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by jsz0 12y ago
Connecting to a VPN routes you around the congestion point between TWC and NetFlix's CDN. This is kind of exactly what ISPs are upset about. They can have more than enough bandwidth but NetFlix's size and lack of network diversity
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by jsz0 12y ago
ZFS / births are great for their intended purposes but using them on devices with limited RAM and/or connected via external bus/power would likely introduce a whole new set of problems.
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by jsz0 12y ago
> can you swear that Netflix is doing all that it can to minimize bandwidth? This is an excellent point. Why doesn't NetFlix at very least offer the ability for their users to queue content for download / local caching? If cust
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by jsz0 12y ago
> "This is about consumers not getting what they paid for from their broadband provider" If I pay for a 100Mbit/sec connection from my ISP why doesn't NetFlix send me 100Mbit/sec of data? They choose to limit my
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by jsz0 12y ago
> one of the obnoxious things Apple has done recently AirDrop pre-iOS8 (iCloud Drive, Extensibility) would have been almost totally useless or at minimum required developers to waste time supporting a temporary solution.
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by jsz0 12y ago
Despite the lack of competition that already exists I've yet to find an area where Comcast isn't rated as 'HD Verified' by Google.
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by jsz0 12y ago
> would Steve Jobs have done this? I think so. Apple built the iPod and purchased SoundJam because they realized the world had changed. Buying CDs in stores and feeding them into your CD player was inevitably going to be replaced by digi
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by jsz0 12y ago
I think the key to this deal was the Beats brand. Apple was facing a very difficult task in trying to modernize/redefine the iTunes Store. They attempted to bolt on various new things like Ping, iTunes Match, iTunes Radio, etc but it e
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by jsz0 12y ago
> when it comes to small developers, Apple just doesn’t give a damn I don't understand the connection to the geocoding problem. Did it only impact small developers? Was the problem fixed faster for large developers?
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Simplicity of setup/operation is probably all it will take to make home automation products popular. Most of the existing products seem to be geared towards those control freak types who demand lots of options/customization but th
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by jsz0 12y ago
> stop promising things they aren't willing to deliver on. Very few ISPs offer residential Internet access with SLAs that guarantee performance or even availability. They mostly promise only a 'best effort' class of servic
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by jsz0 12y ago
Voters love tax increases and municipal debt so raising the money should be easy compared to finding enough qualified contractors for a large scale project like this.
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by jsz0 12y ago
> Where I live Comcast is barred from offering me Internet access You can partly thank the FCC for this. They imposed limitations on Comcast's growth that effectively require Comcast to sell off an existing market if they want to en
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by jsz0 12y ago
> Not by the ISP. Major service providers are very much involved in the development process of industry specific/optimized equipment.
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by jsz0 12y ago
Residential Internet access is almost universally sold as a 'best effort' class of service. There is no guarantee of availably or speeds outside of the provider's network.
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by jsz0 12y ago
If service providers are hit with unfavorable regulations they may reconsider being in the 'Internet' service provider business and instead return to an AOL/CompuServe style model.
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by jsz0 12y ago
This is cable industry trade data not really something intended for the general public. Dollar amounts aren't going to provide the context required to understand this data. For example over the last 5 years most cable MSOs have gone mo
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by jsz0 12y ago
This is not an information holy war. It's very simply about streaming Hollywood movies and TV shows over the Internet and who gets to profit from it.
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> Can anyone think of any advantages to a non-neutral internet? It would give ISPs an incentive to spend the large sums of money required to upgrade their networks/infrastructure to offer significantly faster Internet speeds. I very
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by jsz0 13y ago
As most of the heavy lifting is offloaded to SmartPhones I think all day usage won't be too much of a problem for most wearable devices. Charging devices overnight while we sleep/re-charge seems to work out well enough.
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by jsz0 13y ago
> Apple's communications are borderline dismissive to people who are less fortunate and less lucky. I couldn't disagree more. I think it's condescending to treat less fortunate people differently this way. Almost everyone
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by jsz0 13y ago
> How do they explain why Google is getting special treatment? Not exactly special treatment just the benefit of not being an incumbent telco/cable provider. They don't have to face the same regulations (both state/local)
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by jsz0 13y ago
With the exception of NH (maybe Maine too?) the north east offers even more red tape than we have outlined in this article. Higher labour/fuel costs too.
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by jsz0 13y ago
I'm guessing these microwave links are short enough to blast through poor atmospheric conditions that are very common in a place like Seattle. At greater distances from the provider packet loss (resulting latency problems) could be a l
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by jsz0 13y ago
> What's different about Aereo's model, other than the scale? From a legal perspective the wording of the contract between parties matters an awful lot. A quick look at Areo's site shows they are offering something very di
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The antenna by itself is useless until Areo transcodes and transports the content it receives. That is the issue.
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Yep it was mostly local advertising. The biggest problem for local broadcasters is their costs for have gone up dramatically while viewership has declined. Bad mix.
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by jsz0 13y ago
The local broadcasters / network affiliates do need to maintain a viable business model to serve the public interest. Their real value to the public is the local news/weather programming they produce which plays an important role
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by jsz0 13y ago
> Yay, more touch screen in cars. It's odd though that the number of auto accidents in the US has not increased with the increased use of in-dash touch screens and SmartPhones. Deaths from auto accidents have also been on the declin
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by jsz0 13y ago
At a certain point people who are worried about the 'much else' part have to take personal responsibility for their paranoia. Apple cannot prove they aren't reading your iMessages. Maybe they are beaming them into deep space

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