Netflix could just tie your account to a geographic region. No matter where you login from you get your country's content. I just think they don't really care and will not do this until they are motivated to. Want a US account then you need a US address. I don't know what the issue is. Seems easier than playing IP Range Wack a Mole.
And how will they do that? It is not an issue of price. The idea is that you would need to be using a US IP that is not through a VPN. There will still be ways but its not a matter of getting people to pony up cash, they already are.
It has little to do with "hoarding" of weath because wealth is not stuff - it's not food, it's not cars, it's not houses wealth is control of the means of production. And we benefit greatly if wealth is hoarded by people who are great at making investment decisions. Wealth is not what you seem to think!
So someone who owns million/billions in real estate, investments and all that other stuff is not wealthy? It is solely controlling the means of production? (which if you do you will probably have all those billions) If you are some trust fund baby with no clue but billions in the bank you are not wealthy? And you twist it around to say that it is good for you if the very wealthy and powerful remain that way because we benefit from their intelligence. Sounds a little like trickle down economics to me.
My initial point to everyone enjoying a life of luxury, where all of our immediate needs are provided so that we can focus on other pursuits to better ourselves, had to do with the paradigm shift that would be required. One that humanity itself could not do because we are not hard wired that way. We compete, we keep score. We want to be better than the next guy, either by pulling ahead or putting a boot to their throat to keep them down. I don't lament this, it is who we are.
One liners do not convey a point at all. I guess I could have elaborated. To have everyone live a life of leisure would require sharing of wealth by also foregoing future hording or it. Create and produce for the benefit of human kind so we can move on to more important things. We aren't wired that way and even a koombaya scenario would be boring to a lot of people and would most likely fail. But the 350K number is very interesting. I honestly thought that would have been higher. cheers
Oh calm down. Nobody is advocating stealing from anyone. Just a light hearted response that the 1 hour work week and all holding hands singing koombaya will never work. Take your free market trickle down dogma bullshit elsewhere. Happy New Year!
I hear ya. I get annoyed now when people leave voicemails. Even worse is someone who cold calls me with a million technical details about someone and wanting an answer. Please just email me the issues and that will give me time to research it a little before touching base with you. Or IM me with a heads up that you want to discuss something.
No. You are paying for data and voice from your provider. Same as if you buy a PC, you pay some provider a monthly fee for internet. This would be like paying $10 month on top of your plan for IOS or Android to keep functioning. That doesn't sound so good.
Heh, I could of written this comment. Time, the most precious resource.
If I am going to code anything on what little time I have you can be darn sure it is doing something that amuses me and has 0 politics attached to it. That means solo projects.
I wonder how big an organization would have to be to actually make a private cloud useful. As you say, part of the benefit is having access to infrastructure that you don't have to pay for unless you need it. If you own the cloud than you have paid for every last piece of iron that is sucking up power in your datacentre. Does dynamic provisioning offset this cost? Would governments be the only clients that private clouds truly make sense for?
Excactly, that is the key here. It does have its purpose and all too often these discussions focus on the 'Cloud vs Inhouse'. It's not that simple. You have weighed the pros and cons and have determined that cloud computing is more advantageous for you and probably a whole lot more cost effective. But its not a fit for everyone and I suspect cloud services over promise to some clients for which it is not a good fit.
With the conservatives sometimes you win some and sometimes you lose some. The minute it becomes politically advantageous to harm the internet in the country you can bet they would. This is not a government that is concerned with doing the right thing. They want to get re-elected first and foremost. This time it worked in our favour. The other two major political parties are no better. The article makes it sound like Canada has it all figured out. I was chuckling when I read it. I guess if your frame of reference is the US political system then Canada looks great.
you know when you crack an egg in the pan and there is a little spec of blood. Quite common right? Well that is a fertilized egg. More common with free range chickens, because when chickens and roosters run around loose then...chickens gonna be chickens. Fertilized chicken egg, just as delicious and I don't lay awake at night thinking about it.
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Lame reply to myself...... ....and I would just cancel my Netflix, which they know and is probably why they don't do that.
Netflix could just tie your account to a geographic region. No matter where you login from you get your country's content. I just think they don't really care and will not do this until they are motivated to. Want a US account then you need a US address. I don't know what the issue is. Seems easier than playing IP Range Wack a Mole.
And how will they do that? It is not an issue of price. The idea is that you would need to be using a US IP that is not through a VPN. There will still be ways but its not a matter of getting people to pony up cash, they already are.
It has little to do with "hoarding" of weath because wealth is not stuff - it's not food, it's not cars, it's not houses wealth is control of the means of production. And we benefit greatly if wealth is hoarded by people who are great at making investment decisions. Wealth is not what you seem to think!
So someone who owns million/billions in real estate, investments and all that other stuff is not wealthy? It is solely controlling the means of production? (which if you do you will probably have all those billions) If you are some trust fund baby with no clue but billions in the bank you are not wealthy? And you twist it around to say that it is good for you if the very wealthy and powerful remain that way because we benefit from their intelligence. Sounds a little like trickle down economics to me.
My initial point to everyone enjoying a life of luxury, where all of our immediate needs are provided so that we can focus on other pursuits to better ourselves, had to do with the paradigm shift that would be required. One that humanity itself could not do because we are not hard wired that way. We compete, we keep score. We want to be better than the next guy, either by pulling ahead or putting a boot to their throat to keep them down. I don't lament this, it is who we are.
One liners do not convey a point at all. I guess I could have elaborated. To have everyone live a life of leisure would require sharing of wealth by also foregoing future hording or it. Create and produce for the benefit of human kind so we can move on to more important things. We aren't wired that way and even a koombaya scenario would be boring to a lot of people and would most likely fail. But the 350K number is very interesting. I honestly thought that would have been higher.
cheers
Oh calm down. Nobody is advocating stealing from anyone. Just a light hearted response that the 1 hour work week and all holding hands singing koombaya will never work. Take your free market trickle down dogma bullshit elsewhere. Happy New Year!
Just requires the obscenely rich to share their wealth.
I hear ya. I get annoyed now when people leave voicemails. Even worse is someone who cold calls me with a million technical details about someone and wanting an answer. Please just email me the issues and that will give me time to research it a little before touching base with you. Or IM me with a heads up that you want to discuss something.
No. You are paying for data and voice from your provider. Same as if you buy a PC, you pay some provider a monthly fee for internet. This would be like paying $10 month on top of your plan for IOS or Android to keep functioning. That doesn't sound so good.
I guess you can do something about it.
Heh, I could of written this comment. Time, the most precious resource.
If I am going to code anything on what little time I have you can be darn sure it is doing something that amuses me and has 0 politics attached to it. That means solo projects.
mmm yams. Meant ya.
Yam enough of the poor Kim articles. I only have so much self-righteous rage to go around. Sounds like he made his bed, now he can sleep in it.
kicked or capped?
Actually I am agreeing that it is a super awesome project as OP has. Grandfather OP is the Mr.Genius you should be replying to.
Came here to say something like this, but you hammered the point home much more eloquently.
nevermind. Very cool.
Those numbers surprise me. thanks.
I wonder how big an organization would have to be to actually make a private cloud useful. As you say, part of the benefit is having access to infrastructure that you don't have to pay for unless you need it. If you own the cloud than you have paid for every last piece of iron that is sucking up power in your datacentre. Does dynamic provisioning offset this cost? Would governments be the only clients that private clouds truly make sense for?
Excactly, that is the key here. It does have its purpose and all too often these discussions focus on the 'Cloud vs Inhouse'. It's not that simple. You have weighed the pros and cons and have determined that cloud computing is more advantageous for you and probably a whole lot more cost effective. But its not a fit for everyone and I suspect cloud services over promise to some clients for which it is not a good fit.
Indoors? Must be sweet, I have never been indoors.
With the conservatives sometimes you win some and sometimes you lose some. The minute it becomes politically advantageous to harm the internet in the country you can bet they would. This is not a government that is concerned with doing the right thing. They want to get re-elected first and foremost. This time it worked in our favour. The other two major political parties are no better. The article makes it sound like Canada has it all figured out. I was chuckling when I read it. I guess if your frame of reference is the US political system then Canada looks great.
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Exactly, it takes away from the most important question. Would it be tasty.
you know when you crack an egg in the pan and there is a little spec of blood. Quite common right? Well that is a fertilized egg. More common with free range chickens, because when chickens and roosters run around loose then...chickens gonna be chickens. Fertilized chicken egg, just as delicious and I don't lay awake at night thinking about it.