Where are you getting this? I haven't seen anything about this. On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:43 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> For years, computer makers and makers of products that interface > with computers such as flash drives and hard drives have worked hard > and long to increase the speeds at which their products perform their > functions. Consumers have seen data transfer rate speeds greatly > increase, and those speed increases have been the reason that many a > computer or computer peripheral have been sold. Speed has been a > primary motivator in the computing world, and so-called "wars" have > been waged over the issue of speed almost as if that was all that > mattered. > > Consumers have bought into the speed thing, predicating the purchase > of all sorts of computer gear on the basis of their speed of > operation. Now, computer makers and computer gurus are suggesting > that things like FireWire and USB and other wired forms of data > transfer should all be retired in favor of wireless. Consumers are > being told that the computer world is going totally wireless. > > But wait! Other than tapping keys on a keyboard, isn't wireless > just about the slowest means of data transfer out there? What about > this speed thing? Where has that suddenly gone? Slow is the new > good. Slower is now seen as progressive, albeit in the opposite > direction. Why would we want to go from megabits to nanobits per > second, in a comparative sense, along with lost packets and lots of > RFI for everyone, everywhere? I can think of but two reasons at this > moment, a potential for convenience and money. Perhaps others can > come up with additional reasons. > > Steve > > -- > WARNING: Due to a Presidential Executive Order, the National Security > Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant or notice. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
