Damn you to heck.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
*NelsonSpeak*
HA-ha!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
AT&T did the same thing to my parents. This summer, they signed on to their Houston-area digital wireless pilot program. $30 flat fee for local phone service, free in-state long distance, and AT&T High Speed Digital Broadband for $35 a month. Two weeks ago, the phoned my mother and told her AT&T was discontinuing the program and she had five days to find a new internet service provider and local phone service provider. Oh course, she and my dad could choose to stay with the regular AT&T service. Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Well, so far its not looking to be quite as bad as I thought (as in: plugging back in my phone line and going back to AOL).
Which I would do, to keep up my harrassment of Omega ... or should I say, 'ZOmegaZ' ... Muwahahahahahahaha
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Damn. I let myself get too dependant on Cable modems. With out it, there is no way I'll be able to kill people on Xenimus!!
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A bankruptcy judge cleared the way for Excite@Home to shut down its Internet cable service as early as 3 a.m. ET. Saturday, but expressed confidence that the company will strike a new deal with cable companies to prevent interruption of service for its 4.2 million subscribers.
On late Friday afternoon, Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Carlson gave Excite@Home the leeway to end the contracts after concluding they had become "clearly burdensome" to the company. Under the contracts, Excite@Home executives said the company was losing up to $6 million per week.
"The end users may be affected by these proceedings, but they are not parties to these proceedings," Carlson said. "Bankruptcy typically causes much disruption all the time, leading to loss of jobs and services to communities."
The ruling affects many of the nation's largest cable companies, including AT&T (T: Research, Estimates), Comcast Corp. (CMCSK: Research, Estimates) and Cox Communications Inc. (COX: Research, Estimates), that sell Internet access through @Home's network.
Excite@Home wants the cable companies to pay a substantially higher connection fee to use its network. Until Excite@Home's bankruptcy, the cable companies had been paying a monthly fee of $12 per subscriber. Last month, the cable companies agreed to increase the monthly fee to $20 per subscriber.
The cable companies typically charge their customers $40 to $50 per month to use the @Home network.
By forcing the cable companies to pay even more to use the high-speed Internet service, Excite@Home and the company's bondholders hope to prove the network is worth substantially more than the $307 million that AT&T has bid for it.
The bondholders have accused AT&T of using its controlling position on Excite@Home's board to steer the company into bankruptcy as part of a scheme to buy one of the nation's biggest high-speed Internet networks at a bargain price. AT&T has denied the allegations.
The judge said Excite's bondholders have the right to negotiate a better offer, but AT&T so far has not sweetened the deal it first made when Excite@Home, the nation's No.5 Internet service provider, filed chapter 11 bankruptcy in late September.
In a company statement, Excite@Home said it urges @Home customers to contact their cable companies for further information about their network services.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
ZOmegaZ? What, you want a Starcraft rematch?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Still up and running ... coolness.
[ December 01, 2001: Message edited by: Malnurtured Snay ]
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
DSL is great...
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Verizon, on the other hand, is not.
So thankfully cable is still up and running
Posted by BlueElectron (Member # 281) on :
HAHA, Shaw is smart and had already anticipate such dumbness by @home
All of Shaw's user (at least in Canada) has already been move to Shaw's own backbone.
Plus, Shaw still have some sort of ties with @home, so we scan still use our @home.com email account, and @home.com webpage account!
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
quote:Originally posted by Omega: ZOmegaZ? What, you want a Starcraft rematch?
I do, and I'll crush your head like a puny tin can.
Like the last time.
And the time before that.
And like the next time.
And like the next time after that.
And like the next time after that.
And like the next time after that.
...
I need to get a good internet connection tho. Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Just look me up on ICQ some evening. You're on. Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Pardon me for asking, but what the hell is Starcraft? Is it any good? What is it about? If I were to buy the game, how easily could I kick Omega's ass?
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
StarCraft & the expansion packs are on sale at Best Buy (at least, they are up here). $10 or so.
[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Malnurtured Snay ]
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
My ass can be stomped, but not by you, MIB. It takes a vastly experienced player like Tahna, and even then they have some trouble. I'm quite good, for having played all of four multi-player games.
How 'bout you, Jeff? Up for a game sometime? I'd be glad to stomp you into the ground again.
[ December 07, 2001: Message edited by: Omega ]
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
hmmm. I've played a few games similar to this one in the past. Unfortunatly, this doesn't look like a game that I could get into all that much. Damn it Omega!! Why couldn't you be a Starfleet Command 2 player?!?! One encounter with me on the DY2 and you'd be toast. MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
MIB: don't play Starcraft. Get Total Annihilation instead.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
Uh, again? When did you stomp me into the ground the first time?
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
I know I previously said that Star Craft didn't look like a game I would like that much a while ago, but at the time I was very ill and not even 3 hot, horny, naked women would have looked good to me at that point in time. Now that I take another look at the game's website while I'm feeling well, it does look like fun. I have 2 questions though.
(1)How much does it cost?
(2) How many, if any, of the expansion packs do I have to get before I can start opening cans of whoopass on Omega. Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
You didn't read my post, did you?
Best Buy has Starcraft and the expansion pack Brood War on sale ... probably about or less then $15.
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
Goody.
P.S. Jeff. Check my latest post on the Cowboy Bebop thread. I have a link to a Lego model that I think you might find quite impressive.
[ December 08, 2001: Message edited by: MIB ]
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
*smack*
Two words, one game:
Total.
Annihilation.
Nothin' compares.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Except nobody plays that anymore. Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
You'd be surprised Posted by MIB: Now with more chunks of meat (Member # 426) on :
I can honestly say that I'm not surprised. Due to the fact that I blew all my money on legos just yesterday (Jeff could appreciate that. ) I'm gonna have to wait a few weeks before I can get Starcraft. I'd just like to know one thing.
Who will be my first victim?
Either that or:
Who will be the first to victimize me?
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
I still play TA. It still rules. I just miss the satellite thing from Red Alert.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Glad to see *some of us* still appreciate a good RTS.
