Yeah, but then again here in Cleveland, Ohio, I don't have to worry about North Korea...
Police directly traffic with no cars, nice looking buildings with nothing and nobody inside, people eating tree bark and their neighbors... and with their fingers on the trigger of nukes. Not a recipe for safety, by a long stretch. But, hey, congrats on the high speed for cheap!:^)
Cox Cable HSI (Hi Speed Internet) here in the Cleveland, Ohio, area is VERY reliable and VERY fast! I have had outages, usually lasting only a few minutes. The only times it was worse than that was when commercial power (as opposed to residential power) was lost on their side of town and cable TV and internet were gone for almost two days (not their fault, and they brought in a generator to get cable TV back up before the power company could get things fixed). The other two times were also due to power loss, but lasted less than a day. In each instance, they credited my account (although I did have to call). I check my speed regularly, on what I find to be a very consistent test site (if it feels slow to me the test shows it is, and if it feels fine to me the test shows it is), and I get the advertised "up to" speeds of 3 Mbps download and 256 Kbps upload. I also use other test sites and see good results. Cox customer service is FANTASTIC! I hardly ever have to wait, and they are VERY friendly (at both the local and HSI 800). The cost is $44.95 per month, but since we also have regular cable TV it is only $34.95 per month. I imagine that at least the local service will vary from area to area. If you are in the Cleveland, Ohio, area you could do worse (like SBC)!:^) I only wish that I could run servers, but the TOS says no. Perhaps this will change with the increased competition mentioned in the article!
Well, that is a silly business model. Of course you always want to bring in new customers to keep your business growing, but if you mistreat long time customers, especially those who spend a LOT of money, then you have to bring in even more new people just to tread water. You should treat long time customers at least the same as new ones, and this system does NOT.
Great, can we all make up numbers to prove our points and feel better about ourselves. You sound like Jerry Seinfeld saying, "one of my friends is up, and the other is down, and I'm back to even". The real world does NOT work like that. Again, the people spending the most money should at LEAST be treated the same as people spending less money or no money at all, and under this system they are NOT!
People who spend the most money should at LEAST be treated the same as people spending far less money or no money at all, and under this system they are NOT.
Oh, I see, so they only mistreat people who give them a LOT of money, as opposed to, say, people who want to give them a little money or no money at all. It makes sense when you explain it like that. NOT!!!
You beat me to it! This company represents everything that is wrong with business (and I have two small businesses of my own, and no I do not run them like this). When you TRICK new people into becoming customers on the basis of your excellent quick service only to pull the rug out from under them, well, you suck.
Everyone should boycott this crap company!!! But take it a step further and TELL THEM WHY!
It certainly isn't for quality or ease of use. I've got to jump through hoops to turn it into something I watch on my DVD player, and I can't be the only person who wants to do that!
I agree. I stopped reading after he misunderstood the energy generation part (as I stated above, Morpheus clearly says humans are like batteries). Oh well... at least he likes the movie enough to waste his time writing about it, even if he does not understand it very well.
I think it does pass that test, and know several people who, like myself, watch it again and again. On the other hand, after buying Gladiator, I watched it once and thought "gee, Sparticus in a different order" (general/slave/gladiator instead of slave/gladiator/general) and never watched it again. There are NO other movies like TM. And the sequels may well be better...
He is dead wrong on this. The movie is quite clear that the process centers around humans as the source, not the manager of the energy. Morpheus says that the Matrix has turned human beings into "this" and holds up a battery.
Well, I remember seeing Neo and Trinity kissing at that point. Maybe your DVD didn't have that scene.:^) I don't know what Morpheus and Tank were doing...;^)
My Micro$oft Intellimou$e Optical has five buttons and a wheel (on the middle button). I own two and think they are the best mice around, and they work under Linux too!
Re:For a company, rebates are wonderful.
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You should get a medal for such a well written post. All the points you made are 100% accurate. But I still do the rebates, because I've had great luck with them. Try handwriting NO SPAM on the forms. I do and have noticed no additional junk since I started rebating... Only Imation has screwed me by not paying me (you owe me $10 Imation, you rat bastards!)
Back in the day, I ran a BBS and my little group of phreaks and hackers got some conference calls going with John Draper, Steve Wozniak and a few other "old-timers". One of us taped the calls, over several different days, and sent them to me. I still have them, although he made them in such a way that he can be heard quite well and everyone else is very faint. Oh well...good times! Steve Wozniak tried to get Steve Jobs to join the conference, but he wouldn't. Woz gave us all his phone numbers, including private home, so we could reach him. John Draper was great, and the guy who made the tapes stayed with him for a day once when he traveled to where John lived (for a reason that escapes me). John even sent me, through that guy, a copy of the schematics for his famous Apple II phone board. Oh well, I could go on and on. But I won't!:^)
they chose to create a character for THAT reason instead of creating one as a direct protest to the brutal treatment the dictator of Iraq subjected his people to, while spending the countries oil wealth money on things for his own pleasure (including the torture and murder of Iraqies). It sure shows where their priorities are, and for that matter how out of whack with reality they are. Loons... Screw 'em!
"One of the main characters - the Muslim mercenary Oran - was created as a direct protest of the continued sanctions against the nation of Iraq."
It is slow on my 1.3 Ghz Athlon with 1GB of SDRAM, GeForce 4 MX440 AGP. Not bad, but slow. I'll stick with the 640 resized to full screen. This movie is going to ROCK! I hope #3 is good too.
I was flipping channels some months ago, and saw Vin on MTV being interviewed. I decided to watch and came away with a new appreciation for the intelligence of bricks. That guy is SO f'ing stupid. I can't believe that let him go around showing it! You'd think they would want to keep that hidden. K.R. is a MUCH better actor than V.D. and smarter too, he does very few interviews!;^)
Correct. The way I've always heard the story was that the Bros. approached WB about a trilogy and were told that since they had never directed ANY movies before, they couldn't do it first. So they wrote/directed Bound and only then were they given the money for the original Matrix film. The success of that film got the other two parts of the trilogy funded. Yeah!
Ignore the watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside). The SUN warms this planet, and it goes through cycles, which change the weather here.
Or more likely, write your comment on a brown paper bag and fill it with $12,000,000 in cash and take it to your state's Democrat party. Don't have $12,000,000, no problem. You can hold a coffee at Daschle or Hillary's, or a fund raiser with monks.
If Apple wants market share for their computers...
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They would cut the price! That is how you increase market share. They price themselves out of a bigger market. With a marketing plan like they have, they deserve to fail!
And before you start flinging accusations, I STILL own my Apple II+, IIe, IIc and IIgs systems from way back! Back then they had clone systems, and people still bought Apple brand. Apple prided themselves on being open. What happened!?!
I'd buy a new Mac, if it were cheaper... Lots of cheaper sales are better than a few sales at a higher price. I speak from personal experience!
Uhm, they had this for the Atari 2600!
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I have, somewhere in a box, a flier from way back in the Atari 2600 days for a service that allowed you to download games for your Atari 2600 via telephone to a device you installed in your cartridge slot. The games changed monthly or so, and you could save (I believe) two of them on the device at any time and play them as long as you wanted to. Everything old is new again...
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Yeah, but then again here in Cleveland, Ohio,
:^)
I don't have to worry about North Korea...
Police directly traffic with no cars, nice
looking buildings with nothing and nobody inside,
people eating tree bark and their neighbors...
and with their fingers on the trigger of nukes.
Not a recipe for safety, by a long stretch. But,
hey, congrats on the high speed for cheap!
Cox Cable HSI (Hi Speed Internet) here in the :^) I
Cleveland, Ohio, area is VERY reliable and VERY
fast! I have had outages, usually lasting only
a few minutes. The only times it was worse than
that was when commercial power (as opposed to
residential power) was lost on their side of town
and cable TV and internet were gone for almost
two days (not their fault, and they brought in a
generator to get cable TV back up before the
power company could get things fixed). The other
two times were also due to power loss, but lasted
less than a day. In each instance, they credited
my account (although I did have to call). I check
my speed regularly, on what I find to be a very
consistent test site (if it feels slow to me the
test shows it is, and if it feels fine to me the
test shows it is), and I get the advertised
"up to" speeds of 3 Mbps download and 256 Kbps
upload. I also use other test sites and see good
results. Cox customer service is FANTASTIC! I
hardly ever have to wait, and they are VERY
friendly (at both the local and HSI 800). The
cost is $44.95 per month, but since we also have
regular cable TV it is only $34.95 per month. I
imagine that at least the local service will vary
from area to area. If you are in the Cleveland,
Ohio, area you could do worse (like SBC)!
only wish that I could run servers, but the TOS
says no. Perhaps this will change with the
increased competition mentioned in the article!
Well, that is a silly business model. Of course
you always want to bring in new customers to keep
your business growing, but if you mistreat long
time customers, especially those who spend a LOT
of money, then you have to bring in even more
new people just to tread water. You should treat
long time customers at least the same as new ones,
and this system does NOT.
Great, can we all make up numbers to prove
our points and feel better about ourselves.
You sound like Jerry Seinfeld saying, "one
of my friends is up, and the other is down,
and I'm back to even". The real world does
NOT work like that. Again, the people spending
the most money should at LEAST be treated the
same as people spending less money or no money
at all, and under this system they are NOT!
Uhm, no, it can't.
People who spend the most money should at LEAST
be treated the same as people spending far less
money or no money at all, and under this system
they are NOT.
Oh, I see, so they only mistreat people who give
them a LOT of money, as opposed to, say, people
who want to give them a little money or no money
at all. It makes sense when you explain it like
that. NOT!!!
You beat me to it! This company represents
everything that is wrong with business (and
I have two small businesses of my own, and
no I do not run them like this). When you
TRICK new people into becoming customers on
the basis of your excellent quick service
only to pull the rug out from under them,
well, you suck.
Everyone should boycott this crap company!!!
But take it a step further and TELL THEM WHY!
It certainly isn't for quality or ease of use.
I've got to jump through hoops to turn it into
something I watch on my DVD player, and I can't
be the only person who wants to do that!
I agree. I stopped reading after he misunderstood
the energy generation part (as I stated above,
Morpheus clearly says humans are like batteries).
Oh well... at least he likes the movie enough to
waste his time writing about it, even if he does
not understand it very well.
I think it does pass that test, and know several
people who, like myself, watch it again and again.
On the other hand, after buying Gladiator, I
watched it once and thought "gee, Sparticus in
a different order" (general/slave/gladiator
instead of slave/gladiator/general) and never
watched it again. There are NO other movies
like TM. And the sequels may well be better...
He is dead wrong on this. The movie is quite
clear that the process centers around humans
as the source, not the manager of the energy.
Morpheus says that the Matrix has turned human
beings into "this" and holds up a battery.
Well, I remember seeing Neo and Trinity kissing :^) I don't know what Morpheus and Tank ;^)
at that point. Maybe your DVD didn't have that
scene.
were doing...
Some of us never did (and I'm glad for that)! :^)
But how good could he actually be, given that fact!
My Micro$oft Intellimou$e Optical has five
buttons and a wheel (on the middle button).
I own two and think they are the best mice
around, and they work under Linux too!
You should get a medal for such a well written
post. All the points you made are 100% accurate.
But I still do the rebates, because I've had
great luck with them. Try handwriting NO SPAM
on the forms. I do and have noticed no additional
junk since I started rebating... Only Imation
has screwed me by not paying me (you owe me $10
Imation, you rat bastards!)
I don't think they did, and speaking for myself,
I don't seem to have a problem with that at all.
Maybe you just forgot the "fe"?
Back in the day, I ran a BBS and my little :^)
group of phreaks and hackers got some conference
calls going with John Draper, Steve Wozniak
and a few other "old-timers". One of us
taped the calls, over several different days,
and sent them to me. I still have them,
although he made them in such a way that he
can be heard quite well and everyone else is
very faint. Oh well...good times! Steve
Wozniak tried to get Steve Jobs to join the
conference, but he wouldn't. Woz gave us all
his phone numbers, including private home, so
we could reach him. John Draper was great,
and the guy who made the tapes stayed with
him for a day once when he traveled to where
John lived (for a reason that escapes me). John
even sent me, through that guy, a copy of the
schematics for his famous Apple II phone board.
Oh well, I could go on and on. But I won't!
they chose to create a character for THAT reason
instead of creating one as a direct protest to the
brutal treatment the dictator of Iraq subjected
his people to, while spending the countries oil
wealth money on things for his own pleasure
(including the torture and murder of Iraqies).
It sure shows where their priorities are, and
for that matter how out of whack with reality
they are. Loons... Screw 'em!
"One of the main characters - the Muslim mercenary Oran - was created as a direct protest of the continued sanctions against the nation of Iraq."
It is slow on my 1.3 Ghz Athlon with 1GB of
SDRAM, GeForce 4 MX440 AGP. Not bad, but
slow. I'll stick with the 640 resized to
full screen. This movie is going to ROCK!
I hope #3 is good too.
I was flipping channels some months ago, and ;^)
saw Vin on MTV being interviewed. I decided
to watch and came away with a new appreciation
for the intelligence of bricks. That guy is
SO f'ing stupid. I can't believe that let him
go around showing it! You'd think they would
want to keep that hidden. K.R. is a MUCH better
actor than V.D. and smarter too, he does very
few interviews!
Correct. The way I've always heard the story
was that the Bros. approached WB about a trilogy
and were told that since they had never directed
ANY movies before, they couldn't do it first.
So they wrote/directed Bound and only then were
they given the money for the original Matrix film.
The success of that film got the other two parts
of the trilogy funded. Yeah!
Ignore the watermelons (green on the
outside, red on the inside). The SUN
warms this planet, and it goes through
cycles, which change the weather here.
Or more likely, write your comment on a brown
paper bag and fill it with $12,000,000 in cash
and take it to your state's Democrat party.
Don't have $12,000,000, no problem. You can
hold a coffee at Daschle or Hillary's, or a
fund raiser with monks.
They would cut the price! That is how you
increase market share. They price themselves
out of a bigger market. With a marketing plan
like they have, they deserve to fail!
And before you start flinging accusations,
I STILL own my Apple II+, IIe, IIc and IIgs
systems from way back! Back then they had
clone systems, and people still bought Apple
brand. Apple prided themselves on being open.
What happened!?!
I'd buy a new Mac, if it were cheaper... Lots
of cheaper sales are better than a few sales at
a higher price. I speak from personal experience!
I have, somewhere in a box, a flier from way
back in the Atari 2600 days for a service that
allowed you to download games for your Atari
2600 via telephone to a device you installed
in your cartridge slot. The games changed
monthly or so, and you could save (I believe)
two of them on the device at any time and play
them as long as you wanted to. Everything old
is new again...