Only 12% of respondents report that since the switch they have worse reception? I find that hard to believe. Most of my neighbors lost channels. Before the cutoff of analog, I was already receiving digital channels for a year. For some reason, on the day of the analog cutoff, half of the digital channels I was receiving went away. I rescanned, tried different antenna amplifiers, and maybe even said a few incantations. Maybe they were broadcasting their digital signals with higher power before the anlog cutoff. I live 30 miles outside the city. At least with analog, I could watch The Tonight Show through the snow.
I don't qualify for a Netflix trial membership because I had a regular membership back in 2004. I cancelled it because it sucked. Now I am interested in the video on demand and primarily for certain shows. So I did a search on Netflix for Stargate Atlantis Season 5 under the streaming video search area. SG Atlantis Season 5 showed up in the list and it didn't say "not available" so I went ahead and signed up and paid money. Then I find out that when it showed up in the search results under the streaming video search function, that was for the DVD and it was not even available yet. So I thought I would watch something else then that I haven't seen and then cancel my membership. So I clicked on a movie that was available, and to my horror Netflix requires Silverlight. So I said a few choice words in the direction of my computer screen, made a few finger gestures at it too, and immediately canceled my membership. Then I went over to Amazon and tried out their video on demand service and have been happily watching Stargate Atlantis Season 5 episodes with an interface (based on Flash) that is unbelievably easy to use.
I was on a business trip, and we were in a rental with one of those navigation systems, and it had us turn off the main road, make a U shaped diversion and then turn back onto the main road. We just laughed. Ah technology.
I know the article doesn't have to do with the speed of the operating system. But that's much more fun to talk about.
I have been using the same computer with the same install of Windows 2000 for 3 years. I was as happy as could be about its performance when freshly installed. I have been able to go so long because I keep a lean machine. I have never gotten a virus nor any really bad spyware.
However, with each service pack install and especially with hotfix installs, the computer got slower and slower. Four service packs and 53! hot fixes later, my computer now runs like it has a 6502 (gosh I think I just dated myself).
I have used the Dialpad service for a long time for making PC-to-phone calls, even before Yahoo took over Dialpad. The sound quality is far superior to Skype.
I need this kind of service because I don't have a regular land line and I make so few phone calls. So $10 worth of credit can last me up to 2 months, which means this type of service has a great advantage over Vonage as well.
If you check out the information on Yahoo's site you will notice that indeed, once you have a phone number, people can call you if you have Messenger running, and if not then the calls go to voicemail which you can check for free. And the cost of the service is a little extra but not much.
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It's not 10/10/10, it's 10/10/2010 which is not so terribly remarkable.
Only 12% of respondents report that since the switch they have worse reception? I find that hard to believe. Most of my neighbors lost channels. Before the cutoff of analog, I was already receiving digital channels for a year. For some reason, on the day of the analog cutoff, half of the digital channels I was receiving went away. I rescanned, tried different antenna amplifiers, and maybe even said a few incantations. Maybe they were broadcasting their digital signals with higher power before the anlog cutoff. I live 30 miles outside the city. At least with analog, I could watch The Tonight Show through the snow.
I don't qualify for a Netflix trial membership because I had a regular membership back in 2004. I cancelled it because it sucked. Now I am interested in the video on demand and primarily for certain shows. So I did a search on Netflix for Stargate Atlantis Season 5 under the streaming video search area. SG Atlantis Season 5 showed up in the list and it didn't say "not available" so I went ahead and signed up and paid money. Then I find out that when it showed up in the search results under the streaming video search function, that was for the DVD and it was not even available yet. So I thought I would watch something else then that I haven't seen and then cancel my membership. So I clicked on a movie that was available, and to my horror Netflix requires Silverlight. So I said a few choice words in the direction of my computer screen, made a few finger gestures at it too, and immediately canceled my membership. Then I went over to Amazon and tried out their video on demand service and have been happily watching Stargate Atlantis Season 5 episodes with an interface (based on Flash) that is unbelievably easy to use.
I was on a business trip, and we were in a rental with one of those navigation systems, and it had us turn off the main road, make a U shaped diversion and then turn back onto the main road. We just laughed. Ah technology.
I know the article doesn't have to do with the speed of the operating system. But that's much more fun to talk about.
I have been using the same computer with the same install of Windows 2000 for 3 years. I was as happy as could be about its performance when freshly installed. I have been able to go so long because I keep a lean machine. I have never gotten a virus nor any really bad spyware.
However, with each service pack install and especially with hotfix installs, the computer got slower and slower. Four service packs and 53! hot fixes later, my computer now runs like it has a 6502 (gosh I think I just dated myself).
I have used the Dialpad service for a long time for making PC-to-phone calls, even before Yahoo took over Dialpad. The sound quality is far superior to Skype. I need this kind of service because I don't have a regular land line and I make so few phone calls. So $10 worth of credit can last me up to 2 months, which means this type of service has a great advantage over Vonage as well. If you check out the information on Yahoo's site you will notice that indeed, once you have a phone number, people can call you if you have Messenger running, and if not then the calls go to voicemail which you can check for free. And the cost of the service is a little extra but not much.