See I could justift £75 on it, but not 200.. maybe thats just me though, and when you think about it if everyone had this logic, new things wouldnt get released as people wouldnt bother wasting their time and money making them to give out for free.
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You pay £9 per month in order to avoid paying £200 for an OS
Is it possible that you could find somewhere that charges less than £200 for Windows or even consider using Linux which would cost you nothing at all?
No, in order to avoid p2p. Just just to download one product.
Windows 7 has never been £200.
only one that came close was the ultimate addition, but god knows why you'd buy that.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=33
exactly what i mean. It's like i'd rather go to the supermarket and browse than shop online, that way i may come across a new product i wouldn't have otherwise noticed, i suppose it's the same as impulse buying
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there is one rule in usenet club. DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.
Newsgroups/binary usenet is very, very old idea that never stopped.
Back in the early days of broadband many ISPs, even those who are now uptight and signed up to "three strikes and you're out" policies, made their careers on what was known as "warez tax". Let's take plus.net as example. The plus.net that is known for removing "heavy users", traffic shaping with Elacoyas and along with the likes of Tiscali introducing British public to the bizarre idea of "unlimited internet* (*= with 3Gb limit)". Yeah - that plus.net. So - plus.net, in the early days, used to offer "warez tax" account - don't remember if it was called Pro, or some other suffix - but basically regular account would have some ports blocked, whereas pro, or warez taxed account would cost fiver extra and have P2P ports and incoming port 21 unrestricted and additionally allow access to plus.net's own binary usenet server. Some time around 2006 they switched business model to "as high number of customers as possible" instead of "as solid infrastructure as possible" and instead of expanding oversold infrastructure they decided to turn into "squeeky clean" ISP and among investing in equipment to throtte users, removing heavy downloaders (if downloads over 50Gb a month could be called heavy) they also discontinued syncing their binaries with giganews backbone. But the fact remains - whatever they claim to be now - they built their business on offering.. let's call it.. easy access to certain aspects of internet. To those willing to pay a fee.
Similar story with demon, back in the day when they delt with regular, non business users, two of their main selling points were local Efnet servers and binary usenet with long retention. And that's the hard truth. no one was investing in fibre and DSL tech to make hotmail faster for grandma. Not when 512 line used to cost £50 a month and dial up was free anyway...
Back in the early days of broadband many ISPs, even those who are now uptight and signed up to "three strikes and you're out" policies, made their careers on what was known as "warez tax". Let's take plus.net as example. The plus.net that is known for removing "heavy users", traffic shaping with Elacoyas and along with the likes of Tiscali introducing British public to the bizarre idea of "unlimited internet* (*= with 3Gb limit)". Yeah - that plus.net. So - plus.net, in the early days, used to offer "warez tax" account - don't remember if it was called Pro, or some other suffix - but basically regular account would have some ports blocked, whereas pro, or warez taxed account would cost fiver extra and have P2P ports and incoming port 21 unrestricted and additionally allow access to plus.net's own binary usenet server. Some time around 2006 they switched business model to "as high number of customers as possible" instead of "as solid infrastructure as possible" and instead of expanding oversold infrastructure they decided to turn into "squeeky clean" ISP and among investing in equipment to throtte users, removing heavy downloaders (if downloads over 50Gb a month could be called heavy) they also discontinued syncing their binaries with giganews backbone. But the fact remains - whatever they claim to be now - they built their business on offering.. let's call it.. easy access to certain aspects of internet. To those willing to pay a fee.
Similar story with demon, back in the day when they delt with regular, non business users, two of their main selling points were local Efnet servers and binary usenet with long retention. And that's the hard truth. no one was investing in fibre and DSL tech to make hotmail faster for grandma. Not when 512 line used to cost £50 a month and dial up was free anyway...
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exactly what i mean. It's like i'd rather go to the supermarket and browse than shop online, that way i may come across a new product i wouldn't have otherwise noticed, i suppose it's the same as impulse buying
It is also why I'm a major contributor to a large site and I used to be a major contributor to the most well known site until I fell out with them because I told them they need to come up to the specs of Easynews Global4.