I've handled DSL installes for about a dozen of friends / family / businesses... from Pac Bell, the now Defunct flash com , verizon, cox (cable), at & t, and Speakeasy. The one provider I feel comfortable in always recomending is speakeasy.
I have found that the most troublesome area of DSL is getting the line delivered. But speakeasy was the easiest provider to get in touch with a human to help solve any issue that cames up. I've worked tech support for a rival company named after this planet were on. At our call center we cringed when wait times for our customers would shoot up to 40 minutes, which happened regularly. I have rarely had this experience with speakeasy.
When I have had to call and get someone on the phone they are competant and solve my issues fairly quickly.
This to me is worth the extra money that they may charge for the service. My only complaint for a while was the lack of online management tools for domain or email hosting like pac bell has. The ability to add, remove and purge email boxes without getting on the phone is a great feature.
I hope they can continue to improve their service like they have been and keep in mind that some people are willing to pay more for quality service and support.
There is a very good justifiable reason to purchase a full DVD even if you have a high quality DIVX ( I happen to have a nice copy of LOTR that has...Property of the MPAA if you have Bought or rented this movie call 1800 blah blah blah... scrolling across the screen every 15 min.) But I still gave up my cash at the theatre and for the DVD. Why? Because it is an excellent movie and in this capitolistic society that is how we show support, appreciation, and further the chances of more really good movies being produced.
As for watching in a theatre or my home, each has advantages. In a theatre some one else must pick the gummi bears off the screen and the popcorn off the floor.. While the theatre has a larger screen then my home, it doesn't have a sofa, and doesn't allow liberal use of my cinematic enhancing "water" pipe .
Just to set the stage I do dj. Been doing it for years. I also work in the computer field. There are definitely benefits to using digital media instead of vinyl.
Vinyl is large, bulky, it must be cared for for it to last. Qualities that are hardly endearing to people today. Digital media is alot tougher (though I do have cd's that now skip). I also like the ability to change the tempo (beats per minute) of the music while mixing a cd without affecting the pitch of the music that is playing.
It is this pitch that you are playing with when you scratch. A record is just stereo sound, and analog waveform represented in vinyl. In the groove you have 2 axis. Up/down & Left/Right as seen from the stylus. The speed of the record controls the pitch. When you scratch you speed the pitch beyond normal ranges to get that sound. On a record you have a continuos smooth groove that the needle tracks on. Is there latency in the software that controls this. On a record it is just electro mechanical motion of the stylus that puts out the signal. I do not think that the signal that would come out of a "scratched" mp3 would be there, like that of a record. If this does introduce latency into the feed from the "device" to the actual output of the speaker is it really worth it? If you want to scratch your mp3's go to http://www.vestax.co.uk/flash/2002/vrx2000/vrx-ind ex.htm and turn them into vinyl.
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The government of Great Britian has now announced that in addition to storing all digital traffic across the internet for seven years, it will begin begin storing copies of all regular postal mail and phone conversations that are currently distributed through their country. The increased public safety resulting from this program, which will no doubt aid in catching and prosecution of evil doers is welcomed by all upstanding members of society.
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I've handled DSL installes for about a dozen of friends / family / businesses... from Pac Bell, the now Defunct flash com , verizon, cox (cable), at & t, and Speakeasy. The one provider I feel comfortable in always recomending is speakeasy.
I have found that the most troublesome area of DSL is getting the line delivered. But speakeasy was the easiest provider to get in touch with a human to help solve any issue that cames up. I've worked tech support for a rival company named after this planet were on. At our call center we cringed when wait times for our customers would shoot up to 40 minutes, which happened regularly. I have rarely had this experience with speakeasy.
When I have had to call and get someone on the phone they are competant and solve my issues fairly quickly.
This to me is worth the extra money that they may charge for the service. My only complaint for a while was the lack of online management tools for domain or email hosting like pac bell has. The ability to add, remove and purge email boxes without getting on the phone is a great feature.
I hope they can continue to improve their service like they have been and keep in mind that some people are willing to pay more for quality service and support.
There is a very good justifiable reason to purchase a full DVD even if you have a high quality DIVX ( I happen to have a nice copy of LOTR that has ...Property of the MPAA if you have Bought or rented this movie call 1800 blah blah blah... scrolling across the screen every 15 min.) But I still gave up my cash at the theatre and for the DVD. Why? Because it is an excellent movie and in this capitolistic society that is how we show support, appreciation, and further the chances of more really good movies being produced.
As for watching in a theatre or my home, each has advantages. In a theatre some one else must pick the gummi bears off the screen and the popcorn off the floor.. While the theatre has a larger screen then my home, it doesn't have a sofa, and doesn't allow liberal use of my cinematic enhancing "water" pipe .
Just to set the stage I do dj. Been doing it for years. I also work in the computer field. There are definitely benefits to using digital media instead of vinyl.
d ex.htm and turn them into vinyl.
Vinyl is large, bulky, it must be cared for for it to last. Qualities that are hardly endearing to people today. Digital media is alot tougher (though I do have cd's that now skip). I also like the ability to change the tempo (beats per minute) of the music while mixing a cd without affecting the pitch of the music that is playing.
It is this pitch that you are playing with when you scratch. A record is just stereo sound, and analog waveform represented in vinyl. In the groove you have 2 axis. Up/down & Left/Right as seen from the stylus. The speed of the record controls the pitch. When you scratch you speed the pitch beyond normal ranges to get that sound. On a record you have a continuos smooth groove that the needle tracks on. Is there latency in the software that controls this. On a record it is just electro mechanical motion of the stylus that puts out the signal. I do not think that the signal that would come out of a "scratched" mp3 would be there, like that of a record. If this does introduce latency into the feed from the "device" to the actual output of the speaker is it really worth it? If you want to scratch your mp3's go to http://www.vestax.co.uk/flash/2002/vrx2000/vrx-in
The government of Great Britian has now announced that in addition to storing all digital traffic across the internet for seven years, it will begin begin storing copies of all regular postal mail and phone conversations that are currently distributed through their country. The increased public safety resulting from this program, which will no doubt aid in catching and prosecution of evil doers is welcomed by all upstanding members of society.