Exactly. Just like the conversion from radio to television. Once enough stuff started to get snipped from the radio, like a lot of the serials and soaps, and started to be put on television, television took off. Start making Yahoo.com and Google.com junk with IPv4, and advertise on the page why you get such crappy service and why they should upgrade, in plain enough English to the non-tech people to understand. Then wait a few years for OEM computer to ship with IPv6 compliant NICs, and offer rebates or whatnot for IPv6 routers. Or just do like the entertainment industry does, wait for the porn to be IPv6 enchanced, then IPv4 will be dead over night.
He pays $25.90 a month. He has the AOL Dial-up Advantage plan, which has a lot of crap he doesn't need, ID Theft protection and PC insurance. I'm pretty sure he just got used to AOL Dial-up upping the price, and thought this was normal, as they gets stuff from them all the time he does read. I'm sure they sent a notice letting him know they are offering different price plans and stuff, and due to no action defaulted to the higher tier. I have since let him know about the AOL Basic Dial-up with tech support at $11.95. Too much hassle, he'll keep it as is. This is why the US isn't 100% broadband, people just don't know any better, and refuse to try other things. It worked for 10+ years, why do I need something different.
For this whole deal to turn out like it did, something had to beat it. They can go work for those somethings. The big three american car companies are losing to the imports. Imports grow, thus needing new employees. The old american auto workers can go work for the imported car companies. I hear Toyota can tell the UAW union to take a hike, and they produce quality cars for cheaper then a UAW shop. Toyota has plants in America now. Those jobs didn't disappear, they shifted to companies that work. It may require a move, but this isn't the 1800's anymore when the average person never moved more then 60 miles from where they were born. Wow, I went way off topic.
I reember when broadband service started to eat away at dial-up. AOL was offering AOL Broadband. It was just the AOL face over your existing, always connected connection. Internet Explorer brought to you by AOL, with AOL as the home page, and the crappy AOL email service. People bought into that for a while, then realized that if they just clicked on the blue E, they had internet, without some sort of AOL overlay. A friend of mine still uses AOL dial-up at I think $24.99 a month, when he can use his phone company for broadband for less then $20, because he's used AOL for the last 10 years and that's all he knows. I downloaded firefox last time I was over there and blew his mind by minimizing his AOL window crap and pulling that up. He thought that was neat, but it didn't look like AOL so he had no idea how to navigate to a different web site, using a real web browser. AOL, your 15 minutes are over, please turn the lights out when you leave, maybe Time Warner will wither away in the darkness of an antiquated media format.
Refuse to let go or don't know what a web browser is period. They think internet explorer IS the internet. Dur, I clicks on the blue E and gets meh emails.
I fired my old family doctor of about 10 years because I started to see he was nothing but a shill for the drug compaines. He'd spend less then 5 minutes in the room with you, give you a hand full of samples of the latest, greatest whatever. I brought in a list of drugs that Wal-Mart sells for $4 and a list of what my insurence covers, none of his samples were on the list, so he wouldn't prescribe those. Lo and behold, the samples are the ones that are still patent protected, and cost $500 for a weeks worth.
One of the doctors left the practice because she didn't like his style of medicine. I now go to her practice, which she runs with her husband. She has signs in the exam rooms and the lobby that state "Please do not ask for drug samples, as we do not accept them from the pharmicutical companies. Samples increase the price for everyone and are not free. The doctor will discuss with you the right medicine for the right problem, and will try to prescribe generics if at all possible."
I like it now that my family doctor really does practice medicine instead of playing the corporate shill and handing out the flavor of the month.
Do they provide means of letting you know how much you've downloaded, or do you have to meter it yourself using pen and paper or some sort of router logging?
I've had games lost on return, and one never made it to me, one DOA. They've been pretty easy to deal with, don't really ask quetions other then how did you try to return the game, in an open mailbox, locked community box, dropped off at post office, questions like that. I've never gotten the email survey's asking about shipping time. Wonder if you live in either a huge use area or are the only subscriber in a three city radius.
I've been using Gamefly for almost 5 years now. In those five years, I've had three games lost when returned. I've had one game take 2 months to be returned to the Gamefly facility, one game shipped to me that was broken on delivery, and one never made it to me. I'm at my second resident since I've started this, so I would have to assume it's not just my address nor an individual carrier nor local postal center, but more widespread. I have noticed over the years the little cardboard thing has gotten a little more sturdy. Given the increasing news about postal carriers not delivering the mail, or stealing it, and the increased use of contractors to transport a lot of mail from major cities to smaller, I can see this becoming more of a problem. And with Gamefly plastered on the shipping sleeves, it is easy to take a guess at what's inside, quick and easy money.
Based on your post, please turn in your slashdot account. You can be an expert in underwater basket weaving, but you still have to state that everything else is within your scope of experience. The only disclaimer that is required is the IANAL, and that still allows you to interpret law as you wish. Also, you are not allowed to agree with any posts, and must add insight to everything. I do not intend this to be flamebait, but possibly to be funny, which I fail at most times, IMHO.
I agree 100% that the future is digital distribution, and would have noted that in my first post, but then I would have been flamed for the obvious fact that not everyone has ditched dial-up, or can't. Maybe in 10 years when the internet in the far reaches of no where can get 1Gbps up/down for pennys a day. But I still see the inbetween as flash media.
I would say that yes, the PS3 did help win the next gen HD Optical Disc format. But it's too late. Optical media is quickly being outpaced by SSD and flash devices. Blu-Ray holds something like 40gig. Credit card sized flash devices can hold more. Yes, they'll be a little more expensive to produce, but it will be the media format of the future for physical distribution. No mechanic parts to wear out, unless you use some sort of spring loaded slot, and the cooling fan for the CPU on the reader. Upgrading the resolution quality of the media wouldn't require new readers, just a simple firmware upgrade to the device. No CD rot, no worrying about dings on the disc. Only thing is worrying about losing the things because they are so small. They can even pile on a bunch of old movies, or a whole trilogy on a single flash device, and have it spit it out in 1080p or i whatever they want to spit it out in.
SCEA seems to think that everything they make now has to appeal to everybody by doing everything. This will = fail in more ways then one.
The DS, with all it's touch glory, has yet to have a break away PDA like software, because that's not what it was really meant
to do. It was made to play games, and that's what it does, very well.
In Denver, the E470 toll way is doing away with people. It's all license plate tolls now. The owner gets a bill once a month for the number of times you go through. Failure to pay is considered toll running and a fine for the owner.
Right, they like the bandwagons that bring them money, and avoid anything that goes against that bandwagon, as it may result in them getting less or no money.
It's also this guy in a red and white stripped shirt everyone is looking for. Last I heard, he shacked up with this lady named Carmen from San Diego. Rumors of a child have yet to be confirmed, as even Carmen has said she thought she had a child, but has no idea where in the world it went.
Ya, because looking on Craigslist for, say, a up right freezer on the cheap, then having ads shoved in your face from Maytag trying to sell the latest, greatest, four figure dollar amount fridge is gonna get people to click on it.
I think another thing it has going is the ability to touch the stuff before buying.
Wow, that fridge sure looked a lot nicer in the photo, are you sure this is the same one?
Being able to buy items that are a pain to ship, bed rails for example, all locally.
Unless you're a complete idiot, not buying knockoff crap sold by some guy in his underwear and shipped from some warehouse on the other side of the planet.
And the last bit, the lost art of haggling over a price, and not being outbid by some computer program that is timed to the last nanosecond.
the year 2000. Everybody had to be on it. It will explode into this huge mass, consuming everything, for the next 5-6 years. It will be bought for over $2 billion(USD). It will turn to crap shortly there after, and by 2016, a new online overlord will rise from the IPv6 pit of doom to consume the next generation of online users.
On a serious note though, one huge bug in the early ROM code was an alias snafu. If you put in the proper alias, something dealing with a ~ and level info, log out and back in, your character profile was set to that level. Instant imm/imp status. Not sure if this was ever patched or in the imps needed to know about it and fix it themselves.
Well, most gas usage experts show that driving ~65 MPH is the sweet spot for optimal MPG. It's much better then 80 MPH, or 20 MPH in stop and go traffic.
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Exactly. Just like the conversion from radio to television. Once enough stuff started to get snipped from the radio, like a lot of the serials and soaps, and started to be put on television, television took off. Start making Yahoo.com and Google.com junk with IPv4, and advertise on the page why you get such crappy service and why they should upgrade, in plain enough English to the non-tech people to understand. Then wait a few years for OEM computer to ship with IPv6 compliant NICs, and offer rebates or whatnot for IPv6 routers.
Or just do like the entertainment industry does, wait for the porn to be IPv6 enchanced, then IPv4 will be dead over night.
He pays $25.90 a month. He has the AOL Dial-up Advantage plan, which has a lot of crap he doesn't need, ID Theft protection and PC insurance. I'm pretty sure he just got used to AOL Dial-up upping the price, and thought this was normal, as they gets stuff from them all the time he does read. I'm sure they sent a notice letting him know they are offering different price plans and stuff, and due to no action defaulted to the higher tier. I have since let him know about the AOL Basic Dial-up with tech support at $11.95. Too much hassle, he'll keep it as is.
This is why the US isn't 100% broadband, people just don't know any better, and refuse to try other things. It worked for 10+ years, why do I need something different.
For this whole deal to turn out like it did, something had to beat it. They can go work for those somethings. The big three american car companies are losing to the imports. Imports grow, thus needing new employees. The old american auto workers can go work for the imported car companies. I hear Toyota can tell the UAW union to take a hike, and they produce quality cars for cheaper then a UAW shop. Toyota has plants in America now. Those jobs didn't disappear, they shifted to companies that work. It may require a move, but this isn't the 1800's anymore when the average person never moved more then 60 miles from where they were born. Wow, I went way off topic.
I reember when broadband service started to eat away at dial-up. AOL was offering AOL Broadband. It was just the AOL face over your existing, always connected connection. Internet Explorer brought to you by AOL, with AOL as the home page, and the crappy AOL email service. People bought into that for a while, then realized that if they just clicked on the blue E, they had internet, without some sort of AOL overlay.
A friend of mine still uses AOL dial-up at I think $24.99 a month, when he can use his phone company for broadband for less then $20, because he's used AOL for the last 10 years and that's all he knows. I downloaded firefox last time I was over there and blew his mind by minimizing his AOL window crap and pulling that up. He thought that was neat, but it didn't look like AOL so he had no idea how to navigate to a different web site, using a real web browser.
AOL, your 15 minutes are over, please turn the lights out when you leave, maybe Time Warner will wither away in the darkness of an antiquated media format.
I'll give you my DVD+/-RW drive, half the time it thinks the blank DVD+R I put in is not writable.
Refuse to let go or don't know what a web browser is period. They think internet explorer IS the internet.
Dur, I clicks on the blue E and gets meh emails.
I fired my old family doctor of about 10 years because I started to see he was nothing but a shill for the drug compaines. He'd spend less then 5 minutes in the room with you, give you a hand full of samples of the latest, greatest whatever. I brought in a list of drugs that Wal-Mart sells for $4 and a list of what my insurence covers, none of his samples were on the list, so he wouldn't prescribe those. Lo and behold, the samples are the ones that are still patent protected, and cost $500 for a weeks worth.
One of the doctors left the practice because she didn't like his style of medicine. I now go to her practice, which she runs with her husband. She has signs in the exam rooms and the lobby that state "Please do not ask for drug samples, as we do not accept them from the pharmicutical companies. Samples increase the price for everyone and are not free. The doctor will discuss with you the right medicine for the right problem, and will try to prescribe generics if at all possible."
I like it now that my family doctor really does practice medicine instead of playing the corporate shill and handing out the flavor of the month.
Do they provide means of letting you know how much you've downloaded, or do you have to meter it yourself using pen and paper or some sort of router logging?
I've had games lost on return, and one never made it to me, one DOA. They've been pretty easy to deal with, don't really ask quetions other then how did you try to return the game, in an open mailbox, locked community box, dropped off at post office, questions like that.
I've never gotten the email survey's asking about shipping time. Wonder if you live in either a huge use area or are the only subscriber in a three city radius.
I've been using Gamefly for almost 5 years now. In those five years, I've had three games lost when returned. I've had one game take 2 months to be returned to the Gamefly facility, one game shipped to me that was broken on delivery, and one never made it to me. I'm at my second resident since I've started this, so I would have to assume it's not just my address nor an individual carrier nor local postal center, but more widespread. I have noticed over the years the little cardboard thing has gotten a little more sturdy. Given the increasing news about postal carriers not delivering the mail, or stealing it, and the increased use of contractors to transport a lot of mail from major cities to smaller, I can see this becoming more of a problem. And with Gamefly plastered on the shipping sleeves, it is easy to take a guess at what's inside, quick and easy money.
Based on your post, please turn in your slashdot account. You can be an expert in underwater basket weaving, but you still have to state that everything else is within your scope of experience. The only disclaimer that is required is the IANAL, and that still allows you to interpret law as you wish. Also, you are not allowed to agree with any posts, and must add insight to everything.
I do not intend this to be flamebait, but possibly to be funny, which I fail at most times, IMHO.
I agree 100% that the future is digital distribution, and would have noted that in my first post, but then I would have been flamed for the obvious fact that not everyone has ditched dial-up, or can't. Maybe in 10 years when the internet in the far reaches of no where can get 1Gbps up/down for pennys a day. But I still see the inbetween as flash media.
I would say that yes, the PS3 did help win the next gen HD Optical Disc format. But it's too late. Optical media is quickly being outpaced by SSD and flash devices. Blu-Ray holds something like 40gig. Credit card sized flash devices can hold more. Yes, they'll be a little more expensive to produce, but it will be the media format of the future for physical distribution. No mechanic parts to wear out, unless you use some sort of spring loaded slot, and the cooling fan for the CPU on the reader. Upgrading the resolution quality of the media wouldn't require new readers, just a simple firmware upgrade to the device. No CD rot, no worrying about dings on the disc. Only thing is worrying about losing the things because they are so small. They can even pile on a bunch of old movies, or a whole trilogy on a single flash device, and have it spit it out in 1080p or i whatever they want to spit it out in.
SCEA seems to think that everything they make now has to appeal to everybody by doing everything. This will = fail in more ways then one.
The DS, with all it's touch glory, has yet to have a break away PDA like software, because that's not what it was really meant to do. It was made to play games, and that's what it does, very well.
In Denver, the E470 toll way is doing away with people. It's all license plate tolls now. The owner gets a bill once a month for the number of times you go through. Failure to pay is considered toll running and a fine for the owner.
Right, they like the bandwagons that bring them money, and avoid anything that goes against that bandwagon, as it may result in them getting less or no money.
It's also this guy in a red and white stripped shirt everyone is looking for. Last I heard, he shacked up with this lady named Carmen from San Diego. Rumors of a child have yet to be confirmed, as even Carmen has said she thought she had a child, but has no idea where in the world it went.
As long as their is someone who wants to sell something to someone else, the old adage will always ring true, Buyer Beware.
Ya, because looking on Craigslist for, say, a up right freezer on the cheap, then having ads shoved in your face from Maytag trying to sell the latest, greatest, four figure dollar amount fridge is gonna get people to click on it.
I think another thing it has going is the ability to touch the stuff before buying.
Wow, that fridge sure looked a lot nicer in the photo, are you sure this is the same one?
Being able to buy items that are a pain to ship, bed rails for example, all locally.
Unless you're a complete idiot, not buying knockoff crap sold by some guy in his underwear and shipped from some warehouse on the other side of the planet.
And the last bit, the lost art of haggling over a price, and not being outbid by some computer program that is timed to the last nanosecond.
the year 2000. Everybody had to be on it. It will explode into this huge mass, consuming everything, for the next 5-6 years. It will be bought for over $2 billion(USD). It will turn to crap shortly there after, and by 2016, a new online overlord will rise from the IPv6 pit of doom to consume the next generation of online users.
On a serious note though, one huge bug in the early ROM code was an alias snafu. If you put in the proper alias, something dealing with a ~ and level info, log out and back in, your character profile was set to that level. Instant imm/imp status. Not sure if this was ever patched or in the imps needed to know about it and fix it themselves.
I still play MUDs you insensitive clod.
Well, most gas usage experts show that driving ~65 MPH is the sweet spot for optimal MPG. It's much better then 80 MPH, or 20 MPH in stop and go traffic.