The fact is that the majority of customers do not rape their connection and so the _overall_ bandwidth used by the ISP's customers (regardless of where they are based) means that the ISP can sustain its heavy users.
The fact you haven't grasped this concept already from all the other posts before yours, and my reply, is astonishing.
Do a little research and find out how much it costs, wholesale, for a 1mb provider connection (ie. level3, abovenet).
I'll help you out, with level3, 1mbit would cost you around £80 per month.
Thats an agreed limit of 1mbit, you could have a burst speed of 10gbit, but your monthly bandwidth cannot exceed that of a saturated 1mbit line without incurring extra costs.
Therefore, when your downloading your torrents on your 3mb cable 24/7 for a month, you are crippling your service provider if that traffic is going out of their network with a provider like level3.
ISP's level off their customers total usage and create a business plan which will pay for their total bandwidth. The casual users subsidise the heavy users. If we were all to pay-as-you-go the prices of heavy downloading would easily be 10x the cost of our current monthly payment plan.
Something is wrong about the reviews that are out at the moment. Perhaps individual chips vary a lot in performance, because I just checked out the article, your linked review, AmdZone and AnandTech's reviews and they all have cross references for the same benchmarks yet the results show a varying difference between the 2 processors.
What is the underlying factor that can make one review look like a benchmark is similar on both architectures, and then a different review and same benchmark, AMD is 60% faster?
It makes me wonder if the reviewer tweaks the results to show his/her biased view. Whether it be Intel or AMD.
Why not grab the free alternative to Real Player? It works in WMC, and also has a firefox/opera/ie plugin to work seemlessly as if it were the real Real Player.
I guess pretty much anything could be done. You could download a program using the standard ftp command and then execute it, so there is nothing stopping you from doing anything at all.
what i really would like is faster updating of the results
Hear hear. The results of most sites on google are cached and indexed from up to a month ago, as I think google update only once a month. Lets not go to the extravagant refreshing of pages as MSN does (my tiny personal site gets 100s of 'msnbot' clicks a day), but once a day would be nice, if possible.
so this could raise an issue with serious fire risk in the event of an accident.
We have already overcome the sceptics of this problem with todays petrol engines. I'd say a contained battery is less dangerous than a tank full of petrol.
I'm surprised you criticised CoH for its character creation. I have always thought CoH had an amazingly in-depth cpstume creator with millions of possibilities making every character unique.
Have you tried playing Lineage 2? aka, Attack of the Clones?
I think they should dynamicly change the clock speed based on heat content.
The P4 already does this. It will turn down the speed and even disable individual cpu components in order to save its life if it begins to overheat.
TomsHardware produced this video a while ago, detailing what happens when the heatsink and fan is removed during workload. They test both AMD and Intel processors from back then.
Well, if the cable modem (router/gateway I assume) has a firewall, it will obviously block all invalid packets, and sometimes DoS attacks.
You may block the packets used for the DoS from getting to your PC, but your cable line will still be saturated.
Otherwise, all (I think) cable modems / routers will give away their IP, BUT they should all protect the users behind them, through natting or dhcp.
Integrated firewalls in routers/modems are becoming more sophisticated than merely being nat drones. Firewall designers are aware that any response given from the firewall is unwise, therefore they are now stealthed firewalls. And the notion that DHCP can protect you.. well, no comment, lol.
The inclusion of "teleconferencing" with MSN has totally changed the way I use the internet. I dont think you understand just how important it now is for the deaf community. Obviously you probably aren't particularly bothered about our community but with me being part of it, I am.
Netmeeting can do these things, but it wasnt widely used. Not everyone knows how to use netmeeting, and dont have it running ready like a phone. With MSN integration it has become a single click operation and has rapidly gained popularity making it now a much used feature in my everyday life.
Perhaps you disagree based on the principle of it has no place in IM, but im afraid from my point of view it has every place.
A feature is a feature, and if lots of people use it then why is it such a problem? If one person wants the feature added, and pushes for its integration how in that way does it affect yourself?
I am profoundly hard of hearing (basically, stone deaf).
I, and others like me, find that the msn webcam feature is a fantastic way for us to communicate adding a whole level of remote interaction that we are missing since we cant simply pick up the phone.
As the previous reply mentioned.. UK prices are just getting silly now.
For your $700k you really would only get a 2 bedroom tiny flat in London.
I just paid the equivalent of $450,000 on a 2 bedroom detatched house in a small village that is 11 miles from the nearest store. In comparison, I got ripped off.:(
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The fact is that the majority of customers do not rape their connection and so the _overall_ bandwidth used by the ISP's customers (regardless of where they are based) means that the ISP can sustain its heavy users.
The fact you haven't grasped this concept already from all the other posts before yours, and my reply, is astonishing.
Do a little research and find out how much it costs, wholesale, for a 1mb provider connection (ie. level3, abovenet).
I'll help you out, with level3, 1mbit would cost you around £80 per month.
Thats an agreed limit of 1mbit, you could have a burst speed of 10gbit, but your monthly bandwidth cannot exceed that of a saturated 1mbit line without incurring extra costs.
Therefore, when your downloading your torrents on your 3mb cable 24/7 for a month, you are crippling your service provider if that traffic is going out of their network with a provider like level3.
ISP's level off their customers total usage and create a business plan which will pay for their total bandwidth. The casual users subsidise the heavy users. If we were all to pay-as-you-go the prices of heavy downloading would easily be 10x the cost of our current monthly payment plan.
What marketing plan intentionally crashes their users systems. This is all just AC-FUD.
So install Real Alternative instead.
Wouldn't it be a waste of money to buy a top-end 64bit processor if all the programs I have run 32bit?
Athlon64 X2 4400 (running at 2.6GHz) 81 seconds =[
Read more and download at, https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=433&application=firefox
Something is wrong about the reviews that are out at the moment. Perhaps individual chips vary a lot in performance, because I just checked out the article, your linked review, AmdZone and AnandTech's reviews and they all have cross references for the same benchmarks yet the results show a varying difference between the 2 processors. What is the underlying factor that can make one review look like a benchmark is similar on both architectures, and then a different review and same benchmark, AMD is 60% faster? It makes me wonder if the reviewer tweaks the results to show his/her biased view. Whether it be Intel or AMD.
Forgot to mention the url, http://www.codecguide.com/about_real.htm
I just downloaded it and I'm really pleased =]
Doesn't the above statement contradict itself?
No, he meant the SNES. That was the platform he played the original on, regardless of when it was released.
I have mod points but someone already beat me to marking parent Troll. =]
I guess pretty much anything could be done. You could download a program using the standard ftp command and then execute it, so there is nothing stopping you from doing anything at all.
your iexplore.exe is in c:\windows? I'd check if that isnt a virus/trojan because it doesnt belong there! :D
what i really would like is faster updating of the results Hear hear. The results of most sites on google are cached and indexed from up to a month ago, as I think google update only once a month. Lets not go to the extravagant refreshing of pages as MSN does (my tiny personal site gets 100s of 'msnbot' clicks a day), but once a day would be nice, if possible.
Besides, you, the parent, to which im replying, should be modded as flamebait imo.
We have already overcome the sceptics of this problem with todays petrol engines. I'd say a contained battery is less dangerous than a tank full of petrol.
Have you tried playing Lineage 2? aka, Attack of the Clones?
The P4 already does this. It will turn down the speed and even disable individual cpu components in order to save its life if it begins to overheat.
TomsHardware produced this video a while ago, detailing what happens when the heatsink and fan is removed during workload. They test both AMD and Intel processors from back then.
modded interesting? ROFL
You may block the packets used for the DoS from getting to your PC, but your cable line will still be saturated.
Otherwise, all (I think) cable modems / routers will give away their IP, BUT they should all protect the users behind them, through natting or dhcp.
Integrated firewalls in routers/modems are becoming more sophisticated than merely being nat drones. Firewall designers are aware that any response given from the firewall is unwise, therefore they are now stealthed firewalls. And the notion that DHCP can protect you .. well, no comment, lol.
Netmeeting can do these things, but it wasnt widely used. Not everyone knows how to use netmeeting, and dont have it running ready like a phone. With MSN integration it has become a single click operation and has rapidly gained popularity making it now a much used feature in my everyday life.
Perhaps you disagree based on the principle of it has no place in IM, but im afraid from my point of view it has every place.
A feature is a feature, and if lots of people use it then why is it such a problem? If one person wants the feature added, and pushes for its integration how in that way does it affect yourself?
I, and others like me, find that the msn webcam feature is a fantastic way for us to communicate adding a whole level of remote interaction that we are missing since we cant simply pick up the phone.
As the previous reply mentioned .. UK prices are just getting silly now.
For your $700k you really would only get a 2 bedroom tiny flat in London.
I just paid the equivalent of $450,000 on a 2 bedroom detatched house in a small village that is 11 miles from the nearest store. In comparison, I got ripped off. :(