I am in the same situation but I am one of the customers (wish to be anyway). There is a small wireless ISP a few miles away from where I am. The only problem and the reason I am still using a crummy modem is because of the bloody trees around my house.
To get over all the trees, it was approximated that I will need to purchase some sort of tower that is about 70ft+. Only problem is a tower of that height costs a ton ($1000+). Atleast I could not find one at an affordable amount. So right now I am waiting until March when I get my bonus and I am going to buy the tower.
But I must ask, is there some sort of antennae that would be powerful enough that trees would not matter? Or does anyone know where I can get an affordable tower?
Please help a poor broadbandless family (with children I might add).
Before Windows 2000 came out I used NT 4.0 (Don't mod me down, I now use Linux.). There was a question/answer on ntfaq that asked how to install NT 4.0 without IE. Sure enough there was an easy solution. All you had to do was open up I believe one of the text or ini files in the i386 directory on the cd and change one of the lines where it specified IE to install all you had to do was comment it out. This was while ago so I can't remember exactly. But I did try it once and low and behold it installed with no browser what so ever. Of course you can not save directly to a cd so I had run the Windows Based Installer and edited the file after it copied everything over. You could probably make your own cd with the small change too now. Anyway I looked over on ntfaq and they don't seem to have anything older than the year 2000.
what do people plan to do with it? Will people be able to make their own games and distribute them? If so, I'll buy one. I don't want to buy just to have linux on my ps2, I already have that on my pc.
I am attending OSU right now and last semester I had Calc II. I know exactly where your coming from. My Professor could barely speak (or write) english. The class was hell and impossible to understand and I generally look forward to math classes as they are the only classes that I enjoy.
There was an article in our local college newspaper about the salaries of some of the people that work at the University where I go. Here is basically how it was broken down:
president: $2+ million/year
head of marketing: $1+ million/year
coach (basketball, football, etc...) $1+ million/year
Don't forget the costs of luring dumb jocks to come play sports. Then they have to pay nerds to take the jocks test and do his homework (I'm not cheap!). Oh, and don't forget about the lexus for his transportation. I think that should take care of about 90% of the cost increases (if not more).
That's what I thought until someone pointed out to me that you steer with the right analog stick and control the speed(the more you push forward the faster it goes) with the left analog stick (or is the other way around?). Anyway, as soon as I tried this it steered perfectly.
If the schools wants to use Linux great. If not, let Microsoft give it to them as part of the the whole package. Just let the schools choose. Isn't that what people who promote Linux are have been saying all along. It would be quite arrogant to force the schools (or anybody for that matter) to use a specific piece of software. Just let the schools choose what they want.
Check out this quote from an article over on yahoo:
Also, Microsoft will have to modify its new Windows XP operating system within a matter of months so that software can be added and deleted by consumers and computer makers, the department said.
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I am in the same situation but I am one of the customers (wish to be anyway). There is a small wireless ISP a few miles away from where I am. The only problem and the reason I am still using a crummy modem is because of the bloody trees around my house.
To get over all the trees, it was approximated that I will need to purchase some sort of tower that is about 70ft+. Only problem is a tower of that height costs a ton ($1000+). Atleast I could not find one at an affordable amount. So right now I am waiting until March when I get my bonus and I am going to buy the tower.
But I must ask, is there some sort of antennae that would be powerful enough that trees would not matter? Or does anyone know where I can get an affordable tower?
Please help a poor broadbandless family (with children I might add).
Perhaps I over looked it, but I did not see speed as one of the improvements.
Before Windows 2000 came out I used NT 4.0 (Don't mod me down, I now use Linux.). There was a question/answer on ntfaq that asked how to install NT 4.0 without IE. Sure enough there was an easy solution. All you had to do was open up I believe one of the text or ini files in the i386 directory on the cd and change one of the lines where it specified IE to install all you had to do was comment it out. This was while ago so I can't remember exactly. But I did try it once and low and behold it installed with no browser what so ever. Of course you can not save directly to a cd so I had run the Windows Based Installer and edited the file after it copied everything over. You could probably make your own cd with the small change too now. Anyway I looked over on ntfaq and they don't seem to have anything older than the year 2000.
what do people plan to do with it? Will people be able to make their own games and distribute them? If so, I'll buy one. I don't want to buy just to have linux on my ps2, I already have that on my pc.
I am attending OSU right now and last semester I had Calc II. I know exactly where your coming from. My Professor could barely speak (or write) english. The class was hell and impossible to understand and I generally look forward to math classes as they are the only classes that I enjoy.
There was an article in our local college newspaper about the salaries of some of the people that work at the University where I go. Here is basically how it was broken down:
president: $2+ million/year
head of marketing: $1+ million/year
coach (basketball, football, etc...) $1+ million/year
Don't forget the costs of luring dumb jocks to come play sports. Then they have to pay nerds to take the jocks test and do his homework (I'm not cheap!). Oh, and don't forget about the lexus for his transportation. I think that should take care of about 90% of the cost increases (if not more).
so now I am paying them for my work?
I don't think so.
That's what I thought until someone pointed out to me that you steer with the right analog stick and control the speed(the more you push forward the faster it goes) with the left analog stick (or is the other way around?). Anyway, as soon as I tried this it steered perfectly.
If the schools wants to use Linux great. If not, let Microsoft give it to them as part of the the whole package. Just let the schools choose. Isn't that what people who promote Linux are have been saying all along. It would be quite arrogant to force the schools (or anybody for that matter) to use a specific piece of software. Just let the schools choose what they want.
You know if you go back through all these comments posted reading at a leval 4 or 5 some of them can be quite motivating.