Legends Of Steel Available For Savage Worlds!

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Savagely snatched from HeroPress…

Legends Of Steel Available For Savage Worlds! Jeff Mejia, the operator of \”The Lair of the Evil DM\”, has finished his sword and sorcery supplement for Savage Worlds…
\"0A3055DD-FFF8-4D35-8EFD-8AAE9A8BD02F.jpg\"Legends of Steel is finally available, direct from The Lair (look for the button on the right-hand side), as a downloadable pdf, for the reasonable sum of $12.

It\’s a worthy investment.

Slashdot | The NYT Compares Broadband Upgrade Costs in US, Japan

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Well, to follow up with the Time Warner issues here in Rochester , Ny…  Here\’s a breakdown from the New York Times regarding cost comparison between US & Japanese broadband.
Slashdot | The NYT Compares Broadband Upgrade Costs in US, Japan.

zxjio writes with this excerpt from a New York Times article about just how much networking infrastructure costs vary between the US and Japan:\”Pretty much the fastest consumer broadband in the world is the 160-megabit-per-second service offered by J:Com, the largest cable company in Japan. Here\’s how much the company had to invest to upgrade its network to provide that speed: $20 per home passed. … Verizon is spending an average of $817 per home passed to wire neighborhoods for its FiOS fiber optic network and another $716 for equipment and labor in each home that subscribes, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. … The experience in Japan suggests that the major cable systems in the United States might be able to increase the speed of their broadband service by five to 10 times right away. They might not need to charge much more for it than they do now and they would still make as much money.\”

Frontier.Net\’s acceptable use policy for residential DSL

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Funny…  But understandable, since Frontier doesn\’t seem to be enforcing these limits, but no one has yet reported that Frontier.Net\’s standard Acceptable use policy is even more restrictive..  But, of course, if it is never enforced does it matter?  Only if they can start enforcing it, without changing the contract.  

Customers must comply with all Frontier network, bandwidth, data storage and usage limitations. Frontier may suspend, terminate or apply additional charges to the Service if such usage exceeds a reasonable amount of usage. A reasonable amount of usage is defined as 5GB combined upload and download consumption during the course of a 30-day billing period. The Company has made no decision about potential charges for monthly usage in excess of 5GB.
via Frontier.com : FrontierNet Residential Acceptable Use Policy .

A public letter to Time Warner

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Just for your information Gentlemen….
If the Bandwidth Cap is implemented in the Rochester, Ny area, especially at the rediciously low levels that have been outlined in the press, I will be switching away from Time Warner…
I have been a member of TimeWarner since the early 90\’s, when the Cable Modem program was started, I was in fact a Beta test member in the Rochester area…
I have encouraged all of our family members to move to Time Warner.  At this time, I am actively encouraging all of our family members to rethink their Cable subscriptions, since having more than 1 computer in the house can easily exceed your low bandwidth caps.
We have 4 computers, and simply downloading all of the Windows updates, and some youtube videos, or possibly a iTunes high definition video purchase can easily exceed your *40 GB* bandwidth package…

Stop TWC – More Info Coming Soon! Please Check Back!

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Time Warner Cable (TWC) is planning on introducing a tier-based bandwidth allocation system in Austin TX, San Antonio TX, Greensboro, NC and Rochester NY.
This system is similar to current cell phone plans that charge consumers based on minutes used. TWC is introducing 5GB, 10GB and 40GB plans priced from $22.95 to $54.90 a month. Users that exceed the limit will be charged $1 for each GB they go over.
The maximum 40GB cap is so low that consumers can easily exceed it and encounter huge fees. Technologies such as the iTunes store, Apple TV, Netflix Watch Instant, Xbox LIVE and PlayStation 3 Marketplace all use large amounts of bandwidth to deliver content. Consumers that use any of these products will have a very hard time staying under this extremely low cap and will likely have to adjust their habits in order to avoid extremely large fees.
via Stop TWC – More Info Coming Soon! Please Check Back!.

Retail Who

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Who am I to argue with the Great Phil Plait? As he mentioned in internet eons ago, Retail Who:

\'PanelBABloggee James H.G. Redekop sent me a link to a webcomic called Retail, which did a brief Doctor Who series for Halloween. It’s not a knee-slapper, but it’s cute. Still, I think the protagonist screwed up. As much as I loved Tom Baker’s Who, it’s been 20 years. David Tennant would’ve been the way to go.

When you check it out, make sure you look at all five, up through Halloween itself.