...an eternal, shriveled corporate coma sucking on the life support of patent lawsuits and royalties...
I think SCO would be a much better target for the sentiment of this article:
"Dear SCO: Make the world a better place -- just go away already. K Thx Bye"
I'm also in NYC. I see none near my home (Brooklyn) but I see them all over the place in the downtown/Wall Street area - every bodega down here has a fridgecase full of 'em...
I was lucky -- I live in NYC and got off the subway 10 minutes before the blackout. If I had missed that train I probably would have ended up having to walk out from the middle of one of the east river tunnels.
350,000 people were on the NYC subway when the blackout hit. That had to -suck-....
Well... And having worked in the industry a few years ago... They probably have one and only one uplink for each feed -- they're sending it up to a satellite where the cable systems and satellite providers downlink and feed it out to their subscribers. They probably can't differentiate to send it to -only- Echostar. Satellites are expensive and feeds are precious, etc.
Although the ads were -directed- at DishNetwork viewers they were visible on other networks. I saw the "Attention Dish Network Subscribers" message when watching Comedy Central over the weekend -- and I have Time Warner Cable in NYC. I'm most certainly not who they were looking to reach.
Used to live in a house where I had Dish Network. It was fine, carried NASA-TV, etc. EXPENSIVE though - my bill for 'most everything was more than $100/mo. It would rarely go out -- usually not -during- storms, but just before -- anywhere from 30 sec to 30 min. It'd have to be a pretty good sized storm coming in, though.
Moved to the city and now I have Time Warner Cable. It's cheaper (about $80) for everything, AND YOU CAN GET A DIGITAL CABLE BOX WITH A BUILT-IN DVR. Very very useful. Works in all respects similar to TiVo except for the automatic taping of things it thinks you'd be interested in. There's an additional $6/mo charge to use it... That being said, channel choices are not as good - no NASA TV.
All in all, I'm impressed with TW. Their customer service is pretty good, the installer was plesant and on-time when the service was set up, and in six months of service (knock wood), I've not had a single outage on my cablemodem or TV service. Cablemodem is FAST too - 3mbps down, 384kbps up.
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In related news, the NRF has released another report explaining that the sky is blue.
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Check out this unix ad, also from 1981 (hi Bob! -dp). Brought to you by Bell Labs. It's amazing how times have changed......
...an eternal, shriveled corporate coma sucking on the life support of patent lawsuits and royalties... I think SCO would be a much better target for the sentiment of this article: "Dear SCO: Make the world a better place -- just go away already. K Thx Bye"
I'm also in NYC. I see none near my home (Brooklyn) but I see them all over the place in the downtown/Wall Street area - every bodega down here has a fridgecase full of 'em...
I was lucky -- I live in NYC and got off the subway 10 minutes before the blackout. If I had missed that train I probably would have ended up having to walk out from the middle of one of the east river tunnels. 350,000 people were on the NYC subway when the blackout hit. That had to -suck-....
Well... And having worked in the industry a few years ago... They probably have one and only one uplink for each feed -- they're sending it up to a satellite where the cable systems and satellite providers downlink and feed it out to their subscribers. They probably can't differentiate to send it to -only- Echostar. Satellites are expensive and feeds are precious, etc.
Substantially better writeup of the issues involved here.
Although the ads were -directed- at DishNetwork viewers they were visible on other networks. I saw the "Attention Dish Network Subscribers" message when watching Comedy Central over the weekend -- and I have Time Warner Cable in NYC. I'm most certainly not who they were looking to reach.
Used to live in a house where I had Dish Network. It was fine, carried NASA-TV, etc. EXPENSIVE though - my bill for 'most everything was more than $100/mo. It would rarely go out -- usually not -during- storms, but just before -- anywhere from 30 sec to 30 min. It'd have to be a pretty good sized storm coming in, though. Moved to the city and now I have Time Warner Cable. It's cheaper (about $80) for everything, AND YOU CAN GET A DIGITAL CABLE BOX WITH A BUILT-IN DVR. Very very useful. Works in all respects similar to TiVo except for the automatic taping of things it thinks you'd be interested in. There's an additional $6/mo charge to use it... That being said, channel choices are not as good - no NASA TV. All in all, I'm impressed with TW. Their customer service is pretty good, the installer was plesant and on-time when the service was set up, and in six months of service (knock wood), I've not had a single outage on my cablemodem or TV service. Cablemodem is FAST too - 3mbps down, 384kbps up.