Of course they're greedy bastards who want to double-dip on the bandwidth charges and get more of that.
Reminds me of the cable channels that want to charge the cable providers more and more money just to carry their channels (which of course gets passed on to the customer) while also showing tons of commercials. And then of course they try to sue Dish for providing a way to easily skip those commercials
Hah, your post shows another example of horrible Democratic naming honestly the "Civil Rights Movement" is just plain awful, it's amazing anyone supported it. It should have been called the "All People Are Created Equal Movement". Steal quotes from 250 year old Revoutionary documents. It's almost as good for debates with conservatives as quoting the Bible...
Yeah, seriously, the Democrats come up with the worst names for bills. Forget "Net Equality", if the Republicans were for it they would have named it the "American Network Freedom Act".
Do you pay a monthly fee to connect your router to your ISP? How about electricity to plug it in? Well, it's exactly the same for ISPs - most pay bot bandwidth from the backbone providers, peering agreements, or interest on the billions and billions of dollars they may have spent to build their own backbones
Not that I'm against net neutrality, I'm completely in favor of it (because those local-monopoly ISPs received tons of financial and other support from local governments to build out their last mile networks, so they should have some legal obligations to their customers and not just their shareholders). But ISPs obviously have ongoing expenses related to delivering network traffic.
Except the "barrier" in this case is often the fact that the existing monopoly was given huge tax breaks, subsidies, rights-of-way/easements, etc by various local and larger governments to build out their very expensive infrastructure.
Without those incentives, and without requiring the existing monopolies to keep their services fair in exchange for all of the ones they received, it's so far from an even playing field it's going to be very difficult for anyone else to compete.
No they won't. And this isn't about where companies are located, it's about where customers are located. And the US has a lot of customers willing to pay a lot of money for services in the Internet.
If it was about lack of freedom as opposed to customer base, all of these companies wouldn't be bending over backwards to get into the Chinese market.
Correction: if you actually make enough money, you might have a chance of even thinking of investing.
If you (like many, many millions of Americans) work full time yet still don't make enough to pay all of their expenses, support their family, pay their medical bills, etc, then it's impossible to "invest" what you don't have.
I bet you also think that everyone who receives any sort of government aid is a lazy, unemployed person expecting something for nothing? I keep hearing "why don't these people get jobs instead of accepting food stamps, etc?" When in fact the MAJORITY of those receiving some sort of aid are in fact employed, but they can't make a living wage to cover basic expenses.
The problem is not about lazy people vs hard working people, it's about income inequality and the increasing lack of class mobility.
Eh, the Forbes 500 isn't a good place to claim engineers don't make money. Gates, Ellison, Page, Brin, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, even the Koch brothers all started as engineers. Just because they were smart, motivated, and lucky and managed to make billions of dollars doesn't make them "money pushers". It makes them successful engineers turned entrepreneurs.
I'm not even sure how "managers" is an unrelated field. In most companies I have worked at the good technical managers were good engineers who eventually decided they wanted to manage - not new college grads "once they get out". I'm sure "the pointy headed boss" does exist somewhere (or maybe people are thinking of project managers), but in well run tech companies it's almost all technical people leading technical people.
Face it, the only jobs that pay money are jobs that deal with money
Not at all. If you are good, you can make $80k or more right out of college as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Even if you are just competent, you can make almost that much.
The average starting salary for all 2013 grads in the US at a full time job is $45k. The (national) average for engineering is $62k, and for business is $55k. Engineering pays, and there are currently a lot of open jobs. It's NOT about the salaries.
Newer versions of Android let you control the app from the main player controls. On the iPhone you have to control it from an app (Apple isn't going to integrate Chromecast integration into their Airplay controls, of course;)
We have been able to stream and decode 1080p video @ 9Mbps over the WiFi. It's definitely not the greatest WiFi quality but if you have a good signal it works...
It doesn't stream from your device. You can use a phone or tablet to control it - the phone just sends a URL and the Chromecast streams directly.
And I'm pretty sure no one wants to run a 10'+ cable from their phone across their living room to their TV. If that were true we might as well all be using wired remote controls.
And as far as your other points, most aren't actually issues with the Chromecast anyway. It's only $35, supports multichannel sound and 1080p video (it IS an HDMI device), and it supports CEC so it can change the input.
IMO I would not necessarily agree that it's better than, say, a Roku, but an HDMI cable? Yep.
It's not meant for Ethernet setups (where by definition you have a cable, so it's a semi-permanent location). They went for dirt-cheap and simple.
If you want a $35 streaming device that requires a second screen to control, it's not bad. If you want a much more powerful device with Ethernet that you can plug into a TV in a fixed location, you are much better off getting a $100 Roku.
I agree the power situation is kind of annoying - though doesn't require a "brick", just a USB connection which almost all TVs have.
And if you are on a metered internet connection, beware: While plugged in, the current ChromeCast pulls lots of large photos to display as the screensaver slideshow.
That's a pretty insignificant amount of bandwidth considering this is an HD-capable *streaming* device. You do realize streaming video is effectively 24-30 highly compressed images downloaded per second, right? Watching one streamed movie is going to use almost 2GB (and that's in standard def - HD is going to be 2-4x that). That would be a shit-ton of screensaver photos...
The Chromecast is on another HDMI input, and is mostly relegated to the world of "this odd toy I bought."
Well, there really isn't that much point to Chromecast if you already have a full-featured streaming device connected to your TV. It's advantage is in locations you *don't* have a permanent device setup, it's a cheap and portable solution as long as you have a phone/tablet/pc to control it.
In your living room you'll probably have a much better experience with a real device like an Xbox, Playstation, or Roku.
The best way to solve that would be a direct connection between the dongle and the tablet, not going through the router.
Except Chromecast doesn't work by streaming from your tablet. The tablet just sends URLs (and control for trick play, etc) to the Chromecast receiver, which then streams from the content provider's server directly.
The best solution would be to have your own travel AP, and connect the devices to that. Also solves the annoyance that connecting Chromecast to a new WiFi network is kind of a pain. Of course, that solution might also depend on whether the hotel makes you login and how they authenticate.
No, the real answer is that they are undocumented NON-citizens, so they can't vote.
And before anyone says "why would that stop them?" Many studies have shown that there is near zero voter fraud from non-citizens trying to vote. The attempts to require an approved government id to vote are not meant to stop voter fraud, they are meant to intimidate minorities into not voting.
But they usually do. Even when there are NO signs for months or years, roundworms encysted in muscle tissues in females resume their cycle after they become pregnant. Hence the endemic part (and also why when properly deworming and spaying, there are rarely problems).
In fact, this is the whole reason roundworms are so prevalent in (and dangerous to) puppies. Once the dog's immune system has developed the worms usually encyst and only become a problem during pregnancy or if their immune system is compromised.
In the US, at least, very few people actually honk as a measure of courtesy or to "warn" pedestrians. It's mostly to (rightfully) tell drivers not paying attention at a light to get off their phones/daydreams/whatever and GO or (wrongfully) in fits of road rage that often tends to end badly. Neither generally has much to do with safety.
Maybe that explains why drivers in California (with way too many sound insulated Lexuses and BMWs) seem COMPLETELY unable to comprehend that you need to pull over for an emergency vehicle...
Solved! Put an LED in the glasses shining out so that looking at it makes the reflection useless - or just plain blinds the viewer (think Jawa eyes). At this point, you say, why not just blindfold them? Because that just sounds so Medieval when you can use circularly polarized windows and glasses, hand and head ties, and active powered eye mounted LEDs! And bonus again, it will add another thousand dollars to the unit cost so the government will love it...
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Of course they're greedy bastards who want to double-dip on the bandwidth charges and get more of that.
Reminds me of the cable channels that want to charge the cable providers more and more money just to carry their channels (which of course gets passed on to the customer) while also showing tons of commercials. And then of course they try to sue Dish for providing a way to easily skip those commercials
Hah, your post shows another example of horrible Democratic naming honestly the "Civil Rights Movement" is just plain awful, it's amazing anyone supported it. It should have been called the "All People Are Created Equal Movement". Steal quotes from 250 year old Revoutionary documents. It's almost as good for debates with conservatives as quoting the Bible...
Yeah, seriously, the Democrats come up with the worst names for bills. Forget "Net Equality", if the Republicans were for it they would have named it the "American Network Freedom Act".
Do you pay a monthly fee to connect your router to your ISP? How about electricity to plug it in? Well, it's exactly the same for ISPs - most pay bot bandwidth from the backbone providers, peering agreements, or interest on the billions and billions of dollars they may have spent to build their own backbones
Not that I'm against net neutrality, I'm completely in favor of it (because those local-monopoly ISPs received tons of financial and other support from local governments to build out their last mile networks, so they should have some legal obligations to their customers and not just their shareholders). But ISPs obviously have ongoing expenses related to delivering network traffic.
Except the "barrier" in this case is often the fact that the existing monopoly was given huge tax breaks, subsidies, rights-of-way/easements, etc by various local and larger governments to build out their very expensive infrastructure.
Without those incentives, and without requiring the existing monopolies to keep their services fair in exchange for all of the ones they received, it's so far from an even playing field it's going to be very difficult for anyone else to compete.
No they won't. And this isn't about where companies are located, it's about where customers are located. And the US has a lot of customers willing to pay a lot of money for services in the Internet.
If it was about lack of freedom as opposed to customer base, all of these companies wouldn't be bending over backwards to get into the Chinese market.
Correction: if you actually make enough money, you might have a chance of even thinking of investing.
If you (like many, many millions of Americans) work full time yet still don't make enough to pay all of their expenses, support their family, pay their medical bills, etc, then it's impossible to "invest" what you don't have.
I bet you also think that everyone who receives any sort of government aid is a lazy, unemployed person expecting something for nothing? I keep hearing "why don't these people get jobs instead of accepting food stamps, etc?" When in fact the MAJORITY of those receiving some sort of aid are in fact employed, but they can't make a living wage to cover basic expenses.
The problem is not about lazy people vs hard working people, it's about income inequality and the increasing lack of class mobility.
Maybe if you provided a single concrete example of any of your vague statements there would even be a potential for a debate here...
I guess opening up the Forbes 500 should do
Eh, the Forbes 500 isn't a good place to claim engineers don't make money. Gates, Ellison, Page, Brin, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, even the Koch brothers all started as engineers. Just because they were smart, motivated, and lucky and managed to make billions of dollars doesn't make them "money pushers". It makes them successful engineers turned entrepreneurs.
I'm not even sure how "managers" is an unrelated field. In most companies I have worked at the good technical managers were good engineers who eventually decided they wanted to manage - not new college grads "once they get out". I'm sure "the pointy headed boss" does exist somewhere (or maybe people are thinking of project managers), but in well run tech companies it's almost all technical people leading technical people.
Face it, the only jobs that pay money are jobs that deal with money
Not at all. If you are good, you can make $80k or more right out of college as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. Even if you are just competent, you can make almost that much.
The average starting salary for all 2013 grads in the US at a full time job is $45k. The (national) average for engineering is $62k, and for business is $55k. Engineering pays, and there are currently a lot of open jobs. It's NOT about the salaries.
Newer versions of Android let you control the app from the main player controls. On the iPhone you have to control it from an app (Apple isn't going to integrate Chromecast integration into their Airplay controls, of course ;)
We have been able to stream and decode 1080p video @ 9Mbps over the WiFi. It's definitely not the greatest WiFi quality but if you have a good signal it works...
It doesn't stream from your device. You can use a phone or tablet to control it - the phone just sends a URL and the Chromecast streams directly.
And I'm pretty sure no one wants to run a 10'+ cable from their phone across their living room to their TV. If that were true we might as well all be using wired remote controls.
And as far as your other points, most aren't actually issues with the Chromecast anyway. It's only $35, supports multichannel sound and 1080p video (it IS an HDMI device), and it supports CEC so it can change the input.
IMO I would not necessarily agree that it's better than, say, a Roku, but an HDMI cable? Yep.
It's not meant for Ethernet setups (where by definition you have a cable, so it's a semi-permanent location). They went for dirt-cheap and simple.
If you want a $35 streaming device that requires a second screen to control, it's not bad. If you want a much more powerful device with Ethernet that you can plug into a TV in a fixed location, you are much better off getting a $100 Roku.
I agree the power situation is kind of annoying - though doesn't require a "brick", just a USB connection which almost all TVs have.
And if you are on a metered internet connection, beware: While plugged in, the current ChromeCast pulls lots of large photos to display as the screensaver slideshow.
That's a pretty insignificant amount of bandwidth considering this is an HD-capable *streaming* device. You do realize streaming video is effectively 24-30 highly compressed images downloaded per second, right? Watching one streamed movie is going to use almost 2GB (and that's in standard def - HD is going to be 2-4x that). That would be a shit-ton of screensaver photos...
The Chromecast is on another HDMI input, and is mostly relegated to the world of "this odd toy I bought."
Well, there really isn't that much point to Chromecast if you already have a full-featured streaming device connected to your TV. It's advantage is in locations you *don't* have a permanent device setup, it's a cheap and portable solution as long as you have a phone/tablet/pc to control it.
In your living room you'll probably have a much better experience with a real device like an Xbox, Playstation, or Roku.
The best way to solve that would be a direct connection between the dongle and the tablet, not going through the router.
Except Chromecast doesn't work by streaming from your tablet. The tablet just sends URLs (and control for trick play, etc) to the Chromecast receiver, which then streams from the content provider's server directly.
The best solution would be to have your own travel AP, and connect the devices to that. Also solves the annoyance that connecting Chromecast to a new WiFi network is kind of a pain. Of course, that solution might also depend on whether the hotel makes you login and how they authenticate.
Life.
line up a grid of Dance Dance Revolution pads on the border
Attached to land mines!
No, the real answer is that they are undocumented NON-citizens, so they can't vote.
And before anyone says "why would that stop them?" Many studies have shown that there is near zero voter fraud from non-citizens trying to vote. The attempts to require an approved government id to vote are not meant to stop voter fraud, they are meant to intimidate minorities into not voting.
That assumes the mother has worms, doesn't it?
But they usually do. Even when there are NO signs for months or years, roundworms encysted in muscle tissues in females resume their cycle after they become pregnant. Hence the endemic part (and also why when properly deworming and spaying, there are rarely problems).
In fact, this is the whole reason roundworms are so prevalent in (and dangerous to) puppies. Once the dog's immune system has developed the worms usually encyst and only become a problem during pregnancy or if their immune system is compromised.
In the US, at least, very few people actually honk as a measure of courtesy or to "warn" pedestrians. It's mostly to (rightfully) tell drivers not paying attention at a light to get off their phones/daydreams/whatever and GO or (wrongfully) in fits of road rage that often tends to end badly. Neither generally has much to do with safety.
Maybe that explains why drivers in California (with way too many sound insulated Lexuses and BMWs) seem COMPLETELY unable to comprehend that you need to pull over for an emergency vehicle...
Don't worry, there is clearly lots of marble left to be mined, your future countertops will continue to be as cheap as your disposable electronics.
Solved! Put an LED in the glasses shining out so that looking at it makes the reflection useless - or just plain blinds the viewer (think Jawa eyes). At this point, you say, why not just blindfold them? Because that just sounds so Medieval when you can use circularly polarized windows and glasses, hand and head ties, and active powered eye mounted LEDs! And bonus again, it will add another thousand dollars to the unit cost so the government will love it...