that it did indeed sink. Take note of the first ideas and usages of choclate cocao which said it was a good medical aid and that it could be used to regain health. Of course it was a blatant lie and almost everyone knew it. The very idea that this stuff actually defrauds people is silly and overstated. I have a relative who actually works in the higher ranks of a food distribution company who does this stuff. It's only marginally effective in getting more money in anyone's pockets. American consumers who are likely to be defrauded are usually the first people to do their homework and go for the biggest bargains using cupons, special deals, shopping around, etc. Marketing is only effective as you make it. As I have pointed out in other posts here the one true constant in the who affair is the fact that people are not stupid and eventually figure things out. Once they figure out that they were gyped they usually learn their lessons and get the cheaper product. It's at worst a trial and error process that works well most of the time. If you are making broad reaching claims I was hard evidence that the problem is as bad as you claim. Like many slashdot posters you are full of gloom and doom because you perceive a problem but offer no plausible solutions to actually solve it in any convincing way at all. It's really rather funny if you think about it. In fact repeat the folling mantra over and over again at least 5,000 times a day (lotus position completely optional): "There are no effective conspiracies; the world is not out to get me. I am not Fox Mulder and never will be." That will keep you sane. Also I would recommend to subscribe to the psycho-ceramics mailing list and then you can laugh at your fellow kooks, loons, and irrational, uninformed idiots who believe everything is a conspiracy. My personaly favorite was the one about the (then) Soviet genetically engineered woodpecker like radio device that was trying to match resonance pitch inside the human skull for slow torture/death. Rather a funny little thing.
There are limits to conspiracies and it's now
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That's incredibly unlikely. Firstly you have to have almost no will whatsoever to actually have this affect you in any way. Also you have to understand that even for the human subconciousness connect to the waking mind requires a great deal of personal training and the like (I've looked into it). The internet has breed a great deal of loonies who have found a bunch of other loonies who have absolutely no education in matters of science and the like and who don't have a very firm grasp on the validity of various theories. Logic contradicts a system that cannot be proven and there are a great many assumptions that are in this. Firstly the sound wave would have to be in a subvocal level which prevents you from actually perceiving it. Secondly when it's down that low you have to rely on a really sucker like Homer Jay Simpson to actually fall for it. Remember the studies back a number of years ago about putting subliminal messaging into advertising in the movies? Ever wonder why it dosn't seem to work absolutely (last time I checked I went to a movie there was a very obvious and very non-subliminal series of messages that I *could* see that were offering various drinks/candy/popcorn that blows that little idea out of the water really quick). Many people like to think that you can simply train people like Pavlov's dog and you just cannot. Human will would have to be about as low as a mental patient locked up for 20 years to get this to work. Even then it would only manifest itself as a possible desire and not as something that could easily be grasped in any traditional command and control sense. You would weed it out and then use your higher sense of logic to get what you needed. The American consumer is one of the most informed in the world when it comes to getting the most for the buck. Magazines like Consumer Reports and the like insure this.
Yeah that's going to make millions...not
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Personally it would take more than that to actually scare a reasoning person in any natural way. Very simple logic can be applied. Monsters havn't been seen by the vast majority of sane people and no reliable recorded data has been shown for their existence and it's exceeding unlikely that you as an average citizen would be singled out therefore it's not likely that monsters would be present. Also I don't think the novelty amusement industry is making big bucks to actually make that much money.
People in the future have upped the ante
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In general this would almost be near impossible. All the really easy discoveries in the history of the world that could be made without formal training have in fact already been accomplished. Most of the rest of them are in fact taken from ideas that need years of technical background and training. The days of Jimmy getting to make millions of dollars from an idea in his basement are almost gone from the American/World conciousness. You just can't do it. Hell we reached the limits of most modern capacity to understand the frontiers of math and science without someone being an interpreter at least 200 years ago (not joking that's about the same time that calculus was invented and some of the basic ideas of physics were quantified). The only reason that anyone understands anything Einstein is actually understood today is because other people did the responsible thing and actually explained much of what he said in qualatative terms. It's not very nice math at all. In fact I would fault the modern press for making it even this difficult to understand concepts and apply them. In principal even the most difficult concept can be distilled into something even cletus can understand if given a larger ammount of time.
Yes I personally question all these so called miracles that this Tesla actually created. I do not belive in any conspiracy to hide anything however. If an experiment can be done from data over 100 years ago chances are that someone along the line from then to now would have applied the same ideas and come to thwe same conclusion.
Do you actually have any proof that Tesla actually *did* any of these things at all. Most likely if this was practal it would have found industry use decades ago. What about lasers? Lasers are far more efficient in terms of exactitude and work well and are in fact working *now*.
That's kind of like harassment
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It's quite unlikely that anyone would be stupid enough to actually use such a thing mostly because of liability converns. If I don't want to hear your stupid advertisement I shouldn't have to hear it period. If you keep bugging me it's harassment. Plus there are various...countermeasures that can be done to render it impossible to actually get these frequencies into your ear. For example a modified hearing aid would be able to filter out all non vocal transmissions or non approved transmisisons and then drop all others.
I am not really that dim. Without some information I'll give you but not dim. As far as being a tightwad I really don't think I should care. Basically what these companies are trying to do is get away with forcing real people to pay on average *more* for their access than they were paying in the past. In fact *double* or *more* what they were paying. This is a bad thing. People have certain rights in the marketplace and they are being ruined by people who are fixing the price artifically high to prevent continued affordability. Also these companies have subtly tried to coerce/influence/brainwash people into *needing* something that damn fast. It used to be in America and the world over people actually wated for things and had to think about the costs and the consequences before they bought. The price must be decreased if this is to be the future technology or everyone will suffer.
I don't know of too many applications where you need more than the original internet requires that are done at any of the colleges that I have seen. I would like to see some hard core examples of good need or of actual implimentations and how they are being directed.
Some questions about this idea: 1. Can you connect to the internet using this method? 2. How much and where can you obtain a cheap dish? 3. Wouldn't you have to find a geostationary satellite or move the dish?
Persoanlly I like to have access to technology and means of presentation that most people need to spend millions to get. As far as the hubris I don't think I have it. I hate to have to use ftp and the like to upload changed html documents and I found the absolutely perfect solution (ok comments need to be there but all in all it works well for the money: free). The internet is removing the barriers to access and providing for it's loyal. Also I like actually getting code without thousands of dollars in charges to myself. Any other comments can be made via story submission or via e-mail. That's the way I like it kind of a Q/A type thing.
Ok so a company decides to offer access to people in any state and any major city in the union. That in and of itself it fine. Then they start to restrict the platform thata person can connect to for said access and all sorts of other anoying things. People think that linux is the only system that can subvert ads gimme a break. I dare to bet with a little sneaky programming on windows you can do the same thing. Also let me tell you one thing. I hate to be in one of the few states in the union that allows linux users to connect and actually do anything. Sure I would like to connect for pay. I just would like the max bandwidth that my 2400 baud modem can get and that's what I will pay for per month maybe like say 3-7 dollars to get the access and no frills like usenet and the like and I don't even need SMTP access or POP3/IMAP already got them covered. Basically I need 1. dynamic IP 2. reliable primary and secondary nameservers anything else is not needed I do think these companies can and do make fabulous access premiums for their access. Also I think that these so-called non profit organizations like universites and schools getting free T-3 or better connections is insane. I do expect to pay but at a fair price and if companies are going to offer a free deal to basically everyone then make it free to *everyone* and *anyone* and don't screw the little guy.
That might explain it. How hard would it be to create another company that say did a better job? What are the barriers to entry to the cable industry? Also why would it hurt to get cable access in a local area? Are there usage maps for particular zip codes and the like to determine what areas are saturated with trafic and usage and which are not? If more and more people are going to hurt the system then why do they want more and more people to subscribe. In my local area I have had at least 4-5 ads for the service from AT&T or TCI or whatever come across my door. I just ignore them myself. Personally I can wait for my content and be happy.
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That's one good indication.
Well, if you want proof. then just look at the benchmarks, and the overall chip design.
I thought that there was a modified saying like "There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks" or something like that. What about proper linux preformance and cheap price.
Isn't Lynchburg in Maryland?
Generally, unless your doing some serous
work on your computer, a 500Mhz chip should be fine.
I though it was almost impossible to "overclock" most of these new chips because of design changes. What happened?
That might work
Generally, unless your doing some serous
work on your computer, a 500Mhz chip should be fine.
Unless you want to boot windows 2000. Then that's another matter entirely.
That should be noted as well. Also remember that you can't pick up a really nice system with an AMD chip extremely cheaply. Personally I want hard evidence that it's really "better". Isn't the AMD an x86 compatable and not really an x86 because intel defines what an x86 is right?
Personally I have never even used an AMD processor simply because every one of the machines that I have are from about 1981-1993. I don't think AMD really mattered then. Furthermore all of my machines have never needed to have their CPUs replaced. In fact they work like a rock.
Maybe a link?
Which is why Nike is a zillion-dollar company right now, even though their shoes are no better than what you can get for half or less the price.
It's called disinformation that's what. It's not subliminal messaging in the least. It's lieing pure and simple. It started with Jabul "Honest" Wakkiem the salesman of pots in Summeria and it's going on today with Nike except Nike has more money.
Which is why Nike is a zillion-dollar company right now, even though their shoes are no better than what you can get for half or less the price.
That's different how from saying that Joe Domagio endorces this product or service. Still not a conspiracy and still not subliminal it's an entirely misinformed opinion. People have done that since the 1920's or even earlier. Check out an archive of old newspapers and look at their advertisements the same old stuff.
There was a study a while back (Sorry, no links or references) that found that users of expensive athletic equipment (mostly shoes and cleats) actually injure themselves more often and worse than users of cheaper stuff. People with cheap equipment didn't have as much trust in their equipment, so they exercise some caution. People who have spent four or five times the money think they must be getting much better protection, so they play more dangerously. Of course injure themselves more, because the more expensive shoes are no better than the cheaper ones.
So I would (if I didn't know better) think that if I paid more money for something that it should at least work better. It's just a little misplaced logic. That dosn't qualify for conspiracy status quite yet. You have to have the unexplained concept or the hard to disprove little kernel of doubt. I don't see it.
Fact is, the extra money they spent doesn't go toward making better shoes, it goes to putting Michael Jordan's name on the side of the shoe. And that's what sells shoes.
I have no beef with that. Most people in most industries in the past didn't give a shit about their products until people got irritated and the laws were eventually changed. See the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act under Teddy Rosevelt.
Having not the slightest idea what country and what area you live in I am going to make some big assumptions about you:
1. You live in a town of at least 100,000+ people
2. You live in the USA
3. You have multiple grocery stores
4. at least one of the stores in item 3 has in fact some ability to have lower prices than the others.
With this these conditions met you have to realize a few falacies. In principal ther is very little alternative to capitalism that dosn't really royally screw the little guy. If you look at *history* you see that every stinking revolution, war, brawl, battle that was ever fought for the cause of the common man was in fact a cause that tghe common man never really got a fair shake in. American revolution? Nope the revolution was actually fought and actually started by a group of wealthy arrogant American tea merchants who didn't want the British dumping low priced goods to the Americans and actually give them much cheaper tea. The Russian revolution of 1917 in fact was nothing but a farce "Bread, Land, and Peace" didn't help the millions of starving Russian peseants who still got screwed like they did under the old system the Czar had in place except they got the random political pruge and their leaders thinking they were in complicity with the "evil" rich (how they equated farmers with the rich I don't know)
Communism is a total flop in almost any country that uses it. Basically the little guy gets, screwed again, and again, and again. In fact the US is the fairest when it comes to helping the little guy not loose his shirt or tax the hell out of everyone or make them wait in long, long, long lines for 5 hours just to get a couple of bruised potatoes before they can actually eat anything. A system which supports lazy people and industrious people and pays them the same damn wage and then productivity suffers and everyone looses. Look at the construction of the ISS and the recent Russian addition. Ever wonder why it took so long? Well the most recent addition was given to the Russians to work on their own whereas the rest were basically used with the Russians as consultants not the sole contractor. They fubbed that one up royal.
I don't make a whole hell of a lot of money but I don't wish to go into communism where there are still rich administrators and even more of my money is gone.
Grocery stores are not in the business of stealing the bread before it gets to you in any way. If you don't like the grocery store that you shop at go to another one and shop there. In may area alone There are at least 3 large grocery stores that sell anything that you need. In fact 2 are in walking distance from my home. And yes I must admit one of them does gouge the people but if they do they start to loose their customers and they go to the other store which is happy for their business. Then the store changes that particular policy and then gets some customers. Basically there is something called elastic and inelastic demand. Food is inelastic for the most part for the necessities but we usually we have choice. The more speciality items that are the focus of most of the marketing research (like nacho flavored cookies or whatnot) are elastic and if it's done improperly they loose and it's all over.
Oh please give me a break. As a informed member of the public who actually knows history I say you are really, really, really stretching it big time.
Ok for your information this can be seen in any number of old publications I suggest the major ones from the 1920's and before. In particular the Ivory soap compaign which was essentially a false one. They advertised that their soap was in fact incapable of sinking in a bathtub of water. There was a well known political cartoon of the day (I believe in the New York Times) which was entitled "The day a cake of ivory sank" which depicted a great deal of confusion and shock that it did indeed sink.
Take note of the first ideas and usages of choclate cocao which said it was a good medical aid and that it could be used to regain health. Of course it was a blatant lie and almost everyone knew it.
The very idea that this stuff actually defrauds people is silly and overstated. I have a relative who actually works in the higher ranks of a food distribution company who does this stuff. It's only marginally effective in getting more money in anyone's pockets. American consumers who are likely to be defrauded are usually the first people to do their homework and go for the biggest bargains using cupons, special deals, shopping around, etc.
Marketing is only effective as you make it. As I have pointed out in other posts here the one true constant in the who affair is the fact that people are not stupid and eventually figure things out. Once they figure out that they were gyped they usually learn their lessons and get the cheaper product. It's at worst a trial and error process that works well most of the time.
If you are making broad reaching claims I was hard evidence that the problem is as bad as you claim. Like many slashdot posters you are full of gloom and doom because you perceive a problem but offer no plausible solutions to actually solve it in any convincing way at all. It's really rather funny if you think about it.
In fact repeat the folling mantra over and over again at least 5,000 times a day (lotus position completely optional):
"There are no effective conspiracies; the world is not out to get me. I am not Fox Mulder and never will be."
That will keep you sane. Also I would recommend to subscribe to the psycho-ceramics mailing list and then you can laugh at your fellow kooks, loons, and irrational, uninformed idiots who believe everything is a conspiracy. My personaly favorite was the one about the (then) Soviet genetically engineered woodpecker like radio device that was trying to match resonance pitch inside the human skull for slow torture/death. Rather a funny little thing.
That's incredibly unlikely. Firstly you have to have almost no will whatsoever to actually have this affect you in any way. Also you have to understand that even for the human subconciousness connect to the waking mind requires a great deal of personal training and the like (I've looked into it).
The internet has breed a great deal of loonies who have found a bunch of other loonies who have absolutely no education in matters of science and the like and who don't have a very firm grasp on the validity of various theories. Logic contradicts a system that cannot be proven and there are a great many assumptions that are in this. Firstly the sound wave would have to be in a subvocal level which prevents you from actually perceiving it. Secondly when it's down that low you have to rely on a really sucker like Homer Jay Simpson to actually fall for it. Remember the studies back a number of years ago about putting subliminal messaging into advertising in the movies? Ever wonder why it dosn't seem to work absolutely (last time I checked I went to a movie there was a very obvious and very non-subliminal series of messages that I *could* see that were offering various drinks/candy/popcorn that blows that little idea out of the water really quick).
Many people like to think that you can simply train people like Pavlov's dog and you just cannot. Human will would have to be about as low as a mental patient locked up for 20 years to get this to work.
Even then it would only manifest itself as a possible desire and not as something that could easily be grasped in any traditional command and control sense. You would weed it out and then use your higher sense of logic to get what you needed. The American consumer is one of the most informed in the world when it comes to getting the most for the buck. Magazines like Consumer Reports and the like insure this.
Personally it would take more than that to actually scare a reasoning person in any natural way. Very simple logic can be applied. Monsters havn't been seen by the vast majority of sane people and no reliable recorded data has been shown for their existence and it's exceeding unlikely that you as an average citizen would be singled out therefore it's not likely that monsters would be present. Also I don't think the novelty amusement industry is making big bucks to actually make that much money.
In general this would almost be near impossible. All the really easy discoveries in the history of the world that could be made without formal training have in fact already been accomplished. Most of the rest of them are in fact taken from ideas that need years of technical background and training.
The days of Jimmy getting to make millions of dollars from an idea in his basement are almost gone from the American/World conciousness. You just can't do it. Hell we reached the limits of most modern capacity to understand the frontiers of math and science without someone being an interpreter at least 200 years ago (not joking that's about the same time that calculus was invented and some of the basic ideas of physics were quantified). The only reason that anyone understands anything Einstein is actually understood today is because other people did the responsible thing and actually explained much of what he said in qualatative terms. It's not very nice math at all.
In fact I would fault the modern press for making it even this difficult to understand concepts and apply them. In principal even the most difficult concept can be distilled into something even cletus can understand if given a larger ammount of time.
Yes I personally question all these so called miracles that this Tesla actually created. I do not belive in any conspiracy to hide anything however. If an experiment can be done from data over 100 years ago chances are that someone along the line from then to now would have applied the same ideas and come to thwe same conclusion.
Do you actually have any proof that Tesla actually *did* any of these things at all. Most likely if this was practal it would have found industry use decades ago. What about lasers? Lasers are far more efficient in terms of exactitude and work well and are in fact working *now*.
It's quite unlikely that anyone would be stupid enough to actually use such a thing mostly because of liability converns. If I don't want to hear your stupid advertisement I shouldn't have to hear it period. If you keep bugging me it's harassment. Plus there are various...countermeasures that can be done to render it impossible to actually get these frequencies into your ear. For example a modified hearing aid would be able to filter out all non vocal transmissions or non approved transmisisons and then drop all others.
just wondering
I am not really that dim. Without some information I'll give you but not dim. As far as being a tightwad I really don't think I should care. Basically what these companies are trying to do is get away with forcing real people to pay on average *more* for their access than they were paying in the past. In fact *double* or *more* what they were paying. This is a bad thing. People have certain rights in the marketplace and they are being ruined by people who are fixing the price artifically high to prevent continued affordability. Also these companies have subtly tried to coerce/influence/brainwash people into *needing* something that damn fast. It used to be in America and the world over people actually wated for things and had to think about the costs and the consequences before they bought. The price must be decreased if this is to be the future technology or everyone will suffer.
I don't know of too many applications where you need more than the original internet requires that are done at any of the colleges that I have seen. I would like to see some hard core examples of good need or of actual implimentations and how they are being directed.
Some questions about this idea:
1. Can you connect to the internet using this method?
2. How much and where can you obtain a cheap dish?
3. Wouldn't you have to find a geostationary satellite or move the dish?
And quite frankly who would waste that much money on something outside of the government?
Persoanlly I like to have access to technology and means of presentation that most people need to spend millions to get. As far as the hubris I don't think I have it. I hate to have to use ftp and the like to upload changed html documents and I found the absolutely perfect solution (ok comments need to be there but all in all it works well for the money: free). The internet is removing the barriers to access and providing for it's loyal. Also I like actually getting code without thousands of dollars in charges to myself. Any other comments can be made via story submission or via e-mail. That's the way I like it kind of a Q/A type thing.
Ok so a company decides to offer access to people in any state and any major city in the union. That in and of itself it fine. Then they start to restrict the platform thata person can connect to for said access and all sorts of other anoying things. People think that linux is the only system that can subvert ads gimme a break. I dare to bet with a little sneaky programming on windows you can do the same thing. Also let me tell you one thing. I hate to be in one of the few states in the union that allows linux users to connect and actually do anything. Sure I would like to connect for pay. I just would like the max bandwidth that my 2400 baud modem can get and that's what I will pay for per month maybe like say 3-7 dollars to get the access and no frills like usenet and the like and I don't even need SMTP access or POP3/IMAP already got them covered. Basically I need 1. dynamic IP 2. reliable primary and secondary nameservers anything else is not needed I do think these companies can and do make fabulous access premiums for their access. Also I think that these so-called non profit organizations like universites and schools getting free T-3 or better connections is insane. I do expect to pay but at a fair price and if companies are going to offer a free deal to basically everyone then make it free to *everyone* and *anyone* and don't screw the little guy.
That might explain it. How hard would it be to create another company that say did a better job? What are the barriers to entry to the cable industry? Also why would it hurt to get cable access in a local area? Are there usage maps for particular zip codes and the like to determine what areas are saturated with trafic and usage and which are not? If more and more people are going to hurt the system then why do they want more and more people to subscribe. In my local area I have had at least 4-5 ads for the service from AT&T or TCI or whatever come across my door. I just ignore them myself. Personally I can wait for my content and be happy.