My ISP offers a 150/150 guaranteed full provisioned speed 24/7 for $50/m. Of course this guarantee only applies to their internal network and truck to the backbone (Level 3 comm is their transit). If I have any issues what so ever in regards to performance(loss, jitter, latency, bandwidth), they will fix the issue if it is within their network or their transit link.
But don't think you can go about hosting your website on that connection. They recommend at least purchasing their $80/m 250/250 and $10/m for a/29 if you want to do any web-hosting.
Right now I have a 0.12ms ping to my ISP and 6ms to several datacenters in Chicago. I get less than 5min of downtime per year for the past few years, and last year I was paying $100 for 100/100, but upgraded to 150/150 for $20/m for 6mo and $50/m after. In the past 5 years, my bill has only changed $0.05, outside of the $50 drop. Prices are going down, speeds are going up. ~$40-$50 seems to be the general floor around here.
I guess I would say I use the term "10 dimensional " loosely. What I actually see is a collection of potential characteristics of a system at roughly the same time. What if I use a struct, what if I use a class, what if I use static, what if I use threads, what if I use tasks, what if I use UDP, what if I use TCP, what if I use small packets, what if I use large packets, what if I have large network buffers, what if I have small network buffers, what if I optimize this code for size, what if I optimize this code for instructions, what if I optimize this code for cache size, what if I align this data to this offset.
Take pretty much every potential "what if" for a part of the system, and those collections of "what if"s turn into a shape. Now take all of the modules in the system, and those create a shape. When I attempt to debug, optimize, or design a system, I rotate these shapes. When someone asks "what if I make the packets larger", I can quickly see every part of the system that will be affected and the possible corner cases.
Don't think I can just whip these things up and see the world like a savant. It can take me days, depending on the complexity of the system. But many many times I have solved rare complex non-reproducible interaction problems that have stumped people for months in only a matter of days. When I was fresh out of college with about 2 weeks experience in coding, I solved an issue with our companies $200k F5 firewall that had our entire senior admin team and the F5 on site support. They were about 2 days into trying to solve a problem where the customer was periodically unable to connect to our web service. The multi-million dollar contract was hanging on by a thread with a furious customer. Based on nothing more than the original email from the customer, in under 10 minutes I was able to create a hypothesis, and 20 minutes later, my co-worker created a test to reproduce the issue. I didn't even try to run anything. I just thought about the problem. I knew almost nothing about HTTPS and absolutely nothing about how the F5 did reverse HTTPS proxying, and absolutely nothing about the web service behind the F5. Turned out it was a miss-match in configuration between HTTPS cookie caching expiration and HTTPS session expiration.
As for the "packet" thing. I was helping someone on a forum that was experiencing intermittent bursty packetloss on their internal network with a microservice architecture. Again, this was early in my programming career and had zero experience with microservices and pretty much anything else for that matter. They had by trying to track this issue down for nearly a year, hiring consulting services to investigate, lots of packet-sniffing, special switches. After a day of thinking on the problem, I had an image in my head that involved their software, OS, NICs, and switches that I kept rotating. As I was messing around in my head, I suddenly felt a prick on my finger whenever I rotated the image. I finally narrowed in on the part that resulted in this sensation. Then I had to reflect for a few hours on what that part of the image meant. I eventually figured out it represented a large number of microservices all making requests over established TCP connections, and all of these servers hitting a common upstream bottleneck where the buffer was not large enough on the switch. I posted on the forum, asking if they had a situation where a single API call had a large number of dependencies on many other microservices, and if these services were on servers that had a shared upstream bottleneck. Yes, my guess was correct. I told them to try disabling HTTP connection pooling. The problem went away. Eventually they had to install a switch with larger buffers. The issue was all of these microservices were effectively in sync with each other, and when they all attempted to transmit data over a common bottleneck, their accumulative TCP window was too large and the burst of packets resulted in the 1Gb port dropping packets, even if the average bandwidth was very low. It wa
I'm quite used to changing types of inputs into others.
When I see something smooth, I can feel its smoothness on my finger tips
When I hear strange sounds and my eyes are closed, I can visually(with my "eyes") see light patterns that represent the sound.
When I touch something, I can "hear" its texture
When I think about difficult reasoning problems, I see(with my "mind's eye") complex many(10+)-dimensional shapes allowing me to see corner cases and other undesirable interactions
When looking at packet timing information, I can both hear and feel packet micro-bursts and other packet stream interactions
30hz is no where near enough for smooth mouse movement. Even at 60hz it looks like a strobe-effect, jumping many pixels at a time. If I move my cursor from one side of the screen to the other in 1/2 a second, it has to traverse 1920*2 pixels per second. When I move my mouse across the screen at a fairly normal pace for large movements, I see about 6 images of the cursor with about 1-2 inches between each image.
Since it looks like the cursor is jumping when it moves more than one pixel at a time. Naively, we need closer to 4,000hz to make it smooth. Of course human perception does not scale to faster speeds like that and motion blur will kick in after a certain amount of time, but even when I played Counter-strike at 120fps, on a 120hz monitor, it had noticeable "jumping". Quite a few people can even notice the micro-stutter of going from 240fps to 230fps on a 240hz gsync monitor.
At the macroscopic level that we experience nature, everything is analog and smooth. Computer screens are anything but, and our visual system can pick up on it quite easily.
These exceptions are any time you have two different types of metal that have long term contact and have electricity passing through them. If everyone settled on copper as the norm, we'd have no issues, but as it stands, there is a lot of tin and aluminum out there. To compensate, you plate your stuff in gold to make sure you won't have any future issues with other metals.
This could be selection bias, but I've never had an issue unscrewing a gold plated coax cable, even from the cheapest brands, but I have always had issues unscrewing non-gold plated cables, even from premium brands. I'm not sure how "exceptional" a coax cable is.
Times you don't need it are short term contact or where the contacts are durable and you have plenty of leverage, like a power cable. Any bonding that may occur from different metals will be insignificant for either function or wear.
Officially, the S7s take 30min for 50% and 88min for 100%. I feel like it's faster than that, but I haven't actually timed it. And they're only QuickCharge 2.0.
Eyes don't see in pixels, the resolution is non-uniformly distribution, eyes keep moving. Don't confuse the compression they eyes do for the max resolution. The human visual system throws out a lot of data because it's too similar, making it seem like you can't see the differences. But if you get any decent contrast, our optics pick it right up.
I've seen non-gold coax cables bind to the other receptacle and contacts tear off because they were not gold plated and were two different metals, like tin and copper. Gold works as a great in-between that keeps my items from binding.
My ISP offers 1080p for most "HD" channels. Not that TV matters much anymore. I get most of my video media from the Internet, which offers 4k in many situations.
I'm charging my S7 about 0.15/day. 100% when I leave home, about 85%-90% when I go to bed. Sometimes I let the battery discharge to about 20%, but that takes ~5 days.
I've heard similar about diets possibly needing to be tailored to your genes. I can't wait to see what the research shows on this topic over the next decade or two. Regardless of the exact results, my guess is diet, flora, genetics, and health relations are a lot more complex than anyone ever imagined.
My grandpa died in his 80s to lung cancer from asbestos. In order for the payout from the company regarding asbestos, there was an autopsy. They said his heart was like a 20 year old athlete. Fit as a fiddle. What'd he eat? Sausage, beef, eggs, and cheese. A typical northern USA Polish diet.
My friend's grandpa died at the age of 95 while plowing his field. He stopped to investigate something when he made some sort of mistake and got ran over. His diet was also heavy in meat and cheese and he was a chain smoker since the age of 11.
My wife's grandpa, also has a typical northern USA diet, he's 93 years old and recently was in a competition where he pulled off 100 push ups.
My uncle is in his 70s, also eats the same way as the rest of us, and he runs about 10 miles a day. He's very spry and quick witted.
Nearly every one of my great aunts and uncles are either alive or died in their 90s or early 100s. At least at family functions, we all eat the polar opposite of vegan. I am not sure how much diet plays a role vs genetics.
Nearly all of Gold's value comes from speculation, not intrinsic value. Depending on how pedantic you want to be, one could validly argue that nothing has intrinsic value. Nothing has any value beyond the value an observer thinks it has, which is the opposite of "intrinsic". "Intrinsic" means something is a universal truth.
I understand the usage of "Intrinsic" in this context, but it is not an appropriate word.
Around the age of 5, my mom almost died and was deathly ill in the hospital. I guess I thought she was going to die and I refused to talk to her. I just cut her out of my life like she didn't exist anymore. I was told I otherwise acted normal, but pretended my mother was already gone. My father had to talk to me to tell me she was going to be just fine, then I started talking to her again like nothing ever happened.
While I don't directly remember any of this, the description from my parents leads me to believe I understood death just fine back then. The furthest back I can remember dealing with death, pre-teen, it never really bothered me. People die and I learned to accept that as part of living sometime before I can remember.
Overall, I was very unemotional and mostly still am. The few times I remember being emotional was when I was furious with how stupid other people could be. Some of these memories as far back as pre-school. As far back as I can remember, a pet peeve of mine was people being irrational. I remember before kindergarten trying to have heated debates with my care-takers, but frustrated with my inability to articulate my thoughts. I didn't know what I hated worse, knowing they were wrong but in power or being unable to explain why they were wrong.
Coal has costed more than renewables for a decade now, if you included the externalized costs of healthcare its pollution causes. Wind and solar are both poised to become cheaper than coal in less than a decade and are already substantially cheaper without subsidies in favorable generation areas. A recent available solar option are solar-shingle roofs. They cost nearly identical to regular shingled roofs up front, but are actually more durable, making them cheaper in the long run, and generate power to boot. It will be only logical to use these new tiles.
It is currently assumed that nearly 100% of houses in the USA will have these solar shingles in the next 20-30 years as people use them for their next roofing project to save money. Then it's only a matter of people deciding to hook them up to an inverter, which will cost some extra, but I can't see that being a terribly difficult sell.
There are already talks of how to subsidize fossil fuel electrical generation in the USA once we reach the tipping point. In some areas of the USA, that point is already reached. It is literally cheaper to built and operate a wind farm in some areas than to operate a coal power plant. The cost of the wind farm is less than the cost of the fuel. In some oil rich areas in the Middle East, it's about 20% cheaper to operate a 24/7 solar plant with batteries than a natural gas power plant of the same generation ability, and natural gas is an abundant cheap fuel from their many oil wells. Natural gas was quoting about $0.05/kwh and solar about $0.04/kwh. I wish I had those prices.
Actually, I do, just no SLA. P2P self-healing fiber ring strait back to the CO with a "best effort" guarantee. Essentially it means I won't get refunded for minor glitches, but I can call in for anything less than perfect. They tell me I should NEVER see latency or dropped packets and encourage me to call and complain if I notice anything. I called in on a 10ms increase in ping and they fixed it in less than an hour. I've downloaded and seeded torrents to 99.9% of my max bandwidth with less than 1Mb/s difference between min/max bandwidth for nearly 8 hours 4pm-11pm Tuesday night. $50/m for 150/150.
I was told by their network admin that their internal network can handle 100% of all customers using 100% of their provisioned bandwidth at the same time at line rate. Their trunk is 6x 95% percentile and can be increased an addition 10x on a moment's notice to Level 3 just in case.
Nearly all Steam CDNs max out my bandwidth, but I still choose local CDNs to be a good netizen.
"Sufficient" is subjective. I don't like waiting. Bought a new game on Steam? I don't want to wait more than 60 seconds for the install and the game better well load in 10 seconds.
I can't even get a job without Internet access, unless I plan on being paid cache or farm help. Nearly every single store in my city require applying online, no walk-ins. Having the Internet is like having a car or phone. Technically you don't "need" it.
Fiber doesn't require power. The ISP can easily tell when large numbers of people are without power and who they are. This is very valuable information for the power company during an outage. One power company claimed to have reduced the costs to fixing their power by 50% and reduced outage times by something like 20%. In the end, they saved the local community enough money IN ONE YEAR from power outages and reduced costs to pay for the entire cost of the fiber network. Fiber internet is so cheap, it pays you.
As for health care. Local hospitals over here are now offering remote doctor visits over the Internet, but it requires high speed Internet access. These are 24/7 hour services with a near zero wait time that cost about $30, except no insurance required. Anyone in our state has access to this service. It's saving local residents tons of money all the while making it more convenient than a midnight trip to the ER for your child's fever. This became available shortly after fiber internet was deployed and the local ISP had to upgrade to multi-100Gb trunk, which allowed the hospital network to start offering such services.
Low cost fiber Internet is making a huge different in my local community.
BSD doesn't let you take away any permission upon distribution. Just because you made a copy of FreeBSD with some alternations does not mean FreeBSD is no longer able to be copied for anyone else. BSD lets you distribution custom alterations without having to release the source for them. The originals are just fine.
It's quite bad. For $15k and 4 years of time, I had a 100% chance of getting a full-time job in domain within 6 months of graduation with a typical starting pay of $70k-$90k. At least that was the results of all of the alumni that graduated with my "programming" degree for the past 30 years.
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My ISP offers a 150/150 guaranteed full provisioned speed 24/7 for $50/m. Of course this guarantee only applies to their internal network and truck to the backbone (Level 3 comm is their transit). If I have any issues what so ever in regards to performance(loss, jitter, latency, bandwidth), they will fix the issue if it is within their network or their transit link.
/29 if you want to do any web-hosting.
But don't think you can go about hosting your website on that connection. They recommend at least purchasing their $80/m 250/250 and $10/m for a
Right now I have a 0.12ms ping to my ISP and 6ms to several datacenters in Chicago. I get less than 5min of downtime per year for the past few years, and last year I was paying $100 for 100/100, but upgraded to 150/150 for $20/m for 6mo and $50/m after. In the past 5 years, my bill has only changed $0.05, outside of the $50 drop. Prices are going down, speeds are going up. ~$40-$50 seems to be the general floor around here.
I guess I would say I use the term "10 dimensional " loosely. What I actually see is a collection of potential characteristics of a system at roughly the same time. What if I use a struct, what if I use a class, what if I use static, what if I use threads, what if I use tasks, what if I use UDP, what if I use TCP, what if I use small packets, what if I use large packets, what if I have large network buffers, what if I have small network buffers, what if I optimize this code for size, what if I optimize this code for instructions, what if I optimize this code for cache size, what if I align this data to this offset.
Take pretty much every potential "what if" for a part of the system, and those collections of "what if"s turn into a shape. Now take all of the modules in the system, and those create a shape. When I attempt to debug, optimize, or design a system, I rotate these shapes. When someone asks "what if I make the packets larger", I can quickly see every part of the system that will be affected and the possible corner cases.
Don't think I can just whip these things up and see the world like a savant. It can take me days, depending on the complexity of the system. But many many times I have solved rare complex non-reproducible interaction problems that have stumped people for months in only a matter of days. When I was fresh out of college with about 2 weeks experience in coding, I solved an issue with our companies $200k F5 firewall that had our entire senior admin team and the F5 on site support. They were about 2 days into trying to solve a problem where the customer was periodically unable to connect to our web service. The multi-million dollar contract was hanging on by a thread with a furious customer. Based on nothing more than the original email from the customer, in under 10 minutes I was able to create a hypothesis, and 20 minutes later, my co-worker created a test to reproduce the issue. I didn't even try to run anything. I just thought about the problem. I knew almost nothing about HTTPS and absolutely nothing about how the F5 did reverse HTTPS proxying, and absolutely nothing about the web service behind the F5. Turned out it was a miss-match in configuration between HTTPS cookie caching expiration and HTTPS session expiration.
As for the "packet" thing. I was helping someone on a forum that was experiencing intermittent bursty packetloss on their internal network with a microservice architecture. Again, this was early in my programming career and had zero experience with microservices and pretty much anything else for that matter. They had by trying to track this issue down for nearly a year, hiring consulting services to investigate, lots of packet-sniffing, special switches. After a day of thinking on the problem, I had an image in my head that involved their software, OS, NICs, and switches that I kept rotating. As I was messing around in my head, I suddenly felt a prick on my finger whenever I rotated the image. I finally narrowed in on the part that resulted in this sensation. Then I had to reflect for a few hours on what that part of the image meant. I eventually figured out it represented a large number of microservices all making requests over established TCP connections, and all of these servers hitting a common upstream bottleneck where the buffer was not large enough on the switch. I posted on the forum, asking if they had a situation where a single API call had a large number of dependencies on many other microservices, and if these services were on servers that had a shared upstream bottleneck. Yes, my guess was correct. I told them to try disabling HTTP connection pooling. The problem went away. Eventually they had to install a switch with larger buffers. The issue was all of these microservices were effectively in sync with each other, and when they all attempted to transmit data over a common bottleneck, their accumulative TCP window was too large and the burst of packets resulted in the 1Gb port dropping packets, even if the average bandwidth was very low. It wa
You believe the Earth exists?!
The observable Universe has a radius of 46.5 billion lightyears. You forgot about the acceleration of the expansion of space-time.
I'm quite used to changing types of inputs into others.
When I see something smooth, I can feel its smoothness on my finger tips
When I hear strange sounds and my eyes are closed, I can visually(with my "eyes") see light patterns that represent the sound.
When I touch something, I can "hear" its texture
When I think about difficult reasoning problems, I see(with my "mind's eye") complex many(10+)-dimensional shapes allowing me to see corner cases and other undesirable interactions
When looking at packet timing information, I can both hear and feel packet micro-bursts and other packet stream interactions
30hz is no where near enough for smooth mouse movement. Even at 60hz it looks like a strobe-effect, jumping many pixels at a time. If I move my cursor from one side of the screen to the other in 1/2 a second, it has to traverse 1920*2 pixels per second. When I move my mouse across the screen at a fairly normal pace for large movements, I see about 6 images of the cursor with about 1-2 inches between each image.
Since it looks like the cursor is jumping when it moves more than one pixel at a time. Naively, we need closer to 4,000hz to make it smooth. Of course human perception does not scale to faster speeds like that and motion blur will kick in after a certain amount of time, but even when I played Counter-strike at 120fps, on a 120hz monitor, it had noticeable "jumping". Quite a few people can even notice the micro-stutter of going from 240fps to 230fps on a 240hz gsync monitor.
At the macroscopic level that we experience nature, everything is analog and smooth. Computer screens are anything but, and our visual system can pick up on it quite easily.
These exceptions are any time you have two different types of metal that have long term contact and have electricity passing through them. If everyone settled on copper as the norm, we'd have no issues, but as it stands, there is a lot of tin and aluminum out there. To compensate, you plate your stuff in gold to make sure you won't have any future issues with other metals.
This could be selection bias, but I've never had an issue unscrewing a gold plated coax cable, even from the cheapest brands, but I have always had issues unscrewing non-gold plated cables, even from premium brands. I'm not sure how "exceptional" a coax cable is.
Times you don't need it are short term contact or where the contacts are durable and you have plenty of leverage, like a power cable. Any bonding that may occur from different metals will be insignificant for either function or wear.
Officially, the S7s take 30min for 50% and 88min for 100%. I feel like it's faster than that, but I haven't actually timed it. And they're only QuickCharge 2.0.
Eyes don't see in pixels, the resolution is non-uniformly distribution, eyes keep moving. Don't confuse the compression they eyes do for the max resolution. The human visual system throws out a lot of data because it's too similar, making it seem like you can't see the differences. But if you get any decent contrast, our optics pick it right up.
I've seen non-gold coax cables bind to the other receptacle and contacts tear off because they were not gold plated and were two different metals, like tin and copper. Gold works as a great in-between that keeps my items from binding.
My ISP offers 1080p for most "HD" channels. Not that TV matters much anymore. I get most of my video media from the Internet, which offers 4k in many situations.
I'm charging my S7 about 0.15/day. 100% when I leave home, about 85%-90% when I go to bed. Sometimes I let the battery discharge to about 20%, but that takes ~5 days.
I've heard similar about diets possibly needing to be tailored to your genes. I can't wait to see what the research shows on this topic over the next decade or two. Regardless of the exact results, my guess is diet, flora, genetics, and health relations are a lot more complex than anyone ever imagined.
My grandpa died in his 80s to lung cancer from asbestos. In order for the payout from the company regarding asbestos, there was an autopsy. They said his heart was like a 20 year old athlete. Fit as a fiddle. What'd he eat? Sausage, beef, eggs, and cheese. A typical northern USA Polish diet.
My friend's grandpa died at the age of 95 while plowing his field. He stopped to investigate something when he made some sort of mistake and got ran over. His diet was also heavy in meat and cheese and he was a chain smoker since the age of 11.
My wife's grandpa, also has a typical northern USA diet, he's 93 years old and recently was in a competition where he pulled off 100 push ups.
My uncle is in his 70s, also eats the same way as the rest of us, and he runs about 10 miles a day. He's very spry and quick witted.
Nearly every one of my great aunts and uncles are either alive or died in their 90s or early 100s. At least at family functions, we all eat the polar opposite of vegan. I am not sure how much diet plays a role vs genetics.
Nearly all of Gold's value comes from speculation, not intrinsic value. Depending on how pedantic you want to be, one could validly argue that nothing has intrinsic value. Nothing has any value beyond the value an observer thinks it has, which is the opposite of "intrinsic". "Intrinsic" means something is a universal truth.
I understand the usage of "Intrinsic" in this context, but it is not an appropriate word.
Around the age of 5, my mom almost died and was deathly ill in the hospital. I guess I thought she was going to die and I refused to talk to her. I just cut her out of my life like she didn't exist anymore. I was told I otherwise acted normal, but pretended my mother was already gone. My father had to talk to me to tell me she was going to be just fine, then I started talking to her again like nothing ever happened.
While I don't directly remember any of this, the description from my parents leads me to believe I understood death just fine back then. The furthest back I can remember dealing with death, pre-teen, it never really bothered me. People die and I learned to accept that as part of living sometime before I can remember.
Overall, I was very unemotional and mostly still am. The few times I remember being emotional was when I was furious with how stupid other people could be. Some of these memories as far back as pre-school. As far back as I can remember, a pet peeve of mine was people being irrational. I remember before kindergarten trying to have heated debates with my care-takers, but frustrated with my inability to articulate my thoughts. I didn't know what I hated worse, knowing they were wrong but in power or being unable to explain why they were wrong.
Coal has costed more than renewables for a decade now, if you included the externalized costs of healthcare its pollution causes. Wind and solar are both poised to become cheaper than coal in less than a decade and are already substantially cheaper without subsidies in favorable generation areas. A recent available solar option are solar-shingle roofs. They cost nearly identical to regular shingled roofs up front, but are actually more durable, making them cheaper in the long run, and generate power to boot. It will be only logical to use these new tiles.
It is currently assumed that nearly 100% of houses in the USA will have these solar shingles in the next 20-30 years as people use them for their next roofing project to save money. Then it's only a matter of people deciding to hook them up to an inverter, which will cost some extra, but I can't see that being a terribly difficult sell.
There are already talks of how to subsidize fossil fuel electrical generation in the USA once we reach the tipping point. In some areas of the USA, that point is already reached. It is literally cheaper to built and operate a wind farm in some areas than to operate a coal power plant. The cost of the wind farm is less than the cost of the fuel. In some oil rich areas in the Middle East, it's about 20% cheaper to operate a 24/7 solar plant with batteries than a natural gas power plant of the same generation ability, and natural gas is an abundant cheap fuel from their many oil wells. Natural gas was quoting about $0.05/kwh and solar about $0.04/kwh. I wish I had those prices.
Actually, I do, just no SLA. P2P self-healing fiber ring strait back to the CO with a "best effort" guarantee. Essentially it means I won't get refunded for minor glitches, but I can call in for anything less than perfect. They tell me I should NEVER see latency or dropped packets and encourage me to call and complain if I notice anything. I called in on a 10ms increase in ping and they fixed it in less than an hour. I've downloaded and seeded torrents to 99.9% of my max bandwidth with less than 1Mb/s difference between min/max bandwidth for nearly 8 hours 4pm-11pm Tuesday night. $50/m for 150/150.
I was told by their network admin that their internal network can handle 100% of all customers using 100% of their provisioned bandwidth at the same time at line rate. Their trunk is 6x 95% percentile and can be increased an addition 10x on a moment's notice to Level 3 just in case.
Nearly all Steam CDNs max out my bandwidth, but I still choose local CDNs to be a good netizen.
"Sufficient" is subjective. I don't like waiting. Bought a new game on Steam? I don't want to wait more than 60 seconds for the install and the game better well load in 10 seconds.
Political red tape and cheapest bidder does that.
I can't even get a job without Internet access, unless I plan on being paid cache or farm help. Nearly every single store in my city require applying online, no walk-ins. Having the Internet is like having a car or phone. Technically you don't "need" it.
Fiber doesn't require power. The ISP can easily tell when large numbers of people are without power and who they are. This is very valuable information for the power company during an outage. One power company claimed to have reduced the costs to fixing their power by 50% and reduced outage times by something like 20%. In the end, they saved the local community enough money IN ONE YEAR from power outages and reduced costs to pay for the entire cost of the fiber network. Fiber internet is so cheap, it pays you.
As for health care. Local hospitals over here are now offering remote doctor visits over the Internet, but it requires high speed Internet access. These are 24/7 hour services with a near zero wait time that cost about $30, except no insurance required. Anyone in our state has access to this service. It's saving local residents tons of money all the while making it more convenient than a midnight trip to the ER for your child's fever. This became available shortly after fiber internet was deployed and the local ISP had to upgrade to multi-100Gb trunk, which allowed the hospital network to start offering such services.
Low cost fiber Internet is making a huge different in my local community.
BSD doesn't let you take away any permission upon distribution. Just because you made a copy of FreeBSD with some alternations does not mean FreeBSD is no longer able to be copied for anyone else. BSD lets you distribution custom alterations without having to release the source for them. The originals are just fine.
$15 for a CD with an hour of music or a BluRay+DVD combo of a 2 hour movie for $7 in the bargain bin. How are CDs so damn expensive?
It's quite bad. For $15k and 4 years of time, I had a 100% chance of getting a full-time job in domain within 6 months of graduation with a typical starting pay of $70k-$90k. At least that was the results of all of the alumni that graduated with my "programming" degree for the past 30 years.