"If people want cable, let them build their own lines"
Time-Warner has already paid local government their bribe (franchise fee, which they turn around and charge to the customers) which lets them be the only ones who can legally do that.
I don't want an all-fiber network. I want the phone system I have now-copper wire with a big ol' bunch of batteries that'll still work (at least around town and to 911) when the next hurricane takes out Carolina Power & Light and Time-Warner Cable. I can manage with rabbit ears and a generator for the duration, but tin cans and string stretched between me and the police or fire dept. just ain't gonna cut it.
"What, are you worried you might not get your Urkel re-runs?"
More like worried that with a single company (which) would own every entertainment medium on the planet - movies, music, radio, web you'd be unable to get anything but that if that was what they wanted to give you.
So do you want anybody who wants to start a cable company to be able to dig a trench across your front yard to bury their cable a week after someone else did the same thing a week after someone else did the same thing, etc., or do you want no companies able to do so in order to offer you cable service?
Shouldn't this be posted to "Your Rights Online"? Won't that third party company be data-warehousing that info and transferring it electronically? (to every telemarketer in the known universe if you get a paying job, since they'll be able to tell them your exact demographic profile)
You may find that the AGP is built on to the motherboard but there's no actual AGP slot. Compaq is big on proprietary form-factor stuff that makes any attempt to upgrade "an experience".
Just because you don't see any text in that file doesn't mean it isn't full of all kinds of scary stuff. How do they know exactly how high they can get away with pricing their software without starting a mass revolt unless they have access to everyone's financial info?:-)
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While the above certainly deserves having been moderated up, I see that the most recent is as "Funny".
Only from the "laughing to keep from crying" standpoint. Ain't it amazing that companies these days have to jump through hoops to keep the share price jacked up to please people who want the price high so that they can bail out of the company, because otherwise the company will have to pay a bunch of legal fees and still possibly wind up transferring money that belongs to all the shareholders to some of the shareholders, instead of being able to tend to their knitting and maximize the amount of profits that can be divided up betweeen all the people who buy and hold the stock?
What's new here is that Katz found a way to tie it to the internet, so maybe he can pad it out to another page or two and sell it to Wired or somebody. On the whole, though, this is one of his better articles, short and to the point.
They might expect failure or they might accept failure but I'm not sure that they will except failure. Of course with monkeys, especially certified ones, one can never be sure.
I suspect the flamebait part was saying that Republicans differed from everyone else in thinking that the rich *should* be given tax breaks unavailable to others just because they're rich.
"I've also yet to see a Socket 5 mobo (remember that far in the past? Socket 5?) without these standard peripheral connectors on it."
Look at a Giga-Byte GA-586IP some time. No IDE, no floppy, no serial, no parallel. Had some PCI slots, but PCI combo controller cards are harder to find than P24T chips.
Your company's solution involves real live humans exercising intelligence and judgement while actually interacting with the customer, rather than accepting whatever the computer comes up with as superior and irrevocable, and treating the customer as a annoyance rather than a n asset.
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Isn't this just the (2 and half months until the)21st century version of Chinese workgangs building the railroads?
Time-Warner has already paid local government their bribe (franchise fee, which they turn around and charge to the customers) which lets them be the only ones who can legally do that.
I don't want an all-fiber network. I want the phone system I have now-copper wire with a big ol' bunch of batteries that'll still work (at least around town and to 911) when the next hurricane takes out Carolina Power & Light and Time-Warner Cable. I can manage with rabbit ears and a generator for the duration, but tin cans and string stretched between me and the police or fire dept. just ain't gonna cut it.
Better yet, wait for the merger and just shove 'em into any Time-warner Cable van you see.
How about because they get to dig up my front yard to run them whether I like it or not, but nobody else gets to run any?
More like worried that with a single company (which) would own every entertainment medium on the planet - movies, music, radio, web you'd be unable to get anything but that if that was what they wanted to give you.
So do you want anybody who wants to start a cable company to be able to dig a trench across your front yard to bury their cable a week after someone else did the same thing a week after someone else did the same thing, etc., or do you want no companies able to do so in order to offer you cable service?
Shouldn't this be posted to "Your Rights Online"? Won't that third party company be data-warehousing that info and transferring it electronically? (to every telemarketer in the known universe if you get a paying job, since they'll be able to tell them your exact demographic profile)
You may find that the AGP is built on to the motherboard but there's no actual AGP slot. Compaq is big on proprietary form-factor stuff that makes any attempt to upgrade "an experience".
Quite well done, too.
Play Solitaire on the computer!!!
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Just because you don't see any text in that file doesn't mean it isn't full of all kinds of scary stuff. :-)
How do they know exactly how high they can get away with pricing their software without starting a mass revolt unless they have access to everyone's financial info?
Only from the "laughing to keep from crying" standpoint. Ain't it amazing that companies these days have to jump through hoops to keep the share price jacked up to please people who want the price high so that they can bail out of the company, because otherwise the company will have to pay a bunch of legal fees and still possibly wind up transferring money that belongs to all the shareholders to some of the shareholders, instead of being able to tend to their knitting and maximize the amount of profits that can be divided up betweeen all the people who buy and hold the stock?
Wasn't it IBM that was known for no layoffs? And didn't that policy bite the dust big time about 10 years ago?
What's new here is that Katz found a way to tie it to the internet, so maybe he can pad it out to another page or two and sell it to Wired or somebody. On the whole, though, this is one of his better articles, short and to the point.
Early Post? Was he related to Emily Post or was it Wiley Post?
They should call it undercoating and charge a lot of money for it.
Actually that's the lesser of two weasels.
They might expect failure or they might accept failure but I'm not sure that they will except failure. Of course with monkeys, especially certified ones, one can never be sure.
I suspect the flamebait part was saying that Republicans differed from everyone else in thinking that the rich *should* be given tax breaks unavailable to others just because they're rich.
Look at a Giga-Byte GA-586IP some time. No IDE, no floppy, no serial, no parallel. Had some PCI slots, but PCI combo controller cards are harder to find than P24T chips.
I just had a really unpleasant thought about the true origin and composition of that "manna from heaven".
Shouldn't the law be the same regardless of the marital status of the secretary?
"If you want to minimize cost and performance"...wouldn't you just spend nothing and receive same? :-)
Too bad it won't be likely to start a trend.