I just started with DSLExtreme about a month ago, as a prelude to weaning myself off Time Warner and RoadRunner.
No, static IP's aren't free, at least not in my area.
But the service has been good.
I got the low-end, 768K down package. Since they consider "acceptable" service to be the bottom end of the scale (which I think was 384K down), and my phone wiring is vintage 1957 and jury rigged (extended) by the previous owner, I fully expected 384K was the best I'd get.
Well, wha'd'ya' know? Test sites indicate around 650k down, and general download speeds indicate that I frequently must be hitting 700K+.
So I'm thrilled. But I do wonder if it might be worth paying the extra $1/mo. and getting the 1.5M package. The lower threshold on that package is still 384K, though, so I'm still thinking about it.
Sheesh! This is about the 50th post that makes the same, completely irrelevant point.
This isn't about equipment or finance, it's simply about information.
The point of the article is not that ISPs are failing to provide service in certain areas, the point is that the ISPs don't want anyone to know where they are not providing service.
The legislators would like to find out what areas are being under served, perhaps with an eye toward subsidizing service to those areas, but they can't find out what areas to target.
Maybe I'm old, or too into older movies (or both). I've enjoyed Sinise in most of what I've seen, but I feel the aura of Peter Lorre every time I hear he's in something. Is that a proper character for Scotty?
"She would always treat me mean, so I took a can of gasoline (and a match) to... my... old... flame."
All I want to know is: 1) What is the average recording company executive salary compared to the inflation rate? 2) How does that compare to the compensation given to the (poor, trodden-upon-by-the-evil-copyright-infringers) recording artists?
For instance I have the right to take a photo of someone in a public space without their permission just as everyone else does. Now if the person is identifiable I can't sale the photo unless I get their permission, but I can sale it without a release if the person is not identificable.
Think again. Are you suggesting that the various celebrities actually give permission to the tabloids to publish the various paparazzi photos that are taken of them?
Apple could have made a stand, but it would have hurt them too much financially to make that stand. So they designed a DRM scheme that is at least somewhat palatable. Meanwhile, Microsoft has enough money and enough power over the computer industry to at the very least keep the DRM pushers at bay, if not break them entirely.
Microsoft does have it's own reasons for wanting some sort of DRM scheme, most of which seem to mainly boil down to them trying to force people to buy their operating system and applications. They did not need to agree to a scheme as draconian as the one they have implemented in Vista.
I disagree in that no one - neither Apple nor Microsoft - are able to avoid the copyright laws that the industry has bought. If you want to sell RIAA's music, you will implement as draconian a scheme as RIAA wants, or you get nothing. Apple managed to slide through with one that isn't as bad as it could have been, and I think that RIAA wishes it had put a few more requirements on it.
Microsoft, on the other hand really wants to be the *AA's bitch. They want to be the OS that is installed on every DVD player on the market, and so they will do just about anything to kiss up to the media. If they can, they want to be the only OS able to play movies and music. They want to be keeper of the standard.
If you have a debt to me, if you hand me "LETS Money.", I can laugh at you. If you hand me US Dollars, I have to accept them (assuming I'm in the US). I couldn't find anything on Google, but I vaguely remember hearing about a case where someone wanted to pay their mortgage off in pennies, the company refused the payment, and the refusal was supported by the courts. This case was, I think, about 20-25 years ago.
I don't know where in Socal you live, but where I live we had record setting 119 degree temperatures last summer. We also just got through several days of unseasonable hot, dry santa ana winds.
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They must be using Intel's new Core 2 Duodenum processors, then.
You're walking down the street and a massive, flaming piece of space debris crashes down behind you, right where you were 30 seconds ago.
Think you won't be telling that story to any one who'll listen for the rest of your life?
I just started with DSLExtreme about a month ago, as a prelude to weaning myself off Time Warner and RoadRunner.
No, static IP's aren't free, at least not in my area.
But the service has been good.
I got the low-end, 768K down package. Since they consider "acceptable" service to be the bottom end of the scale (which I think was 384K down), and my phone wiring is vintage 1957 and jury rigged (extended) by the previous owner, I fully expected 384K was the best I'd get.
Well, wha'd'ya' know? Test sites indicate around 650k down, and general download speeds indicate that I frequently must be hitting 700K+.
So I'm thrilled. But I do wonder if it might be worth paying the extra $1/mo. and getting the 1.5M package. The lower threshold on that package is still 384K, though, so I'm still thinking about it.
Sheesh! This is about the 50th post that makes the same, completely irrelevant point.
This isn't about equipment or finance, it's simply about information.
The point of the article is not that ISPs are failing to provide service in certain areas, the point is that the ISPs don't want anyone to know where they are not providing service.
The legislators would like to find out what areas are being under served, perhaps with an eye toward subsidizing service to those areas, but they can't find out what areas to target.
I'd like to welcome our sexless over...
Wait a minute!
I mean - I'd like to welcome our fellow slashdotters. (Or is it that you're simply married? Wow, I thought 25 years was a long time.)
Hey cool! More Valley-ites!
And are you going to be doing this in the same old universe as everyone else?
I guess what you're saying is: It's all fun and games until someone loses an 'I'.
Godammit! I never got that joke until just now!
Maybe I'm old, or too into older movies (or both). I've enjoyed Sinise in most of what I've seen, but I feel the aura of Peter Lorre every time I hear he's in something. Is that a proper character for Scotty?
"She would always treat me mean, so I took a can of gasoline (and a match) to... my... old... flame."
April first is coming soon.
I'm warming up my omgponies111 tag.
All I want to know is:
1) What is the average recording company executive salary compared to the inflation rate?
2) How does that compare to the compensation given to the (poor, trodden-upon-by-the-evil-copyright-infringers) recording artists?
Bah! Gravity generators are so 1970's.
I'm just gonna change the gravitational constant of the universe.
Microsoft does have it's own reasons for wanting some sort of DRM scheme, most of which seem to mainly boil down to them trying to force people to buy their operating system and applications. They did not need to agree to a scheme as draconian as the one they have implemented in Vista.
I disagree in that no one - neither Apple nor Microsoft - are able to avoid the copyright laws that the industry has bought. If you want to sell RIAA's music, you will implement as draconian a scheme as RIAA wants, or you get nothing. Apple managed to slide through with one that isn't as bad as it could have been, and I think that RIAA wishes it had put a few more requirements on it.Microsoft, on the other hand really wants to be the *AA's bitch. They want to be the OS that is installed on every DVD player on the market, and so they will do just about anything to kiss up to the media. If they can, they want to be the only OS able to play movies and music. They want to be keeper of the standard.
My Macbook doesn't even have a drink holder! It just has a slot to store my credit cards.
I have Koto Music of Japan and enjoy it. Is that the kind of thing you're looking for?
Well, at least they didn't rehash old plot lines. I hate it when they do that.
They could take a page from Nintendo's book.
Call it the Pii.
I don't know where in Socal you live, but where I live we had record setting 119 degree temperatures last summer. We also just got through several days of unseasonable hot, dry santa ana winds.
But... it's only got one freakin' button! ;-)
That was his remaining eye.
I hereby give permission for anyone to smack these judges with a wet halibut.
Am I in trouble now?