Sorry, no... you're wrong. Things are different now. Publishers don't seem to get it, and neither do you. The publishing industry is DEAD. They're walking corpses. They used their money to buy out this company and convert them to being "friendly" to their century old business model. Good for them. Unfortunately, they missed the other 1000 software packages and websites doing the same god damn thing. If you've got money in the publishing industry you're a fool. It's not "Right" to help these companies live in the stone ages.
I know you're going to ask me "How are they supposed to make money then" Well, that's not my problem. All I can tell you is, they can't make money they way they always have. It's done. If they can't figure it out they'd better figure out how to make toasters or something, because I doubt they even have 10 years left.
Because auto-manufacturers, especially in the US and Japan, still think it's 1955. They turn slower than the Titanic. They're all racing each other to get fancier and fancier add-ons to their cars, and don't want to be seen as the dinosaurs that they really are. So what are they doing? They're outsourcing all these computerized add-ons to the lowest bidder. They don't have a clue how they work, and don't have a clue what kind of security risk they pose. The schematics and software is all closed source so they don't have a clue. Meanwhile they're letting these little black boxes that contain god knows what, have access to the breaks, engine, locks, even the steering of the car. The potential for a "If speed > 70mph then Steering += 90 degrees" scenario is growing every day. It's not a matter of if it happens, it's a matter of when.
I would have agreed a couple of years ago, but they've made the same mistake most distros eventually make. They've traded ease of use for appearing "innovative and new" The last time I installed it I spent a few minutes trying to find out how to launch the terminal window, realized that I'd eventually find it but if it was that hard, I just wasn't interested any longer, and switch to a different distro.
ARE YOU INSANE? SOE was the first major MMO publisher to start charging different rates for different levels of content, and then again the first major MMO to have a real money for items auction house. The current disaster that is the MMO market was almost entirely modeled after SOE. Do you ever wonder why MMOs are almost universally $15.99/month? SOE raised their rates almost 10 years ago now, and it stuck. Prior to that they were $10/month. SOE is the root of all evil as far as MMOs go.
"pharmaceutical companies pend quite a bit of time developing and testing new compounds to see if they are more efficient/safe than known compound"
No, Pharmaceutical companies spend quite a bit of time developing and testing new compounds to see if they can extend their patents further. The makers of the standard asthma drug albuterol invented a new inhaler that did not use CFCs. They patented it and then lobbied congress to ban the old delivery system that had been out of patent for years under the guise that it was bad for the ozone. Now the most common asthma medication in the world that was $2/month just a few years ago is now $50/month. It's the same medication. And the pharmaceutical industry did spend millions developing this new delivery system. But it was entirely a scheme to raise the price of a drug that's very cheap for them to make. How many scientists and doctors hours were spent to bring this drug to market? and for no other reason than pure greed. CFC free inhalers cost more, forced cheaper alternatives off the market and drove away the poor.
"Or, you can sell it cheap if the people who forked over the original $200M didn't care to make a profit." GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals makes over $8 billion dollars a year on 1 drug alone... Advair. It's $450 for a 30day supply. Their patent has run out, but they either sue or bribe the FDA into scuttling any efforts of anyone that attempts to make a generic. Of course, there's a generic in India that sells for $30/month I literally can not breath without taking this.
So, I agree... they should make a profit. I don't even want the drug to be "cheap" But is $8 billion a year enough profit? Would it hurt them if it were only... I dunno... 2 Billion? And I don't want it for free... but $450? Really? Could be do it for $100? I don't need the fancy box it comes in... or to hear all those ads... the dispenser is right out of startrek. Dumb it down a bit. I just want to be able to afford to breath again.
You're already Rich as fuck GlaxoSmithKline. You've got swimming pools full of money. Please... price your drug back down out of the "Holy fucking shit" range so I can breath again... or at least let someone else do it for you.
Oversell it by 50%? You're kidding right? It's considered good policy to oversell by 60% or so. The problem is ISPs are overselling by between 200%-800% as standard now, with some extreme cases where entire small towns are fed by a single 5mb trunk while they are selling 8mb+ DSL/cable. Not only will the entire thing be swamped the second ANYONE downloads a large file, no-one is able to reach the speed they were sold unless they are connecting to someone else in the same town.
You don't understand what free trade is. That's your problem. We do NOT have free trade in the united states... not by a long shot. We subsidize one industry, tax another, we bribe other countries to sell us cheap goods with economic and military aid. If China is willing to sell goods for cheaper than it costs to produce, then that's good for us. The rare earth metals will remain in our country while we bleed China dry. You can only try to manipulate the market for so long before you run out of money. That time is fast approaching for China. The price of goods will suddenly skyrocket and manufacturing in the US will suddenly seem a lot more reasonable (it's actually already starting to happen) The only thing standing in our way is our government and its silly programs designed to aid industry and other countries. Let oil rise to its real value (likely $8-$10/gallon) and see what happens to the automotive industry. Stop subsidizing farmers and giving the food away to countries that can't afford to produce it themselves. When the cost of a bad of grain goes from "free" to $20, see how quick local business's figure out the free market.
But the constitution was written hundreds of years ago. It's no longer relevant, we should re-write the whole thing to keep us all "safe" or just keep on ignoring it like we've been doing for at least 100yrs or so now.
The "walled garden" you're talking about is a simple DNS redirect. I addressed that in my post. I suppose you could just disable their internet altogether... I don't see that as profitable do you?
Having worked for multiple ISPs I can absolutely guarantee this will not happen.
1. Most importantly: Figuring out who is infected is a huge amount of work. We'd need to scope out millions of dollars in project work to design a system to detect who has a problem, processes for creating tickets for people to notify them, hire people to do all of this work, then maintain this entire elaborate system every time we make a change to our network, our repair structure, etc... Even if the government funded a system, every ISP's internal structure is totally different. It would never work for more than 1. They'd have to fund every ISPs program individually, and the ISPs would suck up that funding like vampires and have little to show for it in the end. 2. To notify the customer automatically you'd need to either A: send them an email, which about 98% of your customers don't use the email address you gave them or B: Redirect them via your DNS server to a warning page. But if they aren't using your DNS that's not going to work, and the people writing the malware/bots will figure that out and either block your warning page, or more simply change the customers DNS server to googles or something and your entire system is useless. 3. When we do notify these people what is the very first thing they are going to do? Call the ISP. What is a virus? How did they get it? When are we going to fix it for them? Well they got it on our internet, they never had viruses when they had dialup... It's an hour long call at least. That just cost the ISP $20 and the customer is going to hang up and do nothing. 4. It's of absolutely no benefit to the ISP to do anything like this. So what if the customers are infected? They have the internet, malware doesn't hurt the ISPs network unless the ISP itself is the target witch is rarely the case. Even if one of the ISPs customers is the target they just adjust a few routers and the problem goes away. The customer is blissfully unaware of their problem and paying their bill. You don't mess with that. And yes, customers really are stupid enough to think the malware they have had for years and didn't know about, but were suddenly notified of when they signed up for your service, came from you. 5. Almost every ISP in the united states sells some sort of malware/antivirus package now. You're asking them to subvert their own product. Good luck getting that past product development.
And lastly, I want to re-iterate... the customer will DO NOTHING. They already know they have malware. Their computer runs like shit. They have habits that lead to them having malware. They bought their computer 10 years ago, their way of "fixing" it is using the Dell system restore disk that game with it that reverts it to the original unpatched version of XP. Then they install the pirated versions of autocad and photoshop they got from their brother-in-law 6 years ago, they sure are glad they kept all those CDs he burned... Then they go to bed, their teenage son gets up and surfs porn with IE6 from that fresh XP install, for a couple of hours. He erases the history... his tracks are covered.
J.D. Power and Associates is an industry shill. You pay them money, and they come up with fake statistics and give you an award. "Best midsized fuel efficient sedan in the upper north-east for the first 2/3s of 2011!!!" Their stats are almost entirely made up, and even then they just fish around in them until your product comes out on top in some obscure way so they can give you a bullshit award. Likely this article is bought and paid for by some automotive industry association that's trying to bolster slumping sales. There are plenty of Lemons out there. Any Volkswagen, Jaguar, The "hummer", and on and on. Granted, the industry is getting better, but the fact that cars still last less than 10 years on average should be rather telling.
There will be a lot of trolling and bickering on this subject but lets get some facts strait.
My property line extends to the center line of the road (or the entire road if I own the land on both sides) If you fly ANY sort of "Drone" over my property, I'm going to shoot it down, and I don't give a fuck what the law says. There is absolutely no way shooting a shotgun, especially loaded with bird-shot, over a highway posed any danger to anyone (other than the threat of falling drones) Ok, maybe if the drone was hovering at 10 feet it might... Nobody gives a fuck about pigeons. These people were trying to cause an incident and succeed. There are thousands of more appropriate targets out there. Why these people go after hunters, a group that's likely done more for animal rights and environmental causes than any hippie group has ever dreamed of, is something that baffles me to this day.
I think that, anyone here who has a kid knows that... if you're shopping at target for baby shit, you're an idiot. So it's safe to assume that Target is not only going after pregnant women... they're going after STUPID pregnant women.
Anyone with half a brain is buying diapers and wipes at the Cosco by the pallet if possible.
Their algorithm is likely: Customer has been buying condoms weekly for a year... did not this week +10% Customer bought 3 pints of icecream +5% Customer used the restroom 4 times while they were in the store +40% (we're thinking she's carrying the payload sir....) Customer just bought Season 3 of "Jearsy Shore"!!!! JACKPOT! Launch the ad campaign private! GO! GO! GO!
Yea, you're barking up the wrong tree there. The idea that our Government is "Succeeding" at helping some, privileged group at the expense of all us other poor souls is just foolish. Our government is bad for everyone it touches, including those not even in it's jurisdiction. We subsidies our farmers by buying their grain, which drives them to rent land, strip it of it's natural habitat, turn it into barren cropland, just so they can NOT plant and collect the subsidy. (I actually had a farmer leasing land from me for a while until I found out what he was doing) Then we take that grain via Navy destroyer (it cost more in fuel to get it there than if we just bought everyone steaks on the island itself) to a country like Hattie, drive it to the center of town in $3mil transport trucks and hand it out for free... in turn driving all of the existing small grain distribution businesses bankrupt, attracting the poor that had been living in the countryside into town, creating tent cities and concentrating poverty and illness at the epicenter of where the most infrastructure was damaged. We've spent billions of dollars, grown LESS food, destroyed MORE wilderness, made poverty WORSE, and no one, anywhere, is better off. If we cut the subside, we're hurting the farmer at the expense of tax-breaks for the rich. If we burn the grain, we're hurting the poor people of Hattie. It's lose lose lose. The ONLY solution is to strip the government of the power to be involved in anything of this sort. Our government should not be subsidizing ANY industry. Oil, farming, finance. Our government should not be involved in ANY charity. If we want to help people after a disaster, WE should do it. Not out elected officials. The money our government mints should actually be worth what it's minted as. Why should the government profit off of stamping steel pennies? The government should never profit. Once the government doesn't have the ability to spend our money on such ridiculous endeavors, maybe they'll start taking a little less of it.
I work for a telco, and we have territory in TN. I even used to work for ATT (yes they suck to work for) I used to work PSC complaints. They're a joke. 90% of them are filed by the mentaly ill who claim their phones are being tapped. We really do send someone out to show them the NID and ped to show there is no electronic device installed while they chat on theie cordless phone. The complaints that remain are almost entirely related to buisness's that decided to go cheap on their building site and are angry the phone company wont run a t1 over a mountain, across a river and under several freeways to get.to their building site they got fpr $200/acre. Yes the psc doles out fines... but those are based on # of customers affected * minuites out of service > (some number) then small fine. and guess who decides how many people were affected and for how long... the psc is useless
So... let me get this strait, in order to save $100 million our government can either: A. Build 1 less tank/fighter jet B. The president could stop using his own private Jet C. We could delay invading Syria / Iran (whomever's next) by about 4hrs D. Completely overturn the way our currency has functioned for over 200 years.
I disagree with your blanket statement that $40k buys a lot of bandwidth. Having worked int he telecom industry I can tell you that yes... that would be the fee per month for 1 very large circuit. But patching is an entirely different thing. I used to work for ATT and every time SOE had a patch for one of their games, their circuits would hit their "burstable" cap that day... sure they'd get the bandwidth they needed but each patch cost them well in excess of $40k and this was back when they just had EQ1. I'm sure this games patch size is much smaller than what SOEs were, but even so, having 30k users download a 2mb patch all on the same day is not friendly to your bandwidth bill. If they spread it out over a month or 2 that'd be different, but that's not what happens in reality.
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Sorry, no... you're wrong. Things are different now. Publishers don't seem to get it, and neither do you. The publishing industry is DEAD. They're walking corpses. They used their money to buy out this company and convert them to being "friendly" to their century old business model. Good for them. Unfortunately, they missed the other 1000 software packages and websites doing the same god damn thing. If you've got money in the publishing industry you're a fool. It's not "Right" to help these companies live in the stone ages.
I know you're going to ask me "How are they supposed to make money then" Well, that's not my problem. All I can tell you is, they can't make money they way they always have. It's done. If they can't figure it out they'd better figure out how to make toasters or something, because I doubt they even have 10 years left.
Because auto-manufacturers, especially in the US and Japan, still think it's 1955. They turn slower than the Titanic. They're all racing each other to get fancier and fancier add-ons to their cars, and don't want to be seen as the dinosaurs that they really are. So what are they doing? They're outsourcing all these computerized add-ons to the lowest bidder. They don't have a clue how they work, and don't have a clue what kind of security risk they pose. The schematics and software is all closed source so they don't have a clue. Meanwhile they're letting these little black boxes that contain god knows what, have access to the breaks, engine, locks, even the steering of the car. The potential for a "If speed > 70mph then Steering += 90 degrees" scenario is growing every day. It's not a matter of if it happens, it's a matter of when.
I would have agreed a couple of years ago, but they've made the same mistake most distros eventually make. They've traded ease of use for appearing "innovative and new" The last time I installed it I spent a few minutes trying to find out how to launch the terminal window, realized that I'd eventually find it but if it was that hard, I just wasn't interested any longer, and switch to a different distro.
ARE YOU INSANE? SOE was the first major MMO publisher to start charging different rates for different levels of content, and then again the first major MMO to have a real money for items auction house. The current disaster that is the MMO market was almost entirely modeled after SOE. Do you ever wonder why MMOs are almost universally $15.99/month? SOE raised their rates almost 10 years ago now, and it stuck. Prior to that they were $10/month. SOE is the root of all evil as far as MMOs go.
I believe one could argue that the people at your destination would have a deflector as well.
So, instead of the United States deciding who gets free speech who doesn't, we'll let Russia, China, Syria, Iran, etc... decide?
The solution isn't "different" control... the solution is "no control"
Did you point out that we're only give 2 choices every 4 years and those 2 choices are usually almost identical?
"pharmaceutical companies pend quite a bit of time developing and testing new compounds to see if they are more efficient/safe than known compound"
No, Pharmaceutical companies spend quite a bit of time developing and testing new compounds to see if they can extend their patents further. The makers of the standard asthma drug albuterol invented a new inhaler that did not use CFCs. They patented it and then lobbied congress to ban the old delivery system that had been out of patent for years under the guise that it was bad for the ozone. Now the most common asthma medication in the world that was $2/month just a few years ago is now $50/month. It's the same medication. And the pharmaceutical industry did spend millions developing this new delivery system. But it was entirely a scheme to raise the price of a drug that's very cheap for them to make. How many scientists and doctors hours were spent to bring this drug to market? and for no other reason than pure greed. CFC free inhalers cost more, forced cheaper alternatives off the market and drove away the poor.
If he works in New York they'll be available shortly. Anywhere else in the country... it'll take another year or two.
You can bitch about this all you want, but the teachers union MADE this happen.
The oscars are a joke and would ruin sci-fi movies as directors scrambled to try and win.
Also, the Oscars definition of "Sci-fi" would almost assuredly piss most real Sci-fi fans off.
"Or, you can sell it cheap if the people who forked over the original $200M didn't care to make a profit."
GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals makes over $8 billion dollars a year on 1 drug alone... Advair.
It's $450 for a 30day supply.
Their patent has run out, but they either sue or bribe the FDA into scuttling any efforts of anyone that attempts to make a generic.
Of course, there's a generic in India that sells for $30/month
I literally can not breath without taking this.
So, I agree... they should make a profit. I don't even want the drug to be "cheap"
But is $8 billion a year enough profit? Would it hurt them if it were only... I dunno... 2 Billion?
And I don't want it for free... but $450? Really? Could be do it for $100? I don't need the fancy box it comes in... or to hear all those ads... the dispenser is right out of startrek. Dumb it down a bit. I just want to be able to afford to breath again.
You're already Rich as fuck GlaxoSmithKline. You've got swimming pools full of money. Please... price your drug back down out of the "Holy fucking shit" range so I can breath again... or at least let someone else do it for you.
Oversell it by 50%? You're kidding right? It's considered good policy to oversell by 60% or so. The problem is ISPs are overselling by between 200%-800% as standard now, with some extreme cases where entire small towns are fed by a single 5mb trunk while they are selling 8mb+ DSL/cable. Not only will the entire thing be swamped the second ANYONE downloads a large file, no-one is able to reach the speed they were sold unless they are connecting to someone else in the same town.
You don't understand what free trade is. That's your problem. We do NOT have free trade in the united states... not by a long shot. We subsidize one industry, tax another, we bribe other countries to sell us cheap goods with economic and military aid. If China is willing to sell goods for cheaper than it costs to produce, then that's good for us. The rare earth metals will remain in our country while we bleed China dry. You can only try to manipulate the market for so long before you run out of money. That time is fast approaching for China. The price of goods will suddenly skyrocket and manufacturing in the US will suddenly seem a lot more reasonable (it's actually already starting to happen) The only thing standing in our way is our government and its silly programs designed to aid industry and other countries. Let oil rise to its real value (likely $8-$10/gallon) and see what happens to the automotive industry. Stop subsidizing farmers and giving the food away to countries that can't afford to produce it themselves. When the cost of a bad of grain goes from "free" to $20, see how quick local business's figure out the free market.
But the constitution was written hundreds of years ago. It's no longer relevant, we should re-write the whole thing to keep us all "safe" or just keep on ignoring it like we've been doing for at least 100yrs or so now.
The "walled garden" you're talking about is a simple DNS redirect. I addressed that in my post. I suppose you could just disable their internet altogether... I don't see that as profitable do you?
Having worked for multiple ISPs I can absolutely guarantee this will not happen.
1. Most importantly: Figuring out who is infected is a huge amount of work. We'd need to scope out millions of dollars in project work to design a system to detect who has a problem, processes for creating tickets for people to notify them, hire people to do all of this work, then maintain this entire elaborate system every time we make a change to our network, our repair structure, etc... Even if the government funded a system, every ISP's internal structure is totally different. It would never work for more than 1. They'd have to fund every ISPs program individually, and the ISPs would suck up that funding like vampires and have little to show for it in the end.
2. To notify the customer automatically you'd need to either A: send them an email, which about 98% of your customers don't use the email address you gave them or B: Redirect them via your DNS server to a warning page. But if they aren't using your DNS that's not going to work, and the people writing the malware/bots will figure that out and either block your warning page, or more simply change the customers DNS server to googles or something and your entire system is useless.
3. When we do notify these people what is the very first thing they are going to do? Call the ISP. What is a virus? How did they get it? When are we going to fix it for them? Well they got it on our internet, they never had viruses when they had dialup... It's an hour long call at least. That just cost the ISP $20 and the customer is going to hang up and do nothing.
4. It's of absolutely no benefit to the ISP to do anything like this. So what if the customers are infected? They have the internet, malware doesn't hurt the ISPs network unless the ISP itself is the target witch is rarely the case. Even if one of the ISPs customers is the target they just adjust a few routers and the problem goes away. The customer is blissfully unaware of their problem and paying their bill. You don't mess with that. And yes, customers really are stupid enough to think the malware they have had for years and didn't know about, but were suddenly notified of when they signed up for your service, came from you.
5. Almost every ISP in the united states sells some sort of malware/antivirus package now. You're asking them to subvert their own product. Good luck getting that past product development.
And lastly, I want to re-iterate... the customer will DO NOTHING. They already know they have malware. Their computer runs like shit. They have habits that lead to them having malware. They bought their computer 10 years ago, their way of "fixing" it is using the Dell system restore disk that game with it that reverts it to the original unpatched version of XP. Then they install the pirated versions of autocad and photoshop they got from their brother-in-law 6 years ago, they sure are glad they kept all those CDs he burned... Then they go to bed, their teenage son gets up and surfs porn with IE6 from that fresh XP install, for a couple of hours. He erases the history... his tracks are covered.
J.D. Power and Associates is an industry shill. You pay them money, and they come up with fake statistics and give you an award. "Best midsized fuel efficient sedan in the upper north-east for the first 2/3s of 2011!!!" Their stats are almost entirely made up, and even then they just fish around in them until your product comes out on top in some obscure way so they can give you a bullshit award. Likely this article is bought and paid for by some automotive industry association that's trying to bolster slumping sales. There are plenty of Lemons out there. Any Volkswagen, Jaguar, The "hummer", and on and on. Granted, the industry is getting better, but the fact that cars still last less than 10 years on average should be rather telling.
There will be a lot of trolling and bickering on this subject but lets get some facts strait.
My property line extends to the center line of the road (or the entire road if I own the land on both sides)
If you fly ANY sort of "Drone" over my property, I'm going to shoot it down, and I don't give a fuck what the law says.
There is absolutely no way shooting a shotgun, especially loaded with bird-shot, over a highway posed any danger to anyone (other than the threat of falling drones)
Ok, maybe if the drone was hovering at 10 feet it might...
Nobody gives a fuck about pigeons. These people were trying to cause an incident and succeed.
There are thousands of more appropriate targets out there. Why these people go after hunters, a group that's likely done more for animal rights and environmental causes than any hippie group has ever dreamed of, is something that baffles me to this day.
I think that, anyone here who has a kid knows that... if you're shopping at target for baby shit, you're an idiot. So it's safe to assume that Target is not only going after pregnant women... they're going after STUPID pregnant women.
Anyone with half a brain is buying diapers and wipes at the Cosco by the pallet if possible.
Their algorithm is likely:
Customer has been buying condoms weekly for a year... did not this week +10%
Customer bought 3 pints of icecream +5%
Customer used the restroom 4 times while they were in the store +40%
(we're thinking she's carrying the payload sir....)
Customer just bought Season 3 of "Jearsy Shore"!!!!
JACKPOT! Launch the ad campaign private! GO! GO! GO!
Yea, you're barking up the wrong tree there. The idea that our Government is "Succeeding" at helping some, privileged group at the expense of all us other poor souls is just foolish. Our government is bad for everyone it touches, including those not even in it's jurisdiction. We subsidies our farmers by buying their grain, which drives them to rent land, strip it of it's natural habitat, turn it into barren cropland, just so they can NOT plant and collect the subsidy. (I actually had a farmer leasing land from me for a while until I found out what he was doing) Then we take that grain via Navy destroyer (it cost more in fuel to get it there than if we just bought everyone steaks on the island itself) to a country like Hattie, drive it to the center of town in $3mil transport trucks and hand it out for free... in turn driving all of the existing small grain distribution businesses bankrupt, attracting the poor that had been living in the countryside into town, creating tent cities and concentrating poverty and illness at the epicenter of where the most infrastructure was damaged. We've spent billions of dollars, grown LESS food, destroyed MORE wilderness, made poverty WORSE, and no one, anywhere, is better off. If we cut the subside, we're hurting the farmer at the expense of tax-breaks for the rich. If we burn the grain, we're hurting the poor people of Hattie. It's lose lose lose. The ONLY solution is to strip the government of the power to be involved in anything of this sort. Our government should not be subsidizing ANY industry. Oil, farming, finance. Our government should not be involved in ANY charity. If we want to help people after a disaster, WE should do it. Not out elected officials. The money our government mints should actually be worth what it's minted as. Why should the government profit off of stamping steel pennies? The government should never profit. Once the government doesn't have the ability to spend our money on such ridiculous endeavors, maybe they'll start taking a little less of it.
I work for a telco, and we have territory in TN. I even used to work for ATT (yes they suck to work for) I used to work PSC complaints. They're a joke. 90% of them are filed by the mentaly ill who claim their phones are being tapped. We really do send someone out to show them the NID and ped to show there is no electronic device installed while they chat on theie cordless phone. The complaints that remain are almost entirely related to buisness's that decided to go cheap on their building site and are angry the phone company wont run a t1 over a mountain, across a river and under several freeways to get.to their building site they got fpr $200/acre. Yes the psc doles out fines... but those are based on # of customers affected * minuites out of service > (some number) then small fine. and guess who decides how many people were affected and for how long... the psc is useless
So... let me get this strait, in order to save $100 million our government can either:
A. Build 1 less tank/fighter jet
B. The president could stop using his own private Jet
C. We could delay invading Syria / Iran (whomever's next) by about 4hrs
D. Completely overturn the way our currency has functioned for over 200 years.
and we're choosing D?
Nothing... but that's because you don't have a coin for it.
Yea, or asthma attacks. I'd be on the floor about 10seconds in.
I disagree with your blanket statement that $40k buys a lot of bandwidth. Having worked int he telecom industry I can tell you that yes... that would be the fee per month for 1 very large circuit. But patching is an entirely different thing. I used to work for ATT and every time SOE had a patch for one of their games, their circuits would hit their "burstable" cap that day... sure they'd get the bandwidth they needed but each patch cost them well in excess of $40k and this was back when they just had EQ1. I'm sure this games patch size is much smaller than what SOEs were, but even so, having 30k users download a 2mb patch all on the same day is not friendly to your bandwidth bill. If they spread it out over a month or 2 that'd be different, but that's not what happens in reality.