I haven't paid for TV in over a decade. I do pay for FTTH, I could get tv for "only" another $20 - no.
Pound sand, Netflix will crush you all.
Eventually the packets will get delegated a utility; the tremendous markup from content funds the inefficient monster that are the tier-1 broadband providers.
Governments should own the infrastructure (fibers on poles). Companies should provide the service. That's the long term fix.
It might not even matter if LTE gets fast and dense enough.. Will kids care?
I've deployed networks spanning 30,000+ square kilometers. I know it's possible. It's just not possible for private industry to do at a profit.
Hybrid microwave and fiber is of course the best option - but it is a completely feasible undertaking with the technology available today.
Fiber is uniquely well suited to dealing with horrible environmental conditions; in most of the north, a low-cost option for fiber deployment en masse is probably the best option.
We can build a proper supply highway while we're at it. Canada is one of the largest and most advanced nations on earth. We should act like it.
It's a national embarrassment we don't have a proper, high bandwidth, low latency connection to the North. Such should be the price of sovereignty.
Satellite is sold as a viable option, it's not; those are geosync satellites, and they've got huge latency.
Backup? Sure. Primary? No way.
Be nice to see some vision from the PM here; start with the North, extend it to everybody. This is a big country; that makes it expensive - but also very important.
Relative to the exponential growth of storage, I'm not worried about this in the least. In my own personal collection I have dozens of lifetimes of information stored. Soon this can be carried in my pocket, offline, if I desire.
A better question is what to do with the petabytes of collected information we're amassing... aside from training our replacements via AI.
We're all in. Only took one player to make the call (the industrialized west); now we see the cards.
We develop magic technology that can fix all this or we die.
I'm betting on the magic technology. You can go vote yourself into a economic depression, but given the current rates of information gathering, we will have the solutions shortly. In may ways, we have one staring us in the face - widespread adoption of nuclear power - but we're too stupid to implement it.
The great filter is the 10,000 or so odd nuclear warheads in the ground right now. It always has been and always will be. Those warheads will fly long before the planet warms up to extinct us.
I predict an uptick in clean apps that provide functionality people need. Likely leveraging or completely open source.
I tried to get some programs for my work-issued Blackberry and was shocked by the garbage.
I also predict an uptick in third-party collections of apps and reviews; there's lots of analogs to what happened with shareware back in the olden days.
sifferkoll.se has some compelling analysis of price moves as more information and more replications of various low energy nuclear reaction type technologies happen.
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I haven't paid for TV in over a decade. I do pay for FTTH, I could get tv for "only" another $20 - no.
Pound sand, Netflix will crush you all.
Eventually the packets will get delegated a utility; the tremendous markup from content funds the inefficient monster that are the tier-1 broadband providers.
Governments should own the infrastructure (fibers on poles). Companies should provide the service. That's the long term fix.
It might not even matter if LTE gets fast and dense enough.. Will kids care?
If you know who Knuth IS, you're better than 90% of the programmers out there..
When I coded a lot for a living, I rigged up a a foot pedal for esc.
It was bad-ass.
Probably much easier now with Bluetooth.
As a bonus, the VPN does a great job of neutering threats.
I pay Netflix because I hate the media companies. Netflix will win.
Netflix is not the enemy. The rent-seeking copyright holders are; so hit them where it hurts.
If they don't want my money.. the Torrents doth provide.
I've deployed networks spanning 30,000+ square kilometers. I know it's possible. It's just not possible for private industry to do at a profit.
Hybrid microwave and fiber is of course the best option - but it is a completely feasible undertaking with the technology available today.
Fiber is uniquely well suited to dealing with horrible environmental conditions; in most of the north, a low-cost option for fiber deployment en masse is probably the best option.
We can build a proper supply highway while we're at it. Canada is one of the largest and most advanced nations on earth. We should act like it.
It's a national embarrassment we don't have a proper, high bandwidth, low latency connection to the North. Such should be the price of sovereignty.
Satellite is sold as a viable option, it's not; those are geosync satellites, and they've got huge latency.
Backup? Sure. Primary? No way.
Be nice to see some vision from the PM here; start with the North, extend it to everybody. This is a big country; that makes it expensive - but also very important.
Relative to the exponential growth of storage, I'm not worried about this in the least. In my own personal collection I have dozens of lifetimes of information stored. Soon this can be carried in my pocket, offline, if I desire.
A better question is what to do with the petabytes of collected information we're amassing... aside from training our replacements via AI.
Apple got this right, and it's showing.
Very few products appeal to my wife in the technology sphere, and the Apple Watch was done of them.
Android watches remind me of the 80's digital watches.
Taking a time-out, ha ha, is probably a good idea.
Move, lots of places you can. Especially if you head up North.
We're all in. Only took one player to make the call (the industrialized west); now we see the cards.
We develop magic technology that can fix all this or we die.
I'm betting on the magic technology. You can go vote yourself into a economic depression, but given the current rates of information gathering, we will have the solutions shortly. In may ways, we have one staring us in the face - widespread adoption of nuclear power - but we're too stupid to implement it.
The great filter is the 10,000 or so odd nuclear warheads in the ground right now. It always has been and always will be. Those warheads will fly long before the planet warms up to extinct us.
..depends on the quality of the former.
More people might pick the latter than you think.
https://www.thememo.com/2016/0...
Whenever car dealers pull this shady shit, get them to write it down on paper (or record it voice).
Then apply your small claims court to the problem and notify the parent manufacturer. There are substantial liabilities for this foolishness.
I predict an uptick in clean apps that provide functionality people need. Likely leveraging or completely open source.
I tried to get some programs for my work-issued Blackberry and was shocked by the garbage.
I also predict an uptick in third-party collections of apps and reviews; there's lots of analogs to what happened with shareware back in the olden days.
"thisisareallygoodpasswordtouseonfacebook" ..replace facebook with service name.
Or whatever.
Password generators are stupid.
Want an example of a great password?
"password generators are stupid - >"
Longer, at least for passwords, is better, and easier to remember.
True machine code vs fake machine code? What do you think the assembler and compiler do. Write fairy tales?
One could also argue a major decline in BlackBerry's brand started in ~2008 with the Indian government encryption key debacle.
Privacy matters. I will continue to buy iPhones even for no other reason than the principled stand that Tim Cook took against the FBI.
I suspect I am not alone.
..little more spendy, but a damn nice cup of espresso.
There's another theory on this..
sifferkoll.se has some compelling analysis of price moves as more information and more replications of various low energy nuclear reaction type technologies happen.
2016 will be an interesting year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Slowly control is wrested from the beast.
Computers are tools, I use the best one for the job. OSX is best for most development tasks. x86 is still cheap power.
The masses are going to use tablets from now on, and that ship has sailed for MS.
At CanSecWest.
MS just announced a $100k award for IE11 0-day exploits (through to RCE bypassing EMET).
VLAN doesn't do much unless it's also enforced via a smart switch..
Cash is both centrally controlled and protected and very anonymous.
A digital currency - please look up what currency means, if you're pedantic - would be a boon if backed by a proper nation state.
The most complicated and efficient computing device in the known universe is the human brain. Nothing else comes even remotely close.
Engineering organs also provides the option to well, engineer brains.
Interesting times.
Not widely discussed, but is a logical answer to the Fermi Paradox.
http://brighterbrains.org/arti...
TL;DR: We vanish in a puff of logic.