Setting up QoS on the network router so stuff like BT has lower priority almost makes the problem dissapear. Seems to definitely be some kind of connection timeout problem. You were downloading stuff and blame Pidgin for your issues? Stop whining or stop downloading porn. Your choice.
So it's all right what he's doing, as long as he's honest about it?
Honestly, it annoys me that someone can do something as bad as this and be honest about it yet receive no repercussions. I don't know whether this says more about Western civilisation in general or British ignorance towards the internet. Internet neutrality seems like a much bigger deal over than than here.
Well, considering it's a British Company the "American spirit" was never really there.
Regardless, it's not that we're treating the lone provider as an "opportunity", but rather we have no choice. What do you expect us to do, make our own cable company?
GPS costs for each receiver, no different than GLONASS and Galileo.
The difference is Galileo offers something like 4 different services. One of them is free service which is about the same accuracy as GPS today.
The paid-for services include higher accuracy (1m IIRC) and more secure channels (or something along those lines).
Secondly, the main reason Galileo is being developed, IMO, is due to the fact that the American GPS has selective availability (note: this was disabled but can, supposedly, be re-enabled) and we don't want to be left in the dark if the USA goes to war with yet another country and decides to deny access to anyone but the military.
All 3 current generation consoles (Wii, 360, PS3) are backwards compatible.
Wii can play Gamecube games and offers downloading of games from older systems via it's Virtual Console.
The Xbox 360 can play a decent range of older Xbox games, admittedly through an emulator.
And the PS3 can play both PS1 and PS2 games.
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At least, according to AintItCool's reply.
Also works in Firefox 3 (at least the RC2 that I'm using).
So it's all right what he's doing, as long as he's honest about it?
Honestly, it annoys me that someone can do something as bad as this and be honest about it yet receive no repercussions. I don't know whether this says more about Western civilisation in general or British ignorance towards the internet. Internet neutrality seems like a much bigger deal over than than here.
Well, considering it's a British Company the "American spirit" was never really there. Regardless, it's not that we're treating the lone provider as an "opportunity", but rather we have no choice. What do you expect us to do, make our own cable company?
GPS costs for each receiver, no different than GLONASS and Galileo. The difference is Galileo offers something like 4 different services. One of them is free service which is about the same accuracy as GPS today. The paid-for services include higher accuracy (1m IIRC) and more secure channels (or something along those lines). Secondly, the main reason Galileo is being developed, IMO, is due to the fact that the American GPS has selective availability (note: this was disabled but can, supposedly, be re-enabled) and we don't want to be left in the dark if the USA goes to war with yet another country and decides to deny access to anyone but the military.
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All 3 current generation consoles (Wii, 360, PS3) are backwards compatible. Wii can play Gamecube games and offers downloading of games from older systems via it's Virtual Console. The Xbox 360 can play a decent range of older Xbox games, admittedly through an emulator. And the PS3 can play both PS1 and PS2 games.