... and French literature quickly devolved in to a mess of lurid, pornographics tracts, works that could be quickly written with no need for quality; French literature never really recovered from this.
the current state of US music/movies/TV/books could be summed up as "lurid, pornographics tracts".
how long can electronics manufacturers stand up to the FCC and the MPAA/TV/RIAA cartel? the news over the last few months has become increasingly grim: SDMI, "copy protection" DTV, hard drive IDs, Carnivore, govt. backdoors into Cisco routers, etc. etc. when the powers that be have locks and IDs on all hardware under the sun, where does that leave us? shouting "free information!" through a tin can?
looking back at the whole anti-Divx campaign, we geeks really got suckered. yipee Divx is dead, "Open" DVD won! seems to me we'll go down the same route with the next round of cool gear (which will restrict our freedom just a little more) as the Creative's and the Toshiba's cave in. we're doomed.
I'm currently using AT&T@Home (Des Moines, IA) for one reasons, and one reason only: ADSL from US West blows. I was paying for a 256Kbps link, and was seeing roughly 30Kbps throughput. I won't even talk about the latency.
I use USQwest's 256k DSL service -- which in my case is 256k up and 384k-512k down. I was getting 640k down at my old place which was much closer to the CO, but my new place is right at the end of the line when it comes to DSL, and on rare occasion the line quality will really deteriorate (extreme packet loss) but 99% of the time its just fine. I'm really happy with the service overall.
sounds like you were too far from the CO, didn't they test that before-hand?
I run the following fansite for Tad Williams, if you're interested in learning more about his works, reading some of his poems, or just chatting with him and other fans:
Slashdot Mirror
the conclusion
28 freakin' pages... SharkyExtreme is a joke!
holy shit! this geek spelled "Definitely" correctly!
you da man.
how long can electronics manufacturers stand up to the FCC and the MPAA/TV/RIAA cartel? the news over the last few months has become increasingly grim: SDMI, "copy protection" DTV, hard drive IDs, Carnivore, govt. backdoors into Cisco routers, etc. etc. when the powers that be have locks and IDs on all hardware under the sun, where does that leave us? shouting "free information!" through a tin can?
looking back at the whole anti-Divx campaign, we geeks really got suckered. yipee Divx is dead, "Open" DVD won! seems to me we'll go down the same route with the next round of cool gear (which will restrict our freedom just a little more) as the Creative's and the Toshiba's cave in. we're doomed.
I use USQwest's 256k DSL service -- which in my case is 256k up and 384k-512k down. I was getting 640k down at my old place which was much closer to the CO, but my new place is right at the end of the line when it comes to DSL, and on rare occasion the line quality will really deteriorate (extreme packet loss) but 99% of the time its just fine. I'm really happy with the service overall.
sounds like you were too far from the CO, didn't they test that before-hand?
a great source of DSL knowledge can be found at http://www.dslreports.com/
so who is the most downloaded woman with REAL TITS?
"We should tax activities that we don't like" - Nader
-luxeliminate ICANN. allow any and all TLDs.
I run the following fansite for Tad Williams, if you're interested in learning more about his works, reading some of his poems, or just chatting with him and other fans:
http://www.halcyon.com/eneuman/tad/
how bout a filterable 'small' topic so us people without the tiny-device fetish can stop groaning every 4 visits to slashdot?
n/t