If I am an ISP and I can handle 10 TB of data to the backbone and I have 100 customers all with 1 TB connections it is my fault the 10 TB peer gets hosed 99% of the time because I have sold more capacity than I have available and it is my responsibility to correct the problem. This is what Comcast and other US ISP's have done.
But Comcast has oversold its actual capacity creating the disparity and thus responsible for its occurrence. Then going to its customer's other vendors and insisting they pay extra to provide the bandwidth their customers have already paid for.
$799 gets you the i3 with 64 GB and no KB. the i5 128 GB costs $999 and the KB will add another $129.99 so the difference isn't all that much when you factor in all the things the Helix has that are not offered or cost extra on the Surface Pro 3.
"One person" may only stream one video at a time, but "people" as a whole may stream thousands or tens of thousands of videos all at the same time, and that's what creates the bottleneck in the peering connection. These same "people" are the "people" who currently stream videos over Comcast et.al. and create the peering bottleneck between Comcast and Level 3.
It is Comcast creating the bottleneck and it is done deliberately. They want you to believe it is Netflix that has the problem but they could have solved it for their entire customer base for ~$30K according to Level 3. And Netflix offered to host their own servers inside of Comcast's network which would eliminate the bottleneck altogether but Comcast refused instead demanding tribute before allowing more Netflix traffic.
I'm glad the summary defined SOI as I wasn't sure how Eric Schmidt was related to Silicon On Insulator technology other than the chips Google's servers run on employ the tech.
Okay, so let them make that part of the "cost of doing business", like other just about every other business has to do. Farmers also have to have fuel to operate and haul equipment, seed, fertilizer/herbicide/pesticide, and product to and from "civilization", and they manage to do that just fine without my fuel getting taxed extra to pay for their fuel. I'd argue that fuel is a lot more important to the process than cheap high-speed Internet.
Fuel Tax in the USA IRS definitions for non-taxable fuel uses "On a farm for farming purposes"
You might want to do a little research BEFORE embarrassing yourself on/. which is pretty hard given all the competition but you have won the/. lottery this night my friend.
SBC (formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation) acquired the rights by buying the original AT&T in 2005 for 16 billion so it's still part of the same company. SBC had already swallowed up numerous other baby bells prior to acquiring AT&T.
The energy efficienty of fuel cell powered cars is abysmally low in comparison to electric.
I believe your were attempting to say electricity derived from a mobile fuel cell is less efficient than electricity derived from the electric grid and stored in mobile batteries since the only difference between the two cars is where the electricity is generated. Because I can install a fuel cell system (propane or natural gas) at home and charge my EV and it is relatively efficient.
I use current BB products, issued by my company. And they do surprise me. As in "why the hell is my company spending good money on junk like this?!?" Similar to a decent smartphone? Hardly. The ones with real keyboards are glorified feature phones. And those of use that want a decent smartphone will buy one from a decent smartphone vendor.
Since you didn't specify what device you are using I will assume from your comment you are using a BB OS 7 device which the OP indicated was a several years old device. I highly doubt you are are using a BB OS 10 device since current gen BB OS 10 phones (even the Z10 is over a year old.) can run the bulk of Android apps while maintaining the devices security. The Z30 uses the same Snapdragon S4 Pro chip as the Moto X and a host of other devices meaning it can hang with the big dogs just fine. BlackBerry has done a commendable job re-engineering the ideas from the original BB OS into a next generation OS ready to compete with the modern mobile world.
Comparing BES to ActiveSync (EAS) is like comparing Exchange to IIS. While BlackBerry's bread and butter was its push email functionality the things you could do with a BlackBerry connected to a BES were impressive even by today's standards. Because of BlackBerry's end to end encryption a BB phone connected to a BES is always connected to the corporate network just like any PC sitting in your office. Meaning if I left an important file on the computer at the office I could connect to it from my phone and open/save it. Applications which need to fetch data from the corporate DB can be installed to the phone and work without the need to constantly log in. Even today with every MDM I have worked with I still have to manually connect over VPN when I want to do anything on the company network with an Android or iOS device. And if the screen times out it disconnects the VPN connection forcing me to start over. Good, Mobile Iron, Knox, et al are still some distance from providing such a robust feature set.
This is a good move for BlackBerry but if a company truly wants a secure and robust solution they should still choose BES IMHO.
I would dance a jig if I could get the BU I support to switch to SQL. They are currently building a database of vendor and partner well data. They get the data from a UniData sourced db...upload it to a server that converts it to SQL (Using the corporate licensed Oracle db) just so the Microsoft ACCESS db can pull in the data. Of course for smaller projects why bother with anything but an Excel spreadsheet with thirty or so user generated add-ins that require your credentials which are parsed in plain text.
For anyone who actually wants to know as much as possible about the situation before they defend their position to the death Dr. Peering has a somewhat unbiased writeup about the arguments from both sides of the Netflix/Comcast debate.
My take is that the overselling of all-you-can-eat broadband will need to come to an end as Comcast (any ISP that employs the practice) simply cannot sustain an uncongested and reliable network as long as they rely on it. An unpopular idea but one that needs to be considered.
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If I am an ISP and I can handle 10 TB of data to the backbone and I have 100 customers all with 1 TB connections it is my fault the 10 TB peer gets hosed 99% of the time because I have sold more capacity than I have available and it is my responsibility to correct the problem. This is what Comcast and other US ISP's have done.
But Comcast has oversold its actual capacity creating the disparity and thus responsible for its occurrence. Then going to its customer's other vendors and insisting they pay extra to provide the bandwidth their customers have already paid for.
$799 gets you the i3 with 64 GB and no KB. the i5 128 GB costs $999 and the KB will add another $129.99 so the difference isn't all that much when you factor in all the things the Helix has that are not offered or cost extra on the Surface Pro 3.
"One person" may only stream one video at a time, but "people" as a whole may stream thousands or tens of thousands of videos all at the same time, and that's what creates the bottleneck in the peering connection. These same "people" are the "people" who currently stream videos over Comcast et.al. and create the peering bottleneck between Comcast and Level 3.
It is Comcast creating the bottleneck and it is done deliberately. They want you to believe it is Netflix that has the problem but they could have solved it for their entire customer base for ~$30K according to Level 3. And Netflix offered to host their own servers inside of Comcast's network which would eliminate the bottleneck altogether but Comcast refused instead demanding tribute before allowing more Netflix traffic.
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trying to sell a full power laptop which can have the keyboard removed (and which will likely have crappy battery life and still essentially be a PC)
Are you familiar with the Lenovo ThinkPad Helix?
So...It has come to this!
I'm glad the summary defined SOI as I wasn't sure how Eric Schmidt was related to Silicon On Insulator technology other than the chips Google's servers run on employ the tech.
I had no idea Brian L. Roberts had a /. account. Stick around you might actually learn something.
But then you couldn't afford to pay your cable bill every month and the cable lobby simply cannot have that!
Okay, so let them make that part of the "cost of doing business", like other just about every other business has to do. Farmers also have to have fuel to operate and haul equipment, seed, fertilizer/herbicide/pesticide, and product to and from "civilization", and they manage to do that just fine without my fuel getting taxed extra to pay for their fuel. I'd argue that fuel is a lot more important to the process than cheap high-speed Internet.
Fuel Tax in the USA /. which is pretty hard given all the competition but you have won the /. lottery this night my friend.
IRS definitions for non-taxable fuel uses "On a farm for farming purposes"
You might want to do a little research BEFORE embarrassing yourself on
Which is all relatively pointless when their connection to the backbone is fscked on purpose to keep your streaming choppy.
SBC (formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation) acquired the rights by buying the original AT&T in 2005 for 16 billion so it's still part of the same company. SBC had already swallowed up numerous other baby bells prior to acquiring AT&T.
Well according to Level 3 they refuse to upgrade their circuits now anyway so it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to the end user.
The energy efficienty of fuel cell powered cars is abysmally low in comparison to electric.
I believe your were attempting to say electricity derived from a mobile fuel cell is less efficient than electricity derived from the electric grid and stored in mobile batteries since the only difference between the two cars is where the electricity is generated. Because I can install a fuel cell system (propane or natural gas) at home and charge my EV and it is relatively efficient.
I use current BB products, issued by my company. And they do surprise me. As in "why the hell is my company spending good money on junk like this?!?" Similar to a decent smartphone? Hardly. The ones with real keyboards are glorified feature phones. And those of use that want a decent smartphone will buy one from a decent smartphone vendor.
Since you didn't specify what device you are using I will assume from your comment you are using a BB OS 7 device which the OP indicated was a several years old device. I highly doubt you are are using a BB OS 10 device since current gen BB OS 10 phones (even the Z10 is over a year old.) can run the bulk of Android apps while maintaining the devices security. The Z30 uses the same Snapdragon S4 Pro chip as the Moto X and a host of other devices meaning it can hang with the big dogs just fine. BlackBerry has done a commendable job re-engineering the ideas from the original BB OS into a next generation OS ready to compete with the modern mobile world.
Comparing BES to ActiveSync (EAS) is like comparing Exchange to IIS. While BlackBerry's bread and butter was its push email functionality the things you could do with a BlackBerry connected to a BES were impressive even by today's standards. Because of BlackBerry's end to end encryption a BB phone connected to a BES is always connected to the corporate network just like any PC sitting in your office. Meaning if I left an important file on the computer at the office I could connect to it from my phone and open/save it. Applications which need to fetch data from the corporate DB can be installed to the phone and work without the need to constantly log in. Even today with every MDM I have worked with I still have to manually connect over VPN when I want to do anything on the company network with an Android or iOS device. And if the screen times out it disconnects the VPN connection forcing me to start over. Good, Mobile Iron, Knox, et al are still some distance from providing such a robust feature set.
This is a good move for BlackBerry but if a company truly wants a secure and robust solution they should still choose BES IMHO.
OH NO SIR! You will not break Betteridge's law of headlines. This is /. and that will not be tolerated.
I might even be tempted to take a db admin job in Boulder, Co...
Yep. They should adopt the slogan: "Atom - For people to stupid to learn elisp"
I would guess that's the motivation behind it.
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I would dance a jig if I could get the BU I support to switch to SQL. They are currently building a database of vendor and partner well data. They get the data from a UniData sourced db...upload it to a server that converts it to SQL (Using the corporate licensed Oracle db) just so the Microsoft ACCESS db can pull in the data. Of course for smaller projects why bother with anything but an Excel spreadsheet with thirty or so user generated add-ins that require your credentials which are parsed in plain text.
I used to do db admin w/ a 800K contact database...it was actually a fun job!
You poor kid. Would the other kids not play with you as a child?
Comcast also has a motive here -- to get their customers to use Streampix instead of Netflix or get Netflix to pay extra to get to their customers.
Tit for Tat and all of that.
For anyone who actually wants to know as much as possible about the situation before they defend their position to the death Dr. Peering has a somewhat unbiased writeup about the arguments from both sides of the Netflix/Comcast debate.
My take is that the overselling of all-you-can-eat broadband will need to come to an end as Comcast (any ISP that employs the practice) simply cannot sustain an uncongested and reliable network as long as they rely on it. An unpopular idea but one that needs to be considered.
What's funny is this is an old blonde joke and it got modded interesting.