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| AmericaOnLine is a tentacle of Satan. |
| I'm hardly putting myself on the cutting edge by making this claim. EVERYBODY hates AOL. Why does AOL exist? This
harkens back to a question from my younger life- what 25 million people bought 'Thriller'? That's every fifteenth
person in America. Of the hundreds of people I know, only one owns 'Thriller'. Where ARE these people? |
| Fresh into New Orleans, I signed up for AOL while waiting for cable-modem installation. I figured I'd work the
30-day trial for 29 days and then cancel. |
| Despite the price tag of zero, I'm still not getting my money's worth. The AOL browser is a useless piece
of bloatware, fed by advertisements at every click. If I was stupid enough to think AOL was fun, I could watch
broadcast TV instead, and give my typing fingers a rest. |
| My 56K modem is on vacation, while we're using AOL. I have YET to see a xfer rate above 1Kb/sec. Regardless of
login time. AOL is apparently masterful at convincing customers that slow is fast. |
| There's also no easy way to just move your AOL username/pasword combo into Dialup Networking, so you're stuck opening
that memory-hog AOL browser just to check your mail. But wait! It gets worse. The bloated AOL browser doesn't understand
that other apps might use the connection. So while I use Eudora to check my mail, and I surf with Opera, AOL closes
the connection 'due to inactivity'. Piece of shit. It doesn't seem like rocket science, to monitor the connection
instead of the AOL browser window. Idiots. |
| And to further cement their reputation as incompetent, they have a search service where you can look up other AOL
members. I know several AOL members but couldn't locate or identify any of them using the AOL 'Advanced Search'
features. The search engine couldn't find these AOL subscribers even though I already knew their AOL email address?
I'd like the job of programming the AOL search engines, because apparently job security=100%, even when effort=1%. |
| And for this, this slow, proprietary, bloatware, time-wasting service, they want to be PAID? You're fucking kidding,
right? I can't wait to tell AOL to stuff it up their ass. C'mon, cable-modem! |
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