This is more about marketing claims than reality.
I am in SE Michigan and I have 150Mbps down and 20Mbps up from our local cable TV operated ISP, and this is for about 200 euro ($25
AT&T (which, as an ISP, is considered laughable or the ISP of last-resort in my state) just wants to be able to say that it is selling something that they can legally call Broadband.
Phone etiquettely core-wrecked, I add-mint two know more than a mine are spelling error.
There are far worse offences to commit in this world, and when the intent is to spread information and that mission has been successful, then I think it should be let pass.
I saw, at a BDalton BookStore, a nice new reprint of the original Asimov anthology of robot short stories, "I, Robot". It was not a movie novelization, yet on the cover was Will Smith and the tag line "One Man Saw It Coming".
I found it hilarious, as there is not even one story in the anthology that includes a robot homocide, intrepid action hero, or anyone or anybody who "saw it coming".
I only feel sorry for the poor slob that picks it up expecting a movie novelization. I only hope he/she reads the stories and perhaps likes them enough to give classic SF like Asimov a try.
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This is more about marketing claims than reality. I am in SE Michigan and I have 150Mbps down and 20Mbps up from our local cable TV operated ISP, and this is for about 200 euro ($25 AT&T (which, as an ISP, is considered laughable or the ISP of last-resort in my state) just wants to be able to say that it is selling something that they can legally call Broadband.
Phone etiquettely core-wrecked, I add-mint two know more than a mine are spelling error. There are far worse offences to commit in this world, and when the intent is to spread information and that mission has been successful, then I think it should be let pass.
I saw, at a BDalton BookStore, a nice new reprint of the original Asimov anthology of robot short stories, "I, Robot".
It was not a movie novelization, yet on the cover was Will Smith and the tag line "One Man Saw It Coming".
I found it hilarious, as there is not even one story in the anthology that includes a robot homocide, intrepid action hero, or anyone or anybody who "saw it coming".
I only feel sorry for the poor slob that picks it up expecting a movie novelization. I only hope he/she reads the stories and perhaps likes them enough to give classic SF like Asimov a try.