Oh, the prices are too high, but I definitely like the fact that they're telling customers how much they can use for their money.
The whole "unlimited usage for a flat fee" model never really made any sense to me. Competition will force overselling of their actual bandwidth and just about begs for soft caps or other sorts of invisible limits.
At least in areas where there IS competition (which is unfortunately few in the US), a model where ISPs explicitly specify what you get for your money will cause competition to drive appropriate pricing. Yeah, a the segment of society that wants to be able to download 300 GB per month for a $30 flat monthly fee will be really disappointed, but that's reality -- bandwidth to your home costs more than 10 cents per GB (or wherever the actual number falls).
sweet...so...you mean the Cable companies ALREADY make $.90 per GB off of me if the price/GB is $1 as was already mentioned above?
That's a very shrewd price margin.
Yes, the GTX260 is a different card...but the 250 is an improvement of the die-shrink of the original 8800 GTS/9800 GTX - 9800GTX+....takes 20 seconds to find an article for reference...
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16504
The card is actually a little different, but the gpu architecture is the same...in fact...the gpu is just a re-branded chip of the same fab line as the 9800GTX...
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In this case, I think it makes you l337 ninja hoxor-ed.
Good Plan...then, in two years, we'll be considered 'sophisticated' for having 'firewalls' in our home routers...
Oh, the prices are too high, but I definitely like the fact that they're telling customers how much they can use for their money.
The whole "unlimited usage for a flat fee" model never really made any sense to me. Competition will force overselling of their actual bandwidth and just about begs for soft caps or other sorts of invisible limits.
At least in areas where there IS competition (which is unfortunately few in the US), a model where ISPs explicitly specify what you get for your money will cause competition to drive appropriate pricing. Yeah, a the segment of society that wants to be able to download 300 GB per month for a $30 flat monthly fee will be really disappointed, but that's reality -- bandwidth to your home costs more than 10 cents per GB (or wherever the actual number falls).
sweet...so...you mean the Cable companies ALREADY make $.90 per GB off of me if the price/GB is $1 as was already mentioned above? That's a very shrewd price margin.
Yes, the GTX260 is a different card...but the 250 is an improvement of the die-shrink of the original 8800 GTS/9800 GTX - 9800GTX+. ...takes 20 seconds to find an article for reference...
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16504
The card is actually a little different, but the gpu architecture is the same...in fact...the gpu is just a re-branded chip of the same fab line as the 9800GTX...