This would apply to Netflix, yes. But after years of supporting tiny Wireless ISPs in rural north-east Argentina, where you can get a 4MBIT (that is correct) connection for $100 to $200 per megabit (yes, that's $400-$800 a month for 4 mbit/s), i can tell you two things:
1. 80% of traffic is Youtube (measured myself) 2. Google goes above and beyond to make youtube uncacheable. There were some solutions (Thundercache, a set of scripts for Squid developed by a sleazy brazilian company that will license this by either a paid subscription or ad injection) that required constant tuning and updating. The final blow was moving everything to HTTPS which made all google and facebook services uncacheable.
I don't know why Google does this, though. They also don't make it easy for smaller ISPs to host Youtube cache boxes (they do for very, very large ones only).
Argentina's previous work minister said in a meeting with businessmen: "wait, so you don't check your potential employees facebook before hiring? I can't believe it!" Link: http://www.cronista.com/3dias/...
It's not anecdotical man. It's how it is.
YOUR experience ("no one checked my facebook before hiring me") is anecdotical.
People are moving from facebook... you're thinking of teenagers, because mom and dad are in facebook. I get more likes for my shop on instagram nowadays, not from facebook. But you wouldn't know about instagram or snapchat, right, grandpa?
Social media is here to stay. Sorry. This is the Dark Ages - people have become consumers, not producers. Web 2.0 is dead, and has been dead for a decade. Web 3.0 is here, and it's all about likes and comments, and not about producing comment.
And it's getting worse: People no longer own computers. They have everything they need in their tiny personal screen. computers are stripped down laptops (chromebook) and the PC is retreating back to its original setting: the office. People no longer want computers at home. They break, and get viruses. Only late teens want expensive gaming computers.
Really, man. It's sad that this is where we're going.
OK, so, take a moment, and look at yourself. What do you see? A fucking nerd. You're less than 1%. No company cares about you and your script blocking. No one gives a shit about you. No one will be bothered to cater to fucking nerds like you, except maybe other nerds. Sorry man, but that's how it is. You see, web 3.0 jerks develop only for chrome "because no one uses firefox anymore". And we're talking 10% of the browser market. Do you really think people care about you and your script blocking? Simple: no. I'm a programmer and at my office my fellow coders don't even know what adblock is.
I have a shop. I sell comic books, and pay taxes. So, I'm an actual business. My facebook page has way (WAY) more traffic than my website, because people are on facebook ALL DAY. And facebook is showing them my posts. They are not checking my website all the time.
You're just a special little geek snowflake. You're not representative of the general population.
Get your head off your ass. I hate facebook more than you (I have to pay REAL MONEY to them), but i don't go around saying bullshit like "hurr durr if you're a real company you have your own website".
I live in Argentina. We tried this experiment over the past 12 years. You know what happened? We still got imported products, by a company that hired people to put these products in a box and slap a "INDUSTRIA ARGENTINA" sticker on them. And charging 300% more than what the same product costs outside the country.
Protectionism is also abused by those protected by it, to keep the status quo.
If you think "legal logic" works like in TV, or debate class, where you can claim "OH, BUT TECHINICALLY..." and win the case, you're in for a surprise.
All those "expensive" connections are just expensive because of the SLA. Nothing else. No bandwidth is guaranteed outside the provider's network. In fact, "business" grade connections (that is, business DSL, or business Cable) is just the same as regular DSL or cable, you just pay a premium for support, and if you're lucky, the ability of having a static IP. Nothing else.
Re: support. The people at the call center for "business" have a little better training, I know because I've dealt with them and it's really not the same as "home" support lines... also I happen to work at one of those call centers, and while I'm not a service rep, I know they have different areas for business support. Usually you have less waiting time as well.
This. My cable company + ISP gives me a 50% discount if I bundle both services. That is, 800 Argentine pesos for cable and 800 for 30/3 internet. If I buy both together it's a 50% discount for a grand total of 800 pesos... (about USD 53).
But firefox usage isn't going down for technical reasons. It's simply going down because Google shoves chrome down your throat on every fucking web impression. No one has that kind of advertising money... except google, who controls the advertising media.
I don't think you realize that banks, DO INDEED move truckloads of cash. If I give you a check for $5M dollars, it's not just bytes moving around in a database. Banks often swap actual, physical money.
They're crooks. And they treat each other like crooks. No bank trusts another bank.
This is very much a problem. Most people see inflation as a negative thing. The negative thing here is the limited supply of wealth. A currency like Bitcoin which can't be devaluated is terrible: it's the end game of capitalism. It will become a game of "winner takes all"... much like most rich countries own most of the wealth in the world. With bitcoin, they literally would.
In my city (Resistencia, Argentina) google has *ALL* of the house numbers wrong. "Even numbers on the right hand, odd numbers on the left" is the standard. But google, for some reason, has the opposite. So, Google Street View shows my business as the house across the street.
Of course, GOOD FUCKING LUCK trying to change that.
are you really comparing the cost of software as an advantage, and not the fact that the west has faster internet, more reliable power, clean water, less disease, much less poverty, better transport....etc, etc, etc?
I'm getting this error consistently today in most, if not all, of the videos I tried to watch. It goes away after 10 seconds or so, by itself, if you leave the page open.
Youtube red is not all about copyright. It's about offline videos, ad-free experience and "youtube original" series and movies. None of which need any sort of copyright and shit. And, you know, google has thousands of employees. Many of them in my country, since 2006 (http://www.cuitonline.com/detalle/33709585229/google-argentina-s.r.l.html) so yeah, I guess google *CAN* do all of that at the same time. As for copyright... COME ON! Google is a den of piracy. It's full of TV series and songs that pay, in most cases, NOTHING to the copyright holders. They kinda, sorta take down these vids from time to time. But have you seen how quick google is to delete copyright video, and how quickly they delete porn? Yeah.
"YouTube Red is not currently available in Argentina". If youtube doesn't care about offering their paid service in my country, it means they don't want my money. If they don't want my money, then I won't see their ads either.
And then sit back and watch a video... until BAM, a banner pops up, which you have to close manually. Youtube is becoming TV very quick. It's just a matter of time until they start overlaying countdowns: "NEW SEASON IN 49 days 23:33:42..."
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This would apply to Netflix, yes. But after years of supporting tiny Wireless ISPs in rural north-east Argentina, where you can get a 4MBIT (that is correct) connection for $100 to $200 per megabit (yes, that's $400-$800 a month for 4 mbit/s), i can tell you two things:
1. 80% of traffic is Youtube (measured myself)
2. Google goes above and beyond to make youtube uncacheable. There were some solutions (Thundercache, a set of scripts for Squid developed by a sleazy brazilian company that will license this by either a paid subscription or ad injection) that required constant tuning and updating. The final blow was moving everything to HTTPS which made all google and facebook services uncacheable.
I don't know why Google does this, though. They also don't make it easy for smaller ISPs to host Youtube cache boxes (they do for very, very large ones only).
Do you really think that comment invalidates my point?
Argentina's previous work minister said in a meeting with businessmen: "wait, so you don't check your potential employees facebook before hiring? I can't believe it!" Link: http://www.cronista.com/3dias/...
It's not anecdotical man. It's how it is.
YOUR experience ("no one checked my facebook before hiring me") is anecdotical.
Let that sink in.
People are moving from facebook... you're thinking of teenagers, because mom and dad are in facebook. I get more likes for my shop on instagram nowadays, not from facebook. But you wouldn't know about instagram or snapchat, right, grandpa?
Social media is here to stay. Sorry. This is the Dark Ages - people have become consumers, not producers. Web 2.0 is dead, and has been dead for a decade. Web 3.0 is here, and it's all about likes and comments, and not about producing comment.
And it's getting worse: People no longer own computers. They have everything they need in their tiny personal screen. computers are stripped down laptops (chromebook) and the PC is retreating back to its original setting: the office. People no longer want computers at home. They break, and get viruses. Only late teens want expensive gaming computers.
Really, man. It's sad that this is where we're going.
OK, so, take a moment, and look at yourself. What do you see? A fucking nerd. You're less than 1%. No company cares about you and your script blocking. No one gives a shit about you. No one will be bothered to cater to fucking nerds like you, except maybe other nerds.
Sorry man, but that's how it is. You see, web 3.0 jerks develop only for chrome "because no one uses firefox anymore". And we're talking 10% of the browser market. Do you really think people care about you and your script blocking?
Simple: no.
I'm a programmer and at my office my fellow coders don't even know what adblock is.
I have a shop. I sell comic books, and pay taxes. So, I'm an actual business. My facebook page has way (WAY) more traffic than my website, because people are on facebook ALL DAY. And facebook is showing them my posts. They are not checking my website all the time.
You're just a special little geek snowflake. You're not representative of the general population.
Get your head off your ass. I hate facebook more than you (I have to pay REAL MONEY to them), but i don't go around saying bullshit like "hurr durr if you're a real company you have your own website".
I live in Argentina. We tried this experiment over the past 12 years. You know what happened? We still got imported products, by a company that hired people to put these products in a box and slap a "INDUSTRIA ARGENTINA" sticker on them. And charging 300% more than what the same product costs outside the country.
Protectionism is also abused by those protected by it, to keep the status quo.
If you think "legal logic" works like in TV, or debate class, where you can claim "OH, BUT TECHINICALLY..." and win the case, you're in for a surprise.
That's pretty much the problem. Sticking to the letter of the law instead of the spirit of the law.
All those "expensive" connections are just expensive because of the SLA. Nothing else. No bandwidth is guaranteed outside the provider's network.
In fact, "business" grade connections (that is, business DSL, or business Cable) is just the same as regular DSL or cable, you just pay a premium for support, and if you're lucky, the ability of having a static IP. Nothing else.
Re: support. The people at the call center for "business" have a little better training, I know because I've dealt with them and it's really not the same as "home" support lines... also I happen to work at one of those call centers, and while I'm not a service rep, I know they have different areas for business support. Usually you have less waiting time as well.
This. My cable company + ISP gives me a 50% discount if I bundle both services.
That is, 800 Argentine pesos for cable and 800 for 30/3 internet. If I buy both together it's a 50% discount for a grand total of 800 pesos... (about USD 53).
Lightroom whines that I don't have Quicktime installed if I try to import a folder from my camera that has MOV files in it.
Well aren't you a special little snowflake!
But firefox usage isn't going down for technical reasons. It's simply going down because Google shoves chrome down your throat on every fucking web impression. No one has that kind of advertising money... except google, who controls the advertising media.
I don't think you realize that banks, DO INDEED move truckloads of cash. If I give you a check for $5M dollars, it's not just bytes moving around in a database. Banks often swap actual, physical money.
They're crooks. And they treat each other like crooks. No bank trusts another bank.
let's be realistic: most of the power used by big banks is air conditioning and lighting for their offices...
This is very much a problem. Most people see inflation as a negative thing. The negative thing here is the limited supply of wealth. A currency like Bitcoin which can't be devaluated is terrible: it's the end game of capitalism. It will become a game of "winner takes all"... much like most rich countries own most of the wealth in the world. With bitcoin, they literally would.
I already have, but still no answer. I can move the marker on my business though.
In my city (Resistencia, Argentina) google has *ALL* of the house numbers wrong. "Even numbers on the right hand, odd numbers on the left" is the standard. But google, for some reason, has the opposite. So, Google Street View shows my business as the house across the street.
Of course, GOOD FUCKING LUCK trying to change that.
are you really comparing the cost of software as an advantage, and not the fact that the west has faster internet, more reliable power, clean water, less disease, much less poverty, better transport....etc, etc, etc?
I'm getting this error consistently today in most, if not all, of the videos I tried to watch. It goes away after 10 seconds or so, by itself, if you leave the page open.
Youtube red is not all about copyright. It's about offline videos, ad-free experience and "youtube original" series and movies. None of which need any sort of copyright and shit.
And, you know, google has thousands of employees. Many of them in my country, since 2006 (http://www.cuitonline.com/detalle/33709585229/google-argentina-s.r.l.html) so yeah, I guess google *CAN* do all of that at the same time.
As for copyright... COME ON! Google is a den of piracy. It's full of TV series and songs that pay, in most cases, NOTHING to the copyright holders. They kinda, sorta take down these vids from time to time. But have you seen how quick google is to delete copyright video, and how quickly they delete porn? Yeah.
"YouTube Red is not currently available in Argentina".
If youtube doesn't care about offering their paid service in my country, it means they don't want my money. If they don't want my money, then I won't see their ads either.
Fuck google.
Ublock Origin on Firefox. I get the error message.
And then sit back and watch a video... until BAM, a banner pops up, which you have to close manually. Youtube is becoming TV very quick. It's just a matter of time until they start overlaying countdowns: "NEW SEASON IN 49 days 23:33:42..."