Something I never quite understood... the faster my internet gets, the relatively slower Steam gets...
2mbit broadband, Steam flies at 1.25mbit
12mbit broadband, Steam saunters at 3mbit
Now we have fibre; 75mbit. Steam crawls at 7mbit.
Something I never quite understood... the faster my internet gets, the relatively slower Steam gets...
2mbit broadband, Steam flies at 1.25mbit
12mbit broadband, Steam saunters at 3mbit
Now we have fibre; 75mbit. Steam crawls at 7mbit.
@blakeyrat said:
@CaffeinatedNoms said:Something I never quite understood... the faster my internet gets, the relatively slower Steam gets...2mbit broadband, Steam flies at 1.25mbit
12mbit broadband, Steam saunters at 3mbit
Now we have fibre; 75mbit. Steam crawls at 7mbit.
What does the word "slower" mean in your head-canon? (And "relatively" for that matter?) "Here's a chart showing something getting slower! chart shows something getting faster"
Your post reminds me of the stores that advertise, "buy more, save more."
Relative to total speed. Thus: 1.25 = just over half the total speed of 2; 3 = one quarter of 12; and 7 is less than a tenth of 75. Slower relatively.
A little bit over the top perhaps?
And you obviously haven't gotten the point, yes the speed is faster, but not as a percentage of total speed. Hence the word relative instead of the word absolute.
A very simple example, with pizza:
I have one pizza. I eat half of it. I have eaten 1/2 (8/16ths) the total amount of pizza available.
I have two pizzas. I eat three quarters of one pizza. I have eaten 3/8ths (6/16ths) of the total amount of pizza.
I have four pizzas. I eat one and a quarter pizzas. I have eaten 5/16ths of the total amount of pizza.
I eat relatively less pizza every time.
I refute your conclusion, since at no have I lied nor proven idiotic. At no point did I claim it was slower bps, I claimed it was slower relatively. That is pretty simple, and not a lie.
There was a miscomprehension, and it went too far. Let's leave it be.
(Also, RE: fibre - I'm in the UK. We have less ground to cover when it comes to rolling out new networks. Be patient, you'll get it soon.)
I like to think of this in human terms. If you have a migraine, sure you can take some Migraleave, but you could also cut off your head, arms and legs and dispose of them all in fire. That also cures the migrane.
Yes, I am being facetious.
@PJH said:
@CaffeinatedNoms said:01642 is still entirely reserved though since 642 isn't a real exchange.There are quite a few ranges. 01642 ain't on that list though. Did you mean 01632, since 01642 is actually Middlesbrough.
Yes, yes I did.
Although why anyone would want to call Middlesbrough is an entirely different question.
@morbiuswilters said:
@El_Heffe said:@Wikipedia said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_area_code
only 555-0100 through 555-0199 are now specifically reserved for fictional use - except for the 800 area code where only 800-555-0199 is reserved - the other numbers have been released for actual assignment.
You know, it seems a bit stupid to say "Here, use this fictional prefix" and let movies and TV shows do it for 40 years, then be like "Oh, guess we're going to assign most of those numbers, anyway!"
It happened here in the UK... a whole bunch of 07 numbers were reserved for fictional mobile numbers (07 being the mobile leader) and then later the number was reduced from 10,000 combinations down to 1,000 and the rest assigned to real people. 01642 is still entirely reserved though since 642 isn't a real exchange.
@Ronald said:
@CaffeinatedNoms said:@Ronald said:
@TheCPUWizard said:I have a fully working PDP-8/e complete with high speed reader/punch,RK-05 ad TU-58.Is it connected to internet?
@Swordfish said:
*** OMITTED SCRIPT ***
Thank you for reminding me, I need to burn that film to disc so I can throw it at people I don't like. Maaaaan that film sucks. Although I must admit, the idea of some tape spooling and causing havock instantly makes me think of the Italian Job and suddenly I feel happy again. Good ol' Professor Peach.
What is terrible is that at first the movie looked interesting, with people exploding and John Travolta being the cool customer and all. The car chase scene was also interesting. But the more they went deep with the computer stuff the less interesting it became.
Also next time they do a hacker movie they should hire Alan Cox or RMS as the main character. That would give a different spin on things, instead of casting a male model. The Aaron Spelling approach (hiring attractive actors to play regular people) mostly work with soap operas.
I think the most heinous crime might have been "But they have 512-bit encryption! There is no way I can break that FireWall" ... uh yeah, nice try, but my gut groaned at that. It's akin to something as silly as "But I own a Prius! There is no way I can start that lawnmower!"
@Ronald said:
@TheCPUWizard said:I have a fully working PDP-8/e complete with high speed reader/punch,RK-05 ad TU-58.Is it connected to internet?
@Swordfish said:
*** OMITTED SCRIPT ***
Thank you for reminding me, I need to burn that film to disc so I can throw it at people I don't like. Maaaaan that film sucks. Although I must admit, the idea of some tape spooling and causing havock instantly makes me think of the Italian Job and suddenly I feel happy again. Good ol' Professor Peach.
So far as laptops are concerned, mine is just under two years old - 2.2GHz Quad Core i7, 8GB RAM, boring laptop AMD Radeon 6750M, it's stellar for what I need it for and it can play the odd round of TF2 or L4D2 (I just realised how much that sounds like a Star Wars reference, oh dear) at the weekend.
Desktops on the other hand... well my last desktop machine was an iMac (G3, green, 333MHz ooh the shiny) but the screen in it crapped out more or less a month after warranty. The desktop before THAT on the other hand I still have, and it still runs - a Performa 6200 from 1996, though it was bought in '97. The network card in it is fried though so I have to jump through hoops to get it to connect it to the Internet but apart from that, what's not to love about OS 8.6? (apart from everything.)
We also have a RiscStation in the cupboard, which happily burbles away running some version of RISC OS 4 whenever we attach a monitor to it for when we want to feel like it's 1995 and the British computer industry still hasn't completely died yet.
I work in local tech support for the community so I'm fortunate not to be limited by any particular software regime, although having been in that sitaution before (education establishments demanding Claris-compatible documents more than five years after discontinuation, for example - yes QE College I'm looking at you) I know EXACTLY how much it sucks.
@The Bytemaster said:
The real question is, since it is apple, why didn't they put dots on the D and K keys instead?
I'm pretty sure they stopped doing that with their first USB keyboards - my ADB 2 keyboard has them on D and K, but my old black 'Pro keyboard has them where they should be. Might have been around the time that they started using the ISO keyboard layout for EU keyboards (upright return key, versus ANSI flat return key) with € on the 2 and £ on the 3.
As for the OP, I agree. Adding the graphic of a tactile assistant to a purely flat image is silly and adds nothing to the usability of the keyboard. iOS keyboard are that damn fiddly to use that you HAVE to watch where your fingers go all the time, rendering even the concept useless.
Is TRWTF not the fact that the monkeys upstairs were looking in the dev servers for completed code? Who let them in?
I just... This is almost as bad as the Adobe Updater Installer Updater.
The only reason it's not as bad is because it is not the Adobe Updater Installer Updater.
@wrack said:
@CaffeinatedNoms said:Orange/T-Mobile merger
WTF?
In here, one of the competitors to Orange just have been rebranded to T-Mobile (they were owned by the corp since a while), but... merger?
Bizarre.
You for sure had a [local operator company X, owned by Orange] and [local operator company Y, owned by T-Mobile], but if one of the big corps would buy out the other local telco, they'd consolidate under their brand.
So sounds like a 3rd corp, using the EE brand, came and bought both telco X and telco Y from their former owners.
That is indeed possible, but not something that the media (in-house and beyond) has related to the public. Adding to that, T-Mobile in the UK *was* the actual UK branch of Deutsch Telecom, though I'm not entirely sure about Orange (who are also in part Wanadoo, Tiscali and FreeServe).