What do you use on a daily basis that’s not supported? I see this kind of comment all the time and nobody wants to tell me!

It’s not for nothing. If they keep the ability to have it on your hard drive then that’s fine. But if they don’t, then people are going to be hitting their data caps super easily.

But they can pack that down and create regions. That doesn’t need to be at super high definition for the entire globe.

See that’s something I wish you would have led with. That’s way more common sense.

Yup, America, eternally asking the question, “but what about my 10th super yacht?”

Unpacking compressed files will always be cheaper in Internet usage. And if they wanted to go this direction they could have just streamed the output for far cheaper usage as well.

They literally picked the highest bandwidth way to do this.

So they aren’t streaming graphics at higher than high def then. Which means it likely fits on modern hard drives just fine.

Okay and? They’re still delivering at a higher resolution than most people can or want to achieve.

This is absolutely ridiculous, even for that mission statement.

The corporation running the AI and the corporation using the AI. They should both pay the same fines. To be clear, two fines of the same size, not a single fine that’s split.

Then I don’t know where you live with century link but if that’s true it’s the one blessed place they don’t do it.

I’m not the guy you responded to, I’m just pointing out that it is a full monopoly. Which is important because part of the story they sell is that the ability to pay thousands of dollars in moving costs is a reasonable cost of switching providers. We’re never going to get the situation changed if we don’t acknowledge that it’s a full monopoly, complete with rent seeking.

Thank your regulators then. There are very much still a thing. Not because they need to be. But because they allow ISPs to make more money by setting arbitrary limits.

And with 12 terabytes on a 250 dollar hard drive, why do I care about 500 gigabytes?

If they’re using petabytes of data for flyover territory then they’ve already lost their goddamn minds.

In higher than high def? While you’re at 30k feet?

Ever look out a plane window?

What the fuck are they rendering?

They do not have to stream it. PC hard drives come in the multiples of TB these days.

@Intensely_Human is correct. ISPs sign contracts with your city or county (depending on state/province laws) for a designated area. They are the sole provider of one type of Internet there. So you have one cable company and one phone line Internet company. The exception to this is the wireless companies that you buy your cell phone line from. Some cities may allow a second choice in one location but it’s not common outside the largest cities.

From the customer point of view, when you move in you are told what cable company serves your area. Then you have a choice of cable, phone line, satellite, or cell phone. Our government pretends that choice makes it not a monopoly.

Also, municipal run Internet is explicitly banned in many states. So if a town doesn’t like any of the options or no private company will serve the town, they cannot setup their own.

Those are actually just for show. We’ve let like 3 companies buy up all of our grocery stores too.

We’re finding out that anywhere our laws say the government can hold rich people accountable or rich people should do something it actually means they can just do whatever they want. Even the hard line laws like price collusion have gone unenforced for decades now. And now that there is an (a single) enforcement action, it’s a civil suit that’s not even threatening to cost them more than they made.

That’s a full monopoly.

Quantum Fiber is Century Link. They have always throttled for going over a cap. They have always advertised no cap and no throttling. They have always waited for you to call customer service with the speed test receipts several times to come clean about doing so.

You can pause large game downloads and pick them up again later.