Post by jojo on Jun 18, 2011 9:23:01 GMT
Seems a small number in Jersey have been connected to a superfast broadband connection.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13802293
Downloads of 560 +meg download and 75+ meg upload are being had.
On a slightly more depressing note, once these spread can we expect to see providers overloading us with yet more bumf?
Closely followed by the hayseeds moaning that, just because they chose to live in the country, they shouldn't be deprived of the latest speeds, closely followed by pictures of the Queen mother to the sound of Vera Lynn sining about Dover.
The computer shops will no doubt be bringing out new computers designed for the new connections, closely followed by software manufacturers bringing out clones of programs we already have, updated with some fancy animation which can only work with the new computers.
The eco fascists will start to rant about the number of old computers being dumped. The charities will complain that they are beung innundated with old computers.
The government will insist it needs these this new technology so will use the opportunity to appoint some well connected air head to lead a new department to oversee the updates. That will hire an army of staff who will spend their time looking for ways to push paper around and achieve nothing. Taxes will need to rise to pay for it all.
Raods will have to be dug up to lay the new cables and numerous gas and water mains will also need to be replaced. But as usual, their scheduals won't co-inside so after the roads have been filled in by the cable providers they will be dug up again by the gas company, then filled in then dug up again by the water companies, who will burst the gas mains and break the computer cables, so they won't refill them, bring all the roads to a complete halt.
No-one will get to work, jobs will go overseas and a recession will hit us all, but this time it will be so big we will all starve to death and life of the entire planet will end.
But that's just the down side.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13802293
Downloads of 560 +meg download and 75+ meg upload are being had.
On a slightly more depressing note, once these spread can we expect to see providers overloading us with yet more bumf?
Closely followed by the hayseeds moaning that, just because they chose to live in the country, they shouldn't be deprived of the latest speeds, closely followed by pictures of the Queen mother to the sound of Vera Lynn sining about Dover.
The computer shops will no doubt be bringing out new computers designed for the new connections, closely followed by software manufacturers bringing out clones of programs we already have, updated with some fancy animation which can only work with the new computers.
The eco fascists will start to rant about the number of old computers being dumped. The charities will complain that they are beung innundated with old computers.
The government will insist it needs these this new technology so will use the opportunity to appoint some well connected air head to lead a new department to oversee the updates. That will hire an army of staff who will spend their time looking for ways to push paper around and achieve nothing. Taxes will need to rise to pay for it all.
Raods will have to be dug up to lay the new cables and numerous gas and water mains will also need to be replaced. But as usual, their scheduals won't co-inside so after the roads have been filled in by the cable providers they will be dug up again by the gas company, then filled in then dug up again by the water companies, who will burst the gas mains and break the computer cables, so they won't refill them, bring all the roads to a complete halt.
No-one will get to work, jobs will go overseas and a recession will hit us all, but this time it will be so big we will all starve to death and life of the entire planet will end.
But that's just the down side.
