Re: Cash Dollar?
1988 called. It want's its obsolete currency back.
Posts by MrAverage
15 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010
Dear hackers: If you try to pwn a website for phishing, make sure it's not the personal domain of a senior Akamai security researcher
Apple: Good news, everyone – sales are less bad than we thought. Not amazing but not bad. $84bn is $84bn, tho
Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim
Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID
Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR
UK.gov: Who wants £25m... *cheers*... to trial 5G? *crickets chirping*
Tuesday 17th October 2017 06:48 GMT
The Apple Connection...
Being a victim of stupidly low data allowance IMO is Steve Jobs final gift to the world. He has managed to engineer out the previous paradigm of paying for voice by the minute at stupidly low rates into paying for data by volume at stupidly high rates.
It has always baffled me as to why I can't have unlimited data on my mobile service. Are they worried that their vast warehouses full of fresh data will run out? There is no logical reason to limit your punters' usage other than you'd be missing out on an opportunity to gouge them for more cash.
No, the issue is that <insert telco> didn't invest in high enough capacity backhaul, therefore they have to limit usage but rather than choose the obvious - limit the bandwidth available - because that doesn't win shiny advertising awards, they limit volume. Enter gouging, where here in Australia it is customary to charge $10/GB extra. on a 10GB/Mth usage.
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Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10
Whoops! Microsoft accidentally lets out a mobile-'bricking' OS update
Earth resists NASA's attempts to make red and green clouds
NBN shenanigans: someone wants broadband speeds hidden
UK's tech capital named: Read it and weep, Tech City startup hipsters
Netflix original TV shows gamble pays off... to the tune of 10m new viewers
Spitzer 'scope spots Buckyballs in spaaace
Boffins develop greenhouse invisible to night-vision goggles
Vista-hating Microsoft throws poo at Apple's iPhone 4
Thursday 15th July 2010 12:06 GMT
Recycle
I remember being in a technology seminar in '96 where two flailing Novell marketing types spent the entirety of their alloted hour slagging off Microsoft and their products. Needless to say rather than putting us poor punters off buying Microsoft, they only really confirmed to me how perilously close to the void Novell was as a business.
This to me is clearly signalling the final demise of the great Beast of Redmond . Rest assured, in no time at all it will be the great Cupertino's turn for a recycle...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
