A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports

StealMyWiFi writes "C-NET.co.uk has a lighthearted look at ten of the best obsolete ports. The biggest surprise is that C-NET claims Firewire is obsolete, which will come as a surprise to the millions of people worldwide who are still using it, especially in light of the story that Firewire is due to get a massive speed boost! The same could be said for their claims about SCSI, although from a consumer point of view I guess that's fairer."

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Does not deserve to be read

[ACalcutt]

I clicked the link and noticed it was multiple pages so I closed it right away. This article does not deserve to be read.

Re:modem port?

[kesuki]

one satellite provider includes dial-up capabilities in the box..

"SkyWay USA employs unique hybrid technology to maximize service and minimize cost. Research shows that most people using the internet generally have small upload requirements such as sending email or simple clicks while browsing web pages. SkyWay USA utilizes your phone line to send these small packets of data to the internet at regular dial-up speeds."

and countless tivo boxes use dialup, although tivo would like to migrate people over to tivo broadband.

albeit these are not exactly in the PC anymore, one of the nice things about national dialup (pre hot spot internet access etc) was that a laptop could go just about anywhere and dial up the internet, from anywhere with a national dial up provider.... now with laptops, you're running whatever speed the wi-fi access point lets you use.

GSM sucks, it was built to allow digital data transfer by PHONES not by computers, the new wireless auction results will allow some truly designed to offer high speed data for the masses over wireless, as well as allow phone companies to build in calea compliance mode for phones the government has wiretapped.

the reason why current phones can't send 'full quality audio' is there simply wasn't the bandwidth to do this and phones weren't designed to both compress a call, and send 'full quality audio' at the same time, being totally transparent to the end user (which for a court ordered wiretap is the normal mode, only the judge and the cops know who is being wiretapped, at the time of tapping)

full quality audio is required to get 'background conversations' I'm kinda surprised that they didn't tie in some sort of requirement for the phone companies to send still photos of where the phone user is at the time the call takes place too (since most phones have a camera in them too, and calea was so broad in what it required in the first place) although if they had, undoubtedly the informed criminal would just get some white out and apply it to the lens of the camera (or otherwise block the lens)