Never mind the huge difference between an OS for a disposable device, and an OS for computers that is expected to last for a decade or more
Since when were computers ever supposed to last a decade? In the United States, the IRS (tax agency) allows you to deduct computer costs in the year they are purchased. For a durable good the IRS forces you to amortize the cost of a business expense over the life expectancy of the item. So that tells you that even the federal government doesn't expect your computer to be worth keeping long term. I might keep a computer for 5-6 years for browsing the internet and checking my email (perhaps even longer) but 3-4 years for a work computer is very long indeed! I'll be keeping my cellphone for 4-5 years if the battery life is acceptable.
google glass won't keep...um...people from bribing each other...they can just exchange the money at another time
There's two parts to a bribe- transferring the money (which you addressed), and actually doing what you're being bribed to do. If the inspection is recorded, the inspector can't ignore problems that he sees. I suppose he could deliberately not look in places he knows there are problems, but then the (recorded) inspection would be incomplete.
No he can't hide violations as easily. Instead, he'll notify the owner and the "random inspection" will not be so random or unexpected anymore. You're not likely to fail a health inspection if you know they're coming!
In school sports the boy's sports programs are granted a lot more money, even with Title 9. Do you think Ole Miss or Ohio State are as generous as the girls programs (including admissions) as they are with boys football? If benefactors want to pay girls more to learn programming then it is wonderful?
I believe you are mistaken, to be quite honest. The university I went to bent over backwards to comply with Title 9. They cut every men's sport that was not profitable (down to football, basketball, and wrestling). They also had to recruit female athletes from out of state/country in order to match scholarship funding. They put out adverts in the school paper indicating scholarships were available for walk-on female athletes. They had a women's equestrian team (which is very expensive) specifically so they could balance out football spending. It was almost impossible to be a male athlete at my school unless you were a superstar. You could walk on to the women's soccer team and get a sport's scholarship. Does that seem very fair to the men?
This wouldn't even be an issue if the damn local news didn't report on it. 3 cars?! A night of drunken stupidity. Now it's going to be trending.
Eh when I was a wee lad we used to do the same thing with the Honda N600. Boys will be boys. The tricky part is sneaking out into the pasture without getting any dung on your shoes. And heaven help you if you tip the thing onto you!
A quick search reveals http://www.noip.com/, and I'm sure they'll be more. Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
I've been using ZoneEdit for a long time. They've changed their business model slightly. Don't know if they still offer as many free options any more, but they have been great for me for over 10 years now!
Yes, yes, just as Neil Armstrong and Harrison Schmidt returned to Earth. But with any luck, there are people who are alive today who will help to settle the Moon - and die there of old age. Humanity must either continue out to the other planets, and to the planets of other stars, or our race will die here in the cradle of Earth the next time a BIG rock hits the Earth, we will become extinct. I'm a big believer in humanity not becoming extinct.
The ultimate "space exploration is immoral" argument boils down to one of two things. Either you're a coward, and think all humans should be cowards, or you hate humanity and APPROVE of the idea of human extinction. Because if we sit here long enough, it WILL happen. It's a statistical certainty.
The less-sane of the commenters here seem to think that we're about to blast off for Mars tomorrow. It's not going to happen; we don't have any rockets. We can't even send more Americans to the International Space Station, now that NASA has decided to cut off cooperation with the Russians. But by the time we _can_ go to Mars, we'll be ready to live there - for a long time. Will it be ten years? Thirty? Fifty? Hell, I'm astonished that we haven't even been back to the Moon in the last 40 years. We could be on Mars NOW, if we had wanted to, in 1980.
So, let's start NOW. It won't be easy, it won't be cheap, and it won't be entirely safe - but nothing worthwhile ever is. People died learning about electricity. Marie Curie died learning about radium. People died learning how to fly, and people died learning how to dive, and people die every day in learning how to drive. People will die learning how to build lunar habitats, and learning how to land on Mars, and how to build homes there. And a lot more people WON'T die, and we'll learn what we need to know to settle Mars, and to build starships.
And just as it has always done, the knowledge that we gain in doing these things and going those places will make life easier and safer for you cowards who stay behind.
I'm not saying that we should not be preparing such a mission. I am just saying that we should not send anyone on a one-way trip without careful consideration. Human beings are very fickle. Someone who wants that one way trip now may change their mind in two weeks. Besides, there may be resources on Mars that we want to bring back to Earth anyway, so it will become more economically feasible if we can send raw materials back to the Earth.
My mobile provider (3, in the UK) has started rolling out a thing that lets you use your inclusive minutes and data allowance in other countries without any extra charge (the costs if you go over those limits are pretty dire). It was actually cheaper for me to use data on my mobile when I visit the US than it was for the people I was visiting, on my last trip. I think they've seen the writing on the wall and started making these agreements long before they were needed. They're able to do this and charge 3p/minute for calls, 2p/text and 1p/MB for data (pre-pay - if you get a bundle and buy in bulk then things are cheaper, but the bundles are time limited).
Just got back from a trip out of the US. With T-mobile I had free text and data in three different countries but the cost for a voice call was $0.20 a minute. Of course, with free data, I could use my voip service to make calls at $0.01 per minute.
By your standard, the Plymouth and Jamestown colonies were "suicide missions"; the people who boarded the Mayflower never expected to come back.
The first people that went to the new world did come back, though. Christopher Columbus didn't just hang out in Hispanola for the rest of his life. The people who went to Jamestown and Plymouth had the capability of coming back if those so chose. In fact, some early colonists did just that. There is a huge difference.
In other news I stopped wearing a watch back in the eighties when my beeper stated telling the time.
My iPhone 5s has a motion sensor so no need to wear anything for use with FitBit and fits nicely in my pocket. Plus I use an iPhone wallet case so often I don't even carry a purse when shopping. Last time I want is even more crap to carry.
I love a good watch. They are stylish and much more convenient to use rather than having to reach into my pocket to check the time. This is especially true when I am trying to be discreet during a meeting, date, or while listening to a coworker's inane babbling. There are times when I cannot wear a watch, though, and I am happy that I have my phone as a fallback.
The holy grail for FTA is finding "wild feeds" - temporary uplinks from site to a network (think breaking news). You can find some serious hilarity here sometimes. But the feeds come and go in a matter of quarter hours, so they're tougher to find.
I watched the Columbine shooting news coverage live on one of these wild feeds. They showed things that did not air on TV (victims trying to escape and leaving blood trails, etc). Not exactly what I wanted to see, but the ability to watch these things was interesting. The news anchor bloopers and such can be interesting too. I've caught a rare sports feed (15+ years ago) and its always interesting to see what the camera men are up to when the commercials are airing. Overall, though, I agree that it is too much work to actually use this to watch TV. It's not like the golden days when you could watch network shows the night before they aired for the rest of the country.
I've got one, I've got a 2TB collection of data that I regularly syphon files from when I am traveling. It is easy and works great, I don't need to leave a PC running (draining my wallet through the power company) to access all the data since it is a low-power device. It is as fast as my internet speed and costs nothing for the service.
I built a fanless Core i3 Ivy Bridge machine that, according to my Kill-A-Watt, uses about 10W unless its really cranking out some computations for me. It runs an L2TP over IPSec VPN server that allows me to remotely connect to my machine from any device, including my iPad or phone. I have a virtual machine that runs a linux file server on it, and one that runs a windows host for RDP. I was originally running all of this on one of the original Atom boards but I found myself in need of upgrading.
The overall cost of building the computer from scratch was around $400 (Motherboard, CPU, RAM). I repurposed an existing SSD for its boot drive (Intel drive that uses 0.125W), and then a 1TB mechanical drive for storage. My off-the-top-of-my-head calculations put my electricity cost at about $11 a year.
I use ZoneEdit for DNS services and my router automatically updates the IP address the moment that it changes. My ISP changes my IP address about once or twice a year. I spend about 2 hours a year on security updates and other system maintenance.
Why did I set up a system like this with RDP capabilities? I used to spend a lot of time in hotels and I do not trust hotel WiFi. I'd also travel internationally and could not always access the services I wanted to access remotely. I sometimes used the VPN connection to buy products at a better fair (did you know that British Rail gives you a better price on train tickets if you purchase from the US instead of the UK?). Most of all, I have a secure network with which I can do all of my online banking, emailing, and bill-paying while on the road. I maintain a similar box at my parents that I use to remotely administer and repair their computers from across the world (assuming they can boot them). Totally worth it to have a real machine, IMHO.
This is legit. Regular news sources picked this up yesterday. Sadly, I've seen people who over rely on these cameras almost hit people by not checking the sides of their car!
Oh I know how that is. The other day I put on one of my old winter coats from years ago and found 500,000 bitcoins in the pocket. It was completely unexpected. I used it to buy a pizza.
I read the paper and while the approach of learning a representation for faces, and then classifying in that new space whether the face is the same as model is sound, the representation is trained on a closed dataset (the 4m faces from facebook).
So it means that there is no way for the scientific community to check whether the results are correct or not. The results in the paper lack a comparison to a reproducible result, like using the youtube or faces in the wild datasets to train the representation, and then report results given that representation. This way researchers could validate the approach.
I would never have accepted such paper if I were to review it.
I don't believe them anyway. It rarely suggests the right names for the people in the photos that I upload. I only upload pictures of specific groups of people, and they are all somewhat similar pictures. So If its 97.5% accurate then I must account for most of the 2.5% of the inaccuracies.
And what, exactly, does using an "interface builder" to build a GUI program teach you? Nothing. Respectfully, it seems that you seem to be part of the problem rather than the solution.
Commercial IDEs from vendors like Apple and Microsoft are "better"? Better for what? I think that after a statement like (in addition to the "gui builder") that you need to take a step back and consider what your stance is and how well you really understand things.
Tell me, what is the "order of the algorithm" that the gui builder generates?
If you're trying to learn to use a framework properly, then I posit that interface builders will help you do exactly that. You'll learn how to wire up all your controls and to handle the framework callbacks properly. I am not saying that you'll learn how to write the UI code, but it will at least force you to learn how to research frameworks and their use. The interface builder doesn't actually write your framework code for you, but it will help you learn what the framework needs you to do in order for you to leverage the framework. You still have to write the code that actually does something meaningful with it.
Part of these resources are being provided by people or organizations or governments who just want to Do The Right Thing.
Some more of these resources are being provided by those who see others Doing The Right Thing and thinking to themselves that "gee, if A can do it I should do it to show I'm just as good at DTRT as them".
And the last little bit are doing it for a positive karma, so they can get away with Something Bad later on...
A positive motivation for "doing the right thing" is the fact that these military crews have to stay proficient at their job. These emergency situations give them practice for the real world without having the dull feeling of a drill. Not to mention the fact that they would have spent the money flying those helicopters, planes, and sailing those ships regardless. The real question of cost is whether they were diverted from another mission of value, or whether they were just sitting in the south China sea practicing their ELINT skills?
I don't think there will be a tsunami of attacks but I am willing to bet that you will see a multiple of 2 or 3 times the number of serious attacks in normally stable countries.
Last I checked 2 or 3 times 0 is still 0. So for 2013 you might get 3 terrorist attacks on US soil. And for all years from 2002-2012? You get... 0. Well 0 successful attacks anyway. Perhaps there were plots foiled in those years.
The water California is watering its crops with comes primarily from rivers. The rivers are watershed from rain which condensed out of water vapor in the atmosphere. Most of that water they use then evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere where it eventually condenses and falls as rain again and feeds the rivers.
It's the water cycle that you should have learned about in elementary school.
You sir, are incorrect. A lot of the water comes from underground water tables. It takes a long time for water to penetrate the earth's crust deep enough to replenish aquifers and other underground sources of water. Fresno county is one of the largest producers of agriculture in California (or it used to be). Take a look at the Historical water table information as per the city of Fresno.
For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.
Home Ethernet will be fast enough when it can keep up with my 10 disk RAID 0. I may not transfer large volumes of data over my Ethernet on a regular basis, but when I do, I want it done ASAP.
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Never mind the huge difference between an OS for a disposable device, and an OS for computers that is expected to last for a decade or more
Since when were computers ever supposed to last a decade? In the United States, the IRS (tax agency) allows you to deduct computer costs in the year they are purchased. For a durable good the IRS forces you to amortize the cost of a business expense over the life expectancy of the item. So that tells you that even the federal government doesn't expect your computer to be worth keeping long term. I might keep a computer for 5-6 years for browsing the internet and checking my email (perhaps even longer) but 3-4 years for a work computer is very long indeed! I'll be keeping my cellphone for 4-5 years if the battery life is acceptable.
google glass won't keep...um...people from bribing each other...they can just exchange the money at another time
There's two parts to a bribe- transferring the money (which you addressed), and actually doing what you're being bribed to do. If the inspection is recorded, the inspector can't ignore problems that he sees. I suppose he could deliberately not look in places he knows there are problems, but then the (recorded) inspection would be incomplete.
No he can't hide violations as easily. Instead, he'll notify the owner and the "random inspection" will not be so random or unexpected anymore. You're not likely to fail a health inspection if you know they're coming!
In school sports the boy's sports programs are granted a lot more money, even with Title 9. Do you think Ole Miss or Ohio State are as generous as the girls programs (including admissions) as they are with boys football? If benefactors want to pay girls more to learn programming then it is wonderful?
I believe you are mistaken, to be quite honest. The university I went to bent over backwards to comply with Title 9. They cut every men's sport that was not profitable (down to football, basketball, and wrestling). They also had to recruit female athletes from out of state/country in order to match scholarship funding. They put out adverts in the school paper indicating scholarships were available for walk-on female athletes. They had a women's equestrian team (which is very expensive) specifically so they could balance out football spending. It was almost impossible to be a male athlete at my school unless you were a superstar. You could walk on to the women's soccer team and get a sport's scholarship. Does that seem very fair to the men?
This wouldn't even be an issue if the damn local news didn't report on it. 3 cars?! A night of drunken stupidity. Now it's going to be trending.
Eh when I was a wee lad we used to do the same thing with the Honda N600. Boys will be boys. The tricky part is sneaking out into the pasture without getting any dung on your shoes. And heaven help you if you tip the thing onto you!
A quick search reveals http://www.noip.com/, and I'm sure they'll be more. Anyway isn't this supposed to be a stopgap before IPV6 means we can all have permanent static IPS?!
I've been using ZoneEdit for a long time. They've changed their business model slightly. Don't know if they still offer as many free options any more, but they have been great for me for over 10 years now!
It is obvious from the internals of systemd that it's designed and written by B grade talent.
I represent that!!
Yes, yes, just as Neil Armstrong and Harrison Schmidt returned to Earth. But with any luck, there are people who are alive today who will help to settle the Moon - and die there of old age. Humanity must either continue out to the other planets, and to the planets of other stars, or our race will die here in the cradle of Earth the next time a BIG rock hits the Earth, we will become extinct. I'm a big believer in humanity not becoming extinct.
The ultimate "space exploration is immoral" argument boils down to one of two things. Either you're a coward, and think all humans should be cowards, or you hate humanity and APPROVE of the idea of human extinction. Because if we sit here long enough, it WILL happen. It's a statistical certainty.
The less-sane of the commenters here seem to think that we're about to blast off for Mars tomorrow. It's not going to happen; we don't have any rockets. We can't even send more Americans to the International Space Station, now that NASA has decided to cut off cooperation with the Russians. But by the time we _can_ go to Mars, we'll be ready to live there - for a long time. Will it be ten years? Thirty? Fifty? Hell, I'm astonished that we haven't even been back to the Moon in the last 40 years. We could be on Mars NOW, if we had wanted to, in 1980.
So, let's start NOW. It won't be easy, it won't be cheap, and it won't be entirely safe - but nothing worthwhile ever is. People died learning about electricity. Marie Curie died learning about radium. People died learning how to fly, and people died learning how to dive, and people die every day in learning how to drive. People will die learning how to build lunar habitats, and learning how to land on Mars, and how to build homes there. And a lot more people WON'T die, and we'll learn what we need to know to settle Mars, and to build starships.
And just as it has always done, the knowledge that we gain in doing these things and going those places will make life easier and safer for you cowards who stay behind.
I'm not saying that we should not be preparing such a mission. I am just saying that we should not send anyone on a one-way trip without careful consideration. Human beings are very fickle. Someone who wants that one way trip now may change their mind in two weeks. Besides, there may be resources on Mars that we want to bring back to Earth anyway, so it will become more economically feasible if we can send raw materials back to the Earth.
My mobile provider (3, in the UK) has started rolling out a thing that lets you use your inclusive minutes and data allowance in other countries without any extra charge (the costs if you go over those limits are pretty dire). It was actually cheaper for me to use data on my mobile when I visit the US than it was for the people I was visiting, on my last trip. I think they've seen the writing on the wall and started making these agreements long before they were needed. They're able to do this and charge 3p/minute for calls, 2p/text and 1p/MB for data (pre-pay - if you get a bundle and buy in bulk then things are cheaper, but the bundles are time limited).
Just got back from a trip out of the US. With T-mobile I had free text and data in three different countries but the cost for a voice call was $0.20 a minute. Of course, with free data, I could use my voip service to make calls at $0.01 per minute.
By your standard, the Plymouth and Jamestown colonies were "suicide missions"; the people who boarded the Mayflower never expected to come back.
The first people that went to the new world did come back, though. Christopher Columbus didn't just hang out in Hispanola for the rest of his life. The people who went to Jamestown and Plymouth had the capability of coming back if those so chose. In fact, some early colonists did just that. There is a huge difference.
I'd be happy just to get a good rearview camera on my motorbike. All I get to see in the mirrors are my elbows...
And that, my friend, is why I ride my motorcycle in rain, snow. sleet and hail. God I have sexy elbows...
More fired. This isn't wall street!
Your benefits package sucks. I quit.
My proof-reader is fired.
What sort of severance package do I get?
In other news I stopped wearing a watch back in the eighties when my beeper stated telling the time. My iPhone 5s has a motion sensor so no need to wear anything for use with FitBit and fits nicely in my pocket. Plus I use an iPhone wallet case so often I don't even carry a purse when shopping. Last time I want is even more crap to carry.
I love a good watch. They are stylish and much more convenient to use rather than having to reach into my pocket to check the time. This is especially true when I am trying to be discreet during a meeting, date, or while listening to a coworker's inane babbling. There are times when I cannot wear a watch, though, and I am happy that I have my phone as a fallback.
The holy grail for FTA is finding "wild feeds" - temporary uplinks from site to a network (think breaking news). You can find some serious hilarity here sometimes. But the feeds come and go in a matter of quarter hours, so they're tougher to find.
I watched the Columbine shooting news coverage live on one of these wild feeds. They showed things that did not air on TV (victims trying to escape and leaving blood trails, etc). Not exactly what I wanted to see, but the ability to watch these things was interesting. The news anchor bloopers and such can be interesting too. I've caught a rare sports feed (15+ years ago) and its always interesting to see what the camera men are up to when the commercials are airing. Overall, though, I agree that it is too much work to actually use this to watch TV. It's not like the golden days when you could watch network shows the night before they aired for the rest of the country.
I've got one, I've got a 2TB collection of data that I regularly syphon files from when I am traveling. It is easy and works great, I don't need to leave a PC running (draining my wallet through the power company) to access all the data since it is a low-power device. It is as fast as my internet speed and costs nothing for the service.
I built a fanless Core i3 Ivy Bridge machine that, according to my Kill-A-Watt, uses about 10W unless its really cranking out some computations for me. It runs an L2TP over IPSec VPN server that allows me to remotely connect to my machine from any device, including my iPad or phone. I have a virtual machine that runs a linux file server on it, and one that runs a windows host for RDP. I was originally running all of this on one of the original Atom boards but I found myself in need of upgrading.
The overall cost of building the computer from scratch was around $400 (Motherboard, CPU, RAM). I repurposed an existing SSD for its boot drive (Intel drive that uses 0.125W), and then a 1TB mechanical drive for storage. My off-the-top-of-my-head calculations put my electricity cost at about $11 a year.
I use ZoneEdit for DNS services and my router automatically updates the IP address the moment that it changes. My ISP changes my IP address about once or twice a year. I spend about 2 hours a year on security updates and other system maintenance.
Why did I set up a system like this with RDP capabilities? I used to spend a lot of time in hotels and I do not trust hotel WiFi. I'd also travel internationally and could not always access the services I wanted to access remotely. I sometimes used the VPN connection to buy products at a better fair (did you know that British Rail gives you a better price on train tickets if you purchase from the US instead of the UK?). Most of all, I have a secure network with which I can do all of my online banking, emailing, and bill-paying while on the road. I maintain a similar box at my parents that I use to remotely administer and repair their computers from across the world (assuming they can boot them). Totally worth it to have a real machine, IMHO.
This is legit. Regular news sources picked this up yesterday. Sadly, I've seen people who over rely on these cameras almost hit people by not checking the sides of their car!
Oh I know how that is. The other day I put on one of my old winter coats from years ago and found 500,000 bitcoins in the pocket. It was completely unexpected. I used it to buy a pizza.
I read the paper and while the approach of learning a representation for faces, and then classifying in that new space whether the face is the same as model is sound, the representation is trained on a closed dataset (the 4m faces from facebook).
So it means that there is no way for the scientific community to check whether the results are correct or not. The results in the paper lack a comparison to a reproducible result, like using the youtube or faces in the wild datasets to train the representation, and then report results given that representation. This way researchers could validate the approach.
I would never have accepted such paper if I were to review it.
I don't believe them anyway. It rarely suggests the right names for the people in the photos that I upload. I only upload pictures of specific groups of people, and they are all somewhat similar pictures. So If its 97.5% accurate then I must account for most of the 2.5% of the inaccuracies.
Shouldn't it be infamous? After all Infamous means it's more than famous. It's not only famous, it's infamous
And what, exactly, does using an "interface builder" to build a GUI program teach you? Nothing. Respectfully, it seems that you seem to be part of the problem rather than the solution.
Commercial IDEs from vendors like Apple and Microsoft are "better"? Better for what? I think that after a statement like (in addition to the "gui builder") that you need to take a step back and consider what your stance is and how well you really understand things.
Tell me, what is the "order of the algorithm" that the gui builder generates?
If you're trying to learn to use a framework properly, then I posit that interface builders will help you do exactly that. You'll learn how to wire up all your controls and to handle the framework callbacks properly. I am not saying that you'll learn how to write the UI code, but it will at least force you to learn how to research frameworks and their use. The interface builder doesn't actually write your framework code for you, but it will help you learn what the framework needs you to do in order for you to leverage the framework. You still have to write the code that actually does something meaningful with it.
oR he could have locked the copilot out of the crew station while he was in the bathroom.
Part of these resources are being provided by people or organizations or governments who just want to Do The Right Thing.
Some more of these resources are being provided by those who see others Doing The Right Thing and thinking to themselves that "gee, if A can do it I should do it to show I'm just as good at DTRT as them".
And the last little bit are doing it for a positive karma, so they can get away with Something Bad later on...
A positive motivation for "doing the right thing" is the fact that these military crews have to stay proficient at their job. These emergency situations give them practice for the real world without having the dull feeling of a drill. Not to mention the fact that they would have spent the money flying those helicopters, planes, and sailing those ships regardless. The real question of cost is whether they were diverted from another mission of value, or whether they were just sitting in the south China sea practicing their ELINT skills?
I don't think there will be a tsunami of attacks but I am willing to bet that you will see a multiple of 2 or 3 times the number of serious attacks in normally stable countries.
Last I checked 2 or 3 times 0 is still 0. So for 2013 you might get 3 terrorist attacks on US soil. And for all years from 2002-2012? You get... 0. Well 0 successful attacks anyway. Perhaps there were plots foiled in those years.
The water California is watering its crops with comes primarily from rivers. The rivers are watershed from rain which condensed out of water vapor in the atmosphere. Most of that water they use then evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere where it eventually condenses and falls as rain again and feeds the rivers.
It's the water cycle that you should have learned about in elementary school.
You sir, are incorrect. A lot of the water comes from underground water tables. It takes a long time for water to penetrate the earth's crust deep enough to replenish aquifers and other underground sources of water. Fresno county is one of the largest producers of agriculture in California (or it used to be). Take a look at the Historical water table information as per the city of Fresno.
For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.
Home Ethernet will be fast enough when it can keep up with my 10 disk RAID 0. I may not transfer large volumes of data over my Ethernet on a regular basis, but when I do, I want it done ASAP.