[Idiotska]

I went and saw a Beatles tribute band at a local fair next to a petting zoo, and as soon as the group's Ringo started singing, the place started to smell more.

[High Treason]

I pay a minimum £36.99 per month for this;


Let me tell you, it sucks having only one ISP in your city. On the up-side, we appear to have gotten my area on the government map of not-spots... The down-side is that this map places a blue circle near my house, if someone didn't bother reading the title of said map that could end horribly.

I thought internet was supposed to get faster with time, but no. Ever since they started connecting the rich dickheads in the villages and upper-class areas to fibre everyone's internet has gotten worse and to cover the free installs said rich minority got out bills went up. Also, almost nobodies telephone rings when receiving calls now and the provider appear to be doing nothing, this proved to be troublesome when the emergency services tried to call me back to say I should get to A&E as quickly as possible and the telephone did not ring - luckily it turned out not to be life threatening.

[Lunick]

http://pikointeracti...-genesis-games/

Why would someone acquire the rights to this version of the game...?

[Jeff]

I spent a couple weeks at my dad's cabin and it was pretty rough for internet. Place was in the middle of nowhere (road on the left goes to his place). Fastest speed was 1 Mbps down and around 0.1 Mbps up. Total bandwidth was 1 GB per month. Compared to the rest of the world it sucks.

[High Treason]

Ah, but I bet if you wanted to pay for it you'd be able to get a different provider, such as satellite internet with high throughput. Much as the cost is prohibitive, you would at least have that choice.


For reference sake.



The irony being the "KC Lightstream Stadium" is named after the ISP's Fiber Optic service which is unavailable in this area. Given they recently upgraded many of the exchanges for ADSL from DSLAMs to MSANs (Which seems to have made it worse) I don't think they plan to either... Their Fiber service isn't really fiber either as the service enters your property via a copper wire - it's a very strange implementation.


Also note the speed difference in my above test which implies traffic shaping, which is something they do a lot.

[Forge]

Lunick, on 04 August 2014 - 07:46 AM, said:

http://pikointeracti...-genesis-games/

Why would someone acquire the rights to this version of the game...?

I like how the name of the page is: Nuke Dukem 3D for Sega genesis, Super Noah's Ark 3D on Steam | Piko Interactive

[Sangman]

So this is how cops deal with bar fights in this country. Good riddance!

[Hendricks266]

Lunick, on 04 August 2014 - 07:46 AM, said:

http://pikointeracti...-genesis-games/

Why would someone acquire the rights to this version of the game...?

I think it would be nice to make my long-planned entrance into Mega Drive hacking by porting EDuke32 to the 32X CD. Maybe next decade.

[Fox]

Videogame fans:

[Jeff]

High Treason, on 04 August 2014 - 09:03 AM, said:

Ah, but I bet if you wanted to pay for it you'd be able to get a different provider, such as satellite internet with high throughput. Much as the cost is prohibitive, you would at least have that choice.

Can't you ditch the ISP's internet and go with a 3G/4G/LTE plan from a cellular company? Tether the phone's internet and use that for a connection? Or are there not a lot of cell providers in your area either?

[High Treason]

Pricing is too prohibitive; £74.99 for 50GB allowance, the maximum offering from our areas sole 4G capable service. Despite living between two masts, signal is also terrible here. Their means of routing traffic is unusual too, I know a few people on the service (Paying around £35 per month for 10GB) an they find that congestion is a serious issue along with some strange IP-Sharing scheme they have going.

There is an alternative I have considered in the form of a provider (Pure Broadband) using FiWi Technology... Nanostation's. They send in TalkTalk via wireless, speeds vary greatly however and the weather affects it negatively. On the other hand, it's cheaper, I don't care about the added latency. The things that bother me are that TalkTalk block all kinds of shit for no good reason, I still have to have a KC line for my telephone (unless they have introduced a VOIP service since I last checked) and forking out for installation when I'm being thrown out in less than a year for the house to be demolished. Upon moving I could be stuck having to pay installation again or unable to receive the service in that area.

[The Commander]

Dude, your internet connection is about the same as mine.
So no need to bitch to much.

Edit: if you want to bitch to someone, do it to your government for not enforcing telcos to make cheap internet available to all.

[High Treason]

You live in the mountains in a boring country, so you are supposed to have shit internet

OFCOM (Telecommunications governing body) won't do anything, last I heard the head of that body was former CEO of our ISP though, which explains it. The provider openly breaks laws but nobody can, or ever has, done anything about it. Also, due to a foolish engineer leaving firmware on their public FTP I discovered they do deep packet inspection via Cisco SCE-8000 units, when I questioned them about the device they crapped their pants and wouldn't answer anything... Hope they have fun spying on me, I have nothing to hide but they're going to be very bored or very grossed out.

[Forge]

High Treason, on 04 August 2014 - 06:03 PM, said:

Hope they have fun spying on me, I have nothing to hide but they're going to be [...] very grossed out.

what'd you do, take a picture of your B-hole, label it preteen cp, and left it in your downloads folder for them to find?

[High Treason]

ROFL, no, but maybe doing something like that and actually putting my so many Megabytes of "Free web space" to use might be a fun idea... I'm not ashamed of my body, even if parts of it are a little bit strange.

[The Commander]

High Treason, on 04 August 2014 - 06:03 PM, said:

You live in the mountains in a boring country, so you are supposed to have shit internet

nope.avi




From me to Dallas, TX - I hate my upload speed.

[Fox]

[Person of Color]

Hendricks420, on 04 August 2014 - 12:50 PM, said:

I think it would be nice to make my long-planned entrance into Mega Drive hacking by porting EDuke32 to the 32X CD. Maybe next decade.

If you knew anything about Sega CD/32X programming you wouldn't say that...lol. What a clusterfuck.

That Wolf3D techdemo is THE TITS, though.

[Lunick]

[Hendricks266]

[The Commander]

[Fox]

Holy shit, The Sims 4 will suck. There is no open world, you can no longer see your workplace, edit terrain, and a lot of stuff.

http://honeywellsims...s-what-happened

[High Treason]

To be added in an expansion for maximum profit.





Same way they removed functionality from Sims 3 in an update after release some of which was later added back in with an expansion pack.

[Fox]

But that's not the case here. They created a "social game" with the intention of not having these features to begin with.

[High Treason]

I never said it was the exact same thing, the point was that they will most likely add some of what is missing later just to make more money.

[Hendricks266]

>gets EDuke32 on Android for the first time
>plays WWII GI

[Altered Reality]

via Imgflip Meme Maker

[Radar]

Hendricks420, on 07 August 2014 - 07:27 AM, said:

>gets EDuke32 on Android for the first time
>plays WWII GI

Do you mean to say it is released? Or are you just testing it?

[Hank]

Altered Reality, on 07 August 2014 - 12:03 PM, said:

Apes get ebola too.

[Jimmy]

Fox, on 06 August 2014 - 08:54 PM, said:

Holy shit, The Sims 4 will suck.

At least they're not taking the series in a new direction.