 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | In other news... ...The Elevator Operators Union has proclaimed that elevators are too slow in America. They propose a $25 billion upgrade to the nations elevators, and the hiring of an additional 100,000 elevator operators and technicians.
The president of the EOU, Jack Q. Swindler, had this to say:
"It takes the American worker an additional 4 seconds on average to reach his/her intended floor due to the outdated elevator infrastructure in this country. Independent tests have also concluded that the act of simply pressing the button (to indicate your desired floor) is confusing the American public. Thus, to increase productivity and improve the US economy the EOU insists all elevators revert back to having a (union) operator in each car."
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If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
-Ronald Reagan-
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| Clever, but...
The piss poor uptime we get from Time Warner is noticeably costing us in payroll and production. The slow transfer rates force employees to work more slowly when connected to our remote computers. It also annoys the employees who are adept at using computers quickly, reduces morale, and again reduces productivity.
The slow transfer rates limit backup solutions. The Gigabit speeds or even 100 Megabit speeds available from the Hong Kong Broadband Network would be capable of handling us sending data backups to our office (without even abusing our connection). However, since we are a small company with lease agreements to deal with, the fastest internet we can get is an oversold 15 Mbps. With downtime, network contention, and some companies sending us data two weeks or a month at a time, networked office backups will be at best, often out of date.
We can find plenty of money in government waste and funded illegal activities (read the Constitution, there are PLENTY of those) to fund something like public data networks, which will actually be used by the people funding it, unlike funding a study to determine that people outgrow wetting their bed. |
