My CD-Roms seem to always crap out on me time and time again... :(

Forgot to add it with my silly post...in 1997 I graduated Highschool and I had just migrated from a 33.6k modem to a 56k modem and was switching over to a thing called DSL for $30 a month since I had a job at CompUSA. The DSL was a 256/128 connection (it gradually improved to a 512/256 connection the next couple years).

I switched to a Point to Point based connection in 2000 or 2001 that was a 1.5mb connection for $80/mo with the worst latency I had ever experienced so I switched back to DSL and while I saw commercials advertising 1.5/768 connections for $60/mo (eventually dropped down to around $30 in recent years) with DSL I apparently just never lived in places with good enough phone wires to actually reach that speed.

It wasn't until around 2004 or 2005 that I got my first taste of a Cable Modem that just rocked my socks off and since then it's been primarily what I've used in both the Bay Area (Comcast) and Southern Nevada when I lived there (Cox).

Of course today I just leach the interwebs from two of my neighbors who have failed to secure their wireless routers and saves me a good chunk of booze money each month.

Who is Cricket and Metro PCS? I only know who AT&T and Verizon are... ;)

I suppose Ask.com will stick around to some extent like how Excite.com is still an active website, but no one will ever give it a real look, it's just "there" with the other legacy sites on the web.

Ninjas won't have a chance against Cyborg Pirates!

I was told today to shift my focus from our websites SEO/Traffic and focus on getting to 5 digits in "Fans" with our Facebook page...

I have a feeling XBox Live could increase up to $100 per year and everyone would still do it. Anymore than that and they'd probably start losing a few subscribers.

I don't understand it. Why is it the video game's fault that someone has no self control? For that matter why is it the food, drink or drugs fault?

People need to let natural selection work and stop making everyone else pay for it.

heh meant $2.77, though I wouldn't be surprised if in a few decades it is $277 a gallon...

I'm in Northern CA and I just paid $3.799 for the 89 Octane. Last year at this time I was living in Southern Nevada and it was about the same pricing there.

Where the hell is $277/gallon?

There's a case for that.

That's really what it comes down to.

I'm working with Team San Jose who works with promoting and managing the arts and cultural venues and events within the city of San Jose and within the office those who have desks and computers are still on Windows XP. There isn't any budget to upgrade to 7 anytime soon and when we do get funding it's put towards events and the venues and technology and software especially is the very LAST thing to be looked at. With continuing declining city revenue I don't see this changing anytime soon.

I've said this before, and I'm saying it again, eReaders really need to support PDF's and Word files a lot better than they currently do, especially if they want to get their devices into a college or have anything other than a black and white book novel read...

It doesn't matter if it's a college text book, a role playing game manual, or any type of publication that uses complex images/tables/graphs/charts/etc you need a PDF or Office type of file (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) file and you need to view it well. The current ePub files don't display these types of content well and the Kindle just doesn't work well with PDFs right now and doesn't support other file types. Sony and Apple have some support but not complete by any means.

It'd be great if there was a way to "purge" useless sites from the web...of course that's a pretty broad description there, perhaps purge "sites that dot he same thing as other sites but not as well" hmm...

Can we just start the internet over?