Pure Greed. AT&T, Comcast,Etc... they care more about profit margins than quality of service. If you will swallow paying $60 a month for paltry speeds then that is what they deliver. Plus they work hard to keep competition out so they dont have to lower prices or increase speeds.
It's greed, The companies hate you for even wanting more.
" Coax for tv came with cable." You may have been around, but you did not pay attention. Coax has been around for a very long time, 60+ years in fact. If you did not live in a suburbia then you never saw the single 60 foot tower with the antennas that were then fed to many of the homes. My dad used to sell and install these.
Actually the grass IS greener here in the USA. The USA has huge sections of untouched land that is some of the greenest grass around.
Sadly you cant afford to own any of it, because the rich have intentionally suppressed wages way down so that tech employees could never hope to afford to own land.
Bullshit. I had helped build a community run Wireless internet system back 10 years ago, we had 10mbps to each home which is more than enough to broadcast a single HD stream and a couple of SD streams at the same time.
If community non profit built on garbage and low end used gear can do it, then the fucktards at comcast,charter,TW,etc can do it.
Because Americans in general are really really stupid.
Before Cable TV, we had community TV, neighborhoods would put up a large TV antenna and spread it to all homes via coax for a low monthly upkeep fee. Comcast was one of those companies that lobbied governments to make such a thing illegal. If you were to get a neighborhood association to pay for internet for the whole area, they would come in and sue you to hell and back for unfair competition, and get the local government to back them.
MOST americans will support Comcast in this because they are so stupid they dont understand anything outside their little bubble. disclaimer: I am an american, yes a bulk of us... a good 70% are complete morons.
I know what it feels like, used it a few times. I just refuse to tolerate the OS at the pricepoint. I'm not paying $199 to be tortured. yet $15 I'll accept some torture.
I only buy honda right now, but if GM sold me a new car at 1/10th the price, I'd buy one of their heaps of crap in hopes that it will stay running for a few years.
$15.00 across the board, you want fater adoption, let us at home pay $15 for it. Because at that price point, I'll give it another shot, hell I'll even tolerate some of the issues at that price point.
I have a gesture I use with windows 8, lift both hands and raise my middle finger at the screen all the time. Usually when I discover they moved yet another menu or option once again.
ubuntu is a steaming turd because they tried to remove the scroll bars, I see freaking Chrome and Firefox also doing this stupid trick as well on all platforms.
It makes me want to beat developers with a sack of doorknobs.
Replace ios and OSX with Windows and Windows 8 and you have the EXACT SAME arguments for what Microsoft has been doing.
You forgot some real problems though. No way to disable out of control scrolling on touchpads and mice. go ahead and use Google maps with the "super mouse" it is constantly zooming at insane rates.
Zero application support from Apple. Garage band and iWork has some huge bugs and when you contact support they just refer you to the forums where users try to stumble through it. At least Microsoft will let you give them a credit card number and make a fake attempt at helping you while you pay for a tech support newbie to look on the internet for answers while you are on the phone.
I love OSX and apple, It is zero effort to maintain compared to windows and honestly Linux is currently in a broken all to hell state for desktop use. (Linux does this in a 4 year cycle, it will come back again) But it's not without it's nasty festering warts and zits.
The problem is all operating systems right now are utter crap. From server to desktop to mobile. They all suck, and no company or group has any interest in making it not suck , they just want to add new shiny features in hopes of distracting you from the suck that has existed in the OS for the past 5 years.
and dont get me started with the Unholy abomination of "in app purchases" that has taken off. The funny part is using piracy makes it easier. GarageBand on OSX most people can not sucessfully download the lessons or added content, Apple devs half assed the download portion of the code. So I go to pirate bay and find a Pirated pack of all the content and install it. Worked better than fighting over and over to get what I paid for to install because the developers cant bother to finish debugging a program before release.
I have a special "bin" for packages so they are hidden from view at the street but the UPS and Fedex guy cant figure out how to put a package in it, even with a big sign that says, "PUT THE PACKAGES OVER HERE" with an arrow. It's an open top small bin/corral and is actually easier for them to use.
"the gesture interface is clunky, voice commands are obtrusive to people nearby, and it takes way too much attention and focus to use the screen. "
this is the same words I heard from the co-worker I convinced to switch from an iPhone to an Android phone recently. Sounds more like someone not used to a User interface than anything else.
Already did that with a friend, nothing happened except for a few people that were curious about it and he let them try it on, most thought it was cool and wondered if they could use it for GPS on the motorcycle while they ride.
Bikers are actually decent people and not complete scumbags like you seem to believe they are.
Sadly I have better videoconferencing with a pair of very old Polycom conference units. I sent one to my daughter preconfigured. She hooked it up and now we have pro level video and audio on the calls plus I can control the camera on their end to pan/tilt/zoom so when the grandkids are playing with something I can zoom in to see it better.
Bought both for less than $160 total for 2 units on ebay. even though they are standard def they have a better image than the Xbone's skype does.
If you are invested int he Xbox ecosystem the Xbone has no advantages. Nothing crosses over, your games all will not work with the new system. Microsoft was stupid to not allow xbox360 games to run on it to make it easier for people to transition across.
I think the reason is that most people would notice that it is not that much better than the Xbox360 so why even buy it.
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Pure Greed. AT&T, Comcast,Etc... they care more about profit margins than quality of service. If you will swallow paying $60 a month for paltry speeds then that is what they deliver. Plus they work hard to keep competition out so they dont have to lower prices or increase speeds.
It's greed, The companies hate you for even wanting more.
"To get above 100m we will need to import water from another planet."
Did you not read the text of the HR4021 that congress is looking to pass? It's the Sol System Free water trade agreement.
" Coax for tv came with cable." You may have been around, but you did not pay attention.
Coax has been around for a very long time, 60+ years in fact. If you did not live in a suburbia then you never saw the single 60 foot tower with the antennas that were then fed to many of the homes. My dad used to sell and install these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
For a nice example for you old timer.
Actually the grass IS greener here in the USA. The USA has huge sections of untouched land that is some of the greenest grass around.
Sadly you cant afford to own any of it, because the rich have intentionally suppressed wages way down so that tech employees could never hope to afford to own land.
Ungodly Churn, almost nobody uses WhatsApp.
Bullshit. I had helped build a community run Wireless internet system back 10 years ago, we had 10mbps to each home which is more than enough to broadcast a single HD stream and a couple of SD streams at the same time.
If community non profit built on garbage and low end used gear can do it, then the fucktards at comcast,charter,TW,etc can do it.
It's called a kickback, the legal term is "franchise fees".
"Why do people accept this?"
Because Americans in general are really really stupid.
Before Cable TV, we had community TV, neighborhoods would put up a large TV antenna and spread it to all homes via coax for a low monthly upkeep fee. Comcast was one of those companies that lobbied governments to make such a thing illegal. If you were to get a neighborhood association to pay for internet for the whole area, they would come in and sue you to hell and back for unfair competition, and get the local government to back them.
MOST americans will support Comcast in this because they are so stupid they dont understand anything outside their little bubble. disclaimer: I am an american, yes a bulk of us... a good 70% are complete morons.
I know what it feels like, used it a few times. I just refuse to tolerate the OS at the pricepoint. I'm not paying $199 to be tortured. yet $15 I'll accept some torture.
I only buy honda right now, but if GM sold me a new car at 1/10th the price, I'd buy one of their heaps of crap in hopes that it will stay running for a few years.
Stop being assholes.
$15.00 across the board, you want fater adoption, let us at home pay $15 for it. Because at that price point, I'll give it another shot, hell I'll even tolerate some of the issues at that price point.
At $199 no way in hell.
I cant believe that nobody has mentioned what is used in a lot of high security areas...
http://www.mandylionlabs.com/
Get one of their fobs, works for all and will self destruct if you enter the master password in wrong.
I have a gesture I use with windows 8, lift both hands and raise my middle finger at the screen all the time. Usually when I discover they moved yet another menu or option once again.
Debian. it works a lot better.
ubuntu is a steaming turd because they tried to remove the scroll bars, I see freaking Chrome and Firefox also doing this stupid trick as well on all platforms.
It makes me want to beat developers with a sack of doorknobs.
Replace ios and OSX with Windows and Windows 8 and you have the EXACT SAME arguments for what Microsoft has been doing.
You forgot some real problems though. No way to disable out of control scrolling on touchpads and mice. go ahead and use Google maps with the "super mouse" it is constantly zooming at insane rates.
Zero application support from Apple. Garage band and iWork has some huge bugs and when you contact support they just refer you to the forums where users try to stumble through it. At least Microsoft will let you give them a credit card number and make a fake attempt at helping you while you pay for a tech support newbie to look on the internet for answers while you are on the phone.
I love OSX and apple, It is zero effort to maintain compared to windows and honestly Linux is currently in a broken all to hell state for desktop use. (Linux does this in a 4 year cycle, it will come back again) But it's not without it's nasty festering warts and zits.
The problem is all operating systems right now are utter crap. From server to desktop to mobile. They all suck, and no company or group has any interest in making it not suck , they just want to add new shiny features in hopes of distracting you from the suck that has existed in the OS for the past 5 years.
and dont get me started with the Unholy abomination of "in app purchases" that has taken off. The funny part is using piracy makes it easier. GarageBand on OSX most people can not sucessfully download the lessons or added content, Apple devs half assed the download portion of the code. So I go to pirate bay and find a Pirated pack of all the content and install it. Worked better than fighting over and over to get what I paid for to install because the developers cant bother to finish debugging a program before release.
Nope, the rich guy down the street has that and I always see packages on the sidewalk in front of the gate.
I have a special "bin" for packages so they are hidden from view at the street but the UPS and Fedex guy cant figure out how to put a package in it, even with a big sign that says, "PUT THE PACKAGES OVER HERE" with an arrow. It's an open top small bin/corral and is actually easier for them to use.
no, UPS is dumb that way. Plus they are closing local depots and going to regional. do you really want to drive 50 miles to get your package?
Yes, his friend told him that android was easier to use than the iphone.
It's not by any stretch of the imagination.
My 3d printer was $300. $1500 is for the uber deluxe pro model.
"the gesture interface is clunky, voice commands are obtrusive to people nearby, and it takes way too much attention and focus to use the screen. "
this is the same words I heard from the co-worker I convinced to switch from an iPhone to an Android phone recently. Sounds more like someone not used to a User interface than anything else.
Already did that with a friend, nothing happened except for a few people that were curious about it and he let them try it on, most thought it was cool and wondered if they could use it for GPS on the motorcycle while they ride.
Bikers are actually decent people and not complete scumbags like you seem to believe they are.
Stop watching "sons of anarchy" it's not reality.
Isn't it wierd how Sony has become the good guys in the console world now? I'm actually looking to jump to ps4 from Xbox360 and Xbone.
Sadly I have better videoconferencing with a pair of very old Polycom conference units. I sent one to my daughter preconfigured. She hooked it up and now we have pro level video and audio on the calls plus I can control the camera on their end to pan/tilt/zoom so when the grandkids are playing with something I can zoom in to see it better.
Bought both for less than $160 total for 2 units on ebay. even though they are standard def they have a better image than the Xbone's skype does.
If you are invested int he Xbox ecosystem the Xbone has no advantages. Nothing crosses over, your games all will not work with the new system. Microsoft was stupid to not allow xbox360 games to run on it to make it easier for people to transition across.
I think the reason is that most people would notice that it is not that much better than the Xbox360 so why even buy it.