I'm on real time metering via ComEd in Chicago. At night, I pay as low as $0.01/KwH. It is extremely cheap for me to charge my Tesla Roadster at night.
Like they've ensured Tesla Roadsters never get to the road, nor the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, or the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation of Toyota Hybrids. Oil companies may have been able to get a stranglehold on battery patents before, but the EV genie is out of the bottle. So, go buy one (if it fits your driving needs).
Consumer electronics production and broadband are completely different industries. You can automate the hell out of a Fab plant and make your devices in cheap places (Foxconn). Most bandwidth providers in the US don't offshore their engineering and still have to pay quite a bit in capex costs, labor costs, and right-of-way costs (depending if you're running raw fiber or if you're leasing fiber/wavelengths and selling IP transit). With the fixed costs of bandwidth, I think you'll see the cost stay where it is, but you'll get more for your dollar (i.e. faster speeds).
But for those of us who live in major metro area (Chicago), it works great. As always, you have to pay for the level of service you want. Need service everywhere? Go with Verizon. More expensive minutes, coverage almost everywhere.
Thank you for the informative post! Nice to know that they're running into jurisdictonal issues. "What?! You mean I can't just sue everyone in DC court?!"
This. The only apps that don't work with the cellular connection off are those that rely on A-GPS, and they can always use the device's GPS chipset instead.
~6% of total monthly revenue. We've tried offering discounts for using a credit card directly or Google Checkout, but some people just prefer Paypal (and we prefer the business vs turning them away to someone who would take Paypal). *sigh*
THIS. THIS. THIS. I own a fairly decent sized hosting business (several million dollars a year in revenue). We take Paypal as a payment option, but despise them. We have a seperate business checking account solely tied to our Paypal account, and we sweep our paypal balance into our checking account every 1-2 days (and have our bank set to move any money in the paypal checking account to our operating account not tied to paypal). Never. trust. Paypal.
To get technical, T-Mobile's infrastructure simply doesn't care where you are whenever you connect via WiFi/UMA. You get routed over an encrypted VPN connection to what appears to T-Mobile's internal network as a cell tower, which is just a dedicated cluster handling the UMA connectivity.
I know. I used to have a Blackberry Curve with T-Mobile. I used the UMA functionality in Japan to make free calls back to the US. It was awesome. I'm on a Nexus One now, and while VoIP isn't quite there yet (Sipdroid is ok, but not great), it's getting better all the time. LTE is going to fix a lot of this though (if/when it gets here).
I switched from Comcast ($67/month for just internet) to Clear ($70/month for one home router and one mobile router). I get all my content over Netflix and Hulu (plus a little bit of PlayOn for Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert.
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Yet they're going to be used for your boarding pass:
http://www.google.com/search?q=phone+boarding+pass
I'm on real time metering via ComEd in Chicago. At night, I pay as low as $0.01/KwH. It is extremely cheap for me to charge my Tesla Roadster at night.
Like they've ensured Tesla Roadsters never get to the road, nor the Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf, or the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation of Toyota Hybrids. Oil companies may have been able to get a stranglehold on battery patents before, but the EV genie is out of the bottle. So, go buy one (if it fits your driving needs).
Thanks for informatively bitch smacking the poster you were replying to.
Thanks. I'll be picking up your Xen PDF when I get home.
+1 Parenting FTW
How can we become your customer (I'm a fan of putting my money where my mouth is)?
Last I heard, there was an outright ban on natural gas fracking in NY due to their concerns over the damage to the underground aquifer.
Consumer electronics production and broadband are completely different industries. You can automate the hell out of a Fab plant and make your devices in cheap places (Foxconn). Most bandwidth providers in the US don't offshore their engineering and still have to pay quite a bit in capex costs, labor costs, and right-of-way costs (depending if you're running raw fiber or if you're leasing fiber/wavelengths and selling IP transit). With the fixed costs of bandwidth, I think you'll see the cost stay where it is, but you'll get more for your dollar (i.e. faster speeds).
But for those of us who live in major metro area (Chicago), it works great. As always, you have to pay for the level of service you want. Need service everywhere? Go with Verizon. More expensive minutes, coverage almost everywhere.
I'd easily pay that for my home office. I'm already paying $150/month for Comcast's 50Mb/s service.
Doesn't do Netflix Instant Streaming =(
Thank you for the informative post! Nice to know that they're running into jurisdictonal issues. "What?! You mean I can't just sue everyone in DC court?!"
This. The only apps that don't work with the cellular connection off are those that rely on A-GPS, and they can always use the device's GPS chipset instead.
We *do* have a credit card merchant account. Some people *still* want to pay with Paypal. *shrugs*
It's already happening with home builders.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/real_estate/home_resale_fee/index.htm
~6% of total monthly revenue. We've tried offering discounts for using a credit card directly or Google Checkout, but some people just prefer Paypal (and we prefer the business vs turning them away to someone who would take Paypal). *sigh*
THIS. THIS. THIS. I own a fairly decent sized hosting business (several million dollars a year in revenue). We take Paypal as a payment option, but despise them. We have a seperate business checking account solely tied to our Paypal account, and we sweep our paypal balance into our checking account every 1-2 days (and have our bank set to move any money in the paypal checking account to our operating account not tied to paypal). Never. trust. Paypal.
To get technical, T-Mobile's infrastructure simply doesn't care where you are whenever you connect via WiFi/UMA. You get routed over an encrypted VPN connection to what appears to T-Mobile's internal network as a cell tower, which is just a dedicated cluster handling the UMA connectivity.
http://www.umatechnology.org/overview/
I know. I used to have a Blackberry Curve with T-Mobile. I used the UMA functionality in Japan to make free calls back to the US. It was awesome. I'm on a Nexus One now, and while VoIP isn't quite there yet (Sipdroid is ok, but not great), it's getting better all the time. LTE is going to fix a lot of this though (if/when it gets here).
The calls via Google Voice are all routed via the voice network of your mobile phone, no Wifi, no 3G.
I switched from Comcast ($67/month for just internet) to Clear ($70/month for one home router and one mobile router). I get all my content over Netflix and Hulu (plus a little bit of PlayOn for Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert.
Yep. Notice that a publishing house is providing the materials instead of the awesome CK-12 organization. Farking. Scam.
http://www.ck-12.org/
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it'd be somewhat wise to have Slashdot story submission code automatically turn links into Coral Cache links?
Scary is watching someone take off fully loaded (fuel, people, luggage) and barely make it off the ground before terrain.