Verizon's incentive is also driven by moving people off copper pairs, since they have to share those pipes with anyone who wants to lease them cheaply (CLEC, alarm company, etc). VOIP over fiber is very different from POTS from a regulatory standpoint.

I'd just release a version for online gaming sites called the Gambling Analytical Binary and Library Architecture - GAMBLA.

$319 for Windows 7 Ultimate is pretty fucking obscene.

Everything's bigger in Texas, even pithy quips.

My guess is that it was probably a progression from "Haiping's PHP" to HPHP to HipHop.
Two syllables vs four or more... looks like they're not just computing more efficiently, but also speaking more efficiently!

I think that eventually someone will throw up a network of those high altitude balloon UAVs with some kind of mesh topology and a series of ground stations with Google and similar datacenter-in-a-shipping-container web services out in the middle of nowhere, including in the third world.

The network itself will be better protected from vandalism than copper or fiber, and properly meshed, highly resistant to centralized attacks. Can you take out all of the Google shipping containers on the network?

Solar-powered repeater stations on the ground can turn whatever RF transport that's used and translate into WiFi.

This would be a perfect opportunity for a large-scale IPv6 rollout, while they're at it.

Interested? Someone's going to do it. Why not have it be you?

Isn't a femtosecond thus technically a standard unit?

Do you need any better of a sign that something's wrong?

It seems as though everyone's excited about "wireless broadband", but the speedtest app on my iPhone says 416ms ping while I'm on 3G.

Latency that's even half that is useless for many applications, and just frustratingly slow for just about all the rest.

Are we just heading for a new definition of the digital divide whereby some people don't have access to *useful* broadband?

-Nev

Reasonable people deal with the consequences of picking an "alternative" platform.