They throttle to 10% of normal bandwidth between 2pm and midnight, (but not on the upload!), if you hammer their network during the day (from about 9am).
It's very forgiving, and lots of very good reasons have been posted in reply to my FP (yay first!) as to why they do it this way. It's a blessing, as it never actually stops you from using the internet unless you take the mickey (I know someone who throws his SIM card away every few weeks because they often bar him, to be fair on them though, he does brag about watching crappy streaming movies all day on purpose just to be disruptive on the network, and has usage of 400 or so gigs racked up every time it happens to him).
I'm been known to clock up 300+Gigs in a monthly cycle with no penalty apart from the previously-mentioned peak-time throttling. And it doesn't always happen, either, I haven't seen it do that for months. There was a point when I couldn't watch anything online until after midnight, but it doesn't do that anymore, either, even if I do hammer it. Sorry for being longwinded, but you made a good point - they are vague about exactly what they are doing and when, but they seem to be the most forgiving about such things. Unlimited means "as much as we let you take per second" and they never cut me off or bill me more.
Jesus feckin' Christ, a wall of Jew Hate in the apk style - not sure what to think! Questions arising -
1) Why is this posted in reply to my comment admitting to reverse-trolling apk? *aha! maybe it's like reverse racism, if you troll a troll then you are not trolling!
2) Where is this sourced from???
3) If you did write this specially for this post, you spent a long time doing so. Why??
All of this is extremely true, and he's been incredibly hateful toward me for many years, but something about triggering his ire reminds me that I'm still alive!!
Successfully winding up a troll like apk is more satisfying than it should be. I don't know why, but there you have it.
These apk trolls are weak and lame, I want the actual apk back dammit. I'm honestly beginning to think that real apk has kicked the bucket, or just got fed up of/.
The menu paradigm has been solid ever since. And can you believe some troll replied to my rant by calling me pathetic because apparently, CTRL-D will give the same damn Font box in new versions. Duh! RACHEL!!! It's one step!! Pathetic!
One step with no clues to it's existence, or links or logic. Press the underlined keys to access the menus, memorize them over time by thinking and doing. Logical. Am I wrong, or are we dumbing everything down and favouring learning by rote over cognitive thoughts and logic?
Pathetic? How dare you dismiss me as pathetic for having a more structured mind and a less flexible memory for pointless, non-intuitive single shortcuts!
The menu and underlined key structure was learned naturally since Windows 3.1 by allowing the computer to instruct me as to which key to press next, to drill down through related options (in menus) by using the underlined letter to enter the next command. They changed the keys rarely, but when they did that, the computer still told you in the same way you'd learned to understand how to get the computer to tell you what you can and cannot do.
It's intuitive, and logical. CTRL - D gives no clue in and of itself what it does, but the "O" in "Format" is underlined, and and "o" in "Font" is too, if you use the ALT access method.
You're a stupid "all change is good stfu old person" low-IQ millennial, how dare you try to detract from the useful discussion about the regression of computing for the sake of stupid people doing jobs they shouldn't be able to get.
I deliberately left that open just for you. I have battery holders, one-use batteries, rechargeable batteries and solar chargers, and wind-up chargers. I use large waterproof map cases to store "kits", containing a device, some batteries, two SD cards containing the maps for each device, and a charging device. Having a number of these packs ensures a networked computing environment anywhere, anytime, whatever the weather for me and my tribe. And they all weigh less together in my pack than my Toshiba Qosmio, which was my previous (less well-thought-out) "bugout" computing setup.
So, care to actually attempt an answer to the question, i.e. how long are my satellites likely to continue to orbit and function as a positioning system once the operators are gone?
My main use case nowadays doesn't work in a virtual machine - playing games. ON silly or old hardware. And I hope the Linux trolls don't try telling me that GPU pass thru is a useful or working feature, when none but the most expensive and newest graphics chipsets are supported properly. Mobility Radeon 3470 running Skyrim at native resolution at 40+ frames per second on a dual core with high-res textures. No updates / malware. That's how I like my Windows, fast and lean.
They keep publishing lies about how bad Windows 7 is for gaming, but my personal extensive experience with going backwards and forwards comparing Windows versions on the same hardware, with the same games, every time i fix, borrow or scrounge a new machine, goes as far back as Win 3.1, as far forward as August Creator's Update, and hardware-wise, I still have a P2 Toughbook, the above mentioned Qosmio Classic, and an i7-based GTX 1070 rig. My experience is consistent: On most hardware, Windows 7 beats the rest. It's faster than Vista, and faster than 8.1, on the same hardware, across AMD and Intel CPU's, and across AMD and nVidia GPU's using the same games and settings. 8 and 8.1 are much, much faster than 10.
Anybody benchmarking anything different must be cheating, or there's some hobbles in the updates since the i3, i5 etc. were released, aimed at forcing Windows 7 stalwarts to upgrade, similar to the Intel / AMD "un-optimizing" compiler Intel created a few years back.
This last bit sounds a bit paranoid, but Intel are usually considered less evil than M$ and look what they did with their compiler!! (it sent AMD CPU's through a longer version of the same program on the chip instead of using faster built-in microcode extensions on the chip, to slow down the competitor when running code generated using the Intel compiler!)
The post you are quoting is absolutely correct. and your post does not dispute it or detract from it.
I'm still using Office 2003. on Windows 7 SP1, and yes, the file format converters still work perfectly, both forward and backward. I don't NEED to upgrade, and I don't want to either. I hate everything about the ribbon interface, I use the ALT menus, and don't you dare try to tell me they have replicated the shortcuts because they fucking haven't! Try selecting some precise area of text with arrows and the shift key, then press "ALT - O and then O". Are you looking at the Font Dialog? No?! Exactly. Lies. (on their part!)
I will never update Windows again. Spyware and "telemetry" killed it for me. Windows user since 3.1
No problem. Android 2.3+ with GPS and MM Tracker and a bunch of high-resolution Ordnance Survey.QCT files on all my SD cards, purchased (not rented) with "Memory Maps" surveying software for the PC... even a $30 Chinese tablet supports my bodged offline mapping setup!
I don't even need GSM or WiFi for my universal setup to track a satellite, download the almanac, and fix position and height using satellites only in 2 minutes at most. Come the apocalypse, I'll have more maps than most.:-) How long do we think the satellites will stay up if I'm the only one left, with my menagerie of crazy offline-ready devices of all different sorts? Lol
Microsoft released a decent operating system and then killed it on purpose when they couldn't persuade people to upgrade to Windows 8, 8.1, or 10 - there was no need to upgrade while everything worked so well under 7!!
I only upgraded from Windows 2003 "workstation" after I had observed feedback from 7 users for about a year. I will not upgrade to 10, even if they try to force me to with "exclusive" releases - I will play my games on 7 until that market ends, and I will continue to use Linux for my work as I always have, all of which simply means that eventually my hobby will die with Windows 7. Thanks M$.
I strongly suspect that I'm not the only person thinking like this. M$ created a whole industry, now they want to destroy it.
This attempt to de-rail the points made in the poorly constructed parent post by pretending to be sophisticated and intelligent merely makes you a condescending and poorly executed troll. The fact that you only understood 1/4 of what was communicated shows your severe lack of intelligence, and paragraphs alone do make your post any more valid than the parent.
Last but not least, you attack the person not the content, this called ad-hominem and you suck for trying it.
"Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo"
I would be be far more worried about this if it was a Russian document, of any sort. The headline basically says "The Pentagon thinks the Russians have this torpedo". If I wrote "I am Donald Trump" on a piece of Pentagon-headed paper, it wouldn't make it true, now would it?
I will explain. Advertisers who wish to avoid appearing on "edgy" and adult content can sponsor the fluffy censorious version which currently calls itself Youtube.
The vast majority of advertisers who just don't care what the far left does, and knows it's basically bad for business to kowtow to them (marvel et al), can get better numbers of eyeballs for less by sponsoring "normal" random Youtube, the Youtube we once knew and loved. Let the market decide.
The fact that they were meant to be taken seriously made APK's posts hilarious, and the ensuing troll storms and memes that followed them provided hours of entertainment for sleepless people whose UID's were all under a million...
This was a guy who was stuck in the Windows 3.1 era who thought that Visual Basic was the bees knees, a proper pro toolkit, and that ASP.net was gonna be the next big thing... yeah, some of us saw that shitstorm coming decades ago...
Arguing with the original APK ago was not for the faint-of-heart, he got very personal very quickly, and the trolls loved it! It is those sessions I am referring to in the OP which you replied to... I honestly reckon the real APK is dead now though, kept alive only in the memories of slashdot trolls...
Impersonating APK has become an art form on Slashdot now? What happened to the actual APK, I must say I quite enjoyed trolling and being trolled by this meme around the turn of the last decade, shame he posted anonymously, there will be no easy way to archive these sessions in the future...
This comment is likely to get so downmodded (Offtopic, or Overrated) that my Karma will go from 'Excellent' to 'Bad', or whatever is worst these days, but I don't care. This is worth it.
I do hereby record my username and number on this thread, on this article, on this auspicious day, for several reasons:
1) It's likely to stick around for posterity 2) It will annoy all the people who need to be annoyed and sadly, some people who don't deserve it (collateral damage) 3) I can say "I told you so" when Islam, helped along by BAMN/Anti-fa starts civil wars based on doctrine and ideological hate in the West in years to come, from my kingdom in the lake district, the last small c conservative nation that will be left after this happens 4) In between now and the war, true free speech will be more and more curtailed. We must use it whilst we can, for it's most important purpose - to tell the truth, the facts.
Go watch the Boondocks, most black people know all about the lunacy of the left and the contradiction between modern money-making black "pop culture", and Martin Luther King's noble and righteous motives and goals.
MLK envisioned a future where people would be judged by the quality of their character, rather than the colour of the skin. A "colour-blind society" where people would succeed based on hard work, honesty and justice for all. He never said anything about silencing people who were white from speaking the truth, he just wanted black people who were at the time segregated, sent to the back of the bus and many other social restrictions to be treated the same as everyone else!
MLK will be spinning in his grave right now, worrying his little heart out about where BLM and BAMN could lead black people in the future, namely civil war or an SJW cult regime, under which many (mainly white people) will suffer; all in his name and on the back of his achievements; the complete antithesis of his goals.
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They throttle to 10% of normal bandwidth between 2pm and midnight, (but not on the upload!), if you hammer their network during the day (from about 9am).
It's very forgiving, and lots of very good reasons have been posted in reply to my FP (yay first!) as to why they do it this way. It's a blessing, as it never actually stops you from using the internet unless you take the mickey (I know someone who throws his SIM card away every few weeks because they often bar him, to be fair on them though, he does brag about watching crappy streaming movies all day on purpose just to be disruptive on the network, and has usage of 400 or so gigs racked up every time it happens to him).
I'm been known to clock up 300+Gigs in a monthly cycle with no penalty apart from the previously-mentioned peak-time throttling. And it doesn't always happen, either, I haven't seen it do that for months. There was a point when I couldn't watch anything online until after midnight, but it doesn't do that anymore, either, even if I do hammer it. Sorry for being longwinded, but you made a good point - they are vague about exactly what they are doing and when, but they seem to be the most forgiving about such things. Unlimited means "as much as we let you take per second" and they never cut me off or bill me more.
Did you miss the (personally inexplicable) craze for Minecraft and clones?
Not on Three PAYG you're not, lol!
is the poor man's pay-as-you-go broadband. No caps after midnight.
All we want is a bit of shalom, can't we all just get along?
TRIGGERED! Boom! (Head. Off!) lol
Jesus feckin' Christ, a wall of Jew Hate in the apk style - not sure what to think! Questions arising -
1) Why is this posted in reply to my comment admitting to reverse-trolling apk? *aha! maybe it's like reverse racism, if you troll a troll then you are not trolling!
2) Where is this sourced from???
3) If you did write this specially for this post, you spent a long time doing so. Why??
All of this is extremely true, and he's been incredibly hateful toward me for many years, but something about triggering his ire reminds me that I'm still alive!!
Successfully winding up a troll like apk is more satisfying than it should be. I don't know why, but there you have it.
What did they do, threaten to bork all future Windows releases? Surely Intel needs M$ more than M$ needs Intel?
These apk trolls are weak and lame, I want the actual apk back dammit. I'm honestly beginning to think that real apk has kicked the bucket, or just got fed up of /.
I had Word and Excel 3.0
The menu paradigm has been solid ever since. And can you believe some troll replied to my rant by calling me pathetic because apparently, CTRL-D will give the same damn Font box in new versions. Duh! RACHEL!!! It's one step!! Pathetic!
One step with no clues to it's existence, or links or logic. Press the underlined keys to access the menus, memorize them over time by thinking and doing. Logical. Am I wrong, or are we dumbing everything down and favouring learning by rote over cognitive thoughts and logic?
Pathetic? How dare you dismiss me as pathetic for having a more structured mind and a less flexible memory for pointless, non-intuitive single shortcuts!
The menu and underlined key structure was learned naturally since Windows 3.1 by allowing the computer to instruct me as to which key to press next, to drill down through related options (in menus) by using the underlined letter to enter the next command. They changed the keys rarely, but when they did that, the computer still told you in the same way you'd learned to understand how to get the computer to tell you what you can and cannot do.
It's intuitive, and logical. CTRL - D gives no clue in and of itself what it does, but the "O" in "Format" is underlined, and and "o" in "Font" is too, if you use the ALT access method.
You're a stupid "all change is good stfu old person" low-IQ millennial, how dare you try to detract from the useful discussion about the regression of computing for the sake of stupid people doing jobs they shouldn't be able to get.
I deliberately left that open just for you. I have battery holders, one-use batteries, rechargeable batteries and solar chargers, and wind-up chargers. I use large waterproof map cases to store "kits", containing a device, some batteries, two SD cards containing the maps for each device, and a charging device. Having a number of these packs ensures a networked computing environment anywhere, anytime, whatever the weather for me and my tribe. And they all weigh less together in my pack than my Toshiba Qosmio, which was my previous (less well-thought-out) "bugout" computing setup.
So, care to actually attempt an answer to the question, i.e. how long are my satellites likely to continue to orbit and function as a positioning system once the operators are gone?
My main use case nowadays doesn't work in a virtual machine - playing games. ON silly or old hardware. And I hope the Linux trolls don't try telling me that GPU pass thru is a useful or working feature, when none but the most expensive and newest graphics chipsets are supported properly. Mobility Radeon 3470 running Skyrim at native resolution at 40+ frames per second on a dual core with high-res textures. No updates / malware. That's how I like my Windows, fast and lean.
They keep publishing lies about how bad Windows 7 is for gaming, but my personal extensive experience with going backwards and forwards comparing Windows versions on the same hardware, with the same games, every time i fix, borrow or scrounge a new machine, goes as far back as Win 3.1, as far forward as August Creator's Update, and hardware-wise, I still have a P2 Toughbook, the above mentioned Qosmio Classic, and an i7-based GTX 1070 rig. My experience is consistent: On most hardware, Windows 7 beats the rest. It's faster than Vista, and faster than 8.1, on the same hardware, across AMD and Intel CPU's, and across AMD and nVidia GPU's using the same games and settings. 8 and 8.1 are much, much faster than 10.
Anybody benchmarking anything different must be cheating, or there's some hobbles in the updates since the i3, i5 etc. were released, aimed at forcing Windows 7 stalwarts to upgrade, similar to the Intel / AMD "un-optimizing" compiler Intel created a few years back.
This last bit sounds a bit paranoid, but Intel are usually considered less evil than M$ and look what they did with their compiler!! (it sent AMD CPU's through a longer version of the same program on the chip instead of using faster built-in microcode extensions on the chip, to slow down the competitor when running code generated using the Intel compiler!)
The post you are quoting is absolutely correct. and your post does not dispute it or detract from it.
I'm still using Office 2003. on Windows 7 SP1, and yes, the file format converters still work perfectly, both forward and backward. I don't NEED to upgrade, and I don't want to either. I hate everything about the ribbon interface, I use the ALT menus, and don't you dare try to tell me they have replicated the shortcuts because they fucking haven't! Try selecting some precise area of text with arrows and the shift key, then press "ALT - O and then O". Are you looking at the Font Dialog? No?! Exactly. Lies. (on their part!)
I will never update Windows again. Spyware and "telemetry" killed it for me. Windows user since 3.1
No problem. Android 2.3+ with GPS and MM Tracker and a bunch of high-resolution Ordnance Survey .QCT files on all my SD cards, purchased (not rented) with "Memory Maps" surveying software for the PC... even a $30 Chinese tablet supports my bodged offline mapping setup!
I don't even need GSM or WiFi for my universal setup to track a satellite, download the almanac, and fix position and height using satellites only in 2 minutes at most. Come the apocalypse, I'll have more maps than most. :-) How long do we think the satellites will stay up if I'm the only one left, with my menagerie of crazy offline-ready devices of all different sorts? Lol
This is exactly what I was thinking.
Microsoft released a decent operating system and then killed it on purpose when they couldn't persuade people to upgrade to Windows 8, 8.1, or 10 - there was no need to upgrade while everything worked so well under 7!!
I only upgraded from Windows 2003 "workstation" after I had observed feedback from 7 users for about a year. I will not upgrade to 10, even if they try to force me to with "exclusive" releases - I will play my games on 7 until that market ends, and I will continue to use Linux for my work as I always have, all of which simply means that eventually my hobby will die with Windows 7. Thanks M$.
I strongly suspect that I'm not the only person thinking like this. M$ created a whole industry, now they want to destroy it.
Rubbish, CCA has only been used since the 1930's.
Hardwoods are the reason all those old houses are still around...
This attempt to de-rail the points made in the poorly constructed parent post by pretending to be sophisticated and intelligent merely makes you a condescending and poorly executed troll. The fact that you only understood 1/4 of what was communicated shows your severe lack of intelligence, and paragraphs alone do make your post any more valid than the parent.
Last but not least, you attack the person not the content, this called ad-hominem and you suck for trying it.
"Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo"
I would be be far more worried about this if it was a Russian document, of any sort. The headline basically says "The Pentagon thinks the Russians have this torpedo". If I wrote "I am Donald Trump" on a piece of Pentagon-headed paper, it wouldn't make it true, now would it?
Same with recent "dossiers"...
Why don't they just let the market decide?
I will explain. Advertisers who wish to avoid appearing on "edgy" and adult content can sponsor the fluffy censorious version which currently calls itself Youtube.
The vast majority of advertisers who just don't care what the far left does, and knows it's basically bad for business to kowtow to them (marvel et al), can get better numbers of eyeballs for less by sponsoring "normal" random Youtube, the Youtube we once knew and loved. Let the market decide.
The fact that they were meant to be taken seriously made APK's posts hilarious, and the ensuing troll storms and memes that followed them provided hours of entertainment for sleepless people whose UID's were all under a million...
This was a guy who was stuck in the Windows 3.1 era who thought that Visual Basic was the bees knees, a proper pro toolkit, and that ASP.net was gonna be the next big thing... yeah, some of us saw that shitstorm coming decades ago...
Arguing with the original APK ago was not for the faint-of-heart, he got very personal very quickly, and the trolls loved it! It is those sessions I am referring to in the OP which you replied to... I honestly reckon the real APK is dead now though, kept alive only in the memories of slashdot trolls...
Impersonating APK has become an art form on Slashdot now? What happened to the actual APK, I must say I quite enjoyed trolling and being trolled by this meme around the turn of the last decade, shame he posted anonymously, there will be no easy way to archive these sessions in the future...
This comment is likely to get so downmodded (Offtopic, or Overrated) that my Karma will go from 'Excellent' to 'Bad', or whatever is worst these days, but I don't care. This is worth it.
I do hereby record my username and number on this thread, on this article, on this auspicious day, for several reasons:
1) It's likely to stick around for posterity
2) It will annoy all the people who need to be annoyed and sadly, some people who don't deserve it (collateral damage)
3) I can say "I told you so" when Islam, helped along by BAMN/Anti-fa starts civil wars based on doctrine and ideological hate in the West in years to come, from my kingdom in the lake district, the last small c conservative nation that will be left after this happens
4) In between now and the war, true free speech will be more and more curtailed. We must use it whilst we can, for it's most important purpose - to tell the truth, the facts.
Go watch the Boondocks, most black people know all about the lunacy of the left and the contradiction between modern money-making black "pop culture", and Martin Luther King's noble and righteous motives and goals.
MLK envisioned a future where people would be judged by the quality of their character, rather than the colour of the skin. A "colour-blind society" where people would succeed based on hard work, honesty and justice for all. He never said anything about silencing people who were white from speaking the truth, he just wanted black people who were at the time segregated, sent to the back of the bus and many other social restrictions to be treated the same as everyone else!
MLK will be spinning in his grave right now, worrying his little heart out about where BLM and BAMN could lead black people in the future, namely civil war or an SJW cult regime, under which many (mainly white people) will suffer; all in his name and on the back of his achievements; the complete antithesis of his goals.