More like super advanced pansies practicing war and genocide from their keyboards and automated killing machines as they drink their sugar water without any guilt
and if you had any brains you would BUY A HOUSE as soon as you can because it freezes your housing payments in time suffer and save for a few years, buy it on 5% down with an FHA loan if you have to but buy a house. there is no rent to be raised. your salary will go up faster than your property taxes
in gen x the average age of buying a house dropped to 26 from 38 and people still had student loans to pay. the millenials seem to be dummies wanting to rent everything and spend all their money drinking and eating out.
for the record i bought my first home at 30, my second at 36. both were NYC coop apartments. looking to move out west and buy a mcmansion with my equity in a few years now because i can buy a giant house for less than i'm paying now
from what i read bitcoin is going to replace some of the kooky virtual currencies that multinationals have used for their virtual goods stores like the old MS coins to buy xbox games and DLC.
the cost is paying to hedge against currency fluctuations and paying the exchange costs. bitcoin might solve this problem
i have to pay day care for one kid and after school for another add mortgage, HOA dues, taxes, food, car, mass transit and some other expenses when school is out you have to pay for camp which in NYC for most people is like $4000 for the summer, although i got a deal MUCH CHEAPER for a lot of people they also pay for tutoring for their kids or test prep
sometimes you have to use the credit card instead of paying cash and sometimes you have to juggle bills
i'm a light netflix user and the last thing i want is to pay more money just because someone can't live without their netflix netflix needs to raise their prices and pay a CDN to host their data like they used to last year
level 3 and cogent are sending the data over settlement free links. those will have a 2:1 or 3:1 max traffic ratio and are basically friendly links to exchange equal amounts of data for faster routing. the baby bells still charge for terminating calls on their networks, this is a system to bypass the admin burden of equal payments and keeping track of them
trouble is sending netflix data is A LOT of data and they want to take money from netflix as payment to deliver the data but not pay anything out to actually deliver it. so they can't just send it to other Tier 1's because there is a risk the other end will disable the connection.
verizon has offered to sell them links at CDN rates, but that would mean they lose money because they charged netflix too little. they tried to game the system taking money from netflix and sending the data over links they don't have to pay bandwidth for. and of course, only netflix has these problems because they have been buying bandwidth at below market rates for the last 5 years. everyone else pays CDN's and their video traffic comes in HD quality with very little problems
they are in the process of doing direct peering with netflix like comcast is doing, but it's taking a while
when the comcast deal was announced they had already done the engineering, etc with verizon they have to build out the peering location and they are saying sometime this year
because netflix contracts with level 3 and cogent to send their data to before it reaches the ISP and that is who it goes through. netflix can't just send their data to every tier 1 backbone on the internet without paying them
it doesn't matter settlement free links have always had friendly agreements about traffic ratios and the reason behind them was to exchange data on the internet without the pain in the ass of a budget. it worked ok until cogent and L3 decided to throw those agreements away to take the netflix business.
in the past it was always OK for cogent and L3 to de-peer from a partner who didn't live up to their end until they wanted some free bandwidth and charge netflix for it on the other end.
that link is dedicated netflix and it limits them to the amount of data they send. last year super hd was for a few selected ISP's but then netflix started sending it to everyone over Level 3 and screwed up everyone's service
the point is netflix is trying to increase costs on their business partners who will then have to increase prices of their customers. customers will hate the ISP but like netflix. same strategy as TV companies have used with cable TV and forcing them to sell bundled channels, intel has done this, a lot of companies have done this. customer hates the company they do business with for high prices, but it's really because they are being forced to provide services some may not want
current system is not perfect but it ensures that people who use the service pay the costs and not everyone pays
there are a dozen video providers i can name who stream video with no problems. Hulu, HBO Go, Amazon, Vudu, Cinemanow, Apple itunes, ABC, History Channel, Disney, Lifetime, PBS, Fox, ESPN, NBC and others. most of this is video on demand, but they have some live video they stream as well. only netflix is having these issues. difference is that everyone uses a CDN to host their content inside the ISP's network or close to. there are at least a half dozen CDN's that do most of the hosting the way it has worked for 15 years since Akamai made the first CDN because people figured out a long time ago you can't send large files over the internet. the way it works is the CDN pays the ISP for hosting and bandwidth and the customer pays the CDN netflix used to use one of these CDN's, forgot exactly who but they let the contract expire last year instead netflix came up with a cool CDN box but they demand ISP's host it for free and give them free bandwidth as well. i guess netflix got so big they think they can extract payment from everyone
and if there is a lawsuit it will be brought up that this is only a netflix issue and there would be lots of discovery on netflix's business for the last 5 years
i can say why netflix and everyone will lose any lawsuit, but i'm tired of repeating myself to retarts on the internet who can only parrot what BGR and other tech blogs tell them netflix did some things last year that directly resulted in their service being degraded
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More like super advanced pansies practicing war and genocide from their keyboards and automated killing machines as they drink their sugar water without any guilt
Get an Xbox one with Kinect and set up a shared skype account on it. The camera even moves and zooms automatically to whoever is talking
no secrecy? - check
i can sell my vote? - check
and if you had any brains you would BUY A HOUSE as soon as you can because it freezes your housing payments in time
suffer and save for a few years, buy it on 5% down with an FHA loan if you have to but buy a house. there is no rent to be raised. your salary will go up faster than your property taxes
in gen x the average age of buying a house dropped to 26 from 38 and people still had student loans to pay. the millenials seem to be dummies wanting to rent everything and spend all their money drinking and eating out.
for the record i bought my first home at 30, my second at 36. both were NYC coop apartments. looking to move out west and buy a mcmansion with my equity in a few years now because i can buy a giant house for less than i'm paying now
from what i read bitcoin is going to replace some of the kooky virtual currencies that multinationals have used for their virtual goods stores like the old MS coins to buy xbox games and DLC.
the cost is paying to hedge against currency fluctuations and paying the exchange costs. bitcoin might solve this problem
the games on sale make up revenue and profits on the DLC that some people will buy later at full price
there is no DLC for books, yet. and no IAP yet either
some of use have to go to work and you can't leave 6 year old alone
get a credit card and charge $100 a month and pay it off. or charge your living expenses and pay it off
simple
i have to pay day care for one kid and after school for another
add mortgage, HOA dues, taxes, food, car, mass transit and some other expenses
when school is out you have to pay for camp which in NYC for most people is like $4000 for the summer, although i got a deal MUCH CHEAPER
for a lot of people they also pay for tutoring for their kids or test prep
sometimes you have to use the credit card instead of paying cash and sometimes you have to juggle bills
being that amazon charges you for incoming and outgoing data, i don't think they really care
speed is about the same too. i plan to use it until it dies or i can't get any new apps which will probably be a year or so after ios 9 ships
There is more to do on a cell phone than just watch netflix
if the file is 3000 miles away across three networks it's not your ISP's fault it takes a while
it's up to your provider to host the file close to you
i'm a light netflix user and the last thing i want is to pay more money just because someone can't live without their netflix
netflix needs to raise their prices and pay a CDN to host their data like they used to last year
every other CDN pays ISP's to host their boxes. netflix wants an advantage
level 3 and cogent are sending the data over settlement free links. those will have a 2:1 or 3:1 max traffic ratio and are basically friendly links to exchange equal amounts of data for faster routing. the baby bells still charge for terminating calls on their networks, this is a system to bypass the admin burden of equal payments and keeping track of them
trouble is sending netflix data is A LOT of data and they want to take money from netflix as payment to deliver the data but not pay anything out to actually deliver it. so they can't just send it to other Tier 1's because there is a risk the other end will disable the connection.
verizon has offered to sell them links at CDN rates, but that would mean they lose money because they charged netflix too little. they tried to game the system taking money from netflix and sending the data over links they don't have to pay bandwidth for. and of course, only netflix has these problems because they have been buying bandwidth at below market rates for the last 5 years. everyone else pays CDN's and their video traffic comes in HD quality with very little problems
they are in the process of doing direct peering with netflix like comcast is doing, but it's taking a while
when the comcast deal was announced they had already done the engineering, etc
with verizon they have to build out the peering location and they are saying sometime this year
because netflix contracts with level 3 and cogent to send their data to before it reaches the ISP and that is who it goes through. netflix can't just send their data to every tier 1 backbone on the internet without paying them
it doesn't matter
settlement free links have always had friendly agreements about traffic ratios and the reason behind them was to exchange data on the internet without the pain in the ass of a budget. it worked ok until cogent and L3 decided to throw those agreements away to take the netflix business.
in the past it was always OK for cogent and L3 to de-peer from a partner who didn't live up to their end until they wanted some free bandwidth and charge netflix for it on the other end.
that link is dedicated netflix and it limits them to the amount of data they send. last year super hd was for a few selected ISP's but then netflix started sending it to everyone over Level 3 and screwed up everyone's service
the point is netflix is trying to increase costs on their business partners who will then have to increase prices of their customers. customers will hate the ISP but like netflix. same strategy as TV companies have used with cable TV and forcing them to sell bundled channels, intel has done this, a lot of companies have done this. customer hates the company they do business with for high prices, but it's really because they are being forced to provide services some may not want
current system is not perfect but it ensures that people who use the service pay the costs and not everyone pays
there are a dozen video providers i can name who stream video with no problems. Hulu, HBO Go, Amazon, Vudu, Cinemanow, Apple itunes, ABC, History Channel, Disney, Lifetime, PBS, Fox, ESPN, NBC and others. most of this is video on demand, but they have some live video they stream as well.
only netflix is having these issues. difference is that everyone uses a CDN to host their content inside the ISP's network or close to. there are at least a half dozen CDN's that do most of the hosting
the way it has worked for 15 years since Akamai made the first CDN because people figured out a long time ago you can't send large files over the internet. the way it works is the CDN pays the ISP for hosting and bandwidth and the customer pays the CDN
netflix used to use one of these CDN's, forgot exactly who but they let the contract expire last year
instead netflix came up with a cool CDN box but they demand ISP's host it for free and give them free bandwidth as well. i guess netflix got so big they think they can extract payment from everyone
and if there is a lawsuit it will be brought up that this is only a netflix issue and there would be lots of discovery on netflix's business for the last 5 years
It's up to Netflix to buy cdn hosting to improve their speeds. ISP is just a dumb pipe, remember?
Everyone buys cdn hosting for their content except Netflix
i can say why netflix and everyone will lose any lawsuit, but i'm tired of repeating myself to retarts on the internet who can only parrot what BGR and other tech blogs tell them
netflix did some things last year that directly resulted in their service being degraded
back in the 1990's ESPN extracted payment from every ISP for users to access the website
this was before watch ESPN and needing a cable subscription. this was at the dawn of the internet for people to access a "free"website.
congress will pass a law or the president will issue an executive order allowing military use of OSS whether the license prohibits it or not