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Rogers To Offer 50Mbps Cable Service

Bullshit Detective — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:19:34 +0000

With one side of their face, Rogers and Bell say they need to control and slow down certain kinds of traffic across their networks, such as peer-to-peer and video streaming (and allegedly VoIP). With the other side, they are offering new video streaming PPV services and ever higher connection speeds.

How are we to believe that their networks are choking requiring the molestation of our connections, while they keep offering speeds that should in theory choke their network even further? Retorical question folks. We should not believe them.

Incidentally, World of Warcraft is a pay/month service that uses P2P traffic to spread updates between their members. Are the world’s millions of WOW players being unfair penalized when they are using their P2P for completely legitimate purposes? Is there, or more importantly, should there be an effort to force Bell/Rogers/Comcast/Verizon to differentiate between legitimate and illegitimate P2P traffic? I think the burden should be on them to not filter the kind of traffic I was just discussing.

World of Warcraft Intervention

Bullshit Detective — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:15:46 +0000

Pretty funny clip of friends having an intervention, but not quite what you think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpkQSB_h5lY&feature=player_embedded

If you think kids in North America have aproblem with games you should check out those crazy Germans. They actually managed to do a pretty good job of replicating a set of armor out of the game.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/german-fans-cra.html

World of Warcraft, Too much story line

Bullshit Detective — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:07:50 +0000

World of Warcraft staff have finally realized what gamers want. To their, and our, shock and amazement it’s not essay-style multi page quests and background info that people are dying to play. It’s the content stupid. I barely read quests anymore, and the extraneous lore and random crap, you can forget it.

Here are some of their admitted mistakes.

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