Posts by RWNW

Who's behind the Kodi TV streaming stick crackdown?

Re: "a conspiracy needs two people"

I'm pretty sure that if mankind didn't land on the moon, there was more than one person involved in the conspiracy to make people think that we have.

You THINK you're watching your LG smart TV - but IT's WATCHING YOU, baby

Re: For shame

I'm holding out hope for Jolla when it hits the market. My own pet hate currently is the relentless "permission creep" on android apps. Seriously why does the latest update to Dropbox want access to my contacts?

Microsoft Xbox gaffe reveals cloudy arrogance

Re: Always-On Risk to Inventiveness

Not quite sure what you're getting at here as it seems doubtful that anyone would use a game to plan a city, unless as part of a game related competition

Anyway, the way the game is set up, you're allowed to have a good nosey around other peoples cities, regions can be set as private, but AFAIK these private regions still show!

Re: How much progress is lost in new Sim City single-player game if connection is interrupted?

Sim City will play on for 20 minutes before booting you out of the game when the connection drops, it'll try and reconnect throughout this time, and the clock is reset each time it connects, so it will play on a tempramental connection.

It seems to cache (save!!) the game locally as it picks up from where you were. The 20 minutes has already been determined to be an arbitary amount of time from a review of the game code. Of course this is if things work as planned, sometimes there's a problem that seems to be server side and you might lose a couple of hours of game play, the whole city, or even the region. All it shows is the the always on side of things really is more about DRM than multiplayer.

Official: Sky to buy O2 and BE's home broadband product in £200m deal

O2 Business plan?

Telefonica seem to just be taking as much out of o2 as they can...

I'd have thought that their own ISP would be a clever way to provide backhaul from 3g/4g hotspots in customers homes, and make sense of their smaller spectrum allocation. I also have my doubts about their available spectrum if mobile data growth continues. I'm currently with o2 for my mobile and it's a periodic cause of annoyance that they wait for the network to slow right down with congestion at peak times before sorting things out. (Orange after 7pm when they introduced everyday 50 anyone?)

This typically means degraded service in the area for two or three months. A good smattering of hotspots would make a big dent in the load on the macro network... but to get the most out of it you need the box in any given house to share connectivity with all their customers in the vicinity. Given that most home broadband is subject to some sort of usage restrictions, something has got to give... The wife has a Voda suresignal box which only takes her off the macro network, yes we effectively pay twice for the data*, but I expect the box provides a signal capable of taking one or two of the neighbours... but I won't agree to them using my home broadband to provide their service to others unless they can find a way of compensating appropriately. If ISP and mobile telco are the same, it's easier to work around.

I'm interested to see how the networks shape up on my own "value for money" metric when the 4g roll out gets cracking... I don't give a monkeys about the technology providing me a signal, just want one in the places I go which is reliable, and some sensible usage limits.

*Ignore home wi-fi for the purposes of argument, the box was installed to give a useful voice signal at home.