jarablue
Always be true to yourself
join:2001-06-11
Worcester, MA
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With providers worrying about how to line the pockets with cash no wonder we are falling behind. Verizon is the only ones who are pushing the envelope right now. Everyone else is wondering how much smaller they can offer us bandwidth and how much profit they can see. Serves us right. |
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technick
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join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| It seems like everybody in this forum knows the score, it's ashame no one else knows. It's all about money, not advancement in civilization. FTTP / FTTH is just the first step, after that is the services that fiber can handle. But it seems to me it will be a very long time before we see speeds comparible to Japan / China. We might have flying cars by then.
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one_bored_si
join:2003-03-10
Montebello, CA
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| It won't be flying cars, it will be flying SUV's and gas will be tenths of a gallon per ten dollars and the Statue of Liberty will be replaced by golden Bush wearing a tee-shirt saying "Mission Accomplished, yet?" At the bottom of his statue will read a plaque "Best President Emperor Ever." - G.W.Bush |
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DaDogs
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join:2004-02-28
Deltaville, VA
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said by jarablue  :With providers worrying about how to line the pockets with cash no wonder we are falling behind. Verizon is the only ones who are pushing the envelope right now. Everyone else is wondering how much smaller they can offer us bandwidth and how much profit they can see. Serves us right. Verizon and SBC are the two major players who are moving in every court in the country to surpress muni-broadband. That is not pushing the envelope, it is a big dog growling over a bowl of food he can not eat because he is already full.
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JSRoman
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join:2005-03-10
Callahan, FL | reply to one_bored_si
Re: Providers-Ding Ding winner
Less than 5 post and the idiot remark appears. Impressive. |
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Fatal Vector
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You are surprised? You shouldn't be.You would think even the liberals would have some shame. I love how they think the President can just snap his fingers and everyone just jumps. Get a clue. |
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SaBo7Ge
join:2003-03-12
US
| You set policy that encourages widespread adoption... IF the FCC can do this with HDTV, then the president can push for the same with fiber deployment.. Political Affiliation has nothing to do with this, it's a matter of personal importance.
FYI there's a lot of things Bush could careless about, border security, fuel efficiency, the environment, the deficit.. Does a lack of a national broadband development initiative really surprise you..? Sure doesn't surprise me.. |
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lyls
@tele.dk
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maybe they are just treating him with the same respect he's treating them with? not to mention the whole iraq thing "horrible intel" "no wmd" etc ..... its pretty worn out but its still very valid...... having some country that can invade countries at will scares me alot more than terrorism  |
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maartena
Stacked.
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA | reply to JSRoman
Yes he's an idiot.
But by God is he ever right....  |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
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said by JSRoman :Less than 5 post and the idiot remark appears. Impressive. Yes, you're absolutely right.
Example quoted above. |
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Tsume
join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN | reply to SaBo7Ge
At least the FCC has something to do with HDTV.
The president has almost nothing to do with broadband...
It's the FCC who should be doing something about it. |
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BlogsandBWH
@verizon.n
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Re: Providers
Well, several twisted phone poles later... finally I got FIOS! Bellsouth and SBC really need to put out fiber to the home. This is the solution people will want in the future because of the potential hundreds of megabits of available bandwidth! What happens in 2-3 years when telcos put a more robust docis 2 or 3 in place... their big adsl+ will look like a tinker toy, spending nearly the same as verizon for the buildout and then having to retrain the staff to do fiber installs instead of dsl installs... ultimately will cost more money... Verizon can't do it all, its bad enough they hire non-union subcontracters to scewup the fiber deployment, it eventualy gets done...
I've read horror story blogs about the screwups in damaging public/private property while companies fall all over themselves to deploy broadband upgrades. I don't see much in the way of cablecos upgrading... probably because they have the most to lose in a bandwidth fight, right now.. (becuase they are CONTENT providers) but its about 20 years ago we were on 2400 buad modems! So, in another 20 years we'll have 240megabits?!?!? Its anybody's guess, |
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jimmerb51
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join:2004-06-25
Cleveland, OH | reply to lyls
Re: Providers-Ding Ding winner
What would scare me is having people with a naive view of how the world works in control of the U.S. as we had with billy and his crew. |
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Fatal Vector
@aol.com
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Like we're some colonial power, like britan was and just go and invade for no other reason than to flex our muscles, or, to take slaves. Fact is, The whole world believed there were weapons on mass destruction in Iraq, largely because Saddam used them to wipe out whole towns of Kurds in a most horrible way.
It would be one thing if President bush had just invaded on his own, but the inconvenient fact is that he didn't. The UN authorized it, as did congress, because the evidence presented by many CREDIBLE intelligence agencies of many nations said Saddam had WMD. It was not something just cooked up for an excuse to go to war as the democrats would have us believe.
And, as far as being a country that c"can invade countries at will"-As if that were ever a true statement about the US-My question is: What point is there to being the single "super power" in the world if we are too much of a pansy as a society to look out after our interesta in the world? To not do so invites disaster. No matter how you slice it, we would have had to deal with these Islamic extremists sooner or later, as well as the situation in the middle east, since, like it or not, the industrialized world (not just the US) is stupidly dependent on oil supplies. We simply can not have a bunch of oil Sheiks dictating to us, or,holding the world economy (or our economy for that matter) hostage
And, you HAVE noticed how the countries in that region have begun to see the light after we did some ass whipping in the region? They were over there cowering from Saddam who had the largest military there because they knew he would use it, given the chance. They thought the us was weak, yet we kicked Saddams ass in what... 2 weeks?
We will come to find in coming years that we did the right thing and will be damn glad we did. |
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Fatal Vector
@aol.com
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Re: Providers
Yes, I'm sure the union people are the only ones qualified to bury or sring fiber (not) and they dont have to deal with over paid, lazy workers and union corruption. Imagine. As far as damaging property and screwups, it happens all the time. I recently lost my phone for a day because a SBC contractor cut the trunk that had been buried there for 50 years after Miss Dig told them it was in a different place. It appears that neither union or independent workers have a monopoly on stupid screwups. The difference is that the unions in their unthinking arrogance dont give a damn. |
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