My ISP (netcabo , in portugal), altough it has crappy service and technical support, charges a flat rate per month and gives you 1Gb of international downloads and 20Gb of nacional downloads (from servers inside portugal). Uploads are always free and connections between clients of my ISP are also free.
No restrictions on NAT and no restrictions on running servers (I have HTTP, FTP & SSHD runing at home).
If you go over the limits you pay a given amount per 100Mb over the limit. I think this is quite reasonable. Now if only I could keep my modem connected for 30 minutes straight...
Now we live in a Universe where the question AND the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything are both known.
The Universe was complicated enough... What have you DONE?
Hmm... earl grey tea. Maybe that's how an old bald guy can kick the borg's collective ass.
...you see quotes like this on slashdot, you grok them and you laugh at them!
Actually, for the Logitech cordless keyboard, the key is randomly generated by the drivers every time you disconnect/reconnect the keyboard (ex: change of batteries), and then you're asked to type it so the keyboard also knows it... .
Now, Superman vs the Flash, who would win that race?
Actually... there's a comic somewhere with that one... Flash (not Barry Allen, his successor) won, IIRC. I think they had a rematch, but I don't know the results from that one.
Also, I think Superman let Flash win, but can't remember why... I think he was being blackmailed into racing by someone.
Of course, the price of jamming would probably be a lot less than lining the whole theater with copper (Copper, IIRC, is very expensive). However, jamming would probably seep ouside the thatre, creating a "no-mobile" zone.
Better to just politely escort the guy with the loud phone out of the theatre.
Microsoft won't allow anyone to mod their xbox because then anyone could write software for it. If this were to happen, than M$ wouldn't get any money from game publishers, etc for allowing said publishers to distribute games for xbox.
They might allow someone to port linux or other OSs to the xbox, but only if that someone were willing to pay the same fees as game publishers (or perhaps even higher fees), but I doubt it.
Even then M$ would probably force the ported OS to use DRM, so it would only run the software they chose (ie, whose developers payed them).
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actually unpopular, if you think of it as no cona :)
(yah, I'm Portuguese too :P )
Excuse me, are you saying that this man looks good anywhere?
Sir, may I ask what you have been smoking?
My ISP (netcabo , in portugal), altough it has crappy service and technical support, charges a flat rate per month and gives you 1Gb of international downloads and 20Gb of nacional downloads (from servers inside portugal). Uploads are always free and connections between clients of my ISP are also free.
No restrictions on NAT and no restrictions on running servers (I have HTTP, FTP & SSHD runing at home).
If you go over the limits you pay a given amount per 100Mb over the limit. I think this is quite reasonable. Now if only I could keep my modem connected for 30 minutes straight...
Actually, for the Logitech cordless keyboard, the key is randomly generated by the drivers every time you disconnect/reconnect the keyboard (ex: change of batteries), and then you're asked to type it so the keyboard also knows it... .
Also, I think Superman let Flash win, but can't remember why... I think he was being blackmailed into racing by someone.
Of course, the price of jamming would probably be a lot less than lining the whole theater with copper (Copper, IIRC, is very expensive). However, jamming would probably seep ouside the thatre, creating a "no-mobile" zone.
Better to just politely escort the guy with the loud phone out of the theatre.
Better yet, escort anyone creating disturbances outside (loud babies, loud phone owners, etc)
Microsoft won't allow anyone to mod their xbox because then anyone could write software for it. If this were to happen, than M$ wouldn't get any money from game publishers, etc for allowing said publishers to distribute games for xbox. They might allow someone to port linux or other OSs to the xbox, but only if that someone were willing to pay the same fees as game publishers (or perhaps even higher fees), but I doubt it. Even then M$ would probably force the ported OS to use DRM, so it would only run the software they chose (ie, whose developers payed them).
I wonder when someone will think of patenting the act of "Filing a lawsuit for patent infringment". :)