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Go digtal you analog laggards
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Iselin, NJ
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Anomaly95
join:2005-12-11
Phoenix, AZ | commercial That was a great commercial.  | |
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 | Smith6612
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united state | Re: commercial I agree. That was a funny commercial. | |
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| said by Anomaly95  :That was a great commercial. Given that this is a Japanese Commercial, I loved the use of a Sentai (Power Ranger for us in the USA) Team Members. I am not sure if they are Generic or actually from one of the Series (each year there is a new Sentai show and new Uniforms - we get to see the Disney Sliced-and-Diced PR version the next year unless we get the DVDs from Japan or Hong Kong to see the original during the year they air in Japan). | |
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bokamba
Chengdu Rocks
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Falls Church, VA
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| Re: commercial It's a Hong Kong commercial. The spoken language is Cantonese and the name at the end of the commercial is "Hong Kong [something]". | |
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Placebo
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join:2005-12-14
Huntley, IL | Chicago Baseball...... Cubs and White Sox are both in first place. Nuts! | |
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Smithtown, NY
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| Re: Chicago Baseball...... said by Placebo :Cubs and White Sox are both in first place. Nuts! Betcha Joe Torre is happy it is not his former team... | |
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JamesPC
join:2005-10-12
Orange, CA | Re: Chicago Baseball...... GO ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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Bobcat
Vote for Grampa Simpson
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join:2001-02-04
Bedminster, NJ | Tubes! See?!?! The Internet is a series of tubes! | |
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JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | Thumbs up Very funny ad. | |
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| patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Awesome ad said by iansltx :Good way to illustrate the whole FTTH speed advantage too  . And who said the internet wasn't a series of tubes? It's just that bits flow through them, not water Its not a tube, its a conveyor belt that runs whether there is anything on it or not. If you don't max out the bandwidth of the line then that the unused capacity is gone forever. You can't store megabytes on a conveyor belt, unless the conveyor belt is really long, and you'll have to wait for all the other boxes (which may or may not have data in them) to pass/loop infront of you before you can get your data again. By my math, a fiber optic cable at 1 gigabit can store 300 GB on it if you run it from earth to mars and back again (20 minutes 1 way latency). | |
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MacLeech
The one and only
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join:2001-07-14
SoCal | Re: Awesome ad Did you use the speed of light in a vacuum or in fiber?
Light in fiber is more than 30% slower. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Fredericksburg, TX
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| Re: Awesome ad Sorry, clarification: tubes where the liquid moves at light speed and diameter is the actual speed of data difference.
Also, some internet agency or other figured that there is more data than there is storage for it, meaning that, yes, there's a significant amount of data en route from point A to point B. Sorta like flowing down the tubes. A series of tubes connected by valves to holding tanks
And yeah you also have to specify how good your fiber is, I think the terms are single-mode and multimode. Light isn't really "slower" per se, it just bounces around more inside a "thick" strand of fiber vs. in a vacuum, whereas n a thinner "usable" strand, the light takes a more direct path. | |
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injuneer
@paxio.net
| Re: Awesome ad No, light actually IS slower in a medium like glass vs. vacuum. The relative dielectric constant gives you the ratio of how much slower it is. It's not because the light is "bouncing around" inside the fiber. Single mode fibers guide the light like a waveguide for RF. | |
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| Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA | The ad is a bit inaccurate. The bigger pipe could have been much bigger. Oh well it was funny | |
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join:2007-02-19
Fredericksburg, TX | Re: Awesome ad In the spirit of argument, maybe they were comparing 6 Mbps DSL to 20 Mbps fiber. Or something like that Fiber isn't always ethernet-speed unfortunately... | |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA | Was that methane discharge inside the tube the secret behind Comcast's PowerBoost? It sure seemed effective at speeding the data up.
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Elcabong
Cuba SI, Castro NO
join:2000-03-09
Philadelphia, PA | Re: Awesome ad Farts always get things moving. | |
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vrp
vrp
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join:2002-12-05
terra | Inter-tubes .
No wonder my connection stinks every now and then ...
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join:2001-07-04
Fairview, OR
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| Re: Inter-tubes said by vrp :. No wonder my connection stinks every now and then ... . HAHA indeed | |
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| patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | A byte blew to bits? | |
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TK Junk Mail
Go ahead, make my day
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join:2002-03-03
Margate City, NJ
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|  Congress may OK 'compromise' bill to derail spying lawsuits
The U.S. Congress may soon vote on a new "compromise" spy law that would still likely derail pending suits against AT&T and other companies accused of opening their networks to the government in violation of wiretap law.
The latest proposal, which Republicans are touting as a "compromise," would shift that debate behind closed doors, allowing a secret court to dismiss lawsuits related to the president's warrantless-wiretapping program--that is, during the period after the Sept. 11 attacks and before then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales agreed to submit the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program to the same secret court for review.
In order to dismiss the suits, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose 11 judges are appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court's chief justice, would be required only to consider whether the attorney general's "certification" requesting surveillance assistance from a communications company was terrorism-related and legally authorized by the president. That's according to a draft proposal and summary provided by Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.)'s office and discussed at a press conference last week.
Aides to Democratic leaders told CNET News.com that their bosses are reviewing the proposal and haven't yet taken a position on it. But civil-liberties groups say they fear that, thanks to political pressure, they will ultimately accept much what they call a "sham" compromise.
What remains unclear is what happens next. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he now hopes to call up a compromise bill for a vote sometime before Congress departs for its August recess. Let's get this over with and pass something.
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Nashua, NH
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| Re: Congress may OK 'compromise' bill to derail spying lawsuits If the teloo's have nothing to hide, then why do they care?
Shoe doesn't feel so good when it's on the other foot, does it.
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Re: Google updates its ubiquitous icon Ugly ugly ugly. No relation to the Google brand.
This sounds like they are preparing to replace their real logo. | |
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| EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | I like the old logo better 
I'll probably live, though... | |
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chakey
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join:2004-06-14
Gladstone, NJ
clubs: | Another vote for the old logo from me. Wonder what prompted the change. Perhaps a google blog will enlighten us in the coming week? | |
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Nightshade
My political statement
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join:2002-05-26
Salem, OR | Another vote for the old logo. That new one just sucks.
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join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
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| The little g doesn't make much sense. They're obviously watering down their logo for something; they want their company to disappear somehow. The old capital G in a box referred to stability. They don't want that now. They don't want us to think of Google as the place to go to for everything, the place to depend on everything for.
They've had a long time to think of a reason for us to not want to use them in some way that is to their advantage. Don't understimate how much this could mean, and the potential in today's baby-boomer-infected world for evil is so bad that I fear for it. Hopefully that's not the case, but it is hard not to be fearful of a company that delivers advertising that intends to not let you use the Internet, instead hijacking it to shove crap down your pipe. | |
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nekkidtruth
You fail at life.
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join:2002-05-20
London, ON | Re: Google updates its ubiquitous icon *hands you a tinfoil hat*
I'd offer you access to a bunker. You know, for when the world ends tomorrow. But only the cool kids are allowed in 
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netgear
Net Gear
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join:1999-12-20
Arlington, TX | END-to-END They need to add another "layer" to the OSI Model; probably in the END-to-END Transport section. | |
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join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA
·Comcast
·SONIC.NET
| Re: END-to-END The whole layers concept of OSI has always been bogus. When they did it it was way outdated at that time. It's absurd to think the layers are completely seperate; they never have been and never will be. That's bloatware at its worst.
Of course, when they standardized layers, you had to refer to at least some aspect of layering in the code in order to interoperate, but it never helped make the system better in any way; they caused all sorts of problems.
They extrapolated the existing models in the wrong direction. Typical committee designs.
It's quite sad, really; it was an example of how bad OSI was to those of us who experienced ARPAnet type of activities. OSI, because of its incredible political power, did manage to sap a whole generation's worth of the best designs into their borg, and a lot of beautiful work went into OSI never to see the light of day because most working systems didn't use it and didn't let it flourish because of all the garbage OSI represented. The layers thing was just yet another example of that.
I don't doubt at all that if you agree to use layers that you'd find layering problems, including all manner of things, including missing layers. Every time I've read the OSI layers they've never fit the logic of networking to me. They're essentially bogus.
Some MAC address weenie might disagree, of course. "But we can track all your communications at NSA in real time!" Whoopie. Standarization at its best? | |
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netgear
Net Gear
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Arlington, TX | Re: END-to-END Yes, you are obviously well read, and you tend to use wiping paper in the vestibule. OSI stands for Only Shitheads (are) Interested. | |
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netgear
Net Gear
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join:1999-12-20
Arlington, TX
·RoadRunner Cable
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| "Deep Thoughts" with Netgear Scott McClellan is a greaaazy fart.
Comcast is a pimple on the backbone of America.
John McCain served his country well, back then.
GWB is a great joke...teller.
Liberals are Conservatives that haven't been mugged, yet.
Michael Moore is an amorphous bag of suet.
Bob Barker was a good game show host.
Slick Willey knows cigars and intern he smokes them.
Jason Castro is Leon Redbone's grand-baby, maybe.
Don't ever trust a lady named Butch.
If a tree burns in the forest but no one is there to see it does it burn?
Smoke'em if ya got'em.
Kilroy was here.
Where's the beef!?
Rodney Allen Rippy was a ham.
I've seen the Oscar Mayer Wiener driving down the Interstate.
Watch "Top Gear" on BBC.
DSL Reports is nirvana for the brain. | |
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JokerCPoC
join:2005-11-21
Yermo, CA | Re: "Deep Thoughts" with Netgear That'll teach them to Hotdog It. | |
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netgear
Net Gear
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join:1999-12-20
Arlington, TX | Now that's one frozen wiener...
It looks like that thing has headers with a glass-pack. (g)
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Jerkface
join:2005-06-05
Washington, NJ | New 3g Iphone Just heard from a marketing exec that the new 3g Iphone will be available on June 29th-- the 1 year anniversary of the original Iphone. More details to come...
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| sharksfan3
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join:2004-02-16
Pleasant Valley, NY | Re: New 3g Iphone I've read that it's going to be heavily subsidized too. I feel sorry for those poor apple saps who paid $600 365 days ago  NOT! | |
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ramsfansam
join:2002-08-27
Springfield, MO | It's the Beer! Thank God it's finally the beer! Here's hoping that everyone has a fun, safe beer! | |
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aaron8301
I can't get myself to go away.
join:2005-01-03
Clarkston, WA
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| Re: It's the Beer! said by ramsfansam :Thank God it's finally the beer! Here's hoping that everyone has a fun, safe beer! And don't drink too much weekend this beer, either, or you might end up trying to convince a drunk that you're not officer. | |
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pcdebb
Buttercup sees you
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join:2000-12-03
Tampa, FL
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| pcdebb != Diet Coke i've just realized that Diet Coke makes me fart like a trumpet. Any other diet drink and i'm fine, but after drinking a diet coke i feel like an inflated balloon. wtf man?
yea i'm starting the weekend off bored
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netgear
Net Gear
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Arlington, TX | Re: pcdebb != Diet Coke Eat some sugar free chocolate. That's some powerful stuff. Your colon will triple in size, then the earth will shake like a Banshee. | |
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netgear
Net Gear
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Arlington, TX | Re: pcdebb != Diet Coke Our cats just pass out. When they wake up it's "WTF!?" | |
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devjonfos
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join:2004-06-04
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| Verizon FiOS, is a rip-off! I just left a Verizon store pissed off!!!
They wanted triple-play for about $140/mo and that was with the lower speed internet of 5MB/2MB.
And a two-year contract!
I could get a landline, DSL, and Cable TV individually for less than that. And they have fiber optics to my apartment complex where they can pump all those services down the pipe digitally!
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R4M0N
Brazilian Soccer Ownz Joo
join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA
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| Re: Verizon FiOS, is a rip-off! said by devjonfos :What are they thinking? Most likely something along the lines of "Let's see if we can get away with it". | |
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IPingUPing
KJ4FIK
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join:2002-08-30
Smyrna, GA
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| said by devjonfos :What are they thinking? a) lets see how much we can screw people for
b) what profit do we need to make so have a return on our investment
c) what price would piss off devjonfos
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devjonfos
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99999 | Re: Verizon FiOS, is a rip-off! I vote for a and c! | |
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San Jose, CA
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| d) corporate law is wrong, and puts the power in the shareholders rather than anybody else more important (like the customers, company bosses, or someone like that). If given time, I could once again create better laws that should support most benefits of having corporations around. | |
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Jim_in_VA
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Cobbs Creek, VA | Re: Bandwidth Rage ..try 5GB a month..Verizon, AT&T, and soon to be Sprint | |
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ArchAngel21x
I miss Final Fantasy XI
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Lincoln, NE
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| Re: Bandwidth Rage Yeah I read about that, but it's one thing when a cell phone company does it. It's another thing when a cable company gives you a 21 meg connection and then tells you not to use more than 40 Gigs.
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| dynodb
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join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| said by ArchAngel21x :For those of you thinking Comcast has caps that are too low, imagine having a 21 Meg cable connection with only 40 Gigs of bandwidth per month! That's what Sunflower does. » https:// secure.sunflowerbroadband.com/order?36=1#s2 What? You really didn't plan on downloading for more than 1 hour a month, did you? | |
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nc1165
join:2001-04-10
Delray Beach, FL
| Republican VP candidate... I was just thinnking, could it get any worse? And then it came to me - Jeb Bush to be selected as McCain's running mate.Yeah, that's the ticket.
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