On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 11:30 +1000, David Boxall wrote: > On 27/04/2016 8:57 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: > > ... (it is not feasible to run fiber to every home in Australia). > > Often asserted, never substantiated.
Costly, yes. Infeasible, definitely NOT. And the costs that people worry so much about almost NEVER take into account the full panoply of benefits that ubiquitous networking brings. "When a distinguished elderly scientist says something is possible, he is probably right. When a distinguished elderly scientist says something is probably impossible, he is probably wrong." AC Clarke, I think. Adapt for context. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B Old fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
