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...intentionally blur the line between work and play, office and home. Bring your dog to work, decorate your workspace with Gundam robots and Darth Maul action figures, drink all the Mountain Dew you can stomach. Where would a young techie rather be, at home struggling with a high-ping 56k modem or at the office, surfing on a T-1 line...
...wonder if [this class] will be able toadjust to the cruel outside world of 56K modemsand [Internet service] that you actually have topay for," Lewis wrote in, of course, an e-mailmessage...
What it boils down to is this. Netizens are sick of the World Wide Wait. We know the Internet isn't living up to its potential. Most of us would junk our 56K modems in a Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But which pipe will we choose? Cable? Telephone? Wireless? Satellite? No one knows for sure, and Microsoft and AOL--both of whose businesses depend on the answer--are at pains to appear neutral in the coming shakeout. "We're pipe agnostic," says Microsoft vice president Brad Chase. Which actually means they...
Unfortunately, the DISHPlayer still relies on a telephone line--and a sluggish 56K modem--for the WebTV component. But soon users will be able to get selected, enhanced Web pages (with audio clips, say) beamed down from the satellite at way-faster-than-modem speeds...
...URL/DOWNLOAD @ 56K] www.gopatgo2000.com 92 seconds...