The only reason I can afford my 25 Mbps synchronous FiOS connection is because the vast majority of consumer connections are 99.9% idle, so Verizon can flat price accordingly.
Currently 90% of consumers continue to subsidize the 10% of ultraleechers in our monthly plan.
SO, to say no to usage-based tiering and caps is to say yes to paying for leecher's usage.
As much as it would make his life easier, there is no unit of production for system administration in general(there could be for specific IT departments though).
The evalutation of any employees activity can only be evaluated by a supervisor who is actively paying attention.
This goes 2x as much for programmers in general.
Whats more, if you develop a unit of productivity and measure the employees with it, they will gravitate towards work which involves achieving the units the easiest.
If you havent noticed, it is *really* easy for system administrators and programmers to give the appearance of 'working hard' when they really arent - it take careful management to figure out what someone is really spending their time on, and its true that some of the simplest sounding tasks become an endless time sink and some of the hardest sounding turn out easy. Its the nature of the work.
I read people writing about Yahoo! playing 'catchup' - that is so ridiculous.
Google has maginally better web search, made a great marketing move with 1GB webmail, and has done an absolutely unparalleled job at serving the needs of both sides of the advertising market.
The weirdest part of the Google phenomenon is when everyone started hyping how superior Google was for web search back in the day when Yahoo! was *using* Google for *their* websearch! This really illustrates how much difference fresh branding in the post.dom-apocalyse makes.
However, side-by side comparisons show that Yahoo! has competitive and frequently better products (Messenger vs. Google Talk, Y!Mail vs GMail, Y! Toolbar vs. Google Toolbar, Y! Desktop Search vs Google Desktop Search) and most of them have been around a lot longer.
If there is one place Y! got its ass soundly kicked where it hurts its with AdWords and Web Search.
But certainly not all that is Google is god and some of their products are just plain lame (Google Talk). And dont talk to me about judging betas either because Google has a habit of just calling everything a beta forever to avoid scrutiny and invite interest, which is really, really lame.
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The only reason I can afford my 25 Mbps synchronous FiOS connection is because the vast majority of consumer connections are 99.9% idle, so Verizon can flat price accordingly.
Currently 90% of consumers continue to subsidize the 10% of ultraleechers in our monthly plan.
SO, to say no to usage-based tiering and caps is to say yes to paying for leecher's usage.
An easy to replace battery is one where you pull it out and stick a new one in.
A battery which requires removing the case with a screwdriver is a hard to replace battery.
As much as it would make his life easier, there is no unit of production for system administration in general(there could be for specific IT departments though).
The evalutation of any employees activity can only be evaluated by a supervisor who is actively paying attention.
This goes 2x as much for programmers in general.
Whats more, if you develop a unit of productivity and measure the employees with it, they will gravitate towards work which involves achieving the units the easiest.
If you havent noticed, it is *really* easy for system administrators and programmers to give the appearance of 'working hard' when they really arent - it take careful management to figure out what someone is really spending their time on, and its true that some of the simplest sounding tasks become an endless time sink and some of the hardest sounding turn out easy. Its the nature of the work.
CNet and PCMagazine already call it for Y!Mail (not the beta, the current one) because of its security, antispam, and global language support:
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.dom-apocalyse makes.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1830114,00.a
http://reviews.cnet.com/Yahoo_Mail/4505-9236_7-30
I read people writing about Yahoo! playing 'catchup' - that is so ridiculous.
Google has maginally better web search, made a great marketing move with 1GB webmail, and has done an absolutely unparalleled job at serving the needs of both sides of the advertising market.
The weirdest part of the Google phenomenon is when everyone started hyping how superior Google was for web search back in the day when Yahoo! was *using* Google for *their* websearch! This really illustrates how much difference fresh branding in the post
However, side-by side comparisons show that Yahoo! has competitive and frequently better products (Messenger vs. Google Talk, Y!Mail vs GMail, Y! Toolbar vs. Google Toolbar, Y! Desktop Search vs Google Desktop Search) and most of them have been around a lot longer.
If there is one place Y! got its ass soundly kicked where it hurts its with AdWords and Web Search.
But certainly not all that is Google is god and some of their products are just plain lame (Google Talk). And dont talk to me about judging betas either because Google has a habit of just calling everything a beta forever to avoid scrutiny and invite interest, which is really, really lame.