There are about double the number of cable modem users as DSL users
Cablers are more satisfied than DSLers with their service
Cable costs less and is faster
Cable is installed faster and with fewer problems
I don't know about you, but that looks like a slam-dunk for cable. Don't get me wrong, I have no love for the cable monopolies. But at the moment, theirs is the best broadband deal. (And don't start telling me about running servers. If you want to run a server, do it right and get rack space.)
Now. If only the power companies would get off the dime and start their broadband offerings, we could really start heating up the competition...
Mail-order businesses have avoided cross-state sales taxes forever and a day, and no one makes a peep. Start taking the orders via 'net instead of via phone, and suddenly it's "me too" field day time for states? Feh. They can all bite me.
with some MEPs even claiming to feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual.
Imagine that -- contacted by (ugh) commoners. Oh, the ignominy!
I still think that to myself sometimes, when it gets to be lunchtime. Even though I never played the game obsessively or anything.
Anyone remember "Rescue on Fractalus"? The first time I got an alien instead of a pilot, not knowing that was possible (Instruction book? What instruction book?) was a moment I'll never forget. There's that deathly silence while you have your engine off and you wait for the pilot you're rescuing to run to your ship. This time, instead of <clank clank clank> of a pilot climbing steps, I got a sudden belligerent alien banging on my windshield, accompanied by a "make you jump" Thermin hit (or as close as an Atari 8-bit could come to such). I almost had a heart attack. (I was only about 15 at the time.) Thereafter, I listened hard to the sounds. They're burned into my memory now.
Also, once I played Pong (Atari model 400) for so long, my ears got oversensitive or something and the beeps sounded like they ended with thunderclaps.
...that enough of a ruckus will be kicked up over this that someone will have the following bright idea:
Let's make this illegal!
Voila. Government steps in to take over.net,.com., and.org. Everyone's screwed. So much for the free, cooperative, works-of-our-own-free-will Internet. Thanks, Verisign.
No, you look, Mr. A. Coward. Whoever puts it up gets a veto. Generals, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, your neighbor Bob, whoever. Which of those would you like to be at the mercy of?
I often have occasion to look at their DHTML reference, but the only way I can reliably find the damn thing is to google for "microsoft dhtml objects". Going directly to MS's search is worse than useless.
(And before anyone suggests I bookmark it, I never bookmark anything. I just type in an URL or Google for it. That way I'm never without my bookmarks list.)
In yet other news, 90% of people on the road right now are going five to ten MPH over the posted speed limit, despite a standing army of ticket-writing cops on patrol every minute of every day.
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I didn't realize Ctrl-Alt-Del (which, for some odd reason, I always say as "Alt Control Delete") did anything more than bring up the login box.
So...is there something in XP's Fast User Switching that ensures this same security (for whatever it's worth)?
...according to news reports, 52 out of 261 of the people sued have settled so far.
On the other other hand, this bit of news is brought to us by the RIAA themselves -- a continuation of their FUD PR stuntery.
On the other other other hand, all this still makes the RIAA look bad.
Good night, and screw the RIAA.
By what measure? According to this recent article in PCWorld Magazine:
- There are about double the number of cable modem users as DSL users
- Cablers are more satisfied than DSLers with their service
- Cable costs less and is faster
- Cable is installed faster and with fewer problems
I don't know about you, but that looks like a slam-dunk for cable. Don't get me wrong, I have no love for the cable monopolies. But at the moment, theirs is the best broadband deal. (And don't start telling me about running servers. If you want to run a server, do it right and get rack space.)Now. If only the power companies would get off the dime and start their broadband offerings, we could really start heating up the competition...
...what about a utility to set your uptime to an arbitrary value?
Mail-order businesses have avoided cross-state sales taxes forever and a day, and no one makes a peep. Start taking the orders via 'net instead of via phone, and suddenly it's "me too" field day time for states? Feh. They can all bite me.
"Now that's...COMEDY."
--Slappy Squirrel
Small industry to offend
plus
Lots of voters to please
equals
Lopsided vote
plus
Passage in record time
...about the goose and the gander, there, Batman.
Definition here.
They're trying out an egregious new tactic with someone who won't lose them a lot of sales if it backfires. "Always mount a scratch monkey."
...you insensitive clod!
:( )
(P.S. That's not a joke.
Could a puny mortal use the awesome power of DMCA as well? Consider:
Also optional, of course, are the obligatory "???" and "Profit!" steps.
(Wait...optional obligatory steps? Oh, you know what I mean...)
with some MEPs even claiming to feel harassed because they are suddenly also being lobbied by numerous concerned citizens, rather than solely by industry representatives as usual.
Imagine that -- contacted by (ugh) commoners. Oh, the ignominy!
I still think that to myself sometimes, when it gets to be lunchtime. Even though I never played the game obsessively or anything.
Anyone remember "Rescue on Fractalus"? The first time I got an alien instead of a pilot, not knowing that was possible (Instruction book? What instruction book?) was a moment I'll never forget. There's that deathly silence while you have your engine off and you wait for the pilot you're rescuing to run to your ship. This time, instead of <clank clank clank> of a pilot climbing steps, I got a sudden belligerent alien banging on my windshield, accompanied by a "make you jump" Thermin hit (or as close as an Atari 8-bit could come to such). I almost had a heart attack. (I was only about 15 at the time.) Thereafter, I listened hard to the sounds. They're burned into my memory now.
Also, once I played Pong (Atari model 400) for so long, my ears got oversensitive or something and the beeps sounded like they ended with thunderclaps.
Life-support machines (Heart-lung, etc.)?
Organ transplants?
Copy it into a computer and wind up with Mouxe Headroom?
...that enough of a ruckus will be kicked up over this that someone will have the following bright idea:
.net, .com., and .org. Everyone's screwed. So much for the free, cooperative, works-of-our-own-free-will Internet. Thanks, Verisign.
Let's make this illegal!
Voila. Government steps in to take over
...to compensate for everyone's crappy $1.99 computer speakers?
Also known as Hanlon's Razor.
No, you look, Mr. A. Coward. Whoever puts it up gets a veto. Generals, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, your neighbor Bob, whoever. Which of those would you like to be at the mercy of?
Answered: So that's why the price of laptop batteries spiked!
Created: Is it pronounced "tee zero" or "t'serro"?
Search: "boobies"
Results: First 100 of approximately 475,547,574 results displayed.
Search: "linux"
Results: Did you mean windows?
Search: "ashcroft current location"
Results: You are under arrest.
I often have occasion to look at their DHTML reference, but the only way I can reliably find the damn thing is to google for "microsoft dhtml objects". Going directly to MS's search is worse than useless.
(And before anyone suggests I bookmark it, I never bookmark anything. I just type in an URL or Google for it. That way I'm never without my bookmarks list.)
Since you're so poor, what say you and me put our money in a pile and split it?
In yet other news, 90% of people on the road right now are going five to ten MPH over the posted speed limit, despite a standing army of ticket-writing cops on patrol every minute of every day.