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Re: World's Fastest =?utf-8?Q?Internet?= =?utf-8?B?4oSi?= in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mikea)
Fri Jun 26 16:36:59 2015
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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 15:35:40 -0500
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:06:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> > On Jun 26, 2015, at 13:02 , Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 13:39 -0500, Rafael Possamai wrote:
> >> How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single person
> >> it is overkill.
> >
> > This sentiment keeps popping up. It's a failure of vision. To suggest
> > that "single people" or "ordinary people" or any other set of presumably
> > average and uninteresting people will never be able to fully utilise the
> > amazing properties of X, and that they can and should be satisfied with
> > some limited version of X or the even more limited alternative Y, is to
> > completely miss the point. And to actually provide no more than that is
> > to build a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> I see a potential market for perhaps hundreds of aircraft in the coming century.
And just possibly for more than seven computers on the continent.
*Any* continent.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
