Centurylink has moved from offering only a 1.6 MPS speed in my area to offer a 6-7 mps speed in my area (7 nominal, as low as 6 in practice.) That is more than fast enough for email, telephone over the net, and non-video pages (I think). True? But if I want to watch youtube, or want to disconnect my cable and start doing TV and movies over the internet with netflix and hulu and such, I suspect it will be a bit slow with skips and pauses . True?
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
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Typo Boy - Aug 20, 2011 11:22:10 am PDT #17577 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2011 11:37:13 am PDT #17578 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
DCJ, I'm on HP's website right now trying to buy a TouchPad, and their site is slow as molasses and keeps telling me there's no memory. They must be getting hammered.
Typo, I tried CenturyLink's internet and found it was noticeably slower than my Comcast connection. FWIW
Rob - Aug 20, 2011 12:03:32 pm PDT #17579 of 25501
It would be very easy to run Android on it. Both are based on Linux and the Linux bits are open source.
I am very sad about the death of webOS.
Amy - Aug 20, 2011 12:18:34 pm PDT #17580 of 25501
Because books.
So if you buy one of those, you have to put an OS on it?
Rob - Aug 20, 2011 1:54:13 pm PDT #17581 of 25501
It comes with an os, webOS [link] , but it's not an OS that's ever likely to have many apps.
Zenkitty - Aug 20, 2011 1:57:31 pm PDT #17582 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
There's talk that some magic-wielding folk are creating an Android Honeycomb for use on it.
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2011 1:58:50 pm PDT #17583 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought HP was stopping the HW, not the software, And that they were going to try and get someone else to pick up the hardware slack.
Amy - Aug 20, 2011 2:16:42 pm PDT #17584 of 25501
Because books.
Thanks, Rob.
I don't even have an iPhone, or an Android, so I'm pretty clueless about apps anyway.
Sue - Aug 20, 2011 2:35:48 pm PDT #17585 of 25501
hip deep in pie
Sue - Aug 20, 2011 2:35:49 pm PDT #17586 of 25501
hip deep in pie
I need some hivemind tech help. I can't view secure sites on my netbook and I can't figure out what the issue is.
Most sites, return some kind of error, either not found or a problem with the security certificate. Even when I would say to proceed anyway, the sites wouldn't show. FB appeared showing text only version of the left column, hotmail would let me log in and then displayed a blank page and gmail returned an error message. Often it said the security cert was expired or not yet valid, but if I examined the certificate, it was clearly with the time period.
I've tried the basics I know, like clearing the cache and cookies and restarting. I played around in Chrome with the various SSL options, turning them off and on. I've cleaned out any spyware, reset the modem and the router.
It's happening with both Chrome, Firefox and IE, so I am guessing it has something to with the wireless internet connection. I can see secure sites on my desktop, which is the same line, but plugged into the router. I don't know anything about this little wireless network I've set up, really. I'm stuck, can anyone help?