You mean to tell me that the design didn't include arms underneath the rover that would account for this type of situation? That strikes me as preposterous!
Note: If your mail server's ip address does not have a reverse dns lookup entry, your email is indeed immediately deleted by AOL's email servers, with no bounce message and no indication of any problem whatsoever.
This is off topic of the main thread, but I believe it's a necessary follow-up to the immediate parent.
Remember that it's typically the market that sets prices (of course, unless you are a monopoly). If not enough people were buying it at the current price, then the price would probably come down (all other variables held constant). It appears that enough are purchasing at the current price for them to maintain market position.
Also, recall that before even producing a product, a smart business will first look at the market, what their market would be willing to pay for what they believe they can produce, and *then* produces the product (not a full set of steps, but you get the idea). A company that produces something without any idea who will buy it and at what price is setting themselves up for failure. You don't just produce a product and then hope it sells at whatever price you later decide you need to charge.
No, nothing in the parent comment involves the elasticity of demand - either that was a joke and should be labelled "funny" (not "informative"), or it's been a while since you brushed up on your economics. The elasticity of demand is a numerical value that measures the relationship between a change in the quantity demanded and a change in another related variable (in other words, the elasticity indicates the percent change in one variable relative to another variable). Again, nothing of the sort is mentioned in the parent.
I don't believe that Charter is spending time and money on this because it wants to "protect people from the RIAA". They are most likely doing it to avoid spending the time and money necessary to track down and deliver the information currently requested, AND (primarily) to avoid spending money on the resources that would be necessary to fulfill the inevitable and relentless future subpoenas.
So does Wide Open West (in 3 of the 4 states they are in - I am in Michigan):
Value: 112 kbps / 112 kbps - a la carte: $34.99 Basic: 300 kbps / 500 kbps - a la carte: $39.99 Advanced: 300 kbps / 1.5 Mbps - a la carte: $44.99 Ultra: 500 kbps / 3 Mbps - a la carte: $59.99
The bundle packages are very nice (cable and internet), for example, the speeds above plus basic cable (70 some channels) with 1 analog converter (cable box). Value plus cable: $49.99 Basic plus cable: $54.99 Adv. plus cable: $59.99 Ultra plus cable: $74.99
all packages come with 5 mailboxes, 3 DHCP public ip addresses, and 10 MB webspace. For an additional charge you can get up to 5 ip addresses, and even have the option of upgrading up to all 5 ip addresses to static (DHCP with a tremendously large lease time)
Comcast introduced a "Pro" tier to their lineup, which is $95.00/mo (offered a la carte only), requires a 1 year contract, is rated at 384 kbps / 3.5 Mbps, and gives 5 dhcp ip addresses on an extremely long lease time (again, essentially static, but not technically).
I've been with Wide Open West since December 2002 and have been extremely pleased. Very low latency (consistent 40 ms ping to BattleNet East servers) connection makes for good gaming. However, ICMP traffic has been filtered since that last nasty worm was causing such havoc on their network. I sent customer service a message asking if the filter is only temporary, and they confirmed that to be true, however, were not able to tell me for how much longer the filter would be in place. Not really a *huge* problem for me, but worth noting (IMHO).
Actually, in a previous position [job], I installed modems for MediaOne before AT&T/Comcast took over. After the provider switch, speeds changed from 1500/300 kbps to 1500/128 kbps [down/up, of course]. If your speeds went up, I think it's safe for you to consider yourself one of the lucky few.
Did you read/understand what I said or hit reply to the wrong post? My post had nothing to do with what entity eats charge backs. Again, I was saying that the credit companies offer some of those programs to insure themselves (against money lost to bankruptcies). Your comment is on a different issue and failed to explain why you disagree with what I said.
Please note that I did not say anything about whether or not it was a scam. I was simply pointing out another reason the credit companies offer those programs.
The advertising for some of those programs *is* misleading, and in that respect, people are being scammed. The consumer isn't told that some of the protections a program touts would exist independent of whether or not they joined.
When credit card companies sell you their "protection program", they are insuring themselves. Billions(?) of dollars are zeroed out by the millions(?) of people and/or companies that file bankrupcty each year. Collecting even $5/month from 1 million people builds a nice buffer to work against that.
The law protects you, while the protection programs help counter losses for the credit company.
Well, of all of the recent P2P clients out there (that I have looked at), they all have bandwidth throttling built-in. Any decent ftp server has throttling built-in as well. FYI: Napster did not have bandwidth throttling, which I bet is the number one reason why many people didn't let it run 24/7.
Moving on...
After reading some of the comments here, I'm surprised to see so many people posting comments whom are confused by this person's problem.
Experiencing slow web-browsing or slow downloads when upstream is saturated, despite having significantly adequate downstream, is easily explainable.
The big picture is that servers are not going to send you more pieces of the file/webpage until you confirm that you received the last piece it sent to you. If your upstream is saturated, you cannot send that confirmation back as quickly, and the server is then simply waiting for you to "ask" for more
I don't appreciate that. I've actually been pretty frustrated with the fact that the switch won't sell. I made a remark on ebay and my troubles selling an IT related item. Yes, tacky that I included a link to the auction, but wouldn't you have done the same thing? After all, there *is* a really good chance someone that reads/. would be interested in it.
Apparently you're so eager to bash me/be funny, you decided to ignore the fact that you were being redundant, as I had already conceded that the post could come across as a solicitation.
It depends on what you're selling. I've been trying to sell a managed Intel 16-port switch on eBay for the last 3 weeks (I've relisted the auction twice now). It is priced at less than 1/3 retail value (based on cheapest price on pricewatch - I even provided a link to the retailers site), and still may end again tonight without a bid.
This is a serious post (not meant to be a solicitation), but in case you're interested, take a look here.
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You mean to tell me that the design didn't include arms underneath the rover that would account for this type of situation? That strikes me as preposterous!
Here's a scary article in today's online San Francisco Chronicle. Right on track...
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2
Note: If your mail server's ip address does not have a reverse dns lookup entry, your email is indeed immediately deleted by AOL's email servers, with no bounce message and no indication of any problem whatsoever.
This is off topic of the main thread, but I believe it's a necessary follow-up to the immediate parent.
Remember that it's typically the market that sets prices (of course, unless you are a monopoly). If not enough people were buying it at the current price, then the price would probably come down (all other variables held constant). It appears that enough are purchasing at the current price for them to maintain market position.
Also, recall that before even producing a product, a smart business will first look at the market, what their market would be willing to pay for what they believe they can produce, and *then* produces the product (not a full set of steps, but you get the idea). A company that produces something without any idea who will buy it and at what price is setting themselves up for failure. You don't just produce a product and then hope it sells at whatever price you later decide you need to charge.
No, nothing in the parent comment involves the elasticity of demand - either that was a joke and should be labelled "funny" (not "informative"), or it's been a while since you brushed up on your economics. The elasticity of demand is a numerical value that measures the relationship between a change in the quantity demanded and a change in another related variable (in other words, the elasticity indicates the percent change in one variable relative to another variable). Again, nothing of the sort is mentioned in the parent.
Cheers
Of course, that marketing information alone is worth more than $30...
What percentage of the purchasers actually send the rebate in? I've heard that it is not as high as your first thought might suggest...
I don't believe that Charter is spending time and money on this because it wants to "protect people from the RIAA". They are most likely doing it to avoid spending the time and money necessary to track down and deliver the information currently requested, AND (primarily) to avoid spending money on the resources that would be necessary to fulfill the inevitable and relentless future subpoenas.
So does Wide Open West (in 3 of the 4 states they are in - I am in Michigan):
Value: 112 kbps / 112 kbps - a la carte: $34.99
Basic: 300 kbps / 500 kbps - a la carte: $39.99
Advanced: 300 kbps / 1.5 Mbps - a la carte: $44.99
Ultra: 500 kbps / 3 Mbps - a la carte: $59.99
The bundle packages are very nice (cable and internet), for example, the speeds above plus basic cable (70 some channels) with 1 analog converter (cable box).
Value plus cable: $49.99
Basic plus cable: $54.99
Adv. plus cable: $59.99
Ultra plus cable: $74.99
all packages come with 5 mailboxes, 3 DHCP public ip addresses, and 10 MB webspace. For an additional charge you can get up to 5 ip addresses, and even have the option of upgrading up to all 5 ip addresses to static (DHCP with a tremendously large lease time)
Comcast introduced a "Pro" tier to their lineup, which is $95.00/mo (offered a la carte only), requires a 1 year contract, is rated at 384 kbps / 3.5 Mbps, and gives 5 dhcp ip addresses on an extremely long lease time (again, essentially static, but not technically).
I've been with Wide Open West since December 2002 and have been extremely pleased. Very low latency (consistent 40 ms ping to BattleNet East servers) connection makes for good gaming. However, ICMP traffic has been filtered since that last nasty worm was causing such havoc on their network. I sent customer service a message asking if the filter is only temporary, and they confirmed that to be true, however, were not able to tell me for how much longer the filter would be in place. Not really a *huge* problem for me, but worth noting (IMHO).
Cheers.
Actually, in a previous position [job], I installed modems for MediaOne before AT&T/Comcast took over. After the provider switch, speeds changed from 1500/300 kbps to 1500/128 kbps [down/up, of course]. If your speeds went up, I think it's safe for you to consider yourself one of the lucky few.
Did you read/understand what I said or hit reply to the wrong post? My post had nothing to do with what entity eats charge backs. Again, I was saying that the credit companies offer some of those programs to insure themselves (against money lost to bankruptcies). Your comment is on a different issue and failed to explain why you disagree with what I said.
Please note that I did not say anything about whether or not it was a scam. I was simply pointing out another reason the credit companies offer those programs.
The advertising for some of those programs *is* misleading, and in that respect, people are being scammed. The consumer isn't told that some of the protections a program touts would exist independent of whether or not they joined.
When credit card companies sell you their "protection program", they are insuring themselves. Billions(?) of dollars are zeroed out by the millions(?) of people and/or companies that file bankrupcty each year. Collecting even $5/month from 1 million people builds a nice buffer to work against that.
The law protects you, while the protection programs help counter losses for the credit company.
Well, of all of the recent P2P clients out there (that I have looked at), they all have bandwidth throttling built-in. Any decent ftp server has throttling built-in as well. FYI: Napster did not have bandwidth throttling, which I bet is the number one reason why many people didn't let it run 24/7.
Moving on...
After reading some of the comments here, I'm surprised to see so many people posting comments whom are confused by this person's problem.
Experiencing slow web-browsing or slow downloads when upstream is saturated, despite having significantly adequate downstream, is easily explainable. The big picture is that servers are not going to send you more pieces of the file/webpage until you confirm that you received the last piece it sent to you. If your upstream is saturated, you cannot send that confirmation back as quickly, and the server is then simply waiting for you to "ask" for more
I don't appreciate that. I've actually been pretty frustrated with the fact that the switch won't sell. I made a remark on ebay and my troubles selling an IT related item. Yes, tacky that I included a link to the auction, but wouldn't you have done the same thing? After all, there *is* a really good chance someone that reads /. would be interested in it.
Apparently you're so eager to bash me/be funny, you decided to ignore the fact that you were being redundant, as I had already conceded that the post could come across as a solicitation.
It depends on what you're selling. I've been trying to sell a managed Intel 16-port switch on eBay for the last 3 weeks (I've relisted the auction twice now). It is priced at less than 1/3 retail value (based on cheapest price on pricewatch - I even provided a link to the retailers site), and still may end again tonight without a bid.
This is a serious post (not meant to be a solicitation), but in case you're interested, take a look here.
Cheers everyone.