GreatAlbatross

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Catwoman: What's a hroom?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Awesome work, thankyou for taking the time to do this.

I too love a metal USB stick for the keychain, and my old DTSE9 could do with a refresh!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They can add it to the pile along with IPV6.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

Big bus.
We know they're paying you off with day savers, don't deny it!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I still remember when they cut their bitrates and lowered video quality.
They denied it entirely, people proved that CR was full of shit.
So CR responded by...Attacking the people who proved the streams were lower bitrate than before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

whistles The Lincolnshire Poacher nonchalantly

 

Oh no.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I can only speak from a UK perspective, but most home ADSL/VDSL/Fibre providers don't have limits, other than "if your usage is tanking the network, we'll ask you to knock it off" type clauses.

Most providers are also signed up to an agreement that if your speed drops 50% below the agreed speed on the package on average, they'll either give you refunds, or let you out of the contract.

The only ones that throttle are the bargain basement operators aimed at people who don't care, and one otherwise very competent provider that for some unexplainable reason only gives 1TB by default, charging an extra £10 for 10TB.

And I guess there is also a pricing step up to guaranteed bandwidth. For business use, they tend to be things like 1gbits headline, 500mbit guaranteed burst, 100mbit guaranteed sustained.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

From my experience, they're "Hanging around outside the chip shop" gulls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm sure he worked alone, and any charges by the police are his alone.
Anybody else on the farm was sound asleep at the time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pissed off farmers are often ludicrously strong, and well, pissed off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ever since seeing the SoA level in Sonic Racing Transformed, I've been curious what the game that inspired it was like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

If it cuts down on the absolute cunts who tool around town on loud quads, I'm all for it.
Just make sure they're taxed and insured.

 
 

Anybody else on here on the 3D train?

Having recently finished setting up the projector (bin rescue), screen (£20, gumtree), and working out the glasses required (£20, eBay), I finally got my first taste of home shutterglass 3D.

We watched Pirates!, as I happened to have the disc in 3D already.
3D lends itself well to Aardman's models and physical sets.
I like 3D best when it's like looking through a window, or onto a stage.

It also turned out that my steelbook of The Hobbit contained the 3D copy too.
We're only 30 mins through it, but there are some nice shots (I particularly liked the one of Bilbo watching Gandalf through the window)

I checked with CEX, and 3D discs are now mostly quite reasonably priced. So we went and bought about 70% of the local branch's stock, for the princely sum of £20.*

While yes, it is a novelty, and a bit of a gimmick at times...It's fun.
And gives me a bonus inexpensive collectable hobby!

*(Pro-tip: If you're going to do similar, go when it's not busy, and apologise to them in advance. The 3D discs are all mixed in with the standard ones, and the poor guys spent about 20 minutes hunting)

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