AT&T still owns @Home, so I figure that Excite will die as a portal site but the @Home services will be handed back to AT&T. Or at least that's what I heard on Reuters.
He went into a software store that was lacking copies of Tribes 2?! Gee, all this time I was lead to believe that Tribes 2 wasn't selling all that great...
Ye'd think a solar flare would just come right along and totally disrupt Internet communication on the specific ports that Half-Life uses. With all the CounterStrike kiddies off the net for a couple days, I could actually manage to check my email without a five minute wait.
Incorrect. The power companies being forced to charge less was the result of the CA power problems, not the reason for them. Deregulation allowed for the power companies to cut back on production of new plants to jack the prices up. They bit off more than they could chew, when even after the prices went up, they couldn't generate enough power. Thus, power had to be bought (and later ordered by federal judges) to keep the lights on. It wasn't a case of choosing not to provide power, it was a case of not having enough power to provide, whether or not they wanted to provide power.
Seriously. Letting the market choose "decent" broadband won't work simply out of the fact that once the government leaves the big corporations alone, they're not going to do anything but screw us over. Deregulation caused the power crisis in California, so logically, if the broadband market is deregulated, it's going to get so brutal in the market that the Mom-and-Pop DSL providers won't stand a chance.
It won't change much. Whether he has extremely low ping or extremely high ping, he's still going to accuse everyone of cheating, so it's not like it's going to change much.:P
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AT&T still owns @Home, so I figure that Excite will die as a portal site but the @Home services will be handed back to AT&T. Or at least that's what I heard on Reuters.
He went into a software store that was lacking copies of Tribes 2?! Gee, all this time I was lead to believe that Tribes 2 wasn't selling all that great...
Yup, seeing similar prices everywhere, but I'm rather happy with the deal I found last week...
512 megs SDRAM module CAS3, $50.
Ye'd think a solar flare would just come right along and totally disrupt Internet communication on the specific ports that Half-Life uses. With all the CounterStrike kiddies off the net for a couple days, I could actually manage to check my email without a five minute wait.
Incorrect. The power companies being forced to charge less was the result of the CA power problems, not the reason for them. Deregulation allowed for the power companies to cut back on production of new plants to jack the prices up. They bit off more than they could chew, when even after the prices went up, they couldn't generate enough power. Thus, power had to be bought (and later ordered by federal judges) to keep the lights on. It wasn't a case of choosing not to provide power, it was a case of not having enough power to provide, whether or not they wanted to provide power.
Seriously. Letting the market choose "decent" broadband won't work simply out of the fact that once the government leaves the big corporations alone, they're not going to do anything but screw us over. Deregulation caused the power crisis in California, so logically, if the broadband market is deregulated, it's going to get so brutal in the market that the Mom-and-Pop DSL providers won't stand a chance.
It won't change much. Whether he has extremely low ping or extremely high ping, he's still going to accuse everyone of cheating, so it's not like it's going to change much. :P