Yea, right ... because the studies that have shown panhandlers can make well over $100/hour are bunk. 60 minutes had an episode at one point that did a hidden camera investigation that showed a man working a Florida rest area bringing in about $120/hour for 6 hours a day every day he worked, and then he went and got in his very nice luxury automobile and drove home to his house.

Stop being such an ignorant tool.

What you're saying, as I understand it, is that Akamai is paying ISPs to house its CDN servers and gets a discount in some places. This makes sense due to the business model in place, but I don't think you can say that Akamai charges ISP because they get a discount.

Disney, ESPN, CNN all charge customers directly on the Internet, as does netflix.

If they started charging comcast/timewarner/cox/whoever for Internet services they would be double dipping. This cost would certainly be passed on to users who would be unhappy to be paying twice for the same service.

Facebook charging an ISP would also be passed on to the customers, at which point customers would protest. No one will knowingly part with money for Facebook. They'll stop using it before paying for it (knowingly). They'll pay for it by giving Facebook their data and tons of ads, but parting with cash so you can see someones dog chase its talk or lolcats not so much.

Thats your problem. You over sold service and can't provide what you sold.

Actually they do, which is why they'll colo a rack for you for free, or peer with you at any major pop, for free.

The poor design is yours. You're just a shitty ISP.

Bullshit. Its a local cache, exactly what you were demanding they do originally. You're clueless.

So why don't you tell us who you work for so we know who to start filing lawsuits against for abusing their monopoly?

You want to charge your customers for Internet access, and then not actually provide it. Thats what you're saying. Your customers paid for that bandwidth when they paid you. What you're saying is why you shouldn't be allowed to do business. Either provide the service you sold or get out of business.

You don't actually work for an ISP, do you? This exactly what content delivery networks like Akamai and Netflix's own CDN do. The fact that you don't know about them makes your story highly suspect.

No one is paying $200 for a phone they can get for free with a contract, certainly not a 2 year old phone (existing 2 year contract for broken phone must have already completed or they wouldn't let her resign for a free phone).

Okay a few uppity slashdotters do, but those 6 people don't buy iPhones and already have a nexus or something anyway.

Her 16g iPhone 4 was worthless a year ago.

Bullshit.

RTF is entirely undocumented, even within Microsoft. Every app has its own flavor.

If you've never had a problem with RTF than you've never actually used it for anything more than basic plan text.

RTF's lack of compatibility and documentation is FAR worse than the standard .doc format

And this wasn't possible in Office because of your incompetence? So its hard to argue that you're saving massive amounts of money when you clearly don't know how to work with the technology your users are using. Instead you forced everyone else to change because you were incapable of doing something.

Thats pretty stupid, certainly not something you should be bragging about.

Every Office app has had scriptable i/o since before LibreOffice was a thought in someones mind.

God I hate when you clueless fucks say something so stupid, it makes me end up defending Office, but every time someone like you speaks it just shows how incompetent you actually are.

The cost of an office license is less than the cost of one week of minimum wage per employee, wether you realize it or not its almost certain that it takes more time than that to adjust throughout the course of a year for any user who makes REGULAR use of office.

So basically, you're too inexperienced to know how to work with the tools you have and so instead you cost the company a fair amount per user to retrain because you, one person, was incompetent.

Again, this isn't something you want to brag about.

Thats cute, you think Outlook is an email client.

When you so clearly have no idea what a tiny part of the Office environment is, it makes your story clearly bullshit.

Hint: Email is about 1/10th of what Outlook is and does.

Any can some one remind me what Ireland is known for producing? Other than drunks and bar fights?

If you have an AT&T or T-Mobile iPhone, sure. If you have a Verizon or Sprint iPhone, what you say is unlikely. Verizon and Sprint use CDMA rather than GSM which isn't used pretty much anywhere than in the US. They don't support GSM at all, so they aren't going to work in any other country.

So if she doesn't sign a new contract, how much less does Verizon charge her?

Wait for it ...

Nothing.

The fact of the matter is, its you that is dumb. She's going to have a cell phone bill ANYWAY. Signing up for 'a new contract' that basically says you're going to stay with the cell phone provider for another 2 years ... which she was going to do anyway, doesn't actually cost her anything. They aren't charging her any more per month. They don't reduce her rate when her contract expires.

True Story: You're sister is smarter than you are, apparently. It would be stupid for her to pay $100 to fix the phone when she can get a new one for now additional fees unless she was actually going to change providers, which realistically, she wasn't.

Neither do text books

GPGPU acceleration doesn't really save battery in most cases as there aren't a whole lot of low power GPUs out there.

Dedicated hardware with just enough circuitry to perform a specific task will when over anything with GP attached to it.

GPGPU is for high performance computing, not low power computing.

... all software is implemented on hardware. Even the instructions you send to your processor get translated into other software (microcode) which is what actually gets executed.

Hardware acceleration still runs software.

H.264 isn't 'amazing' because of the hardware acceleration built into everything, its extremely convenient. If OGG was built into everything, we'd be using that instead because thats what would allow us to have long battery life and lower heat dissipation.

H.264 isn't software anyway, its a collection of algorithms and protocols. There are multiple software implementations of H.264, of which cisco's is only one.