Web Myth:Web Accelerator
 

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We all have seen the comercials from NetZero and Juno and other about Web Accelerators for 56k dialup users. This accelerator supposedly speeds up your internet.


Well guess what...its a scam. The same amount of data comes down the cord no matter what. All the accelerator does is lower the quality of what comes through. And empty your wallet a little faster.

it compresses the images, making it appear to load faster..

and it saves all images to HD.. making it more faster =/

guess it makes 56k'ers feel powerful ;)

ALL INTERNET SAVES EVERYTHING TO THE HD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


and "more faster" is grammatically incorrect.. idiots at bcc put me into eng92...

as in the pages are actually cached into the HD so the images load WAY Faster than without the service.. i know my dad uses it at his work. And the reason why you got into eng 92 cause you sucked ass on the test obviously.

uh huh.. what's your SAT score.. sit down.. i pwned that test..it must have been opposite day.. and the only reason you get to go into eng 101 is because you took drama..

mmm. no. taking drama does not entitle you to get automatically placed in eng 101. It's a matter of why should i take the placement test again if i already took it and owned it it before-hand. drama was just proof for those bcc noobs.



w00 w00

what were your SAT's?

1220

630 math
590 verbal...
but I get placed into math 124 (calculus) and eng 92 (wtf)


I got accepted into WSU and WWU, and would have rather gone there, but it was about saving $ in the end... i'm doin a transfer degree now..

Yeah i got the exact opposite in the placement test :/

Math 98 :mad: and Eng101

that isn't exact opposite.. that's the highest level math.. if you got engl 124 or whatever it'd be closer to exact, but whatever.. like he asked, what were your SAT scores?

I forgot.. When i registered for the college board i entered my moms email by accident, so i cant check it online, and they never mailed me the scores. I scored way higher on my lang than on math though.. thats what i did remember..

*coughBScough*......
you can check it online, just user her e-mail...

meh.. not like i care now anyways.. now that im going to a community college

for the sake of this thread, and since i'm pretty sure james was asking you and not me, even though I gave mine.. you should get em..


and on a side note: it's pretty embarassing when people are talking about what colleges they're going to and you come around and have to say BCC... because once you say that everyone thinks you're a dumb noob, because many of the people that go there do... but i'm saving like $25k by going there and transfering somewhere.. so i'll just have to get over that...

I'm not embarassed at all. Going to a community college and then transfering is a very smart idea. One of the reasons is like you mentioned, money.

didn't say you are embarassed... that whole bottom part wasn't about you..

Community College is perfect for these noobs.. Makes working hard in high school pointless, because CC don't care much at all what you did in school or what your scores were.. only in math and english, but I took 4 years of english and am a spelling god and got into eng 92.. :/ ....

Well every high schooler is required to take 4 years of english.. and Just because you're a spelling god doesn't cut it. :browsmiley:

At my school, pretty much everyone but like 5 people go to ASU, about half of those go to GCC, or "Ironwood South" (since it is pretty much IHS students...), and then transfer to ASU... I'm doin that because my grades were rock bottom so I don't get those scholarships.

Haha. To get back on topic...

Being a dialup user myself. I find there is no need to even bother with it. These companies knew from the introduction of high speed that in order to keep they're dialup users, they'd need something new and eye catching. So, to the needy and ignorant dialup user, they announced the world renowned "web accelerators". They buy in for the scam, claim it's faster due to the propaganda the stupid companies offer, and all is well in 56k land. I honestly hate the world of dialup, and when and if I get highspeed one day, I will make sure to obliterate my dialup modem and any phone cords assosicated with it.

Now, back to off topic, haha

Yeah, vee_ess is right. Most people at our HS do transfer over to Glendale Community College for at least they're first 2 years. If anything, it's a start into the college world, and a good alternative to a university. I plan on getting into ASU myself, and hopefully I'll be accepted (once I retake those damn SAT's...grr.)

Hey, vee_ess...I say gloat and show up that person who was bragging about his SAT score...heh. Show him what a real SAT score consists of...

I hope you weren't referring to me, I know my score isn't god.. but at least i'm not too scared to show it 8)


and I did take for years of english stinky....

LA 9
LA 10
American Lit 1-2
Public Speaking
Debate

so stfu.. kthx..


and don't people go to UA? or is everyone there a party nut..?

ok 1 you brag about you english skills and miss-spell "four" like a dumbass
and 2 i never said that you didnt take 4 years, i said that every high schooler is REQUIRED to take 4 years :banghead:

woops on the for.. i know thats not how four is spelt... yea but how is that relevant then? we both took 4 years of engl?

I know we did.. you were going off how you took 4 years of english way at the top.. and im just like" well duh.. we all did"

THEN SHUT THE HELL UP AND QUIT WHINING. POST AFTER POST THERE IS SOMETHING FOR YOU TO NAG ABOUT. STFU.

no, you