It doesn't matter to me who bought who; the service and price was excellent, then they became AT&T and started sucking like a Hoover. The Feds should have never let the merger happen! They have become what the old AT&T that was forced to break up was.
At least this time they're not a monopoly and I can get service from another (probably equally evil) company.
Actually, yes. Although I haven't seen my roommate since I dropped her off at work Friday morning at the taxi company she drives for. She may have tried to call me last night about midnight; my phone rang, but it's out of minutes.
The Chinese have a curse "may you live in interesting times." I have an interesting life.
Her ex-husband (I never met the guy, thankfully) led the police on a high speed chase through Springfield a couple of weeks ago, sideswiping a couple of cars and almost hitting a couple of police detectives. When they caught him he had a loaded gun and marijuana in tha car. It made the front page of the local daily (link)
He had previously spent time in prison for trying to kill her. His parents told her that they found out he was on his way to murder them. I suppose he'll be behind bars for quite some time.
No newsletter, but I have a slashdot journal. I used to keep a diary at K5. It was pretty popular.
No, better safe than CRACKED. When someone comes up with a hack for this, the problem is fixed.
Don't you know where you are? This is slashdot, not the wall street journal. Hacking is when you turn your transistor radio into a fuzzbox or your lawnmower into a robot. Hacking is NOT "breaking into a computer system" you silly normal person.
The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. The scientist says there is.3764666437 litres. The realist says "there's not enough". The doctor says "he's dead, Jim".
I'd like to be optimistic, but I've (unwillingly) been a Verizon customer for years, and I'd be surprised to see a leopard change its spots...
How can you be an "unwilling" customer? Are they the only company in your area?
Cingular sure changed their spots when AT&T bought them out. I was perfectly happy with my $50 per month bill, never going over my minutes, and then BAM all of a sudden I'm using $150 a month, then $450 a month, then $150 when they've shut off the service!
We, as nerds, need to create some sort of wireless mesh that doesn't need the carriers' networks. I'm sick of being shafted by the corporate sociopaths.
linux fags will be infesting verizon. soon every cellphone will have aids.
You realise that the computer vuruses are all geared towards Microsoft, don't you Mr. Cowardly Homophobe? Or is that "Mr. Closet?" Viruses are one reason I'd not want a phone (or car system like that Ford) "Powered by Windows".
And I wish all the heterosexual guys would turn gay, so I could have their women! Damned jocks...
Any company that treats their customer as opponents in some sort of battle for cash is not customer friendly. A good business deal should benefit both parties involved. That's not done by screwing your customers.
Welcome to the 21st century. If you run across a "customer friendly" company let me know and I'll become their customer.
I miss the days when most businessmen weren't sociopaths!
Yeah. And up until a few years ago, Linux driver support was crap
That's completely true, and still is with many devices. My video card, for instance, works with my monitor but not my TV. The monitor and scanner are going into the basement so I can put a Xmas tree on the table, so I won't be using Linux until after Xmas.
Were there XP drivers on the CD?
I doubt it, since the motherboard was from 2004. I see no reason why the 98 drivers wouldn't work with XP though. Many people had trouble with stability in win98, but it gave me no problems at all. Ironically, the reason I "upgraded" to XP was video driver support - I had to reinstall Windows (not MS's fault in that case, my daughter played a Sony-BMG rootkit CD in it) and I'd lost the CD that came with the video card, and they no longer supported 98. Odd that, at the time my car was a 1988 Chevy (since replaced by a 2002 Crysler).
Right, but saying that something is crap based upon only your own experience is not being objective
I'd say that saying something is or isn't crap based on someone else's experience is heresay, simply rumor. Like I said, I really can't comment on Apple, since all I "know" is what I've read. From what I've read, if I buy a whole compouter rather than parts I'll buy one, and my opinion may well change.
But I've had various problems with about every flavor of Windows since 3.1. Actually my favorite MS OS was DOS 6.2. It's been a while since I've been happy with Microsoft.
After being completely satisfied with Cingular for several years now, AT&T bought them out and thoroughly shafted me. My bill was never over $50, I never went over my minutes, and when AT&T bought them I had a $150 bill the first month, with another $450 added the next! They shut off service, and even with the damned thing shut off they STILL charged another $150, including tax on service I never recieved. They're going to have to sue to get a penny of it.
I've been using a pay as you go phone, and have been looking for a replacement for the theiuving bastards at AT&T.
Verizon has been first on the list for a while for two reasons: I can still use my Razr, which still has most of my numbers in it, and my roommate's boyfriend (ex now I think, I haven't seen her since I dropped her off at work Friday) has Verizon, and his phone is one of the qwerty keyboard phones that doubles as an MP3 player. I drooled when he showed it to me.
The only thing worrying me about Verizon is a slashdot story from a few weeks ago about them cooperating with the NSA. Does the NSA track hookers, I wonder? Quite a few of my close friends are hookers and I'd hate for them to get in trouble. Is prostitution considered terrorism these days? It seems everything else, from drugs to political discourse, is.
But this item is very good news, and puts Verizon up a notch. The other company I've been looking into is US Cellular, which I understand I also can use my Razr with.
As more people notice this, and it becomes popular / profitable, perhaps media can start to have more depth than a puddle.
Hmmmph... as the rest of the news networks mimic Fox. Yeah, that's gonna happen. Face it, the same sociopathic greedheads that run the likes of Fox, SCO, Enron, and Microsoft also run and own ALL media outlets. As well as "your" government*, who these same greedheads have bought lock, stock, and barrell.
The only way a rich powerful man in the US goes to prison is if a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
And uninstalling through the Control Panel doesn't do anything more than uninstalling from the application's "uninstall" application
Pretty damned lazy/iunprofessional on MS's part. Simply shoddy.
Don't you need a driver from the manufacturer for this?
Linux has no problem with it.
It would be really nice if things worked out of the box on a new install without having to hunt down drivers.
You mean like Linux? It sure would be nice if something I paid a HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR had the same functionality as something I DOWNLOADED FOR FREE FROM A UNIVERSITY SITE.
If you had sound working in Windows 98, I'd bet good money that you (or the previous owner, be that an individual or the company that sold you the computer) installed third-party drivers to get it working. Regardless, you can't blame XP for third-party hardware not working.
98 found the drivers from the CD that came with the motherboard. XP couldn't find them.
Anyway, you seem pretty unwilling to look beyond your own experiences.
I don't experience anybody else's life, I only experience mine. In my experiennce I can't speak for Apple, since I never owned one. I can speak for Windows and Linux. I have no problems whatever with Linux, despite only using it for a few years, while I've been using MS OSes since DOS 3.1.
It's not about linking, it's about talent and originality which is completely lacking in today's RIAA fare. Face it, how much talent does eminem have? OTOH Jimmy Page is considered by ost guitarists to be one of the best on the planet. What does Snoop Dogg have going for him in terms of talent or originality?
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You apparently read the article. We don't "read" around here
You should have told him "ewe muss bee knew hear"
Way too much effort; your time would have been better spent trying to one-up the wild assertion that is the story headline.
You must not be new here.
Anyone Slashdot user with half a brain
My head hurts...
-mcgrew
We all know the folly of prohibition
Apparently NOT!!!
-mcgrew
I don't like the idea of creating a movement and protesting stuff that may happen.
Dude, you'll NEVER get elected like that!
-mcgrew
Damn, I'm busted again! Curses!
-mcgrew
I've never seen any terrorist propaganda in the web
I see you've never been to this site!
-mcgrew
"U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat"
Well, it must be. After all, I'm on the internet!
You hit the nail squarely on the head.
I say you have big glasses!
I like beer. LOTS of beer!
It doesn't matter to me who bought who; the service and price was excellent, then they became AT&T and started sucking like a Hoover. The Feds should have never let the merger happen! They have become what the old AT&T that was forced to break up was.
At least this time they're not a monopoly and I can get service from another (probably equally evil) company.
Actually, yes. Although I haven't seen my roommate since I dropped her off at work Friday morning at the taxi company she drives for. She may have tried to call me last night about midnight; my phone rang, but it's out of minutes.
The Chinese have a curse "may you live in interesting times." I have an interesting life.
Her ex-husband (I never met the guy, thankfully) led the police on a high speed chase through Springfield a couple of weeks ago, sideswiping a couple of cars and almost hitting a couple of police detectives. When they caught him he had a loaded gun and marijuana in tha car. It made the front page of the local daily (link)
He had previously spent time in prison for trying to kill her. His parents told her that they found out he was on his way to murder them. I suppose he'll be behind bars for quite some time.
No newsletter, but I have a slashdot journal. I used to keep a diary at K5. It was pretty popular.
Thank you. I imagine I won't be able to use it with Verizon or any other company, either =(
Yes, but stupid is very often funny, as the post was.
Better safe than hacked.
No, better safe than CRACKED. When someone comes up with a hack for this, the problem is fixed.
Don't you know where you are? This is slashdot, not the wall street journal. Hacking is when you turn your transistor radio into a fuzzbox or your lawnmower into a robot. Hacking is NOT "breaking into a computer system" you silly normal person.
-mcgrew
Glass half empty, half full type thing.
.3764666437 litres. The realist says "there's not enough". The doctor says "he's dead, Jim".
The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. The scientist says there is
I'd like to be optimistic, but I've (unwillingly) been a Verizon customer for years, and I'd be surprised to see a leopard change its spots...
How can you be an "unwilling" customer? Are they the only company in your area?
Cingular sure changed their spots when AT&T bought them out. I was perfectly happy with my $50 per month bill, never going over my minutes, and then BAM all of a sudden I'm using $150 a month, then $450 a month, then $150 when they've shut off the service!
We, as nerds, need to create some sort of wireless mesh that doesn't need the carriers' networks. I'm sick of being shafted by the corporate sociopaths.
-mcgrew
linux fags will be infesting verizon. soon every cellphone will have aids.
You realise that the computer vuruses are all geared towards Microsoft, don't you Mr. Cowardly Homophobe? Or is that "Mr. Closet?" Viruses are one reason I'd not want a phone (or car system like that Ford) "Powered by Windows".
And I wish all the heterosexual guys would turn gay, so I could have their women! Damned jocks...
-mcgrew
(mods, you did good on that one.)
Any company that treats their customer as opponents in some sort of battle for cash is not customer friendly. A good business deal should benefit both parties involved. That's not done by screwing your customers.
Welcome to the 21st century. If you run across a "customer friendly" company let me know and I'll become their customer.
I miss the days when most businessmen weren't sociopaths!
-mcgrew
No, the iPhone wont work.
It won't work for me, since as I work I can't afford one. Not this year anyway; the price will surely go down and I'll surely catch up on my expenses.
-mcgrew
Yeah. And up until a few years ago, Linux driver support was crap
That's completely true, and still is with many devices. My video card, for instance, works with my monitor but not my TV. The monitor and scanner are going into the basement so I can put a Xmas tree on the table, so I won't be using Linux until after Xmas.
Were there XP drivers on the CD?
I doubt it, since the motherboard was from 2004. I see no reason why the 98 drivers wouldn't work with XP though. Many people had trouble with stability in win98, but it gave me no problems at all. Ironically, the reason I "upgraded" to XP was video driver support - I had to reinstall Windows (not MS's fault in that case, my daughter played a Sony-BMG rootkit CD in it) and I'd lost the CD that came with the video card, and they no longer supported 98. Odd that, at the time my car was a 1988 Chevy (since replaced by a 2002 Crysler).
Right, but saying that something is crap based upon only your own experience is not being objective
I'd say that saying something is or isn't crap based on someone else's experience is heresay, simply rumor. Like I said, I really can't comment on Apple, since all I "know" is what I've read. From what I've read, if I buy a whole compouter rather than parts I'll buy one, and my opinion may well change.
But I've had various problems with about every flavor of Windows since 3.1. Actually my favorite MS OS was DOS 6.2. It's been a while since I've been happy with Microsoft.
After being completely satisfied with Cingular for several years now, AT&T bought them out and thoroughly shafted me. My bill was never over $50, I never went over my minutes, and when AT&T bought them I had a $150 bill the first month, with another $450 added the next! They shut off service, and even with the damned thing shut off they STILL charged another $150, including tax on service I never recieved. They're going to have to sue to get a penny of it.
I've been using a pay as you go phone, and have been looking for a replacement for the theiuving bastards at AT&T.
Verizon has been first on the list for a while for two reasons: I can still use my Razr, which still has most of my numbers in it, and my roommate's boyfriend (ex now I think, I haven't seen her since I dropped her off at work Friday) has Verizon, and his phone is one of the qwerty keyboard phones that doubles as an MP3 player. I drooled when he showed it to me.
The only thing worrying me about Verizon is a slashdot story from a few weeks ago about them cooperating with the NSA. Does the NSA track hookers, I wonder? Quite a few of my close friends are hookers and I'd hate for them to get in trouble. Is prostitution considered terrorism these days? It seems everything else, from drugs to political discourse, is.
But this item is very good news, and puts Verizon up a notch. The other company I've been looking into is US Cellular, which I understand I also can use my Razr with.
-mcgrew
So... what was the topic again?
I think we were talking about computers or something. I don't know, I slept since then.
As more people notice this, and it becomes popular / profitable, perhaps media can start to have more depth than a puddle.
Hmmmph... as the rest of the news networks mimic Fox. Yeah, that's gonna happen. Face it, the same sociopathic greedheads that run the likes of Fox, SCO, Enron, and Microsoft also run and own ALL media outlets. As well as "your" government*, who these same greedheads have bought lock, stock, and barrell.
The only way a rich powerful man in the US goes to prison is if a richer, more powerful man wants him there.
-mcgrew
*it doesn't matter what country you live in
Common Roxio problem
Not under 98
And uninstalling through the Control Panel doesn't do anything more than uninstalling from the application's "uninstall" application
Pretty damned lazy/iunprofessional on MS's part. Simply shoddy.
Don't you need a driver from the manufacturer for this?
Linux has no problem with it.
It would be really nice if things worked out of the box on a new install without having to hunt down drivers.
You mean like Linux? It sure would be nice if something I paid a HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR had the same functionality as something I DOWNLOADED FOR FREE FROM A UNIVERSITY SITE.
If you had sound working in Windows 98, I'd bet good money that you (or the previous owner, be that an individual or the company that sold you the computer) installed third-party drivers to get it working. Regardless, you can't blame XP for third-party hardware not working.
98 found the drivers from the CD that came with the motherboard. XP couldn't find them.
Anyway, you seem pretty unwilling to look beyond your own experiences.
I don't experience anybody else's life, I only experience mine. In my experiennce I can't speak for Apple, since I never owned one. I can speak for Windows and Linux. I have no problems whatever with Linux, despite only using it for a few years, while I've been using MS OSes since DOS 3.1.
It's not about linking, it's about talent and originality which is completely lacking in today's RIAA fare. Face it, how much talent does eminem have? OTOH Jimmy Page is considered by ost guitarists to be one of the best on the planet. What does Snoop Dogg have going for him in terms of talent or originality?
You sound like our corporate overlords.