USWest was already bought by Qwest, so I dont think MCI will be doing that.
Also, USWest offers DSL in over 40 markets, including Phoenix, Seattle, Sioux Falls, Denver etc. etc.
USWest doesn't have a 'complete grip' on the west. They used to, but that was when phone service was everything! Also, these are long distance companies being discussed, and USWest is blocked by law from offering home long distance service.
Additionally, I have been a subscriber to their 56k dialup service in both Albuquerque and Duluth and it really as wasn't bad as you make it sound.
you should try to find an isp that isnt routed through their network - just try switching around. I used to have an ISP in New Mexico that sent all my packets to Utah before anywhere else, to this horrid cw.net server that was always overloaded.
I switched and found a much better connection. My recommendation is to try some other ISPS, asking who their provider can be helpful.
I know what you mean... I feel like school was a total waste of time for me. I knew reading and writing before I got there, learned everything else mainly from reading constantly and wasted 10 or 11 years in boring, humiliating torture at public schools.
Or the more typical biological warfare,the spreading of dangerous bacteria or viruses, such as anthrax. For some reason ABC news has been talking about this a lot lately, and they have a poll up now. In the same spirit, killing a few thousand people with anthrax would be alot more impressive than taking out their power, but would take alot more funding and organization as some have pointed out.
you sound like one of the lucky ones who has not had to experience the microsoft...
there are a few levels of a program crashing in win98/95. One is the windows style 'program has performed an illegal operation' windows, with a nice icon. The next is a larger, two color window that says the same type of thing. In severe instances, you get a more windows2.0-style one: the screen goes to all blue and it tells you 'fatal exception at register blah blah'.
But anyway, the 'BSOD' is not a bug, it is an archaic microsft error message window. I'm not sure why they ever thought of having the screen go to 640*480, turning blue, and telling you something but at least it doesnt happen often. What is more puzzling is that they preserved this type of crash screen all the way through win98 so far and included it in NT. Win98 i can understand since it comes from the same codebase, but why NT? For nostalgia i guess, and they must realized how much their systems crash so its good to have variety.
I like it when explorer (not just IE, the core of win98 gui, explorer) crashes and you get first the full color message, then the 2 color one, then the blue screen, sometimes repeating the process. Usually though, you get only one kind or the other.
As a foot note, after suffering through getting Microsoft networking working with 3 computers and win98, and rebooting the one i installed a nic card in >>12 times to get it configured, im installing linux this weekend.
Yes, good point - the guy did say exactly that. He was curious about reverse enginerring, but if you want info on just graphics algorithms, try the gimp code!!
I have been wishing i could install linux in some form without messing with my windows setup, which i am bound to by a lot of adobe and macromedia software. I have been waiting for windows to super-crash so that i have to reinstall (and repartition), and even burned all my important files on cd, but it hasnt cooperated yet!
while mp3's sound quite fine on my computer sound system, when i've tried it in other places such as my car, i find the sound to be a bit lacking. Mainly, i mean, before i invest in hardware to play mp3s, are there any superior file formats waiting to steal the sound? I am not interested in the useless copying security as are most file format innovators these days, i just want it to sound exactly like a cd! And not have the high hat turn to mishmash when the vocals come in.
wow...you must really be something amazing to be so much better than everyone else. Perhaps you would like to demonstrate your alleged brilliance sometime?
I am much looking forward to the new AMD chips. The lame features of the p3 and the lame features of intel in general have dissuaded me from obtaining one of those. Of course, the big question is: what is the floating point performance like?
thats why mr. taco makes available the code, no? see the page about it perhaps. while the site in question doesnt use slash, copying the format is more of an acknowledgment of its merits than a rip off.
yes, Halflife is so much better than quake 2. It really shows that ID is good at producing technology but lousy at making imaginative games. Quake 2 is REALLY BORING and Quake 3 is...more of the same. Quake 2 single player was so utterly devoid of excitement i can see why they are leaving it out of q3.
er, no he means jon katz, the famous slashdot windbag who is very good at taking his opinion and writing 500 paragraphs about it. Sometimes they are interesting.
anybody using it? yes its the most popular server software in the world...
um...please, you have to work for microsoft or something.
i suppose mindcraft proved IIS is better than um, samba or zeus on a 4 processor system, but IIS has 'known issues' like having to reboot 9 times a day for stupid things like 'message buffer full'. Not to
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USWest was already bought by Qwest, so I dont think MCI will be doing that.
Also, USWest offers DSL in over 40 markets, including Phoenix, Seattle, Sioux Falls, Denver etc. etc.
USWest doesn't have a 'complete grip' on the west. They used to, but that was when phone service was everything! Also, these are long distance companies being discussed, and USWest is blocked by law from offering home long distance service.
Additionally, I have been a subscriber to their 56k dialup service in both Albuquerque and Duluth and it really as wasn't bad as you make it sound.
you should try to find an isp that isnt routed through their network - just try switching around. I used to have an ISP in New Mexico that sent all my packets to Utah before anywhere else, to this horrid cw.net server that was always overloaded.
I switched and found a much better connection. My recommendation is to try some other ISPS, asking who their provider can be helpful.
I have always enjoyed sprint and found them to be a great deal less irritating than MCI or ATT. As a sprint customer, I am not pleased.
I know what you mean ... I feel like school was a total waste of time for me. I knew reading and writing before I got there, learned everything else mainly from reading constantly and wasted 10 or 11 years in boring, humiliating torture at public schools.
Or the more typical biological warfare,the spreading of dangerous bacteria or viruses, such as anthrax. For some reason ABC news has been talking about this a lot lately, and they have a poll up now.
In the same spirit, killing a few thousand people with anthrax would be alot more impressive than taking out their power, but would take alot more funding and organization as some have pointed out.
But that is somewhat questionable. I thought this technology wasnt exactly ready yet.
it appears in win98, 95 3.1 and probably before... who knows why they recreated it for NT, they have plenty of other error messages.
you sound like one of the lucky ones who has not had to experience the microsoft...
there are a few levels of a program crashing in win98/95. One is the windows style 'program has performed an illegal operation' windows, with a nice icon. The next is a larger, two color window that says the same type of thing. In severe instances, you get a more windows2.0-style one: the screen goes to all blue and it tells you 'fatal exception at register blah blah'.
But anyway, the 'BSOD' is not a bug, it is an archaic microsft error message window. I'm not sure why they ever thought of having the screen go to 640*480, turning blue, and telling you something but at least it doesnt happen often. What is more puzzling is that they preserved this type of crash screen all the way through win98 so far and included it in NT. Win98 i can understand since it comes from the same codebase, but why NT? For nostalgia i guess, and they must realized how much their systems crash so its good to have variety.
I like it when explorer (not just IE, the core of win98 gui, explorer) crashes and you get first the full color message, then the 2 color one, then the blue screen, sometimes repeating the process. Usually though, you get only one kind or the other.
As a foot note, after suffering through getting Microsoft networking working with 3 computers and win98, and rebooting the one i installed a nic card in >>12 times to get it configured, im installing linux this weekend.
Yes, good point - the guy did say exactly that. He was curious about reverse enginerring, but if you want info on just graphics algorithms, try the gimp code!!
the news is that a ms-centric orginization like zdnet is actually noticing linux, and while this has happened in the pat it is getting more common.
I have been wishing i could install linux in some form without messing with my windows setup, which i am bound to by a lot of adobe and macromedia software. I have been waiting for windows to super-crash so that i have to reinstall (and repartition), and even burned all my important files on cd, but it hasnt cooperated yet!
In order to protect society, the court should now order that
Micros~1 be split up, and that Windows be regulated as an essential utility.
an essential utility?
while mp3's sound quite fine on my computer sound system, when i've tried it in other places such as my car, i find the sound to be a bit lacking. Mainly, i mean, before i invest in hardware to play mp3s, are there any superior file formats waiting to steal the sound? I am not interested in the useless copying security as are most file format innovators these days, i just want it to sound exactly like a cd! And not have the high hat turn to mishmash when the vocals come in.
wow...you must really be something amazing to be so much better than everyone else. Perhaps you would like to demonstrate your alleged brilliance sometime?
I am much looking forward to the new AMD chips. The lame features of the p3 and the lame features of intel in general have dissuaded me from obtaining one of those. Of course, the big question is: what is the floating point performance like?
thats why mr. taco makes available the code, no? see the page about it perhaps.
while the site in question doesnt use slash, copying the format is more of an acknowledgment of its merits than a rip off.
yeah...just wait till they try to rocket jump.
regardless of how advanced or mature their technology is.
uh, hmmm . yeah.
yes, Halflife is so much better than quake 2. It really shows that ID is good at producing technology but lousy at making imaginative games. Quake 2 is REALLY BORING and Quake 3 is...more of the same. Quake 2 single player was so utterly devoid of excitement i can see why they are leaving it out of q3.
er, no he means jon katz, the famous slashdot windbag who is very good at taking his opinion and writing 500 paragraphs about it. Sometimes they are interesting.
please?
this first post idiocy has to end... not to mention the despicable practice of typing ":)".
anybody using it? yes its the most popular server software in the world...
um...please, you have to work for microsoft or something.
i suppose mindcraft proved IIS is better than um, samba or zeus on a 4 processor system, but IIS has 'known issues' like having to reboot 9 times a day for stupid things like 'message buffer full'. Not to
>> By the way, why you guys so silent on the AOL these days..Is it because it has the darling of
the Open Source (netscape) in it..
Netscape is by no means the 'darling' of Open Source - there was a very underwhelming response to the release of the code.