And if removing 5% of users like you results in 50% more bandwidth to dish out The ISP had at that time already forced out of the user base all the "heavy" bandwidth hogs, they just thought they could turn the screws on everyone else and people would accept it, well they didn't. 10GB a month (what I was doing and includes VoIP) is not a bandwidth hog. They also kept the price up whilst cutting a whole load of stuff like Usenet access. I was not going to pay the same money for less service, maybe you'd put up with it, but many didn't.
And now many users would tell their ISP to take a hike and move? It's not their job to "police" the internet, just provide the access to it. I told my last ISP to take a hike when they started to use "traffic shaping", even on stuff like VoIP (many saw it as a way of being cheap on bandwidth while charging a tonne - and like me left).
Smash a probe, NASA's done it before. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/686674.stm
The disappearance of the Mars Polar Lander in December concluded a year of major failures for Nasa.
The lander vanished less than three months after Nasa lost its sister spacecraft, the Mars Climate Orbiter, in highly-embarrassing circumstances.
The $125m craft, which was to study the Red Planet's climate, went missing on 23 September after a mix-up between imperial and metric measurements
A marriage analogy works just as well. A Microsoft "covenant" is about as good as a prenuptial agreement. Don't you normally get to see the prenup before marriage, what do you see of a shrink wrapped EULA?
Back in the old days when computers were only just starting to make an appearance in schools, it was a good time for students who rapidly learnt how to use the computers better than their teachers. Changing easy guess passwords was seen to be cool if utterly pointless.
DISCLAIMER: I disavow all knowledge of how it was done.
I run a website that's advert free. The content I've been _given_ to put on there by agreement is only there because I am not serving adverts or charging access to the site. What gives an ISP the right to make it look as if I have changed my mind and started serving adverts from my non-advert infested website? They are changing my content, and breaking my copyright.
We have dual core 64 bit machines now and software vendors being lazy in updating their software to run on 64 bit machines, that's despite them being around for ages, and increasingly people buying dual core over single core. What makes anyone think that a 3 core system would sell well when there are so many lazy software vendors?
Go to France from the UK and the French don't really check the passport that hard, because they welcome your custom (same going the opposite way). The English give you the third degree on why you're leaving the cesspit of a country. They don't want you to spend your money abroad, they want to keep it in the UK where they can rip you off and have a shitty holiday.
The UK wants ID cards that will act as internal passports, and the EU are keen on the idea too. Don't forget the EU is just another Moscow Mk2, control over everyone.
If you honestly thought it was 30$ to begin with and made the order and were charged for it, then you might have something to complain about it. I still think Amazon would be right to cancel the order and refund your money. So you may have been inconvenienced, but a 20$ discount demonstrates some pretty respectable behavior from Amazon. In _UK_ law if the credit/debit card has been debited with the amount for the goods, the item has been sold at the lower price and the store must honour the sale. If it spots before debiting a card the price is wrong, it is 100% within their rights to refuse the sale.
With the internet being what it is, a wrong price at a store would attract many people going to that store to "pick up a bargain", why should the store be expected to honour such a mistake if the order was not processed?
How long before Microsoft see this as an area to get into and collect "anon" user data on what you use your connections for, on top of their attempts at their search engine?
No marketing is a problem, Wintel have lots of money for that. Linux is STILL being seen as for geeks/nerds and not for the general population.
For me peronally, I know the situation is pretty similar to Windows, it's an old rant that still is not solved, but... 1) No 64 bit Skype. 2) No 64 bit Java (with web browser plugin that is). 3) No 64 bit Flash.
Yes, you can get 32 bit instead, but if you've got a new machine and got a Linux newbie to install the 64 bit Linux to install on their new 64 bit machine, they will be pretty p'ed on the complexity (and perverseness) of trying to get 32 bit applications working.
I am also p'ed that since Compiz and Beryl merged, the better coding of Beryl was not used, and compiz-fusion eats _much_ more processor then Beryl ever did. The Linux 3D effects walk all over Vista.
Oh, and for newbies, partitioning on first install should be explained properly and also the install routines not "just my guess" what a FAT32 drive letter might be (is always wrong anyway). The problem is if some newbie installs Windows, everything goes into the "c" drive and they don't partition. Linux does use partitions, so explain them.
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Wait a moment. You have something that is 10 years old, working, AND it's a Sony! Wow.
And now many users would tell their ISP to take a hike and move? It's not their job to "police" the internet, just provide the access to it. I told my last ISP to take a hike when they started to use "traffic shaping", even on stuff like VoIP (many saw it as a way of being cheap on bandwidth while charging a tonne - and like me left).
Microsoft searching for heavenly inspiration on what to do with Vista?
A government not liking their people talking about and attempting to hold crooked politicians to account (whatever country). What a surprise, not!
64 bit Flash would be more useful for us Linux users. How many more years are we to wait for that (ditto for a 64 bit Java plugin)?
More bandwidth for adverts?
Microsoft are wrong, I don't have any ads to click, so they are in fact all equal to me.
Back in the old days when computers were only just starting to make an appearance in schools, it was a good time for students who rapidly learnt how to use the computers better than their teachers. Changing easy guess passwords was seen to be cool if utterly pointless.
DISCLAIMER: I disavow all knowledge of how it was done.
[quote]My other half still uses shorthand at work.[/quote]
Kinky!
I run a website that's advert free. The content I've been _given_ to put on there by agreement is only there because I am not serving adverts or charging access to the site. What gives an ISP the right to make it look as if I have changed my mind and started serving adverts from my non-advert infested website? They are changing my content, and breaking my copyright.
Will Prince sue over his "Planet Earth" album he gave away for free in the Daily Mail 'newspaper'?
We have dual core 64 bit machines now and software vendors being lazy in updating their software to run on 64 bit machines, that's despite them being around for ages, and increasingly people buying dual core over single core. What makes anyone think that a 3 core system would sell well when there are so many lazy software vendors?
If only Microsoft found so much energy and effort to fix it's own products first!
No, they don't beta test, YOU do ;-).
The Space Shuttle is up in orbit at the moment, why not chase the satellite to capture it?
A more reasonable copyright time is when you die, so does the copyright to that work.
There are adverts on the internet? Why doesn't anyone tell me about these things!
I must have my proxy, hosts, and AdBlock set up wrong!
Go to France from the UK and the French don't really check the passport that hard, because they welcome your custom (same going the opposite way). The English give you the third degree on why you're leaving the cesspit of a country. They don't want you to spend your money abroad, they want to keep it in the UK where they can rip you off and have a shitty holiday.
The UK wants ID cards that will act as internal passports, and the EU are keen on the idea too. Don't forget the EU is just another Moscow Mk2, control over everyone.
How long before Microsoft see this as an area to get into and collect "anon" user data on what you use your connections for, on top of their attempts at their search engine?
No marketing is a problem, Wintel have lots of money for that. Linux is STILL being seen as for geeks/nerds and not for the general population.
For me peronally, I know the situation is pretty similar to Windows, it's an old rant that still is not solved, but...
1) No 64 bit Skype.
2) No 64 bit Java (with web browser plugin that is).
3) No 64 bit Flash.
Yes, you can get 32 bit instead, but if you've got a new machine and got a Linux newbie to install the 64 bit Linux to install on their new 64 bit machine, they will be pretty p'ed on the complexity (and perverseness) of trying to get 32 bit applications working.
I am also p'ed that since Compiz and Beryl merged, the better coding of Beryl was not used, and compiz-fusion eats _much_ more processor then Beryl ever did. The Linux 3D effects walk all over Vista.
Oh, and for newbies, partitioning on first install should be explained properly and also the install routines not "just my guess" what a FAT32 drive letter might be (is always wrong anyway). The problem is if some newbie installs Windows, everything goes into the "c" drive and they don't partition. Linux does use partitions, so explain them.