I think namely, they want to build a long term system, and with the rate that we're filling up the exosphere with crap, it will probably be unusable in 30 years.
I think banks should certainly be subject to scrutiny regarding their tastes in practices. I left 5/3 after their campaign advertising low interest rates of loans by dressing up Mini-Me as an opera singer and dubbing an impossibly low voice over his while he sang "So low..."
I'm all for fun and everything, but I want my bank to return dividends, not blow money on famous midgets doing Funny Things(tm)
I'm sorry, but I read this article earlier and this guy kind of reminded me of my girlfriend's spoiled little brother picking any small thing to complain about because he's already decided to have a negative reaction to whatever is thrown his way. Ok, fine, it's not aesthetically pleasing to you, no problem, but are you really thinking of going home and crying to mommy about how big bad billy made you do "extra hand motions" in front of the whole gym class?
Puh-leez
It seems like Yahoo and AOL and MSN offer out a free service for ad revenue either in their IMs or at the download page et al, and also try to use IM as a hook into their other services (which are hooks to pay services.)
So then Trillian comes along, bypasses all that, uses _their_ networks, and then has the gall to try and profit off of a Pro version? Fat chance!
Although diversification is always a good policy, we can still protect ourselves here and now. Waiting until we colonize another planet is akin to the suggestion that to protect ourselves from a murderous thief, that we shouldn't lock the front door, we should just wait until we can afford the house next door and move half of the family there.
Strangely enough, Ayn Rand does hit a chord with a few people, who tend to become completely obsessed with the "philosophy" and "insights". Beware this breed, for they are adept a quoting entire chapters at the mention of economics or existentalism, or simply at the drop of a hat.
Actually, he didn't think he was creating a horrendous killing machine. He wanted to save lives. He figured that if one soldier with a machine gun could do the work of 10 soldiers with rifles, that less men would have to go to war, therefore less would die.
Unfortunately, they just gave all the soldiers machine guns and war progresses unhampered.
Unfortunately, it seems that most lawmakers know exactly what they are and have been doing, and that's why they've been so devastatingly effective. Keep in mind, they're policymakers and politicians, and campaign donations are alway welcomed.
It's pretty much a matter of you pay what you get for. If you want a secure ISP you cares about their customer more than the bottom line, too bad. Raise that bottom line a little higher and maybe they'll raise up how much they care along with it. To return to the topic though, most ISPs consider themselves a "residential service." If you want reliability, they'll make you pay for it.
AT&T@home, whenever their service was down in some region (California and Texas almost daily), people who used the Internet for business would constantly lose money. AT&T would always point out that it is a residential service, or for notfor-business, whatever. Most ISPs have the same blanket excuse in their TOC's also. Usually they want to bump you up to a business account before they pretend to be reliable, but I'm pretty sure they have a way out of responsibility for that too.
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Great, now it'll be part of PATRIOT ACT III.
I can't help but find it interesting that the "number of the beast" is also the Unix mode number for universal device access
Whew, thank god I don't have to worry about being executed!
Granted, they said it in the most contrived way possible.
Is Ransom his name or business strategy??? (Sounds like a cheap anime character...)
I think namely, they want to build a long term system, and with the rate that we're filling up the exosphere with crap, it will probably be unusable in 30 years.
Sounds like you went to a tough school!
I'm all for fun and everything, but I want my bank to return dividends, not blow money on famous midgets doing Funny Things(tm)
AHA!
So Ben Barber, you are the Anonymous Coward who has some much to say so much of the time!
Not so cheeky now, are you??
You know, it does make me think that. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..... (how many ellipsis are appropriate for that many 'm's anyways?)
I'm sorry, but I read this article earlier and this guy kind of reminded me of my girlfriend's spoiled little brother picking any small thing to complain about because he's already decided to have a negative reaction to whatever is thrown his way. Ok, fine, it's not aesthetically pleasing to you, no problem, but are you really thinking of going home and crying to mommy about how big bad billy made you do "extra hand motions" in front of the whole gym class? Puh-leez
Would they invite you if you stopped complaining?
Keebler and Nabisco have teamed up with the University of Toledo to show that a steady diet of cookies decreases heart disease.
John Ascroft and MIT have determined that electronic tracking collars increase pedestian safety
Nokia strongly insists that the N-Gage doesn't blow
It seems like Yahoo and AOL and MSN offer out a free service for ad revenue either in their IMs or at the download page et al, and also try to use IM as a hook into their other services (which are hooks to pay services.) So then Trillian comes along, bypasses all that, uses _their_ networks, and then has the gall to try and profit off of a Pro version? Fat chance!
"Nobody cares about the price of bacon more than pigs."
-Some Guy
Although diversification is always a good policy, we can still protect ourselves here and now. Waiting until we colonize another planet is akin to the suggestion that to protect ourselves from a murderous thief, that we shouldn't lock the front door, we should just wait until we can afford the house next door and move half of the family there.
If you liked Gibson, then you would love:
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Strangely enough, Ayn Rand does hit a chord with a few people, who tend to become completely obsessed with the "philosophy" and "insights". Beware this breed, for they are adept a quoting entire chapters at the mention of economics or existentalism, or simply at the drop of a hat.
Be wary of Randroids.
This is just hightech silly putty?
Actually, he didn't think he was creating a horrendous killing machine. He wanted to save lives. He figured that if one soldier with a machine gun could do the work of 10 soldiers with rifles, that less men would have to go to war, therefore less would die.
Unfortunately, they just gave all the soldiers machine guns and war progresses unhampered.
Mechanically inventive, but still naive.
Simon and Garfunkle tried it before, but it took Pootie Tang to make it work...
Unfortunately, it seems that most lawmakers know exactly what they are and have been doing, and that's why they've been so devastatingly effective. Keep in mind, they're policymakers and politicians, and campaign donations are alway welcomed.
It's pretty much a matter of you pay what you get for. If you want a secure ISP you cares about their customer more than the bottom line, too bad. Raise that bottom line a little higher and maybe they'll raise up how much they care along with it.
To return to the topic though, most ISPs consider themselves a "residential service." If you want reliability, they'll make you pay for it.
AT&T@home, whenever their service was down in some region (California and Texas almost daily), people who used the Internet for business would constantly lose money. AT&T would always point out that it is a residential service, or for notfor-business, whatever. Most ISPs have the same blanket excuse in their TOC's also. Usually they want to bump you up to a business account before they pretend to be reliable, but I'm pretty sure they have a way out of responsibility for that too.