Also, just because someone hasn't had an accident in the past, it doesn't mean they won't have an accident in the future.
Boris Johnston, Conservative MP and now Mayor of the City of London said once (in response to the introduction of a law requiring booster seats (and the use of seatbelts) for children in cars:
"I never had a booster seat when I was a child and it never did me any harm"
I see no point in arguing with a statement like that...
Amarok doesn't work at all with an iPod touch or iphone unless you jailbreak it and then jump through hoops, and that has its own set of gotchas. Ah well then here I'd contend that it's the iPod that isn't working with Amarok, not vice-versa
Sorry, to clarify, I'm in the UK.
To put it into perspective, for my Datacard I'm paying £20 ($40ish) a month for 'unlimited' traffic (though they say that if you persistently go over 3GB/Month they'll ask you to cut down, and if you refuse they'll eventually restrict you/kick you off, which is at least honest)
The only protocol restriction is a flat NO to VOIP traffic, which whilst not entirely fair, is understandable given they're a Mobile Phone company first and foremost..
That said, coverage is far from brilliant, so it's not as though I'd manage to break 3GB in two consecutive months even if I was trying...
I've experienced something very similar myself. I was using a T-Mobile 3G Datacard (PCMCIA jobbie). I'd agreed to look at someone's PC on my way back from a business trip. I realised halfway through the drive that I didn't have any CDs with me, so I pulled over, fired up my laptop, found a torrent for Knoppix and set it downloading whilst I drive the rest of the way (which, by the way, I felt was cool.)
It hadn't finished by the time I got there, so I let iust carry on while firing up a browser to look in the Internets for clues to cause of the problem. Only thing was, I couldn't connect to a single webpage - everything timed out. I killed azureus, and immediately everything was fine again. Let Azureus run with a 10k/sec cap, then tried a 5k/sec cap and it bust the internets once more.
That's far more annoying that a bandwidth cap or usage limits - actually breaking *all* connections while you're using p2p is downright rude.
BT tried something not a million miles from this in the UK. Went by the name of BT Fusion and the principle was that the compatible handsets used Bluetooth to communicate with a base station (which was also a DSL Router) and thus your mobile/cell phone used that to route calls when in range.
AFAIK the base station used normal PSTN lines to route the calls out, but that's just a technicality - it could have been doing whatever at that point, it would be transparent to the end user
I don't think it was a consideration tbh - the IOC has been shown time and time again to be utterly corrupt, the reason China has these 2008 Olympics is down mainly to the fact that the envelopes of cash they slipped under the African nations representatives hotel room doors was of higher value than those from other nations.
It has and I'm sure it's commonplace.
There's a large UK-based ISP, whose name I won't mention (but it begins with 'n') who my g/f used to work for. Whilst she was there, a member of staff was caught taking order for domains of customers, registering them himself and them trying to sell them on to the customer for an inflated price (but under a difference name, obviously). Those he couldn't sell he sat on.
He was fired from his job, but I don't know what else happened. Certainly the authorities were not involved AFAIK and he effectively stole most likely tens of thousands of pounds before being caught.
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Dammit. Just as I find myself with Mod points I discover there to be no -1 "Fawning" option.
Or for extremely small values of infinity...
and I do believe JD's law states that as the length of any discussion approaches infinity the probability of someone missing a joke approaches 1.
despite some near-accidents
Enough said.
Also, just because someone hasn't had an accident in the past, it doesn't mean they won't have an accident in the future.
Boris Johnston, Conservative MP and now Mayor of the City of London said once (in response to the introduction of a law requiring booster seats (and the use of seatbelts) for children in cars: "I never had a booster seat when I was a child and it never did me any harm" I see no point in arguing with a statement like that...
Sorry, to clarify, I'm in the UK. To put it into perspective, for my Datacard I'm paying £20 ($40ish) a month for 'unlimited' traffic (though they say that if you persistently go over 3GB/Month they'll ask you to cut down, and if you refuse they'll eventually restrict you/kick you off, which is at least honest)
The only protocol restriction is a flat NO to VOIP traffic, which whilst not entirely fair, is understandable given they're a Mobile Phone company first and foremost..
That said, coverage is far from brilliant, so it's not as though I'd manage to break 3GB in two consecutive months even if I was trying...
I've experienced something very similar myself. I was using a T-Mobile 3G Datacard (PCMCIA jobbie). I'd agreed to look at someone's PC on my way back from a business trip. I realised halfway through the drive that I didn't have any CDs with me, so I pulled over, fired up my laptop, found a torrent for Knoppix and set it downloading whilst I drive the rest of the way (which, by the way, I felt was cool.)
It hadn't finished by the time I got there, so I let iust carry on while firing up a browser to look in the Internets for clues to cause of the problem. Only thing was, I couldn't connect to a single webpage - everything timed out. I killed azureus, and immediately everything was fine again. Let Azureus run with a 10k/sec cap, then tried a 5k/sec cap and it bust the internets once more.
That's far more annoying that a bandwidth cap or usage limits - actually breaking *all* connections while you're using p2p is downright rude.
BT tried something not a million miles from this in the UK. Went by the name of BT Fusion and the principle was that the compatible handsets used Bluetooth to communicate with a base station (which was also a DSL Router) and thus your mobile/cell phone used that to route calls when in range. AFAIK the base station used normal PSTN lines to route the calls out, but that's just a technicality - it could have been doing whatever at that point, it would be transparent to the end user
Hmm.. I'm not sure about that. But, I'll concede it's at least a word. Now you have to tell google...
I don't think it was a consideration tbh - the IOC has been shown time and time again to be utterly corrupt, the reason China has these 2008 Olympics is down mainly to the fact that the envelopes of cash they slipped under the African nations representatives hotel room doors was of higher value than those from other nations.
http://xkcd.com/327/
It has and I'm sure it's commonplace. There's a large UK-based ISP, whose name I won't mention (but it begins with 'n') who my g/f used to work for. Whilst she was there, a member of staff was caught taking order for domains of customers, registering them himself and them trying to sell them on to the customer for an inflated price (but under a difference name, obviously). Those he couldn't sell he sat on. He was fired from his job, but I don't know what else happened. Certainly the authorities were not involved AFAIK and he effectively stole most likely tens of thousands of pounds before being caught.