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RJW1678
join:2003-01-15
Wilmington, DE

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OS X Yosemite

Actually OS X Yosemite was released to the public last Thursday and it was free last Thursday. It only took 5 days for this article to get to the Morning Links.

Later
Bob

TamaraB
Question The Current Paradigm
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join:2000-11-08
Da Bronx

TamaraB

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Re: OS X Yosemite

Slow news day?

buzz_4_20
join:2003-09-20
Dover, NH
(Software) Sophos UTM Home Edition
Ruckus R310

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Dawn of Ultrafast Broadband Era

For those in high income densely populated areas that is.

People who live in the sticks will have to get by with whatever can be pushed over the current infrastructure.

Investing in the entire country is dead.

There is fiber that runs across the street from me. Great stuff, the whole state got strung with it. But nobody is willing to be the middle man to get from my house to the Fiber network. It's a damn shame, we have all this technology, that has plenty of room to be profitable but nobody wants to spend a red cent if the payback is longer than 6 months.

Added:
To gain access to this fiber I need to be a business. Then lease a pair of strands at $1.50 a mile (30miles) to the nearest data center where I need to pay $225 monthly.
And I'd still need to pay for internet access at this point, and I guarantee there are more fees/ETC that I haven't even found yet.
rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO

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Re: Dawn of Ultrafast Broadband Era

That sickness isn't limited to the communications sector. Almost every investor wants immediate returns. Everyone wants to get rich quick. IMO, automatic day trading systems that sucking millions out of the market -- defended by the very market they pervert as adding necessary liquidity -- have tainted the whole system.

buzz_4_20
join:2003-09-20
Dover, NH

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Re: Dawn of Ultrafast Broadband Era

I understand the get rich quick part... HOWEVER

These people are ALREADY rich beyond belief, why not INVEST in the FUTURE.

tshirt
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join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA

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said by buzz_4_20:

To gain access to this fiber I need to be a business.

very simple and usually cheap to incorporate or file as a sole prop. in most states.
said by buzz_4_20:

Then lease a pair of strands at $1.50 a mile (30miles) to the nearest data center where I need to pay $225 monthly.
And I'd still need to pay for internet access at this point, and I guarantee there are more fees/ETC that I haven't even found yet.

Yup it's the cost of that last mile (30 mi for you) and Rackspace, headend, and the interconnect slowing the ISP too.
said by buzz_4_20:

Investing in the entire country is dead.

Sometimes you have to invest yourself, particularly when others (wall st) doesn't share your vision or goals.

yes it's more effort than waiting for google or Verizon or even Comcast to knock on your door, but not being willing to do it just as Greedy and LAZY as the investor that expects the quick and easy RoI with zero risk.
Anything worth have requires effort to acquire.

buzz_4_20
join:2003-09-20
Dover, NH
(Software) Sophos UTM Home Edition
Ruckus R310

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Re: Dawn of Ultrafast Broadband Era

While investing yourself sounds great... In this situation it's not a cost I can bear, nor is it a cost that I have a way of recouping either.
I'd have much better service, but I'd be paying hundreds of dollars a month for it.

Willing and Can are not always the same. Bootstraps can only be pulled so hard when so many others pull the opposite direction.

firephoto
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join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA

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said by tshirt:

Sometimes you have to invest yourself, particularly when others (wall st) doesn't share your vision or goals.

Exactly. Until Frontier (ex-Verizon.. ex-GTE)... comes along, skips over your voice, talks to a few people (literally) in the government and gets their law they wrote passed and added into the state's administrative codes.

Then you're just left wondering if it isn't just better to let federal broadband stimulus grants be easily acquired by the "public" and then have hardware from that placed in locations that won't compete with private networks in the area while cherry picking small micro areas to serve a few select customers who HAVE to be served by said private network who has to invest the cost of a truck roll and about 30 minutes of installing things, literally. I mean that's a great use of public monies for a service that costs more than one with speeds almost 100 times faster.

Seriously, the public who wanted to invest in their own future should be so lucky to provide such easy profits to private industry on their own publicly bought infrastructure.

Oh, and if for instance there was a large disaster in the area with lots of large infrastructure payouts from federal public money, it would be totally ok to dig in multiple new fiber routes that are owned privately and that serve very large telecommunication companies. The ones that transit through a rural area that has a huge satellite gateway all of which might be getting paid for with those emergency federal dollars and that will certainly enhance the well being of this poor struggling sector which undoubtedly needed the infusion of millions of dollars in an amount that easily eclipsed the amount that would of covered federal payouts for private individual losses.

But in the end, we have to protect what is "vital" and obviously that is profits before people.

tshirt
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Snohomish, WA

tshirt

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CableLabs DOCSIS 3.1 Testing may be...

... pushing the envelope a little too fast, if major players like arris have to skip the first round of CMTS testing.
YES we want D3.1 ASAP, but we don't want even longer delays caused by cobbled together rush job hardware.