South Korea has speed, but all encryption requires Active X controls, which kills off all operating systems except Windows, according to this website:
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095 the cost of monoculture (I am still preparing for posts on my China trip, but I wanted to first address the issue of monoculture as it is very relevant now.) What would you say if I told you that there was a nation that was at the forefront of technology, an early adopter of ecommerce, leading the world in 3G mobile adoption, in wireless broadband, in wired broadband adoption, as well as in citizen-driven media. Sounds like an amazing place, right? Technology utopia? Wrong. This nation is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because all encrypted communications online in this nation must be done with Active X controls. On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:22:22 -0800, markw wrote: > Randall Shimizu wrote: > >> The web is far too dynamic for any >> one company to dominate and control it. But Google could very >> well capitalize on the need for increased bandwidth.The real >> upswing in bandwidth will occur when people realize that >> video conferencing can occur on the web. Think of how much >> bandwidth full screen HD Video conferencing will require. >> > > A full HD stream takes about 8Mbit. Yes, applications are going > to drive bandwidth. We should all move to S. Korea. :) There > will be a day when you sit down at your TV and watch a movie being > streamed to you by your cable company, or a provider like google > over IP. You just select it and watch it. But it all requires > bandwidth. Look at the IPTV stuff, pretty slick. > http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/live-from-the-sony-ces-keynote/ > > Mark -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
