Updated Kubota Website
Chief
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 4299 Southwest MiddleTennessee Pics |
2004-01-27 75212
I just noticed this today. Maybe you have already seen it. It is about time Kubota has updated their website. Take a look around; lots of new and updated info.
Link: click here
 
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tamanaco
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 41 wellington, oh |
2004-01-27 75243
Make sure you have a T-1 line or allot of time. I'm running a 233MZ unit and a dialup, it took me days to get the sight up? Not sure this is a good thing? ....
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Art White
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6898 Waterville New York Pics |
2004-01-27 75253
I was like that once and it took days to do much of anything on line, they were not bad for processing internal stuff. ....
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kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon Pics |
2004-01-27 75264
Deere's site is slow on dial-up too. Watching the pages draw shows lots of inefficiencies in their web design. Whenever a pop-up window opens the entire base window is refreshed before the pop-up window is rendered. Very dumb. I emailed their customer service to complain about the slow web performance and quickly got several responses back from different people telling me that "they hired the best people in the business to design their web site" and that "nobody else using dial-up is complaining". Seems their pretty proud of their web site, but that doesn't make it useful to me without a six-pack and lots of time to burn. It is full-featured though. ....
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Art White
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6898 Waterville New York Pics |
2004-01-28 75271
Some times I wonder that in thios great information age and the amount of it available at the finger tips that we don't get spoiled a little! ....
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Art White
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 6898 Waterville New York Pics |
2004-01-28 75285
It is often disturbing but when you build someting normally you build for tommorrow, not today or yesterday. We all get left out from time to time. ....
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kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon Pics |
2004-01-28 75291
In Deere's case I would bet that most of their customers live in rural areas. Since rural areas are the least likely to have high speed internet access one might think this would have been a design criteria. Besides, it's ALWAYS bad design to burn cycles needlessly. ....
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blizzard
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 282 Central Maine Pics |
2004-01-28 75296
Amen Ken.
Just for kicks, I cleared all caches and reloaded myYahoo:
42,817 bytes.
To bring up the Kubota site:
479,641 bytes.
and to get to where I can look at Grand L models:
1,343,032 bytes.
Then I get a message I need a newer Macromedia Flash upgrade!
HTML is THE Web programming language. If companies were as concerned with content more than presentation those of us looking for information (as something that clarifies and/or educates, not just a stream of bits) would find the Web more useful.
bliz
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plots1
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 563 mo Pics |
2004-01-28 75299
The dial up is becoming slower and slower and I think it's designed that way so high speed access sales is bound rise. ....
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blizzard
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 282 Central Maine Pics |
2004-01-28 75304
All well and good for the urban dweller, but out here in the boonies we don't even get cable. Unfortunately, when Ma Bell was broken up, it seems any enforcement of the 'universal access' clauses was eliminated. All these newer cable and telcom providers maximize profits, and that means NOT stringing lines to sparsely-populated areas.
bliz ....
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Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada Pics |
2004-01-28 75310
According to DirecTV and their lovely spokesperson Tanya Memme on channel 103 DirecWav satellite-based high speed internet service is available ANYWHERE in the continental US, all you need is a clear view of the southern sky....... LOL
Best of luck. ....
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Billy
Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 975 Southeast Oklahoma Pics |
2004-01-28 75311
LOL...don't forget about the 600 bucks for equipment and 60 a month for the service. ....
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Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7249 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada Pics |
2004-01-28 75319
Maybe if you live in the US it is...... LOL
ARRGH Matey, pass me thet thar converter .......
Best of luck. ....
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blizzard
Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 282 Central Maine Pics |
2004-01-28 75321
Thanks for the info Murf,
The DirecWav/DirecTV site wasn't much help, but I found there is another wireless internet service available here. I can just barely see the top of their tower through the trees, so when I go to the big city I'll stop in and see if they will do a survey. Still expensive, though not as bad as Billy P. said.
bliz ....
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kwschumm
Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 5764 NW Oregon Pics |
2004-01-28 75322
Murf, there's a reason both satellite based internet services are being sued for non-performance. A lot of users pay all that money to get dial-up speeds. There's a host of other problems with them as well. Maybe WildBlue will be the answer, but I don't think they've even launched their first satellite yet. The real solution is to make all web designers work on DIAL-UP lines during development :) They would figure out how to make things faster in a big hurry. ....
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Billy
Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 975 Southeast Oklahoma Pics |
2004-01-28 75324
Murf,
You mean to tell me you can get DirecWay satelite internet (in Cananda) without coughing up the money for their modem and monthly fees? ....
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