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join:2000-08-16
Miami, FL | Wow If a game can bring down UK infrastructure I think they should work on their backbone connections. | |
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Harddrive
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join:2000-09-20
Norwich, CT | Re: Wow no kidding. its not like millions of people in the UK are saturating their connections all at one time.
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I've come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass and i'm all outta bubblegum. | |
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join:2008-06-03
Orangeville, ON | Re: Wow omg.... I know what canadian ISPs are gonna say
Robbers and Hell:
Due to Gaming we are gonna actively throttle UDP connections. So grandma can get her email. | |
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Z80
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join:2009-08-31
Amerika
| Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard While it's not shocking that a new OS, especially one that got a boatload of under the hood rewrites would "break" something the article is very sensational; going from XP to Vista also broke a TON of my stuff (including my USB dongle). In this case for some of the dongles, updates were already available. For others, like T-Mobile, T-Mobile says on that same support page that they are working on updates and will post them as soon as they are available. Meanwhile those sticks are no longer offered by T-Mobile and were likely released BEFORE Snow Leopard.
And the 3 page PDF they called scary and complicated amounts to clicking and dragging a whopping 3 items to the trash and installing a new mobile client; way easier process of updating a mobile utility than some other OSes I know. It's 3 pages because the PDF has giant screen shots of every file folder to make the process fool proof. Hardly scary, certainly not complicated and a cinch for even the "faint of heart". | |
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| iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Re: Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard Not only that, but my Sierra Aircard 881U (aka AT&T USBConnect 881) worked fine in leopard and still works fine in Snow Leopard. | |
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Z80
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join:2009-08-31
Amerika | Re: Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard Same with my well aged 875U refurb. I get native support in Leo and Sno, no 3rd party WWAN client needed. It's like complaining to Microsoft when Windows 7 doesn't support an old printer or something. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Re: Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard Correction: it's like complaining that Microsoft doesn't support a printer in Windows 7 that they didn't support in Vista. AKA pointless...unless you want to run XP on top of your system, which is easy to do and will get you the XP driver set back. | |
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Z80
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join:2009-08-31
Amerika | Re: Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard But supposedly these dongles did work in Leo but not in Sno. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Re: Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard Good point. I'm just curious why there's any difference in workability at all, unless the operators were using legacy frameworks to get things done :/ | |
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Z80
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join:2009-08-31
Amerika | Re: Mobile broadband dongles fail on OS X Snow Leopard The underpinnings of OS X were completely rewritten and by default Rosetta is not installed in Snow so any PPC legacy components won't run. It's almost like going from the 9x kernel to NT. The GUI is the only thing that didn't change. | |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | "Online Video Advertising Is Increasingly Popular" uhhh, only with advertisers. That's just so funny: people equating the growing popularity of video content with any "popularity" of video advertising. | |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | "Booming Gray Market Threatens Cell-Phone Industry" You mean there's only a relatively small number of people who want to pay $1,172 for a cell phone? Amazing! | |
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Harddrive
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join:2000-09-20
Norwich, CT | Re: "Booming Gray Market Threatens Cell-Phone Industry" not just any cell phone. an iPhone!  | |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Re: "Booming Gray Market Threatens Cell-Phone Industry" As they say: iPhone, therefore iAm [kewl].  | |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
| death spirel tech well i highly doubt the mouse is going anywhere anytime soon, show me someone who would prefer to tap a screen all day during work vs your arm resting on the desk/chair arm using a mouse. also no gamer would use a touch screen over a mouse.
and unless the Wii is going to be a failure soon i doubt the Wiimote will be a dead tech. heck that kinda tech has a better chance to replace the mouse then any touch screen.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Re: death spirel tech The Fax machine really isn't going anywhere either. It may integrate with email more, but it's not going away any time soon. | |
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zalternate
join:2007-02-22
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| Chip and Pin credit/debit cards 10. Chip and pin credit cards
Chip and Pin cards are such safer than those RF(radio frequency) cards that keep transmitting your card data to at least 30 feet.
Oh but the card readers are setup to only read at about 4 inches, so the guy next to you in line does not pay for your product.
Touchless may be convenient, but when your card gets skimmed(by the backpack fairy) and does not need a password, well you can complain to the bank on that one, when many dollars disappear out of your account.
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