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by jsz0 13y ago
Netflix accounts for 30-50% of traffic these days yet only now have they needed to cut out a low quality middle-man to provide their service. I doubt startups have anything to worry about. If you manage to become 50% of Internet traffic you
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> It should be on Comcast to ensure their network can get their customers the data they want. In your opinion why doesn't the same responsibility apply to Cogent?
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Large ISPs like Comcast are offering services over a variety of different systems -- some may not be upgraded or otherwise do not have the capacity available to support the 105Mbit/sec package. This $250 fee is probably to cover the in
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Part of this is seasonal traffic trends. Here in the North East when the weather starts getting hostile around November we see a big uptick in bandwidth usage among our customers. Utilization tends to peak in January and starts breaking as
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Apple isn't even remotely close to having a monopoly in the SmartPhone market. That's such a non-sense thing to say in an official statement. My perception of block chain.info is now a company that lies / misrepresents the tr
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by jsz0 13y ago
If you want a very reliable/stable desktop OS and are not set on using Linux you might want to consider FreeBSD or PCBSD instead. The perpetual alpha/beta quality of most popular Linux distros plus increasingly fragmentation betwe
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The timing of this (vs. the Google/Samsung arrangement) really makes it look like Google's involvement with Motorola was simply to intimidate Samsung. The message was we'll piss away our advertising revenue to destroy you if
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> iPhones are reaching saturation I would agree Apple's current/last-generation iPhone pricing/sizing/models have hit saturation. If they offer a larger iPhone 6 and perhaps push the 5C downmarket to be a competitive
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I don't think we're quite there yet with tablets. Maybe another 3-4 years. They are relatively inexpensive and they have a strong hand-me-down life cycle. A lot of people buying new iPads every 1-2 years are doing so to give their
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> Perhaps something else was meant by "freedom" in those days Yes it did. This 30 year old quote has nothing to do with the App Store policies. IBM had a significant presence in every single piece of information technology in t
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An 11/12" MacBook Air with a touchscreen that could also run iOS apps with cellular connectivity would be the ideal iPad Pro for my needs. Using a touchscreen on a small laptop is no worse than using an iPad in a stand or flat on
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To their credit Google makes it very easy to get your data out. I was really surprised how easy it was to transition to different services.
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> Doubling broadband speeds every 2-3 years? Doubling the infrastructure required to deliver customer bandwidth demands -- not speeds. For example 2 years ago maybe the average customer had utilization between 8-11PM of 4Mbit/sec. T
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> The big difference is that each player is already paying for bandwidth at their end We are really only paying for bandwidth to/from our providers. Everything in-between is best effort, nebulous peering arrangements, etc. > But,
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There must be more to it than that. Two racks aren't using $20k in electricity.
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It's good for a small form factor budget gaming box. Kaveri closes the gap but at this point you can still buy a cheap non-APU processor + $100 faster discrete graphics card that will perform better at about the same cost. Even if simp
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The problem I see with AMD's APUs is the GPU performance, even if it's twice as fast as Intel's GPUs, both Intel & AMD's integrated GPUs are totally adequate for 2D graphics, low end gaming, and light GPU computing.
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> I suspect this is the case for a chunk of that $10B. Why? AppStore sales keep going up year after year. That would suggest most people have a good experience. I think most people might have more realistic expectations. Your gripes are
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They should at least have a web UI as a fall back option. It's hard to trust in any cloud storage that presents roadblocks to accessing your own data. I want to know that worse case I can get at a very important file from any computer
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> Make Messages work correctly I've had no problems at all with Messages over the last 6-8 months. Multiple devices (iOS/OSX) all messages synced, in the right order no less, and unread badges updated. > Make iCloud better I
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Mac desktops are great if you can find a model/configuration that fits your needs. If you don't need any GPU power it really opens up your options. It gets tricky when you want a more well balanced system. You go from about $800 t
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If the failure rate was as high as the Amazon reviews suggest it seems like there would be more news about this even from the mainstream non-tech media by now. Lots of people get pretty fanatical about video game brands so I personally woul
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The battery door and clips presented a variety of design limitations that weren't worth the trouble anymore. You can get the exact same functionality with an external battery pack or extended battery life case.
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Probably cost cutting gone wrong. Lots of acidic chemicals are used and they need to be carefully washed off parts or the smell will linger. Many cheap glues/tapes can also carry a strong acidic smell. The comparison to cat urine makes
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It could also be that FY2013 was just a dud for Apple product updates. Starting with the iPhone 5, that was released in FY2012 but primarily sold in FY2013, there were considerable supply issues along with some blowback on the new Lighting
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Seems like a smart move to me. Windows Phone is irrelevant to most consumers despite years of advertising by Microsoft. People just don't have a compelling reason to use it over more popular alternatives. If they can try it out risk fr
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I'm so tired of the horse race analogies. Competition in business is more like an elaborate multi decade gymnastics competition than a horse race. Both Google and Apple are doing a great job executing their different business models. I
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It's the difference between must have features like the ability to communicate with people you want to talk to and features like desktop/status/etc that are nice to have but not essential. The tech community demands perfectio
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It's probably to stop people from importing cheaper devices from other regions. Samsung wants the flexibility to price devices differently by region/market and that doesn't work if the consumer can import the cheapest one ins
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Given the sales of Surface and touchscreen PCs I have to reject the whole premise of your question. What is Apple getting a 'pass' on here? They seem to be giving consumers what they want/expect out of these devices. Apple co

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