Well with the pronouncement by the LAN, we allow downtime crowd; out to kill ROBC's and LD Monopolist.......Gee what do you call INTC and MSFT, MONOPOLIST...
The problem is one of reliability and affordablility to all. This seems not to be understood by the computer crowd whatsoever. I quess when government starts to heap regulation after regulation, they can come and cry on the telco industry that have been labored by it for years!!
The technical hurdles of transmitting something in a confine area; such as an office building, and in a major metropolitian area is two entirely different subjects and scenario's. The expense is also something entirely different. LAN networkers seem to think and wrongly, that there should be no problem transporting their data globally. Yet when the problem is 70% their hunk of junk that causes latency, they still blame the carrier for the problem.
It's funny how the telco's and carrier's are held to such a high standard of reliability and perfection, but networkers can weasel around telling everyone how great they are and how intelligent they are; how their equipment does so many advanced things, etc etc, ad nausem., yet it's never their equipment that causes the problems or is capable of overcoming errors or hits. Simply amazing.
Then there is the ever gluttonous software industry in demands for B/W. Have these clowns ever once suggest where they were headed?? MSFT 3-4 years ago had no INTERNET plan!! How would anybody in the carrier or local access have know if the supposed "LEADER" didn't even have a plan!!! Yet, government rules and regulation prevent AT&T at every turn from penetrating markets with thinks like fiber to the curb. My goodness!! Now you have government licking their collective chops at federal, state and local level at things like upping franchise taxes and right of way increases!! Bill Gates, Andy GRove and the other collection of self proclaimed geniuses don't talk about that NOW DO THEY!! No sweat off their collective nose's.
Now that is my anti computer industry backlash for the week, prompted by yet another outrageous attack level in the WSJ. BTW the crux of it is "I'm lazy and stupid" FUCK THEM!! I can't wait for the revolution, I hope these jerks are the first lined up and shot!!
To your question: The first question one has to ask is: If the INternet is the final solution; how do we make it widely available and affordable? How do we ensure that all have equal and affordable access?
The noveau monopolist in Redmond and Silicon Valley don't have a plan, as usual. Look at the flap Sledgemore cause after Worldcom made a bid for MCI: who cares about residential,, we are after the lucricative business market!! Look how quickly Ebbers and WorldCom shut him up. You think regulators are going to allow that?? Hardly. An who is Sledgemore, a computer jerk that is going to create a new class of have's and have not's. It won't be a race based society in the future, but a information capable based society. The financially capable will afford it but middle class and lower class will not.
Reading the pricing plan of xDSL (clearly outrageous for now) is a clear indication of that. Cable systems deployment is geared towards specific area's and market's. Not one of these jackasses have bother to tell you or anyone the cost in upgrading, deployment and then ultimately the availability to any of us. Wire up an office building, no problem. Bring in a fractional T-1 or full T-1, not that much of a problem, if you have the money. Problem with LAN networkers, they need repeaters every couple of 1000 feet. How do you accomplish it in a WAN of business and residential use? How much does it cost????????
Computer people make it SOUND so simple. Buy my box and software and get on the internet and watch TV (will kill off the broadcsater monopolist) talk to your friends around the whole with video (kill off the telco monopolist) play games and download OUR software (kill off storefront monopolist) and allow us to know everything about you (kill off individual freedom monopolist) so all we have left is the computing monopolist and there little barrons of developers to run and rule the world!!!!!!! What a deal!! What they don't tell anybody, if we ALL went INternet tomorrow, according to their dream world; they DON'T have the means to fulfill all this fantasy as of yet!! Get 200 users watching video (fullblown TV, not the little cam on your computer, talking, downloading software and on and on) in a 10Mb cable LAN of today, it will simply bog down in nothing but crashes and collisions and first come first serve. Voice and video is continous streaming.
Sorry betty but I read an atricle this morning that simply got my goat. To call me stupid and lazy simply has lit me up for the day. I can't lucidly answer this question right now (as the above demostrates). |
