LOL BePro have a VERY VERY LOW contention ratio indeed.
i fact if you check it's 1:1(BePro only) which, as far as i know is the best i have ever seen!
http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/computers_and_internet/reports/internet/internet_access/Broadband/pp_excel_546_131166.jsp
check the "capped contention raio", it says "not contended"
i too don't use the BT phone line at all really, except for sending/recieving faxes(achaic i know but still the only use my landline has!
My mobile plan has 900 mins and 350 texts so i pretty much use that ad skype for all my calls and if my minutes are running low and i am calling a landlie and am near a friendly wireless access point i use truphone to call uk landline for free!
www.bethere.co.uk do it and do it well.
i am with them on a BePro connection and i get the full tilt with 24mb down and 2.5mb up.(i live very close to the exchange)
either you aren't looking hard enough or.
even bulldog do 1mb up(but they are undeniably crap and even worwe now that tiscali have bought them out)
best of all the Pro service only costs £22 GBP per month has 24/7 tech and customer support and i have NEVER, unline ANY other ISP
i have been with on broadband since 2002, had any problems. i sometimes miss having to moan at my ISP..LOL
www.bethere.co.uk are also great for not filtering, thgrottling or anything like that.
i haev BePro, costs £22 GBP per month and i get 24 mb down and 2.5 mb up9i actually get those speeds due to being 300metres by wires from my local exchange)
they are the mutts nuts and i wold recommend them to anyone. they even have 24 hours tech and customers support who aren;'t in india9they are i think in romanian..lol) but their english is clear and they are very keen to help.
no ads, no nothing... just lovwely fast conections!
"he only exceptions are the UK "
sorry but just plain WRONG
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/Civil
that's Scottish law which is seperate and discinct from english law
i am sure if you look you'll find that england also has plenty civil law cases.
all you would need to do is a simple repair install. it's an option in the xp CD(dunno about vista as i have never used it and don't plan to any time soon)
this is not bricked if like lazarus it can be resurrected and make to work again using a simple sogftware route.
bricking means no lazarus... not even a hint of reincarnation under a reinstall/repair install.
Mind you in Scotland, where i live, a non IT meaning if "brick" is crap.
as in "he saw the car coming and bricked himself". bricking in this meaning also renders a person useless but only until they wash themelves and change their garments and prpare to never live it down!
um.. repair install? keep your files, keep your installed programs????
basically installing over the top it replaces all the system files and keeps the rest....
it's an option on the XP install menu........
simple problem....simple solution
and if the solution is that simple then it's definately not bricked!
[quote]Sodomy isn't necessarily violent... I assume by sodomy you really mean S&M? Sodomy is pretty much anything except 'regular' sex.
The term includes all sexual acts other than coital sex between a male and female.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy [wikipedia.org]
S&M however entails all the whips, chains, ropes, candle wax, gimp suits, and all that other weird stuff. A subclass of Sodomy you could say.[/quote]
CHAIN, ROPES AND SUCH ARE bondage. THOSE WHO ARE INTO BEING TIED UP ARE not NECCESSARILY INTO PAIN.
RESTRAINT AND PAIN.. DIFFERENT PUPPIES ALL TOGETHER!
just becaise someone is into sodomy, doesn't mean they are into s&m
get yer facts right...YAWN
In the UK British Telecom HAD a monopoly in every sense of the word due to them owning ALL the telephone landline infrastructure. now this was ALL built with piblic money as BT used to be part of the Post Office and was sold off by the Brit govt in the 80's when that old bag thatcher started selling everything off that was publicly owned..lol
Now a few years back BT were MADE to sell wholesale access to other telephone companies and ISP's to the point where they HAD to allow other companies to put equipment in the exchanges, this is called LLU(local loop unbundling).
it's very good and has done great things for pricing and competition.
i pay £22 GBP for a ADSL2+ connection and get 22419 down and 2446 up)pretty maxed out for ADSL2+) from bethere.co.uk. (i am lucky to be only 382 metres from the exchange by wire)
i would think the wholesale idea for US cable woud do wonders for choice and price and also stop the need for the FCC to step in.
also as an added bonus, the unbundling might drive the wholesale companies tp update and modernise their infrastruceture to give you fellows better and higher speeds which seems to be somewhat lacking in the US. BUT choice is what is needed and the wholesale option will do that and most probably assist in price wars(always a good thing)
now all we need is for Scotland(where i live) to become independent so we can bin the license fee for the TV here which is a complete load of CRAPIOCA and utterly bollocks
erm... pope boniface orderd the first crusade... against ther muslims.... to get jerusalem and the "holy land" into charistian hands.......
there fore the church of rome ordered the crusades ad backed ALL of the crusades.
to say this wasn't a war of religion..which it BLATANTLY was , AND to then say read books on it is quite frankly amazing.
you see when the poster reads up on it he will see that it was a war of religion.
i give talk on a semi regular basis about the Templars, their history, the crusades and such and have been on UK radio talking abot them on more than one occassion. i am by no means the leading world expert but i would say i am competant in my knowledge and recgnised as such by groups, organisations and radio(BBC Scotland being one of them)
you can try to wish away the absolute fact that there have been more torture, deaths,murders,attempted genocides and general inhumanity(look to the cathars for a start) in the name of religion to utterly quash your statement. and Christianty(both roman and non roman) does have to shoulder it's burden there(yes jesus pun intended)
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um...1960's.... Top Gear...erm... top Gear didn't start till the 1977
also the BBC's income is FAR greater than just the license fee.
it sellsprogramming and such to many countries in the world. NOT all progrms are made by independent for the beeb.
the bbc does NOT represent value for moneyand neither is is as "unbiased" as they like to make out.
they are closing threads on this in the forum even though people are not happy.
i play games to GET AWAY from ads and all that crap.
NOT to have to put up with them in a game i play for fun...
EA= ASSHATS
[quote]Assuming that the ads are displayed on walls and such and not on the menus then the only problem I have with this game is that it, as others have said, "phones home". Frankly, in-game ads on the walls and such just make games more realistic to me. You can't go anywhere these days without spotting ads.[/quote]
erm... in the "in game reality" the only adverts would be dated and fooked as there woud not be any companies still functioning... so it woudn't make it more real, except in the sense that EA like to fuck you!
I AM one of the beta testers, the game itself is F*CKING fastastic. i truly enjoy it BUT you want to have seen all the groanojg on the beta boards when it was mentioned that EA had anything to do mwith it. the flagshp staff are cool abd do great work. EA have done nothing but piss people off since they had anything to do with the game.
first off they have released a collectors edition EVERYWHEE BUT EUROPE and AUSTRALIA. the reason the EU and Australia don't get it? EA europe say that euros "DO NOT PRE-ORDER GAMES". this is a direct quote from the hellgate beta forums of the ea statement.
so me being Scotland's curious george i phoned a couple of online etailars and asked how many pre-orders they had. one said they had 6,000 and expected to have around 8,000 by release. they said that EU wide they had a total of 30,000 with expectations of 40,000 by release.
the other etailar told me that EU wide they had 35,000 pre-orders for hellgate london.... anyone else smell that EA eurpoe and just out to HUMP people by not offering them the funkynes in teh Collectors edition such as dye kit, pet, and most important of all FOUNDERS OFFER which is a beauty.. you get to pay a $150 fee and that's you got an elite acount(ie the pay to play aspect) for life(of the game) and pay's for itelf after a year basically. otherwise it's £6.99 per month or have a non elite account and only get 3 character slots and less funkyness.
i also called EA UK in london and they never even had the good grace to get back to me, because they are assholes.
now with this in game ads, does this make the game "ad-supported" and thus getting a revenue stream from those ads??? YES it does. ad-supported software is usually FREE but not with EA. they did it to BF series games and now they are trying to fuck up Flagship's wonderful game with their shitty evil business model. EA just want to fuck you for all the money they can and their support is CRAPIOCA!
their is a fair deal of unhappy beta campers due to this and the collectors edition. such as shame, and i really mean this as tiggs and the rest of the flagship crew have worked really hard and have made a superb game only to have EA fuck them and the gaming public for it....
oh am so glad i live in Scotland where we DO have social healthcare.
don't give this UTTER CRAPIOCA about socialism either.
i am no fan of michael moore but sicko does show up the US in a bad light as it's health care for the poor sucks satans bollocks!
STUPIDO is quite an appropriate name for a blatant republican gobshite such as yourself.
why don't you show you actually give a shit about your fellow countrymen instead of being a typical slightly right of atilla the hun ritht wing blowhard.
for you info i am not a member of ANY politcal party, as i don't see why i should slot myself into any category when i have views from each part of the spectrum.
i truly hope the republicans get HUMPED in your forthcoming elections.
is it really too much to expect republicans to care enough about their fellow countrymen to have social healthcare? you know private healthcare can successfully co-exist with it?
or is it all about the bottom line?..... i'll answer for you.... for bush's cronies and party...YES IT IS.
also as a humerous side note... how many billions do haliburton(full of reps) owe the US taxman before they pissed off and based themselves in dunbai???
Bathesda's SHODDY port from console to PC sucks more than than a soochow hooker!
to be able to target you must either have an xbox controller(WTF!) or a joystick.
the game is BUGGIER than a termite mound and i have heard not a good word about it from ANY of the real trek heads i know.
i am not a trekkie myse;f but i am one of the leaders of a gaming community that has many trekkies in it. i personally was hoping for something like freelancer with a trek slant to it but bathesda release a total mess. there wasa patch out BEFORE RELEASE FFS!
the trek guys are all saying... "well maybe the modders will be able to make something out it"...
but why the hell should they be the ones to make a game out it? it should eb ready to rock and roll out the box!
the article is right on aboty trek games sucking arse in general.
to the best of my knowledge SFC3 was only made stable by the unity mod, otherwise it blew goats in the stability department.
the game buying public want games that work and play well and are truly absorbing thing to behold, not a buggy half arsed port, albeit with prettier gfx than the ones before, but by general gfx standards.... pretty standard!
all the delays....alll the hype and for what?
a buggy piece of shite that EVERYONE moans about due to it's generals shoddyness.
IF ONLY THEY HAD ACTUALLY RELEASED A FINISHED PRODUCT!
but no... as long as the xbox boys got a playable9even tho the game is still shite on xbox from all reports and the one above.
also bathesda in their lack of wisdom released a pc game with ABSOLUTELY NO COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AT ALL.... NONE....NIX...NADA... NULL BUGGER ALL!
and they moaned in advance about the game being copied!
a half arsed effort from a half arsed team at a half arsed company
all in all half arsed!
Pax
my two pennies worth is this. We are NOT responsible for global warming.... it's a natural cycyle isn't it? i will say , we aren't helping but it's not all down to us...lol
cutting emissions will HELP but won't stop what is after all, a natural process. have we not have ice ages before?...erm.. i think so, in fact i am quite sure we have.
so we contribute but it's not all our fault...
Pax
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LOL BePro have a VERY VERY LOW contention ratio indeed. i fact if you check it's 1:1(BePro only) which, as far as i know is the best i have ever seen! http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/computers_and_internet/reports/internet/internet_access/Broadband/pp_excel_546_131166.jsp check the "capped contention raio", it says "not contended" i too don't use the BT phone line at all really, except for sending/recieving faxes(achaic i know but still the only use my landline has! My mobile plan has 900 mins and 350 texts so i pretty much use that ad skype for all my calls and if my minutes are running low and i am calling a landlie and am near a friendly wireless access point i use truphone to call uk landline for free!
www.bethere.co.uk do it and do it well. i am with them on a BePro connection and i get the full tilt with 24mb down and 2.5mb up.(i live very close to the exchange) either you aren't looking hard enough or. even bulldog do 1mb up(but they are undeniably crap and even worwe now that tiscali have bought them out) best of all the Pro service only costs £22 GBP per month has 24/7 tech and customer support and i have NEVER, unline ANY other ISP i have been with on broadband since 2002, had any problems. i sometimes miss having to moan at my ISP..LOL
i must admit i pay for more IP's!
www.bethere.co.uk are also great for not filtering, thgrottling or anything like that. i haev BePro, costs £22 GBP per month and i get 24 mb down and 2.5 mb up9i actually get those speeds due to being 300metres by wires from my local exchange) they are the mutts nuts and i wold recommend them to anyone. they even have 24 hours tech and customers support who aren;'t in india9they are i think in romanian..lol) but their english is clear and they are very keen to help. no ads, no nothing... just lovwely fast conections!
"he only exceptions are the UK " sorry but just plain WRONG http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/Civil that's Scottish law which is seperate and discinct from english law i am sure if you look you'll find that england also has plenty civil law cases.
all you would need to do is a simple repair install. it's an option in the xp CD(dunno about vista as i have never used it and don't plan to any time soon) this is not bricked if like lazarus it can be resurrected and make to work again using a simple sogftware route. bricking means no lazarus... not even a hint of reincarnation under a reinstall/repair install. Mind you in Scotland, where i live, a non IT meaning if "brick" is crap. as in "he saw the car coming and bricked himself". bricking in this meaning also renders a person useless but only until they wash themelves and change their garments and prpare to never live it down!
um.. repair install? keep your files, keep your installed programs???? basically installing over the top it replaces all the system files and keeps the rest.... it's an option on the XP install menu........ simple problem....simple solution and if the solution is that simple then it's definately not bricked!
and you're a guttless,spineless AC so bugger off!(pun intended)
Scottish researchers at a Scottish university......uk..PAH!
[quote]Sodomy isn't necessarily violent... I assume by sodomy you really mean S&M? Sodomy is pretty much anything except 'regular' sex. The term includes all sexual acts other than coital sex between a male and female. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodomy [wikipedia.org] S&M however entails all the whips, chains, ropes, candle wax, gimp suits, and all that other weird stuff. A subclass of Sodomy you could say.[/quote] CHAIN, ROPES AND SUCH ARE bondage. THOSE WHO ARE INTO BEING TIED UP ARE not NECCESSARILY INTO PAIN. RESTRAINT AND PAIN.. DIFFERENT PUPPIES ALL TOGETHER! just becaise someone is into sodomy, doesn't mean they are into s&m get yer facts right...YAWN
In the UK British Telecom HAD a monopoly in every sense of the word due to them owning ALL the telephone landline infrastructure. now this was ALL built with piblic money as BT used to be part of the Post Office and was sold off by the Brit govt in the 80's when that old bag thatcher started selling everything off that was publicly owned..lol Now a few years back BT were MADE to sell wholesale access to other telephone companies and ISP's to the point where they HAD to allow other companies to put equipment in the exchanges, this is called LLU(local loop unbundling). it's very good and has done great things for pricing and competition. i pay £22 GBP for a ADSL2+ connection and get 22419 down and 2446 up)pretty maxed out for ADSL2+) from bethere.co.uk. (i am lucky to be only 382 metres from the exchange by wire) i would think the wholesale idea for US cable woud do wonders for choice and price and also stop the need for the FCC to step in. also as an added bonus, the unbundling might drive the wholesale companies tp update and modernise their infrastruceture to give you fellows better and higher speeds which seems to be somewhat lacking in the US. BUT choice is what is needed and the wholesale option will do that and most probably assist in price wars(always a good thing) now all we need is for Scotland(where i live) to become independent so we can bin the license fee for the TV here which is a complete load of CRAPIOCA and utterly bollocks
erm... pope boniface orderd the first crusade... against ther muslims.... to get jerusalem and the "holy land" into charistian hands....... there fore the church of rome ordered the crusades ad backed ALL of the crusades. to say this wasn't a war of religion..which it BLATANTLY was , AND to then say read books on it is quite frankly amazing. you see when the poster reads up on it he will see that it was a war of religion. i give talk on a semi regular basis about the Templars, their history, the crusades and such and have been on UK radio talking abot them on more than one occassion. i am by no means the leading world expert but i would say i am competant in my knowledge and recgnised as such by groups, organisations and radio(BBC Scotland being one of them) you can try to wish away the absolute fact that there have been more torture, deaths ,murders,attempted genocides and general inhumanity(look to the cathars for a start) in the name of religion to utterly quash your statement. and Christianty(both roman and non roman) does have to shoulder it's burden there(yes jesus pun intended)
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um...1960's.... Top Gear...erm... top Gear didn't start till the 1977 also the BBC's income is FAR greater than just the license fee. it sellsprogramming and such to many countries in the world. NOT all progrms are made by independent for the beeb. the bbc does NOT represent value for moneyand neither is is as "unbiased" as they like to make out.
i still couldn't are! pedantry also sucks;)
they are closing threads on this in the forum even though people are not happy. i play games to GET AWAY from ads and all that crap. NOT to have to put up with them in a game i play for fun... EA= ASSHATS
in this case it's the PUBLISHER and not the developers being asshats. EA ARE BASTARDS!
[quote]Assuming that the ads are displayed on walls and such and not on the menus then the only problem I have with this game is that it, as others have said, "phones home". Frankly, in-game ads on the walls and such just make games more realistic to me. You can't go anywhere these days without spotting ads.[/quote] erm... in the "in game reality" the only adverts would be dated and fooked as there woud not be any companies still functioning... so it woudn't make it more real, except in the sense that EA like to fuck you!
i might add that there are many more than the two e-tailors i contacted, just happens i contacted the biggest two that i have had dealings with so far
I AM one of the beta testers, the game itself is F*CKING fastastic. i truly enjoy it BUT you want to have seen all the groanojg on the beta boards when it was mentioned that EA had anything to do mwith it. the flagshp staff are cool abd do great work. EA have done nothing but piss people off since they had anything to do with the game. first off they have released a collectors edition EVERYWHEE BUT EUROPE and AUSTRALIA. the reason the EU and Australia don't get it? EA europe say that euros "DO NOT PRE-ORDER GAMES". this is a direct quote from the hellgate beta forums of the ea statement. so me being Scotland's curious george i phoned a couple of online etailars and asked how many pre-orders they had. one said they had 6,000 and expected to have around 8,000 by release. they said that EU wide they had a total of 30,000 with expectations of 40,000 by release. the other etailar told me that EU wide they had 35,000 pre-orders for hellgate london.... anyone else smell that EA eurpoe and just out to HUMP people by not offering them the funkynes in teh Collectors edition such as dye kit, pet, and most important of all FOUNDERS OFFER which is a beauty.. you get to pay a $150 fee and that's you got an elite acount(ie the pay to play aspect) for life(of the game) and pay's for itelf after a year basically. otherwise it's £6.99 per month or have a non elite account and only get 3 character slots and less funkyness. i also called EA UK in london and they never even had the good grace to get back to me, because they are assholes. now with this in game ads, does this make the game "ad-supported" and thus getting a revenue stream from those ads??? YES it does. ad-supported software is usually FREE but not with EA. they did it to BF series games and now they are trying to fuck up Flagship's wonderful game with their shitty evil business model. EA just want to fuck you for all the money they can and their support is CRAPIOCA! their is a fair deal of unhappy beta campers due to this and the collectors edition. such as shame, and i really mean this as tiggs and the rest of the flagship crew have worked really hard and have made a superb game only to have EA fuck them and the gaming public for it....
oh am so glad i live in Scotland where we DO have social healthcare. don't give this UTTER CRAPIOCA about socialism either. i am no fan of michael moore but sicko does show up the US in a bad light as it's health care for the poor sucks satans bollocks! STUPIDO is quite an appropriate name for a blatant republican gobshite such as yourself. why don't you show you actually give a shit about your fellow countrymen instead of being a typical slightly right of atilla the hun ritht wing blowhard. for you info i am not a member of ANY politcal party, as i don't see why i should slot myself into any category when i have views from each part of the spectrum. i truly hope the republicans get HUMPED in your forthcoming elections. is it really too much to expect republicans to care enough about their fellow countrymen to have social healthcare? you know private healthcare can successfully co-exist with it? or is it all about the bottom line?..... i'll answer for you.... for bush's cronies and party...YES IT IS. also as a humerous side note... how many billions do haliburton(full of reps) owe the US taxman before they pissed off and based themselves in dunbai???
Bathesda's SHODDY port from console to PC sucks more than than a soochow hooker! to be able to target you must either have an xbox controller(WTF!) or a joystick. the game is BUGGIER than a termite mound and i have heard not a good word about it from ANY of the real trek heads i know. i am not a trekkie myse;f but i am one of the leaders of a gaming community that has many trekkies in it. i personally was hoping for something like freelancer with a trek slant to it but bathesda release a total mess. there wasa patch out BEFORE RELEASE FFS! the trek guys are all saying... "well maybe the modders will be able to make something out it"... but why the hell should they be the ones to make a game out it? it should eb ready to rock and roll out the box! the article is right on aboty trek games sucking arse in general. to the best of my knowledge SFC3 was only made stable by the unity mod, otherwise it blew goats in the stability department. the game buying public want games that work and play well and are truly absorbing thing to behold, not a buggy half arsed port, albeit with prettier gfx than the ones before, but by general gfx standards.... pretty standard! all the delays....alll the hype and for what? a buggy piece of shite that EVERYONE moans about due to it's generals shoddyness. IF ONLY THEY HAD ACTUALLY RELEASED A FINISHED PRODUCT! but no... as long as the xbox boys got a playable9even tho the game is still shite on xbox from all reports and the one above. also bathesda in their lack of wisdom released a pc game with ABSOLUTELY NO COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AT ALL.... NONE....NIX...NADA... NULL BUGGER ALL! and they moaned in advance about the game being copied! a half arsed effort from a half arsed team at a half arsed company all in all half arsed! Pax
Apple have i-talk and here it is http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-316873375 9916419298
from this site originally
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it's a coming buy and it's a combo i-pod/phone/pda with much gorgeousness!
Pax681
my two pennies worth is this. We are NOT responsible for global warming.... it's a natural cycyle isn't it? i will say , we aren't helping but it's not all down to us...lol cutting emissions will HELP but won't stop what is after all, a natural process. have we not have ice ages before? ...erm.. i think so, in fact i am quite sure we have.
so we contribute but it's not all our fault...
Pax