Posts by Steve Barnes
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You're forgetting business users - who can use a great deal more data than residential users
I wasn't forgetting, I just didn't mention. The numbers still remain and regardless of who the end user is, supply and demand still factor. Yes, commercial users will use more bandwidth but what they are prepared to pay, overall, will not change unless the technology can replace another expense.
For instance. I might be willing to spend more on the ability to watch streaming video over the expense of paying for Sky TV. Weta, for example may choose to employ people overseas to work on digital animation on line, the downside of that is that more money goes out of the country. The reverse is also possible that Weta could do more overseas work from Wellington thus earning valuable foreign currency but then you get to the point of running out of actual people to do the work and you are back to square one.
I'm still thinking "Pipe Dreams" here. I personally think that the economies of scale are not linear or even scalable in fact diminishing returns may even come into play here.
The internet itself makes nothing, it is merely a conduit and as such is dependent on the content being worth the cost. Even if that content is financial data or vital information there still has to be a viable cost/benefit ratio. -
This new undersea cable doesn't seem to add up to me.
The SCC is making $90 mil a year for its owners. We are told that the SCC is not running at full capacity and that the owners are deliberately rationing bandwidth to keep prices high.
I pay about $80 a month with a 20 gig cap on a 1.6 meg connection if we had access to higher speed I would more than likely use much more than that 20 gig cap but would I want to pay more?.
This raises the question as to whether Kordia et al could recoup their investment. At a cost of $900 million it would take ten years to recoup the investment if they took all the traffic from the SCC, which ain't gonna happen.
Sure, it would be great to have Youtube load in a few seconds and watch hi def streaming video whilst uploading your family pix to Picassa but are we willing to pay much more for that?
I know that from a technical point of view it looks good but as a financial venture it looks like pie in the sky rather than gold at the end of the rainbow.
Don't get me wrong here, I love the idea, it's just that it don't add up in my head. -
I don't know what you're all on about. Avatar was the best movie I have ever seen...
The other movie I've seen was... -
A dangerous bunch of EJNTs if you ask me.
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Note to self... "must remember voice recorder"
Tee Hee. -
Nice. May you both live long and prosper... as they say.
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On a lighter note and still thinking about the ACT Party.
Nazis tried to infiltrate boy scouts
Of course, being the herald they only reported the salacious parts of the file released at the National Archives in Kew, whereas The Independent came up with some MI5 gossip on the irascible Brendan Behan and someone called Sophie. -
I wouldn't credit myself with such wisdom as a 14 year old. It was actually a feeling of genuine empathy that made me hug him.
But Ben... that empathy is wisdom. It's that old wisdom that gives us Humanity, that feeling of connectedness. It is disconnection that is, I believe, the root of all social ills, "Othering" rejection, physical and emotional abuse, dispossession by a non caring society.
A society consisting of people that care only for themselves is no society at all but a lot cheaper. Thank you ACT Party. -
these days I'd be terrified that if I punched someone to the ground they might hit their head and die.
That's what sets us apart from the average munter Ben. We have the dubious advantage of imagining consequences, including but not limited to, understanding that, even if we win, escalation and revenge can lead to a long lasting world of pain.
followed up by me hugging him and telling him I was really, really sorry, which he meekly accepted. I was never bullied again.
I did exactly that myself while at school, mainly because of the aforementioned reasons.
I have a glass desk and have an unnatural fear of slipping off my chair and smashing my teeth on the edge of said desk.
I believe this may have something to do with elevated levels of Mono Amine Oxidase, something that adventurous types lack. It could be that violent types also lack this defensive trait and hence fail to see the consequences of their actions. -
Hmmm.
On teh interwebs everyone can hear you scream.And toes by any other name will still be chomped by the piranhas.
And on another point and perhaps another thread, I lose track sometimes.
When I bump into a celebrity I always smile and say hello and relish the feeling that all day they will wonder whether they should have remembered me.