Ask Earthlink's semi-automated chat service about the Comcast Cap applying to their cable-modem-over-Comcast's-wire service, and they'll tell you that it doesn't apply to you because you're Earthlink's customer and they have no such policy. You'll save a couple bucks based on the local Comcast price, but you'll be limited to to the 6mbps/768kbps which is Comcast's lowest speed level. (Though you'll still get the Comcast PowerBurst instant speed double.)
That, and people will wonder why you have a @earthlink.net e-mail address still...
It's not the price between the store and vendor that can't be agreed upon, that'd be absurd. It's the price between the store and end consumer that can't be influenced by the vendor.
Forced peering would lead to situations where the data flow could be tilted from one side to another. "Peering" requires relatively equal data flow between the partners.
BGP by design trusts in routing settings being honest... just program a router with can't-get-there-from-here routes, and you'll down the surrounding area's Internet speed, or even connections.
If they do... they might as well publish it and start using it in sales presentations. A 10% premium above current value was IBM's offer. How much more do they want?
Sun seems to want to hold on for a better bid than IBM's $7 billion, but there's seems to be a hard time justifying much higher of a markup beyond the $6.3 billion it has in market cap. Who wants to bid more?
Fox's good series but low ratings failures were due to giving the network over to sports instead of recorded programs.
Fridays during the late 90s and early 2000s, many affiliates carried local baseball games during primetime and they ran the Fox Friday lineup in late night after the local news. So, any series schedule for Friday would get weak rating numbers, and therefore be canceled as a flop.
Sundays were troubled by NFL runovers and the fact that The Simpsons had to start on time at 8pm or not at all, meaning that in many cities the 7:00 and 7:30 programs would be pre-empted by the game being shown in the late afternoon slot. This doomed Futurama because it couldn't be found in a consistent slot.
Another strike against Futurama is that it had to run with an alternate opening due to a showing the Planet Express ship crashing into a large screen, which was considered too close to a reminder of 9/11/01.
However, Fox has fixed all of these problems. Time has passed so the opening is more acceptable. The Friday baseball pre-emptions are now a thing of the past, Fox has let baseball move to regional cable channels, some of which it controls. The Sunday problem has been solved by a postgame show called "The OT" that stations join in progress as the game ends, and runs until 8pm. So, the only thing that can be pre-empted by football is football talk.
Fox is now no longer killing good shows because they're not getting the numbers due to Fox's own mistakes. They've solved that problem.
This is one of those stories that deserves a dupe at a different time of day so that it's seen by more readers. It's getting no mainstream coverage, yet almost as many businesses and students who use Windows also use Excel and this is a gaping zero-day problem. Same advice as Access files now applies to Excel... you may be opening an unknown executable by opening a crafted-to-do-so.xls file.
The thing about all forms of flash memory is that they can stand limited numbers of writes per physical bit, the exact number varies by design, but in general the number is much fewer than magnetic specs of similar cost and size.
So, I think we have an explanation for the the write speed decrease. The rated size of the "logical disk" is what they make available, while more bits stand back waiting to replace bits that have gone bad. When such bits have to come into play, it takes a guess and check process just to find where the bit the physically is within the SSD. That takes time... and there you go.
That's just the "market forces" at work. Come up with something original, you can charge whatever you want. Come up with something that can be knocked-off, and that's competition which will drive your price toward costs. Since costs of copied bits are near zero, the 99 cent floor is the reasonable stopping point.
Here's the contradiction. Cox seems to be favoring traffic based on the time needs of the application. This means phone calls go ahead while file transfers lag... but wait, isn't favoring somebody else's phone VoIP using their network actually bad for Cox's own phone service?
The Net Neutrality side favors a prohibition on priority that gives right of way to content-owner or network-owner friendly services. But what if Cox just does what we'd do on our own network if we had the equipment, time, and need to set up? That's QoS, and if done right makes everybody happy except those who misapply the idea.
The story says "are expected to" meaning neither ISP mentioned has done so, the ISP's aren't saying they will, and the RIAA isn't saying who will. There hasn't been use of evidence collected this way that we know of... so why aren't we talking about Comcast, Time Warner, or Earthlink?
Maybe the poster should be checked for sales of stocks made around the time this story hit.
Just wondering... who wound up with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 brand name and right to produce new episodes. Since the cast and crew seem willing, it'd make for an excellent podcast.
MadTV is in its final season on Fox. It might continue on a cable network, and never had a connection to the magazine other than the rights to the name and Alfred character.
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Ask Earthlink's semi-automated chat service about the Comcast Cap applying to their cable-modem-over-Comcast's-wire service, and they'll tell you that it doesn't apply to you because you're Earthlink's customer and they have no such policy. You'll save a couple bucks based on the local Comcast price, but you'll be limited to to the 6mbps/768kbps which is Comcast's lowest speed level. (Though you'll still get the Comcast PowerBurst instant speed double.)
That, and people will wonder why you have a @earthlink.net e-mail address still...
Likely the fact that the legal effort to challenge the fine would cost more than the fine.
It's not the price between the store and vendor that can't be agreed upon, that'd be absurd. It's the price between the store and end consumer that can't be influenced by the vendor.
For a company with a market cap of $174 billion USD 9 million Euros which equals $12 million USD is a drop in the bucket.
That's not the issue in this story. It's under German law, that the supplier and retailer can't agree on what the retail price will be.
Given the current exchange rate that's roughly $12,000,000 United States Dollars.
You didn't read the summary. Magpie is paying Twitter users to shill for sponsors.
Forced peering would lead to situations where the data flow could be tilted from one side to another. "Peering" requires relatively equal data flow between the partners.
BGP by design trusts in routing settings being honest... just program a router with can't-get-there-from-here routes, and you'll down the surrounding area's Internet speed, or even connections.
Apple's already pinned itself to their own fork of FreeBSD. Why would they need Solaris?
If they do... they might as well publish it and start using it in sales presentations. A 10% premium above current value was IBM's offer. How much more do they want?
Java and Blu-Ray may have a future value, but Solaris is a has-been that's been open-sourced.
Cisco is already using Linux in some Linkaya models, and has it's on NetOS running on it's high-end stuff. Why does it need Solaris or Java?
Let's just remember, they call the company Sun, and their OS Solaris, but the stock ticker symbol is JAVA. What's the brand they're selling most?
Sun seems to want to hold on for a better bid than IBM's $7 billion, but there's seems to be a hard time justifying much higher of a markup beyond the $6.3 billion it has in market cap. Who wants to bid more?
Fox's good series but low ratings failures were due to giving the network over to sports instead of recorded programs.
Fridays during the late 90s and early 2000s, many affiliates carried local baseball games during primetime and they ran the Fox Friday lineup in late night after the local news. So, any series schedule for Friday would get weak rating numbers, and therefore be canceled as a flop.
Sundays were troubled by NFL runovers and the fact that The Simpsons had to start on time at 8pm or not at all, meaning that in many cities the 7:00 and 7:30 programs would be pre-empted by the game being shown in the late afternoon slot. This doomed Futurama because it couldn't be found in a consistent slot.
Another strike against Futurama is that it had to run with an alternate opening due to a showing the Planet Express ship crashing into a large screen, which was considered too close to a reminder of 9/11/01.
However, Fox has fixed all of these problems. Time has passed so the opening is more acceptable. The Friday baseball pre-emptions are now a thing of the past, Fox has let baseball move to regional cable channels, some of which it controls. The Sunday problem has been solved by a postgame show called "The OT" that stations join in progress as the game ends, and runs until 8pm. So, the only thing that can be pre-empted by football is football talk.
Fox is now no longer killing good shows because they're not getting the numbers due to Fox's own mistakes. They've solved that problem.
This is one of those stories that deserves a dupe at a different time of day so that it's seen by more readers. It's getting no mainstream coverage, yet almost as many businesses and students who use Windows also use Excel and this is a gaping zero-day problem. Same advice as Access files now applies to Excel... you may be opening an unknown executable by opening a crafted-to-do-so .xls file.
The thing about all forms of flash memory is that they can stand limited numbers of writes per physical bit, the exact number varies by design, but in general the number is much fewer than magnetic specs of similar cost and size.
So, I think we have an explanation for the the write speed decrease. The rated size of the "logical disk" is what they make available, while more bits stand back waiting to replace bits that have gone bad. When such bits have to come into play, it takes a guess and check process just to find where the bit the physically is within the SSD. That takes time... and there you go.
That's just the "market forces" at work. Come up with something original, you can charge whatever you want. Come up with something that can be knocked-off, and that's competition which will drive your price toward costs. Since costs of copied bits are near zero, the 99 cent floor is the reasonable stopping point.
True, but it makes the Electoral College a meaningless formality rather than a score keeping system.
This reminds me of the Hotmail Unix to Windows conversion a few years back. They failed the first time. But eventually got it right.
Here's the contradiction. Cox seems to be favoring traffic based on the time needs of the application. This means phone calls go ahead while file transfers lag... but wait, isn't favoring somebody else's phone VoIP using their network actually bad for Cox's own phone service?
The Net Neutrality side favors a prohibition on priority that gives right of way to content-owner or network-owner friendly services. But what if Cox just does what we'd do on our own network if we had the equipment, time, and need to set up? That's QoS, and if done right makes everybody happy except those who misapply the idea.
Let's gong this one off the stage...
The story says "are expected to" meaning neither ISP mentioned has done so, the ISP's aren't saying they will, and the RIAA isn't saying who will. There hasn't been use of evidence collected this way that we know of... so why aren't we talking about Comcast, Time Warner, or Earthlink?
Maybe the poster should be checked for sales of stocks made around the time this story hit.
Just wondering... who wound up with the Mystery Science Theater 3000 brand name and right to produce new episodes. Since the cast and crew seem willing, it'd make for an excellent podcast.
MadTV is in its final season on Fox. It might continue on a cable network, and never had a connection to the magazine other than the rights to the name and Alfred character.