you pay for an unlimited amount of time to use the network , but the time is only unlimited if you use don't use it too often.
Kind of like paying for a 'yearly pass' for a road that only allows you to use the road a limited number of times in a year.
These are really great for consumers who are locked into a limited monopoly. I think when comcast wants to give up an all the telecommunications goodies that prevent others from entering into the market they can be free to consider such irritating limits BUT they had better be required to put them in plain sight on all their adds. Then people can decided if they want unlimited Speed to consume limited data or if they want a slower data tier. Also , i don't want to be charged an 'extra fee' I just want the network to shut off until I decided to pay more money. This isn't my heat bill after all.

yeah, i tend to agree, uber has really seems to have crossed the line of the 'Gig' idea.
I driver should be able to set their own fees for a route and pick the routes they want to drive. The riders need to be able to request a pickup and a drop off and then choose from various drivers , based on price, car type , maybe reviews. That is a Gig. No one tells anyone how much anyone is paid and when and where anyone needs to work.

By education, I assume you mean the Chinese definition. aka A lock of being starved, imprisoned or beaten until people believe( or at least only speak) the things that those is power fine useful for them to believe.

I cancelled Netflix because they create an push immoral (sh.. stuff) can't they just keep doing what they are good at and not start making who knows what.

I remember one time having someone explain to me that if the growth rate of the population continued it would not be long before the people on the earth out weighted the whole planet.

I statement that should give you pause , but didn't phase this particular person.

This seems the same. Just because there has been expediential growth in an industry Well, past performance is no necessarily indicative of future prospects.

Sometimes I like North Dakota.
I don't know why anyone would complain about this. It is one thing to provided a curated store. That is a value add. It is a WHOLE different thing to require people who buy one of your products to use your curated store ( which is another product).

I haven't been on facebook for a long time.
What are they talking about. It used to be that what you saw was a timeline of posts by people on your friends list. ( I think there were adds on the sidebar).
Comments from people I know were in time based order on the main feed.
Are they talking about changing that or just the adds on the sidebar? I mean , they can do whatever they want with the irrelevant adds no one looks at, I'd be pretty P.Oed if I were a user and all the sudden I wasn't seeing my posts from grandma, which is the whole point of being on the platform.

Not all parasites make the host unhealthy.

what do you target. I mean , in the 'old days' google would tune it's adds ( and search results) based off of a 'finger print' taken from the browser. That was mostly OK.( and easily defeated if you cared). It was when they started attempting to join that with all kinds of other cross product info that they really started to be 'uncool'.

Double that for Encrypted content that you 'buy' but will never be given the necessary codex to download and use on your network.
When server owner decides your done, your done , so don't imagine you 'own' anything.

Innovation 1000 patents for the better adhesive do not necessarily innovation make.
I'm not sure measuring innovation is something empirical.
There is quality, and quantity where as quality is probably more important and harder to measure.

The article is paywalled , does anyone have a list of what they actually looked at?

If there was sufficient demand for something else. It would be made. Most people have no use for high end video equipment , talking to grandma just doesn't justify the expense.

cool thanks.

Does someone have a pointer to some good studies that prove the total output of say a solar panel, or a wind generator in it's lifetime is greater then the total amount of power needed to create , install and maintain the same device. (including batteries and the other related infrastructure if possible).

I'd like to have it on hand for reference.