Oh I wasn't implying that there was some sort of plot (apart from the ISP greedily oversubscribing lines). However the model HAS changed - people now can easily produce and stream their own video and audio with little or no additional equipment. ISPs, however, are failing to keep up, insisting on a top down, one to many type model where you are the many. Unless of course you want to pay $1000/month (or whatever) for a T1 line.
If there's so much money to be made in growing, you'd think they'd invest in a few solar panels on the roof or even just a simple set of batteries that could be used to offset this predictable cycle...
Looking past your sarcasm I find it hard to understand why you believe the internet is created by aliens, since obviously people are not "content providers".
It's kinda like the Fed printing another 600 billion and refusing to raise interest rates, while at the same time saying everything is fine and the economy is improving.
but in the current consumer-oriented internet most people download a lot more than they upload.
Because the current consumer infrastructure forces it onto you. I would happily seed my torrents all year long, except I only have 1/12th the uploading bandwidth as I have for downloading. Since I need some of it for other things, uploading becomes impractical.
It's easy to blame the consumer, but there's a certain model imposed on him from the start.
The print adverts are claiming that if the amount remains the same, Australian jobs will be lost and the economy will be harmed.
No, inefficient Australian jobs will be reassigned to other, more efficient sectors of the economy, and thus the Australian economy as a whole will be improved and more efficient.
But yeah, keep crying in the hope that dumb politicians will prop up your obsolete and wasteful business model. There is hope for you, if the MAFIAA are any guide. Tax and penalize the efficient and subsidize the shopkeeper and his minimum wage slaves who force you to waste time and fuel traveling to the store. Because paying people to stand around and give customers dirty looks is a wonderful use of labor and capital.
Is this perhaps the same reason that politicians NEVER listen to the people they represent? (With the sole exception of lobbyists who show up with large amounts of cash).
A nation that puts plastic in its baby food to fake protein levels
If you hold an entire nation accountable for the actions of a few individuals (who are currently in jail), then I have quite a few US citizens to point out to you.
To date no one else has been able to match the US's stealth capabilities
No one has been able to match the price of that technology either. At some point the billion dollar American stealth fighter will run out of missiles, and the remaining 10 Chinese fighters will take it out.
Just like German and Soviet armor technology. Yeah the King Tiger was the undisputed ruler of the battlefield, able to knock out any Soviet tank from almost 3km away while being immune to even close range frontal hits. But there were oh so many Soviet tanks and just a handful of King Tigers...
Because missiles are extremely bad at patrolling airspace. War isn't about blowing everything up - it's about blowing the right things up, at the right time.
Nowadays? What significant air battles have happened since, say, the Vietnam war? Shooting Libyans and a few ancient Iraqi jets hardly counts as the state of the art. We'll see what happens if and when the US goes up against a real opponent what real modern air combat looks like. There's a reason 5th generation fighters (US, European, Russian and presumably Chinese) have vectored thrust. If all combat will take place over the horizon, why bother adding weight to a plane and installing such a system in the first place?
Facebook and Zuckerberg have been on a non-stop PR campaign for close to a year now. Co-incidentally this started right after the mass hacking of Facebook, and their unpopular changes to their privacy policy. While being perhaps the second most overrated company today (after Apple), I have to admit that this Zuckerberg guy can muster a pretty decent PR/marketing machine. It's been a year of non-stop Facebook, in the news, in the movies, in magazines and even here on Slashdot. Too bad that buzz like this can't last forever. When it's over, it will be really over. And good riddance.
I closed my Facebook account 3 years ago when I found out just how easy it was to hack into people's accounts - because my account got hacked. Honestly any company that has grown to that size and completely ignores security is more trouble than it's worth. I'll leave Facebook to middle aged spinsters and divorcees.
So some academic at MIT has "re"discovered the Microsoft Passport, huh? Microsoft wanted a piece of that action over 10 years ago. It didn't work. Everything old is new again... to some people anyway.
Well, there were people buying Goldman at $280 and Google at $690, too a few years ago. Let them think what they want. Post hoc market analysis is always great to justify the trade you just made - until you start losing money that is.
Personally I wouldn't touch the market with a 10 foot pole right now, and I've been out for the past 6 months. It doesn't feel right. I'll let other people try to make a few percent in this sideways trading. There are other, safer ways of making money. But by all means the GP and his buddies should by all the AAPL they can. Just look out for worms...
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Don't you realize that Government is a monopoly? You have as little choice
You have choice. You do what I did, and you move. Greetings from Costa Rica. And when this government gets to be too much of a pain, I move again.
cue definitions of electricity, energy and power...
You're on a public street. You have no expectation of privacy in that area
How about your back yard? Or the window of your back porch? Is there privacy there, or do we have to lock ourselves in a basement now?
Oh I wasn't implying that there was some sort of plot (apart from the ISP greedily oversubscribing lines). However the model HAS changed - people now can easily produce and stream their own video and audio with little or no additional equipment. ISPs, however, are failing to keep up, insisting on a top down, one to many type model where you are the many. Unless of course you want to pay $1000/month (or whatever) for a T1 line.
can tell you that even one four hundred watt light, the bare minimum you could possibly use, would use a lot of electricity.
Let me guess, it would use 400 Watts worth of electricity? Do I win?
If there's so much money to be made in growing, you'd think they'd invest in a few solar panels on the roof or even just a simple set of batteries that could be used to offset this predictable cycle...
Well to be fair, 1991 was 20 years ago...
Looking past your sarcasm I find it hard to understand why you believe the internet is created by aliens, since obviously people are not "content providers".
It's kinda like the Fed printing another 600 billion and refusing to raise interest rates, while at the same time saying everything is fine and the economy is improving.
but in the current consumer-oriented internet most people download a lot more than they upload.
Because the current consumer infrastructure forces it onto you. I would happily seed my torrents all year long, except I only have 1/12th the uploading bandwidth as I have for downloading. Since I need some of it for other things, uploading becomes impractical.
It's easy to blame the consumer, but there's a certain model imposed on him from the start.
The print adverts are claiming that if the amount remains the same, Australian jobs will be lost and the economy will be harmed.
No, inefficient Australian jobs will be reassigned to other, more efficient sectors of the economy, and thus the Australian economy as a whole will be improved and more efficient.
But yeah, keep crying in the hope that dumb politicians will prop up your obsolete and wasteful business model. There is hope for you, if the MAFIAA are any guide. Tax and penalize the efficient and subsidize the shopkeeper and his minimum wage slaves who force you to waste time and fuel traveling to the store. Because paying people to stand around and give customers dirty looks is a wonderful use of labor and capital.
(Hides copy of Falcon 4.0 Allied Forces)
Er, they were unpopular?
Is this perhaps the same reason that politicians NEVER listen to the people they represent? (With the sole exception of lobbyists who show up with large amounts of cash).
A nation that puts plastic in its baby food to fake protein levels
If you hold an entire nation accountable for the actions of a few individuals (who are currently in jail), then I have quite a few US citizens to point out to you.
To date no one else has been able to match the US's stealth capabilities
No one has been able to match the price of that technology either. At some point the billion dollar American stealth fighter will run out of missiles, and the remaining 10 Chinese fighters will take it out.
Just like German and Soviet armor technology. Yeah the King Tiger was the undisputed ruler of the battlefield, able to knock out any Soviet tank from almost 3km away while being immune to even close range frontal hits. But there were oh so many Soviet tanks and just a handful of King Tigers...
Because missiles are extremely bad at patrolling airspace. War isn't about blowing everything up - it's about blowing the right things up, at the right time.
Nowadays? What significant air battles have happened since, say, the Vietnam war? Shooting Libyans and a few ancient Iraqi jets hardly counts as the state of the art. We'll see what happens if and when the US goes up against a real opponent what real modern air combat looks like. There's a reason 5th generation fighters (US, European, Russian and presumably Chinese) have vectored thrust. If all combat will take place over the horizon, why bother adding weight to a plane and installing such a system in the first place?
Facebook and Zuckerberg have been on a non-stop PR campaign for close to a year now. Co-incidentally this started right after the mass hacking of Facebook, and their unpopular changes to their privacy policy. While being perhaps the second most overrated company today (after Apple), I have to admit that this Zuckerberg guy can muster a pretty decent PR/marketing machine. It's been a year of non-stop Facebook, in the news, in the movies, in magazines and even here on Slashdot. Too bad that buzz like this can't last forever. When it's over, it will be really over. And good riddance.
I closed my Facebook account 3 years ago when I found out just how easy it was to hack into people's accounts - because my account got hacked. Honestly any company that has grown to that size and completely ignores security is more trouble than it's worth. I'll leave Facebook to middle aged spinsters and divorcees.
So some academic at MIT has "re"discovered the Microsoft Passport, huh? Microsoft wanted a piece of that action over 10 years ago. It didn't work. Everything old is new again... to some people anyway.
Heck, I remember Star Wars - Rebellion.
Amazing how they're dying while still experiencing growth, huh? We must have a different definition of "dying".
Too big to punish...
Oh the punishment is coming. There's a law of conservation of punishment. It hasn't been avoided - merely postponed.
Well, there were people buying Goldman at $280 and Google at $690, too a few years ago. Let them think what they want. Post hoc market analysis is always great to justify the trade you just made - until you start losing money that is.
Personally I wouldn't touch the market with a 10 foot pole right now, and I've been out for the past 6 months. It doesn't feel right. I'll let other people try to make a few percent in this sideways trading. There are other, safer ways of making money. But by all means the GP and his buddies should by all the AAPL they can. Just look out for worms...
The bigger they are, the harder they fall...