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2.4 Megabit Cellular Modem
lew writes: "Ars has a review of a cellular modem that provides 2.4 megabits / second downsteam and 153 kilobits / second upsteam... and it works! Check it out" How much for unmetered service on such a system? :)
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I can use my Voicestream unlimited weekend minutes to trade Jamie Curtis movies and pictures, now...
Get off my launchpad!
How long before there are enough Quake and Home Porn/Warez servers filling the airwaves with frags and grainy shots of Britney Spears to make it as slow as a 56k connection on a bad phone line.
Eww, just think, I could have a pirated copy of Windows XP wisping its way through my body in the form of radio waves. That alone might add credence to the celluar gives cancer argument.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Now perhaps I've been reading too much Neal Stephenson lately, but...
... no wait, those are just real girls getting a suntan.)
Do I foresee roving bands of samurai-warrior-programmers with laptops and wearable interfaces to the 'metaverse'?
Yes I do!
Well, maybe not Samurai Warriors, but pale geeks, surely! (And soon, perhaps not so pale?)
Could the stereotypical geek image change from pasty-faced teens languishing in a darkened computer room to well-traveled, olive-skinned men on beaches with laptops? (Oooh, look, live porn!
How much will civilization change when high-tech commuters can work from anywhere -- literally?
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I can just see it now:
Scene: AirPort Terminal;
Business man : WTF!!! how come it is taking so frigen long to down load my itinerary from the company? man this service sucks ass, not letting me download a frigen 4k file!!
1337 Kiddy: cool dude!! I almost got Office XP Downloaded from Kazaz to my Pocket PC!!!
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3