I was in Northern Ireland, County Kerry.. mainly hanging out with my family in the various countries. No students or anything like that.
VOIP is all the rage over here as well, most cable modem and dsl providers offer it for only $25 USD a month. People do the same thing over here, get broadband to lower telephone costs... fact of the matter is, i dont know anyone that is still on dialup here.. occasionally i run across some random person that uses dialup but they are usually old people lol...
I travel a lot, through the caribbean and europe.. just last year i was in several european countries and i was hard pressed to find someone that had broadband... in Ireland, Germany, Spain, France, England, and Italy. Also in various caribbean countries.. most people over there said it was available but was prohibitively expensive..Not even in internet cafe's ( which admittedly are everywhere in europe ) were the broadband speeds anything close to the typical cable modem available here in Florida.. ( $45 a month for a 10 megabit connection ).. How can we be playing "catch up"? From my personal experience, broadband is practically a way of life here in the USA.. and is considered a high luxury in places like europe..unless something changed since my last trip to europe last summer.. im just not buying it.
I'm genuinely shocked to see however, that we are still above China in terms of broadband installed base. Since they have 8x our population...
I fully agree with what you say here. This guy did not have a single valid point, and also his claim of needing a ridiculous machine to run AERO is also incorrect. I have tested every build of vista that has been available so far and I have gotten it to run fine on a p4 1.7ghz machine with 256 mb.. AERO's only requirement is a DX9 video card.. it runs perfectly on a GeForce FX5200.. which you can purchase for about $50.. hardly top of the line. You do not need a monster machine to run vista, not in the slightest. If you have been having problems running vista on your machine ( crashing a lot and etc ), try installing it on an intel based machine.. the only problems I have had so far are on AMD machines, and that seems to be fixed with build 5308 ( which now has built in driver support for n force chipsets ). The Extreme Tech article was well written and well thought out, this guy's rebuttal is based on nothing other than his linux fandom. Yes Linux has had some of these features for a long time, but don't you think that Microsoft should be commended for implementing these features without compromising user friendliness or application support at all? I sure do.
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I was in Northern Ireland, County Kerry.. mainly hanging out with my family in the various countries. No students or anything like that.
VOIP is all the rage over here as well, most cable modem and dsl providers offer it for only $25 USD a month. People do the same thing over here, get broadband to lower telephone costs... fact of the matter is, i dont know anyone that is still on dialup here.. occasionally i run across some random person that uses dialup but they are usually old people lol...
I travel a lot, through the caribbean and europe.. just last year i was in several european countries and i was hard pressed to find someone that had broadband... in Ireland, Germany, Spain, France, England, and Italy. Also in various caribbean countries.. most people over there said it was available but was prohibitively expensive..Not even in internet cafe's ( which admittedly are everywhere in europe ) were the broadband speeds anything close to the typical cable modem available here in Florida.. ( $45 a month for a 10 megabit connection ).. How can we be playing "catch up"? From my personal experience, broadband is practically a way of life here in the USA.. and is considered a high luxury in places like europe..unless something changed since my last trip to europe last summer.. im just not buying it.
I'm genuinely shocked to see however, that we are still above China in terms of broadband installed base. Since they have 8x our population...
I fully agree with what you say here. This guy did not have a single valid point, and also his claim of needing a ridiculous machine to run AERO is also incorrect. I have tested every build of vista that has been available so far and I have gotten it to run fine on a p4 1.7ghz machine with 256 mb.. AERO's only requirement is a DX9 video card.. it runs perfectly on a GeForce FX5200.. which you can purchase for about $50.. hardly top of the line. You do not need a monster machine to run vista, not in the slightest. If you have been having problems running vista on your machine ( crashing a lot and etc ), try installing it on an intel based machine.. the only problems I have had so far are on AMD machines, and that seems to be fixed with build 5308 ( which now has built in driver support for n force chipsets ). The Extreme Tech article was well written and well thought out, this guy's rebuttal is based on nothing other than his linux fandom. Yes Linux has had some of these features for a long time, but don't you think that Microsoft should be commended for implementing these features without compromising user friendliness or application support at all? I sure do.