Roger, I *have* actual 1.5Mbit/sec speed right now. Double that, on average via my cable modem. Believe me, I can feel the difference between that, the LAN at work (a slow one - 10Mbit/sec) and my local hard disk (again, a slow one) about 48Mb/sec (or 6Mbyte/sec). Small hard disks being built today run up to 160Mb/sec (or 20Mbyte/sec) and we can expect faster ones shortly.
For $200, right now, you can get all the storage you could use for the forseeable future.
Why would you want to "rent" this from an ISP, and have to access it at less than 1/10 the speed? The absolute numbers WILL change in the future, but the algebra won't.
Naw, in the middle of the night, when I'm doing my taxes, and the computer crashes, I'd much rather dig-out the TurboTax CD and re-load it than to have to depend on an ISP (or telco, or whatever) who isn't going to have anybody to answer the phone at 2am, and if they did is going to tell me they'll have it fixed by tomorrow. (The 16'th of April...)
Sorry, the NC lost. It's a dead issue.
But, again, Sun has a bright future, providing one of the most important components of the Internet infrastructure.
The irony is that the rapid growth of the Internet would not have been possible without the all-prevasive PC, thanks to Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and hundreds of smaller companies that build PCs. Where would the web be today, if it had only be usable on university workstations?
Sun owes it's current success to Microsoft.
Why mess with a good thing?
I've heard this NC cr*p for, what, 2-3 years now? It ain't goin' nowhere. Never has. Never will.
Oh, yes, they'll replace some dumb terminals, and there really are a LOT of dumb terminals out there. Look around - you see them everywhere - airline reservations, auto repair shops, checkout counters, hospitals.
But forget about home and office. It just doesn't make sense there.
Before you go chasing after this sexy stuff that is never going to happen, learn what really makes this company tick. And, despite all the posturing and hype, thankfully, I do beleive that this company does know what makes them tick.
It's what makes the Internet tick. |
