No because the non-sense about crushed universe is just that, non-sense. They're just using the press about the Higgs Boson to push a far fetched idea.
THANK YOU! The ISP portion should be spun off. Comcast's merger with Time Warner is all about competing against Netflix in the video on demand service. Since they control the pipes to and from Netflix, we and Netflix get screwed.
You mean more than it already is...try again Zippy. FYI those regulations are brought you by lobbyists representing large corporations. Why do you think the derivatives market remains un-regulated.
Exactly! The problem is he's ignoring the HUGE political obstacle to reclassification of ISPs as common carries. That's pretty much a non starter. But there is some political support for NOT double charging people. Netflix pays for access, you pay for access but Comcast wants to charge you a second and third time for access to Netflix. The irony is it has nothing to do with bandwidth and everything to do with Netflix competing against Comcast's video on demand service. By forcing Netflix to charge more for its service Comcast can offer a cheaper video on demand service.
Yo douche bag. It was $2 Trillion and counting not $500 million. So yes it would be worth the bank going under. More importantly the Fed would not be on the hook. The FDIC could come in, take over the failed bank, restructure and send it on its way. So the Fed would not have to cover all deposits and investors would have had to take a loss (as they should have) as opposed to having their investment guaranteed.
The situation is unchanged today. The Too Big To Fail banks are still there, unregulated. They need to be broken up. Glass Steagal needs to be reinstated to prevent investment banks from being merged with depositor banks.
Focusing on the line that says "rewarding teachers who support girls who take CS courses on Codecademy or Khan Academy." Why should that matter? If they take a CS course from somewhere else does that mean they don't qualify? Seems more like drummed up business then actually caring about driving interest in CS.
Not a good analogy because a computer power supply is based on the components in the computer case. So if you have an 8 core processor, 32 GB of ram, dual graphics cards, a bunch of hard drives, and fans to cool it all down, you can be using several hundred watts.
Because it's written on the box. So if you have a problem with that take it up with the manufacture. But the point was it consumes 35 watts.
"A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. The devices use nearly as much power turned off as they do when they are turned on."
But I guess that worked against your argument. So you just stopped at the 3rd paragraph.
And you have other devices that use electricity, which replaced your cable box - a 5th grader would have picked up on that.
So you really are a newbie aren't you. See when people cut the cord, they buy a real antenna http://www.solidsignal.com/pvi... which is mounted on the roof, and get a rotator and a preamp. They also might buy a dvr to record TV, which they would keep on in order to record the program.
But I guess you think everyone should live the way you do. Wow.
Then the article goes on to say: "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. The devices use nearly as much power turned off as they do when they are turned on."
So what you are saying is you stopped reading the article after the 3rd paragraph. Wow. Way to stay informed.
For how long? A month? A week? A day? An hour? Duration is very important. The point of the article, which people can't seem to grasp, cable boxes are not energy efficient like other electronic devices and are on 24/7, which would mean making them energy efficient would save people money .
???? What pass through for what device? A DVR is not an a/v receiver. They do not drive speakers nor do they drive TVs. Jesus Christ people read the freaking article and check out your owners manual.
RTFA: "Cheryl Williamsen, a Los Alamitos architect, has three of the boxes leased from her cable provider in her home, but she had no idea how much power they consumed until recently, when she saw a rating on the back for as much as 500 watts — about the same as a washing machine."
"A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. The devices use nearly as much power turned off as they do when they are turned on."
So for the cognitively impaired, a cable subscriber noted the cable box was rated at 500 watts. The article did not state that it consumed 500 watts. Then the article went on to say tha a DVR can consume as much as 35 watts of powering per month which would cost Southern California consumer $8/month.
Pretty easy to understand when you READ THE FUDGING ARTICLE.
Your Refrigerator is not constantly running. It runs when it is actively cooling, you know when the compressor kicks in. The compressor is not running all the time. People don't think.
And the article said, wait for it "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. " Funny when you actually read the article how you find things out.
RTFA: "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. " So I guess reading is an issue for you.
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No because the non-sense about crushed universe is just that, non-sense. They're just using the press about the Higgs Boson to push a far fetched idea.
The only people who were disparaging manufacturing jobs were corporations who moved them overseas.
LMOL - right...business will continue to fight regulations that protect people and avoid paying taxes that pay for services that they uses...
Spoken like a true dweeb who doesn't know the working conditions.
$200/month. You could do it. Cable prices are getting to that point.
THANK YOU! The ISP portion should be spun off. Comcast's merger with Time Warner is all about competing against Netflix in the video on demand service. Since they control the pipes to and from Netflix, we and Netflix get screwed.
You mean what we have now. Awesome we can even more for crappy service. Pinhead.
You mean more than it already is...try again Zippy. FYI those regulations are brought you by lobbyists representing large corporations. Why do you think the derivatives market remains un-regulated.
Exactly! The problem is he's ignoring the HUGE political obstacle to reclassification of ISPs as common carries. That's pretty much a non starter. But there is some political support for NOT double charging people. Netflix pays for access, you pay for access but Comcast wants to charge you a second and third time for access to Netflix. The irony is it has nothing to do with bandwidth and everything to do with Netflix competing against Comcast's video on demand service. By forcing Netflix to charge more for its service Comcast can offer a cheaper video on demand service.
The author fails to grasp what is happening.
How are they not considered a terrorist organization.......
Yo douche bag. It was $2 Trillion and counting not $500 million. So yes it would be worth the bank going under. More importantly the Fed would not be on the hook. The FDIC could come in, take over the failed bank, restructure and send it on its way. So the Fed would not have to cover all deposits and investors would have had to take a loss (as they should have) as opposed to having their investment guaranteed.
The situation is unchanged today. The Too Big To Fail banks are still there, unregulated. They need to be broken up. Glass Steagal needs to be reinstated to prevent investment banks from being merged with depositor banks.
Really? What did he say?
Focusing on the line that says "rewarding teachers who support girls who take CS courses on Codecademy or Khan Academy." Why should that matter? If they take a CS course from somewhere else does that mean they don't qualify? Seems more like drummed up business then actually caring about driving interest in CS.
Not a good analogy because a computer power supply is based on the components in the computer case. So if you have an 8 core processor, 32 GB of ram, dual graphics cards, a bunch of hard drives, and fans to cool it all down, you can be using several hundred watts.
Because it's written on the box. So if you have a problem with that take it up with the manufacture. But the point was it consumes 35 watts.
"A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. The devices use nearly as much power turned off as they do when they are turned on."
But I guess that worked against your argument. So you just stopped at the 3rd paragraph.
Right it consumes 35 watts, which is what the article went on to say.
And you have other devices that use electricity, which replaced your cable box - a 5th grader would have picked up on that.
So you really are a newbie aren't you. See when people cut the cord, they buy a real antenna http://www.solidsignal.com/pvi... which is mounted on the roof, and get a rotator and a preamp. They also might buy a dvr to record TV, which they would keep on in order to record the program.
But I guess you think everyone should live the way you do. Wow.
Then the article goes on to say: "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. The devices use nearly as much power turned off as they do when they are turned on."
So what you are saying is you stopped reading the article after the 3rd paragraph. Wow. Way to stay informed.
For how long? A month? A week? A day? An hour? Duration is very important. The point of the article, which people can't seem to grasp, cable boxes are not energy efficient like other electronic devices and are on 24/7, which would mean making them energy efficient would save people money .
???? What pass through for what device? A DVR is not an a/v receiver. They do not drive speakers nor do they drive TVs. Jesus Christ people read the freaking article and check out your owners manual.
RTFA: "Cheryl Williamsen, a Los Alamitos architect, has three of the boxes leased from her cable provider in her home, but she had no idea how much power they consumed until recently, when she saw a rating on the back for as much as 500 watts — about the same as a washing machine."
"A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. The devices use nearly as much power turned off as they do when they are turned on."
So for the cognitively impaired, a cable subscriber noted the cable box was rated at 500 watts. The article did not state that it consumed 500 watts. Then the article went on to say tha a DVR can consume as much as 35 watts of powering per month which would cost Southern California consumer $8/month.
Pretty easy to understand when you READ THE FUDGING ARTICLE.
Your Refrigerator is not constantly running. It runs when it is actively cooling, you know when the compressor kicks in. The compressor is not running all the time. People don't think.
And the article said, wait for it "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. " Funny when you actually read the article how you find things out.
Those are DVRs. Read the article. The fact that you can't turn them off is a problem to begin with.
RTFA: "A set-top cable box with a digital recorder can consume as much as 35 watts of power, costing about $8 a month for a typical Southern California consumer. " So I guess reading is an issue for you.