They provide low quality service at exorbitant prices, and then complain about clients using their services.
Yeah, no shit. I don't recall Comcast, Qwest, Charter, or Century offering any kind of quality search engine or a user generated content service such as YouTube. I'm not praising Google for their services, but if any is to be given, Google has earned more than any of the ISPs I've suffered.
I agree, Dune is still one of my all time favorite movies. An amazing movie considering the depth of the story, and I think they did a superb job in translating the novel to the screen. Not an easy task, I would imagine.
If I recall City of Heroes is an comic book themed MMO. I had always wanted to play it, but I was under the impression that it was subscription based so I avoided it. I like the MMO genre and am currently playing Champions Online (F2P). I don't expect the world to last for ever, even when I do invest some cash into the game. One of the reasons though, that I will consider spending cash for, is that Champions Online is also based on the pencil & paper RPG. The servers may shutdown, but I will always have my character and as long as my boys and other friends play, I will always have access to the world. And I find traditional RPG games to be far richer than computer aided games, but on the other hand they are much slower to play and require a good crowd.
My desktop now is a machine I pieced together specifically for my upgrade path. The board is a Gigabyte G41M-Combo, allowing either DDR2 or DDR3 RAM. A few months ago I upgraded my RAM to 8GB DDR3, my only upgrade left is from the Core 2 Duo E5700 ( Dual Core @ 3.0ghz) for a quad core. I do admit though, that this is the only PC I've built with a path like this in mind.
I'm much more of a traditional desktop person. From a hardware perspective, the Fire HD was comfortable to hold and felt solid. I'm sure it would have made a great device to play with. But, I decided to use that credit to upgrade my PC instead. New case, PSU, and SSD drive; my PC feels like an entirely new machine.
Until that happens, you're all still willing parts in the corrupt, evil machine and will be regarded and treated as such.
Well said. I find it hard to have any respect towards those who would seek out power and opportunity such as this. Power does not corrupt, but power attracts the corruptible.
I unfortunately have. I received a Kindle Fire HD as a birthday gift. I tried to be open to using the device, but the amount of spam on the device was disgusting. It went back after about 3 days.
In regards to the rest of my web experience, I see very little, thank you Ad Block Plus and No Script. But were these to go away, and I have no option being online without all the spam, I will happily disconnect. I already bother with little of the WWW as it is now. Personally I wish the sites that complain, would go to an ad-free model and charge for subscription. It would make it very clear that I don't place the same value on what they've published.
No its about conformity. What other purpose of wearing the lanyard with the battery and RFID removed is there? It seems to me the school does not want to encourage other students to be individuals and determine for themselves if they agree with being tagged like cattle.
Reminds me of when a spam email went around in the late 90s or early 00s which informed people of a virus infection and if you had an AOL icon on your desktop, you were infected. Hahah. AOL was flooded that day with tech support calls from many who were not able to dial in. Post a similar threat warning on Facebook (fAOLbook?) and we'll have come nearly full circle again.
Yes Century Link cares, only as far as receiving your payment, however. I had Qwest when I first moved into Denver area. A month later, Century Link took over and disregarded the install payment plan we had arranged with Qwest, and received a disconnection notice as our first contact from Century Link.
I made a payment with the credit card over the phone for $100, and said I can pay the other $30 with my next bill. OK says the CSR, and 10 days later my net and phone are disconnected. Finally finding a payphone, I call and am told that that there was no payment plan agreement and if there was, $100 paid and $30 next cycle is not acceptable, and service will not return until it is paid in full. They also said that phone service should not have been interrupted, but I guess that may have been due to the telco box on my building missing its cover and having a trash bag taped on with electrical tape, which facing west into the wind, the bag is shredded, leaving all wires exposed. A year later, and the box is still vulnerable. Oh, and I am with Comcast now, and have refused to pay Century Link another dime. I'll take the hit on my credit score.
I have heard similar from my instructors when I tell them my thoughts, except for the specifics. I've read here about COBOL and Assembly and some of the complaints, but that has not turned me off any, so I think I may be OK if I do go that route.
To be honest, I am only starting to learn about these organizations and have not had enough personal experience or talked to those with experience in dealing with the organizations. From my understanding, I do not think the idea is a bad one. Accounting and finance like many other fields is very technical and detail oriented, and unless one is familiar with at least the fundamentals, we have a serious issue with trust and accountability. However, it is unreasonable to ask everyone to have an understanding of the fundamentals of everything they would need to know to operate in this world, so I do agree with licensing and certifications for those practices which can severely impact a persons life in addition to severe penalties for violations.
I would agree that a similar model may be beneficial. For those who provide services to their neighbors or their family, they would not need the certifications, however to advertise yourself publicly they would. I have been told that soon the IRS will require that tax-preparers to be certified and meet basic regulations. I imagine this will make it very difficult for the neighborhood tax-preparer, but on the other hand, it may prevent many people from being audited from poorly prepared taxes.
In pursuing school and deciding on which direction to go, I had decided to choose accounting as it seems to provide a stable field, while still allowing me the personal time to follow my interests with technology. I've been reading here at/. for a few years, and with the many complaints I see about the way the software industry or field of systems administration are treated and abused, along with the non-industry related troubles, has been a big turn off from choosing either of those fields as my primary skill.
However, I do love computers and networks and exploring code and programming and intend to follow with an education in one of the related fields. But whether or not I choose that for my employment is another issue. So during the day I shall be Justin the programmer-accountant and by night I shall defend the universe of light from the forces of darkness.
This is a difficult question. Trying to get people to say thank you and express positive thoughts is far more difficult than getting a complaint or negative response. People generally don't see those things that don't cause them problems, until a problem does occur. I don't know how to change this, aside from asking people if there is anything wrong to asking what people like about the software/service/whatever in addition to what can be improved. At least that way more people start seeing that as an option for communication and some may even use it.
I have several times sent emails thanking developers and small publishers for free tools and tutorials they have shared. Several times my emails were replied to, letting me know they have received it, which doesn't matter, but it helps in a human way. As a user of ActiveState's* Komodo Edit (free version), I had even received a t-shirt for thanking them. Which if you're reading Fred, thank you, again.
*Disclaimer - I am just a user of Komodo Edit, no other affiliation with ActiveState.
Thinking about the TLDs that site I visit are on,.com,.org,.co.uk, and.de, Im left trying to figure out where the hell this.fr is and if there has ever been anything of worth from a site using.fr.
Huh, oh well. I've got other things I need to catch up on.
I kind of agree with you that in principle it would be better to default to privacy - only this approach makes tracking completely impossible, because who is going to enable tracking? Answer - Noone - which mean none of the interested parties will want to conform to it.
In general, I would agree with you. However, this is not true when the visitors of a site, really want to support a site. For example, check any story on Ars when the subject of NoScript and AdBlockPlus come up and see how many people say they whitelist Ars. But Ive also seen Ars staff respond in threads about actively blocking offensive ads, which Im sure had built much good will with the community.
The way I see it, is that if a prisoner is a ward of the state, then the state is responsible for that prisoner and also their actions. So when a prisoner gets raped in prison, I see it as no different than if the state had raped that person.
I also feel that the victim of rape has every right to pursue revenge against the offending party, a state or otherwise.
I would agree, but supposedly copyright law says that I cannot download a movie which I have already own on disc. Supposedly, I only have license to consume the media in the format I purchased it, and with all of its limitations and failures. As Netflix did not license those subtitles, they had committed commercial infringement. If they wanted to use subtitles, they should have made the subtitles themselves, or gotten them from the studios they licensed the videos from.
I disagree with the laws as they are, and have already voted with my wallet (haha) by having canceled Netflix, stopped buying movies, and do not go to theaters. Maybe Netflix has enough net income to speak to Congress and have their concerns heard..
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And I was agreeing with you. The ISPs provide no services beyond the pipe; Google and others do, which adds value to that which the ISP does provide.
They provide low quality service at exorbitant prices, and then complain about clients using their services.
Yeah, no shit. I don't recall Comcast, Qwest, Charter, or Century offering any kind of quality search engine or a user generated content service such as YouTube. I'm not praising Google for their services, but if any is to be given, Google has earned more than any of the ISPs I've suffered.
And also the damn Validating Steam Files error. I swear I've as many hours logged validating as I do playing TF2.
I agree, Dune is still one of my all time favorite movies. An amazing movie considering the depth of the story, and I think they did a superb job in translating the novel to the screen. Not an easy task, I would imagine.
If I recall City of Heroes is an comic book themed MMO. I had always wanted to play it, but I was under the impression that it was subscription based so I avoided it. I like the MMO genre and am currently playing Champions Online (F2P). I don't expect the world to last for ever, even when I do invest some cash into the game. One of the reasons though, that I will consider spending cash for, is that Champions Online is also based on the pencil & paper RPG. The servers may shutdown, but I will always have my character and as long as my boys and other friends play, I will always have access to the world. And I find traditional RPG games to be far richer than computer aided games, but on the other hand they are much slower to play and require a good crowd.
I think I still have an old SB16, but its an ISA card.
My desktop now is a machine I pieced together specifically for my upgrade path. The board is a Gigabyte G41M-Combo, allowing either DDR2 or DDR3 RAM. A few months ago I upgraded my RAM to 8GB DDR3, my only upgrade left is from the Core 2 Duo E5700 ( Dual Core @ 3.0ghz) for a quad core. I do admit though, that this is the only PC I've built with a path like this in mind.
I'm much more of a traditional desktop person. From a hardware perspective, the Fire HD was comfortable to hold and felt solid. I'm sure it would have made a great device to play with. But, I decided to use that credit to upgrade my PC instead. New case, PSU, and SSD drive; my PC feels like an entirely new machine.
Until that happens, you're all still willing parts in the corrupt, evil machine and will be regarded and treated as such.
Well said. I find it hard to have any respect towards those who would seek out power and opportunity such as this. Power does not corrupt, but power attracts the corruptible.
I unfortunately have. I received a Kindle Fire HD as a birthday gift. I tried to be open to using the device, but the amount of spam on the device was disgusting. It went back after about 3 days.
In regards to the rest of my web experience, I see very little, thank you Ad Block Plus and No Script. But were these to go away, and I have no option being online without all the spam, I will happily disconnect. I already bother with little of the WWW as it is now. Personally I wish the sites that complain, would go to an ad-free model and charge for subscription. It would make it very clear that I don't place the same value on what they've published.
No its about conformity. What other purpose of wearing the lanyard with the battery and RFID removed is there? It seems to me the school does not want to encourage other students to be individuals and determine for themselves if they agree with being tagged like cattle.
So the lesson to be learned is one of conformity then?
I had bought that Bundle, specifically for Torchlight. It has run fine for me under OpenSUSE 11.4 w/ Gnome 2.
Reminds me of when a spam email went around in the late 90s or early 00s which informed people of a virus infection and if you had an AOL icon on your desktop, you were infected. Hahah. AOL was flooded that day with tech support calls from many who were not able to dial in. Post a similar threat warning on Facebook (fAOLbook?) and we'll have come nearly full circle again.
Yes Century Link cares, only as far as receiving your payment, however. I had Qwest when I first moved into Denver area. A month later, Century Link took over and disregarded the install payment plan we had arranged with Qwest, and received a disconnection notice as our first contact from Century Link.
I made a payment with the credit card over the phone for $100, and said I can pay the other $30 with my next bill. OK says the CSR, and 10 days later my net and phone are disconnected. Finally finding a payphone, I call and am told that that there was no payment plan agreement and if there was, $100 paid and $30 next cycle is not acceptable, and service will not return until it is paid in full. They also said that phone service should not have been interrupted, but I guess that may have been due to the telco box on my building missing its cover and having a trash bag taped on with electrical tape, which facing west into the wind, the bag is shredded, leaving all wires exposed. A year later, and the box is still vulnerable. Oh, and I am with Comcast now, and have refused to pay Century Link another dime. I'll take the hit on my credit score.
I have heard similar from my instructors when I tell them my thoughts, except for the specifics. I've read here about COBOL and Assembly and some of the complaints, but that has not turned me off any, so I think I may be OK if I do go that route.
To be honest, I am only starting to learn about these organizations and have not had enough personal experience or talked to those with experience in dealing with the organizations. From my understanding, I do not think the idea is a bad one. Accounting and finance like many other fields is very technical and detail oriented, and unless one is familiar with at least the fundamentals, we have a serious issue with trust and accountability. However, it is unreasonable to ask everyone to have an understanding of the fundamentals of everything they would need to know to operate in this world, so I do agree with licensing and certifications for those practices which can severely impact a persons life in addition to severe penalties for violations.
I would agree that a similar model may be beneficial. For those who provide services to their neighbors or their family, they would not need the certifications, however to advertise yourself publicly they would. I have been told that soon the IRS will require that tax-preparers to be certified and meet basic regulations. I imagine this will make it very difficult for the neighborhood tax-preparer, but on the other hand, it may prevent many people from being audited from poorly prepared taxes.
In pursuing school and deciding on which direction to go, I had decided to choose accounting as it seems to provide a stable field, while still allowing me the personal time to follow my interests with technology. I've been reading here at /. for a few years, and with the many complaints I see about the way the software industry or field of systems administration are treated and abused, along with the non-industry related troubles, has been a big turn off from choosing either of those fields as my primary skill.
However, I do love computers and networks and exploring code and programming and intend to follow with an education in one of the related fields. But whether or not I choose that for my employment is another issue. So during the day I shall be Justin the programmer-accountant and by night I shall defend the universe of light from the forces of darkness.
This is a difficult question. Trying to get people to say thank you and express positive thoughts is far more difficult than getting a complaint or negative response. People generally don't see those things that don't cause them problems, until a problem does occur. I don't know how to change this, aside from asking people if there is anything wrong to asking what people like about the software/service/whatever in addition to what can be improved. At least that way more people start seeing that as an option for communication and some may even use it.
I have several times sent emails thanking developers and small publishers for free tools and tutorials they have shared. Several times my emails were replied to, letting me know they have received it, which doesn't matter, but it helps in a human way. As a user of ActiveState's* Komodo Edit (free version), I had even received a t-shirt for thanking them. Which if you're reading Fred, thank you, again.
*Disclaimer - I am just a user of Komodo Edit, no other affiliation with ActiveState.
Had anyone stopped to consider that all this news of hurricane violence in the media, is encouraging more hurricanic violence?
Thinking about the TLDs that site I visit are on, .com, .org, .co.uk, and .de, Im left trying to figure out where the hell this .fr is and if there has ever been anything of worth from a site using .fr.
Huh, oh well. I've got other things I need to catch up on.
I kind of agree with you that in principle it would be better to default to privacy - only this approach makes tracking completely impossible, because who is going to enable tracking? Answer - Noone - which mean none of the interested parties will want to conform to it.
In general, I would agree with you. However, this is not true when the visitors of a site, really want to support a site. For example, check any story on Ars when the subject of NoScript and AdBlockPlus come up and see how many people say they whitelist Ars. But Ive also seen Ars staff respond in threads about actively blocking offensive ads, which Im sure had built much good will with the community.
The way I see it, is that if a prisoner is a ward of the state, then the state is responsible for that prisoner and also their actions. So when a prisoner gets raped in prison, I see it as no different than if the state had raped that person.
I also feel that the victim of rape has every right to pursue revenge against the offending party, a state or otherwise.
I would agree, but supposedly copyright law says that I cannot download a movie which I have already own on disc. Supposedly, I only have license to consume the media in the format I purchased it, and with all of its limitations and failures. As Netflix did not license those subtitles, they had committed commercial infringement. If they wanted to use subtitles, they should have made the subtitles themselves, or gotten them from the studios they licensed the videos from.
I disagree with the laws as they are, and have already voted with my wallet (haha) by having canceled Netflix, stopped buying movies, and do not go to theaters. Maybe Netflix has enough net income to speak to Congress and have their concerns heard..
I would also add that a person has an _ethical_ responsibility to notify others if there is a fire.