Who is funding allied fiber? $670 million is a lot to raise in this economy. I have the sneaking suspicious that some large CDN like google is behind this. The only company that would want to build an entirely new long-haul network is someone who can build an entire datacenter just for one feature on their website. Otherwise like others have said here, there's plenty of dark fiber around. Otherwise the existing players already have their own routes, their own pops, their own peering agreements.
If google or facebook or someone was tired of strict peering agreements or paying up the ass for transit, a "neutral" company like allied is the perfect cover. By hyping it and slashing prices they can attract outside business to build up enough usage to make it plausible they really are neutral. Then companies like At&t will play ball.
So if BFG can't make money on video cards, what CAN they make their money on? The only thing I think of when I think of BFG is high end computer parts. Is everybody just buying el cheapo atom-with-video-card-built-in systems now?
It's still the MOST played first person shooter when you count the thousands of underground "cracked" non-steam servers, which are mostly in foreign countries.
Visit any game-server tracking website for proof.
I don't think anybodys factored in the cost of various colors of LED's. Different colors cost more then others, and use more energy then others. If by using a yellow pixel in an lcd means you can instead use a cheaper type of LED, then it's a win. A lot of these LED's use rare earths and when scaled up 1000x costs add up.
Normally a few people here post links which provide a lot more information then the original link(s) in the story. Anyone have more information on why Sharp is doing this?
If any alien can make it all the way to our solar system I doubt there's anything the earth could offer other then a unique place to study us. Most precious elements on earth can also be found elsewhere in this solar system in significant quantities. If they were looking to burglarize us they would probably just mine moons of jupiter or something, and avoid us entirely.
If any alien can make it all the way to our solar system it's also likely they've been to a lot of others. For all we know they may be aware of thousands of other habitable planets all in some stage of development. Attacking us would seem to be a huge was of energy, for little to no gain for them. We're probably so primitive we're largely ignored. It would be like us attacking the island nation of Tuvalu.
Probably the only chance we have of meeting aliens is out of their own curiosity. Judging by all the morons who would probably claim it was jesus in that spacecraft, we're not ready for that anytime soon.
Part of my job is tracking ip4 traffic. I can tell you that there is a ton of waste out there. 128-192 is full of waste. Also lacnic has way too many subnets then it really needs, at least for the time being. Also I think we should get of organizations being able to claim entire/8's. If we clean up waste, we easily have another 10 years of addresses.
Mobile is what's going to really drain ip's. If we separated it so mobile was all ip6 and regular pc's ip4 then we would be fine for a long long time.
The usa is a big fuckin country, which a lot of people don't realize. The only way I forsee getting high speed broadband to these rural communities is a big government push just like when electricity came out. Any DSL technology simply cannot deliver speeds past 5mbps to a large chunk of the country due to the raw distances these twisted pair lines travel.
Eventually it will come to a point where someone is going to have to dump $100 billion in getting rural america wired with fiber optic.
Seriously. Switches cost nothing, neither do routers! Rack space? ha! Building datacenters? also free. Yup.
Google may pay pennies on the dollar because they don't need to buy transit, they can just peer-but there will always be cost involved.It's the same with any industry-uninstall the middleman, and your price goes down. When google becomes the ISP and content host, Companies like level3, cogent become moot.
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Who is funding allied fiber? $670 million is a lot to raise in this economy. I have the sneaking suspicious that some large CDN like google is behind this. The only company that would want to build an entirely new long-haul network is someone who can build an entire datacenter just for one feature on their website. Otherwise like others have said here, there's plenty of dark fiber around. Otherwise the existing players already have their own routes, their own pops, their own peering agreements. If google or facebook or someone was tired of strict peering agreements or paying up the ass for transit, a "neutral" company like allied is the perfect cover. By hyping it and slashing prices they can attract outside business to build up enough usage to make it plausible they really are neutral. Then companies like At&t will play ball.
Just make it into a torrent and post it on the internet. It will all get sorted out eventually.
you win the goatse award for coming up with something original on the internet
So if BFG can't make money on video cards, what CAN they make their money on? The only thing I think of when I think of BFG is high end computer parts. Is everybody just buying el cheapo atom-with-video-card-built-in systems now?
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It's still the MOST played first person shooter when you count the thousands of underground "cracked" non-steam servers, which are mostly in foreign countries. Visit any game-server tracking website for proof.
I don't think anybodys factored in the cost of various colors of LED's. Different colors cost more then others, and use more energy then others. If by using a yellow pixel in an lcd means you can instead use a cheaper type of LED, then it's a win. A lot of these LED's use rare earths and when scaled up 1000x costs add up. Normally a few people here post links which provide a lot more information then the original link(s) in the story. Anyone have more information on why Sharp is doing this?
I want anderson cooper to make a porn video with kim kardashian.
If any alien can make it all the way to our solar system I doubt there's anything the earth could offer other then a unique place to study us. Most precious elements on earth can also be found elsewhere in this solar system in significant quantities. If they were looking to burglarize us they would probably just mine moons of jupiter or something, and avoid us entirely. If any alien can make it all the way to our solar system it's also likely they've been to a lot of others. For all we know they may be aware of thousands of other habitable planets all in some stage of development. Attacking us would seem to be a huge was of energy, for little to no gain for them. We're probably so primitive we're largely ignored. It would be like us attacking the island nation of Tuvalu. Probably the only chance we have of meeting aliens is out of their own curiosity. Judging by all the morons who would probably claim it was jesus in that spacecraft, we're not ready for that anytime soon.
Part of my job is tracking ip4 traffic. I can tell you that there is a ton of waste out there. 128-192 is full of waste. Also lacnic has way too many subnets then it really needs, at least for the time being. Also I think we should get of organizations being able to claim entire /8's. If we clean up waste, we easily have another 10 years of addresses.
Mobile is what's going to really drain ip's. If we separated it so mobile was all ip6 and regular pc's ip4 then we would be fine for a long long time.
The usa is a big fuckin country, which a lot of people don't realize. The only way I forsee getting high speed broadband to these rural communities is a big government push just like when electricity came out. Any DSL technology simply cannot deliver speeds past 5mbps to a large chunk of the country due to the raw distances these twisted pair lines travel. Eventually it will come to a point where someone is going to have to dump $100 billion in getting rural america wired with fiber optic.
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120gb ssd for boot/apps/games 1tb raid-1 nas for movies/music, linked to 25mbps fios What more could anyone need?
Your innovative punctuation reminded me that it's time for you to go peel your banana as well.
and this is exactly why people use (sigh) paypal. You would think some entrepreneurial jews would pop up by now...
Seriously. Switches cost nothing, neither do routers! Rack space? ha! Building datacenters? also free. Yup. Google may pay pennies on the dollar because they don't need to buy transit, they can just peer-but there will always be cost involved.It's the same with any industry-uninstall the middleman, and your price goes down. When google becomes the ISP and content host, Companies like level3, cogent become moot.
Until we form one, we'll all just continue bitching about it on /. I'll be the first to join.