waiting for someone to post something. The second I see a little lightbulb lit up on the main page, signifying activity on a bourd of my preference, my spirits are immediately elevated! Currently its rather slow however, which is why I am now making my third thread of the night.
Does anyone else suffer from such a predicament as me in this? Sitting here, waiting for people to communicate? Despite the lateness of the hour and the need to sleep for work tomorrow?
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Staring blankly into this forum
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I'm really impatient so I catch myself doing that all the time. Atleast until I can convince myself to go do something else for once.
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lol no i dont do that really unless im waiting for SOMEONE to write me back lol
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I am just posting in your thread so you have something to read. hugs
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Excuse me? You take for freakin' ever to write back. Your the reason I search the forums aimlessly at 3:30 in the morning. lol.
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no i take for freakin ever to look at the thing,once i open it up im done in 5 seconds lol,and its not my fault that most of the time the site is to freakin slow or i happen to be talking to thirteen other people at the time lol
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It's ok I'll forgive you. It's not your fault that your so "studly" (as you've described it) that 13 people feel the need to PM you at once. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
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lol its not always pms thats actually better considering they have to refresh it and such to see it as opposed to IM's which theyre sitting right there obviously hanging on my every word lol
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In reply to:Does anyone else suffer from such a predicament as me in this? Sitting here, waiting for people to communicate? no...and no. sometimes i leave the room wiht the window still open so i don't forget the post i was reading on..... no one ever talk to me so i don;t have that probum i guess... as for PM.. when i get them i answer them and then i lurk (maybe post somthing...maybe not)... and if i knotcie the flag then i'll answer the pm.. when i get bored of reading then i'll find somethign else to go do. most the time i'm looking and talking to some one on msn... like now i'm talkign to diver..
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Tell him we said Hi.
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University time aside, is it still per minute across the pond or how is the majority connected there?Only dial-up has per-minute charges, and dial-up is disappearing, except in remote places, where broadband is not available. It's possible to get a connection where the ISP measures the amount of data sent and received, but as far as I know, that's only for certain business connections. It's basically all flat-rate, no matter how much you use.Some ISPs, like Verizon DSL, will throttle your throughput way back if you're using things like Bit Torrent.Also, in our cellular and land-line phone systems, you never pay to receive a call, although in most cellular plans, you have a budget of air time minutes, which are the same whether you call out or get called.
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I know I'm in the U.S., and that's what I was describing, so I thought you were over there. Your profile contained no geographical information. And you used the British phrase "across the pond". Why would you think someone wouldn't assume that that's where you are?What I said applies to the U.S.A.
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yup,until i started keeping two windows open.1.a2a2.fanfiction.netso when things get slow on a2a,i go to fanfiction.net
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First, I've written enough to indicate I am in the US.I'll have to apologize for not paying attention. > I thought a lot of people referred to it jokingly as "the pond".I'm sure they do. But given the lack of context, assumptions are made.> Per minute phone access has been fairly rare in the US, like forever! I have had metered local phone service for much of the time that I've had broadband access. The only reason I have a phone at all is because I have DSL, and bare DSL (i.e., DSL without analog phone service) is either not available or not much cheaper. Per-minute is the norm for long distance service in the U.S.If you have a cable modem, by-the-minute billing doesn't make much sense. It's doable with DSL, and it exists here, but it seems to have become uncommon. Even with dial-up, you usually get a quota of a lot of minutes, rather than being billed for every minute, starting with the first.Much faster broadband at much lower cost than in the U.S. is available in the U.S. and Asia. In Sweden you can get 1 gigabit/sec to your home. In Japan, even in 2003, you could get 8Mb/sec service for $17.92.The U.S. has fallen way behind in broadband.
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Yes, I hate waiting for an answer but it has to be done. It is nice when someone answers quickly, but doesn't seem to happen that often. I just have to remind myself to wait at least a day to get some kind of feed back. It sucks waiting though. Hate it.
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I was using Verizon up north, and now I'm using Bell South. I don't even have long distance service on my wired phone. I just use the cellular. For local calls (I have unmetered local that works in most of the county), the wired phone is kind of nice, because it has better sound quality, saves cell phone minutes during the day, and doesn't drop calls as often.So I don't dislike regular phones, but I don't like paying every month for something that's fairly redundant. I also need to train people which phone is the better bet to reach me at what time of the day. It's easier just to have a single number. Plus I never get telemarketing call on the cell phone.A long time ago I had measured service around Boston, since I made few local calls anyway. I forgot about the fact that I had dial-up service. I was clobbered that month. But when I got broadband, I got rid of the dial-up account altogether and went back to metered local service. (It's really cheap per minute, in case you do use it for the occaional call.) But like I said, now I have cheap (i.e., very local) flat-rate local service with (almost) 3 mb/s ADSL.
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I often find myself staring at the boards waiting for new posts. That's what I do during my summer, which just happens to be almost over. :frowning:
@ the connection topic: I have 10Mb/s ADSL, but it never uses more than 10% of that. Couldn't it use that extra *paid for* connection to allow me to surf the net faster?
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yes, it can b addictave....its sick, and ive done it b4. i just made my self stop it! go do sumthing productive like read a good book
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Perhaps I didn't express myself clearly, judge, jury, and executioner.When I lived in a suburb of Boston, I switched from unmeasured service to metered service while I had dial-up. That was a bad idea; it cost me a lot to make a local call to the ISP, so I switched back to measured service. Then I move to Boston proper, had good cell service, and got measured local service (which actually was convenient on occasion, but not necessary; I was forced to have local analog service, since Verizon did not offer bare ADSL service to residences at the time.) Currently, in Miami, I also have DSL, and I have unmeasured local service because I'm in the midst of a building project, and I'm always on the phone which contractors, appliance people, etc. When this project is over, I will switch to measured service, if it makes sense at the time. In fact, I would debate getting rid of the phone altogether if bare DSL service were available from BellSouth (it might be), and if my cellular signal were better. Some people have gotten used to calling me on the landline phone, and sometimes, when the cell signal is crappy (it varies where I live), I ask them to call me back on the landline phone.There. I repeated a story, hopefully more clearly, about something no one is really interested in, not even me. I'm not sure what you think I was trying to prove, other than that sometimes people have measured service (as I have had), sometimes they don't, and sometimes having DSL service complicates or takes away the choice. Also, measured service is probably a bad idea if you have dial-up service.It's important for you to be able to hold two opposing ideas in your mind simultaneously (e.g., there were times that I had measured service and there were times that I didn't; it's still offered by the local phone company, even though you don't know anyone who has it).> You do this often. You say what you say depending on what you are trying to prove.You need to either cite examples (hopefully not in this thread), or you need to kiss my ass. The choice is yours.