I telecommute for a small company in san jose (http://www.know-where.com), I live in Iowa, fortunately outages have been few and far between so when something like that does happen I just consider it a message from the powers that be that I have to go and do something else with my life for a little bit. My client is very understanding.
If it started happening too often, then I'd get pissed./ My ISP (frontier communications, I'd recommend them highly) has a dialup backup, if worse comes to worse, I'd just use that - or failing that, sign up with another provider. It's just one of those business expenses.
I can agree with that. I haven't bought any new consumer electronics in many years - at least three if I remember correctly. I bought a little, very old TV for $15, and my landlady gave me another one, and they suit my purpose just fine.
I'm waiting for the technology to shake out. And how this fight goes determines what I am going to purchase and how much I am going to spend. At this point I'm happy with my computer running linux, my laptop running Win98 (the thought of upgrading hasn't even occured to me, especially for what they're asking!) and that's pretty much it.
Strangely enough, I find myself very happy with the network pablum and the internet content that's there right now. I really don't have time for much more than that.
I think the best control the consumer (I HATE THAT WORD) has is just to ignore them. Then they *will* go away. The trick is convincing the 16 year old Britney Spears loving teenage girl...
Hmmm, there's an interesting thought - the demographic that spends the most money on videos and stuff is also the demographic that's least accustomed to paying for it. No wonder they're losing sales.
Count me as one person who has not seen LOTR... I haven't gone to a movie, period, in at least a couple of years, last time was in KOIN center in Portland. I think I bought my girlfriend's little girl a video once because she loves the rugrats, but that's also one of only two videos I've bought during that time as well.
I just wait for it to be broadcast on TV.
--Russell
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Don't you mean "Microsoft clearly visible"?
I telecommute for a small company in san jose (http://www.know-where.com), I live in Iowa, fortunately outages have been few and far between so when something like that does happen I just consider it a message from the powers that be that I have to go and do something else with my life for a little bit. My client is very understanding.
If it started happening too often, then I'd get pissed./ My ISP (frontier communications, I'd recommend them highly) has a dialup backup, if worse comes to worse, I'd just use that - or failing that, sign up with another provider. It's just one of those business expenses.
--Russell
I can agree with that. I haven't bought any new consumer electronics in many years - at least three if I remember correctly. I bought a little, very old TV for $15, and my landlady gave me another one, and they suit my purpose just fine.
I'm waiting for the technology to shake out. And how this fight goes determines what I am going to purchase and how much I am going to spend. At this point I'm happy with my computer running linux, my laptop running Win98 (the thought of upgrading hasn't even occured to me, especially for what they're asking!) and that's pretty much it.
Strangely enough, I find myself very happy with the network pablum and the internet content that's there right now. I really don't have time for much more than that.
I think the best control the consumer (I HATE THAT WORD) has is just to ignore them. Then they *will* go away. The trick is convincing the 16 year old Britney Spears loving teenage girl...
Hmmm, there's an interesting thought - the demographic that spends the most money on videos and stuff is also the demographic that's least accustomed to paying for it. No wonder they're losing sales.
--Russell
Count me as one person who has not seen LOTR... I haven't gone to a movie, period, in at least a couple of years, last time was in KOIN center in Portland. I think I bought my girlfriend's little girl a video once because she loves the rugrats, but that's also one of only two videos I've bought during that time as well. I just wait for it to be broadcast on TV. --Russell