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by zzuser 14y ago
Trenching a conduit is multiple times more expensive than laying fiber direct. More than likely using conduit would not be cost effective. With a conduit you have to: (i) purchase the conduit, which is more expensive than the fibre cable i
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by zzuser 14y ago
Imagination will take you very far, and in this case, very far from the matter at hand. Texas and Finland are real places, not figments of imagination. > Imagine a layout where cables do not have to follow roads. Imagine a layout where
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by zzuser 14y ago
> This really isn't a good measure since roads will be denser in urban areas and less dense in rural areas, thus leading to exactly the same issues as directly using population density. Please be so good as explaining you point better,
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by zzuser 14y ago
The above is an invalid comparison. A better, more objective measure is linear population density. Miles of roads in Texas: 152,054 miles Miles of roads in Finland: 65,617 miles ( ) Population of Texas: 25,674,681 Population of Finland: 5,
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by zzuser 14y ago
$0.10/GB is way more than market rates for bandwidth. Dedicated server hosters such as 100TB.com charge about $200 for 100TB, ie. $2/TB or 0.2 cents /GB, resulting in a grand total of 1.6 cents for a 8GB movie stream.
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by zzuser 14y ago
On what grounds? For buying to much hosting services, perhaps?
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by zzuser 15y ago
I am also very surprised to see OCZ drives recommended. I have 10 OCZ Vertex 3 SSDs in a single server. In the past two months, 6 of these 10 Vertex 3 drives have failed so far. OCZ is utter and bitter crap.
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by zzuser 15y ago
Google Reader on the desktop and Byline on iOS. Google Reader compatibility is a must in order to keep all devices in sync. On iOS the following are must have features: * swipe to next article * preload RSS articles and linked content for o