I'm currently on a free trial dial-up account while I wait for my new DSL to kick in. I was on our local bell's ADSL from almost the first moment it was introduced in 1999. They offered very little value for the price and that was fine until competition rolled in. I switched to DirecTV Broadband (formerly Telocity) about 4 months ago. In other words, about 3 months before they went out of business. I switched to DirecTV Broadband in part because they offered a static IP address for only $5 more than what I was already paying.
Last week I set up an account with Earthlink DSL (they use Covad for the last mile) and am still waiting for service to begin. Now I wonder if it ever will. The reason I picked Earthlink is because they offered a static IP for only $15 more than I was paying with the last company. For the same service via Bellsouth, I have to get a business phone line (which is much higher than a residential), get a business DSL plan (which costs more than a residential plan) and then pay an additional amount. The DSL would cost over twice as much and that doesn't include the business phone line.
You would think that Bellsouth's prices would be better than their competitors but the opposite is true. Even so, the costs aren't the only nor even main reason I didn't want to go back to the local bell. The service is. Even with the current competitors, Bellsouth's service is horrible. In the first months of offering DSL, they got away with murder. At one point, they actually told a business that called them that not only were they booked up and couldn't sign them up, they weren't even taking any more requests or booking installations until further notice. Nobody ever showed up for my first installation appointment but when I called to complain, the appointment was listed. By that time they had started their 'self-install' program so I had them mail the modem to me. The service was unpredictable for the first 6 months or year, but was pretty reliable after that. Customer service was a different story. I occassionally recieved "service addition confirmation" postcards in the mail, thanking me for signing up for some new premium (meaning 'not free') service from them. I still recieved bills in the wrong name months after changing the name on the account. I moved my DSL to DirecTV in November and I am STILL getting charged by Bellsouth for my old DSL account (which is still listed under the old account name, almost a year after changing it).
Even with Covad as a competitor, Bellsouth's prices and service are unreasonable. I shudder to think what will happen if Covad goes away. I really don't want to have to go with RoadRunner.
this interview is from 1995. Just imagine all of the dumb shit I said in 1995 (like "internet, schminternet"). Thank god nobody cares enough to drag it out and post it on slashdot.
Virtual Server is a native Windows-based server application that enables customers to run a wide range of server operating systems including Windows, Linux, Unix, OS/2 and DOS, concurrently on a single physical server, within isolated virtual machines.
the first sentence of the article: With the release of last August's ill-received "Simone," moviegoers were teased with the promise of a look at Hollywood's future.
Looker was a movie about a company(? it's been a lloooonnnngggg time) that was planning on replacing actors with CGI. Once they scanned in the actress/model/whatever, they could use the computer to make the actress do whatever they wanted, no mistakes, flubbed lines, etc. But they also killed off the actress or something like that, too. Bad business model, if you ask me. It's hard to make movies from jail.
The movie always stuck in my head, though, because one the possibility has been raised, it is hard to forget it. I've compared every CGI I've ever seen to the idea in Looker. Star Wars and LOTR are close, but they still have very far to go. Humans are hard to mimic with animation, apparently.
you have to stop worrying about truth or progress. That's your first problem. Once you throw those out the window, pick a team. Dem or Repub. US or Iraq. OSS or MS. Now you have to pretend that everything that your team does is right and everything the other team does is wrong. This, unfortunately, is how most 'debate' goes these days. Two teams fighting for half-truths instead of working toward a whole truth. It sickens me. (what a lame line that is, but it's the I can get to my true feelings without cursing)
Where you get that idea from? the link you posted said that I used to say 'web developer' when asked what I did. But I used to do a lot of things... I would help you learn to read, but that's something I used to do, not something I like to do.
I don't really care to hang out with geeks, for the most part. I don't really like most of them. My eyes glaze over before I even finish hear the words "R/C car..." or anything else to do with video games or sports.
does that work in netscape then? It shouldn't, as far as I know. the top of a background image in a table cell is supposed to be at the top of the page, not the top of the cell. The method you describe works in IE because IE does not work follow the standard.
when asked what I do, I say "computer stuff". Otherwise, it's a long string of shite with too many commas and the person asking stops listening before I finish. I used to say "web developer" but less than half of my income is made from www projects these days. "Net developer" would be more correct but then I would have to explain it.
apparently there is a never-ending stream of new people who will call me. And a large percentage of my incoming telemarketing calls are recordings, not real people.
how do you get your backgrounds to work correctly in table cells in IE? IE puts the top of the image at the top of the cell when it's supposed to be at the top of the page. Netscape and Safari (the only other browsers I've tested on) handle table cell backgrounds correctly. This causes a bit of disruption for my pages, but I can work around it.
you're arguing a different point. The parent was defening FrontPage 2002. Citibank may be written exclusively for IE, but that doesn't mean it has anything to do with Frontpage. In fact, I would say that anyone who bothers to do a browser check is a bit too advanced to use FP to do anything other than draw tables.
I am not defending IE-only sites and neither was the parent. He was defending FrontPage 2002.
But, in response to your point, we need to keep hounding anyone who produces www sites that require a certain browser. About 2 years ago, most comples sites had to ignore Netscape 4.x (or do twice as much work) because it was such a piece of crap. After a couple years of that mindset, you can't expect everyone to reverse that in a couple months. I am lucky enough to have been able to test my sites on Netscape 6.1 enough to be able to code once for Netscape and IE and have it work, but that is only because I put in the time to "unlearn" much of what I was doing in the years 2000 and 2001.
if spam is illegal, then Gore and Bush should be arrested for their lies while running for Prez, my girlfriend should be arrested for lying about my cooking, and my last boss should be arrested every time he opens his mouth.
error handling exists in.net ADO.net isn't perfect, but gives you several new ways to tackle the everyday problems OOP is the way it always should have worked. I actually sent a friend of mine an email explaining how much I loved the.net String class. He sent one back explaining what a freaking nerd I must be. I replied "no, I'm serious, it really is that fackin cool!" He didn't care. The code behind model is the next logical step in ASP programming and takes about 5 minutes to learn but is appreciated forever. Debugging in ASP? It's here now. How did we live without it? ASP.Net uses a language, not a script. This full effects of this are demonstrated over and over, each time I realize "whoa, I really can do this now".
I started with VB.net and then looked at C# and realized it was the route for me (I'm lazy and C# rolls off the fingers/mind a bit easier). I sincerely hope I never have to do an "ASP Classic" project again and will do everything in my power to make it so.
all I see on that screen shot is a start menu (which is windows XP and has nothing to do with.net) and a couple windows (which, once again, are windows and have nothing at all to do with.net).
it looks like you're talking about Windows XP GUI themes which have nothing at all to do with.net. "look" is not what.net is about at all. "widgets" could describe.net but you've only mentioned the "look" of widgets which doesn't really mean much to me, especially in a.net context because widgets can look like anything and some widgets don't have a "look" at all but we are talking about.net and.net doesn't really have much to do with looks, it is a programing platform. If you write a.net desktop application and someone runs it on windows 98, it looks like every other desktop app does (more or less). If you run it on windows xp, it (probably) looks like every other windows app does on xp (more or less). I think you have confused the windows GUI with.net and then decided to raise hell and bitch about something even though you were mistaken and had no right, authority, nor knowledge of to bitch about.
If you would like to know what.net is, just ask. If you don't want to know, then stop pretending like you do.
for example, the king of pop has 2 sons named Prince. George Forman has several sons named George. I think (but am FAR from certain) that Prince and his wife named their second child after their first one, who died before or very soon after birth. If I am wrong about that last one, all apologies, I am not in a position to research it at this moment.
There is a theme? KDE is copying it? What sort of theme are you talking about? A GUI?.Net is not a GUI. Are you talking about Windows XP? Windows XP is not.Net; Windows XP did not even ship with the.Net framework.
Once I got "in".net, I began doing everything in my power to keep from ever having to use VB6, VBScript, and/or "ASP Classic" ever again. The improvements are too great for me to go backwards unless I absolutely have to. Luckily, most of my clients are worried about the results more than the technologies used so I get to make that call.
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I'm currently on a free trial dial-up account while I wait for my new DSL to kick in. I was on our local bell's ADSL from almost the first moment it was introduced in 1999. They offered very little value for the price and that was fine until competition rolled in. I switched to DirecTV Broadband (formerly Telocity) about 4 months ago. In other words, about 3 months before they went out of business. I switched to DirecTV Broadband in part because they offered a static IP address for only $5 more than what I was already paying.
Last week I set up an account with Earthlink DSL (they use Covad for the last mile) and am still waiting for service to begin. Now I wonder if it ever will. The reason I picked Earthlink is because they offered a static IP for only $15 more than I was paying with the last company. For the same service via Bellsouth, I have to get a business phone line (which is much higher than a residential), get a business DSL plan (which costs more than a residential plan) and then pay an additional amount. The DSL would cost over twice as much and that doesn't include the business phone line.
You would think that Bellsouth's prices would be better than their competitors but the opposite is true. Even so, the costs aren't the only nor even main reason I didn't want to go back to the local bell. The service is. Even with the current competitors, Bellsouth's service is horrible. In the first months of offering DSL, they got away with murder. At one point, they actually told a business that called them that not only were they booked up and couldn't sign them up, they weren't even taking any more requests or booking installations until further notice. Nobody ever showed up for my first installation appointment but when I called to complain, the appointment was listed. By that time they had started their 'self-install' program so I had them mail the modem to me. The service was unpredictable for the first 6 months or year, but was pretty reliable after that. Customer service was a different story. I occassionally recieved "service addition confirmation" postcards in the mail, thanking me for signing up for some new premium (meaning 'not free') service from them. I still recieved bills in the wrong name months after changing the name on the account. I moved my DSL to DirecTV in November and I am STILL getting charged by Bellsouth for my old DSL account (which is still listed under the old account name, almost a year after changing it).
Even with Covad as a competitor, Bellsouth's prices and service are unreasonable. I shudder to think what will happen if Covad goes away. I really don't want to have to go with RoadRunner.
this interview is from 1995. Just imagine all of the dumb shit I said in 1995 (like "internet, schminternet"). Thank god nobody cares enough to drag it out and post it on slashdot.
From the article:
Virtual Server is a native Windows-based server application that enables customers to run a wide range of server operating systems including Windows, Linux, Unix, OS/2 and DOS, concurrently on a single physical server, within isolated virtual machines.
the first sentence of the article:
With the release of last August's ill-received "Simone," moviegoers were teased with the promise of a look at Hollywood's future.
Looker was a movie about a company(? it's been a lloooonnnngggg time) that was planning on replacing actors with CGI. Once they scanned in the actress/model/whatever, they could use the computer to make the actress do whatever they wanted, no mistakes, flubbed lines, etc. But they also killed off the actress or something like that, too. Bad business model, if you ask me. It's hard to make movies from jail.
The movie always stuck in my head, though, because one the possibility has been raised, it is hard to forget it. I've compared every CGI I've ever seen to the idea in Looker. Star Wars and LOTR are close, but they still have very far to go. Humans are hard to mimic with animation, apparently.
Anyone remember Looker (1981)? I do, it was one of my favorites that year.
I can see it now... a million gullible teens buying and installing Windows XP so they can test a beta. What an ingenius marketing plan.
you have to stop worrying about truth or progress. That's your first problem. Once you throw those out the window, pick a team. Dem or Repub. US or Iraq. OSS or MS. Now you have to pretend that everything that your team does is right and everything the other team does is wrong. This, unfortunately, is how most 'debate' goes these days. Two teams fighting for half-truths instead of working toward a whole truth. It sickens me. (what a lame line that is, but it's the I can get to my true feelings without cursing)
I would probably sue if you were spreading lies about me like that.
can you send me a link?
Where you get that idea from? the link you posted said that I used to say 'web developer' when asked what I did. But I used to do a lot of things... I would help you learn to read, but that's something I used to do, not something I like to do.
I don't really care to hang out with geeks, for the most part. I don't really like most of them. My eyes glaze over before I even finish hear the words "R/C car ..." or anything else to do with video games or sports.
does that work in netscape then? It shouldn't, as far as I know. the top of a background image in a table cell is supposed to be at the top of the page, not the top of the cell. The method you describe works in IE because IE does not work follow the standard.
when asked what I do, I say "computer stuff". Otherwise, it's a long string of shite with too many commas and the person asking stops listening before I finish. I used to say "web developer" but less than half of my income is made from www projects these days. "Net developer" would be more correct but then I would have to explain it.
apparently there is a never-ending stream of new people who will call me. And a large percentage of my incoming telemarketing calls are recordings, not real people.
how do you get your backgrounds to work correctly in table cells in IE? IE puts the top of the image at the top of the cell when it's supposed to be at the top of the page. Netscape and Safari (the only other browsers I've tested on) handle table cell backgrounds correctly. This causes a bit of disruption for my pages, but I can work around it.
How do you handle it?
you're arguing a different point. The parent was defening FrontPage 2002. Citibank may be written exclusively for IE, but that doesn't mean it has anything to do with Frontpage. In fact, I would say that anyone who bothers to do a browser check is a bit too advanced to use FP to do anything other than draw tables.
I am not defending IE-only sites and neither was the parent. He was defending FrontPage 2002.
But, in response to your point, we need to keep hounding anyone who produces www sites that require a certain browser. About 2 years ago, most comples sites had to ignore Netscape 4.x (or do twice as much work) because it was such a piece of crap. After a couple years of that mindset, you can't expect everyone to reverse that in a couple months. I am lucky enough to have been able to test my sites on Netscape 6.1 enough to be able to code once for Netscape and IE and have it work, but that is only because I put in the time to "unlearn" much of what I was doing in the years 2000 and 2001.
now you will have to buy an domain name of some sort for everything because your IP addresses will be too long to remember.
if spam is illegal, then Gore and Bush should be arrested for their lies while running for Prez, my girlfriend should be arrested for lying about my cooking, and my last boss should be arrested every time he opens his mouth.
error handling exists in .net .net String class. He sent one back explaining what a freaking nerd I must be. I replied "no, I'm serious, it really is that fackin cool!" He didn't care.
ADO.net isn't perfect, but gives you several new ways to tackle the everyday problems
OOP is the way it always should have worked.
I actually sent a friend of mine an email explaining how much I loved the
The code behind model is the next logical step in ASP programming and takes about 5 minutes to learn but is appreciated forever.
Debugging in ASP? It's here now. How did we live without it?
ASP.Net uses a language, not a script. This full effects of this are demonstrated over and over, each time I realize "whoa, I really can do this now".
I started with VB.net and then looked at C# and realized it was the route for me (I'm lazy and C# rolls off the fingers/mind a bit easier). I sincerely hope I never have to do an "ASP Classic" project again and will do everything in my power to make it so.
but it isn't ".net".
.net) and a couple windows (which, once again, are windows and have nothing at all to do with .net).
.net. "look" is not what .net is about at all. "widgets" could describe .net but you've only mentioned the "look" of widgets which doesn't really mean much to me, especially in a .net context because widgets can look like anything and some widgets don't have a "look" at all but we are talking about .net and .net doesn't really have much to do with looks, it is a programing platform. If you write a .net desktop application and someone runs it on windows 98, it looks like every other desktop app does (more or less). If you run it on windows xp, it (probably) looks like every other windows app does on xp (more or less). I think you have confused the windows GUI with .net and then decided to raise hell and bitch about something even though you were mistaken and had no right, authority, nor knowledge of to bitch about.
.net is, just ask. If you don't want to know, then stop pretending like you do.
all I see on that screen shot is a start menu (which is windows XP and has nothing to do with
it looks like you're talking about Windows XP GUI themes which have nothing at all to do with
If you would like to know what
create a free product that is so hard to install/configure/operate/repair that you have to pay for support.
for example, the king of pop has 2 sons named Prince. George Forman has several sons named George. I think (but am FAR from certain) that Prince and his wife named their second child after their first one, who died before or very soon after birth. If I am wrong about that last one, all apologies, I am not in a position to research it at this moment.
There is a theme? KDE is copying it? What sort of theme are you talking about? A GUI? .Net is not a GUI. Are you talking about Windows XP? Windows XP is not .Net; Windows XP did not even ship with the .Net framework.
curly brackets don't make a language Java.
.NET version of Java. C# is a step forward from that. I'm sure the next version of Java will be a step forward from C#.
J# is the
Once I got "in" .net, I began doing everything in my power to keep from ever having to use VB6, VBScript, and/or "ASP Classic" ever again. The improvements are too great for me to go backwards unless I absolutely have to. Luckily, most of my clients are worried about the results more than the technologies used so I get to make that call.