High Speed Internet

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » 27 Oct 2010, 16:11

:drool:

Post by **HansV** » 27 Oct 2010, 16:51

People will be able to download viruses even faster!

Argus · Post by **Argus** » 27 Oct 2010, 17:08

And with "high speed" upload, your PC could be sending 100k+ spam mails per hour, and you wouldn't even notice it.

John Gray · Post by **John Gray** » 27 Oct 2010, 17:20

I'm quite happy with the 9.3 Mbps I usually get from my cable connection...

(Didn't Bill Gates say, very many years ago, that "300bps should be enough for anyone"?)

PaulB · Post by **PaulB** » 27 Oct 2010, 17:28

Yes, and I think it was someone at IBM who said, at the dawn of the computing age, that there would be no need for more than five, maybe six, computers in the world. :chuckle:, :chuckle:

Don Wells · Post by **Don Wells** » 27 Oct 2010, 17:57

PaulB wrote:Yes, and I think it was someone at IBM who said, at the dawn of the computing age, that there would be no need for more than five, maybe six, computers in the world. :chuckle:, :chuckle:

Just reflect on the awesome power in the computers of the day when that statement was made.

John Gray · Post by **John Gray** » 28 Oct 2010, 05:07

True! A 50p (30Â¢) pocket calculator from Tesco is probably more powerful (if more specialised)...

Bowlie · Post by **Bowlie** » 28 Oct 2010, 16:31

John Gray wrote:True! A 50p (30Â¢) pocket calculator from Tesco is probably more powerful (if more specialised)...

John, I'd check that exchange rate before your next trip to Disney World ...

Argus · Post by **Argus** » 28 Oct 2010, 18:00

John Gray wrote:I'm quite happy with the 9.3 Mbps I usually get from my cable connection...

More seriously; I could get 100 Mbps tomorrow if I wanted from my ISP, but I don't think it's worth the extra

(diminishing marginal utility and all that), at the moment. As you said, John, for example 10 is enough for a lot of activities, and most of the time I just stare at some text on the screen for minutes... then it doesn't matter if it takes one minute or ten to download a service pack's ISO file, especially if one compare with close to two hours on dial-up for a 40 MB driver update. (And sometimes just to find a corrupt file.

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John Gray · Post by **John Gray** » 28 Oct 2010, 18:38

Bowlie wrote:
John Gray wrote:True! A 50p (30Â¢) pocket calculator from Tesco is probably more powerful (if more specialised)...
John, I'd check that exchange rate before your next trip to Disney World ...

A mere matter of dividing by 1.6 instead of multiplying by 1.6, which would have given about 80Â¢!

(I seem to remember some calculations that were done in inches when it should have been in centimetres, or vice versa!)

BobH · Post by **BobH** » 28 Oct 2010, 23:31

John Gray wrote:True! A 50p (30Â¢) pocket calculator from Tesco is probably more powerful (if more specialised)...

I was in a store yesterday called Big Lots that sells remaindered goods. They had a 250 function pocket calculator with graphing capability for $16US. Now I wonder why I bothered to learn the times tables or took trigonometry.

Post by **StuartR** » 28 Oct 2010, 23:36

BobH wrote:...Now I wonder why I bothered to learn the times tables or took trigonometry.

So that when your calculator tells you that COS(45) is 0.5 you will immediately recognise that you have accidentally left it set to work in Radians instead of Degrees. (I had to help my daughter work out she had made this error about 20 minutes ago).

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