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by pwarner 12y ago
I don't know why people are so worried about the lack of snow at this point. There is plenty of room in the reservoirs for rain at this point. Maybe later in the season the snow will become important, but at this point I think CA can
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by pwarner 12y ago
These guys are the new x86. On that note I was surprised they actually get custom chips from Intel, but I guess it makes sense. At the AWS summit in SF earlier this year the only AWS supplier with a booth was Intel.
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by pwarner 12y ago
With the provisioning flexibility I wonder if these are internal or external? If internal, seems like they eat a lot of cost if they are never provisioned. If external, how do they keep them as fast as local?
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by pwarner 12y ago
I had a very similar problem with ebay. Account made with my email, not me. Again, no email verification. To make it worse I couldn't log in and delete the account since ebay required security questions to do a password reset. I e
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by pwarner 12y ago
The fun thing is fiber at rates beyond 10 Gbps over long distances require just as many DSP tricks as DSL. For example http://www.lightwaveonline.com/articles/2014/09/fujitsu-ntt-...
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by pwarner 12y ago
I was shocked when I saw Verizon wireless has ipv6. Do other mobile carriers use it too? I guess mobile should be easier to switch. There are lots of greater than 10 year old desktops, but not so much on the smart phone side.
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by pwarner 12y ago
How is this allowed from a free trade perspective? Not to diminish the human rights portion, but even from a purely financial standpoint how does China get away with this?
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by pwarner 12y ago
Lately I think charging per bit is the simple solution for all of this. Amazon does this. It gives them a great inventive to have a good network. If they slow things down, then you might send less bits, so they would get less revenue. T
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by pwarner 12y ago
The wife used the Galaxy Tab 10.1 until she got a smart phone, but now everything seems to be a smart phone or laptop job. Maybe most common remaining use case are recipes in the kitchen or showing photos to a friend. Would not buy anothe
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by pwarner 12y ago
I would love to see more than 32 GB RAM in regular desktops and 16 GB in laptops while we are at it too!
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by pwarner 12y ago
I was going to ask why they didn't just patent the thing. This is the physical world after all. Turns out they did, but the most important one expired in 2012. http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/2012&#x2
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Business booms for custom crush wineries in Sonoma County(pressdemocrat.com)
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by pwarner 12y ago
Wow, the solar panel story was fun. Been to Willits a few times to ride the skunk train (which is fun) but the solar story is neat. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Goods#History_of_Real_Good...
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by pwarner 12y ago
The problem is these companies try to act as utilities, not technology companies. They borrow large sums of money (look at dept of AT&T or VZ), invest some of it in their network, but use big chunks to pass on to shareholders as divide
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by pwarner 12y ago
A lot of that fiber run circa 2000 was by folks not in the charts. Qwest, Level3, Global Crossing etc. All the last mile ISPs were doing circa 2000 was hooking smarter silicon on their existing copper. The first big last mile fiber builds
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by pwarner 12y ago
basically they build their own hardware: https://www.netflix.com/openconnect you can't put your own hardware at AWS. they are the poster child for using AWS for what it is good for, general purpose compute (storing you
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by pwarner 12y ago
I don't understand why ISPs can just be ISPs? Especially the telco ones are investing a lot of money to try to move up the value chain into things like video, IaaS, home security, probably more that I can't think of. Meanwhile t
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by pwarner 12y ago
I think it's time for Google to spin Google Fiber out to an independent company. Then wire up everywhere in the US that lacks fiber direct to the home. This would cost tens of billions of dollars, but Google could send them with $1B s
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by pwarner 12y ago
I always just start up any 1080P stream and then watch my router traffic graph. I guess this assumes nothing else is going through the router. I am seeing 5.2 Mbps right now on a 1080P stream, although some times it is closer to 6 Mbps. A
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by pwarner 12y ago
A reasonable article on how cable companies can respond. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/why-co... tl;dr: by using more spectrum in the coax cable can get pretty fast... So pressure from
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by pwarner 12y ago
Again, my statement was focused on the technical side. They were ahead a bit there. I am not endorsing their business or policts although they did indirectly pay my bills for a few years. I actually think part of the problem is that no one
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by pwarner 12y ago
Depends how you define token? They have about 5 million subscribers on FTTH. Supposedly passing 18M houses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS#Stable_footprint_.... Note: I was focused on them being technical le
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by pwarner 12y ago
Verizon never gets enough credit for their fiber roll out. Sure they don't offer 1Gbps, but they laid fiber so they can hit those speeds when the time is right. And until then 50 or 100Mbps over fiber is a lot better than 20Mbps over D
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by pwarner 13y ago
fios penetration rate is 35% which is not bad. http://www.lightreading.com/fios-slows-but-still-grows/d/d-i...
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by pwarner 13y ago
For super high bandwidth things (video today) it makes sense to serve as close to the end user as possible. This probably means putting the server in your ISP's network. This probably violates what most people think of as net neutral