Dammit, I did. For occasional email use it was fine, but if you wanted to use it regularly it quickly mounted up. Local rate calls came in at around 1p a minute - thats 60p an hour. Use it for two hours every night - £1.20 - that makes £8.40 a week. Internet use used to cost a bomb back then.
To be fair, this wasn't just Freeserve's fault. No operator had really stepped up to offer flat-rate phone calls to ISPs until 1999, mainly in part to incumbent telecoms provider issues as much as anything else. The existence of large ISPs which relied on 0845 calls for revenues probably didn't help matters.
Free from monthly fees, but otherwise, yep - you paid through the nose for the time you were online.
Freeserve's business model fell through when credible ISPs began to offer flat-rate monthly access packages - which included the cost of calls - though they adapted and are now part of the Orange mobile network.
Ubuntu works with iPods out of the box, and you can use Amarok 1.4 to upload tracks flawlessly - even podcasts.
The only things you can't do are paid-for-tracks and video (although don't quote me on the last one) - but so damn what? I don't want their crappy encrypted rubbish, and I only have a 4G ipod anyway:-D
Gotuit has instantaneous video delivery - it is streamed directly to the user's PC and so there's no buffering or download.
TFA could use an edit, author seems to have swallowed PR guff without playing some basic logic games. Streamed directly to a PC? Prey tell how you would stream the video indirectly. And inless you have clear direct access to the video source, some form of buffering would surely be necessary.
Come on/., we can do better than piss poor press launches from mediocre video sites.
2. Uninstall Flash, you don't need that proprietary junk, 99% of all flash animations are ads/banners anyways.
Say goodbye to half of all mainstream media sites, then. It's bad enough without Flash 8 in linux - no flash at all leaves you with half a web experience.
Ah, nice approach to security there...
"Look, we're sorry these murderers, rapists and crack dealers keep moving into the apartment block. You would have been much safer from the multiple shooting if you had added an extra bolt to your door. Tst Tst."
Tiscali at least will fold like wet paper. They do not even have binary newsgroups because usenet is mostly used for piracy according to their helpdesk.
Does usenet have any other use these days? I thought it had been largely supplemented by mailing lists, bulletin boards and blogs?
MSNBC is running a story originally published by the Washington Post, as it says on the page... The "they" is a journalist for the said newspaper, not MSNBC, you insensitive clod.
But of course this is pointless, the other two images have little to no relevancy in the worlds current climate of race relations. (of course if we had a succeeding couple hundred years of black oppression of the masses, and subsequent social revolution... the situation would likely be just as inflamatory in the opposite direction).
Dammit, yes, this is what I was thinking. Its almost as if they other two images are disclaimers - hey, its ok, if you look here we've reversed it ever so cleverly... You can't get away from the fact that there is something deeply errie about the main image, and that it has clear fascist overtones in terms of her stance and even mode of dress.
And anyway, what relevance does race has to video gaming, other than as part of an attempt to piss people off (job well done there)? When I buy a handheld or a computer or whatever I don't think or even associate its colour to the colour of someones skin. Can't see myself motivated by these ads, or that imagery, to buy a white PSP. Campaign failed.
You do realize that if McKinnon had hacked French computers, the French would have extradited him in exactly the same manner?
Not quite.
The point missed by many of the posters in this thread is that the UK has a stupidly unfair extradition treaty with the US, allowing the US to gain the extradition of a suspect using no evidence of the suspect's involvment in the case. Ostensibly, the treaty was an anti-terrorist measure. We now see it being used against suspected hackers and in bank fraud cases.
And in case you were wondering, the US Congress has (sensibly) not ratified the treaty, meaning no reciprocal arrangement exists for UK suspects to be brought over from the US without evidence.
specifically designed for RTS and MMOG gaming. According to Razer, these styles require a high amount of actions per minute, something which is Krait is tailored to do.
but
I don't really see how less buttons (the Copperhead has seven) could lead to more actions per minute. It seems more likely that it was time to revamp Razer's entry level optical mouse and they wanted to capitalize on the explosive growth of MMO games.
The optical lazer doesn't switch off, and it has a boosted DPI, apparently.
He's right tho'. Most of NPRs news broadcasts are devoid of any kind of humour or witticisms, and are very dry when compared to Radio 4's Today, Broadcasting House, or PM.
Slashdot Mirror
"You know I have only the most enthusiasm and confidence in this mission, Dave."
Dammit, I did. For occasional email use it was fine, but if you wanted to use it regularly it quickly mounted up. Local rate calls came in at around 1p a minute - thats 60p an hour. Use it for two hours every night - £1.20 - that makes £8.40 a week. Internet use used to cost a bomb back then. To be fair, this wasn't just Freeserve's fault. No operator had really stepped up to offer flat-rate phone calls to ISPs until 1999, mainly in part to incumbent telecoms provider issues as much as anything else. The existence of large ISPs which relied on 0845 calls for revenues probably didn't help matters.
Free from monthly fees, but otherwise, yep - you paid through the nose for the time you were online.
Freeserve's business model fell through when credible ISPs began to offer flat-rate monthly access packages - which included the cost of calls - though they adapted and are now part of the Orange mobile network.
Ubuntu works with iPods out of the box, and you can use Amarok 1.4 to upload tracks flawlessly - even podcasts.
:-D
The only things you can't do are paid-for-tracks and video (although don't quote me on the last one) - but so damn what? I don't want their crappy encrypted rubbish, and I only have a 4G ipod anyway
Surely it would be better to have other players playing as other squads?
I agree, although I'd prefer it if they were being held accountable :-P
Trackback would be nice, too...
GUI Gallery is much better.
Why not Amarok?
Not a flame, just curious. I actually prefer it to iTunes...
TFA states that the operators will run a DNS redirection service - so not sure if name will go to a SEO firm...
Gotuit has instantaneous video delivery - it is streamed directly to the user's PC and so there's no buffering or download.
TFA could use an edit, author seems to have swallowed PR guff without playing some basic logic games. Streamed directly to a PC? Prey tell how you would stream the video indirectly. And inless you have clear direct access to the video source, some form of buffering would surely be necessary.
Come on /., we can do better than piss poor press launches from mediocre video sites.
Rise in Eyeball Mugging and Drive-by Thumb Stealing Blamed on Biometric-scanning vidiPods
Parent doesn't deserve to be marked as a troll, IMO. If that was true, then the whole page is a huge anti-conservative troll festival.
Surrender jokes. It's like Little Green Footballs circa March 2003 all over again.
Anyone have anything interesting to say? About robots?
2. Uninstall Flash, you don't need that proprietary junk, 99% of all flash animations are ads/banners anyways.
Say goodbye to half of all mainstream media sites, then. It's bad enough without Flash 8 in linux - no flash at all leaves you with half a web experience.
Ah, nice approach to security there... "Look, we're sorry these murderers, rapists and crack dealers keep moving into the apartment block. You would have been much safer from the multiple shooting if you had added an extra bolt to your door. Tst Tst."
From Kotaku:
DirectTV and IGN have teamed up with Microsoft and a bunch of other companies to put together a new pro-gaming series that launches next year.
The Championship Gaming Series is a new professional gaming league that will air competitions exclusively on DirectTV.
Now I agree with you - watching people play video games can be atkin to viewing a paint drying contest - but something sees something in it.
Tiscali at least will fold like wet paper. They do not even have binary newsgroups because usenet is mostly used for piracy according to their helpdesk.
Does usenet have any other use these days? I thought it had been largely supplemented by mailing lists, bulletin boards and blogs?
MSNBC is running a story originally published by the Washington Post, as it says on the page... The "they" is a journalist for the said newspaper, not MSNBC, you insensitive clod.
But of course this is pointless, the other two images have little to no relevancy in the worlds current climate of race relations. (of course if we had a succeeding couple hundred years of black oppression of the masses, and subsequent social revolution... the situation would likely be just as inflamatory in the opposite direction).
Dammit, yes, this is what I was thinking. Its almost as if they other two images are disclaimers - hey, its ok, if you look here we've reversed it ever so cleverly... You can't get away from the fact that there is something deeply errie about the main image, and that it has clear fascist overtones in terms of her stance and even mode of dress.
And anyway, what relevance does race has to video gaming, other than as part of an attempt to piss people off (job well done there)? When I buy a handheld or a computer or whatever I don't think or even associate its colour to the colour of someones skin. Can't see myself motivated by these ads, or that imagery, to buy a white PSP. Campaign failed.
http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
Balmer!
Not quite.
The point missed by many of the posters in this thread is that the UK has a stupidly unfair extradition treaty with the US, allowing the US to gain the extradition of a suspect using no evidence of the suspect's involvment in the case. Ostensibly, the treaty was an anti-terrorist measure. We now see it being used against suspected hackers and in bank fraud cases.
And in case you were wondering, the US Congress has (sensibly) not ratified the treaty, meaning no reciprocal arrangement exists for UK suspects to be brought over from the US without evidence.
Not just any forum - a forum where your carefully worded advocacy of a particular candidate can be vandalised and replaced by the image of a scrotum.
Still a damn mouse tho.
He's right tho'. Most of NPRs news broadcasts are devoid of any kind of humour or witticisms, and are very dry when compared to Radio 4's Today, Broadcasting House, or PM.