Shaw's trunk likes are little fiber wires,not 2 inch pipes.
Fiber runs into shaws head office (Bigpipe owns this fiber, which is shaw). Then shaw has fiber out to all the areas. In those areas are what shaw calls "Nodes" which are basically fiber to RF converters. Each node services an (ideally small) area of people.
100mbps is available basically everywhere. It is a standard DOCSIS 3 speed. I'm in Kelowna and have no problem getting 50 or 100mbps. It is the same modem, same backbone, same infrastructure for either 50 or 100mbps. I pay for 50 right now and get the full 50 regularly.
Having played both, I'm not sure you really got into battlefield to even put them in the same category. I wouldn't even say they are the same TYPE of online game.
I agree on the single player but who cares. You play that once for 6 hours and you're done. The multiplayer is what both games are really about.
Battlefield 3 is a game of WAR. You and 31 others in squads accomplishing objectives. There are no cheap airstrikes. You need to work with your squads to get goals. Running around shooting people will accomplish the sum total of nothing. You don't even get that many points.
No one should argue one vs the other because MW games are classic CTF/Dom/etc games with fancy graphics. I don't mind them but it is certainly nothing amazing.
BF3 is a game where you are fighting your way through streets with your squad to push to a goal, hopefully with some air support and ideally some armor. If you get some good friends together and actually work together it is amazing what you can accomplish. You almost don't even have to kill anyone if you don't want to.
Seeing the game start, helicopters taking off, jets flying away, tanks and AA rushing forward, and people sprinting ahead really is something.
IMO it is the best online multiplayer experience that exists today.
Ya. While it is not THAT important, all of shaw direct (old starchoice) HDTV is on this bird pretty much. Worse than that, the feed that authorizes all the cable tv boxes (Called the out of band signal) is also on this bird.
Every remote mining operation pretty much etc use this for outside communications. Even in south Canada.
How exactly would the average person go to the store, get some, and install it themselves?
Are they going to run the wire to the charge controllers? They are probably in the basement with the batteries, so as with most solar you're looking at a fairly major install. Except in this case it is on the windows so the wires are coming from every part of the house.
How about set their battery banks up properly ? Plan them out for winter vs summer in terms of sun time per day.
How about grid-tie ? Otherwise you're stuck with battery for some stuff, grid for others.
So MAYBE they could be trusted to stick it to the window. But then what? A solar install is a lot more than screwing down a solar panel.
If someone didn't know better and just read slashdot you'd get the idea that Apple simply got lucky over and over and over and over (and over) until they were the biggest company on earth (or very close).
Or maybe their products suck, but they just have a good marketing firm! Yet people AFTER owning their products have by far the highest satisfaction rate.
And they aren't innovative at all, except before Apple smartphones looked like this:
They make a lot of decisions I don't like, make no mistake, but hopefully one day people will be able to admit they changed the industry for the better.
I may not use it like this guy, but personally, I need tree style tabs and the ability to have a lot of tabs open.
For example, let's say I'm reading slashdot. I will scan through the main page and middle click all the stories I'm interested in reading the comments for. I might read a couple, but then feel like something else. I will minimize that tree etc.
Then maybe I'm researching bullets on longrangehunting forum. I will do a site:longrangehunting.com intitle:barnes (or whatever) then open 25 threads about this bullet to gather opinions.
I'll always have twitter open for quick news updates.
I'll always have gmail open for my email.
I keep a couple monitoring pages open for work (run cable company).
Then I might have a couple other forum pages open from previous researches or other random pages from topics of interest I haven't gotten to.
I have enough ram to keep these open in either browser, but since chrome doesn't have a tree type tab organization, it is instantly disqualified.
There is a new nook that is basically a generic android tablet.
It is about half as responsive and nice to use, like basically all the android tablets up to date.
Tiny things like 100-300 ms lag in the UI, shuttery picture browsing, inconsistent web behavior etc dont matter to the hardcore 'geeks' but the market is showing that the fit and finish matter in the end.
Other than that the nook is actually a fairly nice android tablet. Cheap and as usable as any of em.
From what I gleaned, they are just using a form of MIMO. Basically taking another antenna and relying on multipath and computer tricks. 802.11n makes free use of this. Not sure if they are also relying on polarity differences which is common in the point to point microwave area, but doubt it would work well on a mobile device. As soon as RF bounces off of something the polarity is usually all over the place. The article kind of sucks on detail.
You know this for a fact? I'm speaking to people this happened to personally and they say their gmail works fine. Also, upon changing their name the account was active again in a day or so.
Ya once they hit 3 generations back, apple seems to drop support. So iPod touch 2nd Gen, and iPhone 3G no longer get firmware updates from Apple.
Do many other Android devices for example get Manufacturer updates after being 3+ years old ? Genuinely curious. I don't mean xda-d firmware. You can always put hacked firmware on stuff.. Hell on the iPhone 3G you can put Android, no problem:D
Wrong as well. The jailbreak is workable for 4.3x but comex has stated that the flaw exists in 4.x, he just did not feel like making the jailbreak (unionFS etc) support for older versions. If you have an iPhone 4, it has the flaw. If you have an iPhone 3G on 4.x, it has the flaw.
Wrong. Man I hate replying to anon but this could be useful info.
4.3.3 Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.3 for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (GSM model), iOS 3.1 through 4.3.3 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later, iOS 3.2 through 4.3.3 for iPad.
Well I'm not sure I'd base my decision to leave my country on software patents alone, though the USA has many other reasons.
I'm Canadian and like it well enough, though it certainly has its issues. France has a fairly good world reputation on being among the top in quality of life and pretty much top in medical care.
In the quality of life index though, Ireland rates #1. Switzerland #2. Ireland is English speaking so that would probably be way up there on choices, though the weather kind of sucks.
Having never immigrated or been interested in doing so I haven't done any research though, good luck!
You know what is funny? The person who wrote the jailbreak (comex) also put a patch for the PDF flaw in the jailbroken debian APT system for the phone.
The funny part is since iPhone 3G's and earlier iPod touches don't get firmware updates anymore, being jailbroken is the ONLY way to be free of this flaw in those earlier devices.
Wind waker is a fun game if you take out all the damn sailing. I think any kid with standard kid attention spans are going to be super bored after the first or second multi minute sit there and do very little sailing trips.
Ocarina of time would be fine if you were there to help a bit. Also one of the funnest games ever.
They did the change way before their announcement, in secret.
They swapped the chips from 16 lower density to 8 higher density chips without telling anyone at all. It had to be discovered, and was noticed basically when peoples performance was no where near what others real world performance was.
How were the first few thousand supposed to do their homework? There was no model number changes at all. Not even a "-a" or "-25".
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That isn't how Shaw operates.
Shaw's trunk likes are little fiber wires,not 2 inch pipes.
Fiber runs into shaws head office (Bigpipe owns this fiber, which is shaw). Then shaw has fiber out to all the areas. In those areas are what shaw calls "Nodes" which are basically fiber to RF converters. Each node services an (ideally small) area of people.
100mbps is available basically everywhere. It is a standard DOCSIS 3 speed. I'm in Kelowna and have no problem getting 50 or 100mbps. It is the same modem, same backbone, same infrastructure for either 50 or 100mbps. I pay for 50 right now and get the full 50 regularly.
Don't forget EVERYTHING will manufactured by printing it using standard inject technology found in every home!
I will agree with the grandparent though.
Having played both, I'm not sure you really got into battlefield to even put them in the same category. I wouldn't even say they are the same TYPE of online game.
I agree on the single player but who cares. You play that once for 6 hours and you're done. The multiplayer is what both games are really about.
Battlefield 3 is a game of WAR. You and 31 others in squads accomplishing objectives. There are no cheap airstrikes. You need to work with your squads to get goals. Running around shooting people will accomplish the sum total of nothing. You don't even get that many points.
No one should argue one vs the other because MW games are classic CTF/Dom/etc games with fancy graphics. I don't mind them but it is certainly nothing amazing.
BF3 is a game where you are fighting your way through streets with your squad to push to a goal, hopefully with some air support and ideally some armor. If you get some good friends together and actually work together it is amazing what you can accomplish. You almost don't even have to kill anyone if you don't want to.
Seeing the game start, helicopters taking off, jets flying away, tanks and AA rushing forward, and people sprinting ahead really is something.
IMO it is the best online multiplayer experience that exists today.
Ya. While it is not THAT important, all of shaw direct (old starchoice) HDTV is on this bird pretty much. Worse than that, the feed that authorizes all the cable tv boxes (Called the out of band signal) is also on this bird.
Every remote mining operation pretty much etc use this for outside communications. Even in south Canada.
How exactly would the average person go to the store, get some, and install it themselves?
Are they going to run the wire to the charge controllers? They are probably in the basement with the batteries, so as with most solar you're looking at a fairly major install. Except in this case it is on the windows so the wires are coming from every part of the house.
How about set their battery banks up properly ? Plan them out for winter vs summer in terms of sun time per day.
How about grid-tie ? Otherwise you're stuck with battery for some stuff, grid for others.
So MAYBE they could be trusted to stick it to the window. But then what? A solar install is a lot more than screwing down a solar panel.
You just did! Oops.
Ya you have to love reading slashdot.
If someone didn't know better and just read slashdot you'd get the idea that Apple simply got lucky over and over and over and over (and over) until they were the biggest company on earth (or very close).
Or maybe their products suck, but they just have a good marketing firm! Yet people AFTER owning their products have by far the highest satisfaction rate.
And they aren't innovative at all, except before Apple smartphones looked like this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/01/sling-palm-os.jpg
And now they look like this:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/amaze4gdantetktk.jpg
And this
http://www.thetechmom.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/iphone4-new-feature.jpg
They make a lot of decisions I don't like, make no mistake, but hopefully one day people will be able to admit they changed the industry for the better.
I may not use it like this guy, but personally, I need tree style tabs and the ability to have a lot of tabs open.
For example, let's say I'm reading slashdot. I will scan through the main page and middle click all the stories I'm interested in reading the comments for. I might read a couple, but then feel like something else. I will minimize that tree etc.
Then maybe I'm researching bullets on longrangehunting forum. I will do a site:longrangehunting.com intitle:barnes (or whatever) then open 25 threads about this bullet to gather opinions.
I'll always have twitter open for quick news updates.
I'll always have gmail open for my email.
I keep a couple monitoring pages open for work (run cable company).
Then I might have a couple other forum pages open from previous researches or other random pages from topics of interest I haven't gotten to.
I have enough ram to keep these open in either browser, but since chrome doesn't have a tree type tab organization, it is instantly disqualified.
There is a new nook that is basically a generic android tablet.
It is about half as responsive and nice to use, like basically all the android tablets up to date.
Tiny things like 100-300 ms lag in the UI, shuttery picture browsing, inconsistent web behavior etc dont matter to the hardcore 'geeks' but the market is showing that the fit and finish matter in the end.
Other than that the nook is actually a fairly nice android tablet. Cheap and as usable as any of em.
Yep powers up flawlessly every time so far. In both stock (openwrt) and DD-WRT.
I'm running a bit older DD-WRT. Never had any problems other than having had to reboot it once. It has never lost its settings.
Firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (12/24/10) std
Dual band, well supported OpenWRT. Decent DD-WRT support. USB. Great performance, gigabit, meets all your specs.
CPU, RAM, and Storage are listed right on the box.
There is no fancy reflashing to other OS proceedure. Pick any image of any OS you want and flash. No protection at all.
Hell the OS it ships with is (I believe) an OpenWRT derivative!
It is this generations WRT54G(GL in later years).
From what I gleaned, they are just using a form of MIMO. Basically taking another antenna and relying on multipath and computer tricks. 802.11n makes free use of this. Not sure if they are also relying on polarity differences which is common in the point to point microwave area, but doubt it would work well on a mobile device. As soon as RF bounces off of something the polarity is usually all over the place. The article kind of sucks on detail.
The N900 is still fat, has crappy 3G bands for north America, has crappy app selection, etc etc.
It is a really cool device for a nerd to have, but isn't exactly the mecca of smartphones.
You know this for a fact? I'm speaking to people this happened to personally and they say their gmail works fine. Also, upon changing their name the account was active again in a day or so.
Ya once they hit 3 generations back, apple seems to drop support. So iPod touch 2nd Gen, and iPhone 3G no longer get firmware updates from Apple.
:D
Do many other Android devices for example get Manufacturer updates after being 3+ years old ? Genuinely curious. I don't mean xda-d firmware. You can always put hacked firmware on stuff.. Hell on the iPhone 3G you can put Android, no problem
Wrong as well. The jailbreak is workable for 4.3x but comex has stated that the flaw exists in 4.x, he just did not feel like making the jailbreak (unionFS etc) support for older versions. If you have an iPhone 4, it has the flaw. If you have an iPhone 3G on 4.x, it has the flaw.
Wrong. Man I hate replying to anon but this could be useful info.
4.3.3 Available for: iOS 3.0 through 4.3.3 for iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (GSM model), iOS 3.1 through 4.3.3 for iPod touch (3rd generation) and later, iOS 3.2 through 4.3.3 for iPad.
So, no. No 3G support. No iPod touch 2G support.
Well I'm not sure I'd base my decision to leave my country on software patents alone, though the USA has many other reasons.
I'm Canadian and like it well enough, though it certainly has its issues. France has a fairly good world reputation on being among the top in quality of life and pretty much top in medical care.
In the quality of life index though, Ireland rates #1. Switzerland #2. Ireland is English speaking so that would probably be way up there on choices, though the weather kind of sucks.
Having never immigrated or been interested in doing so I haven't done any research though, good luck!
You know what is funny? The person who wrote the jailbreak (comex) also put a patch for the PDF flaw in the jailbroken debian APT system for the phone.
The funny part is since iPhone 3G's and earlier iPod touches don't get firmware updates anymore, being jailbroken is the ONLY way to be free of this flaw in those earlier devices.
Go to Canada, or Europe, or pretty much anywhere else.
Ours do here in Canada.
http://www.rbcroyalbank.com/credit-cards/travel-credit-cards/infinite-avion.html
See the little waves icon on one side? Its some kind of near field chip. You tap it on the reader and your transaction is done.
If under $25 you don't even have to sign. If over, you sign. I like it much better than the pin. It is even a little easier than the magstripe.
The readers for it are in about 50% of stores I'd say.
Wind waker is a fun game if you take out all the damn sailing. I think any kid with standard kid attention spans are going to be super bored after the first or second multi minute sit there and do very little sailing trips.
Ocarina of time would be fine if you were there to help a bit. Also one of the funnest games ever.
Should not have posted this anonymous. It is a bit tongue-in-cheek obviously but very relevant.
They did the change way before their announcement, in secret.
They swapped the chips from 16 lower density to 8 higher density chips without telling anyone at all. It had to be discovered, and was noticed basically when peoples performance was no where near what others real world performance was.
How were the first few thousand supposed to do their homework? There was no model number changes at all. Not even a "-a" or "-25".