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  • G Gary Wheeler

    Rocky Moore wrote:

    Broadband now is supposed to have penetrated 90% of active internet users in the USA

    Slight rephrase: Broadband providers have now penetrated 90% of active internet users in the USA. Quite painfully, as a matter of fact, much to the joy of those who own stock in Wyeth[^].

    Software Zen: delete this;

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    Dalek Dave
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    That actually makes it worse! If the Providers have now gone round and penetrated 90% of active internet users, will they sue? Will there be a baby boom?

    ------------------------------------ "October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in." - Mark Twain

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      That actually makes it worse! If the Providers have now gone round and penetrated 90% of active internet users, will they sue? Will there be a baby boom?

      ------------------------------------ "October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in." - Mark Twain

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      Gary Wheeler
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      Dalek Dave wrote:

      Will there be a baby boom?

      Doubtful, since they weren't using that, uh, 'access method' in their 'penetration'.

      Software Zen: delete this;

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      • G Gary Wheeler

        Dalek Dave wrote:

        Will there be a baby boom?

        Doubtful, since they weren't using that, uh, 'access method' in their 'penetration'.

        Software Zen: delete this;

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        Dalek Dave
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        Incompatible Ports? Trouble with the Hard Drive? Virus Problem?

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          Incompatible Ports? Trouble with the Hard Drive? Virus Problem?

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          Gary Wheeler
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          Given that they're broadband 'service' providers, all of the above.

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          • G Gary Wheeler

            Given that they're broadband 'service' providers, all of the above.

            Software Zen: delete this;

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            Jason Lepack LeppyR64
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            It's hard to imagine that many people being "serviced" at once.

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            • C Christian Graus

              90% penetration ? SOAPBOX !!!

              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "Iam doing the browsing center project in vb.net using c# coding" - this is why I don't answer questions much anymore. Oh, and Microsoft doesn't want me to.

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              leckey 0
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              ...must...not...giggle....

              Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.

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              • D Dalek Dave

                Are they still around? does anyone use them?

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                John M Drescher
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                Verizon FIOS offers them MSN and Yahoo as a choice of email providers. I would probably pick Yahoo if my cable company raises their rates and cuts service again but I may just call and give Comcast the option to give me a large discount instead loosing me as a customer. I know they are just as eager to do this as cell phone companies.

                John

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                • J John M Drescher

                  I assume AOL is not having the best of times now.

                  John

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                  Rocky Moore
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                  I have wondered the same thing. It has been many years since I received an AOL disk in the mail :)

                  Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Obama or McCain? Really, voting for him? Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com

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                  • R Rocky Moore

                    I have wondered the same thing. It has been many years since I received an AOL disk in the mail :)

                    Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Obama or McCain? Really, voting for him? Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com

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                    John M Drescher
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                    Rocky Moore wrote:

                    It has been many years since I received an AOL disk in the mail

                    I really liked when they supplied me all floppies I needed for free but when they went to cds they were not as useful.

                    John

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                    • J John M Drescher

                      Rocky Moore wrote:

                      It has been many years since I received an AOL disk in the mail

                      I really liked when they supplied me all floppies I needed for free but when they went to cds they were not as useful.

                      John

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                      Rocky Moore
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                      Yeah, the CDs you could use for coasters or make a windchime out of, but as often as we received them.... Of course, that was back in the dot com boom years where they threw money way. Guess those people have now moved into the goverment offices ;)

                      Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Obama or McCain? Really, voting for him? Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com

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                      • R Rocky Moore

                        Wow! Broadband now is supposed to have penetrated 90% of active internet users in the USA: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0807/[^]

                        Rocky <>< Recent Blog Post: Obama or McCain? Really, voting for him? Thinking about Silverlight? www.SilverlightCity.com

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                        Roger Wright
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                        Considering the trouble I had yesterday trying to buy a dialup modem, I can believe it. Of course, what Europe calls broadband is a far cry from what we get here in the US. I get 256kbps for 4x the price I used to pay for wireless 2Mbps service. Too bad the geeks that ran that service were such idiots at running a business... :sigh:

                        "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                        • R Roger Wright

                          Considering the trouble I had yesterday trying to buy a dialup modem, I can believe it. Of course, what Europe calls broadband is a far cry from what we get here in the US. I get 256kbps for 4x the price I used to pay for wireless 2Mbps service. Too bad the geeks that ran that service were such idiots at running a business... :sigh:

                          "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

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                          Dan Neely
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                          There're alot of benefits to living in a low population density area, unfortunately cheap highspeed internet isn't one of them. :((

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                          • B Baconbutty

                            Painful :omg:

                            I still remember having to write your own code in FORTRAN rather than be a cut and paste merchant being pampered by colour coded Intellisense - ahh proper programming - those were the days :)

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                            NimitySSJ
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                            You beat me to it... $20 says he chose the title just to get these reactions. And now for the final question: "So, when can she expect the other 10%?"

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                            • D Dalek Dave

                              Can Virgin have 90% penetration and still be called Virgin?

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                              NimitySSJ
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                              No, then it would be Comcast, cuz almost everyone around here hitches a ride on that one.

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