Ah yes, the education of that day, based on assumptions that are still present in some form today.
Might have been a more refined age, though for today I'm pretty sure your average CS major needs to be able to quote Dante in his original language about as much as he needs an extra heavy bender prior to the big test.
The 15 million was from the OP statement of equating data to equivelent text messages.
I wasn't really addressing what the carriers charge for SMS.. they will charge what the market will bear and the market bears around $20USD per month for unlimited SMS service on a contract plan. My main point was that while SMS might be cheap to provide.. it is not entirely without cost.
The paging channel is a finite resource and ramping up the number of sms pages like the OP implied would qualify as a mass calling event like any other (new years, mothers day, natural disaster).
.. SMS messages are not like standard data.. while the payload might be 160 bytes of text, the overhead and the delivery mechanism involved is much different than your average TCP session.
Primarily because those text messages have to locate the mobile with a page on the paging channel before sending the actual text itself. Paging channel requires SS7 messages to an HLR, MSC, SMSC and some other machines that do functions other than just text.
Sending 15 million SMS to one mobile would 1. tax the MSC pretty heavily (mobile switching center) and 2. probably get the originating node blocked at the intercarrier connection point pretty quickly.
I remember an old Perkin Elmer minicomputer that was used at a laboratory testing oil samples.
The only way to get anything in or out of the thing was kermit over async serial line.
At the time I wasn't quite as UNIX headed.. I thought it very funny that the day that we installed brand new HP high volume / high capacity laser printers was the day I was asked if it had a serial interface available (why they didn't just do LPD I'll never know).
Look into a deaf/hard of hearing rate plan on one of the GSM carriers. It'll probably include a bucket of text you don't need, but it'll have data service for presumably less than a standard minutes plan. As far as the EU leg of your travels.. since your only charged for outgoing text and calls it shouldn't be too hard to get a prepaid SIM with some amount of data on it.
Though with Sprint/Virgin offering $25 a month unlimited data on a cheap android phone, it might be cheaper just to get two phones, develop on wifi when in the other country and just go with that.
Your speeds are off by about a decimal place. In mobile data terms and technical terms it breaks down like this
1G = analog / AMPS service or similiar.. 2400bp/s on a good day plus whatever hardware error correction and data compression (MNP10) -- circuit switched technology (your taking a line on the tower 2G = CDMA / GSM(CDPD) base speed data - circuit switched at 9600bp/s 2.5G = packet switched CDMA 1X / GSM GPRS or EDGE.. nominally max 144kb/s.. usually 50-70kb/s.. GSM had different EDGE profiles for higher speeds.. but the base was in this range 3G = CDMA 1XEVDO / GSM HSDPA.. 3.1mb/s on CDMA.. up to 14.4mb/s and higher on GSM (though getting a contiguous spectrum block available for the full speed is problematic when mixed with voice traffic and paging channels 3.5G = current spec WIMAX and LTE.. nominal 10mb/s down.. biggest difference is it scales to higher data rates based on number of users.. whereas say 3G CDMA might have 3.1mb/s per sector.. wimax / LTE can deliver this per user given enough spectrum 4G = most recently published goalpost.. something like 100mb/s sustained mobile and higher in fixed / limited mobility scenarios.. WIMAX2 / LTE Advanced
Well, expecting to get more output from the same input is of course illogical and impossible, but if a company puts up the planning, development and engineering resources to make it happen up front than the scalability claims in the marketing copy can be done to some extent.
But the way some (most?) deployments seem to go make it cost prohibitive to put the distributed database / distributed applications and fault tolerant components in in the first place.
1. Push everything into 5.8 range you can. Whereas 2.4 (b/g/cheap N) only has 3-4 non-contiguous channels, 5.8 (A/N) has dozens of fully non-shared channels available which should make spectrum contention less of an issue in this band.
2. depending on the geographical area required, back the power levels down using either commercial gear that allows it by default or using one of the freeware (DDWRT/Tomato) firmwares so that it doesn't exacerbate cross AP contention in B/G ranges
3. Directional antennas
4. Disable the DHCP servers in your APs and setup 2 or more subnets with their own physically separate DHCP servers.
5. If there is any AP placement flexibility, it is generally better to setup an "edges in" approach with say directional APs antenna at the perimeter and at least 4 quadrants in the central area, though if this is in the US your going to be limited to 3 non-overlapping B/G bands.
There is a diagram in the Cisco CCNA wifi study materials that has a frequency reuse map defined for maximum spectral efficiency and minimum overlap, though with only 3 mount points you won't be able to use much of that.
As far as the per user available bandwidth being small and latency going up exponentially with more users.. on paper that's true, but I find it extraordinarily unlikely that ALL users will be powering up and attempting to access all at the same time. If this were really the case than I'd say scrap the AP plan and go scounge up some 10/100 switches and go wired.
I live in Kansas with KCP&L.. my bill itemizes kw/h used multiplied by the cost per kw/h. No seperate charge based on time of day or anything else.
It might be true on the utility side where one person subsidizes another by default, but that isn't born out in the billing for residential customers. Since the value proposition of the energy storage system ITA is based on soaking up the power during off-peak rate periods and using it during peak periods.. my payback period would be much longer, which is the point I was making.
Some of these technologies are of no use to those of us that live in areas where the cost of energy is consistent all day and night and year round.
Part of that maybe the problem (no intelligence in the infrastructure). But in the meantime if I were to have solar or any other resource put up that would benefit from stored energy for later use, it'll throw the payback vs normal utility curve way off to where I'd have to live here for decades to get my money back in anything but smugness.
As far as LI battery technology, it seems that the Prius used NMhd batteries because the number of charge discharge cycles was greater, since the batteries in the story were expected to have a cycle per day, the owner would have to replace them realistically every 3-4 years.
As far as the greater energy content of LI batteries, that is a risk that is always present with batteries. As long as the controller / charger is smart and has a layer or two of fault checking, the risk of runaway thermal events is pretty low. (The problem people had with Lithium Ion AA cell batteries where they are available was when people put them into standard NiCad or NiMh chargers, which apply too much current too quickly and make them pop to start fires. Since this is an integrated system by Panasonic with no capacity to mix and match technology evident, I'd say the risks is low.)
It would be possible with standard deep cycle lead acid batteries, but than you have to have climate control for your batteries above and beyond that proposed, and than your dedicating a good chunk of floorspace to batteries (You can't stack them because of heat buildup when discharging). I know the Central Offices I've been in have had a good chunk of their floorspace dedicated to just power, and even than only for the few minutes it takes for the diesel to kick over.. and you don't want to know what happens to expensive telephone equipment when it starts getting fed progressive amounts lower than 48VDC.)
While to believe the commercials from the larger players, there will never be absolutely seamless coverage across the nation because..
1. There are places nobody lives (or it's economically unfeasible to cover) 2. Transmit powers are 1/12 of what they were in the analog era 3. They can't just throw a tower up anywhere
Back when analog bag phones were the norm, I never found anyplace without coverage.. why? Because on analog they had a nominal 3 watt transmit power on the phone, which let you have towers dozens of miles apart and still get a reliable signal. Today's mobiles operate at.25 of a watt or less, and since the 3G spec devices currently at or becoming the norm are based on CDMA technology (CDMA or WCDMA/HS?PA), the transmit power will only go down based on the load of the tower. (Under CDMA, the transmit power decreases when the load rises, lowering the noise floor and allowing more devices on the tower, with the net effect of creating islands of service if the network has hot spots and they don't plan accordingly).
As far as towers and stuff are concerned, I remember reading an article from upstate new york about a stretch of state highway that had pristine views, and a very high mortality rate in the winter because nobody had cell service up that way. The local government bodies sued and cajoled the cell carriers to build coverage, but wouldn't let them put the tall towers up to allow service in an economically feasible way. Net result, no coverage and more death, but the view was still great.
In Kansas City, most of the local stations all signed off at 9AM.
I thought it fitting that WDAF-TV4 ended their broadcast with
1. a crude "1949-2009" graphic 2. A few seconds of the old indian head test pattern 3. A video of the old stars and stripes video they always used at signoff everyday
Followed by a "ceremony" with some backoffice engineers pushing the big button you aren't supposed to press.
Walked into my first real tech job in 1995 at a local ISP and discovered Linux (Slackware 3.0 and I think 2.2).
We were using it to run CERN web servers on Pentium 75 desktop and 486/33 class machines on 8 megs of ram.
I remember was being knee deep in swap all the time. That were were running a.99 kernel forever, and that in todays environment we'd have our lunch eaten because the boxes were running (and using) every usable service known to man at the same time (http / SMTP / DNS / nntp / pop3).
We had to setup remote reboot capabilities because a local television station would flash their website on the screen during the nightly news and we'd get murdered when they posted an.au audio file of the evening news.
On linux specific stuff, I just remember the lack of loadable modules, answering hundreds of yes/no questions to recompile the kernel, no SSH anywhere to be seen and it being a big deal when we installed stuff like top.
Back in the bad old days before I worked in IT. I worked in a call center / customer order entry for a place that sold various holiday pastries and such products.
We had people FAX us checks all the time, and than call up and get abusively angry at the agents because their order was not processed (They usually neglected to put a phone number on the form to).
The only thing sillier at that job was the phone system, antiqated even for the day. The order taker would push a button after each call to signal the ACD that she was ready for the next call. Of course every holiday we'd clean out the temp agencies of agents, a good percentage of which would choose to take a call and than read for the rest of their shift if somebody didn't come over and push the button for them.
This seems to be more a legal effort to come up with the conclusion that tasers are not related to suspects deaths, than looking for the question on how someone died.
Probably in the companies best interest, but it does seem to be introducing more weasel words than the world really needs.
I am a TWC customer in the midwest.. I subscribe to their digital phone + digital cable + "turbo" internet package.. virtually every service they offer.
While it would cost me more per month to get these from AT&T.. I'd do so in a heartbeat. I'd have to suffer with 1.5 meg DSL (15,000 cable ft from CO).. but I can saturate that line with little trouble..
The only other option I think anybody could come up with would be to get a EVDO / HSDPA data card for one of the machines and have it act like a transfer mule.. not the fastest connection, but averaged out over 24 hour periods and it works out fine (just don't use VZ.. 5 gigs per month isn't enough for basic web browsing and VPN,. let alone "casual" usage).
This service has been available (and my relatives have had it) for a few months in the Kansas City Kansas (overland park) area.
First off, the system takes a little getting used to.. you can have 4 seperate video streams online at once (with the DVR counting for two as needed). If you attempt to turn the 5th unit on (parents have 5) you will get a resource not available message.
This is exactly what is sounds like video over IP. They co-op the existing coax cable outlets for existing cable extentions.. but they run cat5 for all new outlets.
The only difference between the local time warner and this service is a small delay in changing all channels (since all are digital.. no analog of any kind naturally) and the fact that they remap the local broadcast channels to their original positions.
They include a 2wire router.. not much else to say about it. The manual refers to using a WEP key and SSID.. they actually configure WPA., there is no option for a hardwired connection from what I saw.
As far as the actual offering, it appears comperable to cable or directtv,. some of the choices are a little weird, and the "basic cable" offerings are a different in terms of selections.. but that seems to vary where you live anyway.
I'd say he'd have to look at a specific population.
Among college students and younger, it may very well be 10:1, or worse.
For those of us accessing from work and home. That will be 2:1 assuming the same site.
For those of us behind corporate firewalls or other traffic aggregate points. It could very well be 1:1000, or higher.
Without some other data point, unique IP address statistics are next to worthless, except in "We had xxx,xxx average daily last month and xxx,xxx + xx,xxx average daily this month.
If you have an easement on your property (and you probably do if you are on the electrical grid, water, sewer, gas or cable), than the government, for better or worse, has the right to do whatever they want within that easement.
By your description, if you wanted to prevent adult material from traversing your property (say Spice on demand), you'd be within your rights to refuse access by the cable company, or taken a step further, to dig up or cut down the coax or fiber that is already there when you moved into the area.
Eventually it will all get down to data only. However in the current regulatory environment they are distinct services and regulated accordingly.
When we get to data only (and to tie it to the later story on/.). It won't be a happy day for consumers, if you have to pay for each and every TV episode you might download or the web server you hang off your home broadband connection.
I don't think the FCC will have much to say about this. Here's why.
Verizon has two effective classes of business. Highly regulated (POTS) and almost unregulated.
If we were talking about DSL DSLAM sharing, the FCC would have something to say (or at least in previous administrations). Anything over "legacy" telco switching equipment like POTS, DSL, T1 PRI interconnects, that sort of thing, is publically regulated. Meaning they have to go to a public utility commission to raise rates or change the way charges are collected (for DSL it's slightly different, but that's on the level of another company leasing dry copper from VZ, rather than the end user data charge.
Anything outside of that, like wireless phone or networks they've developed seperately (think fiber to the home) is a value-added service and therefore much less regulated.
While I'd love unrestricted access to bandwidth for a government subsudized low cost, in this area, they don't have to play nice. It's their pipe and they can use or charge what they want for it.
"According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter."
Has it occured to anyone that.44% is statistically insignificant, taken by itself?
several of my relatives are getting ipods(or like) for xmas, and the edict from their parents is legal downloads only.
Not to play to the audience, but you'd think the industry types would be reading the writing on the wall. Better talent / selection / prices = higher units moving = higher profits.
It's very rare anymore I see / hear something I WANT to buy, let alone take a chance on via CD or download.
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Ah yes, the education of that day, based on assumptions that are still present in some form today.
Might have been a more refined age, though for today I'm pretty sure your average CS major needs to be able to quote Dante in his original language about as much as he needs an extra heavy bender prior to the big test.
The 15 million was from the OP statement of equating data to equivelent text messages.
I wasn't really addressing what the carriers charge for SMS .. they will charge what the market will bear and the market bears around $20USD per month for unlimited SMS service on a contract plan. My main point was that while SMS might be cheap to provide .. it is not entirely without cost.
The paging channel is a finite resource and ramping up the number of sms pages like the OP implied would qualify as a mass calling event like any other (new years, mothers day, natural disaster).
Primarily because those text messages have to locate the mobile with a page on the paging channel before sending the actual text itself. Paging channel requires SS7 messages to an HLR, MSC, SMSC and some other machines that do functions other than just text.
Sending 15 million SMS to one mobile would 1. tax the MSC pretty heavily (mobile switching center) and 2. probably get the originating node blocked at the intercarrier connection point pretty quickly.
I remember an old Perkin Elmer minicomputer that was used at a laboratory testing oil samples.
The only way to get anything in or out of the thing was kermit over async serial line.
At the time I wasn't quite as UNIX headed .. I thought it very funny that the day that we installed brand new HP high volume / high capacity laser printers was the day I was asked if it had a serial interface available (why they didn't just do LPD I'll never know).
Does anyone see the irony of charging a fee to someone enrolled or trying to enroll in a program for people without money?
What are they going to do, refuse care to someone who is to obese or too poor to pay the fee.
And it got posted to the wrong thread ... /. bug anyone?
Look into a deaf/hard of hearing rate plan on one of the GSM carriers. It'll probably include a bucket of text you don't need, but it'll have data service for presumably less than a standard minutes plan. As far as the EU leg of your travels .. since your only charged for outgoing text and calls it shouldn't be too hard to get a prepaid SIM with some amount of data on it.
Though with Sprint/Virgin offering $25 a month unlimited data on a cheap android phone, it might be cheaper just to get two phones, develop on wifi when in the other country and just go with that.
Your speeds are off by about a decimal place. In mobile data terms and technical terms it breaks down like this
1G = analog / AMPS service or similiar .. 2400bp/s on a good day plus whatever hardware error correction and data compression (MNP10) -- circuit switched technology (your taking a line on the tower .. nominally max 144kb/s .. usually 50-70kb/s .. GSM had different EDGE profiles for higher speeds .. but the base was in this range .. 3.1mb/s on CDMA .. up to 14.4mb/s and higher on GSM (though getting a contiguous spectrum block available for the full speed is problematic when mixed with voice traffic and paging channels .. nominal 10mb/s down .. biggest difference is it scales to higher data rates based on number of users .. whereas say 3G CDMA might have 3.1mb/s per sector .. wimax / LTE can deliver this per user given enough spectrum .. something like 100mb/s sustained mobile and higher in fixed / limited mobility scenarios .. WIMAX2 / LTE Advanced
2G = CDMA / GSM(CDPD) base speed data - circuit switched at 9600bp/s
2.5G = packet switched CDMA 1X / GSM GPRS or EDGE
3G = CDMA 1XEVDO / GSM HSDPA
3.5G = current spec WIMAX and LTE
4G = most recently published goalpost
Well, expecting to get more output from the same input is of course illogical and impossible, but if a company puts up the planning, development and engineering resources to make it happen up front than the scalability claims in the marketing copy can be done to some extent.
But the way some (most?) deployments seem to go make it cost prohibitive to put the distributed database / distributed applications and fault tolerant components in in the first place.
1. Push everything into 5.8 range you can. Whereas 2.4 (b/g/cheap N) only has 3-4 non-contiguous channels, 5.8 (A/N) has dozens of fully non-shared channels available which should make spectrum contention less of an issue in this band.
2. depending on the geographical area required, back the power levels down using either commercial gear that allows it by default or using one of the freeware (DDWRT/Tomato) firmwares so that it doesn't exacerbate cross AP contention in B/G ranges
3. Directional antennas
4. Disable the DHCP servers in your APs and setup 2 or more subnets with their own physically separate DHCP servers.
5. If there is any AP placement flexibility, it is generally better to setup an "edges in" approach with say directional APs antenna at the perimeter and at least 4 quadrants in the central area, though if this is in the US your going to be limited to 3 non-overlapping B/G bands.
There is a diagram in the Cisco CCNA wifi study materials that has a frequency reuse map defined for maximum spectral efficiency and minimum overlap, though with only 3 mount points you won't be able to use much of that.
As far as the per user available bandwidth being small and latency going up exponentially with more users .. on paper that's true, but I find it extraordinarily unlikely that ALL users will be powering up and attempting to access all at the same time. If this were really the case than I'd say scrap the AP plan and go scounge up some 10/100 switches and go wired.
I live in Kansas with KCP&L .. my bill itemizes kw/h used multiplied by the cost per kw/h. No seperate charge based on time of day or anything else.
It might be true on the utility side where one person subsidizes another by default, but that isn't born out in the billing for residential customers. Since the value proposition of the energy storage system ITA is based on soaking up the power during off-peak rate periods and using it during peak periods .. my payback period would be much longer, which is the point I was making.
Some of these technologies are of no use to those of us that live in areas where the cost of energy is consistent all day and night and year round.
Part of that maybe the problem (no intelligence in the infrastructure). But in the meantime if I were to have solar or any other resource put up that would benefit from stored energy for later use, it'll throw the payback vs normal utility curve way off to where I'd have to live here for decades to get my money back in anything but smugness.
As far as LI battery technology, it seems that the Prius used NMhd batteries because the number of charge discharge cycles was greater, since the batteries in the story were expected to have a cycle per day, the owner would have to replace them realistically every 3-4 years.
As far as the greater energy content of LI batteries, that is a risk that is always present with batteries. As long as the controller / charger is smart and has a layer or two of fault checking, the risk of runaway thermal events is pretty low. (The problem people had with Lithium Ion AA cell batteries where they are available was when people put them into standard NiCad or NiMh chargers, which apply too much current too quickly and make them pop to start fires. Since this is an integrated system by Panasonic with no capacity to mix and match technology evident, I'd say the risks is low.)
It would be possible with standard deep cycle lead acid batteries, but than you have to have climate control for your batteries above and beyond that proposed, and than your dedicating a good chunk of floorspace to batteries (You can't stack them because of heat buildup when discharging). I know the Central Offices I've been in have had a good chunk of their floorspace dedicated to just power, and even than only for the few minutes it takes for the diesel to kick over .. and you don't want to know what happens to expensive telephone equipment when it starts getting fed progressive amounts lower than 48VDC.)
call me risk adverse .. but i was actually waiting for the final publication and n devices.
it's only recently that the n devices were cost competitive with the g devices.
now to push cisco/linksys to release an n equivelent to the wrt54gl device
While to believe the commercials from the larger players, there will never be absolutely seamless coverage across the nation because ..
1. There are places nobody lives (or it's economically unfeasible to cover)
2. Transmit powers are 1/12 of what they were in the analog era
3. They can't just throw a tower up anywhere
Back when analog bag phones were the norm, I never found anyplace without coverage .. why? Because on analog they had a nominal 3 watt transmit power on the phone, which let you have towers dozens of miles apart and still get a reliable signal. Today's mobiles operate at .25 of a watt or less, and since the 3G spec devices currently at or becoming the norm are based on CDMA technology (CDMA or WCDMA/HS?PA), the transmit power will only go down based on the load of the tower. (Under CDMA, the transmit power decreases when the load rises, lowering the noise floor and allowing more devices on the tower, with the net effect of creating islands of service if the network has hot spots and they don't plan accordingly).
As far as towers and stuff are concerned, I remember reading an article from upstate new york about a stretch of state highway that had pristine views, and a very high mortality rate in the winter because nobody had cell service up that way. The local government bodies sued and cajoled the cell carriers to build coverage, but wouldn't let them put the tall towers up to allow service in an economically feasible way. Net result, no coverage and more death, but the view was still great.
In Kansas City, most of the local stations all signed off at 9AM.
I thought it fitting that WDAF-TV4 ended their broadcast with
1. a crude "1949-2009" graphic
2. A few seconds of the old indian head test pattern
3. A video of the old stars and stripes video they always used at signoff everyday
Followed by a "ceremony" with some backoffice engineers pushing the big button you aren't supposed to press.
Walked into my first real tech job in 1995 at a local ISP and discovered Linux (Slackware 3.0 and I think 2.2).
We were using it to run CERN web servers on Pentium 75 desktop and 486/33 class machines on 8 megs of ram.
I remember was being knee deep in swap all the time. That were were running a .99 kernel forever, and that in todays environment we'd have our lunch eaten because the boxes were running (and using) every usable service known to man at the same time (http / SMTP / DNS / nntp / pop3).
We had to setup remote reboot capabilities because a local television station would flash their website on the screen during the nightly news and we'd get murdered when they posted an .au audio file of the evening news.
On linux specific stuff, I just remember the lack of loadable modules, answering hundreds of yes/no questions to recompile the kernel, no SSH anywhere to be seen and it being a big deal when we installed stuff like top.
Back in the bad old days before I worked in IT. I worked in a call center / customer order entry for a place that sold various holiday pastries and such products.
We had people FAX us checks all the time, and than call up and get abusively angry at the agents because their order was not processed (They usually neglected to put a phone number on the form to).
The only thing sillier at that job was the phone system, antiqated even for the day. The order taker would push a button after each call to signal the ACD that she was ready for the next call. Of course every holiday we'd clean out the temp agencies of agents, a good percentage of which would choose to take a call and than read for the rest of their shift if somebody didn't come over and push the button for them.
This seems to be more a legal effort to come up with the conclusion that tasers are not related to suspects deaths, than looking for the question on how someone died.
Probably in the companies best interest, but it does seem to be introducing more weasel words than the world really needs.
I am a TWC customer in the midwest .. I subscribe to their digital phone + digital cable + "turbo" internet package .. virtually every service they offer.
.. I'd do so in a heartbeat. I'd have to suffer with 1.5 meg DSL (15,000 cable ft from CO) .. but I can saturate that line with little trouble ..
.. not the fastest connection, but averaged out over 24 hour periods and it works out fine (just don't use VZ .. 5 gigs per month isn't enough for basic web browsing and VPN ,. let alone "casual" usage).
While it would cost me more per month to get these from AT&T
The only other option I think anybody could come up with would be to get a EVDO / HSDPA data card for one of the machines and have it act like a transfer mule
This service has been available (and my relatives have had it) for a few months in the Kansas City Kansas (overland park) area.
.. you can have 4 seperate video streams online at once (with the DVR counting for two as needed). If you attempt to turn the 5th unit on (parents have 5) you will get a resource not available message.
.. but they run cat5 for all new outlets.
.. no analog of any kind naturally) and the fact that they remap the local broadcast channels to their original positions.
.. not much else to say about it. The manual refers to using a WEP key and SSID .. they actually configure WPA ., there is no option for a hardwired connection from what I saw.
,. some of the choices are a little weird, and the "basic cable" offerings are a different in terms of selections .. but that seems to vary where you live anyway.
First off, the system takes a little getting used to
This is exactly what is sounds like video over IP. They co-op the existing coax cable outlets for existing cable extentions
The only difference between the local time warner and this service is a small delay in changing all channels (since all are digital
They include a 2wire router
As far as the actual offering, it appears comperable to cable or directtv
I'd say he'd have to look at a specific population.
Among college students and younger, it may very well be 10:1, or worse.
For those of us accessing from work and home. That will be 2:1 assuming the same site.
For those of us behind corporate firewalls or other traffic aggregate points. It could very well be 1:1000, or higher.
Without some other data point, unique IP address statistics are next to worthless, except in "We had xxx,xxx average daily last month and xxx,xxx + xx,xxx average daily this month.
The way I come to a decision on if I go to a given concert is simple.
.. than no dice.
If the cost of the ticket will buy more than half of a given artist's major releases, than I won't think of going.
Specific example from recently.
Depesh Mode is coming to Kansas City next month. Tickets are around $100 per person for the cheapest seats.
At $15 per disk I can buy 6 1/2 of their major releases since their start = no sale.
When you have to spend $200 for a night out with your SO, unless it's "extra special"
If you have an easement on your property (and you probably do if you are on the electrical grid, water, sewer, gas or cable), than the government, for better or worse, has the right to do whatever they want within that easement.
/.). It won't be a happy day for consumers, if you have to pay for each and every TV episode you might download or the web server you hang off your home broadband connection.
By your description, if you wanted to prevent adult material from traversing your property (say Spice on demand), you'd be within your rights to refuse access by the cable company, or taken a step further, to dig up or cut down the coax or fiber that is already there when you moved into the area.
Eventually it will all get down to data only. However in the current regulatory environment they are distinct services and regulated accordingly.
When we get to data only (and to tie it to the later story on
I don't think the FCC will have much to say about this. Here's why.
Verizon has two effective classes of business. Highly regulated (POTS) and almost unregulated.
If we were talking about DSL DSLAM sharing, the FCC would have something to say (or at least in previous administrations). Anything over "legacy" telco switching equipment like POTS, DSL, T1 PRI interconnects, that sort of thing, is publically regulated. Meaning they have to go to a public utility commission to raise rates or change the way charges are collected (for DSL it's slightly different, but that's on the level of another company leasing dry copper from VZ, rather than the end user data charge.
Anything outside of that, like wireless phone or networks they've developed seperately (think fiber to the home) is a value-added service and therefore much less regulated.
While I'd love unrestricted access to bandwidth for a government subsudized low cost, in this area, they don't have to play nice. It's their pipe and they can use or charge what they want for it.
"According to Nielsen SoundScan, average weekly download sales as of Nov. 27 fell 0.44% vs. the third quarter."
.44% is statistically insignificant, taken by itself?
Has it occured to anyone that
several of my relatives are getting ipods(or like) for xmas, and the edict from their parents is legal downloads only.
Not to play to the audience, but you'd think the industry types would be reading the writing on the wall. Better talent / selection / prices = higher units moving = higher profits.
It's very rare anymore I see / hear something I WANT to buy, let alone take a chance on via CD or download.