Re: Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)
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Re: Don't bash Microsoft (was A89: Sim City 68k)
> AOL Shields you from everything sane! First they ween you off the internet
> and into 'AOL only' proprietary content. Next you have to watch what you do
> online because sending an email to a person can be considered TOSing. then
> you have these jokers in the chat rooms using 'ub3r l33t h@><0r' tools
> thinking their badasses.
Uh, no. If anything, they wean new users ONTO the
Internet. You're acting as if they blocked something.
AOL users have the exact same access as anyone
else, plus a little bit more that's a little bit simplier if
they choose to take advantage of it. Second, you
obviously have never used AOL since you have no
idea how hard it is (and how many felonies you have
to commit) before you are at risk of being cited for
a TOS violation. I, in over five years, have never
come even remotely close to getting one. If you got
a TOS violation, there's definitely a few hundred
children who are now familiar with the functions of
certain body parts thanks to you. As for that
comment about "ub3r l33t h@><0r tools", you've
obviously never used IRC.
> AOL's security for the longest time was built right INTO aol! the staff
> people we're using the exact same copy as you, but they had a custom list
of
> favorites to goto.
Point being?
> AOL prevents you from learning ANYTHING. They give you all this propoganda
> on how you can learn 'anything' on the internet, and then they give you
this
> aol only crap.
Hmm, but I don't recall them taking anything away
from you. Perhaps I don't recall it because they didn't.
> Give me distinct examples on user friendly mods that give you proprietary
> shit, use software thats years old, and has this amazing ability to make
> your 56k modem seem like a 9600 baud.
AOL being slower than other ISP's is a myth. They did
throttle connections back in the busy signal days, but
they informed you. I connect at 49,333 when I connect
to AOL, and get slightly faster speeds than my other
local dialups, due to a more direct connection to central
backbones.
> long live DSL and 768k speeds. I heard that AOL was supposed to move into
> broadband? have they moved up their *AMAZING* and *BRAND NEW* Cable Modems
> that give users 28.8 bandwidth to aol servers?
It's great to debate with people who know what
they're talking about so confidently as to make
statements about services they've never used
without giving evidence to back their statements up.
Yes. If you connect to AOL using a broadband
megabit connection, you will be throttled to 28.8.
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