Yeah, the big bold neon lettering is from the diet-fad, but my friends and family who are either allergic to wheat or have celiac disease are none-the-less really happy that there are a lot more gluten-free products on the market these days. For them, having yeast that is gluten-free is nice, because it's not a given that yeast (or any other packaged product) will be gluten-free.
The 3G service that AT&T keeps pushing (more like 3.5G) can go as high as 6-7Mb (this is the HSPA+ service they advertise as "4G speeds").
Heh, living out in the boonies as I did at the time, I considered myself lucky to get a solid 28.8 connection. When it rained, it usually couldn't top 26.4.... and I knew if it connected at 14.4k I may as well disconnect and go read or something til the storm let up.
Last mile... all hail the free market.
They don't offer it here, either. I use a verizon 4G mobile connection, which is actually pretty decent.
If you think the cable companies are representative of a "free market" you do not know all you think you know.
I actually took his comment as a rebuttal to all those who said that making it a deregulated free market would solve all our problems, increase competition, ease eyestrain, etc.
The day channels go a-la-carte is the day you see entire networks die because they can't support themselves with the money they make on package deals... and those successful networks will want an arm and a leg to watch them. I'm not interested in paying $15 bucks for a single channel like Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, or such. In fact, I'd probably stop watching TV completely and just go straight to Netflix if it ever came to that.
And the threat of that happening (and good old fashioned piracy) is what will keep them from doing so. Other places do a-la-carte, and so far the channelpocalypse has not happened.
Definitely.
I want to go down to Fargo and shake that man's hand.
I can't help but think this is some kind of marketing stunt related to the new Fargo TV series starting up soon.
