Posts by Paul Rafter

Virgin Media rubbishes P2P throttling rumours

oversubscription

True P2P was the reason why shaping was brought in years back, but now the battlefield has changed, iPlayer could easily compete with P2P for straining BT pipes. Irrelevent if someone is downloading 200GB a month, surely that's what he paid for? Don'tforget it is a combination, P2P, viruses, spyware, iplayer etcetc. There is no way any ISP could argue that they don't oversubscribe, all ISP's do. At the end of the day if I am paying for 8meg i want 8meg, not 1/2 a meg between 9-5 then a speed increase at midnight. Simply really, they are all making lots of money off us without increasing bandwidth capacity. If you shape you can free enough bandwidth without buying more pipes.

I bet Paris gets full speed

So what's the easiest box to hack - Vista, Ubuntu or OS X?

Did somebody say?

That all you can install on a PC is Windows, Linux or DOS? Where have you been for the last three years?

Paris because the poster responsible for that piece of info is having a blonde day

Supersonic stealth jumpjet rolls off production line

Oh Dear

Some of the comments here are just plain wrong, there seems to be a lack of understanding on many things. Did someone say the Eurofighter has stealth!? where did you dream that up? Harriers need replacing they cannot carry many weapons or are capable of long range flight. The B varient will always be useful as someone said before you dont just send a carrier in, it requires support ships supplies, an Aegis cruiser or 2 a few ASW destroyers o maybe a sub or 2. Can the RN supply that? no. Who ever said the waves add strain on the wings? plain stupidity. Naval versions worst enemy is salt the modification to navalised one plane aren't much but the catapult strain and arresting wires strain mean the whole aircraft needs to be structurally sound otherwise it will pull itself apart. Who ever said planes only fight BVR is just wrong, they love to do BVR but its not always the case. Otherwise IR missles which work in visual range and cannons on planes would be useless yet they have them because NAM taught them a reason, NOT every fight is BVR. The Eurofighter is crap not stealthy and slow, the F-22 is hands down the best fighter in the world the Euro fighter loses in nearly every way to an F-22 the F-35 shares some tech from the F22 but comparing the F35 to the Eurofighter of F22 is not fair the Eurofighter was concieved in the 1980's the F-35 wasn't. Rememebr if a plane carries weapons externally it WILL NEVER be STEALTH. And what people fail to forget is theres no point having a sick aircraft loaded with weapions that can go fast, as if it cant lock up its enemy with radar then its game over. Look first Shoot first KIll First. One last point top gun decceleration manouvers and harriers pointing there thrust forward, will result in death. Jet jocks live by a rule. Speed is energy, Energy is Life, nuff said.