Comment Re:and nothing of value... (Score 1) 307
Yeah, and everyone should build their own computer before being qualified to use one. If you can't solder capacitors, you're not going on WoW!
Yeah, and everyone should build their own computer before being qualified to use one. If you can't solder capacitors, you're not going on WoW!
Leaked on the eve of release, after the products have been sent out to thousands of resellers who
The "anonymous coward" who submitted the article actually links to a website, the blog of a 2nd year UK university student. There are articles complaining about the quality of his education. I concur with that.
display that most UK ISPs 'aggressively throttle BitTorrent traffic after 6 p.m. at night,' with speeds suddenly going 'off a cliff.'
No, that's quite normal for some areas. It's not just BitTorrent but everything, due to oversubscription on BT's infrastructure. Right down latency, like a 12ms ping turning into a 50ms epic journey.
I know of a newspaper that won't be publishing this story...
Ha, talk about mental gears clicking into place. I'd grown so use to seeing the dollar sign as a prompt I'd completely separated it from the currency in my mind, as if there were two different symbols.
Where do you keep your backup generator?
This is a great idea!
A problem I've seen is people banned from pubs in one town simply moving on to drinking a little further away. It's too easy for them. A nationwide system would help. Those who only go out at night to harm should not be allowed out anywhere...
I would certainly be pleased to have to "sign in" to a pub if means nobody with me is going to randomly glassed or stabbed by someone out to cause trouble.
BT infrastructure monopoly. I can choose whatever ISP I want but the local exchange will remain the bottleneck. That's why the increasing capacity of the local loop is such a wasteful, hateful subject for me. I connect to the exchange at the maximum possible ADSL sync and receive the maximum theoretical throughput only as long as I am browsing at 5am.
What would you like to do with 100 times your own current network speed?
Shit man, I'd be able to watch videos off YouTube!
In nearly a year and half, my local BT exchange has been congested. "Virtual paths: red". I went from November to January last year at 300Kbits/s on an 8Mbit ADSL line. This month it's been 700Kbits/s. Yet if I wake up at 5am, I have 7.1Mbit/s and can watch two HD streams off iPlayer.
This is me, too. Road conditions are likely a bit different in the UK.
On a single-lane road, where overtaking is difficult or dangerous, I drive at the speed limit. I don't want to hold anyone up if they're behaving legally.
On multi-lane roads, I drive at around 60MPH (where the limit is 70MPH). This works since lorries (AKA trucks) are limited to 56MPH (aka 100KPH) so I can slip into traffic with those.
I used to get incredibly stressed when driving, but now I'm only moderately stressed. Also, in addition to the 30% decrease in fuel consumption, this only adds 5 minutes onto my 1 hour 15 minute commute, if anything depending on traffic.
I am somewhat surprised that more have not chosen the 'below' option.
I don't care. Life is better with data. I would actually pay for a phone that records my heartbeat and location and communicates it to a trusted 3rd party. You know what, it might save my life.
It doesn't work with the general public who enter anything and everything, appropriate or not. It doesn't work with corporates who prefer face to face meetings and everything discussed and tracked and accounted for. It doesn't work with small business who won't use it or if they do expect everything entered for free.
I don't have much experience of open source. Perhaps it works there.
There is some difference. I'm not clear from the summary exactly what's going on.
The adverts on the article's page are up-to-date though. I suspect those are what you are really supposed to be looking at.
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