in theory comcast buying time warner will make a huge player in the industry able to stand up to the content companies and tell them to go away next time they want more money
but the merger is bad. at least according to al franken who's is beholden to the content industry for campaign donations
if you google "netflix data centers" and read all the industry info, no they always found vendors with cut rate deals everyone does streaming now and the quality is almost always better than netflix. why is that?
i've streamed from Vudu, itunes, HBO, amazon, PBS, smithsonian, red bull and lots of other services outside my pay TV package and the quality is better than netflix. yet people think there is some conspiracy against netflix. i'll rent a movie 2-3 times a month on itunes and it never buffers on my 15/1 connection to my apple TV. same with vudu to my xbox one
AWS is only the authentication part. the content is spread around their leased data centers and colo sites
i did some googling and since 2008 netflix used contract with limelight for CDN and lots of third party peering services. as well as transit from cogent and L3. problem is they always cut profit thin deals where the value for the provider was mostly learning to deal with the traffic. even limelight said they made almost no profit on the netflix deal.
instead of paying more in network costs like HBO and everyone else does netflix came out with their own CDN and wanted ISP's to host them for free. unlike the current arrangements where CDN's pay the ISP's for hosting and bandwidth. and netflix started super HD right at the time they screwed up their distribution system and went on their PR parade saying how bad all these ISP's are.
i don't know what the deal with AT&T and Verizon is but with comcast the difference is netflix is paying comcast directly instead of the other services they used to pay. win/win for everyone and cutting out the middlemen
and if you look at netflix's financials their tech costs are less than 1/10 of revenues and content costs are 3/4 of revenues. their problem is they are just a low margin middle man for content and make very little profit
well known that netflix used to pay for peering and CDN's until last year when they tried their super HD and open connect and their service went down the toilet
all they have to do is go back to limelight and their service quality will improve
they don't need faster bandwidth just set up a CDN in their network for their customers and the content is there. the issue has always been the internetwork links
even then netflix is like vonage. they are just a middle man and their value seems to be coding a client for every possible device and handling the licensing arrangements
$30 for an oil change AT THE DEALER $100 or so once you get to like 50,000 miles for a check up and some more at 100,000 miles and more. say $400 to change the tires out at 75000 or 100,000 miles if you figure 12000 miles a year for "normal" driving and maybe 4000 for me, it's A LOT cheaper for me to own honda or any normal car than a tesla
only expensive if you're always going to toys r us for the overpriced crap that gets lost in 2 days. a few things in there lasted me a few years but most of it the kids get bored of pretty fast.
electronics are the best. no mess, they last for years and grow with the kids ipad and xbox are pretty good and pay for themselves over and over with the lack of crap you end up buying from toys r us.
mostly my first kid since he would wake up at 4:30am almost every day as a baby and toddler. i was on like 4 hours sleep for a year the second kid wasn't too bad
best to have kids in your mid 20's right after college and buy a home around the same time. by the time you hit 40 your kids are ready to be kicked out of the house and as you start to make more money you will have time for real entertainment like nice vacations instead of the 20s deal of going to bars all the time
and when you get to your 40's you start to feel like chilling out a lot more instead of always having to have small kids tug you everywhere and take your attention
i see a lot of parents in their mid to late 40's now with newborns and i'd hate to be that age and having to wake up at 6am on weekends to watch the kid
it's not the bigotry, its the fact they have no zoning laws and some megacorp can build a fertilizer plant next to residential housing and kill people when it explodes or build some oil refinery next to someone's home and poison their air and water
a lot of car makers can build cars in the USA profitably. even small cars. except GM and Ford
part of the problem is the factories are old and there is no more room to expand. but then you have stupid union rules that say you have to deliver parts to one end of the factory so some guy can move them over to the end where they are needed
so far the internet of things is like the late 90's when you can do the same thing with a computer using more effort and more money but it's cool because you are doing it with a computer and on the internet
or for the crazy OCD freaks out there who need things to be absolutely perfect or they go bipolar
yeah, but imagine your fridge linked to Fresh Direct or the Amazon grocery delivery service and automatically ordering food for you whether you want it to or not. Epicness
or you can put your bread into the toaster at night and then use your phone to toast it the next morning before you get out of the shower so you don't have to do it manually
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yes, but knowing all the relevant laws and regulations and the workflow of the agencies you will work with is a big help
netflix did too until they demanded free network access to every ISP
in theory comcast buying time warner will make a huge player in the industry able to stand up to the content companies and tell them to go away next time they want more money
but the merger is bad. at least according to al franken who's is beholden to the content industry for campaign donations
yeah, not like any of the big media companies have sued dropbox or google over retransmission of their works
if you google "netflix data centers" and read all the industry info, no
they always found vendors with cut rate deals
everyone does streaming now and the quality is almost always better than netflix. why is that?
i've streamed from Vudu, itunes, HBO, amazon, PBS, smithsonian, red bull and lots of other services outside my pay TV package and the quality is better than netflix. yet people think there is some conspiracy against netflix. i'll rent a movie 2-3 times a month on itunes and it never buffers on my 15/1 connection to my apple TV. same with vudu to my xbox one
AWS is only the authentication part. the content is spread around their leased data centers and colo sites
i did some googling and since 2008 netflix used contract with limelight for CDN and lots of third party peering services. as well as transit from cogent and L3. problem is they always cut profit thin deals where the value for the provider was mostly learning to deal with the traffic. even limelight said they made almost no profit on the netflix deal.
instead of paying more in network costs like HBO and everyone else does netflix came out with their own CDN and wanted ISP's to host them for free. unlike the current arrangements where CDN's pay the ISP's for hosting and bandwidth. and netflix started super HD right at the time they screwed up their distribution system and went on their PR parade saying how bad all these ISP's are.
i don't know what the deal with AT&T and Verizon is but with comcast the difference is netflix is paying comcast directly instead of the other services they used to
pay. win/win for everyone and cutting out the middlemen
and if you look at netflix's financials their tech costs are less than 1/10 of revenues and content costs are 3/4 of revenues. their problem is they are just a low margin middle man for content and make very little profit
well known that netflix used to pay for peering and CDN's until last year when they tried their super HD and open connect and their service went down the toilet
all they have to do is go back to limelight and their service quality will improve
they don't need faster bandwidth
just set up a CDN in their network for their customers and the content is there. the issue has always been the internetwork links
even then netflix is like vonage. they are just a middle man and their value seems to be coding a client for every possible device and handling the licensing arrangements
they got a call including plate # and location and stopped the car
what's the problem?
google is looking at a few tiny markets and geeks are creaming their shorts about it
wake me when google sells $100 BILLION worth of bonds for something like a national roll out to 20 million homes
all you idiot google fans dreaming of google fiber will be doing so way after you die. for now google fiber is more vaporware than FIOS
i'm all for mass transit and use it almost every day, but i'm in NYC
a lot of cities in the US aren't dense enough to support the costs of the system
$30 for an oil change AT THE DEALER
$100 or so once you get to like 50,000 miles for a check up and some more at 100,000 miles and more. say $400 to change the tires out at 75000 or 100,000 miles
if you figure 12000 miles a year for "normal" driving and maybe 4000 for me, it's A LOT cheaper for me to own honda or any normal car than a tesla
how much is it to replace it?
i can drive my honda CRV until it falls apart with some basic maintenance that doesn't involve spending thousands of $$$ on a new battery
and my honda doesn't cost $600 a year in an annual checkup like Tesla charges
netflix used to pay for CDN services, but stopped last year
go google "netflix data center" and you will get lots of nice not click bait nonsense, but real tech info. netflix did this to themselves
with telecommuting you can work from anywhere, including home
VPN, Citrix, web apps all make it easy to work at home. plus side is you can pick your kids up from school and not pay for after school child care
it's not supposed to be for recent releases. not at that price point
$8 - $10 a month you get an awesome deal on catalog content that's also on demand
more like the content costs
if you look at their financials 3/4 of revenues goes to pay for content. networking costs are maybe 1/10 of revenues
eating right and keeping healthy helps too
yep
only expensive if you're always going to toys r us for the overpriced crap that gets lost in 2 days. a few things in there lasted me a few years but most of it the kids get bored of pretty fast.
electronics are the best. no mess, they last for years and grow with the kids
ipad and xbox are pretty good and pay for themselves over and over with the lack of crap you end up buying from toys r us.
mostly my first kid since he would wake up at 4:30am almost every day as a baby and toddler. i was on like 4 hours sleep for a year
the second kid wasn't too bad
yep, i'm also 40 and have 2 kids
best to have kids in your mid 20's right after college and buy a home around the same time. by the time you hit 40 your kids are ready to be kicked out of the house and as you start to make more money you will have time for real entertainment like nice vacations instead of the 20s deal of going to bars all the time
and when you get to your 40's you start to feel like chilling out a lot more instead of always having to have small kids tug you everywhere and take your attention
i see a lot of parents in their mid to late 40's now with newborns and i'd hate to be that age and having to wake up at 6am on weekends to watch the kid
it's not the bigotry, its the fact they have no zoning laws and some megacorp can build a fertilizer plant next to residential housing and kill people when it explodes
or build some oil refinery next to someone's home and poison their air and water
a lot of car makers can build cars in the USA profitably. even small cars. except GM and Ford
part of the problem is the factories are old and there is no more room to expand. but then you have stupid union rules that say you have to deliver parts to one end of the factory so some guy can move them over to the end where they are needed
so far the internet of things is like the late 90's
when you can do the same thing with a computer using more effort and more money but it's cool because you are doing it with a computer and on the internet
or for the crazy OCD freaks out there who need things to be absolutely perfect or they go bipolar
yeah, but imagine your fridge linked to Fresh Direct or the Amazon grocery delivery service and automatically ordering food for you whether you want it to or not. Epicness
or you can put your bread into the toaster at night and then use your phone to toast it the next morning before you get out of the shower so you don't have to do it manually