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    Belgians biggest ISP invests 500 million to go gigabit

    in Tech News

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    Telenet, Belgians biggest ISP announced at a press conference that it will invest 500 million over the course of 5 years to update its current infrastructure. They will also create 250new high-tech jobs in the process, the CEO of Telenet stated that the arrival of netflix and 4K were one of thte reasons that they needed to update the infrastructure. The couldn't give any details on the prize just yet. If they pull this of, we will have one of the best networks in Europe. the speeds go from minimum 160megabit to 1gigabit/sec.

     

    Great job Telenet! An ISP that realizes that infrastructure is freaking important to keep up with technology.

     

    Link for those of you that speak dutch:

    http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/942/Economie/article/detail/2018839/2014/08/29/Telenet-investeert-500-miljoen-en-creeert-250-nieuwe-banen.dhtml

    Second shooting in Fergusson kills a 25 year old

    in Off Topic

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    There has been a second shooting near Fergusson. I think gunning him down and killing him on the spot is waaay over the top. Couldm't they have just shot him in a leg? Or used a taser? Or used pepperspray? Or anything non lethal at all? What are these guys thinking?? I'm not from the US, but i can feel the tension from 3000 miles away for crying out loud! I don't know how the Fergusson police is going to solve this...

     

    I'm not saying the victim wasn't a criminal, because he was, but gunning him down on the streets is not okay. Not okay at all. A video has been released as well.

     

     

    "The unnamed suspect, identified only as a 23-year-old, was approached by officers after reports of a store robbery and a “man with a knife acting erratically,” St Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson said.

    “As officers arrived, the suspect turned towards the officers and started to walk towards them, clutching his waistband. He then pulled out a knife in what we describe as an overhand grip, and told the officers: 'Shoot me now, kill me now'.”

    Police said the ignored verbal commands to drop the knife and continued to approach the officers, coming “within three to four feet” before two policemen opened fire."

     

     

     

    Mr Obama, do you have a heart? Open letter by Mads Gilbert

    in Off Topic

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    As you all know, the conflict is Gaza is spinning rappidly out of control. This topic doesn't question who is right or wrong, but simply honors the volunteers who put in 12 - 24 hour shifts to save lives. What these people go through every day is beyond me. Respect.

    Open Letter:

    Mads Gilbert, a doctor in Gaza’s largest hospital – al-Shifa – writes an open letter as the Palestinian death toll rises steeply. 

     

    Dearest friends,

     

    The last night (19-20 July) was extreme. The ‘ground invasion’ of Gaza resulted in scores and carloads with maimed, torn apart, bleeding, shivering, dying – all sorts of injured Palestinians, all ages, all civilians, all innocent.

    The heroes in the ambulances and in all of Gaza’s hospitals are working 12-24 hour shifts, grey from fatigue and inhuman workloads (without payment at all in Shifa hospital for the last 4 months), they care, triage, try to understand the incomprehensible chaos of bodies, sizes, limbs, walking, not walking, breathing, not breathing, bleeding, not bleeding humans. HUMANS!

    Now, once more treated like animals by ‘the most moral army in the world’ (sic!).

     

    My respect for the wounded is endless, in their contained determination in the midst of pain, agony and shock; my admiration for the staff and volunteers is endless, my closeness to the Palestinian sumud [steadfastness] gives me strength, although in glimpses I just want to scream, hold someone tight, cry, smell the skin and hair of the warm child, covered in blood, protect ourselves in an endless embrace – but we cannot afford that, nor can they.

    Ashy grey faces – Oh NO! Not one more load of tens of maimed and bleeding, we still have lakes of blood on the floor in the ER, piles of dripping, blood-soaked bandages to clear out – oh – the cleaners, everywhere, swiftly shovelling the blood and discarded tissues, hair, clothes, cannulas – the leftovers from death – all taken away… to be prepared again, to be repeated all over. More then 100 cases came to Shifa in the last 24 hours. Enough for a large well trained hospital with everything, but here – almost nothing: no electricity, water, disposables, drugs, operating room tables, instruments, monitors – all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday’s hospitals. But they do not complain, these heroes. They get on with it, like warriors, head on, enormously resolute.

     

    And as I write these words to you, alone, on a bed, my tears flow, the warm but useless tears of pain and grief, of anger and fear. This is not happening!

    And then, just now, the orchestra of the Israeli war-machine starts its gruesome symphony again, just now: salvos of artillery from the navy boats just down on the shores, the roaring F16, the sickening drones (Arabic ‘Zennanis’, the hummers), and the cluttering Apaches. So much made in and paid for by the US.

     

    Mr. Obama – do you have a heart? I invite you – spend one night – just one night – with us in Shifa. Disguised as a cleaner, maybe. I am convinced, 100 per cent, it would change history. Nobody with a heart AND power could ever walk away from a night in Shifa without being determined to end the slaughter of the Palestinian people.

    But the heartless and merciless have done their calculations and planned another dahyia onslaught on Gaza.

    The rivers of blood will keep running the coming night. I can hear they have tuned their instruments of death.

    Please. Do what you can. This, THIS cannot continue.

     

    Mads Gilbert MD PhD
    Professor and Clinical Head
    Clinic of Emergency Medicine
    University Hospital of North Norway

     

    Hearthstone/general gaming LTT crew

    in Looking For Group

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    Since my group of friends isn't exactly the hardcore gamer kind of group (we do play AOE2 though) i decided i had to make new friends who play more different games! I currently have 2 friends on hearthstone and this is ofcourse far to little. Feel free to add me on steam/hearthstone...

    BattleTag: HappyFeet #24176

     

    SteamID: pieterdewolf93

    Grts
    Pieter

    Is soccer the worst modern sport in the world?

    in Off Topic

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    I live in Belgium, our national team finally qualified for the first time since 2002 so the hype here is insane and i absolutely, 100% love it :D i think i watched almost every game so far. The Netherlands winning from Spain with 5-1, Costa Rica defeating Uruguay with 3-1. The sport in itself isn't that spectacular at all, but the drama and the atmosphere around it is what makes it such a beautiful game :D 

    Halt and Catch Fire (New series by AMC about the PC revolution)

    in Off Topic

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    Who saw the first episode and what did you think? For those of you who haven't heard about the show, here's the wikipedia intro:
     

    Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Chris Cantwell and Chris Rogers, that is scheduled to premiere on AMC on June 1, 2014.[1][2] A sneak peek of its pilot episode was made available in May 2014. The series is set in the early 1980s and depicts a fictionalized insider's view of the personal computer revolution. The title refers to the machine code instruction Halt and Catch Fire, which could cause a computer's central processing unit to cease all meaningful function.

     

     

    I liked it, the setting is spot on, the cast looks nice and it has got the right amount of drama and mystery already :D

     

    Opinions please!

     

    Trailer:

    The real reason Watch Dogs was not as good as it was expected.

    in PC Gaming

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    The point is, I've stopped pre-ordering. It prevents disappointments like watchdogs.

     

    Is pre-ordering AAA titles still a thing? I mean no offense at all, just curious. I guess everyone is starting to figure out that even highly hyped games aren't flawless, let alone work at launch date. (simcity anyone?) I hope for the sake of PC gamers that everyone stops pre-ordering, it's a joke at this point.

    The real reason Watch Dogs was not as good as it was expected.

    in PC Gaming

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    You should look it trough my eyes. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but it bothers a lot of people. This is a huge thing, and it takes all the enjoyment away from the game. It literally ruins the whole game for me. And you say it as if this is something small and I (+ a ton of people on the Ubi forums) are just bitching and whining about. NO. This is a game breaker. A game with a serious theme should not have something that ridiculous in it. Ubi should not have catered to the needs of noobs. The noobification of games these days is really getting silly. But it's also a poor design choice. Why should the shooting element in the game be hard, but the driving easy? There is no logic in that. This is clearly a shooting AND driving oriented game. 

     

    Catered to the needs of noobs? Well play it on "realistic" difficulty then. The driving, I agree that it's ridiculous, but at the same time. I think the game does so many things right as well. Like you said, the combat system is great, hacking is quite fun and the story, while not great, is entertaining. And the multiplayer is ridiculously for to me.

    It's not the game the hype made it up to be, but it's still one of the best games this year so far.

    The real reason Watch Dogs was not as good as it was expected.

    in PC Gaming

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    Guess what, company's like money. Like everyone else. Console gamers are still the biggest market for developers, whether you like that or not. Ubisoft makes fantastic franchises and you all know it, assassins creed, farcry, the splinter cell series, rayman... The list is way longer than this, quit whining about the handling of a damn car, the game is not about the handling of a car... quit whining.

    Gigabyte laptops in Belgium?

    in Phones and Tablets

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    Hi guys! 

     

    So i just finished watching Logan's video about the new gigabyte laptops and they look sweet! Just the right amount of features and horsepower without getting to bulky or heay. I was wondering where i could buy one? I can't find them in Belgium. If anyone finds a site where i could buy one that doesn't have ridiculous shipping fees that would be great :D

     

    Grts

    Pieter

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