Google Fiber Coming To Austin, Texas
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I lived just outside of Austin for 8 months, and while I was there I heard about Google Fiber and thought "Wow, that is really cool!" And then when I left, Austin got it. I'm jealous. It would take a miracle for Fiber to come where I live now, where 50 Mbps is Ultimate Internet: The Next Generation of Internet.
Well, seeing has it's been available for over roughly 4 or 5 years here, it makes me wonder why it's not more widespread over there.z.z
While I'm content with only having 100mbps atm, 1gbps for that price is quite good, I pay roughly 80€ for mine, but it includes tv box (those things that let you watch anything that gave on tv, no matter in what channel, since it records everything that airs for 7 days)
While I'm content with only having 100mbps atm, 1gbps for that price is quite good, I pay roughly 80€ for mine, but it includes tv box (those things that let you watch anything that gave on tv, no matter in what channel, since it records everything that airs for 7 days)
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Not only is Google coming, AT&T has announced that they are going to compete with Google. They are going to offer a separate gigabit ethernet service.
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/09/i...unch-its-own-1gb-broadband-service-in-austin/
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/09/i...unch-its-own-1gb-broadband-service-in-austin/
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Veho:
It's not like they're complaining that their Slurpee is 99% ice or something, but if the cocktail calls for "shot of vodka, shot of vermouth, shot of gin, shot of Campari, three shots of juice, squirt of lemon" and ends up being a thimbleful of booze, that's a problem. -
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The Real Jdbye:
the funny thing is cocktails in norway are only allowed to have 1 20ml shot of booze -
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The Real Jdbye:
but you could buy as many shots of whisky (or anything else) as you want and ask for a glass of ice and pour them in
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Veho:
There was a comparison of the number of Ibuprofen poisonings before and after they limited the maximum dosage per box or per pill (i'll look that up). No limit on the number of boxes you can still buy as many as you want, so people argued it was pointless.
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Veho:
But the number of (accidental) poisonings dropped because drinking an entire package of ibuprofen pills went from "I need a new liver" to "I need a new box of Ibuprofen".
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Veho:
Here we have ketoprofen that used to be prescription-only because of the risk of toxic dosages, but then they halved the dose per pill and sell them in bottles of six pills apiece instead of twenty and it doesn't need a prescription any more. Yes you can buy more than one bottle but people simply don't.
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Psionic Roshambo:
Usually accidentally overdose of ibuprofen here is from people taking like cold medicine then ibuprofen for a headache and the combination is over what they need -
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