how-to block ads
|
|
Uniqs:
127 |
Share Topic
 |
 |
|
|
 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | In other news... Another recent report "insists" that I must have a 10,000 square foot house, and a 500% raise by 2012 in order to "stay competitive" in the US workforce. Furthermore, it also "insists" that I must have at least 3 luxury vehicles at my disposal at all times.
Seriously, all these "reports" that come out are a bunch of nonsense. Consumer broadband speeds have nothing to do with anything. The reality is that for businesses, both 100Mbps and GigE speeds are available in most urban or developed areas today. Given that business is what drives the economy, perhaps the report should have been more focused on that. Now I wont argue that business grade 100Mbps (+) connections are cheap ($1000 to $6000 per month), but that cost will surely come down in the next 4 years.
As for consumer connections, I can also argue that this report is baseless. With DOCIS 3.0 rollouts happening as we speak, 100Mbps will be available to large numbers of customers within the next 4 years. There will clearly be large rural areas that will struggle to be served by anything other than dialup, but thats a technical limitation that cant be rectified.
The bottom line is that these "doom and gloom" reports do nothing but stir up the malcontents on this website. The people who really need high capacity connections in the next 4 years will either have them, or they will move to where they are available (assuming that its so necessary for them).
--
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
-Ronald Reagan-
| | |
|
 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by wifi4milez:Another recent report "insists" that I must have a 10,000 square foot house, and a 500% raise by 2012 in order to "stay competitive" in the US workforce. Furthermore, it also "insists" that I must have at least 3 luxury vehicles at my disposal at all times. YES WE CAN! 
--
This isn't fair! I was only supposed to hate just ONE presidential candidate! | |
| reply to wifi4milez
I thought that we already tried the house thing and that is how we got Adjustable Rate Mortgages, etc., and the housing bubble burst!!!! | |
|
