nakke

I changed v.giantbomb.com to point to Paris instead (instructions on http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/szlifier/blog/a-fix-for-crappy-download-speeds-from-giant-bomb/100558/), seems to maybe have fixed the issue. Still pretty bad speeds compared to what I 'should' be getting, but at least streaming seems to work without hickups.

Your problem had nothing to do with streaming/connection/download speed, that was probably an issue with your graphics card drivers or similar.

Extremely slow speeds for me the past few days. I'm on a 350mbps connection in Finland. Occasionally it jumps to an acceptable ~3-4MB/s, but then goes back to just around 20kB/s or whatever for ages.

C:\Users\nakke>tracert v.giantbomb.com

Tracing route to a1189.g2.akamai.net [87.108.18.41] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 8 ms 8 ms 9 ms 10.235.0.1
2 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms hel5-sr3.dnaip.fi [62.78.106.136]
3 14 ms 9 ms 7 ms hel5-tr3.dnaip.fi [62.78.107.116]
4 9 ms 11 ms 6 ms esp2-tr2.dnaip.fi [62.78.107.41]
5 10 ms 11 ms 7 ms academica.ficix1.ficix.fi [193.110.226.52]
6 10 ms 8 ms 9 ms xe-0-1-0-0.cr1-usp1.hel.ip.as29154.net [79.99.155.3]
7 10 ms 7 ms 11 ms a87-108-18-41.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [87.108.18.41]

Seems to be in order.. Speedtest aswell:

@gnatsol said:

Right. The major problem is the companies who EXPLICITLY state that you're free to use and monetize their content (say Valve) whose content is still getting copyright claimed. And whether a company likes it or not, fair use (criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research) should be allowed, but the current system does not differenciate between fair use and just uploading all cutscenes without comment or whatever.

postin'

Yeah, definitely interested. Didn't think the QL would make so many people sign up!

"Wipeout HD received a letter grade of an "A" on 1UP (Milkman was the reviewer). It should be something to be check out, this franchise has been a pretty solid one for a long time.
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It's a full game, but with reused content. Though there will be new tracks, ships etc to download in the future.

I think it supports survival of the fittest pretty clearly. Obviously the first way to think is "hehe you design your creatures, ergo intelligent design", but it's more deep than that. You have to constantly update your creature's design in order to adapt; get rid of crappy features and 'buy' good new ones. ID doesn't say god or some other guy constantly updated the design of creatures, right?

"Unlike DirectX 10 it will not require new graphics card hardware specifically supporting the new API version, and will support both DirectX 10 and DirectX 10.1 hardware."

OH NO THEY ARE MAKING DIRECTX WORK BETTER ON CURRENT HARDWARE AND THEY'RE INTRODUCING GPGPU SUPPORT!!!! OH NO! EVIL MICRO$OFT