I'll cut my cell phone and cable long before I cut my DSL. I derive far greater value from my broadband connection, same when I had dial-up, than I do my cell phone and cable TV. I may be a weenie but anyone who discounts the benefits of the Internet is really limiting themselves. If anything I think AOL and Earthlink users are downscaling to cheaper dial-up accounts or upscaling to broadband, I'd hope that they're still staying connected.
I'm still there with the sleep terrors. Usually when I'm overtired. 1/2 hour after I fall asleep I have a vivid dream, something usually along the line of hundreds of piano wires slicing through my room, me included, or somebody drilling my room with lasers. I wake up and it takes me a full 10 minutes for my mind to clear to where I'm not looking for those wires or laser beams. This causes me to get less sleep, which causes me to have worse night terrors, which, well, you get the point. Where are the Dream Police?
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...to India I just have to laugh how pathetic the whole thing was. I used to work at NBC, a division of one of these initial adopters mentioned in the article. Even with the financial backing of GE our phone connections to India SUCKED and trying to talk tech to someone not versed in American English was a nightmare.
My favorite anecdote was when a producer at my station called the help desk because she was having problems with a networked Xerox printer (great support by Xerox, great printers, too). After explaining the problem the guy on the help desk asked her to turn the printer on and off. Thankfully she was a bit savvy and realized that the rest of us might want to print while the printer did it's lengthy reboot. So the guy tried a little more troubleshooting, she got fed up, and said "Can't you just come over and fix it?". The guy must have said "No, I'm in India" which she couldn't believe. She told him he couldn't possibly be in India and to please come fix her printer problem. He swore he was in India and couldn't. At that point she stood up in the middle of the newsroom and announced, in a very annoying %*#&%* accent, "OUR HELPDESK IS IN INDIA!" Thanks for the warning GE! I would cancel my ISP account in a heartbeat if they outsourced their helpdesk to anywhere but Canada.
And "'We have developed this into a core competitive advantage,' Boeckmann says." He must have meant core competitive DISadvantage. Sure, increase short term profits, but reduce the size of the workforce in the US, reducing the amount of people who can buy your product, reducing your profits, and finally running you into bankruptcy.
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Yep, I've never understood the "retarted" misuse. No one I know pronounces retarded that way, why do so many spell it that way?
I've become a tart again? Was I ever a tart?
I guess "DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Material Command, USAF" means nothing. Hardly just a "hobby". There's more ways than market share to measure success of a project.
OpenBSD is just about the easiest install I've done. The only place Linux and Windows users may have trouble is with disk layout. Other than that with my 1Mbps ADSL connection I can do an FTP install in 35 minutes not including X or games.
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I'll cut my cell phone and cable long before I cut my DSL. I derive far greater value from my broadband connection, same when I had dial-up, than I do my cell phone and cable TV. I may be a weenie but anyone who discounts the benefits of the Internet is really limiting themselves. If anything I think AOL and Earthlink users are downscaling to cheaper dial-up accounts or upscaling to broadband, I'd hope that they're still staying connected.
I'm still there with the sleep terrors. Usually when I'm overtired. 1/2 hour after I fall asleep I have a vivid dream, something usually along the line of hundreds of piano wires slicing through my room, me included, or somebody drilling my room with lasers. I wake up and it takes me a full 10 minutes for my mind to clear to where I'm not looking for those wires or laser beams. This causes me to get less sleep, which causes me to have worse night terrors, which, well, you get the point. Where are the Dream Police?
My favorite anecdote was when a producer at my station called the help desk because she was having problems with a networked Xerox printer (great support by Xerox, great printers, too). After explaining the problem the guy on the help desk asked her to turn the printer on and off. Thankfully she was a bit savvy and realized that the rest of us might want to print while the printer did it's lengthy reboot. So the guy tried a little more troubleshooting, she got fed up, and said "Can't you just come over and fix it?". The guy must have said "No, I'm in India" which she couldn't believe. She told him he couldn't possibly be in India and to please come fix her printer problem. He swore he was in India and couldn't. At that point she stood up in the middle of the newsroom and announced, in a very annoying %*#&%* accent, "OUR HELPDESK IS IN INDIA!" Thanks for the warning GE! I would cancel my ISP account in a heartbeat if they outsourced their helpdesk to anywhere but Canada.
And "'We have developed this into a core competitive advantage,' Boeckmann says." He must have meant core competitive DISadvantage. Sure, increase short term profits, but reduce the size of the workforce in the US, reducing the amount of people who can buy your product, reducing your profits, and finally running you into bankruptcy.
Yep, I've never understood the "retarted" misuse. No one I know pronounces retarded that way, why do so many spell it that way? I've become a tart again? Was I ever a tart?
Totally agree. Even just backing up 100MB of my most important files over my ADSL line is a PITA. Forget about the gigs of pr0n and music.
I guess "DARPA and the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Material Command, USAF" means nothing. Hardly just a "hobby". There's more ways than market share to measure success of a project.
BSD is dead? Insightful? Sounds like a troll to me considering today's article re: Mac OS X and Linux.
OpenBSD is just about the easiest install I've done. The only place Linux and Windows users may have trouble is with disk layout. Other than that with my 1Mbps ADSL connection I can do an FTP install in 35 minutes not including X or games.
...but he mentions 3.4. I think alot of us were hoping these features would make it into 3.3.
That's sad commentary on the US public then. I didn't realize that we're such a racist, homophobic, sexist, intolerant nation.
...at 40 already.