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BBC Reports 38% Jump In U.S. Broadband Use
Sammy at Palm Addict writes "The BBC tells how broadband internet usage has soared over in the U.S. 'More and more Americans are joining the internet's fast lane, according to official figures. The number of people and business connected to broadband jumped by 38% in a year, said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).'"
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Pardon me, Sir - What exactly do you mean when you say "over" in the US?
Happen you to be a potential terrorist, perchance?
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
Well are you volunteering to drive your station wagon across America to make sure everyone can have access to 25GB/s or whatever it is carrying tapes around? Because I hate dealing with old people who know nothing about the internet.
What demands the 1 gigabit-per-second is real-time videos. Yet, the basic cable television already fulfills such a need.
Most Americans are social creatures. We enjoy watching videos with other people, not alone. Hence, the VHS player never did vanquish the movie theaters. Tickets for the theaters are as expensive as ever, and still the "gang" meets Friday night for a trip to the theater.
So, using the Internet to watch movies by yourself is really a solution to a problem that does not exist. A few geeks may want the gigabit-per-second feed for their pornography, but otherwise, there is little demand for such speeds.
So, what is the utility of the Internet? The utility is information. At the tip of your fingers, you can access the best, most accurate information in the world. Consider Fox News, CNN, "Washington Post", "Wall Street Journal", etc. Of course, search engines like Yahoo! Search enable you to find the information you need to understand, say, the pancreatic cancer that afflicts a member of your family.
Getting this information is sufficiently easy and comfortable at 384K Baud.
By the same token, high-speed Internet has not reached a plateau in, say, China or Korea. The Chinese are anti-social people and are prone to brutality. So, watching videos alone is considered "fun". Chinese culture is vastly different from Western culture.
What's so amazing about that? Carl Jung pointed out what we all subconsciously knew all along: People are a walking mass of contradictions (heavily paraphrased, I know, bear with me here). The ability to entertain two contradictatory thoughts at the same time is one of the main things that differentiates the human mind from a computer. I have a friend who gives forth eloquently and logically on any number of geopolitical/social topics, yet still harbors an irrational hatred for France (though I've managed to convince him to scale back his rantings to a mostly personal loathing for Jacques Chirac and his cronies).
"Stand not amaz'd," for such is the human condition.
"We dwell within a silent country, beyond the reach of time and death" -Nothing Sophotech, The Golden Transcendence
The BBC is INCREDIBLY left-wing, it's embarassing. British troops just before the invasion of Iraq turned off their feed because it was "bad for moral" - with the BBC always always, always, taking the left-wing's position. The BBC used to be something to be proud at, marvelled at throughout the world, now it's a bad joke.
Maybe the feed you get abroad is somewhat different, but here reporter always get their sly remarks in on just about any significant political report all the time, I wish the BBC's funding was cut, or atleast threatened, then maybe it'd clean up its' act.