Most people want faster connections like 30 Mbit or 100 Mbit, and those would yield 9 and 30 terabytes if you used them to their full potential.
Setting aside for a moment the fact that most people aren't going to transfer anywhere near that much data, let's look at how data centers do things. Right now I'm leasing a dedicated server on a 100Mbit connection. It's a shared connection, so I can't always get the full bandwidth, but 99%+ of the time I can. I have an SLA, no caps and no filtering on the service, and what I pay includes the server (8 gigs RAM/500 GB RAID1 storage) bandwidth, 5 static IPs, and the infrastructure (power, A/C, UPS) to support it. I pay $29.00/month for this. For those that need a *lot* more bandwidth, a comparable server on a 1Gbps connection with a 100TB cap still costs less than $250/month. For both situations, if the aggregate total of customers begins using more bandwidth than the DC can handle, they bring in more connections to deal with it. Most times there aren't additional charges for this. Additionally, if there are any problems, I call or send a message to the provider, and usually have it completely rectified inside of 10 minutes.
Of course things are a bit different for residential customers - DCs don't usually have to deal with brain-dead customers like a lot of consumer ISPs do, and there are other additional maintenance and staffing costs that the ISPs have that DCs don't. That still doesn't explain why Comcast charges more than twice the amount I pay for my server for a connection at 1/4th the speed, with no static IPs, no SLA, and a limit on the amount of transferred data that's less than what I could transfer in two days. It also doesn't explain why AT&T (my current provider) can't seem to get IPv6 right, nor can they keep the connection up for more than a week without a service interruption of some sort.
You could make it first come first serve, or you could try to benefit those in your custom "club" plan get first shot as your most "loyal" of customers.
The interesting thing is that more and more vendors are coming to the understanding that the "loyal" customers are often the easiest ones to piss on without consequences. Disney's been doing that for years.
Even then they're not always the lowest-priced vendor. Unless it's something relatively trivial, I do shop around - lots of places either match or beat Amazon's pricing with free shipping.
Pretty much the same here. My Prime membership paid for itself for a couple of years when I bought a weight set. 275 pounds shipped, free 2-day shipping.
Once robots can produce furniture and crafts as well as hand crafted Amish versions, the Amish way of life may not survive.
I wouldn't think so. There are still a lot of people that prefer hand-crafted stuff just because a real person made it, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
If 90% aren't doing anything except sitting at home on their basic income, what kind of domestic market are those 10% going to have for their products?
I don't understand the purpose of having the FISA court if the government can still do whatever it wants without consequences. If the *individuals* guilty of breaking the laws they're supposed to abide by are not being held accountable, the whole thing is an academic exercise at best. Until these people start going to federal prison and suffer significant personal fines, nothing is going to change.
To charge him 89 billion, he had to sell most, if not all of his Microsoft stock, most likely at a price below what it is worth because he's probably going to have to dump a lot of it on the market for a considerable amount of time.
And this in turn will reduce the wealth of everyone else that owns Microsoft stock, which likely means retirement funds and the like start losing money. I sympathize with the "1%" movement and "stiggin' it to the man!" sounds good on the surface, but there are a lot of follow-on effects that need to be considered before taking a drastic action like that.
I have Comcast now and actually have never really had an issue with them aside from how much they charge.
The price they charge is why I have been sticking with AT&Ts business DSL service, despite the fact that I've had about three dozen outages this year, they don't support IPv6 properly, and they continue to interfere with my third-party VoIP service. For comparable service (16 mbps), Comcast would charge almost twice as much, plus a $15/month modem rental fee because they won't give me static IPs on a modem that I own myself (at least in my area). Oh, they also want a $300 installation fee on top of that.
ISP options in many, if not most parts of the U.S. truly and thoroughly suck.
What he said is that as long as companies continue to create devices designed to defeat LEO, we're setting ourselves up to lose horribly.
They're not being designed "to defeat LEO". They're being designed to be as secure as possible against anyone who may wish to take the data on the device without the owner's permission. The fact that it becomes more difficult for law enforcement to get to the data is merely incidental, and I have very little sympathy for their problems in light of the fact that it's becoming more and more likely for innocent people to suffer loss of life or property at the hands of the government than from terrorists, child molesters, or whoever the public enemy du jour is.
Hehe, not really. At least Carly was upfront about her incompetence and didn't/couldn't hide it. Yet some people still hold her out to be some kind of gifted business person.
Some of Theronos's stuff does work, it's just highly inaccurate and that's what she's covered up, probably in the hope she could fix the inaccuracy problem. But as time went on they moved more and more to conventional tests because they couldn't fix the inaccuracy.
To me, "highly inaccurate" translates directly to "it doesn't work". This is hardly 20/20 hindsight, though - there were plenty of people back during Theranos's boom days that were saying they were suspicious of the whole thing.
Considering Deadpool has alone has made over $750 million dollars globally, on a budget of less than $60 million
Not when you factor "Hollywood accounting" into it. This is an industry that goes to great, creative lengths to screw people out of money they're contractually entitled to, and they want us to feel sorry for them. When the MPAA execs start being honest with the people that actually make the movies that line their pockets, I'll start taking them a little more seriously. Until then, I have the world's smallest violin playing just for them.
It is amazing that a 5 hour drive is still faster then a one hour flight...
If it's a six hour drive or less, I don't even consider flying and haven't for years. I pissed off my employer about 12-13 years ago when I insisted on driving from Orlando to Atlanta, but between parking, getting luggage checked in, dealing with security, total flight time, waiting for my luggage at the destination, and getting a rental car, it really was a wash timewise, and my own car was a hell of a lot better than the Alero I'd get at the airport anyway. Plus I don't have to be up at 0-dark-30 to get started. They always scheduled the cheapest flight, so I was constantly having to use different airlines, so there wasn't even an advantage with bonus miles either.
The new mm-wave body scanners have a massive false positive rate and are effectively useless.
This has been my experience. Out of the last half-dozen times I've been through one, I've been tagged three times with completely empty pockets, no metal or other dense substance on my person, and no artificial joints, limbs, etc.
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Most people want faster connections like 30 Mbit or 100 Mbit, and those would yield 9 and 30 terabytes if you used them to their full potential.
Setting aside for a moment the fact that most people aren't going to transfer anywhere near that much data, let's look at how data centers do things. Right now I'm leasing a dedicated server on a 100Mbit connection. It's a shared connection, so I can't always get the full bandwidth, but 99%+ of the time I can. I have an SLA, no caps and no filtering on the service, and what I pay includes the server (8 gigs RAM/500 GB RAID1 storage) bandwidth, 5 static IPs, and the infrastructure (power, A/C, UPS) to support it. I pay $29.00/month for this. For those that need a *lot* more bandwidth, a comparable server on a 1Gbps connection with a 100TB cap still costs less than $250/month. For both situations, if the aggregate total of customers begins using more bandwidth than the DC can handle, they bring in more connections to deal with it. Most times there aren't additional charges for this. Additionally, if there are any problems, I call or send a message to the provider, and usually have it completely rectified inside of 10 minutes.
Of course things are a bit different for residential customers - DCs don't usually have to deal with brain-dead customers like a lot of consumer ISPs do, and there are other additional maintenance and staffing costs that the ISPs have that DCs don't. That still doesn't explain why Comcast charges more than twice the amount I pay for my server for a connection at 1/4th the speed, with no static IPs, no SLA, and a limit on the amount of transferred data that's less than what I could transfer in two days. It also doesn't explain why AT&T (my current provider) can't seem to get IPv6 right, nor can they keep the connection up for more than a week without a service interruption of some sort.
You could make it first come first serve, or you could try to benefit those in your custom "club" plan get first shot as your most "loyal" of customers.
The interesting thing is that more and more vendors are coming to the understanding that the "loyal" customers are often the easiest ones to piss on without consequences. Disney's been doing that for years.
Even then they're not always the lowest-priced vendor. Unless it's something relatively trivial, I do shop around - lots of places either match or beat Amazon's pricing with free shipping.
Pretty much the same here. My Prime membership paid for itself for a couple of years when I bought a weight set. 275 pounds shipped, free 2-day shipping.
Once robots can produce furniture and crafts as well as hand crafted Amish versions, the Amish way of life may not survive.
I wouldn't think so. There are still a lot of people that prefer hand-crafted stuff just because a real person made it, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
If 90% aren't doing anything except sitting at home on their basic income, what kind of domestic market are those 10% going to have for their products?
Jack of all trades, master of none...
I don't understand the purpose of having the FISA court if the government can still do whatever it wants without consequences. If the *individuals* guilty of breaking the laws they're supposed to abide by are not being held accountable, the whole thing is an academic exercise at best. Until these people start going to federal prison and suffer significant personal fines, nothing is going to change.
To charge him 89 billion, he had to sell most, if not all of his Microsoft stock, most likely at a price below what it is worth because he's probably going to have to dump a lot of it on the market for a considerable amount of time.
And this in turn will reduce the wealth of everyone else that owns Microsoft stock, which likely means retirement funds and the like start losing money. I sympathize with the "1%" movement and "stiggin' it to the man!" sounds good on the surface, but there are a lot of follow-on effects that need to be considered before taking a drastic action like that.
I have Comcast now and actually have never really had an issue with them aside from how much they charge.
The price they charge is why I have been sticking with AT&Ts business DSL service, despite the fact that I've had about three dozen outages this year, they don't support IPv6 properly, and they continue to interfere with my third-party VoIP service. For comparable service (16 mbps), Comcast would charge almost twice as much, plus a $15/month modem rental fee because they won't give me static IPs on a modem that I own myself (at least in my area). Oh, they also want a $300 installation fee on top of that.
ISP options in many, if not most parts of the U.S. truly and thoroughly suck.
What he said is that as long as companies continue to create devices designed to defeat LEO, we're setting ourselves up to lose horribly.
They're not being designed "to defeat LEO". They're being designed to be as secure as possible against anyone who may wish to take the data on the device without the owner's permission. The fact that it becomes more difficult for law enforcement to get to the data is merely incidental, and I have very little sympathy for their problems in light of the fact that it's becoming more and more likely for innocent people to suffer loss of life or property at the hands of the government than from terrorists, child molesters, or whoever the public enemy du jour is.
Beats me. I'm not the one running the project. :-)
Buy his own, actually. But assembly is required!
He can't buy time because none is available. He's looking for money to build his own.
Worked for Carly Fiorina, didn't it?
Hehe, not really. At least Carly was upfront about her incompetence and didn't/couldn't hide it. Yet some people still hold her out to be some kind of gifted business person.
Some of Theronos's stuff does work, it's just highly inaccurate and that's what she's covered up, probably in the hope she could fix the inaccuracy problem. But as time went on they moved more and more to conventional tests because they couldn't fix the inaccuracy.
To me, "highly inaccurate" translates directly to "it doesn't work". This is hardly 20/20 hindsight, though - there were plenty of people back during Theranos's boom days that were saying they were suspicious of the whole thing.
Not to mention the correct phrase "raises the question" isn't that much more of an effort to type/write.
Considering Deadpool has alone has made over $750 million dollars globally, on a budget of less than $60 million
Not when you factor "Hollywood accounting" into it. This is an industry that goes to great, creative lengths to screw people out of money they're contractually entitled to, and they want us to feel sorry for them. When the MPAA execs start being honest with the people that actually make the movies that line their pockets, I'll start taking them a little more seriously. Until then, I have the world's smallest violin playing just for them.
That landed me in a meeting about sensitivity.
Yeah, let's see how "sensitive" the customers are when their info gets splashed all over the internet...
I believe my patent for "A Method and Process for Doing Stuff with Things" has just about everything covered.
Unfortunately, I hold the patent for "A Method and Process for Doing Stuff With Things Using a Computer", so watch your step!
They're not actually exorcised, just called "services"
It is amazing that a 5 hour drive is still faster then a one hour flight...
If it's a six hour drive or less, I don't even consider flying and haven't for years. I pissed off my employer about 12-13 years ago when I insisted on driving from Orlando to Atlanta, but between parking, getting luggage checked in, dealing with security, total flight time, waiting for my luggage at the destination, and getting a rental car, it really was a wash timewise, and my own car was a hell of a lot better than the Alero I'd get at the airport anyway. Plus I don't have to be up at 0-dark-30 to get started. They always scheduled the cheapest flight, so I was constantly having to use different airlines, so there wasn't even an advantage with bonus miles either.
The new mm-wave body scanners have a massive false positive rate and are effectively useless.
This has been my experience. Out of the last half-dozen times I've been through one, I've been tagged three times with completely empty pockets, no metal or other dense substance on my person, and no artificial joints, limbs, etc.
It's almost like there are no performance metrics or expectations to meet! Like no one cares if the program is implemented well.
Fortunately, that's not a problem when the program in question isn't truly expected to provide a benefit.
All of Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia too.