One place I lived the laundry machines took a little plastic card with a black pattern on them. You stuck it in the machine, and it melted the card. That way noone could retrieve them. Only downside was the only way you could get more cards was to buy them off of the rooming house owner or the RA. If the RA was out all night, you were SOL and had to find a regular coin laundry.
Maybe he's trying to go to a zSeries machine in which case it MUST be 3270. 5250 is for the AS/400, 3270 is for the mainframe. You can't just change between the two and expect it to work!
Buy cheap printers and expect to pay cheap ink prices. I spent a little more on my printer then the average person would because I use my printer. My carts, while expensive, are well under the cost of the printer combined (color +B&W). My printer doesn't jam, can do Duplex printing (with a $79 option) and with another option, can even be put on a jet direct server. I bought a HP Photosmart 1115 for around $299. It was only 200 more then the cheap Lexmark my brother bought. He constantly complains about jams and stuff with his while I have had nary a problem. Anyone see the problem?? His ink costs about the price of the printer to replace (or within a few bucks...). Anyone see a point here? You can't get a cheap printer and expect to have equally cheap ink. It will never happen. You CAN buy a moderately priced printer and get quality, decent priced ink and less hassle.
I think that printer manufactures low prices are not just to hike up cartrdige prices...I think it's to get users to dump old printers. We have several printers on campus that out lasted the computers they were bought for (or bought to service). This is OK because businesses almost always by HP Ink. PLus they know if the printer lasts, then you will buy 10 more printers when the old ones get old. It's called assuring income. Those same printers that last 10 years at work will last 20 plus years at home because we don't print as much at home. Money has to be made somewhere.
My point is if you spend more then 100 bucks on a printer, you are going to have a good experience. If you cheap out on it, well, you'll have a printer....and you may as well buy a new printer when it's ink runs out.
Leviton makes several X10 products....some better then X10's as well. I don't think they sell direct, but Smarthome sells them for sure....on that note...pop ups do SUCK alot, but that would not stop me from buyinf from X10. Sure, I hate em too, but you have to admit....everyone KNOWS who they are!;) I would buy from them. Personally, I think thats the only way they will stop popping up is if you bu something. The more people buy, the less they have to spend to get people to buy, so, less popups.....unless they get REAL greedy. Then you will have to rename porn storm X10 XCRUCIATING!;)
That's funny. Our ES/9000 was air cooled when we got rid of it (replaced with a Multiprise 2000 S/390).
Water cooling is a bad idea. First off, lots of use to have this stuff years ago, but don't now because we all switched to air cooled stuff. Secondly, Water is just a bad deal with the rest of te stuff that will be in the room with the huge disk array. What happens if one of these pipes burst some night? Water everywhere. I also expect IBM to get this to be aircooled eventually. I remember a anecdote about our old ES/9000. Story goes is that we almost installed a water cooling system because at the time, that was the rage in Mainframes. Big, honking water cooled units. Now, that is not the trend although alternative cooling seems to be needed soon because the danged 1-2 u servers get hot!
Why must everyone slam stuff that may not be the fastest? I mean like speedy stuff too, but sometimes USB would be fine. You don't need a real speedy bus to run a CD-RW. Also, on his hardware, it probably doesn't matter anyway. To me, it wouldn't be worth tearing apart a old iMac to add a CD-RW and quite possibly break something. It would be very hard to fix this. It's not like you can go out and by a new MB for these things.
Do you have links to benchmarks? Sure, you can't run it with all of the detail sliders pushed to the max, but then, if the game is fun Eye Candy should not matter right??? Also, the Geforce 2 MX isn't THAT old. I have run just about everything (in one player mode) just fine. Sure I might have had to lower the resolution and maybe reduce a slider or two, but I have gotten them to work. Of course I have heard even the top Nvidia card has problems with some games. At what point do we blame the hardware and another blame the developer for writing bloated code? I know that games are the toughest programs to write, but with the maddening schedules these guys face, it's a wonder that things aren't running even worse! Are we relying too much on hardware acceleration to fix the bloated code? I won't believe that you can't run even wolfenstien on a 2 MX400 at a acceptable, less detailed level.
Maybe he didn't have the extra 75 dollars? Maybe he DOESN'T play Wolfenstien? There are PLENTY of games out that run fine on the 2MX400. How about Unreal Countrstrike??? It's still popular. So is Q3A. The only reason you could need that big graphics card is so you CAN run games like those and so you CAN spend 50 bucks on that game (instead of doing like I do and wait until they hit the bargin bin). Not everyone has a Slashdot Editors budget for hardware. Also, I can see most everything just fine at 640x480 as well. Sure, I like running the higher resolution as well but the game CAN be played well at 640x480. ALso, for someone who only plays games occasionally, it just costs way to much to buy one of these hot video cards.
Something I think game devlopers have forgotten lately is how to make a game fun. Now it seems all they and the hardcore gamers care about is eye candy. Sure, looking at these things will make your jaw drop, but who care how pretty it is....is it fun? To me, no. The games that center on deathmatching are no fun for me to play occasionally because there are so many players who have more time then I do and thus are much better then I ever will be. I am not saying that they should make it easy to play. I want to be challenged, but to depend on lightening quick reflexes is too much. I respect those who are real good at deathmatches as much as I respect athletes. I also believe there are some people, like myself, who will never be good enough to do well at the game. Just like i will never be as good as Michael Jordan. But to have fun in these games you have to be that good and it feel terrible to get killed every 2 minutes. If I want to feel like that I can just go and try to play basketball. Then I would get the same feeling.
I enjoy games that help you use your brain. Games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Sims challenge you to use your brain to be good at them. Quake, Wolfenstien and the upcoming Doom 3 while they would be fun enough to me in one player mode, just would not be fun at all in deathmatching. Sure they do challenge your brain in some ways, but after that, it's mostly quick reflexes and how quick you can move yer stick. Some say games like Starcraft are like this, and they are, to a point, but one can also win with stragtegy. That's where they differ.
Well, I think what's happening is companies are tired of seeing office machines being given 3-4 year old graphics cards!:) Most machines for the office don't need (or so someone says) a nice graphics card so now office workers put up with slower graphics because they have a Riva or something to that effect in thier machine. Used to be there was not much difference in a office machine and a home machine. Not anymore. I think Nvidia would like to lower the price of their high end but can't because there are many (I am one of those!) who don't see the point in buying thier firebreather when a Geforce 2 MX works just fine for about 95 percent of the people....even some games can be played just fine on a 2 MX. No Microsoft is feeling the pressure from the hardware folks because for some reason, they can't convince OEMS to use thier firebreathing Geforce and P4 chips in machines that are sold to grandma's (many more grandma's then hardcore gamers). If they could sell more of those, then they don't have to charge 300+ for one of those nice cards. If the OS used it more, then people would be forced to go get that new graphics card. The demand would be up and the price would take a plunge. It's ALL about eyecandy. Users dig it! (I don't need it all of the time, but I dig it too if it can look good and be fast!)
Yeah. I personally think the 3D-Shooter genre is just about over. Well, it's been over for me for a while. To me, with exception of Heretic and some of it's mods, I found alot of the 3d Shooters the same. Sure, sometimes the behavior is a bit different, but the point of the game is known as well as the controls....cruise around a level, shoot stuff as fast as you can. While it's good stress relief, it's not much fun after you are totally unstressed. The one nice thing about 3d shooters is you can go online, play a few rounds and walk away. Their's nothing addicting about them to me anymore. I get more addicted to tweaking roller coasters in RCT. Playing with my city in Sim City 3000. Goofing off with the sims. Those games draw you in. I also like how Wil Wright created a nice 3d world with out the need for a super de duper 3d polygon pusher. 300 dollars for a graphics card?? No way. This is why games such as the Sims and all of it's addons and RCT and it's add-ons are popular...they run well on modest systems, even ones as old as Pentium II 450's. Somewhere along the 3d game lines some folks forgot that not every person has a Geforce 4 whatever but they do have something a littl eless. They forgot what it was like trying to find a PC game that would work on a older machine. I am not saying that they should not make these things it's just that games need not be super kewl 3d in order to be good games. I had a blast playing Mechwarrior 2 and it was a modest game (although the sequals are good too). But after playing those 3-d polygon fests, I just feel bored. I can't get addicted to deathmatching because when I go on a server, I am usually killed with in 10-20 seconds of coming into the game. This is even in games that are supposed to cater to newbies.
Hey if engines are harmed, then it's also a Detroit Auto Maker subsidy also....if the engine (most expensive part of a car) is killed, you may as well buy a new car!;)
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You still decide....if you run firewall software other then Microsofts built into XP stuff. Even then, there's probably a way to do this. Also, noone is forcing you to run XP. You can always run Linux, or whatever. I am choosing to run XP because I have a couple of issues with Linux at the moment. Nothing big.....it runs, but I need something that works right away, all of the time. I don't have the time with learning AIX and all of the other crap I have to get down THIS year to mess with trying to get it to work in Linux as much as I want to. If I had unlmited time and money, I would have a kick butt Linux system. Right now, I can't affor dto go buy two or three video cards and figure out which one works the best with MY system(my Geforce 2 works good, but for some strange reason I cannot see boot messages when it's booting and I have tried every thing). Windows XP, with all of it's faults, is not a bad OS. Also, you should remember, as rich as Microsoft is, noone can build a computer that can have all of the stuff people claim XP sends to Microsoft(hardware inventory, this other stuff today, WPA), if they stored this info in perpetuity, do you have any idea how big the server would need to be to hold multiple records on each person/copy of XP that is registered?? It boggle my mind! Also, one other thing that erks the crap out of me with people like you is you say it's EEEEEVIL if Microsoft does it but it's ok of Netscape/Mozilla/Konquerer does it?? Pretty damn hippocritical to me!
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Everytime some little, isty bitsy, not even fully investigated thing about Microsoft comes out, the Slashdot community immeadeately bashes it. Sure Microsft has done some bad things, but this hardly qualifies as something to worry about. If they want to know I do searches on their stuff, Linux, Digital Cameras and things like that then so what! It's not like I am handing them my credit card! Also, this probably qualifies as something for those slippery slope folks to panic about too. Yeah, it's interesting, but who said you have to use the search button in thier browser?? Can't you just use google?
AMEN! Yeah I think this line is a load of you know what! If you just BE CAREFUL with about 90 percent of things you do (going to a restaurant, going to a hotel, walking on the street while chewing gum, multitasking with windows.....) you will be ok. This is the reason why if I see a sight that does not have SSL or anything protecting the page I am to enter my order in, the place does not get my business not matter how low the price. I used to order stuff of of one company (I did not and will not use their web page) who didn't have SSL on his order page! NUTS!
Thanks for reminding me!;) I was meaning to change over to the new AT&T plan! My mom and dad have been with AT&T since Ma Bell. They live in TN and I live in Ohio. AT&T understands Unlimited. Personally, I don't see why these cable comapmnies can't just plan for it. Of course how pissed I will be depends on how much the extra charges are, if they actually go thru with it. I think now the local PUCO's need to start regulating ISP's. Internet service is starting to be real necessary to do anything (especially with government agencies now....). It's not a luxury anymore. It's a utility. It should be treated as such. If the ISP's were regulated by the PUCO, they'd never get things like we reserve the right to change the contract when we feel like it stuff in their contracts. If the telcos would figure out a way to do DSL right, then Cable Modem's would be HISTORY! Everyone has phone jacks. All of the stuff that really needs to be done to make DSL available is all behind the scenes stuff. Not everyone has Cable anymore (DSS dishes are real popular...), so if someone wants a cable modem, they are SOL if they don't have Cable (or cables close to their house).
I agree with the servers. I don't run the at home cuz I have no need to. But Roadrunner, at least in my area and BEFORE P2P is historic in overselling the network. I am always pretty conservative in what I download. Normal web browsing and the occasional Linux iso is about all I do. But i have a problem with alot of companies, ISP's and others that set some great service up (be it a cable modem service or some wicked web commerce stuff) they whoafully underestimate the bandwidth they need. They set them up and all of a sudden, it's already overloaded. This is what I fight every day at work now. I have a server that during peak times, it is pegged at 100 percent utilization and when it goes down, I sure as hell here about it. I even here about it when it goes down a lousy 5 minutes early (but right on time as far as the system is concerned) according to my users. Some would say just upgrade it but when the whole thing is going to be replaced by something different. If they had ordered a server with more balls, we sould be a bit better off. Same thing happends at Road Runner. When things get slow, I watch TV and see Road Runner commercial after commercial.
Alot of times, these Cable Modem guys sink thier own boat. They KNOW they can't handle additional users, but then I see adverts all over the freaking place for Road Runner. This is like selling pepsi when you ain't got none. Why in the world would you market it if you know you can't handle it? Although I am not holding my breath on this happening either. It could happen, but my guess is they want to see how pissed people would get. The funny thing is, all of the things they advertise ARE heavy bandwidth uses. Streaming Video and all of that are high users of bandwidth.
Somethings I agree to seeing on the web. The download thing when you visit a page I have seen and it's wrong. Should never be done. My wife accidently installed that freakin gator thing one night. I freaked! Anyway, some parts of this article is just irresponsible.
Some Net users have complained of receiving downloads containing a virus that automatically redirects them to adult-related sites.
I have never seen this. At least I have never seen an antiviral program reporting this as a virus. This is irresponsible. Only way you can get some of these kinds of things is if your in a place you should not be (IMHO). Dosen't mean this can't happen. It sure as heck can.
Such downloads also have been known to install new dial-up programs replacing the existing accounts.
I have never seen this either, but it doesn't mean it can't happen. It may if you go to a porn site (dials the 1900 rather then have a credit card SSL server).
There is simply one thing that can be done about this...make Microsoft take that coud out. the types of things these browsers allow is idiotic. They make the user loose control of their computer via porn storms and other things even when some pages use it legitimately. Only one way to solve this...take out the Onload and Ext controls. Any program that unexpectedly opens up a window is bad. It makes the user feel like they loose control. It makes for a bad OOBE.
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One place I lived the laundry machines took a little plastic card with a black pattern on them. You stuck it in the machine, and it melted the card. That way noone could retrieve them. Only downside was the only way you could get more cards was to buy them off of the rooming house owner or the RA. If the RA was out all night, you were SOL and had to find a regular coin laundry.
Maybe he's trying to go to a zSeries machine in which case it MUST be 3270. 5250 is for the AS/400, 3270 is for the mainframe. You can't just change between the two and expect it to work!
You print Slashdot articles? OOOOOK!
Buy cheap printers and expect to pay cheap ink prices. I spent a little more on my printer then the average person would because I use my printer. My carts, while expensive, are well under the cost of the printer combined (color +B&W). My printer doesn't jam, can do Duplex printing (with a $79 option) and with another option, can even be put on a jet direct server. I bought a HP Photosmart 1115 for around $299. It was only 200 more then the cheap Lexmark my brother bought. He constantly complains about jams and stuff with his while I have had nary a problem. Anyone see the problem?? His ink costs about the price of the printer to replace (or within a few bucks...). Anyone see a point here? You can't get a cheap printer and expect to have equally cheap ink. It will never happen. You CAN buy a moderately priced printer and get quality, decent priced ink and less hassle.
I think that printer manufactures low prices are not just to hike up cartrdige prices...I think it's to get users to dump old printers. We have several printers on campus that out lasted the computers they were bought for (or bought to service). This is OK because businesses almost always by HP Ink. PLus they know if the printer lasts, then you will buy 10 more printers when the old ones get old. It's called assuring income. Those same printers that last 10 years at work will last 20 plus years at home because we don't print as much at home. Money has to be made somewhere.
My point is if you spend more then 100 bucks on a printer, you are going to have a good experience. If you cheap out on it, well, you'll have a printer....and you may as well buy a new printer when it's ink runs out.
Leviton makes several X10 products....some better then X10's as well. I don't think they sell direct, but Smarthome sells them for sure....on that note...pop ups do SUCK alot, but that would not stop me from buyinf from X10. Sure, I hate em too, but you have to admit....everyone KNOWS who they are! ;) I would buy from them. Personally, I think thats the only way they will stop popping up is if you bu something. The more people buy, the less they have to spend to get people to buy, so, less popups.....unless they get REAL greedy. Then you will have to rename porn storm X10 XCRUCIATING! ;)
Thru the BIG ASS chillers outside the center that run even in winter.
That's funny. Our ES/9000 was air cooled when we got rid of it (replaced with a Multiprise 2000 S/390).
Water cooling is a bad idea. First off, lots of use to have this stuff years ago, but don't now because we all switched to air cooled stuff. Secondly, Water is just a bad deal with the rest of te stuff that will be in the room with the huge disk array. What happens if one of these pipes burst some night? Water everywhere. I also expect IBM to get this to be aircooled eventually. I remember a anecdote about our old ES/9000. Story goes is that we almost installed a water cooling system because at the time, that was the rage in Mainframes. Big, honking water cooled units. Now, that is not the trend although alternative cooling seems to be needed soon because the danged 1-2 u servers get hot!
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Why must everyone slam stuff that may not be the fastest? I mean like speedy stuff too, but sometimes USB would be fine. You don't need a real speedy bus to run a CD-RW. Also, on his hardware, it probably doesn't matter anyway. To me, it wouldn't be worth tearing apart a old iMac to add a CD-RW and quite possibly break something. It would be very hard to fix this. It's not like you can go out and by a new MB for these things.
This is the correct link. Intel has support thru 2003. They stopped making them as of 3/29/2002.
Do you have links to benchmarks? Sure, you can't run it with all of the detail sliders pushed to the max, but then, if the game is fun Eye Candy should not matter right??? Also, the Geforce 2 MX isn't THAT old. I have run just about everything (in one player mode) just fine. Sure I might have had to lower the resolution and maybe reduce a slider or two, but I have gotten them to work. Of course I have heard even the top Nvidia card has problems with some games. At what point do we blame the hardware and another blame the developer for writing bloated code? I know that games are the toughest programs to write, but with the maddening schedules these guys face, it's a wonder that things aren't running even worse! Are we relying too much on hardware acceleration to fix the bloated code? I won't believe that you can't run even wolfenstien on a 2 MX400 at a acceptable, less detailed level.
Maybe he didn't have the extra 75 dollars? Maybe he DOESN'T play Wolfenstien? There are PLENTY of games out that run fine on the 2MX400. How about Unreal Countrstrike??? It's still popular. So is Q3A. The only reason you could need that big graphics card is so you CAN run games like those and so you CAN spend 50 bucks on that game (instead of doing like I do and wait until they hit the bargin bin). Not everyone has a Slashdot Editors budget for hardware. Also, I can see most everything just fine at 640x480 as well. Sure, I like running the higher resolution as well but the game CAN be played well at 640x480. ALso, for someone who only plays games occasionally, it just costs way to much to buy one of these hot video cards.
Something I think game devlopers have forgotten lately is how to make a game fun. Now it seems all they and the hardcore gamers care about is eye candy. Sure, looking at these things will make your jaw drop, but who care how pretty it is....is it fun? To me, no. The games that center on deathmatching are no fun for me to play occasionally because there are so many players who have more time then I do and thus are much better then I ever will be. I am not saying that they should make it easy to play. I want to be challenged, but to depend on lightening quick reflexes is too much. I respect those who are real good at deathmatches as much as I respect athletes. I also believe there are some people, like myself, who will never be good enough to do well at the game. Just like i will never be as good as Michael Jordan. But to have fun in these games you have to be that good and it feel terrible to get killed every 2 minutes. If I want to feel like that I can just go and try to play basketball. Then I would get the same feeling.
I enjoy games that help you use your brain. Games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and The Sims challenge you to use your brain to be good at them. Quake, Wolfenstien and the upcoming Doom 3 while they would be fun enough to me in one player mode, just would not be fun at all in deathmatching. Sure they do challenge your brain in some ways, but after that, it's mostly quick reflexes and how quick you can move yer stick. Some say games like Starcraft are like this, and they are, to a point, but one can also win with stragtegy. That's where they differ.
Well, I think what's happening is companies are tired of seeing office machines being given 3-4 year old graphics cards! :) Most machines for the office don't need (or so someone says) a nice graphics card so now office workers put up with slower graphics because they have a Riva or something to that effect in thier machine. Used to be there was not much difference in a office machine and a home machine. Not anymore. I think Nvidia would like to lower the price of their high end but can't because there are many (I am one of those!) who don't see the point in buying thier firebreather when a Geforce 2 MX works just fine for about 95 percent of the people....even some games can be played just fine on a 2 MX. No Microsoft is feeling the pressure from the hardware folks because for some reason, they can't convince OEMS to use thier firebreathing Geforce and P4 chips in machines that are sold to grandma's (many more grandma's then hardcore gamers). If they could sell more of those, then they don't have to charge 300+ for one of those nice cards. If the OS used it more, then people would be forced to go get that new graphics card. The demand would be up and the price would take a plunge. It's ALL about eyecandy. Users dig it! (I don't need it all of the time, but I dig it too if it can look good and be fast!)
This worked for me.....March 28th Cumulative patch
Yeah. I personally think the 3D-Shooter genre is just about over. Well, it's been over for me for a while. To me, with exception of Heretic and some of it's mods, I found alot of the 3d Shooters the same. Sure, sometimes the behavior is a bit different, but the point of the game is known as well as the controls....cruise around a level, shoot stuff as fast as you can. While it's good stress relief, it's not much fun after you are totally unstressed. The one nice thing about 3d shooters is you can go online, play a few rounds and walk away. Their's nothing addicting about them to me anymore. I get more addicted to tweaking roller coasters in RCT. Playing with my city in Sim City 3000. Goofing off with the sims. Those games draw you in. I also like how Wil Wright created a nice 3d world with out the need for a super de duper 3d polygon pusher. 300 dollars for a graphics card?? No way. This is why games such as the Sims and all of it's addons and RCT and it's add-ons are popular...they run well on modest systems, even ones as old as Pentium II 450's. Somewhere along the 3d game lines some folks forgot that not every person has a Geforce 4 whatever but they do have something a littl eless. They forgot what it was like trying to find a PC game that would work on a older machine. I am not saying that they should not make these things it's just that games need not be super kewl 3d in order to be good games. I had a blast playing Mechwarrior 2 and it was a modest game (although the sequals are good too). But after playing those 3-d polygon fests, I just feel bored. I can't get addicted to deathmatching because when I go on a server, I am usually killed with in 10-20 seconds of coming into the game. This is even in games that are supposed to cater to newbies.
Hey if engines are harmed, then it's also a Detroit Auto Maker subsidy also....if the engine (most expensive part of a car) is killed, you may as well buy a new car! ;)
You still decide....if you run firewall software other then Microsofts built into XP stuff. Even then, there's probably a way to do this. Also, noone is forcing you to run XP. You can always run Linux, or whatever. I am choosing to run XP because I have a couple of issues with Linux at the moment. Nothing big.....it runs, but I need something that works right away, all of the time. I don't have the time with learning AIX and all of the other crap I have to get down THIS year to mess with trying to get it to work in Linux as much as I want to. If I had unlmited time and money, I would have a kick butt Linux system. Right now, I can't affor dto go buy two or three video cards and figure out which one works the best with MY system(my Geforce 2 works good, but for some strange reason I cannot see boot messages when it's booting and I have tried every thing). Windows XP, with all of it's faults, is not a bad OS. Also, you should remember, as rich as Microsoft is, noone can build a computer that can have all of the stuff people claim XP sends to Microsoft(hardware inventory, this other stuff today, WPA), if they stored this info in perpetuity, do you have any idea how big the server would need to be to hold multiple records on each person/copy of XP that is registered?? It boggle my mind! Also, one other thing that erks the crap out of me with people like you is you say it's EEEEEVIL if Microsoft does it but it's ok of Netscape/Mozilla/Konquerer does it?? Pretty damn hippocritical to me!
Everytime some little, isty bitsy, not even fully investigated thing about Microsoft comes out, the Slashdot community immeadeately bashes it. Sure Microsft has done some bad things, but this hardly qualifies as something to worry about. If they want to know I do searches on their stuff, Linux, Digital Cameras and things like that then so what! It's not like I am handing them my credit card! Also, this probably qualifies as something for those slippery slope folks to panic about too. Yeah, it's interesting, but who said you have to use the search button in thier browser?? Can't you just use google?
AMEN! Yeah I think this line is a load of you know what! If you just BE CAREFUL with about 90 percent of things you do (going to a restaurant, going to a hotel, walking on the street while chewing gum, multitasking with windows.....) you will be ok. This is the reason why if I see a sight that does not have SSL or anything protecting the page I am to enter my order in, the place does not get my business not matter how low the price. I used to order stuff of of one company (I did not and will not use their web page) who didn't have SSL on his order page! NUTS!
Thanks for reminding me! ;) I was meaning to change over to the new AT&T plan! My mom and dad have been with AT&T since Ma Bell. They live in TN and I live in Ohio. AT&T understands Unlimited. Personally, I don't see why these cable comapmnies can't just plan for it. Of course how pissed I will be depends on how much the extra charges are, if they actually go thru with it. I think now the local PUCO's need to start regulating ISP's. Internet service is starting to be real necessary to do anything (especially with government agencies now....). It's not a luxury anymore. It's a utility. It should be treated as such. If the ISP's were regulated by the PUCO, they'd never get things like we reserve the right to change the contract when we feel like it stuff in their contracts. If the telcos would figure out a way to do DSL right, then Cable Modem's would be HISTORY! Everyone has phone jacks. All of the stuff that really needs to be done to make DSL available is all behind the scenes stuff. Not everyone has Cable anymore (DSS dishes are real popular...), so if someone wants a cable modem, they are SOL if they don't have Cable (or cables close to their house).
OK the contract says unlimited. What part of unlimited can you NOT understand?? How can something that's Unlimited be abused???
I agree with the servers. I don't run the at home cuz I have no need to. But Roadrunner, at least in my area and BEFORE P2P is historic in overselling the network. I am always pretty conservative in what I download. Normal web browsing and the occasional Linux iso is about all I do. But i have a problem with alot of companies, ISP's and others that set some great service up (be it a cable modem service or some wicked web commerce stuff) they whoafully underestimate the bandwidth they need. They set them up and all of a sudden, it's already overloaded. This is what I fight every day at work now. I have a server that during peak times, it is pegged at 100 percent utilization and when it goes down, I sure as hell here about it. I even here about it when it goes down a lousy 5 minutes early (but right on time as far as the system is concerned) according to my users. Some would say just upgrade it but when the whole thing is going to be replaced by something different. If they had ordered a server with more balls, we sould be a bit better off. Same thing happends at Road Runner. When things get slow, I watch TV and see Road Runner commercial after commercial.
Alot of times, these Cable Modem guys sink thier own boat. They KNOW they can't handle additional users, but then I see adverts all over the freaking place for Road Runner. This is like selling pepsi when you ain't got none. Why in the world would you market it if you know you can't handle it? Although I am not holding my breath on this happening either. It could happen, but my guess is they want to see how pissed people would get. The funny thing is, all of the things they advertise ARE heavy bandwidth uses. Streaming Video and all of that are high users of bandwidth.
Let me clarify that...your visiting sites you should not visit at work... :)
Somethings I agree to seeing on the web. The download thing when you visit a page I have seen and it's wrong. Should never be done. My wife accidently installed that freakin gator thing one night. I freaked! Anyway, some parts of this article is just irresponsible.
Some Net users have complained of receiving downloads containing a virus that automatically redirects them to adult-related sites.
I have never seen this. At least I have never seen an antiviral program reporting this as a virus. This is irresponsible. Only way you can get some of these kinds of things is if your in a place you should not be (IMHO). Dosen't mean this can't happen. It sure as heck can.
Such downloads also have been known to install new dial-up programs replacing the existing accounts.
I have never seen this either, but it doesn't mean it can't happen. It may if you go to a porn site (dials the 1900 rather then have a credit card SSL server).
There is simply one thing that can be done about this...make Microsoft take that coud out. the types of things these browsers allow is idiotic. They make the user loose control of their computer via porn storms and other things even when some pages use it legitimately. Only one way to solve this...take out the Onload and Ext controls. Any program that unexpectedly opens up a window is bad. It makes the user feel like they loose control. It makes for a bad OOBE.