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Who 0wnz the Server?
September 26th 2002, 09:18 CEST by HiredGoons Who pays for the bandwidth for all the servers that are displayed in All Seeing Eye? Are they all provided by philanthropically minded gamers? Maybe I'm too jaded, but that doesn't seem likely. More likely scenario: A lot of these servers use corporation or university networks. Corporations and universities are like blind liquor store owners. If they knew what was going on underneath their noses, they wouldn't fund it. And if my experience with blind liquor store owners has taught me anything, it is that for every blind liquor store owner there is always a "helpful" assistant manager who offers to take inventory at the end of the night. That's what's happening isn't it? Isn't this freeloading? Possible interesting twist: Are publishers/devs freeloading too? Valve or whoever benefits from this too, don't they? Thousands of servers running CS, and it doesn't cost Valve a cent -- that isn't exactly bad for Valve is it? I'll stop now and wait for the PC regulars to show me the error of my ways. Or kill me in my sleep. |
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Ok yeah, technically Seattle is entirely populated with beatniks and smelly people that haven't caught on yet that grunge is dead. Still, Max is an extreme hippie. From North Dakota. With a dark and mysterious past that he likes to hide. Oh, and he used to filter all your porn! HE is the enemy here, not me! Yah, don'tcha know! Okey dokey, now! I'm fighting terrorism by playing violent video games!
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Crap, I'm a hippie now? Well fuck me gently and call me Susan, I've gotta get back to fagging the place up. iamelectro
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Bago I thought you were a brit. <m0nty> ZTSDSTOP LAUGHIN U FIXX0rs
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Also, please understand that to a Texan, anyone not from Texas is a "hippie." It's a commonly known fact. Someone's crying, Lord! Kumbaya! I'm fighting terrorism by playing violent video games!
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Not us Chicagoans. We're known for our hippie beating. |
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newage? Is that like sewage? Ship my balls.
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newage is more like newegg. |
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That's true, Jeet. I forgot about the Texassan mindset. |
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Newegg is the new sewage? Also, you fight like a girl.
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Yes grunge is dead. Newegg, sewage, and new-age all stink. "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
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OK so now that's all cleared up should we get back to the topic or just forget it? "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
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Bago I thought you were a brit. I thought he worked at MS. I am trying to catch up to Ergo's Dvd collection.
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Bee-Beep-beep-bee-beep-bee-beep! It was a good topic, but we lost it. Oh Cannabis!
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No it was not. I believe I can fly......urk.
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Wouldn't a flatline sound more like "Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...n...p" ? <m0nty> ZTSDSTOP LAUGHIN U FIXX0rs
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Sure, if you dipped chips into your EKG. |
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Hey hey, lay off newegg. This a great, my posts are going to seem much better in comparison. |
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This a great, my posts are going to seem much better in comparison. Keep trying. |
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I'm a Seattle based Microsoft schlepping Goa dancing Snowboarding Game playing Green haired dork. iamelectro
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Gotcha. I guess it was that Thom Yorkish little head. <m0nty> ZTSDSTOP LAUGHIN U FIXX0rs
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Also you have eggs growing out of your head. Its creepy. |
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So if America is the new Rome, and the Internet is the new Roman roads, then of course the Internet has to be used by people who didn't pay for it. Did you see legionaries try to keep people off the Roman roads? How could they enforce such a thing? Roads are there for everyone to use, whether you are a taxpayer or not. Now, of course, there are such things toll roads, and I assume there might have been a similar system for that in Roman times, but I would think that academia has paid all of the tolls for us, and now it's as if the levy has been lifted somewhat. Anyway, there is a very good reason for making the Internet free: it makes it popular for other paid services. In fact, the controllers of the Internet want you to use it for free, so as to maintain the American socio-economic hegemony. It's got something to do with that Gameilluminati site, I know it. Sorry for trying to drag this thread back on topic, kthx bye. |
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Fuck. I've downloaded the NOLF2 demo about 5 times now. Every single fucking time it says the file is truncated. Could it be my nazi university cache messing with my download? I can't play streaming video or music either. Or use p2p progs. Or play online games! Just what the fuck do they expect hungover freshers to do with their copious time and bandwidth if it isn't to break copyright laws and watch live porn? Anyone know a workaround so I can at least watch quicktime movie trailers or use gamebasement radio? |
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Monsters, Inc rocks. That is all. Arizona Diamondbacks 2001 World Series Champions
"It's all about positioning! So assume the position!" JMCDaveL |
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Welcome to last year! "There is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day."
-Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. |
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Monsters, Inc rocks. I found it to be boring. For the record, I loved Toy Story, liked Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life quite a bit (not as much as TS1). Not a Pixar hater. |
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Understood, Nutty. But I am still waiting for the day someone posts, "You know, I really liked <insert anything here>." and you reply "I did too!" :P Arizona Diamondbacks 2001 World Series Champions
"It's all about positioning! So assume the position!" JMCDaveL |
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I really liked pie. Who is driving?! Oh my god, bear is driving! How can that be?
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I like pie too! |
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Pie is just a rip off of Cake. I believe I can fly......urk.
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Yay! You really are My Friend!!! Arizona Diamondbacks 2001 World Series Champions
"It's all about positioning! So assume the position!" JMCDaveL |
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All pie is just flour. "There is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. It was a difference which kept the vast majority of the population alive from day to day."
-Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. |
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Pie is Pong. |
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If Baileytron didn't already have the franchise, I would kill you all. We have enough youth. How about a Fountain of Smart?
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Around here, no ISP has instituted bandwidth caps with additional fees passed on to the user if these caps are broken. - StralutiaIncorrect sir. Shaw allows for 3 gigabytes of bandwith per month for a basic account, and 5 gigabytes per month for a business account. These limitations are not strictly enforced but they are there. Unless you are going way over your imposed limit, you will probably never hear from them, but should you host a popular server or try and download about 10 movies a day, rest assured you will hear from your ISP. If you constantly break your bandwith allowance they might even ask you to upgrade to a business account for more money. Being in an argument on a message board is like being in the special olympics, even if you win, you're still a retard.
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Pie is just a rip off of Cake. My CrapTV is so funny today. Thanks for the laughs. |
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To the writer of this pathetic article: This is your brain. *points to a rasin* This is your brain on planetcrap. *points to the same raisin* Get the picture? "Woo-hoo! Do NOT go in there!"
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Shaw allows for 3 gigabytes of bandwith per month for a basic account, and 5 gigabytes per month for a business account. These limitations are not strictly enforced but they are there. Unless you are going way over your imposed limit, you will probably never hear from them, but should you host a popular server or try and download about 10 movies a day, rest assured you will hear from your ISP. If you constantly break your bandwith allowance they might even ask you to upgrade to a business account for more money. Regardless of whether or not they do have a cap, it is not enforced strictly (as you so eloquently stated). If you break it, you will hear from them. They won't chage you extra. Until they do charge you extra for every gb downloaded (as opposed to requesting that you upgrade to a business account for more money) you are simply proving my point. And your avatar is broken. Lurker. The Golden Rule of Flaming:
May your flames be witty, insulting, interesting, paradoxical, funny, illogical, caustic, sarcastic, even inconsistent - but never, ever, let them be boring. |
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But I'm looking forward to Goldeneye tomorrow. Call me at 10:30 to wake me up, ok? The Golden Rule of Flaming:
May your flames be witty, insulting, interesting, paradoxical, funny, illogical, caustic, sarcastic, even inconsistent - but never, ever, let them be boring. |
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Silly, silly Billies. The 10 hr. download time does not consume any bandwidth at all. It's a simple formula, really: the enforced gigabyte extrapolation must engender a miniature freeway within one of the cables that hemispherically vibrate to a gaseous .12 meg. degree mercury thermometer pick-axe. If that bastard let's the cordoned-off gauge of the isp's 98.333 transition ratio, well, then, FUCK! Say goodbye to the implosion of the by-standard gb download account, AND the secretary who could be knocked up by a cartwheeling Canadian Al-Queda milquetoast. "My submarine is like my own submarine: long, hard, and full of sea men!" Dr. Evil "Woo-hoo! Do NOT go in there!"
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Dinglehoffen: What the fuck? Layman's terms please. The Golden Rule of Flaming:
May your flames be witty, insulting, interesting, paradoxical, funny, illogical, caustic, sarcastic, even inconsistent - but never, ever, let them be boring. |
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Don't bother. <m0nty> ZTSDSTOP LAUGHIN U FIXX0rs
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If you say so. The Golden Rule of Flaming:
May your flames be witty, insulting, interesting, paradoxical, funny, illogical, caustic, sarcastic, even inconsistent - but never, ever, let them be boring. |
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DonutHead likes to babble and spit words out - don't waste any cycles trying to decipher it because ultimately there is no meaning. <m0nty> ZTSDSTOP LAUGHIN U FIXX0rs
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I ran it through a series of translators and came up with something that makes more sense: Stupid and stupid Billies. The time 10 hours of the old warehouse in a scale of the distance of this whole number do not use one. A simple formula is true,: the extrapolation adjusts above of gigaoctet must also produce to miniums the freeway without toll but one of the handles, that vibrates hemisférico with pickaxe of the gas of the thermometer of mercury of the degree of an ohm of a megohm of 12. If this hybrid ' S that the measurement of cordoned is of report/ratio transistion of spendthrift of ISP 98,333 then in the left you to the KISSES! Ignited implosion of the client within projects good bye with, of which gigaoctet of the warehouse in a distance of Durchstandard that is and this secretary, of the one of Canadian cartwheeling of Alumi'nio-Queda of milquetoast could be fixed for the ascent. If you beat a dead horse long enough with a hose, it will rise up and kill you.
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This whole thread deserves one big ass "What?" - jon
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WHAT? Well, it's bold. And italicized. I tried. If you beat a dead horse long enough with a hose, it will rise up and kill you.
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What's only come in one size sir. <m0nty> ZTSDSTOP LAUGHIN U FIXX0rs
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What? Oh Cannabis!
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W@ht? I believe I can fly......urk.
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