Don't confuse Nokia handsets with Nokia. Nokia itself is alive and well and had about $25 billion in revenue last year. The handset business was spun off to Microsoft because Microsoft was willing to write a big check. Making money on handsets is pretty hard if you don't have either a walled garden store (Apple) or make the actual components like processors, memory, screens (Samsung). Otherwise margins are very thin relative to Nokia's actual network products aimed at carriers.
I think that has more to do with it being full of Norwegians. This also is effective strategy in Lake Wobegon, where the children are all above average.
Synthetic Sapphire (Corundum) crystal is very hard and scratch resistant, but also very brittle. I would expect it to be inferior to Corning's solution unless it was much thicker.
All of Google's employees in Spain are paying taxes. I'm sure there are a dozen other way that Spain is getting some Euros out of google. They're just not getting as much as they would like. Spain is trying to maximize the tax revenue, Google is trying to minimize the tax expense. Normally that wouldn't be a problem but tax law is so complex that there are wild differences between that min and max based on buying things in the right places, registering things in the right way. If tax code were simpler the difference between the min and max would be smaller and people wouldn't get so bitter about this shit.
This is true even of over the air digital TV. A digital signal has to buffer to the next I-Frame before it will start playing, and will never change as fast as an old analog TV. TWC might have worse delay than usual depending on their multicast / unicast setup and whether they are using D servers for quick channel change and where those D servers are located.
There are probably only 2 or 4 working fibers in the cable, due to amplifier space and power limitations. That's 80 or 160 OTU4s per pair, which is pretty easy to do with modern equipment.
The major carriers collude with the US and UK and allow them to just connect directly into the 10GigE payloads as they come out of the equipment in the landing stations. Nothing but commodity network equipment involved. Theoretically FB and MS could prevent that if they own the cable.
Every residential ISP network is overbooked. If it wasn't you couldn't afford it. AT&T's is more overbooked than most, because they prioritize investment in their mobile network because it's less regulated and more profitable.
if you're selling 75mbps on a monthly account the cap needs to be 75 * number of seconds in a month
You can get that, but you'll be paying closer to $1,000 per month. The only reason normal people can afford retail internet connections is because they are oversubscribed. The wholesale cost of bandwidth is counter-intuitively many times more expensive than the retail cost.
The Withings Activite uses a lithium button cell that lasts for months and costs less than a dollar a piece. It's not a full blown smart watch, more of a health monitor with some analog feedback on the dial. It does seem like the least ugly and most practical wearable available right now. I was considering buying one, but I like the dumbwatch I already have. I agree with you on battery tech. I wouldn't be able to stand having to charge my phone and my watch every day.
You can't get that because it's not how DSL works. ADSL has dedicated frequencies for upstream and down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... With those speeds though, you're probably on ADSL2+ which has more frequency available downstream, but basically the same upstream max as ADSL. VDSL2 could support higher down and upstream speeds, but Fairpoint would have to change out the equipment on their end and that would cost a lot more than $30,000. Depending on the vendor and size, a DSLAM can easily get into six figures just for the hardware itself.
Also, fiber's just as durable as copper and is frequently buried in conduit in urban or storm prone areas. The only downside is that it takes a little bit longer to repair if it does get cut.
Politics isn't supposed to be a for-profit exercise. Also, do you think Hillary is paying taxes on all the money she's getting from Wall Street, China, Saudi Arabia et cetera?
/dev/random slows way way down after a few megabits when it runs out of seeded random numbers pulled from mouse movements or whatever. Been a while since I read up on it./dev/zero is much much faster for filling up hard drives et cetera.
Technically it is both POTS and VOIP. There are plenty of people doing POTS from ONTs, with SIP on the network side. I'm sitting in a lab full of them. To the user it's an old school 2 wire POTS line. On the network it's just SIP traffic on a separate VLAN. However, Google currently uses some kind of home grown ONT that's just a simple single Ethernet port encapsulated onto the GPON WAN. More complex ONTs can do POTS, Ethernet, T1s and RF video from a single device.
From the Google FAQ
Can I use my existing home phone hardware with Fiber Phone? Yes. Fiber Phone includes a conventional phone jack that’s compatible with nearly all home phones. Please note that rotary dial phones and some older push-button phones do not work with Fiber Phone.
I agree that were Republicans in charge of the executive branch, they would be using the same heavy handed tactics. That still doesn't excuse the current administration for their increasing brown-shirtedness. Everything the FBI and NSA do, they do with Obama's blessing. Obama would like us to believe Snowden and Apple are the problem, when they are actually the solution.
In the meantime Apple is working on doubling down on their encryption by also encrypting the iCloud data based on the key on the device. I've never owned an Apple product in my life, but I'm thinking about it now. It's good to see someone standing up to the growing police state, even if the only presidential candidate that even hinted at opposing it just dropped out.
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Don't confuse Nokia handsets with Nokia. Nokia itself is alive and well and had about $25 billion in revenue last year. The handset business was spun off to Microsoft because Microsoft was willing to write a big check. Making money on handsets is pretty hard if you don't have either a walled garden store (Apple) or make the actual components like processors, memory, screens (Samsung). Otherwise margins are very thin relative to Nokia's actual network products aimed at carriers.
I think that has more to do with it being full of Norwegians. This also is effective strategy in Lake Wobegon, where the children are all above average.
Synthetic Sapphire (Corundum) crystal is very hard and scratch resistant, but also very brittle. I would expect it to be inferior to Corning's solution unless it was much thicker.
According to an article I read yesterday, when the Nokia (Non-Microsoft) phones come out in 6 months or so they will be based on polycarbonate frames.
All of Google's employees in Spain are paying taxes. I'm sure there are a dozen other way that Spain is getting some Euros out of google. They're just not getting as much as they would like. Spain is trying to maximize the tax revenue, Google is trying to minimize the tax expense. Normally that wouldn't be a problem but tax law is so complex that there are wild differences between that min and max based on buying things in the right places, registering things in the right way. If tax code were simpler the difference between the min and max would be smaller and people wouldn't get so bitter about this shit.
You did the math right. 5 microseconds is what I use at work because that also will cover the electronics, transponders, OTN switches, et cetera.
Horseshit. See here
No, hysteria aside these are still some of the most efficient and reliable cars you can buy and the average used prices still reflect that.
...the NRA did a thorough investigation, and didn't find a conservative bias.
This is true even of over the air digital TV. A digital signal has to buffer to the next I-Frame before it will start playing, and will never change as fast as an old analog TV. TWC might have worse delay than usual depending on their multicast / unicast setup and whether they are using D servers for quick channel change and where those D servers are located.
There are probably only 2 or 4 working fibers in the cable, due to amplifier space and power limitations. That's 80 or 160 OTU4s per pair, which is pretty easy to do with modern equipment.
The major carriers collude with the US and UK and allow them to just connect directly into the 10GigE payloads as they come out of the equipment in the landing stations. Nothing but commodity network equipment involved. Theoretically FB and MS could prevent that if they own the cable.
Every residential ISP network is overbooked. If it wasn't you couldn't afford it. AT&T's is more overbooked than most, because they prioritize investment in their mobile network because it's less regulated and more profitable.
if you're selling 75mbps on a monthly account the cap needs to be 75 * number of seconds in a month
You can get that, but you'll be paying closer to $1,000 per month. The only reason normal people can afford retail internet connections is because they are oversubscribed. The wholesale cost of bandwidth is counter-intuitively many times more expensive than the retail cost.
Gigabits. In telecom we don't measure line rate in bytes. Bytes only come into discussion when talking about framing.
The Withings Activite uses a lithium button cell that lasts for months and costs less than a dollar a piece. It's not a full blown smart watch, more of a health monitor with some analog feedback on the dial. It does seem like the least ugly and most practical wearable available right now. I was considering buying one, but I like the dumbwatch I already have. I agree with you on battery tech. I wouldn't be able to stand having to charge my phone and my watch every day.
Capitalism is by definition private ownership of the means of production. Not whatever t-shirt driven definition you have in your head.
You can't get that because it's not how DSL works. ADSL has dedicated frequencies for upstream and down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
With those speeds though, you're probably on ADSL2+ which has more frequency available downstream, but basically the same upstream max as ADSL.
VDSL2 could support higher down and upstream speeds, but Fairpoint would have to change out the equipment on their end and that would cost a lot more than $30,000. Depending on the vendor and size, a DSLAM can easily get into six figures just for the hardware itself.
Also, fiber's just as durable as copper and is frequently buried in conduit in urban or storm prone areas. The only downside is that it takes a little bit longer to repair if it does get cut.
Between the network switches it's all SS7. If you have access to that, you have access to all telephony. It's a bit like BGP in the IP world.
Politics isn't supposed to be a for-profit exercise. Also, do you think Hillary is paying taxes on all the money she's getting from Wall Street, China, Saudi Arabia et cetera?
/dev/random slows way way down after a few megabits when it runs out of seeded random numbers pulled from mouse movements or whatever. Been a while since I read up on it. /dev/zero is much much faster for filling up hard drives et cetera.
In keeping with your lack of user ID you seem to have no idea what you're talking about.
Technically it is both POTS and VOIP. There are plenty of people doing POTS from ONTs, with SIP on the network side. I'm sitting in a lab full of them. To the user it's an old school 2 wire POTS line. On the network it's just SIP traffic on a separate VLAN. However, Google currently uses some kind of home grown ONT that's just a simple single Ethernet port encapsulated onto the GPON WAN. More complex ONTs can do POTS, Ethernet, T1s and RF video from a single device.
From the Google FAQ
Can I use my existing home phone hardware with Fiber Phone?
Yes. Fiber Phone includes a conventional phone jack that’s compatible with nearly all home phones. Please note that rotary dial phones and some older push-button phones do not work with Fiber Phone.
I agree that were Republicans in charge of the executive branch, they would be using the same heavy handed tactics. That still doesn't excuse the current administration for their increasing brown-shirtedness. Everything the FBI and NSA do, they do with Obama's blessing. Obama would like us to believe Snowden and Apple are the problem, when they are actually the solution.
In the meantime Apple is working on doubling down on their encryption by also encrypting the iCloud data based on the key on the device.
I've never owned an Apple product in my life, but I'm thinking about it now. It's good to see someone standing up to the growing police state, even if the only presidential candidate that even hinted at opposing it just dropped out.