Absolutely. We live in DownTown Seattle and get no service.
We just started the process of switching to Verizon and have found that Verizon is bending over backwards to help, while Sprint Customer service won't even talk to us.
Normally, I enjoy the different points of view presented by Mr. Katz, however, today I really do have to say that he's jumping at shadows. To say that T/W and AOL will have a monopoly is a major disservice to all the independent news sources, websites, and businesses of the world.
AOL does not have all the internet customers in the world. I don't use them, as a matter of fact, I only know 5 people that use AOL with any frequency. Hell, a relative of mine recently retired from AOL, and guess what, he has an email address from a small independent ISP in VA.
Just as AOL doesn't have all the People on the net, neither does Time Warner have all the news sources or cable channels on the TV. Last I checked, T/W had several large competitors (Hmmm.... A certain mouse comes to mind).
There will always be alternate avenues to news than T/W just as there are always alternates to AOL internet access. This is why a combined T/W-AOL is not a monopoly, and not necessarily a bad thing either. Last I checked, AOL does not stop you from seeing websites outside of their network. Hey, maybe, just MAYBE, someone reading this post is dialing into AOL. (GASP!)
The point is, this is no where near a monopoly like the un-said Washington State organization (and I'm not talking poke'crack) There is healthy competition in all the surrounding markets, and it is highly, very highly, improbable that a media giant could simply cause competition to cease.
When I started at my current company, we had some pretty cool server names... They all were based on some celestial body, we had cool ones, NS-Pluto, NS-Mars, NS-Earth, and oh, 40 more. Then the management decided to change to something that the offsite people could recognize. So now we've got NS-(location)-(server type) which makes for some pretty lame names... NS-BCO-FS1, NS-BCO-FS2, or NS-BWJ-BDC1.
That's why when I started my own company I settled on a a naming scheme you'd have to love. Our first server (which handles everything of course) is Tiamat, mother of the gods. The Developement Box is Bahamut, who carries the world (and an elephant) on it's shoulders. And the Marketing box is Loki, god of mischief.
I'm sure we'll settle on a more stable naming convention once we get some more servers, but even then we'll use the names to help personalize and identify the servers.
God knows I'll never let a lame named server in *MY* company!
Actually, Williams style tends to follow more classical lines. There are no parts of Jaws that follows any StarWars like themes, nor are there parts of others (don't have my CD collection here at work). However, if you listen to Holst at all, you'll notice a striking simularity to Mars, hrbinger of war. I think Williams does great on composing the stuff for the movies though. I bet if I played a bar or two from almost any SW movie, you'd be able to place it:)
In defense of the Doctors out there, alot of the time it's the parents that ask for antibiotics, that's one of the reasons that they're losing effectiveness.
-Relkin Relkin@RPEX.com
PS: I have no connection to the medical field, I'm in Marketing.
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Absolutely. We live in DownTown Seattle and get no service.
We just started the process of switching to Verizon and have found that Verizon is bending over backwards to help, while Sprint Customer service won't even talk to us.
AOL does not have all the internet customers in the world. I don't use them, as a matter of fact, I only know 5 people that use AOL with any frequency. Hell, a relative of mine recently retired from AOL, and guess what, he has an email address from a small independent ISP in VA.
Just as AOL doesn't have all the People on the net, neither does Time Warner have all the news sources or cable channels on the TV. Last I checked, T/W had several large competitors (Hmmm.... A certain mouse comes to mind).
There will always be alternate avenues to news than T/W just as there are always alternates to AOL internet access. This is why a combined T/W-AOL is not a monopoly, and not necessarily a bad thing either. Last I checked, AOL does not stop you from seeing websites outside of their network. Hey, maybe, just MAYBE, someone reading this post is dialing into AOL. (GASP!)
The point is, this is no where near a monopoly like the un-said Washington State organization (and I'm not talking poke'crack) There is healthy competition in all the surrounding markets, and it is highly, very highly, improbable that a media giant could simply cause competition to cease.
-Relkin
That's why when I started my own company I settled on a a naming scheme you'd have to love. Our first server (which handles everything of course) is Tiamat, mother of the gods. The Developement Box is Bahamut, who carries the world (and an elephant) on it's shoulders. And the Marketing box is Loki, god of mischief.
I'm sure we'll settle on a more stable naming convention once we get some more servers, but even then we'll use the names to help personalize and identify the servers.
God knows I'll never let a lame named server in *MY* company!
Dave 'Relkin' Stansel
CEO / Owner
Odysseys Network, Inc
Actually, Williams style tends to follow more classical lines. There are no parts of Jaws that follows any StarWars like themes, nor are there parts of others (don't have my CD collection here at work). However, if you listen to Holst at all, you'll notice a striking simularity to Mars, hrbinger of war. I think Williams does great on composing the stuff for the movies though. I bet if I played a bar or two from almost any SW movie, you'd be able to place it :)
-Relkin
Relkin@_RPEX.com
"Windows : (n) Job security for Techs"
Hey, a reason to get to work early.... God I love that 10baseT! Now I wonder which user's gonna let me use their 21inch monitor to see it.....
-Relkin
relkin@_rpex.com
In defense of the Doctors out there, alot of the time it's the parents that ask for antibiotics, that's one of the reasons that they're losing effectiveness.
-Relkin
Relkin@RPEX.com
PS: I have no connection to the medical field, I'm in Marketing.