"J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > At 15:20 01-04-03 -0500, Bryon Daly wrote: > > > > Two new toys, actually: a few days earlier Sonja gave me a digital > > > photo camera for my birthday... :-) > > > >No birthday, here, but I just bought a digital camera also (to use for our > >baby's imminent arrival)... anyway, what'd ya get? > > HP 720 (3.3 megapixel, 16 MB memory, 12x zoom (3x optical, 4x digital)). > What did you spend your money on?
I bought a Canon G3 - just arrived on Friday. That, and an external flash I can also use on my Canon film SLR. The G3 is 4 Megapixels, with a 4x zoom. It's been great so far, but unfortunately there's not enough time for me to play with it! > >Ouch! Why is it so much slower? ADSL near me is very competitive with > >cable internet speeds, and often considered superior. > > It's the money, really. The 256/64 Kb package is considerably cheaper than > cable, and other packages (512/256 and better) are all more expensive than > cable. Cable costs EUR 49.95 per month, which I find to be a bit (too) much > for what I use Internet for (I'll be paying EUR 27.95 per month for ADSL in > the first year, EUR 34.95 after that). Until last May my employer paid > almost half of my Internet subscription costs, which made cable nice and > cheap for me, but then some pencil pushers decided that it was against some > regulation to contribute in the costs of employees' private Internet > connection and stopped the money flow. > > Can't compare ADSL vs. cable speed, BTW -- Chello doesn't provide > information about their connection speed. But hey, if the ADSL package I > got turns out to be too slow, I can always upgrade. Ahh, that's right - ADSL services around me also offer different $ rates for more/less speed. I think my cable internet runs at around 1 Mbps download. If you want to know/verify your transfer rate, there's web sites online that can actually determine your transfer rate for you, such as this one: http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
