There's only two things that can fix that: regulation or competition. As long as an ISP has a monopoly on the last mile, you're never going to have competition or fair pricing. I say it should be run like places run electrical power - one company runs the wire, and you buy your power from whomever you like. We should have one company running the fiber, and we can choose whomever we wish as the internet provider.
More to the point, net neutrality isn't going to fix overbooking.
I hope you're not implying that ISPs already have all the bandwidth they need and that we're paying fair prices for it? Are you for or against net neutrality?
No. What I am saying is that you can't fix certain problems by throwing more last mile bandwidth at them.
We already know what the unregulated market will do. It will put the decision into the hands of the people with the most money rather than in the hands of the end user.
It's not about bandwidth! Your ISP can fulfil the bandwidth requirements of the contract by showing up at your door with a 1 terabyte hard drive once a week.
Don't confuse bandwidth with latency. Bandwidth is about when the last bit arrives. Latency is about when the first bit arrives. Suppose your ISP has two routes. One is a 10mbps copper line run directly. The other is a 100gbps link that uses lasers to bounce your data off of the moon. Do you want your voice traffic to go over the lower bandwidth copper or the high bandwidth lunar link? Remember, the data will take 2.6 seconds to get to the moon and back.
Neither of those claim it to be a drop-in replacement for all the properties of steel.
Of in fact for ANY property of steel.
True, but they do dispute the claim in the original post: "Stronger than steel is cool and all, but that doesn't necessarily mean "all the same properties of steel". Durability, heat tolerance, reaction to moisture and a host of other things are likely to mean it's not a drop-in replacement for fibreglass/plastic/metal."
An equatorial orbit may not be of much help for Beyond Earth Orbit stuff anyways. The interesting stuff in the Solar System lies on the ecliptic, and the only time the ecliptic and the equator line up is twice a year at the solstices.
Of course, launching from the equator at the proper inclination may get you more payload en route than a direct eastward launch from the latitude of the ecliptic.
When I worked in one inner suburb of a medium-sized city, and lived in another, I commuted about 50km each way, 100km in total, and hence 3000km over the course of a little over a month. Commutes 3-4 times that long are not unheard of in larger cities. But for me, would have meant a battery swap about 10 times a year. I don't know how long the swap should take, but I do know I would not have time to visit a dealer - the closest being about a half hour away - anywhere near that frequently, even if it were a short and painless process.
On the other hand, you don't have to make the twice a week stop at the gas station.
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"You're feeling down friend, maybe a lick on the hand will make you feel better"
You're sure they're not just tasting you and hoping that you're about to kick off?
Juniper products are with few exceptions a million times better
Be more specific.
Okay... 1,070,204.982 times better - with a few exceptions.
Taco Bell does not make any sense, anywhere.
What about Taco Hell?
Nope. Not even there.
There's only two things that can fix that: regulation or competition. As long as an ISP has a monopoly on the last mile, you're never going to have competition or fair pricing. I say it should be run like places run electrical power - one company runs the wire, and you buy your power from whomever you like. We should have one company running the fiber, and we can choose whomever we wish as the internet provider.
More to the point, net neutrality isn't going to fix overbooking.
or Pizza Hut if you live in Europe
Oh? Was the movie different in Europe?
ehh - wrong dumbass.
Sorry, It's hard to tell one dumbass from another when you all log in as AC.
I hope you're not implying that ISPs already have all the bandwidth they need and that we're paying fair prices for it? Are you for or against net neutrality?
No. What I am saying is that you can't fix certain problems by throwing more last mile bandwidth at them.
We already know what the unregulated market will do. It will put the decision into the hands of the people with the most money rather than in the hands of the end user.
It's not about bandwidth! Your ISP can fulfil the bandwidth requirements of the contract by showing up at your door with a 1 terabyte hard drive once a week.
Don't confuse bandwidth with latency. Bandwidth is about when the last bit arrives. Latency is about when the first bit arrives. Suppose your ISP has two routes. One is a 10mbps copper line run directly. The other is a 100gbps link that uses lasers to bounce your data off of the moon. Do you want your voice traffic to go over the lower bandwidth copper or the high bandwidth lunar link? Remember, the data will take 2.6 seconds to get to the moon and back.
Neither of those claim it to be a drop-in replacement for all the properties of steel. Of in fact for ANY property of steel.
True, but they do dispute the claim in the original post:
"Stronger than steel is cool and all, but that doesn't necessarily mean "all the same properties of steel". Durability, heat tolerance, reaction to moisture and a host of other things are likely to mean it's not a drop-in replacement for fibreglass/plastic/metal."
the computer must convince the judge it is a human with it's full mental capacity,
And I'd like to suggest that this is a tricky qualifier, given the number of people reading Gawker and watching "Keeping up with the Kardashians".
As I saw on Slashdot a while back: "Is the Turing test valid if the human is an idiot?"
AHA! BOT! No grumpy old man would say "please" to a bunch of kids. He'd yell at them and shake his cane menacingly.
Your mechanic loves you!
Or, in other words, there's an open window in the basement allowing the dog to get in and out when he is supposedly "locked up"
You're not fooling anyone. Mexico has no carriers.
I have this horrible vision of a system where, as you advance from level to level, the touch-screen buttons keep getting smaller.
I guess it's time to look for slender fingered women to breed with.
An equatorial orbit may not be of much help for Beyond Earth Orbit stuff anyways. The interesting stuff in the Solar System lies on the ecliptic, and the only time the ecliptic and the equator line up is twice a year at the solstices.
Of course, launching from the equator at the proper inclination may get you more payload en route than a direct eastward launch from the latitude of the ecliptic.
An equatorial launch would be fairly costly for a trip to the ISS. You would have to do a 51 degree orbital plane shift in order to dock.
If you are going to wait until China shows you up, then you are going to be hopelessly behind, just like you were with the Russians.
So let the government string the fiber, and let me choose the ISP.
True, but one could also devise a scenario that favours the F-35's capabilities over the A-10's and it will be the A-10 that will be the fireball.
Absolutely right. You simply cannot have more of your life spent not working then you do working.
Nonsense. You're thinking like a peasant. There are other ways to earn money than working for it.
It will make a difference a significant portion of vehicle operators, but you're right. Idiots will be idiots.
When I worked in one inner suburb of a medium-sized city, and lived in another, I commuted about 50km each way, 100km in total, and hence 3000km over the course of a little over a month. Commutes 3-4 times that long are not unheard of in larger cities. But for me, would have meant a battery swap about 10 times a year. I don't know how long the swap should take, but I do know I would not have time to visit a dealer - the closest being about a half hour away - anywhere near that frequently, even if it were a short and painless process.
On the other hand, you don't have to make the twice a week stop at the gas station.