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I'm surprised that no bottom feeder has tried a class action suit against a tv network for blocking internet only customers due to a dispute over cable tv service.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, interesting. I was going to give up cable and simply keeping the internet connection though I had a look and I wouldn't really save any money. Damned if you do, etc.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Just to keep a decent internet connection is about $75 a month plus taxes, etc. My wife insists on having a land line (we make a lot of overseas calls and it is cheaper). So, dropping the cable actually increases my bill by about $10 because I lose the bundling discounts (we only have basic cable anyway). Go figure: the sunshines get you every which way.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Collin Jasnoch wrote: Is it for family or business? My wife also makes a lot of calls (well gets a lot
more often). It was all for family though so I pushed them all to get apple
devices (before hangouts were working properly and Skype is too complicated for
some of the family members). They are all much happier for it. The phone bill
doesn't exist as its all over the internet. I get some people want a landline. I
think it is way over priced though. Eventually I will buy a non-contracted cell
and use that.
All family, some quite old that do not have/will not get cells. The only 'apples' they know are the ones that pull their teeth out! Actually, out of the whole deal, that is about the best bit. $2.95 a month and one cent a minute, anywhere in the world. We did use AT&T's offering which was $10 a month for 250 international minutes (on the iPhone) but the call quality was not as good as a landline.
Still, I appreciate your perspective and will look again at the price of internet.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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It would most likely be cheaper in the long run to just get a TV antenna and point it in the right direction and stop paying each month for those.
I used to have one hanging from the ceiling in an apratment I was living in several years ago.
I even lived right near to the cable company and still had a poor siginal from them.Thus the antenna
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you probably needed one of those +200 mile ones.
The plus side to a antenna is in bad weather you can normally still get a tv signial when you loose sattilite or cable.
I'm not sure about service thru the phone system.
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Your welcome.
I found some different brands so a little research and reading of reviews may be needed.
You also have to rember the "advertised" range is also effected by objects in the way such as trees and tall buildings. Grain Silo's ect.
At some point I will need to get me one.
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I hate this, I really do. And I need everyone to know I hate it.
Every time I create a new project in VS, it selects this and then consequently all my references just don't work and I spend ten minutes of bewilderment wondering what's going on, no matter how many times it happens.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I also hate it. There is absolutely no point. Esp. considering the difference in Framework sizes. Almost as maddening as LINQ being in the default namespaces which I never use and System.Text or System.Collections.Generics not (depending on the template you open)
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in ADO.NET DataReader is the absolute fastest way to access data from a database, hand's down. The performance issues you are referring to are Datatable, DataAdapter which read the schema information to do their work. The only way to appreciably slow down a datareader on a like-for-like query is to user column names instead of column indexes (or call ToString and parse everything) and those two scenarios are developer errors.
With regard to LINQ, every developer should understand the data source. Minimizing it only leads to heart-aches. LINQ, and technologies that abstract the database into a persistence layer minimize the importance and value of a proper database; and if a proper database offers your application no added value maybe you should be considering a different persistence technology.
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While I agree with the importance of good database design, I respectfully disagree that using tools to make life easier at app development time (which LINQ is) is a bad thing. By that argument we should all still be working in C or ASM.
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I am not convinced that LINQ makes life easier for a developer. Just because you can do something in one-statement doesn't mean you should. In fact, the type of design LINQ inspires is just, bleh. But that is just my opinion.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: But that is just my opinion
Well no, I certainly agree with you, some linq for linqs sake is just more obfuscation, I do use it for simple job but the syntax is not intuitive and the more complex the job the worse it gets.
I'm quite comfortable using 20 lines of code if it is more readable/supportable down the track.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Yes, yes, yes. I agree 100%.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: In fact, the type of design LINQ inspires is just, bleh. But that is just my
opinion.
Mine too!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Hello, sorry for my late reply.
Ah, ok, DataReader is the best choice, I have used it many, many moons ago...
I will take that into account the next time we discuss our database structure / database access.
And what you said about linq and it´s abstraction lets me reflect on it...
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I've just started looking at some code which is using EF or LINQ to SQL or something (there are a lot of 'contexts'). I'm used to using an SQLDataReader to get stuff out of a db and I was wondering about performance of this more modern ways.
From your experience how much faster is a data reader over the other approaches? Do you have any rough estimates?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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