AOL - $24.95 local ISP - as low as $10 depending on usage. Most unlimiteds are well under $20.
Savings per month- minimum $5 per year- $60 or more.
Show them you can get the same thing for 5-10 bucks less a month, and I have yet to talk to someone who won't switch. And that's not even considering the cost of a second phone line.
A friend of mine finally convinced his parents just last week to get cable modem, because they were actually still paying for a 2nd phone line to use just for AOL...
Yeah I totally forgot that extra cost. That's usually another 10-20 bucks a month for the phone line. So you're paying 35-50 bucks for DIALUP! That's just insane. My cable bill is $55 and that gets me Roadrunner and basic cable for the month, with 3M down/384k up.
This is the burning question... And not only that, AOLs prices have gone UP over the past 5 years. Unlike every other dialup service that has started offering lower rates and lower usage plans; AOL unlimited accounts have jumped 3-5 bucks in price for the same (or worse) crap. When I worked for a local ISP in 99, we had AOLers switching to us to save money (us 17.95, AOL 21.95). Now I have AOL customers coming in our shop saying they're paying 24.95 for dialup!! WTH is that? In some places, you could get cable for 10 bucks more. And most DSL providers have plans under $30 that are screaming fast compared to AOL. Why do they stay with AOL???
1 35417 52.24% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) 2 7530 11.11% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;.NET CLR 1 3 4138 6.10% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) 4 2813 4.15% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko 5 2406 3.55% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 6 2253 3.32% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko 7 1780 2.63% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko 8 1365 2.01% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProd 9 1283 1.89% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 10 1071 1.58% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; AskBar 3.0
And current stats for October-
1 44054 20.76% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/2004 2 43164 20.35% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) 3 30355 14.31% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;.NET 4 17977 8.47% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;.NET CLR 1 5 16196 7.63% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) 6 11599 5.47% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.51 7 11387 5.37% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko 8 8784 4.14% msnbot/0.3 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) 9 8186 3.86% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 10 2268 1.07% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Fire
The site doesn't get that much traffic, but when those 2 big IE vulnerabilities came out a couple months ago, I started a big push on our forums for people to switch. It seems to have worked. At least for our regular traffic.
So are you saying that the only way to turn off the Firewall is AFTER you have malware?
Sorry, but that is complete and utter falsehood. Any user with administrator rights can turn off the SP2 firewall in the control panel. Having or not having malware is irrelevant.
Of course there isn't!! The game is 6 years old! You can't compare it to every thing that has come out since. That's like comparing a model-T to a Camaro- "I drove a model-t yesterday, it's got wheels and runs, but it's nothing new." DUH!
Compare HL to anything that was out 6 years ago, and you'll start to understand why it won every possible award there was.
The electric car is a good thing because your power plant can burn oil and coal at around 80% efficiency. Your car burns gas at, IIRC, a meager 20%-40%.
Power plants are 2-4 times MORE efficient than your car. There is a higher net energy output from the plant than from your Chevy (or whatever)
Why? I ran that exact setup (with 12M RAM on a 106 Meg [yes, MEG] hard drive) and it ran '95 fine. Running applications other than notepad or the solitaire games made for some fun load times, but they still ran fine.
No that's pretty standard naming convention for all of their patches since XP came out. Name of program-knowledgebase article#- version (if applicable-language (ENU= english)
Gives you a real incentive to learn to type rapidly.
Or come up w/ abbr 4 wut ur saying.;)
or probably more commonly; aliasing strings of commands to single words, key combos or even down to single keys. cast 'magic missle' player vs mm player (where mm is aliased to "cast 'magic missle'") second guy wins...
IIRC, they only started that a few years ago, whereas Intel has been doing it for at least several years. And AMD still doesn't make motherboards. People like brand continuity. People (pointy hairs and end consumers) still trust a machine more where the parts come from the same place.
The major AMD board manufacturers do have 3 yr warranties, but again, Intel has been doing it longer.
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No.. the downside of the hill is easy. It's the upside that kills you.
;)
badum ching.
It's not education... it's simple math.
AOL - $24.95
local ISP - as low as $10 depending on usage. Most unlimiteds are well under $20.
Savings per month- minimum $5
per year- $60 or more.
Show them you can get the same thing for 5-10 bucks less a month, and I have yet to talk to someone who won't switch. And that's not even considering the cost of a second phone line.
A friend of mine finally convinced his parents just last week to get cable modem, because they were actually still paying for a 2nd phone line to use just for AOL...
Yeah I totally forgot that extra cost. That's usually another 10-20 bucks a month for the phone line. So you're paying 35-50 bucks for DIALUP! That's just insane.
My cable bill is $55 and that gets me Roadrunner and basic cable for the month, with 3M down/384k up.
This is the burning question... And not only that, AOLs prices have gone UP over the past 5 years. Unlike every other dialup service that has started offering lower rates and lower usage plans; AOL unlimited accounts have jumped 3-5 bucks in price for the same (or worse) crap.
When I worked for a local ISP in 99, we had AOLers switching to us to save money (us 17.95, AOL 21.95). Now I have AOL customers coming in our shop saying they're paying 24.95 for dialup!!
WTH is that? In some places, you could get cable for 10 bucks more. And most DSL providers have plans under $30 that are screaming fast compared to AOL.
Why do they stay with AOL???
What?!
Is the collective internet IQ average actually rising? People are realizing that paying $27 for a dialup account is a rip off?!
who r u gon make fun of on teh intarwebs nemore?? omgwtfbbq!!!11one
Request to moderators: Mod down anyone who makes a request to modera... shit. ;)
And current stats for October-The site doesn't get that much traffic, but when those 2 big IE vulnerabilities came out a couple months ago, I started a big push on our forums for people to switch. It seems to have worked. At least for our regular traffic.
I for one welcome our new plane-flying rat-brain overlords...
And whether the bandits happened to be government sponsored... (ie. armies under a dictatorship or other fascist regime)
So are you saying that the only way to turn off the Firewall is AFTER you have malware?
Sorry, but that is complete and utter falsehood.
Any user with administrator rights can turn off the SP2 firewall in the control panel. Having or not having malware is irrelevant.
There are only 27 amendments to the US Constitution... The Bill of rights (1-10) plus 17 more. Where the heck do you get 73?
the radioSHARK jumps you!!!
sorry... =P
That's why New Mexico is never a battleground state. It just doesn't matter, they're only three votes.
If by battleground you mean "highly contested or swing state", then NM is a battleground state.
First think I thought was that her smile was too wide for her face.
I mean, Julia roberts has a big mouth, but on this animation, something about seems out of proportion.
but there's nothing really new in [HL],
Of course there isn't!! The game is 6 years old!
You can't compare it to every thing that has come out since. That's like comparing a model-T to a Camaro- "I drove a model-t yesterday, it's got wheels and runs, but it's nothing new." DUH!
Compare HL to anything that was out 6 years ago, and you'll start to understand why it won every possible award there was.
As was stated earlier in this post;
The electric car is a good thing because your power plant can burn oil and coal at around 80% efficiency. Your car burns gas at, IIRC, a meager 20%-40%.
Power plants are 2-4 times MORE efficient than your car. There is a higher net energy output from the plant than from your Chevy (or whatever)
No no.. he's right.... ;)
You just wget the actual page first. then cat it, and wget the next page you want to read.
My apologies. I was quoting Rueters, which is generally a safe bet.
Even so, 40 Terabytes is quite a bit of stuff.
the DoJ raided some kids houses to stop them from trading music.
"Some kid" is the 13 yr old next door using mom's PC and Dad's cable connection to trade mp3s.
The DOJ nabbed half a dozen guys running DC hubs containing over 40 PETABYTES of illegal/pirated materials. EACH.
That's WAAAAAAAYYYY beyond "some kid".
Wrong movie...
G-parent is quoting Ferris Bueller's Day off, not Spaceballs.
The pascal (symbol Pa) is the SI unit of pressure.
u nit)
It is equivalent to one newton per square metre. The unit is named after Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Pascal-(
Why?
I ran that exact setup (with 12M RAM on a 106 Meg [yes, MEG] hard drive) and it ran '95 fine.
Running applications other than notepad or the solitaire games made for some fun load times, but they still ran fine.
No that's pretty standard naming convention for all of their patches since XP came out.
; [LN];835935
Name of program-knowledgebase article#- version (if applicable-language (ENU= english)
The KB# listed corresponds to the SP2 release notes article.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
Or come up w/ abbr 4 wut ur saying.
or probably more commonly; aliasing strings of commands to single words, key combos or even down to single keys.
cast 'magic missle' player
vs
mm player (where mm is aliased to "cast 'magic missle'")
second guy wins...
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IIRC, they only started that a few years ago, whereas Intel has been doing it for at least several years.
And AMD still doesn't make motherboards. People like brand continuity. People (pointy hairs and end consumers) still trust a machine more where the parts come from the same place.
The major AMD board manufacturers do have 3 yr warranties, but again, Intel has been doing it longer.