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Where Is The Broadband?
gouldtj writes "First Monday is running an article in its current issue entitled: The many paradoxes of broadband. It discusses some of the issues and ideas behind broadband, but seems to focus on: Where is it? There is also a really nice discussion on the telecom industry in general, along with the .com boom."
I thought it was explosions that made a "boom"; what sound does an implosion make?
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
...is "How do I shot broadband?"
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i want fiber to my house! as cheap as 250$!
Sometimes, I see this little grey man coming for me. He has sissors in his hands, and he's grunting "Give me Linus, Give me LI... NUSS!
Then he has sex with an aligator.
A hard sex.
WOW
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Slippery, too!
Actually you can get a mustang cobra with 390 horsepower for 40 grand so screw the lexus.
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered IIS community when IDC confirmed that IIS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than 24 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that IIS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IIS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict IIS' future. The hand writing is on the wall: IIS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for IIS because IIS is dying. Things are looking very bad for IIS. As many of us are already aware, IIS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
IIS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IIS developers Bteve Stallmer and Gill Bates only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: IIS is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
SCO leader Darl McBride states that there are only 10156289 users of IIS. The numbers are staggering, that's a change of -0.21 percent from last month, McBride saide in an interview Monday, Don't worry Bill, we have your back covered. We'll be suing the Apache Software Foundation next month due to stolen code found in the base of Apache, that we wrote. We can't disclose that code as we don't want it removed.
All major surveys show that IIS has steadily declined in market share. IIS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If IIS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. IIS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, IIS is dead.
Fact: IIS is dying
I've got high speed internet access via DSL, but I don't have "broadband". I'm not even sure I can get genuine "broadband" in my high-tech metropolitan area without paying out the nose for it.
I wish the media would stop redefining words because they're too lazy to look them up.
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
It has come to my attention that you completely inhale the pastes in crust. Read on for more about this fascinating topic.
The world went into shock a few weeks ago when goatse.info reported the results of a study which concluded that inhaling paste is a very dangerous pastime, one that no one is advised to take up. Eventually, everyone adapted to the new state of affairs and began inhaling other things. Almost everyone, that is. But not you! According to my records, you still inhale paste!
Why?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!
You moron, you idiot, you imbecile, you gay nigger ! Arg! You make me so fucking sick! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.
Compare this to the US where if you live in a small town you are pretty screwed.
Not true. My home town (population 997) has excellent broadband. $35/month. I'm obviously biased, as my company covers one-third of the state providing broadband to communities as small as 400. And guess what? Nobody fleeced a taxpayer to make this happen. Not one cent of gubmint money made this happen.
We tried various broadband wireless connections but they were highly unreliable.
Interesting. In our part of the state, DSL has that reputation. It comes in 128 kbps (advertised, though at 6 pm, the fractional T1 that the incumbant LEC uses for Internet egress is filled up with P2P and other stuff, so you get about 40-50 kbps... dialup, over that $70/month DSL).
Bottom line is that no technology works well when it's operated by incompetent providers, or folks who just don't plain care anymore. Drive past your service provider's office at 4:30 pm. If there are no cars (all gone golfing), don't count on them working hard to give you good service.
*scoove*
I believe it is poor usage of links to chose "here" or "click here" as link text. It is highly undescriptive as a link. It is the equivalent of "mystery meat" links. No one enjoys mystery meat when links are images, and I don't enjoy it anymore even when the links are text.
Spoon not. Fork, or fork not. There is no spoon.