Building networks is not cheap, that's why the US taxpayer has paid for such a huge amount of it, subsidies paid directly to the various regional monopolies who then run those networks for profit.
You can pretend all you like, but you've been shafted twice to get internet access.
New Zealand got this 20 years ago when the two media companies divided up all the newspapers in the country between them.
Then they bought all the radio stations. One of them owns a free to air TV network, the other owns the pay TV network. There is a publically owned free to air network, but it owns a (small) share of the pay TV network, so won't compete with it.
They are now trying to claim they don't make enough money competing with each other so they need to merge.
Guess who's reporting on that as being a good thing? That's right, the media companies.
That link to Gwyneth Paltrow's site is a sort of look down the rabbit hole really.
How can anyone be sucked in by that nonsense, I mean does anyone really imagine that Gwyneth sits down every day and writes all those pieces about all those products from her "friends"?
That juice machine is no worse than the "Nutribullet" that was claiming to turn fruit and vegetables into "Super Food" every time I turned my TV on last year. If I was less lazy I would have complained to our Broadcasting Standards people who would have prosecuted them for telling blatant lies.
I have seen huge piles of the Nutribullets at various retailers lately however, selling for a tiny fraction of the their original price, so maybe people are not always sucked in.
The summary reads a lot like the PC magazines I used to read 20 years ago, where any tiny increase in performance was worthwhile.
Thank goodness we're at the stage where any x64 processor from the last few years will be plenty good enough for most people, and benchmarks are largely meaningless
I am looking forward to the day when it's the same with phones.
I'm upgrading soon from an S5 - I wonder if I should get a 7 while I still can...
I'm going to upgrade from an S4 and will get an S7 for something like $250* less than the current retail price in 6 weeks or so.
why not try something like a OnePlus 3T?
I won't buy a phone without a microsd card slot, but other than that they look like a really good phone at a good price. If they offer a model with external storage the next time I'm in the market, I will consider them.
So isn't it great to have an OS that lets you change your window manager
I should be able to mod this up to +6.
I don't favour KDE myself, but if you do, good luck to you. I think Cinnamon is a really good desktop environment, but over the years I have used most of them and Linux lets me do that which is the key thing.
The Moa evolved to take the place that large browsing mammals take in other ecosystems like deer or giraffes, so it would not be likely to try to eat you.
They might have been aggressive if cornered, but it obviously did them no good.
These guys were presumed to be extinct, but were rediscovered in 1948.
There are no native land mammals in New Zealand, so introduced rats, cats, dogs and mustelids wiped out many species that have evolved to fill the ecological niches that mammals usually occupy.
The loss that really annoys me is the Moa. The largest species reached 3.5 metres tall or so. Imagine coming across one of those while walking in the bush. Of course people wiped them out. It would be hard to resist hunting something that big, a two might feed the whole village for a couple of days.
SNAP is insanely, stupidly over-valued and we all know it. The only ones who don't seem to be the ones hurling money at it.
While you do make a good point, I think the investors in SNAP do know it is insanely overvalued. I think they hope to off-load their shares at a profit before the crash comes.
I think that must be common. I don't live in the US but we have the same attitude from the Police, from what I gather.
Fun fact: Years ands years ago my flatmate (room mate) caught a burglar climbing in our window. He beat the guy so badly the Police had to take him to hospital for treatment before charging him.
The burglar yelled about having my flatmate charged with assault, so the cops threatened to charge with every burglary in our area that month. Turns out there were more than 150, they had solved none of them.
My flatmate was not too worried about being charged with anything, his Father was a QC (extremely senior lawyer) there was no way he was winding up in court.
Slashdot Mirror
You can pretend all you like, but you've been shafted twice to get internet access.
I got this from a 20 second search.
I had a vision of Virgil Tracy making use of something that futuristic.
if they get enough intelligence to draw a line between the Kremlin and the President
Isn't that what the New York Attorney General is doing right now?
Then they bought all the radio stations. One of them owns a free to air TV network, the other owns the pay TV network. There is a publically owned free to air network, but it owns a (small) share of the pay TV network, so won't compete with it.
They are now trying to claim they don't make enough money competing with each other so they need to merge.
Guess who's reporting on that as being a good thing? That's right, the media companies.
How can anyone be sucked in by that nonsense, I mean does anyone really imagine that Gwyneth sits down every day and writes all those pieces about all those products from her "friends"?
That juice machine is no worse than the "Nutribullet" that was claiming to turn fruit and vegetables into "Super Food" every time I turned my TV on last year. If I was less lazy I would have complained to our Broadcasting Standards people who would have prosecuted them for telling blatant lies.
I have seen huge piles of the Nutribullets at various retailers lately however, selling for a tiny fraction of the their original price, so maybe people are not always sucked in.
And someone gave them $67M? Ha ha.
Some other idiot decided they were worth $375 million too. Apparently.
Thank goodness we're at the stage where any x64 processor from the last few years will be plenty good enough for most people, and benchmarks are largely meaningless
I am looking forward to the day when it's the same with phones.
K, thanks.
I'm upgrading soon from an S5 - I wonder if I should get a 7 while I still can...
I'm going to upgrade from an S4 and will get an S7 for something like $250* less than the current retail price in 6 weeks or so.
why not try something like a OnePlus 3T?
I won't buy a phone without a microsd card slot, but other than that they look like a really good phone at a good price. If they offer a model with external storage the next time I'm in the market, I will consider them.
* Local money, not $US
The article is pretty crappy though, the question seems slanted to get the desired result:
Do you think local governments should have the power to start their own high-speed networks if current offerings are too expensive or not good enough?
I'm not sure what other answer there is.
So isn't it great to have an OS that lets you change your window manager
I should be able to mod this up to +6. I don't favour KDE myself, but if you do, good luck to you. I think Cinnamon is a really good desktop environment, but over the years I have used most of them and Linux lets me do that which is the key thing.
Most importantly, this will also make Twitter profitable.
In my case I have an S4, so in a month or so the S7 will drop $150 (of my local dollars) and I will buy one of those.
They might have been aggressive if cornered, but it obviously did them no good.
There are no native land mammals in New Zealand, so introduced rats, cats, dogs and mustelids wiped out many species that have evolved to fill the ecological niches that mammals usually occupy.
The loss that really annoys me is the Moa. The largest species reached 3.5 metres tall or so. Imagine coming across one of those while walking in the bush. Of course people wiped them out. It would be hard to resist hunting something that big, a two might feed the whole village for a couple of days.
We do have among the least affordable housing in the world (in Auckland at least) to make up for that, also awful commutes.
SNAP is insanely, stupidly over-valued and we all know it. The only ones who don't seem to be the ones hurling money at it.
While you do make a good point, I think the investors in SNAP do know it is insanely overvalued. I think they hope to off-load their shares at a profit before the crash comes.
After all, there is one born every minute.
Do enough of that replacing workers with robots and you'll need to buy some of these.
Or you could make some robot police. That would work too.
There's going to be an amazing Microsoft patent, so that anyone who actually makes a foldable phone has to pay Microsoft.
Yes, the lack of glasses was the missing piece, without which the whole thing failed.
Honestly, does she look like a liar and a thief to you?
Of course not, and the black turtle-necks she wears show what a visionary she is, because visionaries wear black turtle-necks.
Once again the conservative sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!
I have no doubt the burglar learnt no lessons at all, he was a career criminal, and is probably in jail right now.
Fun fact: Years ands years ago my flatmate (room mate) caught a burglar climbing in our window. He beat the guy so badly the Police had to take him to hospital for treatment before charging him.
The burglar yelled about having my flatmate charged with assault, so the cops threatened to charge with every burglary in our area that month. Turns out there were more than 150, they had solved none of them.
My flatmate was not too worried about being charged with anything, his Father was a QC (extremely senior lawyer) there was no way he was winding up in court.
Having said that, it is probably not the common or garden variety burglar taking advantage of this kind of bug.