Sonic.Net charges $80/month for 1gb/1gb to residential and $40/month for 1gb/100mb for business, and can run servers. They said their 95 percentile is set by residential lines pulling down YouTube and Netflix at night, so they can offer dirt cheap business packages because the bandwidth is already paid for. Essentially, businesses are using bandwidth "off hours", so it's free to the ISP.
They should just switch over to 95 percentile based billing. It reflects network usage much better and is how the Internet really works when it comes to ISP costs.
She doesn't sore videos on her phone, she streams them. I assume my wife is a lot closer to "normal" than I am. While I may have the capability to share lots of content that is not "mine", my wife shares stuff all the time on Facebook, etc, and it's all legal. Just wait for 4k 120fps Youtube upload in the near future. Going to need some bandwidth for that. GoPro already has 1080p 120fps cameras. Record 30minutes with that and see how much a phat upload pipe would help. This is becoming "normal".
"Volume-based billing" does not reflect real world usage or resource consumption. It's an overly-simplistic way of measurement that has a huge number of corner cases that causes waste and does not reduce congestion based on pricing.
Yes, why would the "Federal Communications Commission" want to entertain regulating an abused communications system? It is in the public's good that we have reliable communications, and the FCC is tasked with making sure things don't get too out of hand, and we're in a grey area with the Internet right now. People are pissed and the FCC doesn't have a black-and-white indicator to let them know if things are "bad enough" yet.
When I pay for my Internet access, I had better get at least a good faith "Best effort", not a "we refuse to upgrade".
Most of the content on my wife's cell phone, by both number and size, is content she created. She takes pictures, she sends texts. That's all creative content. All forms of communication is "creative content".
They should make a rule that an "edge provider" must maintain non-congested links or must make sure that all links have roughly the same congestion, otherwise they're unjustly discriminating. If the ISP can't handle that, then they must downgrade customer's link rates until the congestion is gone. If the ISP can't handle the traffic, then they should send the traffic to someone else who can, you know, purchase transit from Level 3 or someone. Edge providers are not responsible for congestion outside of their network, but are responsible for congestion inside or at its borders.
Most of the FreeBSD devs run Current, not even stable. Even Netflix runs all of their servers on Current. Recently, the FreeBSD devs were bragging about how their FreeBSD laptops were finally not the systems with issues at the conference, but the Mac laptops were having issues with the wifi. I'm going to have to say that you pretty much just made everything up.
You can thank OpenBSD for Linux, and FreeBSD, 64bit modes finally working. OpenBSD has a history of spearheading new tech and working out the bugs. Both Linux and FreeBSD were afraid of switching to 64bit because it would break some software. OpenBSD didn't give a crap, so lots of programs got their bug fixes. Same thing with ASLR, and lots of other modern features.
By the time you ask questions, it's already too late. We handle a lot of integration of many data systems where the systems are in constant flux. We need to integrated with thousands of customers and need to be fully aware of all of the edge cases and interactions of all of these systems.
In order to do our work you must
Full understand from top to bottom how our system works
Full understand from top to bottom how nearly every other department systems work
Full understand from top to bottom how each customers system works
Full understand from top to bottom how All of these systems interact
Full understand understand the ramifications of your decisions
Be able to explain all of this to other people in the company
Be able to work with the customers to help them with their systems
Be able to create a list of pro and cons for certain decisions
I work in a very unique market of integrating with constantly moving targets. And the only standard is there is no standard. Ditto for rules. You just need to roll with the punches and be very nimble and think outside the box. One of the things that makes our department "special" is we are really good at identifying potential issues well before the design phase. Describe the problem you're facing, we'll ask questions, and we do a decent job telling you what to watch out for. Most of this is only ever learned via experience. This is not something to be taught in a book.
Even companies like Microsoft and Google have come to us asking for advice on how to handle these situations. It sounds like they may be outsourcing to us for our expertise in consulting on these issues.
We've been making in-roads with some very large data warehouse vendors for analytics, and they've been starting to come to us for help in these situations. We're making strong professional relationships. Turn-over of employees is expensive. We like to keep our people.
Relative to the USA, yes. Assuming we want to drive the 30 minutes to get there, we have access to several of the top 10 hospitals in the world for their fields and are leaders in research for fields like stems calls, cancer, neurosurgery, reconstructive surgery, you name it.
My covered yearly check up with my doctor takes about 1.5 hours from the time he sees me. We go over everything. A lot of those more social healthcare countries have 10-15 minute face-to-face time with their doctors.
Technically, anyone on American soil has Constitutional rights. Some of that can be skirted if you're here illegally, but not entirely.
There was already a recent case in one of the southern states here police were unconstitutionally pulling people over that looked Hispanic. They eventually found someone that was here illegally, tried to deport them, but the Federal court caught wind and said because that person was unconstitutionally racially profiled, the state was not allowed to deport them or use any evidence collected from the pull over to later deporting that person. This also meant they were driving illegally.
The police knew where this illegal immigrant lived, but because they obtained the address via illegal means, they can no longer use that knowledge to deport that person. The federal judge was quite livid about the situation.
The illegal immigrant was let off scott-free and allowed to stay, but was still here illegally. Freaking awesome.
It is beneficial to the country as a whole to gain valuable talent. The more smart people who work in the USA, the fewer there are to work else where. That makes us more competitive in the long run. The notion of encouraging people to work in your country is a good one, just don't go around hiring everyone, just those who add value.
Money is only as valuable as the work that can be purchased with it. The more talented people who work in the USA, the more valuable the money is as a whole, assuming we have enough job positions to make use of them, which we seem to.
With a sub 1% unemployment rate in my portion of the tech sector, it's hard to find employees to fill much needed spots. But with a multi-year learning curve to start being a net-profit for the company, we aim to hire people who have local roots and have a vested interest to stay with the company long-term. And because of our aim for long term employees, we mostly get treated well.
We've been mostly a local company, but we're starting to get more remote workers from around the nation, but face-to-face is still preferred, you learn a lot of information on how to do your job via overhearing people discussing stuff or random chit-chat that strikes up as someone passes your cubical.
WTF kind of crap insurance do you have over there? Here in the midwest, between my employer and employees, insurance is about $1.1k/month for a family. I'm sure the company gets a group discount.
That is a $3k family deductible, with a $1.5k/individual. A lot of stuff is covered at 100%, some things you have co-pays of $5. They will cover anything, even if your doctor did not recommend it, no maximums of any kind, including lifetime. All out of pocket, including co-pays, count towards the deductible, which once met, no more co-pays, everything is covered 100%.
Nation wide non-profit insurance that is recognized as one of the most ethical companies in the world.
I wonder how people even find insurance that it's so crappy and expensive at the same time.
The will even cover your children indefinitely, so long as they stay in college full time or are in the military, and obviously not married. If there is every a lapse of more than 6 months, they will no longer be eligible.
The "Obama Care" changes that look like prices went up was more of law changes that made predatory "cheap" insurance that didn't actually offer anything, illegal.
A personal example was my mom's employer was constantly changing insurance companies to "save money". My mom was sometimes paying ever so slightly less, yay, save $20/month, but every time she went into the doctors, she had to fight tooth and nail to get the insurance to pay, during which time she couldn't go back to the hospital because of her outstanding "debt", that her insurance was supposed to cover 100%.
Her employer kept changing insurances every 1-2 years because the old one would suddenly go out of business. It's these insurance companies that were effectively fraudulent shell companies that got removed from the market. My mom's insurance premium went up with the law change, but now she has a semi-decent insurance company to work with because her employer is forced to only select from government regulated companies. I'm sure there was some collateral damage, but I assume an overall win.
What's this per second stuff? They could limit you to 1 byte per sub-infinite time frame, and still technically not be an issue for many of these people.
"you're agreeing to whatever current terms are in effect"
You are agreeing to whatever terms your agreed to in the first place. If AT&T doesn't like the terms, they can cancel your contract and end your service until you renew a new contract. You can't automagically be in a different contract without your explicit consent.
There is a difference between artificial limits and best effort. Everything in life is "within reason". There is also a reason I mentioned "colloquial usage".
Energy doesn't stay in place, it moves from high to low. We'd quickly detect if it was a form of energy, unless it was a new exotic form of energy, which it could be, but much much less likely than it being an exotic form of matter.
In order for there not to be matter, we must come up with something entirely new to explain the distortion of space. We know fora fact that the space is distorted, we can see it. It is all over the place, mostly around the "halos" of galaxies. Maybe you're so smart as to create a whole new branch of science for us, o great one.
I had something similar with my Credit Union once. We went in, complained, and the Union put ALL of the money back in our account from their own pocket and told us that they'll take care of the rest. Never got a follow up on the results, but I assume the Union went after the other account holder. Bull's Eye, fyi.
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Sonic.Net charges $80/month for 1gb/1gb to residential and $40/month for 1gb/100mb for business, and can run servers. They said their 95 percentile is set by residential lines pulling down YouTube and Netflix at night, so they can offer dirt cheap business packages because the bandwidth is already paid for. Essentially, businesses are using bandwidth "off hours", so it's free to the ISP.
They should just switch over to 95 percentile based billing. It reflects network usage much better and is how the Internet really works when it comes to ISP costs.
She doesn't sore videos on her phone, she streams them. I assume my wife is a lot closer to "normal" than I am. While I may have the capability to share lots of content that is not "mine", my wife shares stuff all the time on Facebook, etc, and it's all legal. Just wait for 4k 120fps Youtube upload in the near future. Going to need some bandwidth for that. GoPro already has 1080p 120fps cameras. Record 30minutes with that and see how much a phat upload pipe would help. This is becoming "normal".
"Volume-based billing" does not reflect real world usage or resource consumption. It's an overly-simplistic way of measurement that has a huge number of corner cases that causes waste and does not reduce congestion based on pricing.
Yes, why would the "Federal Communications Commission" want to entertain regulating an abused communications system? It is in the public's good that we have reliable communications, and the FCC is tasked with making sure things don't get too out of hand, and we're in a grey area with the Internet right now. People are pissed and the FCC doesn't have a black-and-white indicator to let them know if things are "bad enough" yet.
When I pay for my Internet access, I had better get at least a good faith "Best effort", not a "we refuse to upgrade".
This last option is what some of the transit and ISP networks
Transit networks love Netflix, it's some of those pesky last mile ISPs that don't like them.
Most of the content on my wife's cell phone, by both number and size, is content she created. She takes pictures, she sends texts. That's all creative content. All forms of communication is "creative content".
They should make a rule that an "edge provider" must maintain non-congested links or must make sure that all links have roughly the same congestion, otherwise they're unjustly discriminating. If the ISP can't handle that, then they must downgrade customer's link rates until the congestion is gone. If the ISP can't handle the traffic, then they should send the traffic to someone else who can, you know, purchase transit from Level 3 or someone. Edge providers are not responsible for congestion outside of their network, but are responsible for congestion inside or at its borders.
Most of the FreeBSD devs run Current, not even stable. Even Netflix runs all of their servers on Current. Recently, the FreeBSD devs were bragging about how their FreeBSD laptops were finally not the systems with issues at the conference, but the Mac laptops were having issues with the wifi. I'm going to have to say that you pretty much just made everything up.
You can thank OpenBSD for Linux, and FreeBSD, 64bit modes finally working. OpenBSD has a history of spearheading new tech and working out the bugs. Both Linux and FreeBSD were afraid of switching to 64bit because it would break some software. OpenBSD didn't give a crap, so lots of programs got their bug fixes. Same thing with ASLR, and lots of other modern features.
By the time you ask questions, it's already too late. We handle a lot of integration of many data systems where the systems are in constant flux. We need to integrated with thousands of customers and need to be fully aware of all of the edge cases and interactions of all of these systems.
In order to do our work you must
Full understand from top to bottom how our system works
Full understand from top to bottom how nearly every other department systems work
Full understand from top to bottom how each customers system works
Full understand from top to bottom how All of these systems interact
Full understand understand the ramifications of your decisions
Be able to explain all of this to other people in the company
Be able to work with the customers to help them with their systems
Be able to create a list of pro and cons for certain decisions
I work in a very unique market of integrating with constantly moving targets. And the only standard is there is no standard. Ditto for rules. You just need to roll with the punches and be very nimble and think outside the box. One of the things that makes our department "special" is we are really good at identifying potential issues well before the design phase. Describe the problem you're facing, we'll ask questions, and we do a decent job telling you what to watch out for. Most of this is only ever learned via experience. This is not something to be taught in a book.
Even companies like Microsoft and Google have come to us asking for advice on how to handle these situations. It sounds like they may be outsourcing to us for our expertise in consulting on these issues.
We've been making in-roads with some very large data warehouse vendors for analytics, and they've been starting to come to us for help in these situations. We're making strong professional relationships. Turn-over of employees is expensive. We like to keep our people.
Relative to the USA, yes. Assuming we want to drive the 30 minutes to get there, we have access to several of the top 10 hospitals in the world for their fields and are leaders in research for fields like stems calls, cancer, neurosurgery, reconstructive surgery, you name it.
My covered yearly check up with my doctor takes about 1.5 hours from the time he sees me. We go over everything. A lot of those more social healthcare countries have 10-15 minute face-to-face time with their doctors.
I'm sure there is a happy medium to be found.
Technically, anyone on American soil has Constitutional rights. Some of that can be skirted if you're here illegally, but not entirely.
There was already a recent case in one of the southern states here police were unconstitutionally pulling people over that looked Hispanic. They eventually found someone that was here illegally, tried to deport them, but the Federal court caught wind and said because that person was unconstitutionally racially profiled, the state was not allowed to deport them or use any evidence collected from the pull over to later deporting that person. This also meant they were driving illegally.
The police knew where this illegal immigrant lived, but because they obtained the address via illegal means, they can no longer use that knowledge to deport that person. The federal judge was quite livid about the situation.
The illegal immigrant was let off scott-free and allowed to stay, but was still here illegally. Freaking awesome.
It is beneficial to the country as a whole to gain valuable talent. The more smart people who work in the USA, the fewer there are to work else where. That makes us more competitive in the long run. The notion of encouraging people to work in your country is a good one, just don't go around hiring everyone, just those who add value.
Money is only as valuable as the work that can be purchased with it. The more talented people who work in the USA, the more valuable the money is as a whole, assuming we have enough job positions to make use of them, which we seem to.
With a sub 1% unemployment rate in my portion of the tech sector, it's hard to find employees to fill much needed spots. But with a multi-year learning curve to start being a net-profit for the company, we aim to hire people who have local roots and have a vested interest to stay with the company long-term. And because of our aim for long term employees, we mostly get treated well.
We've been mostly a local company, but we're starting to get more remote workers from around the nation, but face-to-face is still preferred, you learn a lot of information on how to do your job via overhearing people discussing stuff or random chit-chat that strikes up as someone passes your cubical.
WTF kind of crap insurance do you have over there? Here in the midwest, between my employer and employees, insurance is about $1.1k/month for a family. I'm sure the company gets a group discount.
That is a $3k family deductible, with a $1.5k/individual. A lot of stuff is covered at 100%, some things you have co-pays of $5. They will cover anything, even if your doctor did not recommend it, no maximums of any kind, including lifetime. All out of pocket, including co-pays, count towards the deductible, which once met, no more co-pays, everything is covered 100%.
Nation wide non-profit insurance that is recognized as one of the most ethical companies in the world.
I wonder how people even find insurance that it's so crappy and expensive at the same time.
The will even cover your children indefinitely, so long as they stay in college full time or are in the military, and obviously not married. If there is every a lapse of more than 6 months, they will no longer be eligible.
The "Obama Care" changes that look like prices went up was more of law changes that made predatory "cheap" insurance that didn't actually offer anything, illegal.
A personal example was my mom's employer was constantly changing insurance companies to "save money". My mom was sometimes paying ever so slightly less, yay, save $20/month, but every time she went into the doctors, she had to fight tooth and nail to get the insurance to pay, during which time she couldn't go back to the hospital because of her outstanding "debt", that her insurance was supposed to cover 100%.
Her employer kept changing insurances every 1-2 years because the old one would suddenly go out of business. It's these insurance companies that were effectively fraudulent shell companies that got removed from the market. My mom's insurance premium went up with the law change, but now she has a semi-decent insurance company to work with because her employer is forced to only select from government regulated companies. I'm sure there was some collateral damage, but I assume an overall win.
What's this per second stuff? They could limit you to 1 byte per sub-infinite time frame, and still technically not be an issue for many of these people.
"you're agreeing to whatever current terms are in effect"
You are agreeing to whatever terms your agreed to in the first place. If AT&T doesn't like the terms, they can cancel your contract and end your service until you renew a new contract. You can't automagically be in a different contract without your explicit consent.
There is a difference between artificial limits and best effort. Everything in life is "within reason". There is also a reason I mentioned "colloquial usage".
Energy doesn't stay in place, it moves from high to low. We'd quickly detect if it was a form of energy, unless it was a new exotic form of energy, which it could be, but much much less likely than it being an exotic form of matter.
We clearly see the distortion of space time with nothing detectable there. You are wrong is your assumptions.
In order for there not to be matter, we must come up with something entirely new to explain the distortion of space. We know fora fact that the space is distorted, we can see it. It is all over the place, mostly around the "halos" of galaxies. Maybe you're so smart as to create a whole new branch of science for us, o great one.
If there was something electric, it would interact with light. Light is the carrier of electromagnetism.
I had something similar with my Credit Union once. We went in, complained, and the Union put ALL of the money back in our account from their own pocket and told us that they'll take care of the rest. Never got a follow up on the results, but I assume the Union went after the other account holder. Bull's Eye, fyi.