The Captain has nade it known through his representatives that this animal is Fast And Bulbous. It is unknown at this time whether is also a Tin Teardrop.
Bundling is how the cable companies can get away with charging what they do for basic cable, but I'll bet that the cost per channel will be higher if this were to happen.
There are also other potential problems. How would these a la carte channels be billed? Monthly? Daily? There are already problems with customers calling up and requesting say HBO for one night. Since the channel is billed as a monthly service you will see an entire month price for the channel, and then a prorated credit applied after the channel is removed (plus a service charge.) Doing this for one channel fucks the bills up almost beyond recognition.
Imagine ordering the Independent Film Channel to see one movie, and then removing it, and then say adding Sci-Fi, Bravo, removing TV Land. This could start bringing us ever closer to metered use.
McCrappy is especially vulnerable to this, and not only that, in it's popup alert it uses the language "Your PC is under attack from..."
Amen brother,
I cannot tell you how many times that customers, friends, clients have told me that their PC was "under attack" because of some incidental port scan that was detected by their "firewall" (sneer quotes intentional). Under attack? I guess those marketing people want to make their products seem important, but damn... My crappy old P133 running FreeBSD has been "under attack" for years.
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The Captain has nade it known through his representatives that this animal is Fast And Bulbous. It is unknown at this time whether is also a Tin Teardrop.
Is because Steve Gibson codes them with 100% Assembly Language.
There are also other potential problems. How would these a la carte channels be billed? Monthly? Daily? There are already problems with customers calling up and requesting say HBO for one night. Since the channel is billed as a monthly service you will see an entire month price for the channel, and then a prorated credit applied after the channel is removed (plus a service charge.) Doing this for one channel fucks the bills up almost beyond recognition.
Imagine ordering the Independent Film Channel to see one movie, and then removing it, and then say adding Sci-Fi, Bravo, removing TV Land. This could start bringing us ever closer to metered use.
Amen brother, I cannot tell you how many times that customers, friends, clients have told me that their PC was "under attack" because of some incidental port scan that was detected by their "firewall" (sneer quotes intentional). Under attack? I guess those marketing people want to make their products seem important, but damn... My crappy old P133 running FreeBSD has been "under attack" for years.