No Znx!

One of the things that truly gets on my nerves is the way that ISPs are allowed to sell connections. The now ubiquotious up to. Surely someone in government or the ASA can do something about this nonsense. Up to 8M, in reality probably around 6 if you are lucky, more like 4 for the mass. It’s a horrible thing, really I would like to see them reverse the promise, at least 4M. That way you know you will not drop below that.

But now its got worse, not only do they see these unobtainable rates, now the rates you get will be constricted at “peak times” (which basically means whenever you except to use the internet). So not only do they sell rates they will not provide but they go further and restrict the rates when you want to use it. These so called “unlimited” packages all of a sudden have a limit.

The final thing that annoys me is that ISPs will reduce the cost of their packages, offer more and more options to their packages and completely neglect their existing customers. I find myself browsing the website of my ISP every 6 months just to make sure they aren’t overcharging me.

Why is noone outraged like me about this? Why is the government not stepping in and kicking the ISPs in the teeth for this abuse of its customers. Tools like iPlayer from the BBC depend on good solid rates and you’re not going to get them any time soon in the UK.

There I’ve said it now. There is nothing wrong the Rar format, it may even been slightly better at compressing that Zip. So why does it suck then, the algorithm for creating a Rar file is proprietary, this means that no other applications are able to create Rar files other than the RARLabs tools (WinRAR etc). So everytime you see a Rar file you know that WinRAR was behind its creation.

Now look at say Zip, the format is just as capable of compression as Rar. The algorithm for creating and unpacking Zip files is Free! This means anyone can make a program that compresses Zip files, anyone can make a program that unpacks Zip files.

I would push you all to consider the utilities you use and look to see if they are truely free. For every program we support that isn’t free we dimish the OSS movement just that little bit.

Whilst I was adding a sitemap to Google I got a little surprise:

How unexciting of me, yet another WordPress blog to poison the internet and warp the pure beauty of Google results, JOY!

Needless to say I hope mine will be different, reminding people of the wonders of the web or something like that. More than likely this is the first and last post I’ll ever make Such as shame to waste this wonderful site.

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