Hmm, are you having capitalization issues..?
You are not getting 2MB (megabytes) per second on UMTS/HSDPA. "Currently, HSDPA enables downlink transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbit/s," according to Wikipedia. 7.2 Megabits per second / 8 = 0.9 Megabytes per second = 900 Kilobytes per second is the fastest possible downlink transfer rate on any deployed UMTS/HSDPA network at this time.
It's a shame they haven't been like... advertising for it. Compared to Blu-Ray, hardly anyone has even heard of it.
The reason why people have heard of Blu-Ray is largely due to the PS3 - all the teeny boppers whose relatives ask advice of are like "oh, yeah, Blu-Ray, my PS3 has that." HDDVD, aside from being a ridiculous acronym and lacking the "cool" factor, doesn't have a game console that plays it, giving Blu-Ray all the more advantage.
As an alumnus of Morrisville State College (A.S. CS '07), I'd like to get some things straight.
First of all, all you saying "54Mbps isn't enough?", well, it may be, but that is NOT what they are upgrading from. Morrisville State College is upgrading from an *extremely* old version of 802.11, known as 802.11 legacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11#802.11_legacy). This has a maximum speed on campus of 1.5Mbps, as capped by their Raylink wireless PCMCIA cards, which, unfortunately, lack OS X drivers (but who would want to use it anyway? I'd rather plug in). Also, they have notorious problems with Internet speed on campus. This past semester (Spring 2007), for about 2/3 of the semester, the internet speed was slower than dialup. They finally fixed it, and download speeds subsequently ranged between 200 and 300 KBytes/sec. However, that isn't even as fast as most home cable internet. Morrisville is way behind the times, and it's about time they upgraded, but I don't see how 802.11n is going to help with Internet access speed unless they upgrade their gateway to the Internet. However, it will be better than 802.11 legacy, for sure.
All in all, Morrisville being a "technology leader" is a load of horse shit (pun intended, they have a large equine program). They just want the illusion of it, and the publicity that comes from that illusion.
They will indeed be missed
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The Myst series was one of the best point-and-click adventure games of all time. It had the best puzzles, the best graphics of it's time, and it didn't get old, it just sucked you in. Those games could take a long time to finish and therefore had a very high playability value. I think Cyan was an inspiration to other game developers. We shall see if any new games come out that even come close to the Myst series.
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Hmm, are you having capitalization issues..? You are not getting 2MB (megabytes) per second on UMTS/HSDPA. "Currently, HSDPA enables downlink transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbit/s," according to Wikipedia. 7.2 Megabits per second / 8 = 0.9 Megabytes per second = 900 Kilobytes per second is the fastest possible downlink transfer rate on any deployed UMTS/HSDPA network at this time.
It's a parody, for sure. http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/01/shelley-the- republican-debunked/
As an alumnus of Morrisville State College (A.S. CS '07), I'd like to get some things straight. First of all, all you saying "54Mbps isn't enough?", well, it may be, but that is NOT what they are upgrading from. Morrisville State College is upgrading from an *extremely* old version of 802.11, known as 802.11 legacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11#802.11_legacy ). This has a maximum speed on campus of 1.5Mbps, as capped by their Raylink wireless PCMCIA cards, which, unfortunately, lack OS X drivers (but who would want to use it anyway? I'd rather plug in). Also, they have notorious problems with Internet speed on campus. This past semester (Spring 2007), for about 2/3 of the semester, the internet speed was slower than dialup. They finally fixed it, and download speeds subsequently ranged between 200 and 300 KBytes/sec. However, that isn't even as fast as most home cable internet. Morrisville is way behind the times, and it's about time they upgraded, but I don't see how 802.11n is going to help with Internet access speed unless they upgrade their gateway to the Internet. However, it will be better than 802.11 legacy, for sure.
All in all, Morrisville being a "technology leader" is a load of horse shit (pun intended, they have a large equine program). They just want the illusion of it, and the publicity that comes from that illusion.
The Myst series was one of the best point-and-click adventure games of all time. It had the best puzzles, the best graphics of it's time, and it didn't get old, it just sucked you in. Those games could take a long time to finish and therefore had a very high playability value. I think Cyan was an inspiration to other game developers. We shall see if any new games come out that even come close to the Myst series.