Comcast hasn't advertised "unlimited internet" in many years. After a Google search, the only use of "unlimited" I could find in a current Comcast ad was associated with their phone service: "Make unlimited local and long distance calls with 12 popular features..."
"The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that commissioners Copps, Adelstein, and Martin have decided against the cable giant, paving the way for an official vote when the order is publicly voted on next Friday."
With any subject, there is formal and informal terminology. Informal terminology is typically called "slang."
I'm not going to say "RJ45" to my Dad, or my customers, or to friends who aren't in the know. If I say "ethernet cable" to any of them, they will all know what I mean.
Using precise and correct language often does not help garner better communication or understanding.
This is the chair I've had at work for the past 2 1/2 years. It is very durable (surviving in a 400+ cube office where we move around about every 6 months), easy to adjust and is very comfortable. I even had to "personalize" mine and mark up the back so nobody would steal it again.
Even fair a minded discussion on the topic doesn't have much weight. There just isn't any credible evidence of direct causation that video games make people into murderers. If it were true, there would be over 3 million new murderers running around because of GTA4 alone.
I already did read it actually, as well as the TFA. It's quite nice that the Wikipedia community agreed to self censor as a courtesy in the case you mentioned, but this case is different. Unlike Wikipedia, Wikileaks is all about free, uncensorable disclosure. The whole point of Wikileaks is that the leaked content is distributed in such a way it can't be censored.
This case also involves an American religion against a Swedish website, where they hold no copyright. It's like China trying to tell the USA that they have to censor certain texts just because it's censored in China. Not likely to happen.
Free thinking and free access to information corrupts belief in god Except that the christian bible is most sold and most widely read book in human history. It's not exactly censorship when churches even give the bible away for free (as in beer) to encourage more people to read it.
I don't follow an organized religion, but an "open" religion where rules and texts are known and widely available is preferable to me (as a thinking person) than one that is secret and closed.
Christianity really took off when the bible became more widely available (Gutenberg bible, etc). Openness actually works for religion rather than against it. Unless you're talking about cults. Cults thrive on secrecy, censorship, and intimidation.
Nothing personal, but just because you had to look up "MSFT" and discover it was a stock ticker symbol for Microsoft, doesn't mean that the rest of us nerds had to look it up too.
I'll ask the obvious question here... Why subscribe to these providers that limit or restrict your traffic? Because they don't traffic shape everyone. Traffic shaping is rare. ISPs typically only traffic shape nodes which are getting flooded.
In the city I live in (Sacramento, CA) there four large cable companies: Charter, SureWest, Frontier, and Comcast. All four have franchise agreements with the city. There are a few smaller cable companies too, but I don't remember their names offhand.
Cable franchise agreements are controlled by the municipality, not the company. This agreement allows a company (under strict guidelines) to do business in the municipality. If your municipality chooses to allow only one cable company to do business there, blame the municipality for their crappy franchise agreement, not the cable company.
In the case of Sacramento, there's no monopoly, and so consumers have lots of choices for broadband internet, TV and phone services. Choice is good for everyone.
Grinding for flasks, food, oils, and the like simply make it *easier* to complete new encounters a guild hasn't done before.
An hour of running instances with friends per week to cover my raiding repair bill from Sunwell/Black Temple/Hyjal and expenses doesn't exactly constitute "grinding."
Any ISP that says they do not manage their network is lying.
Any ISP that does not filter out spam, viruses, and trojans is doing a disservice to their customers.
I agree that communication from ISPs and their customers could be better about their policies, but the real issue is that a tiny fraction of cable customers use a majority of bandwidth. These customers need to be delt with, and the rest need to be left alone.
Sometimes software is just a useful solution to a need.
When I was in college, I had to have unscheduled surgery on my right elbow the week before the final paper was due for my Anthropology class. The outline for the paper was complete; I just needed to type it out. Being in a cast after surgery made typing impossible but with one hand. I purchased and used DNS to finish my paper. The software was easy to use and errors were minimal, even for an Anthro paper with lots of jargon.
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Comcast hasn't advertised "unlimited internet" in many years. After a Google search, the only use of "unlimited" I could find in a current Comcast ad was associated with their phone service: "Make unlimited local and long distance calls with 12 popular features..."
Amen to that.
Healthy people do activities and hobbies (like gaming) because they enjoy them, not because they're avoiding something.
"The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that commissioners Copps, Adelstein, and Martin have decided against the cable giant, paving the way for an official vote when the order is publicly voted on next Friday."
Restarting the modem or the computer fixes 99% of internet issues. When I worked at Applecare, that's what we'd do first, too.
I run WoW on my Mac, using the copy of the game I bought from Blizzard. You insensitive clod.
With any subject, there is formal and informal terminology. Informal terminology is typically called "slang."
I'm not going to say "RJ45" to my Dad, or my customers, or to friends who aren't in the know. If I say "ethernet cable" to any of them, they will all know what I mean.
Using precise and correct language often does not help garner better communication or understanding.
This is the chair I've had at work for the past 2 1/2 years. It is very durable (surviving in a 400+ cube office where we move around about every 6 months), easy to adjust and is very comfortable. I even had to "personalize" mine and mark up the back so nobody would steal it again.
I think your angst is misdirected. Do you really think Comcast forced your apartment owner/manager to sign the contract against their will?
it's a close battle between Slashdot vs. Ponies! http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2C+ponies&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Even fair a minded discussion on the topic doesn't have much weight. There just isn't any credible evidence of direct causation that video games make people into murderers. If it were true, there would be over 3 million new murderers running around because of GTA4 alone.
Also...
"All hosts which observed blocking did so in the upstream direction"
I already did read it actually, as well as the TFA. It's quite nice that the Wikipedia community agreed to self censor as a courtesy in the case you mentioned, but this case is different. Unlike Wikipedia, Wikileaks is all about free, uncensorable disclosure. The whole point of Wikileaks is that the leaked content is distributed in such a way it can't be censored.
This case also involves an American religion against a Swedish website, where they hold no copyright. It's like China trying to tell the USA that they have to censor certain texts just because it's censored in China. Not likely to happen.
This article article mentions Wikileaks, Wikimedia and a Wikinews article linking to the Wikileaks article.
Nowhere is Wikipedia mentioned in the article. Wikipedia is a Wikimedia project, but they're not one and the same.
Yes, that's a lot of Wiki there, but Wikipedia is not once mentioned in the article.
I don't follow an organized religion, but an "open" religion where rules and texts are known and widely available is preferable to me (as a thinking person) than one that is secret and closed.
Christianity really took off when the bible became more widely available (Gutenberg bible, etc). Openness actually works for religion rather than against it. Unless you're talking about cults. Cults thrive on secrecy, censorship, and intimidation.
How many birds have the wind turbines killed so far?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-01-04-windmills-usat_x.htm/
Nothing personal, but just because you had to look up "MSFT" and discover it was a stock ticker symbol for Microsoft, doesn't mean that the rest of us nerds had to look it up too.
It seems like they're just trying to cash in because their current model of distribution isn't working for them.
You say you have "all but won" and then "We won." Which is it?
I call bullshit. If you won, prove it and show others how win too.
In the city I live in (Sacramento, CA) there four large cable companies: Charter, SureWest, Frontier, and Comcast. All four have franchise agreements with the city. There are a few smaller cable companies too, but I don't remember their names offhand.
Cable franchise agreements are controlled by the municipality, not the company. This agreement allows a company (under strict guidelines) to do business in the municipality. If your municipality chooses to allow only one cable company to do business there, blame the municipality for their crappy franchise agreement, not the cable company.
In the case of Sacramento, there's no monopoly, and so consumers have lots of choices for broadband internet, TV and phone services. Choice is good for everyone.
WoW does *not* mandate grinding.
Grinding for flasks, food, oils, and the like simply make it *easier* to complete new encounters a guild hasn't done before.
An hour of running instances with friends per week to cover my raiding repair bill from Sunwell/Black Temple/Hyjal and expenses doesn't exactly constitute "grinding."
Unless you met your girl/boyfriend online. While playing an MMO. And after 5 years of marriage, you still play MMOs together. Fail.
Any ISP that says they do not manage their network is lying.
Any ISP that does not filter out spam, viruses, and trojans is doing a disservice to their customers.
I agree that communication from ISPs and their customers could be better about their policies, but the real issue is that a tiny fraction of cable customers use a majority of bandwidth. These customers need to be delt with, and the rest need to be left alone.
Sometimes software is just a useful solution to a need.
When I was in college, I had to have unscheduled surgery on my right elbow the week before the final paper was due for my Anthropology class. The outline for the paper was complete; I just needed to type it out. Being in a cast after surgery made typing impossible but with one hand. I purchased and used DNS to finish my paper. The software was easy to use and errors were minimal, even for an Anthro paper with lots of jargon.
I got an A on the paper.