It could half the price or twice as fast and someone would still write this article. Just like computers, which are thousands of times faster than they were a few decades ago, our use of the internet and the services made available by the providers expand with it. We haven't had streaming HD video all that long, but lots of people want it and will complain if they get it on their connection (I can't). In a few years' time it'll be streaming 3D video. Then it'll be streaming immersive virtual reality, and not everyone's connection will be able to handle that, and so on.
America's Internet access is slow, expensive
It'll always be of a certain speed and at a certain price. Some people will be happy with that. Some will think it's too slow. Some will think it's too expensive. Some will think both and write books about it.
Profits go up if they can provide Internet at super high prices.
I took out the word "slow" and now it's just supply and demand (with the occasional de facto monopoly, admittedly), same as usual.
People still use the manufacturer's version of Android ? The first thing I do on any new android phone that lands in my hands is to replace the firmware with something less full of )(@#*)(#$.
I hate to break it to you, but you are not representative of "people" when it comes to this sort of thing. Most people a) are perfectly happy with everything their phone does when it comes out of the box, b) don't even know they can reflash their phone and c) wouldn't have the first clue how to go about it if they did.
All we get is the first sentence of an article copy-and-pasted as a summary now? Does the submitter think this is a good thing or a bad thing? Why should we care about this? What are the implications?
Can't we just turn the whole thing over to a bot and be done with it?
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Would you like a few like a few more light-minutes to think about that one?
...that's a gateway spacecraft!
America's Internet access is slow, expensive
It'll always be of a certain speed and at a certain price. Some people will be happy with that. Some will think it's too slow. Some will think it's too expensive. Some will think both and write books about it.
Profits go up if they can provide Internet at super high prices.
I took out the word "slow" and now it's just supply and demand (with the occasional de facto monopoly, admittedly), same as usual.
What about the ones who advocate killing to others because they don't like what someone else said? Are they blameless?
But is there a reason we should care?
Two autoplaying video streams with audio? Yeah, that was a good idea.
People still use the manufacturer's version of Android ? The first thing I do on any new android phone that lands in my hands is to replace the firmware with something less full of )(@#*)(#$.
I hate to break it to you, but you are not representative of "people" when it comes to this sort of thing. Most people a) are perfectly happy with everything their phone does when it comes out of the box, b) don't even know they can reflash their phone and c) wouldn't have the first clue how to go about it if they did.
Looks like it's been fixed. There is still a minor offence in that a bar graph would be more suitable than a line :)
Some actual news for nerds, and from the horse's mouth. And graphs and everything. Love it.
I was going to joke that they couldn't install it before launch because it took them this long to come up with the acronym.
I've got all the common software I need on my Linux machines. I haven't even had machines with other OSs for at least 8 years.
I've got all the common software I need on my Windows machine. I haven't even had machines with other OSs for at least 8 years. Anecdote annihilation!
Because almost all of us are, to a greater or lesser extent, selfish.
http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw&t=0m15s
Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs
What did they do, prop him up and pull a string wrapped around his wrist to beckon them over?
Sorry. I need sleep. Or help.
But it'll cost, ooh, I dunno, let's say $100,000 to do it.
Isn't that missing the entire point?
Err, yeah, and that's why the headline is "Advertisers Never Intended To Honor DNT."
As anyone would know if the read the whole of the summary...
At the bottom of the BBC article, it is stated that the gas used in balloons (which is not pure helium) is waste gas from medical and other uses.
x shows a successful transmission of y bits per second over a z-core optical fiber w km long.
Is that good? Is that much faster than before, or only a bit?
Don't be daft, you can't have the information. Data protection and all that.
All we get is the first sentence of an article copy-and-pasted as a summary now? Does the submitter think this is a good thing or a bad thing? Why should we care about this? What are the implications?
Can't we just turn the whole thing over to a bot and be done with it?
2) Yeah. An online petition. That'll learn 'em.
Didn't you hear? It's valiant.
Not really a social experiment, is it? More a sort of, well, business one.
Aww, you think you're clever. That's adorable.