[QUOTE="Bear"] lol. Fuck. Off. You. Cunt. :)[/QUOTE] Have a nice day!
Bear barfed: No, Zen is generally viewed as the type of ISP who primarily provide a damn good, reliable connection for users who are technically savvy and generally don't need tech support. Email/news is secondary. Or was anyway, I think they're getting popular and are concentrating on email/news sides of things to become more "AOL"ish, unfortunately IMHO. Have you complained about the person who lied to you? I'm damn sure that the boss(es) would like to hear about any of their sales sheep who are deliberately lying to gain sales. Used PlusNet, Demon and a few other small ISPs before Zen. Their connectivity, news and email were fucking dire (not all for all ISPs obviously, but still bad). Being on the User Forum Committee with access to the manager of Force9 opened my eyes to the growing pains of all ISPs though.
Having just applied to move from 512Kbps uncapped to a 2Mbps capped at 1MB system, it's because it will suit my needs better and I can save money. If I want to d/l large amounts it'll probably be a movie or two and I'd rather have it quickly and then (probably) pay the extra for breaching the cap rather than wait for it at 512K. *squeak* )
Ferger barfed: Why on earth are people happy to move back to "charge per Mb download"? God, 28.8Kbps modems for goalposts and all that... Oh, and did you know you're all guinea pigs? PlusNet are tied in with BT as one of BT premier partners or something like that, meaning they get to test out things like the 8Mb service first, i.e. fix all the problems amid the wailing and gnashing of users teeth
It's not a lot of money, but is it value for money? If I switch back to the crappy BT one, I'll get 95% of the posts, and the occassional complete renumbering of articles. Then the question is, is a realiable feed worth 10 Euros to me. I suspect that you may be right. I'd like to think that in the battle of the ISPs, there is incentive to offer the best services per pound. However, usenet users are surely a small minority group, and therefore not necessarily going to be catered for. If I ran an ISP, I'm not sure I could be bothered with a full usenet feed.
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Agreed - I think more and more it will be sidelined (more sidelined than it is currently). Apart from anything else, a full feed is big bandwidth these days.
Bear says... Yeah. I shall take a stack of books and the laptop. I don't know if I'll have net access, but I can do a bunch of work on some stuff I want to write. <g> My interview was 2 mins on the phone. "Are you any good?" "I fucking rock, mate" "Job's yours."[1] I shall now be spending my weeks in Dorest, and the weekends in Derby. Untill I can get a proper job anyway. [1] May not be word for word, but that's the jist of it. Telling them I was a big fish in a pond much bigger than theirs also seemed to help.
Bear says... Well, it'll do. It's not what either of us want, but it's short term and I need the money. I've not done any signifcant amount of work for almost 6 months, and as the house still isn't sold <stamps on rant> paying the mortgage is going to get tricky soon. I would think so, yes. Having said that, I did similar at the interview last week. This was for an actual project, they wrote it all down, said thank you and gave the job to someone else. Yeah, I've been turning work away for a couple of months, because it's not what I wanted. What I want is less of a concern now, paying the bills is what I need to do.
Bear barfed: I take it if an ISP had a very good newsswerver that serves binaries up you'd think they're quite good? (provided the rest is OK) I'm curious (fatal flaw, I know), why not use bittorrent or other p2p thingy to grab the files? Isn't it more reliable? Bloke I know grabs loads of DVDs this way, so they're out there.
Switters barfed: Butbutbut I loose more than 10 euros down the back of the sofa every year... I find more than that underneath the car seat every year, I mean, its *PEANUTS*!!! 2.5 pints! 40 ciggies! 2 gallons of gogo juice!
I decided to avoid it. Oh FFS are they going to pollute my entire childhood. Nermal is a cute kitten. That is his whole being. He wears mud packs to stay young. Siamese are not cute.
Probably a good choice. I accompanied a a small person, and found that Jennifer Love Hewitt provided the only reason to keep watching the screen.
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