T-Mobile recently ran billboard ads in the Twin Cities claiming they now have 4x the coverage! Other providers can't do the same because you can't have in excess of 100% coverage. Only T-Mobile still had room to increase their coverage by 4x and STILL not be at 100%.
I don't see the issue there. They can only guarantee speed on their own network. The second you leave their network, they don't have control of those other factors.
Worked for a cable company years ago. School district customer with a fiber connection complained about speeds. Seems he thought he'd be able to download at 1000Mbit from anyone he liked. We went out and put the light gear on his connection and tested it. Speeds were perfect. He was seeing slowing off network. We don't control the routing of traffic outside our network nor do we control the speed of the servers you connect to. Sorry, that's just not how the internet works.
On average, American adults watch five hours and four minutes of television per day. That doesn't sound like most people just watching on a rainy day. It would seem that your own experience and those you know, don't represent the majority of Americans.
In order to even break even they have to attract the majority of the subscribers to their service. That's nearly impossible in an area that already has a decent reliable service.
While most here hate Comcast, the truth is that the majority of their customers are fine with the service they provide and won't bother switching. Is Google Fiber a bit faster and less expensive? Sure, that's not enough to get most fairly satisfied customers to switch. I'm positive there's better and cheaper car insurance than what you have now and yet you don't bother switching. The same is likely true with your cellphone plan/provider.
Google Fiber made their big push when Net Neutrality was coming under fire. With Obama in the White House, that threat lessened and they eased up on Fiber. Will the current administrations attack on it be enough to bring interest back for Google? Maybe. But I think they've realized it's simply too expensive and the ability to attract enough to even break even on the investment is nearly impossible. They can only have so many areas of the business bleeding millions/billions.
With the release of iOS 11 in Sept, all apps will have the option to allow location services only while the app is open. This would have stopped Uber from tracking people once they closed the app.
Nice move by Uber to get the publicity for doing something they'd be prevented from doing soon anyways, though not sure it was worth reminding people that they currently track you after you reach your destination.
Not really. If another cable company wanted to come into an area and build their service out, they certainly could petition the local government to do so. There are even a couple areas in the US that have dual cable systems.
The problem is that it's simply not worth the money for them to do it. With the expense of running their own cable lines throughout the city, we're talking more than a $1 billion investment in many cases. The headend alone can have more than $800 million worth of equipment.
That's a huge investment and then they have to compete with someone else for the customers? It doesn't make sense financially. Comcast, Time Warner, and others have traditionally purchased other providers because it makes much more sense to own an area then try to push into a new area and compete.
This is exactly why Google Fiber isn't going in more places. They aren't going to spend the money to go into an area and only be able to capture a small percentage of the market. The truth is that while many complain about the cable company, most users are happy with the service they provide. They aren't going to switch and as such, Google isn't going to spend all that money to capture say 20% of the existing Comcast customers in an area.
Ordered to pay the University of Wisconsin. By a judge who:
Bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin - Check
Juris Doctorate from University of Wisconsin - Check
This judge should have recluse himself from the case.
Adobe no longer updating Flash doesn't mean a lot. If a business hasn't switch thus far, they may not do so when Flash stops getting updates. Instead, we'll be left to using a no longer supported Flash with vulnerabilities (as always pop up with Flash) to access sites that don't invest in moving their sites to HTML5 or other modern options.
Is the author aware that when the little popup appears the first time you run an app and asks if you'd like to allow notifications from the app, you don't have to accept that, right?
Only a small number of my apps are allowed to send push notifications. A messaging app? Sure. A game? Nope.
Is most cases the fiber is already there. There's dark fiber all over the place across this country. Usually they simply purchased the existing fiber around the city and only had to lay the last mile service.
That's simply untrue. There are numerous cities around the US which have built their own. Generally the issue has been that most tax payers don't want to pay for the creation and maintenance of such systems. Even once they're launched it's unlikely a significant portion of the people in that city will switch, which means that they're still paying to keep the service running while getting no benefit in return. As such, in most cases the successful ventures have been cities picking a contracting company to take care of building their system and maintaining it, for profit.
A Minnesota judge hasn't upheld a non-compete in over 40 years. As long as you're not taking trade secrets with you, feel free to move to the competition.
Was drunkenly wandering home with a friend some years ago when 2 guys came out of an alley and tried to rob us. When the one got my wallet, he threw it back. "Man, this dude ain't got no money." I had plenty of credit cards, guess he should have stopped us BEFORE we went to the bar. In the end, we followed them while talking to the police. Cops showed up, arrested them both, and over time we were able to get both convicted of felony robbery.
We'e been selling software that exploits a hole in Linux which allows us to pull all kinds of fun information and elevate user privileges. It's been sold to government agencies since around 2008. Hasn't been patched and won't be unless they fundamentally change the way the OS functions.
The truth is that they're far more interested in hacking individual devices like phones and laptops, than the servers Linux typically runs on. Servers are easy to get a warrant for and the companies that own them must cooperate. Getting individuals to is far more difficult.
Google values page speed very highly and that value is only increasing. They're pushing AMP landing pages and converting ads to AMP too.
As a website owner, when Google gives priority to those that have AMP pages over those that don't, it's pretty hard to choose not to offer AMP. Look at the sites that chose not to become mobile-friendly back in 2014. They saw significant drop in rank and traffic. Most won't throw away that traffic just because they don't like everything about AMP.
Claim maintaining AMP pages is maintaining 2 versions if you like but for most it's done automatically. Few will have to manually maintain their responsive site and AMP site. WordPress runs a huge percentage of all websites and offers a WordPress-made plugin to automatically generate AMP pages, along with other plugins offering the same, plus native implementation is on the way in future versions.
The author claims comments can't be included on his site in the AMP version. AMP most certainly supports comments. His implementation just doesn't. Additionally, the vast majority of website content doesn't contain comments, so it's not a big issue for most, even if it was true that AMP didn't support it.
Strange. Facebook has been making a move to bring most of these apps back into the main app. They've tried standalone apps and outside the Messager app they've failed. They previously released a standalone camera app and it saw very little adoption so it was pulled from the app store. It'd be strange to see them try this route again after having failed previously.
I have an iPad 3 and it's a very very painful experience. I almost never use it because it's become so stupidly slow using iOS 9. It's EOL for sure. I would agree that the iPad Air would still be a perfectly fine tablet for what most are doing and it's a couple years old at this point.
Click-bait headline for sure.
Tablet sales as a whole are really hurting. It's not just Apple, it's everyone. No one is doing well in the tablet category right now. Seems they aren't getting most to replace their devices every year as they have been able to do with phones and most companies aren't on the same type of renewal cycles at this point as you see with computers.
While I get that cost of living needs to be included in salaries and is (the same position in SF pays more than in Iowa), it can't be fun for someone doing the same job as another person to know what their coworker gets $20,000 more a year because they live in an area with nicer houses and higher rent.
They do have some employees with kids and families, but it does seem the majority don't and travel pretty freely.
Buffer is a totally remote company so workers work from all over the globe, so commute times aren't part of it. But it does take into account where you live. If you choose to live in San Fran, you'll make more than if you choose to live in Iowa. From that standpoint, it kind of sucks that your coworker in LA gets paid more than you in Iowa, simply because he chooses to live in a place with higher average rent (even if he doesn't pay it), even if you both produce the same work.
They also encourage their employees to be digital nomads. Many of them spend much of their time traveling the world and aren't home a whole lot. So your best bet would be to claim residency in the most expensive city you can, in order to increase your pay, even if you're off traveling the world most of the time.
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Does the Bill of Rights protect non-US citizens? Are those rights granted to businesses?
T-Mobile recently ran billboard ads in the Twin Cities claiming they now have 4x the coverage! Other providers can't do the same because you can't have in excess of 100% coverage. Only T-Mobile still had room to increase their coverage by 4x and STILL not be at 100%.
I don't see the issue there. They can only guarantee speed on their own network. The second you leave their network, they don't have control of those other factors. Worked for a cable company years ago. School district customer with a fiber connection complained about speeds. Seems he thought he'd be able to download at 1000Mbit from anyone he liked. We went out and put the light gear on his connection and tested it. Speeds were perfect. He was seeing slowing off network. We don't control the routing of traffic outside our network nor do we control the speed of the servers you connect to. Sorry, that's just not how the internet works.
On average, American adults watch five hours and four minutes of television per day. That doesn't sound like most people just watching on a rainy day. It would seem that your own experience and those you know, don't represent the majority of Americans.
In order to even break even they have to attract the majority of the subscribers to their service. That's nearly impossible in an area that already has a decent reliable service. While most here hate Comcast, the truth is that the majority of their customers are fine with the service they provide and won't bother switching. Is Google Fiber a bit faster and less expensive? Sure, that's not enough to get most fairly satisfied customers to switch. I'm positive there's better and cheaper car insurance than what you have now and yet you don't bother switching. The same is likely true with your cellphone plan/provider. Google Fiber made their big push when Net Neutrality was coming under fire. With Obama in the White House, that threat lessened and they eased up on Fiber. Will the current administrations attack on it be enough to bring interest back for Google? Maybe. But I think they've realized it's simply too expensive and the ability to attract enough to even break even on the investment is nearly impossible. They can only have so many areas of the business bleeding millions/billions.
With the release of iOS 11 in Sept, all apps will have the option to allow location services only while the app is open. This would have stopped Uber from tracking people once they closed the app. Nice move by Uber to get the publicity for doing something they'd be prevented from doing soon anyways, though not sure it was worth reminding people that they currently track you after you reach your destination.
Not really. If another cable company wanted to come into an area and build their service out, they certainly could petition the local government to do so. There are even a couple areas in the US that have dual cable systems. The problem is that it's simply not worth the money for them to do it. With the expense of running their own cable lines throughout the city, we're talking more than a $1 billion investment in many cases. The headend alone can have more than $800 million worth of equipment. That's a huge investment and then they have to compete with someone else for the customers? It doesn't make sense financially. Comcast, Time Warner, and others have traditionally purchased other providers because it makes much more sense to own an area then try to push into a new area and compete. This is exactly why Google Fiber isn't going in more places. They aren't going to spend the money to go into an area and only be able to capture a small percentage of the market. The truth is that while many complain about the cable company, most users are happy with the service they provide. They aren't going to switch and as such, Google isn't going to spend all that money to capture say 20% of the existing Comcast customers in an area.
It never was a smart long-term investment. Even their stock symbol was an indication.
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High speed rail in China already goes 190-220mph. Exactly how is this better?
Ordered to pay the University of Wisconsin. By a judge who: Bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin - Check Juris Doctorate from University of Wisconsin - Check This judge should have recluse himself from the case.
Adobe no longer updating Flash doesn't mean a lot. If a business hasn't switch thus far, they may not do so when Flash stops getting updates. Instead, we'll be left to using a no longer supported Flash with vulnerabilities (as always pop up with Flash) to access sites that don't invest in moving their sites to HTML5 or other modern options.
Is the author aware that when the little popup appears the first time you run an app and asks if you'd like to allow notifications from the app, you don't have to accept that, right? Only a small number of my apps are allowed to send push notifications. A messaging app? Sure. A game? Nope.
Is most cases the fiber is already there. There's dark fiber all over the place across this country. Usually they simply purchased the existing fiber around the city and only had to lay the last mile service.
That's simply untrue. There are numerous cities around the US which have built their own. Generally the issue has been that most tax payers don't want to pay for the creation and maintenance of such systems. Even once they're launched it's unlikely a significant portion of the people in that city will switch, which means that they're still paying to keep the service running while getting no benefit in return. As such, in most cases the successful ventures have been cities picking a contracting company to take care of building their system and maintaining it, for profit.
A Minnesota judge hasn't upheld a non-compete in over 40 years. As long as you're not taking trade secrets with you, feel free to move to the competition.
Was drunkenly wandering home with a friend some years ago when 2 guys came out of an alley and tried to rob us. When the one got my wallet, he threw it back. "Man, this dude ain't got no money." I had plenty of credit cards, guess he should have stopped us BEFORE we went to the bar. In the end, we followed them while talking to the police. Cops showed up, arrested them both, and over time we were able to get both convicted of felony robbery.
We'e been selling software that exploits a hole in Linux which allows us to pull all kinds of fun information and elevate user privileges. It's been sold to government agencies since around 2008. Hasn't been patched and won't be unless they fundamentally change the way the OS functions. The truth is that they're far more interested in hacking individual devices like phones and laptops, than the servers Linux typically runs on. Servers are easy to get a warrant for and the companies that own them must cooperate. Getting individuals to is far more difficult.
Google values page speed very highly and that value is only increasing. They're pushing AMP landing pages and converting ads to AMP too. As a website owner, when Google gives priority to those that have AMP pages over those that don't, it's pretty hard to choose not to offer AMP. Look at the sites that chose not to become mobile-friendly back in 2014. They saw significant drop in rank and traffic. Most won't throw away that traffic just because they don't like everything about AMP. Claim maintaining AMP pages is maintaining 2 versions if you like but for most it's done automatically. Few will have to manually maintain their responsive site and AMP site. WordPress runs a huge percentage of all websites and offers a WordPress-made plugin to automatically generate AMP pages, along with other plugins offering the same, plus native implementation is on the way in future versions. The author claims comments can't be included on his site in the AMP version. AMP most certainly supports comments. His implementation just doesn't. Additionally, the vast majority of website content doesn't contain comments, so it's not a big issue for most, even if it was true that AMP didn't support it.
Strange. Facebook has been making a move to bring most of these apps back into the main app. They've tried standalone apps and outside the Messager app they've failed. They previously released a standalone camera app and it saw very little adoption so it was pulled from the app store. It'd be strange to see them try this route again after having failed previously.
With Netflix investing more than $1 billion in original content in 2015, I'd hope it grows substantially.
I have an iPad 3 and it's a very very painful experience. I almost never use it because it's become so stupidly slow using iOS 9. It's EOL for sure. I would agree that the iPad Air would still be a perfectly fine tablet for what most are doing and it's a couple years old at this point.
Click-bait headline for sure. Tablet sales as a whole are really hurting. It's not just Apple, it's everyone. No one is doing well in the tablet category right now. Seems they aren't getting most to replace their devices every year as they have been able to do with phones and most companies aren't on the same type of renewal cycles at this point as you see with computers.
I guess I've been lucky. I've never paid at the wrong register or had it not work right.
While I get that cost of living needs to be included in salaries and is (the same position in SF pays more than in Iowa), it can't be fun for someone doing the same job as another person to know what their coworker gets $20,000 more a year because they live in an area with nicer houses and higher rent. They do have some employees with kids and families, but it does seem the majority don't and travel pretty freely.
Buffer is a totally remote company so workers work from all over the globe, so commute times aren't part of it. But it does take into account where you live. If you choose to live in San Fran, you'll make more than if you choose to live in Iowa. From that standpoint, it kind of sucks that your coworker in LA gets paid more than you in Iowa, simply because he chooses to live in a place with higher average rent (even if he doesn't pay it), even if you both produce the same work. They also encourage their employees to be digital nomads. Many of them spend much of their time traveling the world and aren't home a whole lot. So your best bet would be to claim residency in the most expensive city you can, in order to increase your pay, even if you're off traveling the world most of the time.