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Broadband's Unintended Consequences
Makarand writes "BBC News is
reporting on the result of a long term study
conducted to find how ordinary people and small businesses in and around London and Leeds used broadband. They
found
that broadband was actually slowing down user interaction with
the Net as they are no longer afraid of spending
too much time online anymore. People did not really care about the speed at which they could download from the Net. Broadband's
selling points- like speed and the capacity to be always-on, were something
that the average person did not care about."
Maybe they forgot to plug the modem in... My mom did when she first got broadband and said it was ungodly slow...
Banaaaana!
Unintended consequences have broadband!
Actually I'm personally holding out for a highspeed link directly into my brain so I can entirely do away with any physical or social contact with the world and become one with the machine (though quite how the human brain will handle being bombarded by script kiddies trying to hack into it is a concern...)
I see they're running Windows.
The Mothership
"Hi, I'm here to sell you broadband." "Great! I can go as fast as I want, right?" "No, we cap you, and we'll have you arrested if you go too fast." "Oh. But I can download movies and audio, right? I mean, I already own them on tape, so it's okay, right?" "No, we'll give your name out to the FBI, and anyway, we prohibit you from uploading on P2P networks." "Oh, but it's priced right, right?" "No, we are going to charge you at least $40 a month and we're going to rent you this nifty used modem and we're going to install some spyware on your computer." "It works with Linux?" "Pbbbbt!"
The baby's fine -- please stop sending business cards.
But when he starts...he'll get plenty of email telling him how that bigger pipe can be his!
"Broadband doesn't do what it says on the tin"
--James Crabtree, i-Society
Well, there's your problem, James. You've attached your computer to a soup can. You want to be hooked up to some sort of a modem. RTFM.
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*pats his computer on the top of it's case* Don't listen to them Aerie, they're just stupid mean humans. :)
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When we'd wait 20 minutes to download a multipart uuencoded
Usenet binary to able to view a picture to spank it to.
Yes, masturbation has come quicker. We have bandwidth to thank for our higher productivity.
When we think about women every x.5 seconds, we can do something about it.
Off to The Hun or to the The Free Voyeurweb
?sp
Broadband is to wife, as dialup is to girlfriend.
Think about it.
The most important thing any republican needs to know.
If it wasn't for ADSL internet access, I'd have done something productive in the last three years, instead of playing Everquest and surfing /. about 18 hours a day....
Hmm. I fail to see the downside.
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
You're Canadian, aren't you?
You moved from an English fogbank to the sunny shores of Australia, the sun shines every day, the people are gorgeous and friendly, the surf's the best in the world, and you're sitting inside at your computer cursing about the slowness of your dialup connection.
Mate, you're already out of your mind.
Take their broadband away and put them back on a 56k dialup connection again for a few days.
Dude, it's Thanksgiving. That just happened for all of us geeks stuck at our parents' house.
(posting from AOL. God this sucks.)
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Broadband is to wife, as dialup is to girlfriend.
I dunno, is your wife always-on? I know my wife gives me more busy signals now than back when I had girlfriend.