Why Microsoft Should Fear Bandwidth

Mike writes "Microsoft should fear increasing bandwidth to the consumer more than any other single factor as a threat to their monopoly. The average user has no desire to be the sysadmin of their machine(s), and telcos and cable companies would be glad to take this task from them -- for a nominal fee, of course, as application service providers. The PC as we know it probably only has a decade or so left."

Comments

Even Assuming You're Not Lying and/or Trolling

[the_mad_poster]

Who the hell are you, and why should I care about what you have to say in your random "blog"?

Because, frankly, just because you managed to set up some search-choking "blogging" software, that doesn't mean anyone should listen to you.

I mean, hell, you can't even format your posts properly, why should I care about your random technology predictions in your random "blog" anymore than I care about some random fourteen year old kid's random day at school in her random "blog"?

If this is news, the quality of news has really gone downhill lately.

Consolidations

[Muttonhead]

A consolidation of computing power would be a bad thing for users in the same way that a repeal of the 2nd amendment would. Keep the power local. Don't let yourself be ruled. Once you lose control over the software you lose control over the content on the network as well and it becomes as stupid and manipulatable as TV.

Your Post Translated:

[the_mad_poster]

"I have no qualifications, I'm just another ignorant 'blogger' sucking up bandwidth and blocking out REAL information on the web."

"I don't know HTML, which is why I used 'blogging' software to run my 'site', so I'll make up something about browser incompatibility, which would be entirely Slashdot's fault (since I was talking about YOUR posts HERE, dumbass - no way am I wasting my time reading the thoughts of your ignorant sychophantic readers after I killed brain cells reading your mind dump), and hope I don't sound like I suffer from congenital mental retardation."

"My 'article' got accepted on Slashdot because 1) Rob Malda's only significant technology knowledge lies in the software used to develop crappy 3d cartoons and 2) it's a really slow news day and Mr. Malda was afraid OSTG (formerly OSDN until it got such a bad rap it had to change its name) wouldn't pay him enough for his daily splurge of gin and tonics."

Crawl back to your hovel. I know more about brain surgery than you do about intarwebs technology. You have no qualifications to talk about any of this. Shit, you can't even write your own damn HTML.