As someone who has used all three of the providers you've mentioned, my vote is for DirecTV. Here's my rundown of the pros/cons of each.
DirecTV
When I lived in Atlanta, the signal would get knocked out during a severe thunderstorm. Now that, I'm in LA, I never had any problems with the picture (but now I have to get off my butt & water the outside plants). And they have real good service as well.
Dish Network
These people were the biggest pain in my ass from day one. Their installer blatently lied to me (and serveral of my neighbors) on what we'd get with our system. The final straw with them was when they tried charging me for porno movies when I was actually out of state when the charges occurred (and no, nobody snuck into my house to watch any). Summary is that customer service with Dish Network sucks.
Comcast
This is who I currently have for cable, the only reason why I have them is for the cable modem connection, so much faster than DSL. However, the quality of the digital cable lacks in comparison to satellite. I tend to lose the picture on nice sun-shiney days. Using pay-per-view to watch college football games doesn't work (I usually miss the first 15 minutes of the game & get pissed off, I now just walk to the bar down the street to watch games). Avoid them unless you want a fast internet connection.
My first job out of school was at an automotive parts plant. One of the main parts was throttle bodies and intakes that would actually need to be tested with actual fuel before being shipped. As I'm getting a tour of the plant, they take me to the room where the testing is done. To get in, you first need to enter a rather large room (big enough for a forklift with parts to get into) and wait for the room to pressurise to the actual test room. Once inside they tell me about how they test the parts & that the gas they use to test is still extremely flammable (i.e. quite explosive in fact). In case of emergency, there was an emergency exit with a huge butterfly valve above it to help quickly reduce pressure in the room (well, most likely in an emergency the room would explode anyway). Well, when they went to test the emergency exit one day, the tester went to push open the door & was promptly blown about 50 feet out of the room. Needless to say, they had to install a gate about 5 feet from the inside of the door that wouldn't open until the room had pressurized properly.
The good new is that I didn't have to work in the room, that bad news is that my office sat on top of the room. The first time I heard a loud rumbling sound, I simply bent over & kissed my ass good-bye. (When I didn't die, I went out of the roof of the plant and reaized the Blue Angels were flying around buzzing the plant.)
I won't even bother telling stories about shoveling horse crap when it was 10 below zero outside in the middle of a Michigan winter since it's not computer related...
So let's help Kazaa out here. What do you use Kazza for (other than swapping copyrighted material)? I don't mean what else you could potentially use it for, but what else do you actually use it for?
Great program. I used the X11 version of this to do a quick layout of my new house. I have to say, it was easiest to use of the free/lowcost options out there. Not perfect, but good enough for me.
Glad to see a native OS X version of this, yes, it would be nice if it were Carbon or Cocoa, but for free I won't complain. For those that do complain, the source code is just sitting out there, feel free to roll up your sleeves and make it Carbon/Cocoa!
My mom got a Comcast cable modem two weeks ago, they guy came in, installed the modem & turned ont the DHCP settings for the computer, no software, no BS.
Too bad the guy who came out six weeks ago didn't think that 170MB of memory was enough to actually "install" the cable modem...
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As someone who has used all three of the providers you've mentioned, my vote is for DirecTV. Here's my rundown of the pros/cons of each.
DirecTV
When I lived in Atlanta, the signal would get knocked out during a severe thunderstorm. Now that, I'm in LA, I never had any problems with the picture (but now I have to get off my butt & water the outside plants). And they have real good service as well.
Dish Network
These people were the biggest pain in my ass from day one. Their installer blatently lied to me (and serveral of my neighbors) on what we'd get with our system. The final straw with them was when they tried charging me for porno movies when I was actually out of state when the charges occurred (and no, nobody snuck into my house to watch any). Summary is that customer service with Dish Network sucks.
Comcast
This is who I currently have for cable, the only reason why I have them is for the cable modem connection, so much faster than DSL. However, the quality of the digital cable lacks in comparison to satellite. I tend to lose the picture on nice sun-shiney days. Using pay-per-view to watch college football games doesn't work (I usually miss the first 15 minutes of the game & get pissed off, I now just walk to the bar down the street to watch games). Avoid them unless you want a fast internet connection.
My first job out of school was at an automotive parts plant. One of the main parts was throttle bodies and intakes that would actually need to be tested with actual fuel before being shipped. As I'm getting a tour of the plant, they take me to the room where the testing is done. To get in, you first need to enter a rather large room (big enough for a forklift with parts to get into) and wait for the room to pressurise to the actual test room. Once inside they tell me about how they test the parts & that the gas they use to test is still extremely flammable (i.e. quite explosive in fact). In case of emergency, there was an emergency exit with a huge butterfly valve above it to help quickly reduce pressure in the room (well, most likely in an emergency the room would explode anyway). Well, when they went to test the emergency exit one day, the tester went to push open the door & was promptly blown about 50 feet out of the room. Needless to say, they had to install a gate about 5 feet from the inside of the door that wouldn't open until the room had pressurized properly.
The good new is that I didn't have to work in the room, that bad news is that my office sat on top of the room. The first time I heard a loud rumbling sound, I simply bent over & kissed my ass good-bye. (When I didn't die, I went out of the roof of the plant and reaized the Blue Angels were flying around buzzing the plant.)
I won't even bother telling stories about shoveling horse crap when it was 10 below zero outside in the middle of a Michigan winter since it's not computer related...
So let's help Kazaa out here. What do you use Kazza for (other than swapping copyrighted material)? I don't mean what else you could potentially use it for, but what else do you actually use it for?
The big question is whether they could spot any Toynbee Tiles inlaid in the remnants?
Great program. I used the X11 version of this to do a quick layout of my new house. I have to say, it was easiest to use of the free/lowcost options out there. Not perfect, but good enough for me.
Glad to see a native OS X version of this, yes, it would be nice if it were Carbon or Cocoa, but for free I won't complain. For those that do complain, the source code is just sitting out there, feel free to roll up your sleeves and make it Carbon/Cocoa!
Check the results of the article there.
My mom got a Comcast cable modem two weeks ago, they guy came in, installed the modem & turned ont the DHCP settings for the computer, no software, no BS.
Too bad the guy who came out six weeks ago didn't think that 170MB of memory was enough to actually "install" the cable modem...