Yeah, because the American war machine needs more money, otherwise you'll be stuck at spending only the same amount as the next 7 countries combined, rather than the next 8! For shame!
Trump supporters that still support this Orange cunt remind me of pot committed poker players on full tilt. Even when it's pointed out that what they're doing is just fucking themselves, they just blindly carry on.
I believe that most people have found that pirated content is high quality and no ads, plus all those RSS feeds have been set up to automatically download shows a long time ago, well before Amazon and Netflix came to the party. So why switch from something high quality and ad free?
"You obviously have never seen dolphins carried in slings, lifted with cranes, etc. " You're right! Could you please show me pictures of a 3 ton whale being lifted by a crane, on sand, in a place like farewell spit in NZ (wee hint, farewell spit is in the middle of nowhere and you'd have to get this crane a few Kms along the spit)? https://goo.gl/yt8kpV
"They may not love it. But it can be done." so can keeping them wet until the tide comes back in. What the fuck do you think is easier?
"Some day, your parents are going to have to roll you up the basement stairs and out the front door to get a job. You probably won't like it much when it happens either." OW OW OW!!! MY FEELINGS!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!! TOUGH GUY ON INTERNET TYPED BAD THINGS!!!! In the face of such stupidity, I'll leave you to consider reality, rather than this fantasy of cranes on a spit lifting whales stuck down in wet sand.
Yes, I hear that whales love to be rolled over and dragged along land by their tails and being stuck in watery sand makes is so much easier to move them! Just as well they have loop-holes for the ropes too. Thanks for your scientific input, Trump.
"Can I watch my music videos on it using the Video app?" In the same way as you can use a ping-pong ball to play soccer? It's possible, but why would you want to do so?
Do you have overhead powerlines/phone down your shared driveway to your house? If so, they'll just string up another wire. That's what they did for us down our shared driveway with three houses between us and the road. Install was done extremely quickly and competently. I believe they did that on the inspection/planning date when they saw what was involved, rather than waiting for the installation date a week later. However at my office when I got Fiber installed there (4 offices in block), was the opposite end of the spectrum. Wildly incompetent installation fools (obviously the cheapest contractors they could find), lost paperwork at chorus, installation left holes open to the elements, etc. So it can be a real lottery. You'll find the fiber isn't just faster for downloads, but response times (latency) is noticeably lower (browsing the web is snappier) and it's far more robust/reliable than VDSL. Certainly worth upgrading to seeing as you can get it. I haven't bothered upgrading to gigabit speed either (even though work is paying for everything), as 100Mbs Fiber basically maxes out WiFi at any rate. Maybe when my kids get older and start streaming multiple 4k content over multiple wifi routers or something...;-)
FYI a new "Tasman Global Access" cable will be in operation March 2017 (to Oz) and another direct cable to the US (Hawaiki Cable) active June 2018. A further cable to the US is apparently being planned for 2019 as well, concentrating on less lag.
I came back to NZ in 2011. Internet was total rubbish back then. Now, it's becoming world leading, amazing transformation, in the past couple of years alone. I RDC in to desktops in the US and UK everyday. Both are perfectly usable latency wise, biggest issues are at the UK and US ends where the offices aren't on fiber! If I RDC in to my local office from home, it's so good I can happily play video over RDC. Really looking forward to those new overseas pipes going in though, just to improve overseas transfer speeds.
There are direct cables to the US from NZ. a new "Tasman Global Access" cable will be in operation March 2017 (to Oz) and another direct cable to the US (Hawaiki Cable) active June 2018. A further cable to the US is apparently being planned for 2019 as well, concentrating on less lag. I have a feeling NZ is setting itself up to be the next Ireland, IT is now NZ's third biggest export.
I don't think people appreciate just how good NZ Internet has gotten in just the past couple of years. Most of the comments I'm reading here are based on well out of date information. Unlimited Gigabit fiber speeds and new overseas pipes, some of the fastest 4G in the world as well.
Err, I haven't had a download cap here in NZ for many years, I don't know of anyone who doesn't choose an unlimited plan. Glowing strands of fiber in my living room (everyone gets two strands of fiber in fact for future proofing!), can't beat that! Everyone who has access to fiber can get Gigabit Internet now. New overseas pipes also going live shortly. Also, we have one of the fastest 4G networks in the world, that's because we DO have caps on mobile data usage. NZ Internet has come a LONG way in the past few years, was stone age in 2011.
Pff, whatever, if it was half a millimeter thicker, it would've ruined the entire aesthetics of the device and everyone would've just called it fatty-fat-fone. I'd rather have it exploding and burning me than walk around with fatty-fat-fone. Americans and have no idea what a millimeter is and will believe this. Muah ha ha ha!
I like the idea of a company I've brought something from making record profits if what I buy from them is worth the money I've paid, then it's not over the odds.
For example, recently I got work to buy an iPhone 7 (to replace my Samsung S5. Prior to that I had a Nexus 4). Wow, what a friggen awesome phone compared to my S5, they way iOS works is head and shoulders above Android (in my mind). Was so impressed with the device, I spent my own money to buy another iPhone 7 for the wife, who's smitten with it.
Can't say I've felt that way with an Android device at the same price point. Therefore the price that Apple has their devices at is OK. Yes, of course we'd all like things to be cheaper, but hey, I can afford it so fuck it, why not.
Can't afford one at the price Apple charges or don't like using iOS, then don't buy one, pretty simple.
iMessage is like a suped-up version of SMS. Like Whatsapp and then some. Allows free messaging (text, pictures, video, gifs, your own drawings, etc) to other iMessage users. Shows when messages have been delivered, if people are replying, etc. Now also allows 3rd party apps. Potential here. This will give you an idea, skip past the "sticker pack" crap: http://www.digitaltrends.com/m... Thing is, it's done rather well. Things are seamless, e.g. will even send standard SMS messages if data isn't available or recipient doesn't use iMessage. There's minimal clutter, but a lot of power if you want to go past basic texting. So no, you wouldn't care about iMessage if you've never used it, but going from iMessage to basic SMS is noticeable, but hardly the end of the world.
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Yeah, because the American war machine needs more money, otherwise you'll be stuck at spending only the same amount as the next 7 countries combined, rather than the next 8! For shame!
Trump supporters that still support this Orange cunt remind me of pot committed poker players on full tilt. Even when it's pointed out that what they're doing is just fucking themselves, they just blindly carry on.
OMG. Some people really are, um, what's the word I'm looking for here...
I believe that most people have found that pirated content is high quality and no ads, plus all those RSS feeds have been set up to automatically download shows a long time ago, well before Amazon and Netflix came to the party.
So why switch from something high quality and ad free?
A terrorist might jump out of the vagina, or a hidden gun could go off in there!
"You obviously have never seen dolphins carried in slings, lifted with cranes, etc. "
You're right! Could you please show me pictures of a 3 ton whale being lifted by a crane, on sand, in a place like farewell spit in NZ (wee hint, farewell spit is in the middle of nowhere and you'd have to get this crane a few Kms along the spit)? https://goo.gl/yt8kpV
"They may not love it. But it can be done."
so can keeping them wet until the tide comes back in. What the fuck do you think is easier?
"Some day, your parents are going to have to roll you up the basement stairs and out the front door to get a job. You probably won't like it much when it happens either."
OW OW OW!!! MY FEELINGS!!!! OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!! TOUGH GUY ON INTERNET TYPED BAD THINGS!!!!
In the face of such stupidity, I'll leave you to consider reality, rather than this fantasy of cranes on a spit lifting whales stuck down in wet sand.
Yes, I hear that whales love to be rolled over and dragged along land by their tails and being stuck in watery sand makes is so much easier to move them!
Just as well they have loop-holes for the ropes too.
Thanks for your scientific input, Trump.
Good idea!
Hmm, what about somewhere geologically safe... and under a mountain... Yucca mountain looks good! Oh wait...
"Can I watch my music videos on it using the Video app?"
In the same way as you can use a ping-pong ball to play soccer? It's possible, but why would you want to do so?
Try spending more time understanding what you're commenting on, rather than commenting.
Do you have overhead powerlines/phone down your shared driveway to your house? If so, they'll just string up another wire. That's what they did for us down our shared driveway with three houses between us and the road. Install was done extremely quickly and competently. I believe they did that on the inspection/planning date when they saw what was involved, rather than waiting for the installation date a week later. ;-)
However at my office when I got Fiber installed there (4 offices in block), was the opposite end of the spectrum. Wildly incompetent installation fools (obviously the cheapest contractors they could find), lost paperwork at chorus, installation left holes open to the elements, etc. So it can be a real lottery.
You'll find the fiber isn't just faster for downloads, but response times (latency) is noticeably lower (browsing the web is snappier) and it's far more robust/reliable than VDSL. Certainly worth upgrading to seeing as you can get it.
I haven't bothered upgrading to gigabit speed either (even though work is paying for everything), as 100Mbs Fiber basically maxes out WiFi at any rate. Maybe when my kids get older and start streaming multiple 4k content over multiple wifi routers or something...
FYI a new "Tasman Global Access" cable will be in operation March 2017 (to Oz) and another direct cable to the US (Hawaiki Cable) active June 2018.
A further cable to the US is apparently being planned for 2019 as well, concentrating on less lag.
I came back to NZ in 2011. Internet was total rubbish back then.
Now, it's becoming world leading, amazing transformation, in the past couple of years alone.
I RDC in to desktops in the US and UK everyday. Both are perfectly usable latency wise, biggest issues are at the UK and US ends where the offices aren't on fiber!
If I RDC in to my local office from home, it's so good I can happily play video over RDC.
Really looking forward to those new overseas pipes going in though, just to improve overseas transfer speeds.
There are direct cables to the US from NZ.
a new "Tasman Global Access" cable will be in operation March 2017 (to Oz) and another direct cable to the US (Hawaiki Cable) active June 2018.
A further cable to the US is apparently being planned for 2019 as well, concentrating on less lag.
I have a feeling NZ is setting itself up to be the next Ireland, IT is now NZ's third biggest export.
FYI everyone who has access to fiber has access to unlimited Gigabit Internet in NZ now.
I don't think people appreciate just how good NZ Internet has gotten in just the past couple of years. Most of the comments I'm reading here are based on well out of date information.
Unlimited Gigabit fiber speeds and new overseas pipes, some of the fastest 4G in the world as well.
Everyone who can get fiber in NZ can get Gigabit speeds now.
Err, I haven't had a download cap here in NZ for many years, I don't know of anyone who doesn't choose an unlimited plan.
Glowing strands of fiber in my living room (everyone gets two strands of fiber in fact for future proofing!), can't beat that! Everyone who has access to fiber can get Gigabit Internet now.
New overseas pipes also going live shortly.
Also, we have one of the fastest 4G networks in the world, that's because we DO have caps on mobile data usage.
NZ Internet has come a LONG way in the past few years, was stone age in 2011.
Pff, whatever, if it was half a millimeter thicker, it would've ruined the entire aesthetics of the device and everyone would've just called it fatty-fat-fone. I'd rather have it exploding and burning me than walk around with fatty-fat-fone.
Americans and have no idea what a millimeter is and will believe this. Muah ha ha ha!
Interesting thoughts, but flawed.
I like the idea of a company I've brought something from making record profits if what I buy from them is worth the money I've paid, then it's not over the odds.
For example, recently I got work to buy an iPhone 7 (to replace my Samsung S5. Prior to that I had a Nexus 4).
Wow, what a friggen awesome phone compared to my S5, they way iOS works is head and shoulders above Android (in my mind). Was so impressed with the device, I spent my own money to buy another iPhone 7 for the wife, who's smitten with it.
Can't say I've felt that way with an Android device at the same price point. Therefore the price that Apple has their devices at is OK. Yes, of course we'd all like things to be cheaper, but hey, I can afford it so fuck it, why not.
Can't afford one at the price Apple charges or don't like using iOS, then don't buy one, pretty simple.
6B profit (in 2015) from the app store is a nice rounding error to have.
What's a polluted city got to do with climate change again?
Go back to shooting squirrels little man.
I imagine an 86 year old has better things to do than taking Canipre to court for extortion, such as enjoying the fact that today she's alive.
iMessage is like a suped-up version of SMS. Like Whatsapp and then some.
Allows free messaging (text, pictures, video, gifs, your own drawings, etc) to other iMessage users. Shows when messages have been delivered, if people are replying, etc.
Now also allows 3rd party apps. Potential here. This will give you an idea, skip past the "sticker pack" crap: http://www.digitaltrends.com/m...
Thing is, it's done rather well. Things are seamless, e.g. will even send standard SMS messages if data isn't available or recipient doesn't use iMessage. There's minimal clutter, but a lot of power if you want to go past basic texting.
So no, you wouldn't care about iMessage if you've never used it, but going from iMessage to basic SMS is noticeable, but hardly the end of the world.
I assume you can get unlimited texts in any plan for next to nothing, however I imagine it's the pic messages that would cost, rather than text.