Broadband for all

[omnipleasant]

Erm no VHW, it's about loads of stuff. Have a butcher's at the Guardian link. More reforms than you can shake a stick at.

But you're right, with the economy as it is the government shouldn't be doing anything else.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

Jan 29, 2009 15:05:55 GMT @omnipleasant said:

But you're right, with the economy as it is the government shouldn't be doing anything else.

I take your point. I'm just in a very dark place at the moment what with the company's financial backers posting massive losses and at least three offices facing total closure and lots of other people being redundantised and my job looking an easy cull and such, and the trumpeting of things that aren't actually going to make any noticeable difference irritates me.

[omnipleasant]

"the trumpeting of things that aren't actually going to make any noticeable difference irritates me."

Well yeah but, you know, the government can't stop doing other stuff. And this seems to be a generally good thing, so good on 'em.

So you reckon you might lose your job then?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

From the conversation I had yesterday, I will either lose it or be getting so much less work through that I have to find something else to keep me in rent and beer money. What with Sweden being a mare to find work in even before the entire world's economy fell into a pit, my options are:

Drug dealing (highly competitive and with attendant legal complications)
Prostitution (unappealing)
Making stuff for kids

[mids]

That could suck. Couldn't you teach English or are Swedes too good at it anyway?

[omnipleasant]

Chuckle. Well, I would offer sympathy but your life recently seems to be mirroring mine to a rather spooky degree..

If you made stuff for kids wouldn't you have to, like, associate with the little gits?

[VikingHumpingWitch]

I might possibly be able to get away with claiming I am an expert in Business English but to be honest, a lack of TEFL qualification and teaching experience means that's not likely to be an option. Too many other native English speakers with said qualification and experience.

I don't see why I have to talk to children in order to knit them clothes.

[omnipleasant]

Wouldn't you have to sell them too? "Here you go Svetlanninia, oh you look like a little herring angel in that cardie!"

[minge tightly]

Somewhat pointless this. I'm using the internet less nowadays anyway so I fail to see what advantage this multi-billion pound effort will bring to me personally. I'm fine with me 5mb connection, handles online gaming fine and, considering I can still remember dial-up, the download speed for stuff is great as it is. A few micro-seconds is irrelevant.

Being able to use my TV as a computer and downloading/streaming TV when I want, which is primarily what these great connection speeds are for, isn't that much of a killer app i'm afraid.

Dunno where cock featured Burnham gets his evidence for Britain leading the world in content though.

[VikingHumpingWitch]

I was hoping this new digital revolution would mean everyone will buy it off my website now that they can click on the links and see pictures of the clothes that itsy witsy bit faster. Anyway, parents buy stuff, I can tell them the child looks stunning in it.

Oh god, death seems so much preferable.

[Woolf]

To even get a look in, on being in the front of a digital revoultion, the whole network infrastructure for broadband will need rebuilding from the ground up.
Virgins much advertised 50Mbps service is at the top end of what can effectively be delivered on the current network.

Japan, Korea and Taiwan all have 100Mbps broadband readily available for domestic usage.

[omnipleasant]

I'm not arsed about this super speed MbKBsBS nonsense. The most important bit is to get as many people as possible on the tintnernet, because I have to grudgingly admit it is actually fairly useful.

[tarrant]

What it basically means is there will be an enormous number of frequencies available for almost any application where previously there were only a few.

Being able to control things remotely without wires is now possible without interfering with others.

Another advnatage of digital is that each signal can be individually coded so that several can be broadcast on the same frequency with receivers only using the one it needs.

[ricklinc]

And once everyone is on the internet the government can introduce legislation to allow the Third Assistant Pointless Layabout in your local council to access by remote desktop the PC of anyone in the country except MPs and celebs.