I'm outa my league here, but thought you should know that FOX was purchased by Disney(ABC) just the other day. Ironically, that would trim your list of TV News stations down to 5.
Regardless of how you define the word monopoly the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was initiated to protect the consumer from companies becoming too powerful and abusing that power. Anyway, according to the law you don't have to be a monopoly, but simply exhibit signs of attempting to monopolize.
You can side with Microsoft all you like, but when you have to use a credit card in order to start Windows, I don't want to hear anything about it.
As mattmcl said, it's tough to compare the two when you're not using the same reference point (location in this case.) Also, Road Runner is generally regarded as the best cable broadband provider, whereas @Home has always been known to be a little disappointing (ironic since @Home was really the first to jump in the residential broadband market I believe.) However, that doesn't mean anything if you have both services and one sucks while the other rocks. FWIW Comcast is a founding member of @Home, along with TCI, which later merged with ATT.
As already noted, the main problem with the Comcast offer was apparently that ATT considered it to be too low. However, first offers are routinely rejected and many analysts expect Comcast to raise the stakes with a new offer, despite that Comcast has publicly stated that it would not. Interestingly the Comcast source in this article seems to be saying that they're waiting to see what they're up against before moving forward, so maybe the analysts are right.
Comcast and AOL are both recognized as two of the strongest in the cable industry. However, I would think that AOL would have an advantage with it's better media content. However, I can only imagine that AOL will have to do a lot of restructuring to satisfy the federal regulators.
Having said all of that, I really don't know that much and am probably pretty ignorant about all of this compared to some on here. Oh, and I almost forgot, but I think ATT already has some interest in AOL from MediaOne.
Most areas of the country are not so lucky though. While there are some cities with multiple cable options, the majority of us don't have any choice at this time.
I tried it out and it reminded me of Northern Light, which also categorizes it's results. However, I'd much rather use Northern Light then Hotbot, Lycos, etc or any of the other search engines which Vivisimo offers.
I haven't heard the argument that blocking ads is illegal (except with free internet services and I think that's understandable.) I have to agree with you and just hearing about it upsets me.
Like the rest of you I love Google, but I still have to stick with Northern Light when I need to do some serious searching. Unfortunately NL keeps becoming more commercialized as well and I really hate that they now try to charge for information which CAN be found elsewhere for free.
Welcome to the language of science, where nothing is ever known for a fact. Not only do I think that NASA releases information to the public in an attempt to raise funding, but I also believe some of their missions are primarily about fund raising. Unfortunately I think it's necessary, since the public doesn't want to be bothered by taking the time to learn how much can be gained by funding NASA.
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I'm outa my league here, but thought you should know that FOX was purchased by Disney(ABC) just the other day. Ironically, that would trim your list of TV News stations down to 5.
Regardless of how you define the word monopoly the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was initiated to protect the consumer from companies becoming too powerful and abusing that power. Anyway, according to the law you don't have to be a monopoly, but simply exhibit signs of attempting to monopolize. You can side with Microsoft all you like, but when you have to use a credit card in order to start Windows, I don't want to hear anything about it.
Quite a lot of work had to be done to get this approved as well. If I remember correctly Comcast had to help ATT out to get that one approved.
As mattmcl said, it's tough to compare the two when you're not using the same reference point (location in this case.) Also, Road Runner is generally regarded as the best cable broadband provider, whereas @Home has always been known to be a little disappointing (ironic since @Home was really the first to jump in the residential broadband market I believe.) However, that doesn't mean anything if you have both services and one sucks while the other rocks. FWIW Comcast is a founding member of @Home, along with TCI, which later merged with ATT.
As already noted, the main problem with the Comcast offer was apparently that ATT considered it to be too low. However, first offers are routinely rejected and many analysts expect Comcast to raise the stakes with a new offer, despite that Comcast has publicly stated that it would not. Interestingly the Comcast source in this article seems to be saying that they're waiting to see what they're up against before moving forward, so maybe the analysts are right. Comcast and AOL are both recognized as two of the strongest in the cable industry. However, I would think that AOL would have an advantage with it's better media content. However, I can only imagine that AOL will have to do a lot of restructuring to satisfy the federal regulators. Having said all of that, I really don't know that much and am probably pretty ignorant about all of this compared to some on here. Oh, and I almost forgot, but I think ATT already has some interest in AOL from MediaOne.
Most areas of the country are not so lucky though. While there are some cities with multiple cable options, the majority of us don't have any choice at this time.
I tried it out and it reminded me of Northern Light, which also categorizes it's results. However, I'd much rather use Northern Light then Hotbot, Lycos, etc or any of the other search engines which Vivisimo offers.
I haven't heard the argument that blocking ads is illegal (except with free internet services and I think that's understandable.) I have to agree with you and just hearing about it upsets me. Like the rest of you I love Google, but I still have to stick with Northern Light when I need to do some serious searching. Unfortunately NL keeps becoming more commercialized as well and I really hate that they now try to charge for information which CAN be found elsewhere for free.
Welcome to the language of science, where nothing is ever known for a fact. Not only do I think that NASA releases information to the public in an attempt to raise funding, but I also believe some of their missions are primarily about fund raising. Unfortunately I think it's necessary, since the public doesn't want to be bothered by taking the time to learn how much can be gained by funding NASA.