Comment Re:That's what happens... (Score 3, Informative) 247
That's odd, since virgin don't limit download with the 50 meg service, and only throttle upload in areas with faster uploads
Comment Re:Hehe, so much for cooperating (Score 1) 165
to be fair Virgin's "limit" is at peak times, when you're probably going to find things are a bit slow anyway. I'm on Virgin, and downlod more than that most months, mostly overnight, and I've never had their warning letter.
Virgin are pretty up front about their peak time monitoring, and afaict have only recently come up with a figure for triggering their sending of a letter.
(for disclosure reasons i work for a company who work for virgin, but have no interest in promoting their services, i'm just giving my experiences)
Comment Re:MP3 players, too. (Score 1) 347
there's ebid. a friend is doing a lot of selling on there, and hasnt had any issues. or if she has, she hasn't whined at me about them the same way she did with ebay.
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notthatwillsmith writes "It's difficult to think of a single category of application that's driven the pace of desktop hardware development further and faster than first-person shooters. Maximum PC examined the evolution of FPS engines, looking back at the key technologies that brought games from the early sprite-based days of Doom to the fully 3D-rendered African Savannah as rendered by Far Cry 2's Dunia engine. It's truly amazing how far the state of the art has moved in the last 16 years."
