Random Thoughts Thread

[Suze]

Originally Posted by forestacademy

I wish I could use a wireless air card. Only one cell provider does well out here and its owned by a company that provides wired Internet to specific communities so it looks at wireless Internet as competition. You know the verizon Blackberry adds with the other guys phone in paperweight mode? That's my provider. So whats the point of having a blackberry if its only good for phone calls.

I have the Dish for Internet. Luckily I have hughesnet. Turns out Wild Blue or whatever has a fair access policy that is based on monthly use not daily. If I download to much stuff in one day they will shut me down to nothing but e-mail speed for the next day. With the other guys if you exceed your monthly limit (and I Bet Neon would do it in a day) you are shut down for the rest of the month.

We also have a Wireless DSL Provider in the area that is line of sight. Nice Big Government tower just 3 miles south of me with nothing but corn between me and them, except for the neighbors old growth trees that I would have to get over. I'm not putting in a 200' tower to get Internet and I'm not sure if my speed would really increase.
No cable or Phone company is going to come into my area.

Nicely written rant, Forest.

How about you just download a copy of the internet to a floppy? Then you can take it with you wherever you go!

[chieftmc]

Originally Posted by Suze

Nicely written rant, Forest.

How about you just download a copy of the internet to a floppy? Then you can take it with you wherever you go!

FLOPPY what's a FLOPPY

[Kermit]

Originally Posted by chieftmc

FLOPPY what's a FLOPPY

The ears on a bunny wabbit.

[John_H]

Originally Posted by chieftmc

FLOPPY what's a FLOPPY

Aren't they those 8" discs made of flexible materials capable of holding 180kB of data? I hated when I misplaced a sleeve.

[chieftmc]

Originally Posted by John_H

Aren't they those 8" discs made of flexible materials capable of holding 180kB of data? I hated when I misplaced a sleeve.

Oh yea, I remember THOSE Monsters !!!!

They replaced my punch cards

[John_H]

You had punch cards? Back when you had to enter a program with toggle switches each time you power cycled... now those were computers.

[chieftmc]

Originally Posted by John_H

You had punch cards? Back when you had to enter a program with toggle switches each time you power cycled... now those were computers.

Actually John, I'm an OLD geezer

I remember the "I.T." gang hardwiring to change programs; OUCH

[John_H]

Do you remember college kids hired to push shopping carts of tubes down the aisles of the computer, replacing the burnt-out ones?

[JPaul]

The first one I bought:

Storage? Cassettes...

[forestacademy]

Ah, the good old days when you dind't need to spend 3 hours watching some idiot trying to get you computer to work by taking over your computer from somewhere else in the world. And in the end, I still don''t have a printer driver that works, and more importantly I don't have a scanner to help me do my banking.

I want my afternoon back that Lexmark stole from me