Posts tagged with "internet"

I'm dreaming of a brown internet 0

According to an anti-net-neutrality-sponsored study, people aren't going to have enough bandwidth to do the things they want online by 2010. Fact is, I'm at least 4 years ahead of the curve and the report. Why should ISPs improve network access when they could just sit on their pile of gold?

Posted by Oli 28 months ago in broadband, internet & networking. Continue reading »

ADSL is holding back the online economy 6

While the internet continues to grow in both size and complexity, the speed that rural ADSL users are almost completely stagnant. Something needs to be done before the gap between urban and rural ADSL harms the online economy.

Posted by Oli 31 months ago in internet, iptv & <rant>. Continue reading »

RapidShare have all the internets 0

Before I start this midnight post, Merry Christmas! I hope you have a good one. I may have mentioned RapidShare a couple of times before but if you don't know already, they're a file host that lets you upload files (limited

Posted by Oli 39 months ago in internet, rapidshare & releases. Continue reading »

Breasts should be banned 0

This thread is really going to bite me in the arse one day, but this needs to be said: advertisers should not be allowed to use breasts to sell things (unless its directly related; eg: bras). Take this fine example. [image] You're just looking through a site and suddenly you're waylaid

Posted by Oli 41 months ago in advertising, internet & <rant>. Continue reading »

The Net Makes For Lazy Game Dev 1

This stems from a rant I had the other day about a brand new PC game, Neverwinter Nights 2, needing (well wanting, at any rate) an 82.7megabyte patch within 24 hours of release. In the last 10 years there have been two increasing trends that pose

Posted by Oli 41 months ago in games, programming, internet & other. Continue reading »

Nominet are worse than Verisign 2

Over the past couple of weeks/months/years, there has been a lot of badmouthing the company the effectively owns the .com top level domain, mainly because they've managed to keep a relatively unmonitored grasp on the TLD and now because they're renewed their contract to keep it until 2012. Even then

Posted by Oli 49 months ago in internet, registrars & privacy. Continue reading »