Fact is, it's a big country, and running FTTH to every cattle station out in woop-woop is just silly. Can't please everyone.
Why? Fiber is cheap. Copper is expensive - rip out the copper and sell it.
(Ok, now the economy is fucked this is less true than it was the year before last).
Installing fiber in built-up areas is more expensive than in rural areas - here in Paris they're having to use the sewers 'cos digging new holes would be insanely expensive. (Just this morning saw the poor guy in his shit-stained overalls sat in a truck bonding connectors to a huge bundle of fiber).
90% of premises already HAVE access to high-speed internet in the form of ADSL2+ or cable. And these are the same premises which are going to get upgraded while those with only low-speed DSL and dialup are going to be ignored again. Rage.
QuantumG comes up with a solution:
Start your own company providing WiMax.. Australia has some of the most open regulations in the world when it comes to broadband providers.
XaXXon reveals his inability to read:
That's a GREAT idea. Compete with the government. That's bound to work.
XaXXon old chap, the AC is complaining that the gov isn't going to provide the service, QuantumG says "provide it yourself". Where is the competition?
Further more, when upgrading software components either via cvsup or whatever method is provided in your flavor of linux, not all dependencies are necessarily upgraded and can cause cascading issues that run the risk of tapping you of time, energy, and motivation. On the average, the general user isn't up to the task of trying to symlink libraries, examine dependencies, and do the work needed to keep a linux machine running effectively.
There's your problem right there - you should be using Debian.
As a side note, having experimented both : it is impossible to live in France without French, it is possible to live in Finland without Finnish and Swedish.
I moved from the UK to France in 1983,and being very bad at languages and working in a completely anglophone environment (The American College (now University) in Paris) it took me around 10-15 years to learn to speak the atrocious French I now use. It's quite possible to live in Paris, notoriously the rudest part of France, as a non French speaker - I did it.
This is a major problem for English English speakers - some time around the 1970's they stopped teaching English grammar. Now when my Francophone daughter asks me questions about English grammar I'm reduced to saying "duh, I donno, they never taught me that". Makes me feel a right charlie.
Starting to think of your language as a secret code is a common delusion after being a few days in some environment where everyone else is speaking some foreign tongue.
Some manufacturers made "fake parity" memory - the SIMM had 8 bits and calculated the parity for the 9th bit. The motherboard would then make sure that this fake parity bit matched the parity of the real 8 bits.
More human ingenuity has been wasted by the attempt to rip people off that can be calculated. With or without parity.
The UK is a horrible place to visit because the husband of the person in charge of the police is a sexual pervert who uses state funds to finance his obscene behaviour.
The true horror of the UK system is that it is almost impossible for most people to sue for libel when they've been defamed - it's just too expensive. (My dad was once horribly libeled in a major newspaper, but given the enormous costs of suing was forced to let it go).
In general in the UK libel law is for the rich. Both as plaintiffs and defendants.
The major one that I'm aware of IS the internet. If you post something on the internet, it's considered published everywhere. And that means in Britain. So you could publish something that seems to you, living in, say, Peru, totally non-controversial and obviously true. You may need to defend yourself in Britain. Where you barely speak the language. And where the cost of a lawyer is, to you, truly exorbitant. But so is the cost of just traveling to Britain, if you can even get a Visa. So you're automatically guilty, because you can't defend yourself. And they informed you by mail, so the trial was already over before you heard about it. (Well, maybe that wouldn't happen.)
But this isn't specific the the horrible UK libel law. Your Peruvian could be sued in the US in exactly the same way - he can't turn up so he loses. Same effect.
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What is this trench of which you speak?
Don't you string telephone wires on overhead poles down under?
Neighbours?
Why? Fiber is cheap. Copper is expensive - rip out the copper and sell it.
(Ok, now the economy is fucked this is less true than it was the year before last).
Installing fiber in built-up areas is more expensive than in rural areas - here in Paris they're having to use the sewers 'cos digging new holes would be insanely expensive. (Just this morning saw the poor guy in his shit-stained overalls sat in a truck bonding connectors to a huge bundle of fiber).
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QuantumG comes up with a solution:
XaXXon reveals his inability to read:
XaXXon old chap, the AC is complaining that the gov isn't going to provide the service, QuantumG says "provide it yourself". Where is the competition?
Nicolas - thanks for this. I'm sorry it made you feel unwell, get well soon.
Christ we have to hope that Giscard and Chirac will save us. What a joke.
You are trying to use French, learn the words.
It's "Vive la Révolution!".
What criminals?
What crime?
If I'm accused of a crime I want my day in court, not a couple of e-mails and a registered letter.
Fuck this shit.
There's your problem right there - you should be using Debian.
Kodak bought ISC in 1988.
I moved from the UK to France in 1983,and being very bad at languages and working in a completely anglophone environment (The American College (now University) in Paris) it took me around 10-15 years to learn to speak the atrocious French I now use. It's quite possible to live in Paris, notoriously the rudest part of France, as a non French speaker - I did it.
Hang on a second, what fucking language are we speaking now?
When the Brits get their tongue out of Americas arse and remember that they're in Europe they get to complain about being confused with Yanks.
This is a major problem for English English speakers - some time around the 1970's they stopped teaching English grammar. Now when my Francophone daughter asks me questions about English grammar I'm reduced to saying "duh, I donno, they never taught me that". Makes me feel a right charlie.
Don't you know that the vast majority of imperative and object-oriented languages descend from Algol?
Designed by: Bauer, Bottenbruch, Rutishauser, Samelson, Backus, Katz, Perlis, Wegstein, Naur, Vauquois, van Wijngaarden, Woodger, Green, McCarthy.
Ok, some anglophones, but nowhere near a majority.
(And where does the insanity of "for English speakers" come from? Like foreign scum aren't allowed to use your precious VB?)
Ah, so you're claiming that English has become the Lingua Franca. Interesting.
Well, it certainly wasn't Kirkudbright.
("Is there naybody queer in all of Kirkudbright?" - seen on a toilet wall in Kirkudbright, 1960s).
Why not? Brits and Americans do it in Paris.
Starting to think of your language as a secret code is a common delusion after being a few days in some environment where everyone else is speaking some foreign tongue.
Can you blame them? Celine Dion? Garou?
What has the American justice system got to do about it? We're talking about UK libel law here.
Some manufacturers made "fake parity" memory - the SIMM had 8 bits and calculated the parity for the 9th bit. The motherboard would then make sure that this fake parity bit matched the parity of the real 8 bits.
More human ingenuity has been wasted by the attempt to rip people off that can be calculated. With or without parity.
Ashley? Is that you?
The UK is a horrible place to visit because the husband of the person in charge of the police is a sexual pervert who uses state funds to finance his obscene behaviour.
Libelous? I think not.
The true horror of the UK system is that it is almost impossible for most people to sue for libel when they've been defamed - it's just too expensive. (My dad was once horribly libeled in a major newspaper, but given the enormous costs of suing was forced to let it go).
In general in the UK libel law is for the rich. Both as plaintiffs and defendants.
But this isn't specific the the horrible UK libel law. Your Peruvian could be sued in the US in exactly the same way - he can't turn up so he loses. Same effect.
Uh, once again, libel is a civil matter. Nobody goes to jail either before or after the trial.