for years car dealers pushed monthly payments to clueless buyers to scam them into higher prices. same with the cloud.
dropbox, only $100 a year cloud storage of music? $25 a year via itunes or amazon remote backup? $50 a year virtual server? $xxxx a month. oh you don't like the service, OK just buy your own for $15000 plus hosting
dollar here and dollar there and soon its real money
when you think about it a machine at your location is a consumer class CPU/hard drive. cloud provider will have multiple machines with enterprise class CPU's, overpriced enterprise hard drives, precious metal support contracts, etc. I bet the hardware vendors love it and are pushing the cloud hype through the tech media
will more towers work? i was at the beach last month and my iphone was SLOW. i look around and every other person has a smart phone.
that's a lot of devices broadcasting on the same frequencies and made me think. wireless is like the old Layer 1 hubs. even if you factor in slightly different frequencies you phone is still filtering out the ones its not supposed to be listening on. you can add more towers in higher density locations but it won't do much good since everyone will still be broadcasting on the same frequencies and "hitting" your phone as well. adding an extra tower near a stadium still means that thousands of people are broadcasting in range of your phone
the marketing budgets of the big name games are two to three times the dev budget. its like any mature industry. advertising and marketing take the most money.
how much did that idiotic stunt cost EA to send ME3 copies into space?
all the tablets look like thinner versions of the tablet bill gates presented in 2002. of course it used x86 because everything else was too slow at the time
i like apple, but they took OS X, stripped a lot of unneeded parts out, changed code to run it on ARM CPU's and called it the iphone/ipad
HBO, disney, ESPN from a quick glance among the basic OTA ones as well. this explains the cheapness. screams niche product since and totally not worth it if you have kids
1990's people used to email this crap to each other. stupid pictures and the dumb dancing baby animation with the rise of facebook and other social networking people share this crap and its more viral. and the sites that carry it found a way to monetize on the junk
i want to watch TV on a gasp,,,,,,,TV. not on a laptop. i have no time to transcode or whatever. i'm not going to pay most money for faster internet. i'm not going to buy hard drives or NAS or whatever. i'm not willing to pay more money for electricity to keep my stuff on 24x7.
unless you live in mommy's basement and have no bills the cost of "free" is more than legit
when i cancel cable i'm going to pay $40 a month for 5mbps internet. no reason for anything faster. in fact i'm going to downgrade from my current 10 or 15
if you're talking about cartoons then just pay $10-$20 for the season. cheaper than DVD's at $15 for a few episodes and its not like you will need them for more than a few years.
streaming is all hype but in the end you're just a billing company. with DVD's there is the infrastructure cost that drives small startups away and most people won't switch unless there is a reason to.
with streaming you're just another middle man. you don't own anything. i dumped netflix and went to amazon. same content, in fact amazon seems a little better
netflix streaming was crap and they refused to change to a tiered pricing model. not only was netflix's selection crap but they constantly lost content every day. and no way to rent a single movie unlike amazon
just like henry ford so many years ago refused to change and lost market share to GM.
in summary this is what happens when you outsource everything like netflix did. you have nothing to call your own and to have a competitive advantage with. its the scam of the low monthly payment. yes its cheaper, but in the long run you lose. netflix was just a bunch of devs in an office. the content was outsourced to level 3. the corporate data center was on amazon's cloud. not too hard to replicate this model, just sign some content deals.
the only time to leave something valuable in the safe is jewelry when you go to the pool. otherwise you take your phone, wallet and other valuables with you
unless you're a secret agent and need to lock up your top secret spy info. laptops are cheap and any secret data should be encrypted anyway or stored in da cloud
not only that but every hotel has cleaning people on every floor every day. there are cameras everywhere in common areas. a person loitering outside a door will not only be on camera but any maid can call it in to security.
security is the whole system, not like every individual piece has to be 100% secure
that's why stock iphones have never had a big security issue. iOS by itself is not 100% secure but combine it with the app store and the apple ecosystem and there has never been a big malware incident
my personal nickname is death by thousands papercuts
google is a huge general company like MS. they do a lot of things but only one of them well. just like MS 10 years ago there are now lots of niche players offering one or two features of a google product, but better.
google's problem is that there is too much crap returned when you try to search for almost anything and G+ is just a way for real people to say that something is real and not SEO crap
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i see you live a full life to pay attention to such trivial things as a lack of a youtube icon on a screen
for years car dealers pushed monthly payments to clueless buyers to scam them into higher prices. same with the cloud.
dropbox, only $100 a year
cloud storage of music? $25 a year via itunes or amazon
remote backup? $50 a year
virtual server? $xxxx a month. oh you don't like the service, OK just buy your own for $15000 plus hosting
dollar here and dollar there and soon its real money
when you think about it a machine at your location is a consumer class CPU/hard drive. cloud provider will have multiple machines with enterprise class CPU's, overpriced enterprise hard drives, precious metal support contracts, etc. I bet the hardware vendors love it and are pushing the cloud hype through the tech media
will more towers work? i was at the beach last month and my iphone was SLOW. i look around and every other person has a smart phone.
that's a lot of devices broadcasting on the same frequencies and made me think. wireless is like the old Layer 1 hubs. even if you factor in slightly different frequencies you phone is still filtering out the ones its not supposed to be listening on. you can add more towers in higher density locations but it won't do much good since everyone will still be broadcasting on the same frequencies and "hitting" your phone as well. adding an extra tower near a stadium still means that thousands of people are broadcasting in range of your phone
BS
the marketing budgets of the big name games are two to three times the dev budget. its like any mature industry. advertising and marketing take the most money.
how much did that idiotic stunt cost EA to send ME3 copies into space?
every famous person in history has had lots of people working for him/her. Lots of da vinci's and Michelangelo's work was done by their students
yeah, but they are sold in walmart and CHEAP
what else do you want?
that's because seatle's best is owned by starbucks. they are a wholesale brand of starbucks
all the tablets look like thinner versions of the tablet bill gates presented in 2002. of course it used x86 because everything else was too slow at the time
i like apple, but they took OS X, stripped a lot of unneeded parts out, changed code to run it on ARM CPU's and called it the iphone/ipad
HBO, disney, ESPN from a quick glance among the basic OTA ones as well. this explains the cheapness. screams niche product since and totally not worth it if you have kids
honda cr-v and i have an iphone
i'm at 10-15 now and going down to 5 once i cancel cable and go a la carte cable internet. 3-5 megabits is enough to stream netflix and amazon.
a lot cheaper to let steam update at night than to pay for super fast internet too
1990's people used to email this crap to each other. stupid pictures and the dumb dancing baby animation
with the rise of facebook and other social networking people share this crap and its more viral. and the sites that carry it found a way to monetize on the junk
will grep work searching the contents and metadata of email and mp3's?
duh, someone has to think it up, code it and make up an algorithm. takes time and money. not like the algorithm is there in the open
but this has been on PC's since at least 1995 or 1998. maybe on 3.1 as well. unless apple was the first one to do it for email and email content
oh wait, that's why apple is suing them
seriously, google had local PC search like 10 years ago with google desktop. apple had it with finder i can't remember when.
unless samsung has really dumb lawyers that's prior art right there. local search has been on computers since the 1990's
amazon has a platform, netflix uses it to run their corporate IT
what does netflix have? PS3/blu ray/x-box/roku now have the amazon and netflix app. child's play to use one instead of the other
i want to watch TV on a gasp,,,,,,,TV. not on a laptop. i have no time to transcode or whatever. i'm not going to pay most money for faster internet. i'm not going to buy hard drives or NAS or whatever. i'm not willing to pay more money for electricity to keep my stuff on 24x7.
unless you live in mommy's basement and have no bills the cost of "free" is more than legit
when i cancel cable i'm going to pay $40 a month for 5mbps internet. no reason for anything faster. in fact i'm going to downgrade from my current 10 or 15
that's just one show. netflix selection is crap in general and they lose shows daily.
amazon is $80 a year and includes free shipping and book borrowing. and i can rent a movie that's not on prime direct from the x-box or ps3 app.
if you're talking about cartoons then just pay $10-$20 for the season. cheaper than DVD's at $15 for a few episodes and its not like you will need them for more than a few years.
WTF is there to buy? a few content licenses that expire in a few years?
streaming is all hype but in the end you're just a billing company. with DVD's there is the infrastructure cost that drives small startups away and most people won't switch unless there is a reason to.
with streaming you're just another middle man. you don't own anything. i dumped netflix and went to amazon. same content, in fact amazon seems a little better
netflix streaming was crap and they refused to change to a tiered pricing model. not only was netflix's selection crap but they constantly lost content every day. and no way to rent a single movie unlike amazon
just like henry ford so many years ago refused to change and lost market share to GM.
in summary this is what happens when you outsource everything like netflix did. you have nothing to call your own and to have a competitive advantage with. its the scam of the low monthly payment. yes its cheaper, but in the long run you lose. netflix was just a bunch of devs in an office. the content was outsourced to level 3. the corporate data center was on amazon's cloud. not too hard to replicate this model, just sign some content deals.
the only time to leave something valuable in the safe is jewelry when you go to the pool. otherwise you take your phone, wallet and other valuables with you
unless you're a secret agent and need to lock up your top secret spy info. laptops are cheap and any secret data should be encrypted anyway or stored in da cloud
not only that but every hotel has cleaning people on every floor every day. there are cameras everywhere in common areas. a person loitering outside a door will not only be on camera but any maid can call it in to security.
security is the whole system, not like every individual piece has to be 100% secure
that's why stock iphones have never had a big security issue. iOS by itself is not 100% secure but combine it with the app store and the apple ecosystem and there has never been a big malware incident
100 years ago 90% of the people in the US were employed on farms. today its 4%. why isn't 90% of the USA unemployed?
new jobs open up and are created
my personal nickname is death by thousands papercuts
google is a huge general company like MS. they do a lot of things but only one of them well. just like MS 10 years ago there are now lots of niche players offering one or two features of a google product, but better.
google's problem is that there is too much crap returned when you try to search for almost anything and G+ is just a way for real people to say that something is real and not SEO crap