What? Where have I bitched about such a thing? You explicitly stated that there would be a problem with someone making unlimited use of an unlimited service here:
They are not paying for the electricity they used
and I was pointing out that such a company should not have advertised unlimited usage if it did not intend to deliver such.
Although I don't recall making any Slashdot posts on the subject, the complaint about Comcast was that they previously did NOT disclose their caps. While bandwidth caps may be annoying, there's nothing unethical about them unless the company misrepresented what was being sold.
Except if they paid $400/month for unlimited use at a specific rate, and then used it all, then they used $400 worth of [bandwidth/electricity]. If they did not want people to use their [bandwidth/electricity], they should not have advertised and sold their service as unlimited.
Incidentally, as stated in the article:
Telenet has not posted this information as a complaint of what they have to deal with, but to give us "a better picture of what exactly is possible with this new way of surfing."
Well, OnLive alone probably won't, but it's just one of many new legitimate streaming services, including Hulu, iTunes movie rentals, High Def YouTube, NetFlix streaming, and streaming sports games, that will increase the bandwidth demands of regular users. This could hopefully bring about improved Internet service, when it's the regular users, not just us, who are complaining.
Bandwidth required - 2.5 Gb / hour (so the average UK broadband customer would exceed their monthly allowance in less than 10-15 hours a month).
This is why I support them. I have no interest in the platform for myself, for similar reasons to many of the other/.ers, but if OnLive take off, then ISPs will have to increase their capacity to keep up with their demands.
Yeah, I get 10Mbps with Charter. I think they might offer a 1Mbps service, but who would pay for 1 Mbps cable internet and how is the average under that? Most people I know living around here get the 5 Mbps service.
At least having Garland on board means it's unlikely to be turned into the obvious thing, a pure action film.
Instead, it will start off with what seems like a decent sci-fi flick, gradually morph into an MTV reality show, and then turn into a slasher flick for the last quarter of the movie. At least the scenery will be nice!
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Makes sense in a certain way, but can you submit your own TV station to a cable provider for free? If anything, the problem is that it's TOO similar to cable TV!
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Can you imagine not being allowed to watch Fox or MSNBC ?
The last time I checked, I can't get Fox News or MSNBC without some sort of cable package. (I have no idea if either is in the minimum cable package that comes with my Cable Internet). I can't get a package with just the specific channels I want (e.g. CSPAN and a couple movie channels). So TV is not really the best example of this.
But I thought (think) that a touch screen is a ridiculous choice for a handheld game console, so what do I know.
I actually think the touch screen is really nice when used properly. For instance, in Pokemon Diamond, it's so much faster just poking the screen with my finger instead of using the arrow keys and then pressing a button to choose my attacks.
And how CIVIL is a Honda CIVIC Hybrid? And what is it a hybrid of? DAMN MARKETING! Let's just always refer to it as "The 4 door sedan from Honda that has a combination of an electric propulsion system and an internal combustion engine!" Fucking marketers!
Yeah, man. I hate when products and features have NAMES and shit. That's just MARKETING, man! Some guy was telling me about how his CPU was a Core 2 Extreme (What does that even MEAN, man? It's not like the chip can SNOW BOARD or anything!), and I was like "Screw you, dude! You're just a marketing droid, fooled by their fancy BUZZWORDS!" I explained to him why he should instead describe every spec of the Intel chip, from its cache size to its clock speed, every time he wanted to refer to it. He then told me to fuck off! What a DICK, right? There's tons of instances of this, like how Apple calls its sliding window arranging function "EXPOSE," IBM calls its chips "POWER," Microsoft calls its camera technology "NATAL," and Wacom calling its tablets "GRAPHITE!"
It's fucking ridiculous, my friend. People need to open their EYES! What has the world come to!?
This is why. This picture does not exaggerate the amount of time spent making sites render properly in IE (at least for any moderately complex site).
Internet Explorer (particularly 6) is the bane of web developers everywhere. It doesn't even support some basic CSS (such as min-width, min-height) or transparent PNGs. Its box model is broken. Ugh.
My old phone allowed me to record my voice manually for voice dials, which was great, since there are only a few people I call regularly. My current phone instead just tries to use voice regonition plus interpreting what I've typed as the contacts' name. It simply doesn't work; I wish it had the option to act as my old phone did.
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This. Also, most computers have text-to-speech. Many scanners can identify letters. BAN TEXT-TO-SPEECH IN COMPUTERS!
They are not paying for the electricity they used
and I was pointing out that such a company should not have advertised unlimited usage if it did not intend to deliver such.
Although I don't recall making any Slashdot posts on the subject, the complaint about Comcast was that they previously did NOT disclose their caps. While bandwidth caps may be annoying, there's nothing unethical about them unless the company misrepresented what was being sold.
Incidentally, as stated in the article:
Telenet has not posted this information as a complaint of what they have to deal with, but to give us "a better picture of what exactly is possible with this new way of surfing."
the ISP is not complaining at all.
I thought all the Bond films (barring the recent atrocities with Daniel Craig) were tongue-in-cheek. That was the whole reason they were so enjoyable.
In this case, it's more like an algorithm than a bunch of programmers. And finding missing persons is an embarrassingly parallel problem.
OK, but is this on a homebuilt PC or on a pre-sold Dell? I would imagine Dell would install the proper drivers to get it to work properly.
Well, OnLive alone probably won't, but it's just one of many new legitimate streaming services, including Hulu, iTunes movie rentals, High Def YouTube, NetFlix streaming, and streaming sports games, that will increase the bandwidth demands of regular users. This could hopefully bring about improved Internet service, when it's the regular users, not just us, who are complaining.
Bandwidth required - 2.5 Gb / hour (so the average UK broadband customer would exceed their monthly allowance in less than 10-15 hours a month).
This is why I support them. I have no interest in the platform for myself, for similar reasons to many of the other /.ers, but if OnLive take off, then ISPs will have to increase their capacity to keep up with their demands.
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This is the greatest possible improvement to YouTube short of removing the comments section entirely.
Yeah, I get 10Mbps with Charter. I think they might offer a 1Mbps service, but who would pay for 1 Mbps cable internet and how is the average under that? Most people I know living around here get the 5 Mbps service.
At least having Garland on board means it's unlikely to be turned into the obvious thing, a pure action film.
Instead, it will start off with what seems like a decent sci-fi flick, gradually morph into an MTV reality show, and then turn into a slasher flick for the last quarter of the movie. At least the scenery will be nice!
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Makes sense in a certain way, but can you submit your own TV station to a cable provider for free? If anything, the problem is that it's TOO similar to cable TV!
Can you imagine not being allowed to watch Fox or MSNBC ?
The last time I checked, I can't get Fox News or MSNBC without some sort of cable package. (I have no idea if either is in the minimum cable package that comes with my Cable Internet). I can't get a package with just the specific channels I want (e.g. CSPAN and a couple movie channels). So TV is not really the best example of this.
But I thought (think) that a touch screen is a ridiculous choice for a handheld game console, so what do I know.
I actually think the touch screen is really nice when used properly. For instance, in Pokemon Diamond, it's so much faster just poking the screen with my finger instead of using the arrow keys and then pressing a button to choose my attacks.
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What?
And how CIVIL is a Honda CIVIC Hybrid? And what is it a hybrid of? DAMN MARKETING! Let's just always refer to it as "The 4 door sedan from Honda that has a combination of an electric propulsion system and an internal combustion engine!" Fucking marketers!
Yeah, man. I hate when products and features have NAMES and shit. That's just MARKETING, man! Some guy was telling me about how his CPU was a Core 2 Extreme (What does that even MEAN, man? It's not like the chip can SNOW BOARD or anything!), and I was like "Screw you, dude! You're just a marketing droid, fooled by their fancy BUZZWORDS!" I explained to him why he should instead describe every spec of the Intel chip, from its cache size to its clock speed, every time he wanted to refer to it. He then told me to fuck off! What a DICK, right? There's tons of instances of this, like how Apple calls its sliding window arranging function "EXPOSE," IBM calls its chips "POWER," Microsoft calls its camera technology "NATAL," and Wacom calling its tablets "GRAPHITE!" It's fucking ridiculous, my friend. People need to open their EYES! What has the world come to!?
This is why. This picture does not exaggerate the amount of time spent making sites render properly in IE (at least for any moderately complex site).
Internet Explorer (particularly 6) is the bane of web developers everywhere. It doesn't even support some basic CSS (such as min-width, min-height) or transparent PNGs. Its box model is broken. Ugh.
Sun monocles.
My old phone allowed me to record my voice manually for voice dials, which was great, since there are only a few people I call regularly. My current phone instead just tries to use voice regonition plus interpreting what I've typed as the contacts' name. It simply doesn't work; I wish it had the option to act as my old phone did.
I usually get every other version of Photoshop. Got CS, skipped CS2, got CS3, skipped CS4, and now CS5 looks pretty awesome.
In fact, forget the table entirely!