Why don't we have a standards organization for the whole world, so that we don't get all these conflicting formats and terms, probably do some good like getting Americans to start calling 'Soccer', 'Football', we'd measure human weight in kg, date formats would be DDMMYYYY and so on and so forth...
Anthe Wrote:How are you guys surviving? I have been on 5/1 myself for years, but now I have 150/10 and I couldn't live without it.
Well that's easy for you to say when you actually have the option of getting fast internet in your area. We survive because we don't have a choice in the matter.
Anti-Ultimate Wrote:fuck all of you. 2/0.3 and 60€ per month
Oh we're playing this game now?
2/0.25
$35 a month. I would kill just to have DSL. We get IFITL, bellsouth's (now AT&T) fiber to the neighborhood experiment that ended in disaster. After that failed the ISPs basically all abandoned this area. At least it's half the cost of what my friends pay for cable and it's extremely reliable (I don't think it's ever gone down even during hurricanes, plus I don't see any throttling anywhere).
(07-06-2014, 05:31 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]probably do some good like getting Americans to start calling 'Soccer', 'Football'
I'm pretty sure the 13 Colonies fought a war against Britain specifically so they could call it "soccer". Calling it something else isn't something we'd do easily. We'd most likely have to rewrite our constitution.
(07-06-2014, 05:55 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Anthe Wrote:How are you guys surviving? I have been on 5/1 myself for years, but now I have 150/10 and I couldn't live without it.
Well that's easy for you to say when you actually have the option of getting fast internet in your area. We survive because we don't have a choice in the matter.
Anti-Ultimate Wrote:fuck all of you. 2/0.3 and 60€ per month
Oh we're playing this game now?
2/0.25
$35 a month. I would kill just to have DSL. We get IFITL, bellsouth's (now AT&T) fiber to the neighborhood experiment that ended in disaster. After that failed the ISPs basically all abandoned this area. At least it's half the cost of what my friends pay for cable and it's extremely reliable (I don't think it's ever gone down even during hurricanes, plus I don't see any throttling anywhere).
Actually I DO have a choice. There's a wifi internet provider that has speeds up to 25/6mbit/s, my dad doesn't want to switch though.
Well then technically you DON'T have a choice because it's your dads choice, not yours.
At least you can change routers. Bell is forcing us to use this piece of crap from 2009 from a company that closed in 2011, modem + router, throttles the speeds of all of the users so that nobody exceeds 400KB/s. Note that we started service from them when we moved to this house in 2013.
All the ISP's in my country use capped data bundles
(07-06-2014, 05:13 AM)kinkinkijkin Wrote: [ -> ]I prefer DDMMYY to YYYYMMDD, but I'm supposed to use YYYYMMDD, so I'm sorta conflicted.
Here we have to use the two of them
(07-06-2014, 05:31 AM)Zee530 Wrote: [ -> ]Why don't we have a standards organization for the whole world, so that we don't get all these conflicting formats and terms, probably do some good like getting Americans to start calling 'Soccer', 'Football', we'd measure human weight in kg, date formats would be DDMMYYYY and so on and so forth...
We do. See ISO 8601, which specifies YYYYMMDD. Nobody cares about it though, and just uses whatever has always been used in their country.