The monitor actually didn't look quite so great from the angle I saw in that picture. It appeared to me kind of as if the screen was being shot at a blank white curve from a projector somewhere behind the seated man, which of course isn't the case, but it just looked that way to me. I also don't like how they called it D# (D Sharp). I don't like C# either, but that's another story.
Yes, but I don't think Microsoft comes quite so close to the horror of that. Well, maybe with this new Palladium technology (if you can call it that, I thought technology is supposed to solve problems, not create them)... but I don't want to start another threat on that.
The internet is not meant to be a broadcast medium, nor is it very good as one.
I disagree. What's a web server? All you may see is yourself making a single connection to that server, but it's really providing content to thousands, possibly millions more, at the same time. Isn't that basically the same as a TV or radio broadcast? One sender providing content to many receivers?
I dislike companies that try blur the line between Internet access providers and Internet Content providers.
I agree completely with this portion. Not because Comcast couldn't give me the news just like Slashdot does (as if they don't have the bandwidth? pff), but because Comcast has enough trouble giving me my Internet connection bug-free. When I have a steady, fast connection that is as reliable as my TV or radio or toaster or other household appliance, then they can start working on content. Till then, focus, guys.
- Jeff
"For a long time, we kept asking cable operators to let us import our traditional business model into the broadband arena," said Lisa Hook, who oversees America Online's high-speed, or broadband, business for AOL Time Warner. "We kept saying, `Sell us wholesale access to your network and we will have the direct relationship with the customer,' " Ms. Hook recalled in an interview last week. "It became clear that that was really unknown in the cable industry, and we've realized that moving more toward an HBO model for carriage makes a lot of sense."
I currently use a Comcast cable modem connection, and used to have a lot of problems with it (though lately it's been fine). I didn't enjoy calling tech support, because the level 1 guys are flunkies reading off a clipboard, but once you get to level 2 you can get some actual help. And when you have a serious problem that it takes a computer geek just like yourself to understand, Comcast actually has one somewhere up the line.
That's because they kind of care. While AT&T, Comcast, and others like them are large corporations, they still manage to deal with their users reasonably well. I'm sure more localized providers like Cox and Optimum Online do a great job with customer relations.
That said, I'm much happier that America Online has chosen this route. I'd have to have AOL, the most faceless company on the face of the Earth, be helping me with my tech support questions and installations. When I have a question that it needs an expert to answer, I don't want to speak to one of a hundred thousand AOL flunkies.
Better to have those with "the direct relationship with the customer" be those who actually know what state the customer lives in.
Most life insurance (at least the ones I've seen advertisements for, that's the only way I'd know anything about them, much too young to seriously think about it) pays cash to the family when someone dies... but are there life insurance plans that simply cover the costs of the funeral and other ceremonies connected with the death, up to the point where the person needs it, kind of like car insurance or other damage insurance? If so, would it ever cover this?;)
Did those others get Slashdot coverage? EBay is massive and his site isn't exactly easy to find, I don't think it's that there was nobody interested... more likely that nobody knew about it. Then again, $15,000 is a lot of money...
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The monitor actually didn't look quite so great from the angle I saw in that picture. It appeared to me kind of as if the screen was being shot at a blank white curve from a projector somewhere behind the seated man, which of course isn't the case, but it just looked that way to me. I also don't like how they called it D# (D Sharp). I don't like C# either, but that's another story.
Yes, but I don't think Microsoft comes quite so close to the horror of that. Well, maybe with this new Palladium technology (if you can call it that, I thought technology is supposed to solve problems, not create them)... but I don't want to start another threat on that.
The internet is not meant to be a broadcast medium, nor is it very good as one. I disagree. What's a web server? All you may see is yourself making a single connection to that server, but it's really providing content to thousands, possibly millions more, at the same time. Isn't that basically the same as a TV or radio broadcast? One sender providing content to many receivers? I dislike companies that try blur the line between Internet access providers and Internet Content providers. I agree completely with this portion. Not because Comcast couldn't give me the news just like Slashdot does (as if they don't have the bandwidth? pff), but because Comcast has enough trouble giving me my Internet connection bug-free. When I have a steady, fast connection that is as reliable as my TV or radio or toaster or other household appliance, then they can start working on content. Till then, focus, guys. - Jeff
"For a long time, we kept asking cable operators to let us import our traditional business model into the broadband arena," said Lisa Hook, who oversees America Online's high-speed, or broadband, business for AOL Time Warner. "We kept saying, `Sell us wholesale access to your network and we will have the direct relationship with the customer,' " Ms. Hook recalled in an interview last week. "It became clear that that was really unknown in the cable industry, and we've realized that moving more toward an HBO model for carriage makes a lot of sense."
I currently use a Comcast cable modem connection, and used to have a lot of problems with it (though lately it's been fine). I didn't enjoy calling tech support, because the level 1 guys are flunkies reading off a clipboard, but once you get to level 2 you can get some actual help. And when you have a serious problem that it takes a computer geek just like yourself to understand, Comcast actually has one somewhere up the line.
That's because they kind of care. While AT&T, Comcast, and others like them are large corporations, they still manage to deal with their users reasonably well. I'm sure more localized providers like Cox and Optimum Online do a great job with customer relations.
That said, I'm much happier that America Online has chosen this route. I'd have to have AOL, the most faceless company on the face of the Earth, be helping me with my tech support questions and installations. When I have a question that it needs an expert to answer, I don't want to speak to one of a hundred thousand AOL flunkies.
Better to have those with "the direct relationship with the customer" be those who actually know what state the customer lives in.
- Jeff
Most life insurance (at least the ones I've seen advertisements for, that's the only way I'd know anything about them, much too young to seriously think about it) pays cash to the family when someone dies... but are there life insurance plans that simply cover the costs of the funeral and other ceremonies connected with the death, up to the point where the person needs it, kind of like car insurance or other damage insurance? If so, would it ever cover this? ;)
Did those others get Slashdot coverage? EBay is massive and his site isn't exactly easy to find, I don't think it's that there was nobody interested... more likely that nobody knew about it. Then again, $15,000 is a lot of money...
Most of the pictures on the page have a little note under them saying what's being sold doesn't include everything shown. What is included?
Hahaha. I just finished reading that book, and they sure are.