Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Sacha,
latency?
Took you 25 mins to answer.
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The fibre to the post and Gigabit wi-fi to the home seems ideal to me, especially considering the RBI is only promising 1mbps to the home ( PDF)
In fact, if you read that PDF you may well come away thinking we may well have been sold a pup.
When they say things like...ok, what’s the big deal?
It’s fast internet, right? Why are people so excited about it and investing all this money? It’s because UFB is about so much more
than just fast internet. It’s about what will happen as a result of being able to process this amount of data this quickly. People
are excited not only because it will allow us to do all of the things we can imagine from a higher bandwidth – for example,
super-high-quality video calling to our families, friends and business colleagues overseas. They’re excited because it will allow us
to do things we can’t yet imagine.And you realise that we are being told this by the people that manufacture the gear, you begin to wonder.
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think by definition it can’t be a white elephant –
Like Duh. t would have to be an Elephant… and white.
that would have meant upsetting Sky Television.
Well, they certainly pissed me off.
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Whilst on the subject…
Chattanooga Claims America’s Fastest Broadband ServiceChattanooga now calls itself The Gig City — in reference to the fiber-to-the-home network built across 600 square miles of Chattanooga and surrounding Hamilton County. Up to 1 gigabit per second service now is available to all businesses, residences, and public and private institutions.
Yes, in the land of the “Free” Socialism rears its battered head and delivers Municipal Broadband.
The roots of Chattanooga’s superfast network begin at the downtown headquarters of the Electric Power Board (EPB). As its name implies, the municipally owned utility company delivers electricity to the community. In 2007, the EPB began planning for a fiber network, seeing it as a way to improve the electric grid’s reliability.
Now there's an idea. Reinstate the Power Boards.
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And while Key and pals are salivating over the sale of our Genertailiers…
NZ can’t afford a NZ$3.5bn broadband ’white elephant’When you’re forking out NZ$1.5 billion on ultra-fast broadband (UFB) you should want to ensure that enough people will buy it.
Earlier this week, Orcon admitted that so few were signing up to UFB and that the company is reduced to giving it away.
In recent months, the state-owned ISP has rolled out UFB to 45,000 homes, but fewer than 200 have signed up for it.
These guys couldn’t run a cake stall.
When the government plans to spend NZ$120 million to sell shares in state-owned energy companies, you might think that it would see the wisdom in using some taxpayer-funded campaigns to promote UFB as well. Instead, our ICT Minister Amy Adams said that she will leave the marketing of UFB to the ISPs and other retailers, themselves.
Can't they start by selling something that needs selling?.
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The next "Evil Drug" ® to appear on the Radar Screen of Responsible Reporting I predict will be "Cotton Wool". Users become overwhelmed with a sense of well-being and safety, that the Powers That Be are Magnificent in their Munificence and that Peter Dunne's hair looks cool.
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Kumara Republic,
When the Fourth Estate becomes the Fifth Column.
Fnahh, dooblee entenderer
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to WH,
Journalism thinks it’s guarding the legacy of Woodward and Bernstein, but it’s actually hiding in Sienna Miller’s bushes, trying to get a photo up her skirt.
Brilliant.
ETA *note to self, must refresh page before posting. Still brilliant though.
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But what if the children get hold of bath salts? They could end up.
I once heard of a man who ate his own head, I hope he was bald, I couldn't stand the idea of eating hair.
