I can have more bandwith than I can effectively use, much like I can consume more food than I can effectively use.
I know many who have 1.5/128 who barely use their broadband, they use it the same way they used AOL for years, read a few websites and check email. They dont need to pay $40/mo for this. They could get by on a lesser plan, but yet they want always on and faster-than-dialup speeds (even if it were only 2x-3x faster than dialup). Do most BB ISPs offer something less than 1.5/128? Not really.
Huh? Dont think they have a lot in common? They do...
Casual dining restaraunts charge higher prices, and serve you more food than you (should) eat. This leads to fatter americans (eating more than they should, you wouldnt want to be wasteful would you?), and increased margins for the restaraunts. As long as you think, "hey, for $8 I got a lot of food", you'll be OK with it.
Cable companies are starting to do the same thing. My cable co (Cox), is looking at replacing the 1.5/128 plan with 3.0/256, and creating a new plan for $80 for 4.0/384.
and I'll be damned if I'm going to buy (or rent, if the cable company gets its way) a digital converter box to watch tv.
The FCC has mandated that Cable Co's allow people to buy digital set top boxes (and cablemodems too), and also has set a date for the end of leasing equipment, see FCC Mandates Retail Sale Of Cable Set-Tops And Modems. I personally think you should be able to lease or own, not one or the other.
Look at all the problems they are having with the 90nm process right now? That thing is leaking current like you wouldnt believe. Power dissapation is 90-100W. Heat is a big issue. I'm thinking something is going to have to happen to lower current bigtime. Remember thats 100W at 1.3V or so, for 77A, whereas the current P4's use 70W or so at 1.5V, for 47A.
The biggest problem is that the RIAA has a good amount of proof (file names, maybe even downloads of some files from the user to verify its actually the song and not Beethoven), vs DirecTV, which has no more proof than a credit card reciept of something that has a completely valid legal use, but could be used illegally.
they dont. if my friend doesnt see a great play and I describe it i'm not breaking copyright. If I'm the 5 o'clock news, i cant w/o permission due to public performance rights (I cant rebroadcast the highlights). Fair use might be an issue, I doubt the NFL would sue me for talking about a great play on my blog, as long as its not play by play.
The goal is to SCARE fatwallet into removing prices. Sale prices are FACTS and you cant copyright FACTS. The NFL cant copyright the outcome of a football game (Team X 30, Team Y 27), because it is a fact that Team X beat Team Y, however they can and do copyright the tv/radio description of the game.
Which is why I stopped using it and started using AIM. Of course, the inherent flaw with ICQ was that the UIDs were sequential and not spread out at all. Of course, there was spim, and then there were the morons that forwarded the "ICQ IS GOING TO START CHARGING.." messages.
IA-64 is simply THE MOST PROPRIETARY processer there is. It's IP is held by a separate company, licensed to Intel and HP, so that prior contracts those two have don't give anyone else IA-64 access. The PII bus was patented, the PIV bus is patented, SSE (and/or SSE-II_ is patented
IA-64 is patented by a seperate company.
PII, III, 4 busses are all patented by INTEL. SSE/2 is patented by intel. But oh, wait, doesnt the opteron have SSE/SSE2? Yea, coz intel and amd have a cross licensing agreement so they can use each others patents and stuff w/o lawyers and legal agreements in addition to what exists. Dont confuse the circumstances between the IA64 and intel technology.
Whats to keep MS from buying all the shares when they go public? From what I've heard, google wanted to do some sort of bid thing to sell shares to people. So if they were to ebay them, MS could just create a few ebay accounts under people's names, billg@microsoft.com, steveb@microsoft.com, etc, and buy up all the shares.
Hah! Of course, I live in Vegas so buying alcohol anywhere at any time (no last call) is normal for me. It astounds me how people can be so backwards -- at least by my standards =^)
No wonder america is so screwed up, we got the govt controlling booze in 18 states. How bass-ackwards are you people to let the govt control something it has no business doing. Do all cigarrette packs go through govt warehouses to get taxed and resold? Do all cars? Why is alcohol so special?
I'm thinking there is a huge market for college kids. Get a $30/mo pay plan (or even pay-as-you-go), and assuming that the college campus is wifi-enabled you could drastically reduce the amount of time billed to the traditional phone company. Most of their time is spent on campus anyways, and it could cut down on their phone budget a lot.
I dont see cell phones that are only 802.11 going anywhere anytime soon, but I do see dual mode phones taking the market. Making a call via 802.11 when available and using the normal cell phone network when 802.11 is too busy or unreliable.
The only real thing I see driving HD size up in the next few years is Tivos and HD PVRs. A 250GB drive will store about 30-40 hours of HD Video (HD MPEG2 bitrates: 1080i = 18Mbit/s, 720p = 14Mbit/s). For people to get 80-100 hours of HD, they'd need roughly 600GB of HD space. Two 300s would provide that. And believe me, there are people who want to store 100 hours (and more) of TV shows, check out Weaknees.
Sony has changed the process once already on the PS2. Initally, when the PS2 orignally came out it was built on the 180nm fabrication process. Then it switched over to 130nm, and now 90nm. The whole goal is to reduce the number of discrete chips in the PS2. Same functions, fewer chips. Remember there is an entire PS1 is on one chip in the PS2. Fewer chips = cheaper (per unit) to produce.
Plus with the PSX coming out soon, the fewer chips that take care of the PS2 functions, the more room on the PCB for the other functions, like TV Tuner hardware, stuff to control the DVD-R, etc.
Yea, Vegas has always been the bastard child of Cox's HSD system because it was once owned by a company called Prime Cable, so we had CM service through prime cable, then through Cox. But I really think the pricing scheme here works out really well. $30/mo is good for those who want always on but want to save the $10/mo, For a while the $30/mo plan was $27, and tons of people signed on, but cox got greedy and raised it to $30. What a surprise....
Plus the guy who runs broadband here knows what he is doing. He is a good guy... except for he is always on vacation...
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you live in a fly-in community. Where people have aircraft hangars as a part of their houses, and a 3500 ft runway is their door to the world.
I can have more bandwith than I can effectively use, much like I can consume more food than I can effectively use.
I know many who have 1.5/128 who barely use their broadband, they use it the same way they used AOL for years, read a few websites and check email. They dont need to pay $40/mo for this. They could get by on a lesser plan, but yet they want always on and faster-than-dialup speeds (even if it were only 2x-3x faster than dialup). Do most BB ISPs offer something less than 1.5/128? Not really.
Huh? Dont think they have a lot in common? They do...
Casual dining restaraunts charge higher prices, and serve you more food than you (should) eat. This leads to fatter americans (eating more than they should, you wouldnt want to be wasteful would you?), and increased margins for the restaraunts. As long as you think, "hey, for $8 I got a lot of food", you'll be OK with it.
Cable companies are starting to do the same thing. My cable co (Cox), is looking at replacing the 1.5/128 plan with 3.0/256, and creating a new plan for $80 for 4.0/384.
"182,000 miles per hour, its not
just a good idea, its the law"
Dont forget rambus' slightly modified approach..
1. Crerate patents on some aspects of dram technology
2. Let JEDEC put those parts into their standard
3. PROFIT !!!
and I'll be damned if I'm going to buy (or rent, if the cable company gets its way) a digital converter box to watch tv.
The FCC has mandated that Cable Co's allow people to buy digital set top boxes (and cablemodems too), and also has set a date for the end of leasing equipment, see FCC Mandates Retail Sale Of Cable Set-Tops And Modems. I personally think you should be able to lease or own, not one or the other.
Look at all the problems they are having with the 90nm process right now? That thing is leaking current like you wouldnt believe. Power dissapation is 90-100W. Heat is a big issue. I'm thinking something is going to have to happen to lower current bigtime. Remember thats 100W at 1.3V or so, for 77A, whereas the current P4's use 70W or so at 1.5V, for 47A.
The biggest problem is that the RIAA has a good amount of proof (file names, maybe even downloads of some files from the user to verify its actually the song and not Beethoven), vs DirecTV, which has no more proof than a credit card reciept of something that has a completely valid legal use, but could be used illegally.
Why dont they just say "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." If this isnt corporate spin BS I dont know what is...
From the wired article, the headline, "Opening Doors With the DMCA" sits right next to a Best Buy ad.
they dont. if my friend doesnt see a great play and I describe it i'm not breaking copyright. If I'm the 5 o'clock news, i cant w/o permission due to public performance rights (I cant rebroadcast the highlights). Fair use might be an issue, I doubt the NFL would sue me for talking about a great play on my blog, as long as its not play by play.
The goal is to SCARE fatwallet into removing prices. Sale prices are FACTS and you cant copyright FACTS. The NFL cant copyright the outcome of a football game (Team X 30, Team Y 27), because it is a fact that Team X beat Team Y, however they can and do copyright the tv/radio description of the game.
Which is why I stopped using it and started using AIM. Of course, the inherent flaw with ICQ was that the UIDs were sequential and not spread out at all. Of course, there was spim, and then there were the morons that forwarded the "ICQ IS GOING TO START CHARGING.." messages.
To deliver DirecTV to all the seats on their aircraft...
IA-64 is simply THE MOST PROPRIETARY processer there is. It's IP is held by a separate company, licensed to Intel and HP, so that prior contracts those two have don't give anyone else IA-64 access. The PII bus was patented, the PIV bus is patented, SSE (and/or SSE-II_ is patented
IA-64 is patented by a seperate company.
PII, III, 4 busses are all patented by INTEL. SSE/2 is patented by intel. But oh, wait, doesnt the opteron have SSE/SSE2? Yea, coz intel and amd have a cross licensing agreement so they can use each others patents and stuff w/o lawyers and legal agreements in addition to what exists. Dont confuse the circumstances between the IA64 and intel technology.
Whats to keep MS from buying all the shares when they go public? From what I've heard, google wanted to do some sort of bid thing to sell shares to people. So if they were to ebay them, MS could just create a few ebay accounts under people's names, billg@microsoft.com, steveb@microsoft.com, etc, and buy up all the shares.
By "back in the day" do you mean two weeks ago? And by virus, do you mean ATI drivers?
Hah! Of course, I live in Vegas so buying alcohol anywhere at any time (no last call) is normal for me. It astounds me how people can be so backwards -- at least by my standards =^)
No wonder america is so screwed up, we got the govt controlling booze in 18 states. How bass-ackwards are you people to let the govt control something it has no business doing. Do all cigarrette packs go through govt warehouses to get taxed and resold? Do all cars? Why is alcohol so special?
I'm thinking there is a huge market for college kids. Get a $30/mo pay plan (or even pay-as-you-go), and assuming that the college campus is wifi-enabled you could drastically reduce the amount of time billed to the traditional phone company. Most of their time is spent on campus anyways, and it could cut down on their phone budget a lot.
I dont see cell phones that are only 802.11 going anywhere anytime soon, but I do see dual mode phones taking the market. Making a call via 802.11 when available and using the normal cell phone network when 802.11 is too busy or unreliable.
The only real thing I see driving HD size up in the next few years is Tivos and HD PVRs. A 250GB drive will store about 30-40 hours of HD Video (HD MPEG2 bitrates: 1080i = 18Mbit/s, 720p = 14Mbit/s). For people to get 80-100 hours of HD, they'd need roughly 600GB of HD space. Two 300s would provide that. And believe me, there are people who want to store 100 hours (and more) of TV shows, check out Weaknees.
Sony has changed the process once already on the PS2. Initally, when the PS2 orignally came out it was built on the 180nm fabrication process. Then it switched over to 130nm, and now 90nm. The whole goal is to reduce the number of discrete chips in the PS2. Same functions, fewer chips. Remember there is an entire PS1 is on one chip in the PS2. Fewer chips = cheaper (per unit) to produce.
Plus with the PSX coming out soon, the fewer chips that take care of the PS2 functions, the more room on the PCB for the other functions, like TV Tuner hardware, stuff to control the DVD-R, etc.
To switch between computers for my one keyboard, mouse, monitor. KVM switches are sweet... scroll-lock, scroll-lock, up.
Yea, Vegas has always been the bastard child of Cox's HSD system because it was once owned by a company called Prime Cable, so we had CM service through prime cable, then through Cox. But I really think the pricing scheme here works out really well. $30/mo is good for those who want always on but want to save the $10/mo, For a while the $30/mo plan was $27, and tons of people signed on, but cox got greedy and raised it to $30. What a surprise....
Plus the guy who runs broadband here knows what he is doing. He is a good guy... except for he is always on vacation...