I just don't understand why americans tolerate ISPs enforcing ridiculous caps. From a swedish perspective it seems kind of backwards, I don't really know of any ISPs here that have caps and it really seems like a concept take from the early days of consumer broadband (mid-to-late 90s there were a few swedish ISPs that tried the whole thing with caps but they were pretty much forced into obscurity since most ISPs didn't cap).
I don't know, the same reasons why the rest of the European countries tolerate bandwidth caps? Sweden is just lucky.
I sure don't tolerate it, but when everyone else does, what can you do? All you can do is move to an area that's covered by a good isp.
Hopefully it doesn't get as bad as Australia where watching one youtube video means reaching your bandwidth cap.
And a lot of these inventions were developed by private companies that you have no idea if the guy had a degree or not. I run into a lot of innovative medical companies where the owners aren't even college graduates but are doing most of the "ground breaking" research in their plants.
How is that? I've used google before they even started including toolbars and browsers, or hell, their own applications. Meanwhile, yahoo was cramming their damn search toolbar into my browser, their messenger, their email, every time I installed some program (and this was before google was doing it), yet, yahoo is not on top.
Not my concern. I don't live in Korea nor do I plan too. I don't care if people are making a living off of it. Blizzard still has no right to take away my rights to a product I purchased. If they want to cater to the e-sports people, well, then make a game specifically marketed for them, not in general for everyone.
So they're already receiving a lot of backlash from the community for trying to deceive players into thinking the game has a single player (not online) aspect to it when you have to login to battlenet to even play single player. So screw your achievements, and screw your silly Korean buddies, I don't care for them, nor will I sacrifice my rights because some poor Korean is angry.
What for? Most planes have transponders on them. You could easily create a missile to track the transponder signal (probably a more reliable tracking signal than a GPS that's probably lagged a few seconds). This whole thing is just silly.
There is nothing in the article suggesting that malware was involved on the flight deck. Slashdot fail.
"On 17 August 2009, CIAIAC released an interim report on the incident. The interim report confirmed the preliminary report's conclusion that the crash was caused by an attempt to take off with the flaps and slats retracted, which constituted an improper configuration, and noted that safeguards that should have prevented the crash failed to do so. The cockpit recordings revealed that the pilots omitted the "set and check the flap/slat lever and lights" item in the After Start checklist. In the Takeoff Imminent verification checklist the copilot just repeats the flaps and slats correct values without actually checking them, as shown by the physical evidence. All three safety barriers provided to avoid the takeoff in an inappropriate configuration were defeated: the configuration checklist, the confirm and verify checklist, and aircraft warning system (TOWS). The report also made a number of safety recommendations intended to prevent incidents like this from happening again."
As stated, it was the co-pilots fault for claiming the flaps and slats were extended without actually checking them.
I see game companies continue to use piracy as an excuse for the lack of sales of their utterly crap games. I can't wait to see Sega claim no one wanted to buy Alpha Protocol because of piracy. UBI claims that pretty much 99% of the time now with the utter crap Silent Hunter 5 is (It couldn't be because of the bad reviews on forums and all. NO WAY! It was piracy!). So I call bullshit on this.
Yet, somehow Valve doesn't seem to have this problem nor Paradox, or even the Russian publisher 1C. Perhaps if you game companies made your games more enjoyable like these publishers I've listed, I might buy your game.
Plenty of evidence of this where journalists troll airliners.net forums whenever there's a plane crash. They never cite their sources, but they sure do copy word for word from those forums.
I wish AT&T's data could even compete with Verizons or Sprints, currently it sucks. As for T-Mobile, well, they've been promising us a workable 3G for years and still have nothing. Better phones, better service, but crappy data and really crappy data plans as well.
How many people really had flash installed before youtube and Google video? It used to be something that I scoffed at and made sure to block because flash ads and flash menus were generally annoying, and I'm sure many people did the same (and it's not like this was long ago, not to mention nix users were also screwed when flash 8 came out and wasn't until Flash 9 we got a real working Flash player for newer sites).
Maybe Silverlight will get Adobe to fix the damn player for nix and offer a 64bit version already...
OOoo, but it's Microsoft, we can't have that on Slashdot even if they make a 64 bit version that runs on linux!
In the mean time, Adobe continues to refuse to fix the bugs and glitches in the linux flash version for over a year now. No hardware acceleration, no scaling (Makes watching stuff on Hulu fullscreen pretty much pointless, unless you use compiz and the zoom feature), flash being above menus, flash locking up your browser, just to name a few that has been around for quite a LOOOOONG time.
Maybe it's just a phase or maybe there's some sort of conspiracy. I like opensource and linux all the way, but the stories and comments being so anti-Microsoft (In some cases, anti-profit anything) is just getting ridiculous.
"With the decommissioning of USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) on 23 March 2007 Kitty Hawk became the only conventionally fueled aircraft carrier still in active service with the Navy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CV-63)
They already do that at European airports. Non-European citizens have to stand around in long lines. Granted it's not as bad as the US's photographing and finger printing, but don't worry, it's getting there.
You have no choice but to pay for BBC and their corrupt ways *cough Robin Hood, lots of reruns and poorer news reporting propaganda*. Where as I don't pay squat to Fox News and don't ever have to watch it.
"they lock the keys to the geographic region in which they're sold"
So what happens when I travel and use a net connect from abroad? Am I going to get locked out because of this stupid crap? This is really ridiculous and going absolutely too far.
I and my neighbor have 10mbit from Charter. It will be really sad if they go out of business and get replaced by an ever worse cable company. Charter offers better service than all the DSL providers here.
I had charter 3mbit since 2003, and they've raised my price by $15 over time, but I didn't complain because they also upgraded my service to 6mbit, I just upgraded for their 10mbit service instead. I was paying $40 a month for the 6mbit service and now $50 for 10mbit. I don't know where you get the $100 a month from (Related to where you live?). I also don't have basic cable (I could careless about TV, I only want scifi, and I can download episodies from eztv), only internet.
All they're doing is inconveniencing the legit user while cracked programs continue to work even better than the official release. Perhaps that's a sign?
"Wroclaw (Breslau for those teutonically inclined) is a much smaller city, yet it had fiber laid in sewers couple of years ago, reaching all parts of the city with speeds up to 100Mbps."
This is absolute bull****. I lived and currently will be residing there next month and do not have "100Mbps internet speed". You have a choice between Dialog and Vectra (which is terrible), the other smaller providers aren't even worth the coin, they're worse than dialup as much as they claim they're not. I only add Vectra as a choice because they work sometimes, but most of the times they don't and never guarantee the speeds you pay for, not to mention the constant blackouts that may last more than 3 days. Please take your bull**** Polish/Euro propaganda out of here. Wroclaw is a city with some incredibly major problems and they're only lucky to have a working broadband provider with dialog, to which many Poles are really surprised about.
"And don't even get me started on municipal and private wifi networks in rural areas... They just work, selling not only IP, but also phone services based on VoIP."
Please do! Enlighten me! WIFI is really crappy in rural areas and they seldom work. My friends have this service and they're lucky it even works for a few days a week, most of the time it's worse than dialup speeds, and they live only 15KM from Wroclaw where you can only use this service for broadband or go back to dialup. It is a scam and I hope it crashes. As for the city center wifi's, they are always overused by people and slow as hell. You're better off stealing WIFI from someones home that's using Dialog than using those municipal wifi centers or just pay for T-Mobiles network because no Pole is using it.
I have better (and better priced) and faster service here in California than I ever did in France, Germany or Poland, and more wifi hotspots available to me. Those living in Scandinavian countries are really damn lucky to have avoided most of Europes problems and shortcomings.
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I just don't understand why americans tolerate ISPs enforcing ridiculous caps. From a swedish perspective it seems kind of backwards, I don't really know of any ISPs here that have caps and it really seems like a concept take from the early days of consumer broadband (mid-to-late 90s there were a few swedish ISPs that tried the whole thing with caps but they were pretty much forced into obscurity since most ISPs didn't cap).
I don't know, the same reasons why the rest of the European countries tolerate bandwidth caps? Sweden is just lucky. I sure don't tolerate it, but when everyone else does, what can you do? All you can do is move to an area that's covered by a good isp. Hopefully it doesn't get as bad as Australia where watching one youtube video means reaching your bandwidth cap.
And a lot of these inventions were developed by private companies that you have no idea if the guy had a degree or not. I run into a lot of innovative medical companies where the owners aren't even college graduates but are doing most of the "ground breaking" research in their plants.
How is that? I've used google before they even started including toolbars and browsers, or hell, their own applications. Meanwhile, yahoo was cramming their damn search toolbar into my browser, their messenger, their email, every time I installed some program (and this was before google was doing it), yet, yahoo is not on top.
Not my concern. I don't live in Korea nor do I plan too. I don't care if people are making a living off of it. Blizzard still has no right to take away my rights to a product I purchased. If they want to cater to the e-sports people, well, then make a game specifically marketed for them, not in general for everyone.
So they're already receiving a lot of backlash from the community for trying to deceive players into thinking the game has a single player (not online) aspect to it when you have to login to battlenet to even play single player. So screw your achievements, and screw your silly Korean buddies, I don't care for them, nor will I sacrifice my rights because some poor Korean is angry.
What for? Most planes have transponders on them. You could easily create a missile to track the transponder signal (probably a more reliable tracking signal than a GPS that's probably lagged a few seconds). This whole thing is just silly.
This article is bull****.
There is nothing in the article suggesting that malware was involved on the flight deck. Slashdot fail.
"On 17 August 2009, CIAIAC released an interim report on the incident. The interim report confirmed the preliminary report's conclusion that the crash was caused by an attempt to take off with the flaps and slats retracted, which constituted an improper configuration, and noted that safeguards that should have prevented the crash failed to do so. The cockpit recordings revealed that the pilots omitted the "set and check the flap/slat lever and lights" item in the After Start checklist. In the Takeoff Imminent verification checklist the copilot just repeats the flaps and slats correct values without actually checking them, as shown by the physical evidence. All three safety barriers provided to avoid the takeoff in an inappropriate configuration were defeated: the configuration checklist, the confirm and verify checklist, and aircraft warning system (TOWS). The report also made a number of safety recommendations intended to prevent incidents like this from happening again."
As stated, it was the co-pilots fault for claiming the flaps and slats were extended without actually checking them.
I see game companies continue to use piracy as an excuse for the lack of sales of their utterly crap games. I can't wait to see Sega claim no one wanted to buy Alpha Protocol because of piracy. UBI claims that pretty much 99% of the time now with the utter crap Silent Hunter 5 is (It couldn't be because of the bad reviews on forums and all. NO WAY! It was piracy!). So I call bullshit on this. Yet, somehow Valve doesn't seem to have this problem nor Paradox, or even the Russian publisher 1C. Perhaps if you game companies made your games more enjoyable like these publishers I've listed, I might buy your game.
Plenty of evidence of this where journalists troll airliners.net forums whenever there's a plane crash. They never cite their sources, but they sure do copy word for word from those forums.
I wish AT&T's data could even compete with Verizons or Sprints, currently it sucks. As for T-Mobile, well, they've been promising us a workable 3G for years and still have nothing. Better phones, better service, but crappy data and really crappy data plans as well.
How many people really had flash installed before youtube and Google video? It used to be something that I scoffed at and made sure to block because flash ads and flash menus were generally annoying, and I'm sure many people did the same (and it's not like this was long ago, not to mention nix users were also screwed when flash 8 came out and wasn't until Flash 9 we got a real working Flash player for newer sites).
Maybe Silverlight will get Adobe to fix the damn player for nix and offer a 64bit version already...
OOoo, but it's Microsoft, we can't have that on Slashdot even if they make a 64 bit version that runs on linux! In the mean time, Adobe continues to refuse to fix the bugs and glitches in the linux flash version for over a year now. No hardware acceleration, no scaling (Makes watching stuff on Hulu fullscreen pretty much pointless, unless you use compiz and the zoom feature), flash being above menus, flash locking up your browser, just to name a few that has been around for quite a LOOOOONG time.
Maybe it's just a phase or maybe there's some sort of conspiracy. I like opensource and linux all the way, but the stories and comments being so anti-Microsoft (In some cases, anti-profit anything) is just getting ridiculous.
Moron, this is the UK. Maybe if you read the article, you'd know.
In the mean time, Europe is copying the US policies and in some cases even worse:
Anger as EU plans to store airline passengers' personal details for 13 years
The European Union's top justice official is due to unveil controversial plans that will allow the EU to store personal details of airline passengers for 13 years.
Airport security checks to extend across EU
Passenger checks which have brought chaos to Britain's airports will be extended across the EU, it has emerged.
EU green tax could add £100 to air ticket prices
Air passengers are to be hit with a 'green' tax as part of controversial EU plans to force airlines to pay for the cost of their pollution.
Terror crackdown: Passengers forced to answer 53 questions BEFORE they travel
For every journey, security officials will want credit card details, holiday contact numbers, travel plans, email addresses, car numbers and even any previous missed flights.
Just recent cases, I'm sure you could find even more with google.
"With the decommissioning of USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) on 23 March 2007 Kitty Hawk became the only conventionally fueled aircraft carrier still in active service with the Navy."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CV-63)
They already do that at European airports. Non-European citizens have to stand around in long lines. Granted it's not as bad as the US's photographing and finger printing, but don't worry, it's getting there.
You have no choice but to pay for BBC and their corrupt ways *cough Robin Hood, lots of reruns and poorer news reporting propaganda*. Where as I don't pay squat to Fox News and don't ever have to watch it.
So I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here.
Valve would like to have your bank account details and your income details in order to determine at what price they should sell you their software at.
"they lock the keys to the geographic region in which they're sold"
So what happens when I travel and use a net connect from abroad? Am I going to get locked out because of this stupid crap? This is really ridiculous and going absolutely too far.
I and my neighbor have 10mbit from Charter. It will be really sad if they go out of business and get replaced by an ever worse cable company. Charter offers better service than all the DSL providers here.
I had charter 3mbit since 2003, and they've raised my price by $15 over time, but I didn't complain because they also upgraded my service to 6mbit, I just upgraded for their 10mbit service instead. I was paying $40 a month for the 6mbit service and now $50 for 10mbit. I don't know where you get the $100 a month from (Related to where you live?). I also don't have basic cable (I could careless about TV, I only want scifi, and I can download episodies from eztv), only internet.
I have 10/1 for $50 a month here in Southern California from Charter.
And not one of them are curbing piracy at all.
All they're doing is inconveniencing the legit user while cracked programs continue to work even better than the official release. Perhaps that's a sign?
How do these fantasy scenarios get marked insightful?
What are you talking about? You're pulling numbers out of your ass.
"Wroclaw (Breslau for those teutonically inclined) is a much smaller city, yet it had fiber laid in sewers couple of years ago, reaching all parts of the city with speeds up to 100Mbps."
This is absolute bull****. I lived and currently will be residing there next month and do not have "100Mbps internet speed". You have a choice between Dialog and Vectra (which is terrible), the other smaller providers aren't even worth the coin, they're worse than dialup as much as they claim they're not. I only add Vectra as a choice because they work sometimes, but most of the times they don't and never guarantee the speeds you pay for, not to mention the constant blackouts that may last more than 3 days. Please take your bull**** Polish/Euro propaganda out of here. Wroclaw is a city with some incredibly major problems and they're only lucky to have a working broadband provider with dialog, to which many Poles are really surprised about.
"And don't even get me started on municipal and private wifi networks in rural areas... They just work, selling not only IP, but also phone services based on VoIP."
Please do! Enlighten me! WIFI is really crappy in rural areas and they seldom work. My friends have this service and they're lucky it even works for a few days a week, most of the time it's worse than dialup speeds, and they live only 15KM from Wroclaw where you can only use this service for broadband or go back to dialup. It is a scam and I hope it crashes. As for the city center wifi's, they are always overused by people and slow as hell. You're better off stealing WIFI from someones home that's using Dialog than using those municipal wifi centers or just pay for T-Mobiles network because no Pole is using it.
I have better (and better priced) and faster service here in California than I ever did in France, Germany or Poland, and more wifi hotspots available to me. Those living in Scandinavian countries are really damn lucky to have avoided most of Europes problems and shortcomings.
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