Hydrian - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What about lower fees for low bandwidth users? (Score 0) 441

by Hydrian on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @05:37PM (#30381328) Attached to: AT&T Moves Closer To Usage-Based Fees For Data

I agree with you. I hate being charged $40/month for downloading 200MB/month. I have a non-3G phone (Treo 680) I don't think I could get 5GB per a month if I ran it 24x5 if I tried. They don't offer tiered plans anymore. Their old tiered plans were SO out of sync of what reality was you had to get an "unlimited" plan in order to not to be raped by per MB charges. The wireless ISPs need to come up with a better tiered packages. Maybe something like $10/1GB flat rate so there is none of all that surprising exorbitant overage charges. You pay what you use. Also companies wouldn't mind you going over and people who have to use 3G/4G networks for tethering and heavy laptop use. Some people can only use laptop cards because their local utilities (i.e. cable/telco) don't provide services there. Please don't mention satellite as a VIABLE solution, for home internet usage.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3 Released 272

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @06:48PM from the hot-bits dept.

supersloshy writes Today Mozilla released Thunderbird 3. Many new features are available, including Tabs and enhanced search features, a message archive for emails you don't want to delete but still want to keep, Firefox 3's improved Add-ons Manager, Personas support, and many other improvements. Download here."

EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @07:50AM from the put-your-money-where-your-gun-is dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ben Kuchera from Ars Technica is reporting that EA/DICE has substantially changed the game model of Battlefield: Heroes, increasing the cost of weapons in Valor Points (the in-game currency that you earn by playing) to levels that even hardcore players cannot afford, and making them available in BattleFunds (the in-game currency that you buy with real money). Other consumables in the game, such as bandages to heal the players, suffered the same fate, turning the game into a subscription or pay-to-play model if players want to remain competitive. This goes against the creators' earlier stated objectives of not providing combat advantage to paying customers. Ben Cousins, from EA/DICE, argued, 'We also frankly wanted to make buying Battlefunds more appealing. We have wages to pay here in the Heroes team and in order to keep a team large enough to make new free content like maps and other game features we need to increase the amount of BF that people buy. Battlefield Heroes is a business at the end of the day and for a company like EA who recently laid off 16% of their workforce, we need to keep an eye on the accounts and make sure we are doing our bit for the company.' The official forums discussion thread is full of angry responses from upset users, who feel this change is a betrayal of the original stated objectives of the game."

Comment Re:Makes the GPL real in their eyes. (Score 0) 508

by Hydrian on Thursday July 23, 2009 @12:08PM (#28796339) Attached to: Microsoft's Code Contribution Due To GPL Violation

Patents != Licences

Also patents have to be enforced by the companies that own them. If they do not the patent will be invalidated. The requirement for 'enforcement' is a bit vague thought.

Comment Makes sense in some situations (Score 0) 112

by Hydrian on Thursday July 23, 2009 @10:19AM (#28794983) Attached to: 'Power Capping' the Datacenter

I could see it making sense in certain situations. Cloud computing is a good example. If you some of your OS images are parsed across a few machines with only 20 percent usage and if you could devise a way to seamlessly migrate them to other machines so there is more OS image density per machine you could shut down some of the unnecessary capacity. You would obviously leave a few machines open for hot machines if there was a usage spike, but the rest could be shut down and be powered up when the hot spares start to used.

Comment A least NASA had some humor about it. (Score 0) 383

by Hydrian on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @10:46AM (#27586145) Attached to: NASA Names Space Station Treadmill After Colbert

I can see why NASA didn't name it after Colbert. The name would be very culture/time specific. What happens in ten years when Colbert out of the public light and forgotten? I think the treadmill is a wonderful place for Colbert.

Also Serenity is a bit of a loaded name. What if the MPAA sued for copyright infringement of the name? While I think is wouldn't stick in the courts, it would bring some unwanted attention to NASA. Also with Obama's appointment of many RIAA lawyers.. I don't think it would end well for NASA or the public even if they won.

Comment Mandated (Score 0, Flamebait) 1246

by Hydrian on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @05:54PM (#26907949) Attached to: Student Arrested For Classroom Texting

Your mandated to be in schools. Your not mandated to pay attention.

State Bans Texting While Driving 329

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 12, 2007 @10:19AM from the safr-4-u dept.

netbuzz writes "The state of Washington yesterday became the first in the nation to ban text-messaging while driving. The law could use sharper teeth, but it's a natural and necessary progression of the movement to clamp down on those who find the need to constantly communicate more important than the safety of their fellow travelers."

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