On Sunday 09 July 2006 21:33, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 7/9/06, Dinesh Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its much easier to compare ourselves with the down trodden. Makes > > reality easier to bear, doesn't it? Well that just doesn't help us > > move forward. > > We have come all the way from being like an African nation to what we > are now in just over 50 years. That's a really big achievement.
Why dont you look at Japan, Germany or China instead? Japan and Germany were destroyed by war. > We'll never be satisfied with what we have. Once you use 64kbps, > dialup seems slow. After 128 kbps, 64kbps will seem slow. A friend > who came back from the US finds his 512 kbps TriBand package as > "meh... I've gotta adjust I guess" after surfing on T1/DSL lines > there. Well yes that is human nature... But it is stupid to be on a 64Kbps connection ( which works more like a 48Kbps connection ) when rest of the world is on atleast 512Kbps :/ > For all _legal_ purposes what we have right now (256kbps max) is good > enough. I can wait for a day for my ISO today. Some day in the future > I may find it hard to wait for an hour ;) Agreed. But the download caps are what suck the fun out of surfing on a 256Kbps connection... Atleast they should have decent download caps of 40-60GB/month. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
