Sorta OT: Comcast v. Century Link

[Strenuus]

I also learned how to program an analog computer (patch cords, op amps and an oscilloscope for a "monitor") in college. It was actually pretty cool. It was for my numerical analysis class and even then the technology was on the way out. We spent the first half of the semester modeling things like an automotive suspension or an airplane wing on the analog computer and then the same things using digital approximations on a DEC Vax 11/780 the second half of the semester. The analog computer produced these beautiful smooth, multicolored dampened sin waves plots using a pen plotter and the Vax spit out these ugly dot matix graphs that were a bunch of gray asterisks in the general shape of a sin wave.

I think that instilled in me an early bias for all things analog - at least things involving beauty/art. I've always been an early adopter of technology for the sake of trying new things (I bought my first CD player back in 1984 - the same summer I started at IBM), but never sold my turntable and vinyl albums. To this day, although I have CDs and a music server running on a Mac Mini, my vinyl collection is still the largest part of my music library andw hat I turn to when I want to "hear" music (the digital formats are for convenience and streaming through the house on multiple stereos). Same with photography. I use the digital camera (and even my phone) for convenience, but when I want to "make" a photograph, I pull out the large format camera and some sheet film.

BNM

Dude that's awesome. You win life!

 

[Denny Crane]

You don't want to know my experience.

 

[Strenuus]

You don't want to know my experience.

You suck. I am the supreme overlord.

-Edited by SlyPokerDog at 6:44 PM

 

[Sedatedfork]

Update: I get CSN on prizm

 

[SlyPokerDog]

You suck. I am the supreme overlord.

-Edited by SlyPokerDog at 6:44 PM

I didn't edit anything.

 

[jlprk]

I admit it.

 

[jlprk]

I am going to give it a shot. I will be your guinea pig. Worst case scenario, I will just pay to go back to Comcast.

Update: I get CSN on prizm

Did you see the game on Century Link (Prism), or just the pre- or post-game shows? Is the quality as good as the alternatives?

 

[Sedatedfork]

By the time I got home, Game was over. (Pub quiz). Looks like next televised game on CSN isn't until this weekend. I will check it out and let you know.

 

[Elton]

You all want Google Fiber. Trust me on that.
Had it for nearly two years (now have a smaller Fiber provider where I moved to)

For a real world speed test, I uploaded a 10 GB 4K video file (from an SSD) to Google Drive in less than 2 minutes.

 

[Sedatedfork]

Yes, game is on. Picture looks pretty good

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Anyone else have CenturyLink Prism? Do you like it? Looks like CSN and Pac 12 Network are available with their basic package.

 

[barfo]

Anyone else have CenturyLink Prism? Do you like it? Looks like CSN and Pac 12 Network are available with their basic package.

No, but their commercials always sound to me like they are selling "Prison TV".

barfo

 

[BBert]

I have centurylink. Be careful. They lie and sneak extra charges on bills. Unfortunately they are still better than the competition.

That's comforting.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I checked and its not available in my area yet. Crap, guess I'm still stuck with Comcast for now.

 

[Denny Crane]

No, but their commercials always sound to me like they are selling "Prison TV".

barfo

Seen a lot of prison TV?

 

[barfo]

Seen a lot of prison TV?

It always takes a few minutes to insert or remove the contraband from my ass, but that still leaves a lot of the day for watching TV.

barfo

 

[rasheedfan2005]

That's comforting.

i posted that after my initial $255 bill. funny enough after 2 phone calls to bitch they both had the same scripted responses, i just got my second bill and the entire thing was covered by a credit and i still have a credit to almost cover bill # 3. but both scripted responses denied over charging me.

 

[HailBlazers]

i posted that after my initial $255 bill. funny enough after 2 phone calls to bitch they both had the same scripted responses, i just got my second bill and the entire thing was covered by a credit and i still have a credit to almost cover bill # 3. but both scripted responses denied over charging me.

Thing that pisses me off the most, that you have to renegotiate your bill at least every year. If it went up $10's a month fine, I'd let it slide. But when it doubles for the same service, it gets real old.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Thing that pisses me off the most, that you have to renegotiate your bill at least every year. If it went up $10's a month fine, I'd let it slide. But when it doubles for the same service, it gets real old.

Yeah when I had them before I had to threaten to cancle once a year till I got a new promotion after escalating to 3 different people

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

When dealing with Comcast, ask for customer loyalty department immediately. Those people treat you nicely and give you what you want if you're persistent. trust me, it will make your life easier when talking to Comcast