--- DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randall Shimizu wrote: > > I am not entirely certain the signal is being > > displayed. But the upside is that the carriers are > > upgrading their networks. We are going to see a > ever > > increasing competition, which will force all > internet > > providers to increase their bandwidth. Directv is > > going to be delivering IPTV over WIMAX. > > And you think they're going to give all of us that > additional bandwidth > for free? Like the cable companies give us premium > channels for free? It depends if IPTV is a demand pull technology. Since IPTV is ip based that it's quite possible that the channel signal will be delivered when one switches from one channel to another. This is different from today's cable TV where all the channels are delivered at once. > Like the free over-the-air TV broadcasts we'll get > in 2009? > > I see this as a yawn-big-deal issue. More bandwidth > will always be > available, but only in the same sense that more was > available to those > who could afford it when modem speeds increased from > 110 Bd to 300 Bd. > Except then, aside from the cost of a new modem on > either end, sending > stuff through the bigger pipe actually was free. > > Besides, I don't care so much about how big the pipe > is, but rather > what's going through it. With nearly a hundred > channels on TV, I still > only watch a half dozen of them. Hell, I've got > nearly three dozen tabs > in my Firefox home tab set, but rarely look at more > than four or five of > those on a monthly basis. If those TV channels and > Websites I don't > often view disappeared from the planet, my life > would not be > significantly altered. > > Sure, there's always new stuff to look at; I like > exploring. But there > is a limit to even my time. And even though I'm a > geek, I still often > find myself wondering what real practical use there > is, in the end, of > all that time spent in front of a monitor. > Especially since I no longer > get paid for it. More bandwidth will allow users to do things such full screen high resolution video conferencing. This will increase the 'presence' for real time collaboration. Currently most users don't do much video conferencing because the picture quality is still unaceptable. > > Bandwidth for the average Internet user is already > fast enough, given > the available content. In fact, I think we are fast > approaching > information overload for the masses. Too much > information is no better > than too little. Too much useless information is > worse than none. I > don't see people getting smarter, or more > knowledgable about their world > proportionally to the time they spend being > entertained by glowing > electrons. > And I can't forget that the motive of the carriers > is not to provide > more information over that increased bandwidth, it's > to provide more > content-consumers to themselves and their partners. > The product is not > more bandwidth. The product is not more content. The > product is me. > > -- > Best Regards, > ~DJA. > > * Yeah, well it's a word now, cuz I just made it > one! :-P > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
