consumption of optical emdia, worldwide, is still ON THE RISE. It might surprise you, but most of the population on this ball of mud has no fiber connection to his house.
Besides, I love stashing the DVDs that come with Linux Magazine. When I need to fix something it is much faster to grab a DVD from the DVD pile than to download a rescue system. Specially if the machine you'd use for
Re: Steam DRM
By: Andeddu to Nightfox on Mon Aug 03 2020 05:19 pm
Internet connections are so quick now that there's no point in
physical media. I can download a game faster than it takes to
install it on an optical drive. I still prefer physical games on my
consoles though.
I originally figured the natural progression would probably be to buy games, movies, and music on USB flash drives. But it seems that didn't happen.. Not everyone has a fast internet connection though.
Nightfox
they actually still have 'linux magazine' that comes with dvds?
that blows my mind
consumption of optical emdia, worldwide, is still ON THE RISE. It
might surprise you, but most of the population on this ball of mud
has no fiber connection to his house.
I dont think many people actually have fiber. i have to use spectrum which is only like 10MB down and 2MB up. sucks.
Re: Steam DRM
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 04 2020 11:33 pm
Look at all those ads for Hughesnet and notice how Dish and DirecTV still have a large customer base. Due to the size of the US, there are more locations than people realize that have limited or no choices for wired wi reless broadband.
I take it that the high-density areas in the US are well networked? It's the same here in the UK... I know there are still people on dial-up in the remot Scottish Highlands.
Re: Steam DRM
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Tue Aug 04 2020 11:38 pm
Due to DRM, there may be cultural works that may not be easily recoverabl in the future without preseverationists creating workarounds to access r bypass oolder protection scheme. Imagine a library full of books, and no one can access them because the guy who owned the key threw it away when retired.
It's a shame because a lot of the source codes for these games are going to missing once devs shutdown, and without cooperation from Steam, many of thes games are going to be lost forever. That's why I support Good Old Games whenever I can. They do sell SOME modern games DRM free.
This may go beyond gaming and cover films and written literature that may be locked away on encrypted devices.
I dont think many people actually have fiber. i have to use
spectrum which is only like 10MB down and 2MB up. sucks.
Verizon set up a fiber network in my area a long time ago that they called Fios. Then Frontier bought out Verizon's internet service about 10 years ago. I've been using Frontier fiber since I bought my house about 5 years ago. Now, Frontier's internet here was recently bought out by Ziply Fiber. When that happened, my internet service started dropping out at random times. After a few phone calls, I finally got ahold of a customer support person at Ziply who sent a tech out to my house. He replaced the ONT box
i believe it's how they all got together and negotiated. in my area we will never have fiber because of the deals verizon cut with att and charter for cellphone rights.
so in the uppermidwest usa we are stuck with cable or ATT
I agree. Some areas just don't have high-speed internet, but it seems most people assume everyone has high-speed internet these days.
Re: Steam DRM
By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Aug 06 2020 10:55 pm
i believe it's how they all got together and negotiated. in my area
we will never have fiber because of the deals verizon cut with att
and charter for cellphone rights.
so in the uppermidwest usa we are stuck with cable or ATT
I've heard in the US, we pay some of the highest prices for some of the worst internet ni the world. There are other countries that have better internet speeds & infrastructure than we do, and customers there pay less for it.
Nightfox
I don't mind reasonable patches which are <4gb... it just seems the norm now that a lot of games released by Activision regularly ask for players to download up to 100gb in the form of a patch. Eurogamer released a news article a few days ago informing all players of CoD:MW (2019) that the next patch would be 47gb in size. All they were adding is a new map and bug fixing so there's no reasonable excuse for such a download size, by pushing such unoptimized downloads they're ostracizing a huge chunk of the community.
Re: Steam DRM
By: MRO to Nightfox on Thu Aug 06 2020 10:55 pm
i believe it's how they all got together and negotiated. in my area we will never have fiber because of the deals verizon cut with att and charter for cellphone rights.
so in the uppermidwest usa we are stuck with cable or ATT
I've heard in the US, we pay some of the highest prices for some of the wors
Nightfox
I've heard in the US, we pay some of the highest prices for some of
the wors
Other nations are as large as some of our states, so I can imagine it's cheaper to run high speed broadband elsewhere.
This may go beyond gaming and cover films and written literature that may be locked away on encrypted devices.
That's pretty big.
In the 90s, I remember downloading patches for games like Descent, Doom, and others that would update the binaries from one version to a newer version. They'd basically do a "diff" between the old & new binaries, and the patcher program would basically change the old binary into the new binary based on the differences. It made for relatively small patches, though they were made only to update a specific version. They even did that to update shareware versions, if I remember right.
I dont think many people actually have fiber. i have to use spectrum which is only like 10MB down and 2MB up. sucks.
Re: Steam DRM
By: MRO to Arelor on Wed Aug 05 2020 09:11 pm
I dont think many people actually have fiber. i have to use spectrum
which is only like 10MB down and 2MB up. sucks.
I have Spectrum cable here and it's pretty good (200MB down, 10MB up). It's their cheapest business tier which is required if you want static IP addresses. I think it costs me $79 a month.
over by me they took over from timewarner so they have their infrastructure. we've always had static ips. i could probably get faster speeds if i use my cable modem.
(i am now using Mb instead of MB) if i pay 20 bucks more i can go from 200Mbps to 400Mbps
(i am now using Mb instead of MB) if i pay 20 bucks more i can go from 200Mbps to 400Mbps
Re: Steam DRM
By: MRO to Digital Man on Tue Sep 08 2020 05:15 pm
(i am now using Mb instead of MB) if i pay 20 bucks more i can go from
200Mbps to 400Mbps
Sounds similar to the service offering here. And yeah, I meant Mb (bits) when I too wrote MB before.
digital man
when i was writing MB i meant megabyte. sucks that my upload speed isnt even 2MB. i think it's because i'm in a heavily populated area.
On 9/10/2020 4:26 PM, MRO wrote:
when i was writing MB i meant megabyte. sucks that my upload speed
isnt even 2MB. i think it's because i'm in a heavily populated area.
Mine's not much more than that (20Mbps ~= 2.5MBps). Most users don't
use much upload, so ISPs use many more channels for download vs upload. You can always get a dedicated symmetric connection, but those aren't cheap. I get 200mbit down, 20 up.
when i was writing MB i meant megabyte. sucks that my upload speed
isnt even 2MB. i think it's because i'm in a heavily populated area.
i'm in a big city. i should have gigabit dammit!
I just moved to Marina in Monterey County and I now have access to gigabit if I want it, but it's through comsuck. I got 200mb to try them out, and they can't maintain that speed except for like 3am in the morning, so fuck them.
Internet in America is only just better than Australia, and I guarantee you Australia will switch places with us in the next few years.
well now i heard on the radio that in my state in kenosha [riotville] they are doing to do gigabit. but they are going to dig through people's yards and driveways via 'micro trenching'. they claim they can patch it up but people arent happy with it.
well now i heard on the radio that in my state in kenosha [riotville] they are doing to do gigabit. but they are going to dig through people's yards and driveways via 'micro trenching'. they claim they can patch it up but people arent happy with it.
There's an internet company in my area that does fiber (there are a couple) that recently did that down the street where I work. They had to dig small holes down through the sidewalk so they could run the fiber cable through, then patched the holes. Now there are round spaces with black concrete in them in the sidewalk.
On 9/29/2020 6:48 PM, MRO wrote:
well now i heard on the radio that in my state in kenosha [riotville]
they are doing to do gigabit. but they are going to dig through
people's yards and driveways via 'micro trenching'. they claim they
can patch it up but people arent happy with it.
From what I've read, regarding micro trenching, it hasn't been very
good in terms of reliability... a lot of need for re-runs, unless it's gotten better.
I just moved to Marina in Monterey County and I now have access to gigabit if I want it, but it's through comsuck. I got
200mb to try them out, and they can't maintain that speed except for like 3am in the morning, so fuck them.
well now i heard on the radio that in my state in kenosha [riotville] they are doing to do gigabit. but they are going to dig
through people's yards and driveways via 'micro trenching'. they claim they can patch it up but people arent happy with it.
There's an internet company in my area that does fiber (there are a couple) that recently did that down the street where I work.
They had to dig small holes down through the sidewalk so they could run the fiber cable through, then patched the holes. Now
there are round spaces with black concrete in them in the sidewalk.
There's an internet company in my area that does fiber (there are a
couple) that recently did that down the street where I work. They had
to dig small holes down through the sidewalk so they could run the
fiber cable through, then patched the holes. Now there are round
spaces with black concrete in them in the sidewalk.
Does it look OK, or stupid, or ugly? Man if some company came in and fucked up my sidewalks I'd be pissed.
Re: Re: Steam DRM
By: Nightfox to MRO on Wed Sep 30 2020 08:13 am
There's an internet company in my area that does fiber (there are a
couple) that recently did that down the street where I work.
They had to dig small holes down through the sidewalk so they could
run the fiber cable through, then patched the holes. Now
there are round spaces with black concrete in them in the sidewalk.
Does it look OK, or stupid, or ugly? Man if some company came in and fucked up my sidewalks I'd be pissed.
i guess google tried 'nano trenching' in lousville ky and it was a huge fail and it looks like shit. also repaving roads damaged the lines.
Re: Re: Steam DRM
By: MRO to Android8675 on Thu Oct 08 2020 05:09 pm
i guess google tried 'nano trenching' in lousville ky and it was a
huge fail and it looks like shit. also repaving roads damaged the
lines.
Whatever happened to that google wifi for all??
well now i heard on the radio that in my state in kenosha [riotville] they are doing to do gigabit. but they are going to dig
through people's yards and driveways via 'micro trenching'. they claim they can patch it up but people arent happy with it.
I'd be curious as to how that goes. I've heard of city municipalities opening their own fiber Internet Service for city residents and are able to offer deals like what Google Fiber was doing (1gb for like $30/month). I suspect if people were pushed just a bit around here we could convince the city gov to at least look into something like that.
I know any place considered "rural" should look into that I guess.
i guess google tried 'nano trenching' in lousville ky and it was a huge failure and it looks like shit. also repaving roads damaged the lines.
i guess the deeper trenches dont fuck up as bad due to tire wear, but it still looks like a black line of tar of whatever where they laid the fiber optics.
On 10/8/2020 3:09 PM, MRO wrote:
i guess google tried 'nano trenching' in lousville ky and it was a
huge failure and it looks like shit. also repaving roads damaged the
lines.
i guess the deeper trenches dont fuck up as bad due to tire wear, but
it still looks like a black line of tar of whatever where they laid
the fiber
optics.
fucked up my sidewalks I'd be pissed.
I think it looks somewhat ugly, but then, I'm not the type to really care so much about the appearance of the sidewalk near where I live/work. As long as people can walk across it, I guess it's doing it's job. Also, I think a sidewalk is public property rather than your own property - Utility
companies or the city may need to come do work on it if they need to drill for cables or a storm drain, etc.. I don't think the sidewalk is yours to do what you want with.
Whatever happened to that google wifi for all??
In contrast though, I see that kind of tar line on streets without
fiber, just to "repair" cracks/wear.
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