The price wasn't too bad for me. I didn't have a very high income, but I paid for my ISDN myself.
But I do remember the improvement after switching to DSL, even if this was the early days of DSL that didn't work thaaat great, it was still way better than analog modem or ISDN.
Oooh yeah, ISDN. My cable solution that I got in year 2000 (to answer OP's question) didn't work very well, and DSL wasn't an option yet I think.
For those ready to listen to my nostalgia:
ISDN was awesome because even the smallest solution had two channels. So two phonecalls on one line. Great for businesses. Also, a channel had 64 kbit, slightly faster than the analog modems which I think maxed out at 54 kbit, which was often unlikely to be reached.
But the trick is, the two channels could be combined to 128 kbit. An incoming or outgoing phonecall would simply reduce the speed back to 64, instead of interrupting the connection.
Although I paid by the minute, and using two channels doubled the cost, so I usually only used it when I was literally waiting for a data transfer and would be paying the same price anyway.
Actually, I think my ISDN would count as dial-up, as I paid by the minute.
If he's anything like me, that time would be spent on ranting about microwave ovens.
That is how the first ones (that I saw) worked. I was so happy when I saw that not only do they still exist, my local grocery store started selling them. I bought my second one a few days ago.
I assume the "somewhere else" has attainable jobs and affordable housing?
Right?
...right?
Here in Denmark it's normal to pay 6 months rent before getting the key. (3 months rent plus deposit equivalent to another 3 months.)
However, the market here is very different.
1: I believe it's very easy to get a bank loan for this. If they say no, it's because you can't afford the rent. (I could be wrong here.)
2: The contract isn't locked for 12 months or so at a time. You can cancel the contract at any time, effective from the last day of next month. Also the contract doesn't expire after 12 months, generally you live there as long as you pay for it.
3: Many other details that means that landlords aren't the enemy, they provide a service for people who can't or doesn't want to own and maintain their own property.
I hear many (different) attempts at saying it the Turkish way.
And to be fair, neither Germany or Japan is the name of an animal.
Most companies don't listen, these guys did. Many times when people did the right thing, they had to go through a process first.
It would have been if they did it completely on their own, maybe even designed the system for this possible outcome from the beginning.
But it's the end result that matters. They can release the source or they can not. They chose to release it, and that's great!
That's actually a really good analogy. Most people would accept that going for a walk is free, and that tax money (in most cases) paid the path.
Difference in quality? Hmm, probably not.
But with the homemade ones, you can add fillings. Put the æble (apple) back in æbleskiver.
Just before the final turn to make the sphere complete, you can add
Sometimes I use the method to make dinner instead of dessert, inspired by takoyaki (Japanese squid balls)
I make the batter with less sugar, slip seasoning you don't think belongs in dinner. Maybe use broth for liquid. Here the fillings aren't a bit in the middle, more of a 50/50 mix. I can fill the hole in the pan with fillings, then add batter. I like 2-3 different kinds of filling.
Look for "madæbleskiver", there's so many fillings and dips.
In my country I pay for health INSURANCE through income tax. I get healthcare for free. I call it free because I don't pay to go to the doctor or the hospital. ** So why is this distinction important to me? Because this means I don't have to worry about paying for healthcare. I don't save any money by not going to the doctor. I don't loose access to health care if I loose my job. As long as I am a citizen here, money and healthcare are two unrelated concerns.
I know that money is going from my salary and in some way to the hospitals etc, there's no way around that. But this way I don't have to worry about it. Not when paying my bills, not when needing health care.
It went up BY 18%, not up TO 18%. This says nothing about how bad it is, only that it's getting worse.
It went up TO 0.23%.