I pay $105/month for 1.5/512 service, with a static IP. They also offer a 256/256 plan for $25.
Reliability was very poor at first, but I complained enough that they upgraded my equipment (Gave me a powered bridge). Since then, reliability has been every bit as good as when I lived somewhere with access to cable.
Rural Montana, near Yellowstone. It's unthrottled, and they haven't complained yet about massive up/downloads. There've been times that I've had the connection saturated for weeks at a time.
In all fairness though, they do offer a 256/256kbps plan for $20/month that's probably good enough for most people.
Now, I don't believe computers are all that great in the classroom, but if they wanted economies of scale, it would make more sense to sell to the rich, gadget-happy country first to build up production and also legitimacy in the eyes of 3rd worlders.
That's something that I never understood. Their business plan depended on economies of scale, yet they refused to sell it to people who wanted to buy them, and had the cash.
I understand that they wanted to save the units for the needy, but the needy were never able to afford them because they never got the economy of scale working for them.
Many times, when you pause in the middle of an audio book (Only m4b files, this doesn't seem to affect mp3 files) that is over ~5 hours long, the ipod will act like it has reached the end of the file, and either continue with the next file in the play list, or return to the main menu if there are no other files left to play. It does this about half the time, requiring you to restart the audio book (Which fails about half the time, returning you to the main menu, so you have to renavigate through the menu structure again to attempt to restart the audio book, which once again has a good chance of failing to start playing again).
It's a real PITA when that happens, you have to manually scroll through the audio book once it finally restarts, and hope you remembered what time in the file you were at when it reset itself.
I've seen many people online with the same problem, but of course, no response from Apple (Or even an acknowledgment of a problem). My ipod is a gen 5.5, 80GB. I've seen people reporting the same problems with gen 4 and 5 ipods. I haven't seen anything regarding gen 6 ones, but the last time I looked they were pretty new.
I have an older ipod that's been having problems lately. It freezes a lot, and absolutely sucks at playing audio books that didn't come from audible.com or itunes.
I'll be looking to replace it soon. Does anyone make an MP3 player that uses a dock connector like the ipod's, so that I can use it with some of the ipod accessories that I already have? For example, my car radio has an ipod connector that charges the ipod, and lets me control it with the radio controls. I'd like to keep that functionality, except with a different player.
If no one makes a player that uses the dock style connector, why not? Can you patent a connector so that no other devices can use it?
Although on Windows, pressing Tab again cycles to the next match. It's not nearly as useful or intuitive as the UNIX tab completion, but it is more powerful than most users realize.
Clippy's technology has been availabe to websites for years now, although it requires ActiveX. So, if MS includes Clippy in their web apps, he'll be an IE only "feature".
Dude, where do you live that two-lane roads with a 75+ mph speed limit are common? Do such roads even exist? Do you actually think 80 mph is a reasonable speed on a road designed for 65 mph (or less)? Is a truck going 75 mph in a 65 mph zone that much of an impediment to your schedule? Alternatively, is it reasonable to do 80 mph to pass a truck traveling at 65 mph on such a two-lane road, instead of a safer 70 mph?
You've just described almost every road in Montana.
Slashdot has always been biased towards Linux. As far as I know, they've never even pretended to be a fair and balanced source of IT news. Have you noticed the borg icon that's used for MS stories?
I feel like an old fart remembering the time that we had a 4 GB harddrive.
I'm only 28 and remember loading programs from a cassette tape on our VIC-20. I also remember when we got our first 100MB hard drive for our Packard Bell, and immediately partitioned it into 5 20MB partitions.
But from the sounds of this law, simply having a small "Hello fm6" message at the top of the page would require the entire page to be encrypted, not just the login/out and payment screens.
So they copied and pasted the EULA from another product, without actually reading it? It sounds like they take their EULA about as seriously as most users do.
What about buying the game, then installing a downloaded version to keep their crap off of your system? I've done that before, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I live in Montana, and there's plenty of cattle up here.
There was an article in the paper last winter about ranchers having to roam their pastures at night looking for cattle giving birth (They give birth in the middle of winter). The calves would immediately need to be taken to a barn, otherwise they would quickly freeze in the -20 to -30 temperatures we frequently get during winter nights.
Adult cows are very hardy though, and survive just fine in extreme cold, although they do tend to huddle together to block the wind and conserve each others heat.
So you decided to go with a nearly 40 year old language instead of the nearly 50 year old one?
Don't get me wrong, C is a good language, and still relevant. I just wouldn't complain about COBOL's age, and then start talking about how you learned C instead.
I was just explaining the joke since you didn't seem to get it.
I agree that it's silly to be proud of a place just because you were born there. However, I do think that America is a great country, although I also think that we've been on the wrong track for the last 20-30 years.
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I pay $105/month for 1.5/512 service, with a static IP. They also offer a 256/256 plan for $25.
Reliability was very poor at first, but I complained enough that they upgraded my equipment (Gave me a powered bridge). Since then, reliability has been every bit as good as when I lived somewhere with access to cable.
Rural Montana, near Yellowstone. It's unthrottled, and they haven't complained yet about massive up/downloads. There've been times that I've had the connection saturated for weeks at a time.
In all fairness though, they do offer a 256/256kbps plan for $20/month that's probably good enough for most people.
As a parent who has lost a child, I can say that yes, most parents will do anything necessary to extend their child's life by even a few moments.
Until you've been in that position, kindly STFU.
Seriously. That sounds like allowing someone to use a computer with internet access would be a felony.
Now, I don't believe computers are all that great in the classroom, but if they wanted economies of scale, it would make more sense to sell to the rich, gadget-happy country first to build up production and also legitimacy in the eyes of 3rd worlders.
That's something that I never understood. Their business plan depended on economies of scale, yet they refused to sell it to people who wanted to buy them, and had the cash.
I understand that they wanted to save the units for the needy, but the needy were never able to afford them because they never got the economy of scale working for them.
Many times, when you pause in the middle of an audio book (Only m4b files, this doesn't seem to affect mp3 files) that is over ~5 hours long, the ipod will act like it has reached the end of the file, and either continue with the next file in the play list, or return to the main menu if there are no other files left to play. It does this about half the time, requiring you to restart the audio book (Which fails about half the time, returning you to the main menu, so you have to renavigate through the menu structure again to attempt to restart the audio book, which once again has a good chance of failing to start playing again).
It's a real PITA when that happens, you have to manually scroll through the audio book once it finally restarts, and hope you remembered what time in the file you were at when it reset itself.
I've seen many people online with the same problem, but of course, no response from Apple (Or even an acknowledgment of a problem). My ipod is a gen 5.5, 80GB. I've seen people reporting the same problems with gen 4 and 5 ipods. I haven't seen anything regarding gen 6 ones, but the last time I looked they were pretty new.
Hey, Apples can set your house on fire.
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/10/goodness-gracious-great-balls-of-powerbook-fire/
I have an older ipod that's been having problems lately. It freezes a lot, and absolutely sucks at playing audio books that didn't come from audible.com or itunes.
I'll be looking to replace it soon. Does anyone make an MP3 player that uses a dock connector like the ipod's, so that I can use it with some of the ipod accessories that I already have? For example, my car radio has an ipod connector that charges the ipod, and lets me control it with the radio controls. I'd like to keep that functionality, except with a different player.
If no one makes a player that uses the dock style connector, why not? Can you patent a connector so that no other devices can use it?
Although on Windows, pressing Tab again cycles to the next match. It's not nearly as useful or intuitive as the UNIX tab completion, but it is more powerful than most users realize.
DON'T simply vote for the "lesser of two evils". Vote for the candidate that you agree with the most, regardless of their chance to win.
Everyone voting for the lesser of two evils is why we've would up with such a crappy two candidate system.
You're not throwing your vote away by voting for who you agree with.
Clippy's technology has been availabe to websites for years now, although it requires ActiveX. So, if MS includes Clippy in their web apps, he'll be an IE only "feature".
For an example, see The Talking Buddy Search Engine (Requires IE for the Agent).
Dude, where do you live that two-lane roads with a 75+ mph speed limit are common? Do such roads even exist? Do you actually think 80 mph is a reasonable speed on a road designed for 65 mph (or less)? Is a truck going 75 mph in a 65 mph zone that much of an impediment to your schedule? Alternatively, is it reasonable to do 80 mph to pass a truck traveling at 65 mph on such a two-lane road, instead of a safer 70 mph?
You've just described almost every road in Montana.
That sounds more like a Scientologist theory than a Mormon one.
Now I don't feel so bad having to pay $100/month for a 1.5/512 wireless connection.
No cable or DSL available here, and the phone lines are in such poor shape that dialup won't get over 20Kbps.
Or considering the source maybe even a grain of rice.
Hooray for racism!
Hooray for being overly politically correct!
Honestly, why is changing a grain of salt to a food that's a staple for the area that the news is coming from considered racism?
Slashdot has always been biased towards Linux. As far as I know, they've never even pretended to be a fair and balanced source of IT news. Have you noticed the borg icon that's used for MS stories?
I feel like an old fart remembering the time that we had a 4 GB harddrive.
I'm only 28 and remember loading programs from a cassette tape on our VIC-20. I also remember when we got our first 100MB hard drive for our Packard Bell, and immediately partitioned it into 5 20MB partitions.
But from the sounds of this law, simply having a small "Hello fm6" message at the top of the page would require the entire page to be encrypted, not just the login/out and payment screens.
So they copied and pasted the EULA from another product, without actually reading it? It sounds like they take their EULA about as seriously as most users do.
What about buying the game, then installing a downloaded version to keep their crap off of your system? I've done that before, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
I'm halfway between Livingston & Gardiner. I couldn't wait to get out of So Cal, and was lucky enough to get a good job up here.
I live in Montana, and there's plenty of cattle up here.
There was an article in the paper last winter about ranchers having to roam their pastures at night looking for cattle giving birth (They give birth in the middle of winter). The calves would immediately need to be taken to a barn, otherwise they would quickly freeze in the -20 to -30 temperatures we frequently get during winter nights.
Adult cows are very hardy though, and survive just fine in extreme cold, although they do tend to huddle together to block the wind and conserve each others heat.
I took C instead and am much happier for it.
So you decided to go with a nearly 40 year old language instead of the nearly 50 year old one?
Don't get me wrong, C is a good language, and still relevant. I just wouldn't complain about COBOL's age, and then start talking about how you learned C instead.
I was just explaining the joke since you didn't seem to get it.
I agree that it's silly to be proud of a place just because you were born there. However, I do think that America is a great country, although I also think that we've been on the wrong track for the last 20-30 years.
I was positive that your comment was headed towards a John McCain joke...