Marginal costs don't really matter though. It takes money and labor to build out an infrastructure to get to the point when you can even calculate a marginal cost. And that infrastructure has only so much capacity. There will come a point where more infrastructure is needed. Data caps and tiered pricing do two things to help solve that problem: encourage people to use only as much as they need, so that upgrade time takes a little longer to come; and to fund those improvements from the people who are causing the need to upgrade. Those 1% of users are using WAY more than 1% of the network's capacity, and their bills should be higher. We can argue about what that price is, but it is ridiculous that anyone should expect flat pricing.
You are the reason the rest of us want to get out of the office. Your 5 second question costs us minutes or hours of productivity. Being forced to write out your question in words forces you to consider the problem from a different angle.
Working late is a sign of someone who doesn't have their shit together. I like someone who gets their shit done on time, but I prefer someone who does it during business hours. The people who send emails in the middle of the night are usually the ones who work on adrenalin and stress. I want the guy who does his time and then goes out and lives his life. not a "rockstar" who shows off by working all hours. Show up on time, do your work, and then get the fuck out of there.
Nonsense. There is nothing that can't be conveyed via written language, provided the communicants are well versed in that language. If they aren't, it won't work in person either.
Right, but the difference is that the telco is responsible for keeping the batteries charged, not me. Also, as good as my cable company is at maintaining uptime, it's still several, several nines away from the reliability of the telco. I would be VERY surprised if the cable company's digital telephony isn't some kind of voip, even if it isn't travelling across the internet. They would be dumb not to.
Perhaps your usage is in that top percentile of users that will go over 1tb. If you are really in the top 1% of users, I think paying another $50 a month is justified. (Also, doesn't git have some kind of rsync type capability?)
A voip line from a cable company isn't a land line. A land line is a hunk of copper that doesn't go dead when the power goes out. I am 40 years old, and I have NEVER had a landline outage.
One, the technology of encryption can't work like that. Two, what's wrong with a little more freedom / privacy for us plebes? The dubious benefits of mandating backdoors surely is greatly outweighed by the rights of the people to do what they want with their data.
If I invent a language that only I know, surely you wouldn't expect that I should have to register a translation guide with the local police?
Every prescription I've ever gotten has had a thing on it that says that it can be filled with generic equivalents. And responsible, ethical doctors would never write a name brand on a prescription.
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Marginal costs don't really matter though. It takes money and labor to build out an infrastructure to get to the point when you can even calculate a marginal cost. And that infrastructure has only so much capacity. There will come a point where more infrastructure is needed. Data caps and tiered pricing do two things to help solve that problem: encourage people to use only as much as they need, so that upgrade time takes a little longer to come; and to fund those improvements from the people who are causing the need to upgrade. Those 1% of users are using WAY more than 1% of the network's capacity, and their bills should be higher. We can argue about what that price is, but it is ridiculous that anyone should expect flat pricing.
Can't do that in person either.
It's code for "our processes stink and people need to end-run around them to get shit done."
You are the reason the rest of us want to get out of the office. Your 5 second question costs us minutes or hours of productivity. Being forced to write out your question in words forces you to consider the problem from a different angle.
What took a back seat to cheap and fast? Quality?
Working late is a sign of someone who doesn't have their shit together. I like someone who gets their shit done on time, but I prefer someone who does it during business hours. The people who send emails in the middle of the night are usually the ones who work on adrenalin and stress. I want the guy who does his time and then goes out and lives his life. not a "rockstar" who shows off by working all hours. Show up on time, do your work, and then get the fuck out of there.
That's a metric that's hard to measure.
Nonsense. There is nothing that can't be conveyed via written language, provided the communicants are well versed in that language. If they aren't, it won't work in person either.
If he is so smart, why is he writing letters to the editor instead of working toward a solution?
VOIP doesn't necessarily have to use the internet.
Right, but the difference is that the telco is responsible for keeping the batteries charged, not me. Also, as good as my cable company is at maintaining uptime, it's still several, several nines away from the reliability of the telco. I would be VERY surprised if the cable company's digital telephony isn't some kind of voip, even if it isn't travelling across the internet. They would be dumb not to.
Where do you get those movies from?
Exactly. That's how capitalism works.
Perhaps your usage is in that top percentile of users that will go over 1tb. If you are really in the top 1% of users, I think paying another $50 a month is justified. (Also, doesn't git have some kind of rsync type capability?)
In some comment above it is shown that chip and pin can be defeated with a simple sticker. So stop.
It's probably for an external pin pad.
What problem does the giant walkie talkie setup solve?
You can vote for the lesser of two evils, or you can risk thew worser of two evils getting power. Get your head out of the sand.
A voip line from a cable company isn't a land line. A land line is a hunk of copper that doesn't go dead when the power goes out. I am 40 years old, and I have NEVER had a landline outage.
A- Yuck. B- Probably not. I'm pretty sire there were plenty of spies.
One, the technology of encryption can't work like that. Two, what's wrong with a little more freedom / privacy for us plebes? The dubious benefits of mandating backdoors surely is greatly outweighed by the rights of the people to do what they want with their data.
If I invent a language that only I know, surely you wouldn't expect that I should have to register a translation guide with the local police?
It has to be proof of some ancient curse along the lines of "may your prayers be answered".
Every prescription I've ever gotten has had a thing on it that says that it can be filled with generic equivalents. And responsible, ethical doctors would never write a name brand on a prescription.
No.
I can imagine that being quite true given the DEA's war on opioids.