 oliphant5Got Identity?Premium
join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
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Re: Bigger, stronger, -cough- faster I have a hard time believing a review from someone who would give AOL well know horrid service and support a 9 even though they admit to that portion of the software not being complete and therefore not testable while the AOL forums here are wrought with AOL subscribers complaining of the same.
Plus AOL remains at the bottom (save for MSN) of the national ISP heap according to reviews by subscribers here as well as a continued horrid showing with J.D. Power.
In addition (this may have changed) but AOL was planning to charge an additional $3 (as if their rates weren't high enough) per month to get access to the new security features of AOL 9.0.
Content can be gotten anywhere. Inclusion of realpass simply doesn't justify the high cost.
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| YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.
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 ameniteThe Soylent - It's PeoplePremium
join:2002-11-21
Ridgewood, NJ
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YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.
Why do I need AOL for concerts when I have DirecTV Freeview? 
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said by storm64007:
YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.
Why do I need AOL for concerts when I have DirecTV Freeview?
Uhmmm no..LOL! They are different concerts though..what you will see on AOL concerts are artists on the time/warner labels such as LOU REED, today its THE WHO. |
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ameniteThe Soylent - It's PeoplePremium
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Ridgewood, NJ Reviews:
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| The DirecTV stuff is Dolby Digital 5.1 and the picture is outstanding.
Last week was Radiohead from London, this weekend it's Roger Waters playing The Wall live from The Berlin Wall, 1990, remastered; Bob Marley & The Wailers Live in London 1977. Seems like a pretty good mix so far
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oliphant5Got Identity?Premium
join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA
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said by storm64007:
YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.
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Oh yeah, there is no filesharing outside AOL. Yep, Launch.com doesn't have music. Guess we all NEED AOL to get content.
And as far as realpass goes...that's my point. Realpass is worthless. Who needs to pay higher ISP rates just to see CNN.com's 2x2" video streams when you can get news from CNN TV or free from other online sources.
As a former AOL customer, I'm just not seeing anything special in AOL's content to warrant dealing with their crappy client, bad customer service and high ISP rates.
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said by amenite:
The DirecTV stuff is Dolby Digital 5.1 and the picture is outstanding.
Last week was Radiohead from London, this weekend it's Roger Waters playing The Wall live from The Berlin Wall, 1990, remastered; Bob Marley & The Wailers Live in London 1977. Seems like a pretty good mix so far
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said by oliphant5:
said by storm64007:
YOU PAY FOR THE REALPASS...10 bucks a month. YOU PAY FOR CNN..ect. And you are totally wrong that you can get the AOL concerts, the filesharing, ect anywhere else on the web..YOU CANT.
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Oh yeah, there is no filesharing outside AOL. Yep, Launch.com doesn't have music. Guess we all NEED AOL to get content.
And as far as realpass goes...that's my point. Realpass is worthless. Who needs to pay higher ISP rates just to see CNN.com's 2x2" video streams when you can get news from CNN TV or free from other online sources.
As a former AOL customer, I'm just not seeing anything special in AOL's content to warrant dealing with their crappy client, bad customer service and high ISP rates.
Realpass is worthless to you but not to the millions of people signed up for it and enjoy it. First off, not everyone can get CNN on tv and not everyone has cable TV in the world but do have a broadband connection. As for the streaming..it streams at 350-400k and looks great at full screen(not no 2x2 lil screen). You also get exclusive content that you might not like or need but others OBVIOUSLY want (realone has millions of subscribers) such as MLB games, NASCAR, 24 hour big brother feeds, ect. The same goes for AOL content..there are reasons why people enjoy the content and pay for it.. being able to watch cnn clips or full news at work on their comps, ect. Many, many different reasons..not everyone has your tastes or likes or access to your cable tv programs.
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oliphant5Got Identity?Premium
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Corona, CA
| Yep...overpriced bloatware. And full screen? So what. I consider myself having a pretty pricy monitor with the 19" viewsonic DFP...now that is compared to a typical television. 19" isn't crap...even a large screen, say 21" what's the point. Concerts are about entertainment. You're going to get entertained by a 19" picture and computer speakers? If you are satisfied with spending extra money EVERY month for this type of stuff...more power to you...but I'd rather put that $10 toward a Netflix subscription or something that gets me way more "content" for my money.
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 cjynxWhatchu Talkin' Bout
join:2003-01-13
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to oliphant5
I walked out of a job interview with AT&T when they used AOL for some reason. They said that the techs (job I was there for) would fix systems that had problems with AOL. I told them that EVERY system has problems with AOL. It's not the systems, it's the software. I told them that I couldn't handle the stress of dealing with AOL on a daily basis and that the job wasn't for me. Buh-bye. |
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oliphant5Got Identity?Premium
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Corona, CA | They're glutton for punishment. They told their employees if they make their profit targets that they will get to remove the software. |
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 Frankis chillingPremium
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somewhere | most companies have aol on thier computers. employees (not employers) install it. Last company i worked for used aim to communicate throughout the office and people had aol installed all over by employees..... and this was at the noc level, it came in very handy if you wanted to see cnn or sports stuff and junk from work without having to pay that realpass crap.
on the otherhand, you'll be suprised how many executives with six figure salaries use aol at work. |
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Noodlin
join:2003-07-11
Monterey Park, CA | reply to oliphant5
That’s just cruel and unusual punishment. I’m pretty sure something like that is in breach of the Geneva Convention, or count as some kind of War Crime. |
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cjynxWhatchu Talkin' Bout
join:2003-01-13
Pittsburgh, PA | reply to aztecnology
It wasn't installed in the office, it was on customer's machines. I think it was their first run at Internet access. I don't know why they used it, but I didn't stick around to find out either. |
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said by cjynx:
I walked out of a job interview with AT&T when they used AOL for some reason. They said that the techs (job I was there for) would fix systems that had problems with AOL. I told them that EVERY system has problems with AOL. It's not the systems, it's the software. I told them that I couldn't handle the stress of dealing with AOL on a daily basis and that the job wasn't for me. Buh-bye.
Your better than me, I have not yet found an interview I would walk out of these days. You must hate AOL problems pretty bad.
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