On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Pavel Kirkovsky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Nathan McCorkle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It seems to me this is another clue indicative of a general trend to >> be less and less efficient with using computer technology. > > > Discussion of efficiency becomes moot when we see that the USA is in 35th > place and lagging behind most western European countries when it comes to > bandwidth.
IMO efficiency becomes /more/ important with limited bandwidth. I've been hearing for years that European countries have far more bandwidth than the U.S. does... but for the average person I still don't see why that matters at all. What are people doing that they NEED more than 512kbps/1Mbps (again, common people, who mostly do just stream cat videos and text documents)? COMFORT is much different than NEED. > High speed internet connectivity isn't merely a personal luxury > -- it's now considered to be part of critical infrastructure and should be > treated as such. Really, for what? I honestly don't get this. At any academic institutions I've been at, other than in research-computing, more bandwidth just meant surfing the web was more pleasant... but the internet still doesn't seem too much more useful to me than back when I had free dial-up through my local library, running the lynx browser and downloading images to view in a separate image viewer program. If anything, I can say the browsers have gotten better/more-integrated... sure I'm super happy 18MB doesn't take 3 days to download anymore, but I don't think the jump from 1MBPS to 10MBPS (or even to 100MBPS) is nearly as appreciable as the jump from 28.8k to 256k /seemed/ to me. _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
