Well, as I dont live in USA I dont really have that problem. I get 100mbit to home for 30e/month. No limits, no throttling, no nothing. Never needed to call the support service.
That is why Comcast's business models seem really weird for me.
OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Western reporters in Beijing are total dumbasses. They constantly write stories colored by their own blinders they're not even aware that they're wearing.
So, pretty much like every reporter and newspaper?
Do you honestly believe that that the scandinavia telecom network is engineered so that every subscriber can use their maximum bandwidth continuously?
No I don't, and I know it isn't. And looking at the amount of out-of-the-country bandwidth available, I'm surprised they can even handle all the traffic.
But ISP's have all means to track the usage of their network and add equipment accordingly, or stop offering services they cannot handle. In an extreme example, they could be selling 10gbit to every home with a fine print "you get as much as our network can take", while it only works out like 1mbit for everyone.
I fully understand that consumer lines aren't dedicated bandwidth. I also run servers on shared bandwidth because I dont always need the full line speed and shared bandwidth is a lot cheaper. Still there are certain levels of quality assurance for the bandwidth you get - and this law is same kind of case, saying that consumers must get 75% of the bandwidth over 24h period that they're sold.
But is that 250GB really the magic line that anyone ever would need then? When I was visiting an other country I had internet for 200MB a day. That comes up to 6000MB a month. It sure as hell wasn't enough, as even some slashdot articles take 2MB+ to load with comments, and thats just a single page not involving any video, audio or other high-bandwidth content (steam downloads?) we've now a days getting from internet. Yeah it's significantly less than 250GB a month, but where do you draw the line?
These limits are just complicating and false marketing. ISP *do not* pay per-MB basis. They pay per available bandwidth (100mbit, 1gbit, 10gbit and so on) when peering or making contract with upstream provider. The transfer limits are added there artificially for customers so they wouldn't use all the bandwidth they were sold and so that the ISP doesn't have to actually spend more money to get more bandwidth for peering.
In this case Comcast's throttling just seems to follow the same route. And on top of that they have the limits.
I have no idea why someone would bring net neutrality in to this, as now they're not dropping torrent packets like before, just limiting. But the limiting what you supposedly sold is bad.
Now the difference between business and consumer lines is that I dont except consumer lines to have the same amount of redundancy/uptime or rapid, personal support or even the full speed on peak times. But in either case I dont except them to artificially limit the users. Sure, you'll network will take a bit of hit on peak times and thats probably excepted. But if it gets too bad, you fix it!
The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com. X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company. Both Confinity and X.com launched their websites in late 1999.
I haven't looked for my country's or the others laws regarding it, but things have always worked like they should - no traffic limits, no throttling, no other dirty tricks. The new law will probably just make sure there wont be either. Of course the available speeds vary by area, but you can except 24mbit/100mbit in larger cities and they will actually work like that. Traffic throttling like this comcast case wont be possible either. On an interesting note I had 100/10 for a few years that seemed to work as 100/100 - upload speed didn't get always up there, especially at peak times, but hell they sold it as 100/10.
Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes.
Eh? In scandinavia countries new laws will state that "the speed of the line must be atleast 75% of the said one during 24 hour measurement period". And you get throttled with comcast if you're actually using more 70% of what you should have? Why do you put up with this shit?
Just remember that StatCounter and other stat counting sites tend to be very US and English language generic - completely ignoring Russia and China and such.
There is already some games, notably Madworld. But to be honest, the graphic limitations on Wii start to show up in these kind of games. Madworld avoided this with its film noir style graphics, but the low resolution still makes it quite a mess to see whats happening.
But Red Steel 2 is coming too and it supports Wiimote Plus, so should be a lot more fun than the previous one.
The thing is, industries like these are already really, really dominated by single players and everyone uses them. It's the same with Windows too - it's own marketshare will keeps it having that marketshare. In airplane industry all the European companies had to merge so that they could compete with Boeing.
When something becomes like a standard, it's really hard to break in.
Just imagine the amount of bashers if the news would had read;
Windows 7 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Windows. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Windows forums.
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
At least Russia, China and India are missing from the list. They alone consist over half of the population on earth. How do they plan to enforce "Global DMCA" if they are missing? (along with many smaller countries)
But it's the authors that *choose* to use those distributors and record labels and grant them permission to do the distribution for them. No one is forcing them to currently either. Shouldn't they be able to choose?
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It doesn't anywhere that they'll be using this with PS3. And I doubt they will either.
You can change to Plain Old Text in settings and then enter works as normal (and html tags too)
Well, as I dont live in USA I dont really have that problem. I get 100mbit to home for 30e/month. No limits, no throttling, no nothing. Never needed to call the support service.
That is why Comcast's business models seem really weird for me.
OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Western reporters in Beijing are total dumbasses. They constantly write stories colored by their own blinders they're not even aware that they're wearing.
So, pretty much like every reporter and newspaper?
Huh?
Do you honestly believe that that the scandinavia telecom network is engineered so that every subscriber can use their maximum bandwidth continuously?
No I don't, and I know it isn't. And looking at the amount of out-of-the-country bandwidth available, I'm surprised they can even handle all the traffic.
But ISP's have all means to track the usage of their network and add equipment accordingly, or stop offering services they cannot handle. In an extreme example, they could be selling 10gbit to every home with a fine print "you get as much as our network can take", while it only works out like 1mbit for everyone.
I fully understand that consumer lines aren't dedicated bandwidth. I also run servers on shared bandwidth because I dont always need the full line speed and shared bandwidth is a lot cheaper. Still there are certain levels of quality assurance for the bandwidth you get - and this law is same kind of case, saying that consumers must get 75% of the bandwidth over 24h period that they're sold.
But is that 250GB really the magic line that anyone ever would need then? When I was visiting an other country I had internet for 200MB a day. That comes up to 6000MB a month. It sure as hell wasn't enough, as even some slashdot articles take 2MB+ to load with comments, and thats just a single page not involving any video, audio or other high-bandwidth content (steam downloads?) we've now a days getting from internet. Yeah it's significantly less than 250GB a month, but where do you draw the line?
These limits are just complicating and false marketing. ISP *do not* pay per-MB basis. They pay per available bandwidth (100mbit, 1gbit, 10gbit and so on) when peering or making contract with upstream provider. The transfer limits are added there artificially for customers so they wouldn't use all the bandwidth they were sold and so that the ISP doesn't have to actually spend more money to get more bandwidth for peering.
In this case Comcast's throttling just seems to follow the same route. And on top of that they have the limits.
I have no idea why someone would bring net neutrality in to this, as now they're not dropping torrent packets like before, just limiting. But the limiting what you supposedly sold is bad.
Now the difference between business and consumer lines is that I dont except consumer lines to have the same amount of redundancy/uptime or rapid, personal support or even the full speed on peak times. But in either case I dont except them to artificially limit the users. Sure, you'll network will take a bit of hit on peak times and thats probably excepted. But if it gets too bad, you fix it!
PayPal has always owned it:
The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com. X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company. Both Confinity and X.com launched their websites in late 1999.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal
I haven't looked for my country's or the others laws regarding it, but things have always worked like they should - no traffic limits, no throttling, no other dirty tricks. The new law will probably just make sure there wont be either. Of course the available speeds vary by area, but you can except 24mbit/100mbit in larger cities and they will actually work like that. Traffic throttling like this comcast case wont be possible either. On an interesting note I had 100/10 for a few years that seemed to work as 100/100 - upload speed didn't get always up there, especially at peak times, but hell they sold it as 100/10.
Comcast's first traffic throttling trigger is tripped by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes.
Eh? In scandinavia countries new laws will state that "the speed of the line must be atleast 75% of the said one during 24 hour measurement period". And you get throttled with comcast if you're actually using more 70% of what you should have? Why do you put up with this shit?
Just remember that StatCounter and other stat counting sites tend to be very US and English language generic - completely ignoring Russia and China and such.
What's interesting is that Opera actually has 40-60% marketshare in CIS countries, better than both FF and IE (and not just a single version).
But good that people are finally starting to move off from IE6.
If it supports Wiimote Plus, then hell yeah!
There is already some games, notably Madworld. But to be honest, the graphic limitations on Wii start to show up in these kind of games. Madworld avoided this with its film noir style graphics, but the low resolution still makes it quite a mess to see whats happening.
But Red Steel 2 is coming too and it supports Wiimote Plus, so should be a lot more fun than the previous one.
Wasn't the year of Linux on desktop supposed to be a few years ago?
The thing is, industries like these are already really, really dominated by single players and everyone uses them. It's the same with Windows too - it's own marketshare will keeps it having that marketshare. In airplane industry all the European companies had to merge so that they could compete with Boeing.
When something becomes like a standard, it's really hard to break in.
Just imagine the amount of bashers if the news would had read;
Windows 7 is causing outrage and frustration, with early adopters wishing they'd stuck with previous versions of the Windows. Blank and flickering screens, failure to recognize hard drives, defaulting to the old kernel, and failure to get encryption running are taking their toll, as early adopters turn to the web for answers and log fresh bug reports in Windows forums.
This again comes from the fact that both Windows and Mac OS X releases are properly tested and maintained and tend to be in more professional quality.
But why don't the Linux distros go to same lenghts? It shouldn't be impossible, unless of course, commercial projects are maintained more professionally.
It's just building the roadblocks for New World Order
At least Russia, China and India are missing from the list. They alone consist over half of the population on earth. How do they plan to enforce "Global DMCA" if they are missing? (along with many smaller countries)
as the US, Europe, Japan, Korea, Canada, Australia, and a handful of other countries
At least we know the difference between continent and a country...
Providing information for whoever makes the hardware for the ISP.
Other than that, theres no really legal uses on information how to fraud ISP's to get free internet connection.
So go screw around with that hardware and software. But just dont except Apple to support you.
But it's the authors that *choose* to use those distributors and record labels and grant them permission to do the distribution for them. No one is forcing them to currently either. Shouldn't they be able to choose?
And for Opera too:
Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> JavaScript Options -> Allow changing of status field
I mean, how many people really need to use fancy fonts to read a web forum, read a news article, or buy an item from a store?
640K ought to be enough for everybody.
I doubt (and at least sure hope so) that the fonts will be automatically added in to system. They most likely go to the browsers own Fonts-folder.
Since they do it anyways, it sure wins having the text in an image, or worse, flash applet.
What? How would that be easier than the plain-old "check out -> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/02/2025242/Web-Open-Font-Format-Gets-Backing-from-Mozilla"