why is paying by phone so much better than with plastic? i do it starbucks for the rewards only other reason is if a food truck took cards instead of cash. why do it anywhere else?
for the retailers its more money to spend with no return on investment
who charged netflix anything extra? netflix never had an ISP, they connected directly to the backbone and third party peering services now they are peering directly with comcast/verizon and not sending the traffic to the backbone
only thing changing is who they pay. in effect comcast/verizon are now netflix's ISP's
being that the internet is dozens if not hundreds of companies, how do you guarantee the same speed when the packets might have to pass through multiple backbone providers and the server hosting the content might not actually be able to serve everyone at those speeds or the content owners may not have brought enough bandwidth to serve everyone at their top internet speed
i have no problem with ISP's charging netflix for peering or level 3/cogent to make them pay for more ports to deliver netflix traffic,
only if they charge the prevailing transit rates
i'm all for open internet, but the SENDER of the content has had to always be the one to pay for their delivery costs to deliver data to the user. that's the way its' been for the last 20 some years.
i use netflix, but i don't want my ISP bill going up to pay for the minority of people who binge watch shows all day and are nothing more than couch potatoes, except the do it on IP TV
it's all fun and games until someone tapes the entry of nuclear launch codes onto their device and shares it to youtube. or the workings of secret equipment that make our subs the best in the world
half the time it isn't because the content is in the cloud on oversubscribed servers vmware and any hypervisor will let you add instances that use more physical CPU/RAM resources than a physical server has. half my apps take a lot longer to update data than what my LTE phones should be running at. on verizon and AT&T
like the old Civilization and Sim City games that gave you periodic awards for overcoming obstacles. you just pay to do it faster same concept and lots of times same game mechanics except for the micro payments just like a slot machine. keep putting quarters in and once in a while you win
Fremium just takes the tiny percentage of people with psychological issues who are prone to paying a lot of money and make A LOT of money off them
AT&T just built out an LTE network for their mobile business. fiber to all their towers in every county in the US. they might not own all the towers, but it's still a big footprint. AT&T will put a few speedtest servers on their network and make you think you have gigabit when you will be competing with their mobile data traffic past your neighborhood. and knowing AT&T they will route you data to kansas before routing it to the internet
it's real gigabit, but only inside google's network anything outside google's network they have to buy peering points with Level 3 and other Tier 1 backbones and you can bet they don't buy enough to support 1gbps for every customer at any time but then google has been pretty good about selling space to CDN's in their data centers so you don't really need gigabit since the data is inside google's network already
God forbid some of you should leave your homes once a month and melt in the sunshine. or have to wait a whole extra day if you buy the game from amazon
and the heating part, lots of old buildings have ancient inefficient boilers that pollute. the upper east side has some of the worst air quality. newer burb homes will have newer and efficient boilers
you're insane. the rates were $100 in today's dollars for an average bill you paid extra for caller ID and lots of other services you paid per minute for local calling. higher rates for regional calls and crazy rates for long distance calls there wasn't enough capacity for everyone and getting all circuits busy was normal, especially on long distance calls
and the bells double dipped by selling 800 "free"calling services to businesses
i know a lot of people who don't use netflix. i only use them for cartoons and i barely watch it myself. a lot of people are this way. very little on there worth watching
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why is paying by phone so much better than with plastic?
i do it starbucks for the rewards
only other reason is if a food truck took cards instead of cash. why do it anywhere else?
for the retailers its more money to spend with no return on investment
who charged netflix anything extra?
netflix never had an ISP, they connected directly to the backbone and third party peering services
now they are peering directly with comcast/verizon and not sending the traffic to the backbone
only thing changing is who they pay. in effect comcast/verizon are now netflix's ISP's
being that the internet is dozens if not hundreds of companies,
how do you guarantee the same speed when the packets might have to pass through multiple backbone providers and the server hosting the content might not actually be able to serve everyone at those speeds
or the content owners may not have brought enough bandwidth to serve everyone at their top internet speed
the TV and Internet services are two different services and there is no need to separate them
my netflix watch on demand is completely different from my MLB/NBA or my wife's reality show sit your ass down at the right time to watch the show
i have no problem with ISP's charging netflix for peering or level 3/cogent to make them pay for more ports to deliver netflix traffic,
only if they charge the prevailing transit rates
i'm all for open internet, but the SENDER of the content has had to always be the one to pay for their delivery costs to deliver data to the user. that's the way its' been for the last 20 some years.
i use netflix, but i don't want my ISP bill going up to pay for the minority of people who binge watch shows all day and are nothing more than couch potatoes, except the do it on IP TV
it's all fun and games until someone tapes the entry of nuclear launch codes onto their device and shares it to youtube. or the workings of secret equipment that make our subs the best in the world
the one time you don't react, someone will die and there will be a huge investigation and people being fired with no pension benefits
half the time it isn't because the content is in the cloud on oversubscribed servers
vmware and any hypervisor will let you add instances that use more physical CPU/RAM resources than a physical server has. half my apps take a lot longer to update data than what my LTE phones should be running at. on verizon and AT&T
really?
check out open secrets. he's been bought by lawyers and hollywood
franken gets his bribes from hollywood and lawyers
he's only saying what he's told to
OMG, like no other scifi movies have been released during this whole time
fox put up the original cash so they own the distribution rights
most movies cost so much to make you have different investors involved and everyone shares the different rights
like the old Civilization and Sim City games that gave you periodic awards for overcoming obstacles. you just pay to do it faster
same concept and lots of times same game mechanics except for the micro payments
just like a slot machine. keep putting quarters in and once in a while you win
Fremium just takes the tiny percentage of people with psychological issues who are prone to paying a lot of money and make A LOT of money off them
yeah, and they also have A LOT of internal and application traffic that takes priority over their baby ISP business on that fiber
AT&T just built out an LTE network for their mobile business. fiber to all their towers in every county in the US. they might not own all the towers, but it's still a big footprint. AT&T will put a few speedtest servers on their network and make you think you have gigabit when you will be competing with their mobile data traffic past your neighborhood. and knowing AT&T they will route you data to kansas before routing it to the internet
don't think anyone else can do the same.
it's real gigabit, but only inside google's network
anything outside google's network they have to buy peering points with Level 3 and other Tier 1 backbones and you can bet they don't buy enough to support 1gbps for every customer at any time
but then google has been pretty good about selling space to CDN's in their data centers so you don't really need gigabit since the data is inside google's network already
just buy that and you should be OK
God forbid some of you should leave your homes once a month and melt in the sunshine. or have to wait a whole extra day if you buy the game from amazon
1000 smaller trucks delivering stuff
you just described NYC
and the heating part, lots of old buildings have ancient inefficient boilers that pollute. the upper east side has some of the worst air quality. newer burb homes will have newer and efficient boilers
the TPB guys were making a lot of money off TPB
yeah, people should buy stock in a company that keeps on promising to make money one day when the CEO is off designing rocket ships and hyper tubes
What was the total revenue and profit growth?
Probably meh
Is this like a fatwallet hot deal ymmv?
you're insane. the rates were $100 in today's dollars for an average bill
you paid extra for caller ID and lots of other services
you paid per minute for local calling. higher rates for regional calls and crazy rates for long distance calls
there wasn't enough capacity for everyone and getting all circuits busy was normal, especially on long distance calls
and the bells double dipped by selling 800 "free"calling services to businesses
i know a lot of people who don't use netflix. i only use them for cartoons and i barely watch it myself. a lot of people are this way. very little on there worth watching
baby bells were common carriers and you had to pay them to terminate your phone calls on their networks