Comcast
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- The Torment Nexus Section; RFPs, man. RFPs. … Watson turned out to do such a shit job that it did a Comcast and had to change its name. Please don't sue me, IBM, see: What …
- Conan, What Is Worst In Life, And Why? … In the U.S., where there hasn't been telco unbundling and there are regional monopolies on telco services, you don't have choice, so Comcast doesn't …
- Do Not Recommend … In a shocking turn of events, Xfinity, the cable provider that had to change its name because it was Comcast, lets you lock access to applications behind a …
- That feeling of being there … And then I went and pulled the plug to switch to gigabit fiber at home which of course is both cheaper and faster than whatever it is Comcast …
- Snow Crash’s Graveyard Daemons and … hacked access to in an act of altruism for his local neighborhood) given Comcast and co’s current strategy of internet not-provisioning. Second there’s the issue …
- Snow Crashing … 5TB makes 40,000 gigabits, so let’s assume Hiro has a gigabit Comcast fiber connection - it’s still going to take ~666 minutes for him to get …
- First Rule In Government Spending … to deliver my paper and the news publisher getting a cut, I pay Comcast and I rent a modem and a wireless router (or don't, if I …
- Patterns in the noise … Hall (@lauraehall) | Twitter [2] Law proposed lets you cancel Comcast online with one click [3] Product Guy Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues | TechCrunch [4] The Amazon …
- Names; The Condition … is that this Comcast internet connection doesn't seem to be performing, and looking for an answer other than "because it's a Comcast internet connection"), doing things …
- Here In My Car … For comparison, Comcast's annual revenue is around $65bn, and Verizon's revenue is around $120bn. The idea of subscription services is interesting, because one of the first …
- Essentially Walking Sensors; Recorded For Your Safety; More 2014 … to call corporations accountable for what they say, especially in the light of Comcast's customer retention playbook[3]. This feels like, again, a situation in which transparency …
- To Serve; Odds … But this is why some people record their phonecalls with Comcast, and why the joke about recording calls training purposes is black humour: because we don't know …
- When You're Tired Of Cities … assume a position as become quietly supplicant and fine, it's not like Comcast were going to do anything in the meantime. I guess my point is this …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … them) pointed out that we could either deal with the devil we knew, Comcast, in which case we knew them to be pretty institutionally incompetent and gouging, or …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … People want connectivity and communication, not Verizon or Comcast, which is why they're entirely happy to jump ship when Google comes to town and offers fiber. If …
- Cities; Snow Crashing 5; More Television … And this is why Comcast wants to (and did) buy NBC - to get the content as well as supply the pipe. It feels like the only way out …
- On Creativity; But What Is The User Need; Universal Service … a respectful consideration of the fact that the user knows what they want. Comcast, I feel, does not know what the user need is. Google Plus, I feel …
- Only Connect; They Stole Our Revolution; Policy As Code; Dance Central … Sure, there are other systemic problems and no one likes regulatory capture or the fact that Comcast has a government mandated monopoly and is able to raise your …
- Structure; Humble, Direct and Curiously Cautious; The Scale Of Things, Risks … California 23 - Population of Australia 21 - Washing machines sales, European Union, yearly 21 - Comcast (pre-Time Warner merger) total subscribers 14 - Population of Shanghai 8 - Washing machines sales …