Correct - value of a service is dependant on an individual. How much money, time, skill, knowledge you have and how much of that you are willing to trade for a service. Also morality comes into play.
Sure when I was younger, I would easily trade hours to say download a file instead of paying $5 to get that file now. I actually subscribed to FilePlanet recently. I don't play games that often but at the time I had just gotten a new video card, and yeah, I wanted to see what the latest in 3d demos would look like. Sure I can hunt around for files for an hour or pay the $7 an get my fill. Well worth it in my books - not in other's.
If the system charged say $1 per download I probably would of spent more money during that weekend, but would of prefered the per download (micropayment) since I know I will not use it in the months to come.
If one has all the time in the World, a service becomes less valuable. I would rather pay a site that I visit and get a valued service, than have to hunt around for another source of such information.
As an ISP company I find it very offensive that such advents in technology will cost us money in lost sales revenues. Since reading about this revolutionary JPEG format I am appalled that the ISPs are not lobbying the government for an injunction on this technology. It says 25:1 reduction in bandwidth.....does this mean our revenues will fall by a factor of 25 if all our customers adapt this new technology? That is appalling. What can we do to stop this? -:) Sweet article!
I also run a website that has gotten popular in the last little while. Started from a $20/month virtual web server account and went through all the growing pains all the way to our own dedicated server parked at an ISP. First thing your learn the hard way is there is no ISP that offers "unlimited bandwidth". We are pushing 350 Giga Bytes a month with peak loads of 7Mbits/sec so this really is the major cost.
We pay about $2.30 US/Gig with a 100Mbit connection. So our costs are around a $1000 US and growing. Compared to the top server hardware that you could lease for $100 a month the Bandwidth is the real cost pig.
Anyone have any suggestions on getting cheaper bandwidth for say a 10Mbit pipe?
Thanks
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Correct - value of a service is dependant on an individual. How much money, time, skill, knowledge you have and how much of that you are willing to trade for a service. Also morality comes into play.
Sure when I was younger, I would easily trade hours to say download a file instead of paying $5 to get that file now. I actually subscribed to FilePlanet recently. I don't play games that often but at the time I had just gotten a new video card, and yeah, I wanted to see what the latest in 3d demos would look like. Sure I can hunt around for files for an hour or pay the $7 an get my fill. Well worth it in my books - not in other's.
If the system charged say $1 per download I probably would of spent more money during that weekend, but would of prefered the per download (micropayment) since I know I will not use it in the months to come.
If one has all the time in the World, a service becomes less valuable. I would rather pay a site that I visit and get a valued service, than have to hunt around for another source of such information.
As an ISP company I find it very offensive that such advents in technology will cost us money in lost sales revenues. :) Sweet article!
Since reading about this revolutionary JPEG format I am appalled that the ISPs are not lobbying the government for an injunction on this technology. It says 25:1 reduction in bandwidth.....does this mean our revenues will fall by a factor of 25 if all our customers adapt this new technology? That is appalling. What can we do to stop this?
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I also run a website that has gotten popular in the last little while. Started from a $20/month virtual web server account and went through all the growing pains all the way to our own dedicated server parked at an ISP. First thing your learn the hard way is there is no ISP that offers "unlimited bandwidth". We are pushing 350 Giga Bytes a month with peak loads of 7Mbits/sec so this really is the major cost. We pay about $2.30 US/Gig with a 100Mbit connection. So our costs are around a $1000 US and growing. Compared to the top server hardware that you could lease for $100 a month the Bandwidth is the real cost pig. Anyone have any suggestions on getting cheaper bandwidth for say a 10Mbit pipe? Thanks