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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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I find it entertaining that people think that the government should be building something like the NBN..
Im mean, c'mon, they cant even develop a properly working Train Ticket System..
What hope have they got of producing a reliable cutting edge computer network in an industry that moves faster than they can circulate memo's ? I recall a comment from an author.. "Watching the government try to keep up with technology is my favourite form of entertainment. its like they finally figured out how to regulate horses about the time that cars were introduced"
To me, it just looks like an excuse for politicians to get their hands on billions of dollars of public money to play their games with and look like they are performing some useful task for the community.
What they *should* be doing is simply consulting with reputable proven industry leaders about what sort of regulatory structures should be put in place to stop anti competitive behaviour , writing a few rules to do with access to cable ducts and pits etc, and getting out of the way while people who know what they are doing get on with it.
NOT Tel$tra/Floptus with their proven pathetic monopolistic practices - People like Simon Hacket, Mike Malone, the EFF and other groups that have shown they place the customers interests first.
Telling media-content-industry lobbyists like AFACT and the **AA's to go get stuffed - Its not the place of government to hobble new communication mediums so the old school can keep raking in $ with their outdated content distribution models. If they had their way, Tape recorders, VCR's, CD Burners and the Internet would all have been banned.
Computers at their fundamental level are digital bit-pattern copying/manipulation machines. From the oldest to the latest, the principle is exactly the same, only the processor speed and memory capacity changes.
Some people/industries still want to try and make sure that ability of computers to reproduce and transmit information patterns works only in *their* favour.
I didnt hear any industry crying when record-stamping machines appeared and made it possible for the media barons to punch out a million copies of a single artists performance so they could re-sell it over and over again without needing the artist to keep performing. They just didnt want that tech to get into the hands of the consumers.
The government does not belong in the technology industry.. they dont understand it, cant keep up with it, and anything they touch turns into a inefficient political football to try and grab votes with, without regard to what its purpose actually is.
They should just write some playing field rules, and get out of the arena. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Valen
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 4436
Location: Sydney
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For those that say the increased speed isn't needed this is me with my IT guy hat on.
100MBit is a critical enabling speed, once you hit that you are at the point where being at home is almost the same as being in the office. As your system administrator I can now let you login to the computers in the branch office with the same login as you use at the head office and have your desktop follow you with all your documents and email (and that funny cat picture that is your desktop background). You wont need crappy terminal services when you are at home, no more will it barf if you look at a website with flash animations you can bring your office desktop into your home PC. Plug a phone in next to it and you can work from home just like you do in the office.
25Mbit, is just not enough for that,even 50 isn't enough. These days, 100mbit is *just* enough. I'm going to hook your office up to the gigabit (1000mbit) that the nbn will be offering in 2015 so it can support 40 or so of you guys working from home and in outside offices. Just think of all those cars not on the road.
The speed isn't for getting web pages faster right now, however when you start watching high def movies on demand (blue ray quality) or having 3d video conferences or who knows what, you just aren't going to be able to do that on a copper network.
In addition, the direct cost to the government for the NBN is $700M, the GOVT is issuing bonds to pay for it, and the NBN will be sold to pay them back. Abbots NBN is now using the same funding model (that he spent 3 years slanging off) and comes with a direct cost to govt of $500M. _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
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Sun Apr 14, 2013 12:06 pm |
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