Again you are not paying attention, the quality of the physical disk is better because the speed is not there are the internet to handle the sustained 72MB/s speeds required for full bluray quality playback, the best most areas can get is 50MB. At 1GB the quality would be the exact same, and the connection being perfect would not matter, as it would be made up for before you need it..
Secondly you got worse DRM in the disk itself, you can only play it on a bluray player, at one location, in addition there are other vendor neutral things like Google Play and Amazon instant video.
You seem to want to lock yourself into an inferior product and ensure that everyone else is locked in with you, I am sorry but I reject that.
So because you feel there will probably never be direct competition screw it and ensure there will never be direct competition? Seems a little cart before the horse...
You missed the point entirely.. Why buy the physical disk if you can get the same quality, and access it anywhere you want and not be tied to the physical media? If you have a 1G/s connection you would not need the physical disk, but streaming should work for you. So your argument is why get better speeds when I can get the disk is an backwards argument, because if you could get a better experience if you had better speeds.
we only have one provider in a city, so it does not really matter. But in reality if you have a separation why would you be prevented from having more than one operator?
Because it affects the future possibilities of competition. IF there is only one provider in the US then there is no need to allow competition, nice way to prevent it before it gets started.
Comcast has 23m customers, the US has a population of 313m. There are few areas (not little) that are not covered by TWC, comcast, or charter, which combined have less than 40m subs, or less than 13% of the population. How does that mean there are few new customers when they dont have 87+% of the population?
Firstly, you also get more tax breaks that you are able to use, which makes it effectively the same % or less.
Secondly students dont pay for the research, private industry and the government does. There is actually a strong buffer between the 2. I work for a large engineering uni, I am paid out of what is called ETF funds, or funds paid for by the students tuition and fees. If I work on a research project that nothing to do with teaching I can get in trouble for miss appropriation of funds, or more accurately my boss could for having me do the work.
Because having a degree from most universities gives assurances that you have a respectable amount of knowledge of a field. It is a good way of weeding out some applicants.
SS works fine as long as you dont have a surge in population (ww2) and corrupt politicians pulling from it.. To be honest if done properly it can survive the first, nothing can survive the second.
1. People who go to college and graduate, only to become stay at home dads/moms would be a burden on the system.. Easy to fix for marriages, but harder for the unmarried.
2. People who dont graduate/stay in school forever.
3. Dwindling population, in general, or just of graduates, will destroy the system.
Sooo, because some thing was not introduced until X moment in time you cannot blame a problem with it later on Y which correlates to the time when the thing is having a problem?
wish I could mod you up.. Apparently I have been modded a troll for making that statement, but the guy who does not know what an ad hominem is gets modded funny.
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Again you are not paying attention, the quality of the physical disk is better because the speed is not there are the internet to handle the sustained 72MB/s speeds required for full bluray quality playback, the best most areas can get is 50MB. At 1GB the quality would be the exact same, and the connection being perfect would not matter, as it would be made up for before you need it.. Secondly you got worse DRM in the disk itself, you can only play it on a bluray player, at one location, in addition there are other vendor neutral things like Google Play and Amazon instant video. You seem to want to lock yourself into an inferior product and ensure that everyone else is locked in with you, I am sorry but I reject that.
So because you feel there will probably never be direct competition screw it and ensure there will never be direct competition? Seems a little cart before the horse...
You missed the point entirely.. Why buy the physical disk if you can get the same quality, and access it anywhere you want and not be tied to the physical media? If you have a 1G/s connection you would not need the physical disk, but streaming should work for you. So your argument is why get better speeds when I can get the disk is an backwards argument, because if you could get a better experience if you had better speeds.
we only have one provider in a city, so it does not really matter. But in reality if you have a separation why would you be prevented from having more than one operator?
Because it affects the future possibilities of competition. IF there is only one provider in the US then there is no need to allow competition, nice way to prevent it before it gets started.
Comcast has 23m customers, the US has a population of 313m. There are few areas (not little) that are not covered by TWC, comcast, or charter, which combined have less than 40m subs, or less than 13% of the population. How does that mean there are few new customers when they dont have 87+% of the population?
Why buy a blueray disk when you can buy the streaming version for cheaper, with the same quality, if we had the broadband the rest of the world has?
Again, anecdotal. While I was in college, all 5 years for 2 degrees, tuition and fees went up about 30%
So you picked the non inflation adjusted numbers..And still you did not get 1k...
I didnt say it was not, but no where near the 1k% the op mentioned.
Secondly students dont pay for the research, private industry and the government does. There is actually a strong buffer between the 2. I work for a large engineering uni, I am paid out of what is called ETF funds, or funds paid for by the students tuition and fees. If I work on a research project that nothing to do with teaching I can get in trouble for miss appropriation of funds, or more accurately my boss could for having me do the work.
It is also quite anecdotal.
So more tax breaks for the rich, putting more burden on the middle/lower class citizens...GREAT!
You pay the same %, which means you are really paying your share, not more.
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/...
This shows at most a 150%-200% increase....
Because having a degree from most universities gives assurances that you have a respectable amount of knowledge of a field. It is a good way of weeding out some applicants.
SS works fine as long as you dont have a surge in population (ww2) and corrupt politicians pulling from it.. To be honest if done properly it can survive the first, nothing can survive the second.
1. People who go to college and graduate, only to become stay at home dads/moms would be a burden on the system.. Easy to fix for marriages, but harder for the unmarried.
2. People who dont graduate/stay in school forever.
3. Dwindling population, in general, or just of graduates, will destroy the system.
And that is just at a quick thought.
Sorry, it should have been now, " and started the surveillance state are now suing Obama for continuing it."
but it is still ironic that the people that gave him the power, and started the surveillance state are not suing Obama for continuing it.
Sooo, because some thing was not introduced until X moment in time you cannot blame a problem with it later on Y which correlates to the time when the thing is having a problem?
Both. If the population leaves then there is no more study......
Well my Cardiologist loves to go on about BMI...
wish I could mod you up.. Apparently I have been modded a troll for making that statement, but the guy who does not know what an ad hominem is gets modded funny.
Again the party that claims to be against over bearing regulation shows its hypocrisy.