Sherman, set the Wayback...
"Yes, we know laptops like the ThinkPad are the wave of the future and that PCs are dead. But some of us see laptops as PCs with their keyboards and monitors attached and a few thousand bucks tacked onto the price."
Yet, here we are, at least a decade later, and laptops, although they outsell desktops, are not the only computers around. New tech rarely completely eliminates the old. Yes, 8-tracks are history, but vinyl and cassettes are still around and are seeing a resurgence. When it comes to technology death sentences, I wait until the body is cold.
This will be as successful as the RIAA lawsuits, for much of the same reasons.
The people using the "5%" of the bandwidth most likely fall into the following categories:
People hosting web sites/servers (few)
People using legit streaming media (a few more)
People sharing files legally, such as Linux distributions (a few)
People sharing music, movies, and the like illegally. (majority)
Three of these four groups are doing what they are doing because they don't like to pay for more that they have to, or at all in some cases.
Doesn't want to pay for hosting when they have perfectly good hardware at home.
Many like the ease of downloading media.
Freely available, open source software. They don't want to pay Micro$oft, so why would they want to pay for bandwidth caps?
This one is obvious.
The problem is that technology is constantly changing, and the push is for removal of limits. Heck, Korea has faster average bandwidth than we do in the US. Even Belgium is ahead of us in that department.
This smacks of Time Warner using area-monopolies to increase their profits.
What is an area monopoly, you ask?
In many areas, the cable companies have colluded to price fix the market. For example, in Indianapolis, where I live, they have carved up the city into various areas. No two cable companies exist in the same areas of the city, meaning that consumers have the choice of cable, satellite, or AT&T. You can't pick and choose your cable provider, except by where you live.
This allows them to charge whatever they like for services. About two years ago, I moved from one location to another within the same cable company's service area. They charged me $180 to move the service, even though they did not replace the modem or cable box, the technician was incompetent to the level that I had to step in and finish the install, and they nixed their promotional pricing because, although I had a few months left on the promotion, because I wasn't a "new customer" at the new location, they did not feel obliged to live up to their end of the deal.
This is normal here, because Comcast and Brighthouse have carved up this market like a Thanksgiving turkey.
For many years, Comcast was better with customers and reliability, but that has been changing.
What I find ironic is that the market for television is shifting so that consumers do have viable options. The problem is that unless you want to pay more for DSL's limited service, you are pretty much at the cable companies' whims.
Luckily for me, I am in the Brighthouse network now. Same high price, but at least they have good service. I get ~4mbs down now, although late at night it can peak pretty high.
So, what is the result of this? AT&T, Verizon and the like, which were fighting an uphill battle to reopen the data market despite backing the loosing horse of residential DSL, ends up being handed customers through this approach.
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Sherman, set the Wayback... "Yes, we know laptops like the ThinkPad are the wave of the future and that PCs are dead. But some of us see laptops as PCs with their keyboards and monitors attached and a few thousand bucks tacked onto the price." Yet, here we are, at least a decade later, and laptops, although they outsell desktops, are not the only computers around. New tech rarely completely eliminates the old. Yes, 8-tracks are history, but vinyl and cassettes are still around and are seeing a resurgence. When it comes to technology death sentences, I wait until the body is cold.
Obvious Spin.
Come on. I'll believe it when I see it from an independant source.
This will be as successful as the RIAA lawsuits, for much of the same reasons.
The people using the "5%" of the bandwidth most likely fall into the following categories:
Three of these four groups are doing what they are doing because they don't like to pay for more that they have to, or at all in some cases.
The problem is that technology is constantly changing, and the push is for removal of limits. Heck, Korea has faster average bandwidth than we do in the US. Even Belgium is ahead of us in that department.
This smacks of Time Warner using area-monopolies to increase their profits.
What is an area monopoly, you ask?
In many areas, the cable companies have colluded to price fix the market. For example, in Indianapolis, where I live, they have carved up the city into various areas. No two cable companies exist in the same areas of the city, meaning that consumers have the choice of cable, satellite, or AT&T. You can't pick and choose your cable provider, except by where you live.
This allows them to charge whatever they like for services. About two years ago, I moved from one location to another within the same cable company's service area. They charged me $180 to move the service, even though they did not replace the modem or cable box, the technician was incompetent to the level that I had to step in and finish the install, and they nixed their promotional pricing because, although I had a few months left on the promotion, because I wasn't a "new customer" at the new location, they did not feel obliged to live up to their end of the deal.
This is normal here, because Comcast and Brighthouse have carved up this market like a Thanksgiving turkey.
For many years, Comcast was better with customers and reliability, but that has been changing.
What I find ironic is that the market for television is shifting so that consumers do have viable options. The problem is that unless you want to pay more for DSL's limited service, you are pretty much at the cable companies' whims.
Luckily for me, I am in the Brighthouse network now. Same high price, but at least they have good service. I get ~4mbs down now, although late at night it can peak pretty high.
So, what is the result of this? AT&T, Verizon and the like, which were fighting an uphill battle to reopen the data market despite backing the loosing horse of residential DSL, ends up being handed customers through this approach.
The author has also stated that books are wasted space in libraries, food is the hobbling point of cooking, and words are cluttering up language.