you're not supposed to refill plastic water bottles water breeds bacteria build up. i recycle mine. which in NYC means an old chinese lady takes it out of the garbage dump and takes it to the machine for $.05
i'd rather pay $100 a month for TV/Internet or $50 for just internet and get my current service than pay twice as much because a small minority demand more bandwidth
i'm at 15/1 now and time warner upgrades the network every year or two which is fine by me. just because a few people want to have 4 people streaming netflix in HD at the same time doesn't mean i have to pay for it
most of my TV is netflix and i'm under 100GB a month unless you're a family of couch potatoes watching TV 10 hours a day, streaming doesn't use that much data
time warner cable can't broadcast every channel in HD. lots of them look like crap and yet something like 1% of people out there demand every single netflix stream come in crystal clear
the internet has been using CDN's and direct peering for years to push video and other data intensive content netflix not only used to pay a CDN to deliver their content, limelight, but as soon as they let their CDN contract expire they came out with super HD
go google it, it's all on industry sites and blogs. every video provider is responsible for their content delivery and netflix screwed their's up because they spend too much on content.
the way some of the dummy cord cutters are ranting comcast should be running fiber to my house if i decide to set up a cat video business because it's on the internet and comcast is responsible for everything on the internet
the people having problems are the one's using other people's logins and are probably on a different ISP and it's probably either overloading the CDN boxes or streaming from the wrong CDN box. i watch GoT via my cable box with no problems
wasn't Apollo and almost every other space program the same way? the aerospace companies created a joint company that got the work and divided up the profits
the way i understand it is that your family doctor may have privileges in the hospital where you are staying, but the hospital's own doctor's make the final decision on the diagnosis and the treatment. The chief of the department to the attending and the residents. your doctor is there to answer their questions unless he is one of the above in the pecking order. even then depending on the diagnosis, you may have several departments in the hospital have to agree on a diagnosis and treatment plan and course of action
parts of NYC, the usage is beyond the capacity of the local wiring and there are blackouts. lots of people have window AC's they blast at full in the summer time. but they don't insulate the windows so they don't have to blast the AC at full and then complain there are blackouts.
they are always upgrading but if you have the right data you can upgrade the most used wiring and parts of the system first or work with some customers to reduce usage
if you have a million megawatt plant but need 1.1 million megawatts at peak usage it doesn't make sense to build another million megawatt plant since it will lose money. and no one wants a rate increase to pay for capacity that will sit unused.
and if you know who your biggest users are at any time of day you can work with them to reduce usage so you don't have to spend a lot of money for upgrades
part of NYC the peak usage is above the capacity of the wiring and local electrical transformers. and yet people and businesses don't do anything to reduce demand and complain how the electricity has to be shut off
a person is smart, but as a group people are usually dumb
this is true, but in a lot of cases companies having detailed data is better for everyone
if your utility had detailed usage for every minute of the day in every location they could plan and only build out extra capacity in the right locations instead of the entire footprint same with wireless carriers
everyone loves to complain how the local government or utility is dumb and doesn't build out in the right place, but once you try to provide them the data people complain about privacy
this is horrible, imagine if they could build out for peak capacity in the right locations for the right times so there wouldn't be anymore rolling blackouts in july and august
what happens is that if you get a bad hard drive or something routine like that HP will make a big deal if your RAID firmware or HD firmware is not up to date or too many versions behind. so i run these service packs once or twice a year
didn't brick my server but it screwed up the device list in Windows and caused a cluster not to see the one node where i upgraded the drivers/firmware. put a null device driver into the device manager and i had to delete it and all was OK. just $250 to MS to figure this out since didn't think it was a HP issue
on the server the network worked and all but the NIC's weren't "seen" by Windows and so the clustering was screwed up
verizon has FIOS in the civilized parts of NJ i've been out to Sussex and some other hick parts of NJ and all i can say is if you want to live that far out, you take the good with the bad
no one is dumb enough to spend $100,000 to run fiber to your one home for $50 a month in revenues
if you don't want any conflict of interest. pay the agency heads $20 million a year and stipulate they are not allowed to work for any private entity for 5 years after they leave government
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and why would another company want to buy these customers?
you're not supposed to refill plastic water bottles
water breeds bacteria build up. i recycle mine. which in NYC means an old chinese lady takes it out of the garbage dump and takes it to the machine for $.05
i'd rather pay $100 a month for TV/Internet or $50 for just internet and get my current service than pay twice as much because a small minority demand more bandwidth
i'm at 15/1 now and time warner upgrades the network every year or two which is fine by me. just because a few people want to have 4 people streaming netflix in HD at the same time doesn't mean i have to pay for it
there has never been a consumer ISP service with guaranteed bandwidth 24x7 for every single customer
most of my TV is netflix and i'm under 100GB a month
unless you're a family of couch potatoes watching TV 10 hours a day, streaming doesn't use that much data
time warner cable can't broadcast every channel in HD. lots of them look like crap and yet something like 1% of people out there demand every single netflix stream come in crystal clear
someone call the whaaaaaambulance
the internet has been using CDN's and direct peering for years to push video and other data intensive content
netflix not only used to pay a CDN to deliver their content, limelight, but as soon as they let their CDN contract expire they came out with super HD
go google it, it's all on industry sites and blogs. every video provider is responsible for their content delivery and netflix screwed their's up because they spend too much on content.
the way some of the dummy cord cutters are ranting comcast should be running fiber to my house if i decide to set up a cat video business because it's on the internet and comcast is responsible for everything on the internet
HBO uses limelight for a CDN
the people having problems are the one's using other people's logins and are probably on a different ISP and it's probably either overloading the CDN boxes or streaming from the wrong CDN box. i watch GoT via my cable box with no problems
netflix should have done it in the first place
as it is now my kids watch the same cartoons and shows and it's the same data streamed over and over
or set up a home CDN type box where you can cache some shows to stream locally on your home network
and how is it different when google does it?
wasn't Apollo and almost every other space program the same way? the aerospace companies created a joint company that got the work and divided up the profits
the way i understand it is that your family doctor may have privileges in the hospital where you are staying, but the hospital's own doctor's make the final decision on the diagnosis and the treatment. The chief of the department to the attending and the residents. your doctor is there to answer their questions unless he is one of the above in the pecking order. even then depending on the diagnosis, you may have several departments in the hospital have to agree on a diagnosis and treatment plan and course of action
NYC
parts of NYC, the usage is beyond the capacity of the local wiring and there are blackouts. lots of people have window AC's they blast at full in the summer time. but they don't insulate the windows so they don't have to blast the AC at full and then complain there are blackouts.
they are always upgrading
but if you have the right data you can upgrade the most used wiring and parts of the system first or work with some customers to reduce usage
if you have a million megawatt plant but need 1.1 million megawatts at peak usage it doesn't make sense to build another million megawatt plant since it will lose money. and no one wants a rate increase to pay for capacity that will sit unused.
and if you know who your biggest users are at any time of day you can work with them to reduce usage so you don't have to spend a lot of money for upgrades
in theory it's better than a blackout
part of NYC the peak usage is above the capacity of the wiring and local electrical transformers. and yet people and businesses don't do anything to reduce demand and complain how the electricity has to be shut off
a person is smart, but as a group people are usually dumb
this is true, but in a lot of cases companies having detailed data is better for everyone
if your utility had detailed usage for every minute of the day in every location they could plan and only build out extra capacity in the right locations instead of the entire footprint
same with wireless carriers
everyone loves to complain how the local government or utility is dumb and doesn't build out in the right place, but once you try to provide them the data people complain about privacy
this is horrible, imagine if they could build out for peak capacity in the right locations for the right times so there wouldn't be anymore rolling blackouts in july and august
so you think local governments will provide a free wifi service so everyone will be able to stream netflix in super hd all the time?
say the geeks who are always buying computer and electronic parts
but that's not consuming
and will insurance and/or obamacare cover it?
once or twice a year
what happens is that if you get a bad hard drive or something routine like that HP will make a big deal if your RAID firmware or HD firmware is not up to date or too many versions behind. so i run these service packs once or twice a year
didn't brick my server but it screwed up the device list in Windows and caused a cluster not to see the one node where i upgraded the drivers/firmware. put a null device driver into the device manager and i had to delete it and all was OK. just $250 to MS to figure this out since didn't think it was a HP issue
on the server the network worked and all but the NIC's weren't "seen" by Windows and so the clustering was screwed up
verizon has FIOS in the civilized parts of NJ
i've been out to Sussex and some other hick parts of NJ and all i can say is if you want to live that far out, you take the good with the bad
no one is dumb enough to spend $100,000 to run fiber to your one home for $50 a month in revenues
if you don't want any conflict of interest. pay the agency heads $20 million a year and stipulate they are not allowed to work for any private entity for 5 years after they leave government