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Cerumen...

Well I have bled on various bits of it as mentioned in an alterfred.

Disunforgetting the olden days of GPRS modems, hardly slower than
carrier pigeons in good reception areas (e.g. standing under the
mast), I have obtained for myself the All New 3G Wireless Netjbex
Technology.

My, how SCIENCE has moved on! Some areas now offer speed which

robertharvey...

Well,, quite. In 1968 we were going to be living in these:
Now, 40 years on, we are still building mock tudor.

Holly G Pence...

And prolly will unto infinity. Those designs had /something,/ and
even the debased, almost parodic modern replicas carry the echo of
that /something./ The plastic futuro stuff didn't develop out of any
previous context of response-to-situation, and it shows.

rlb...

Right ye be, and it's not just plastic furniture, neither. It's all
"revolutionary" "new" "designs", in furniture, in housing, in the visual
arts, in music, in everything. If it doesn't take into account what went
before, it's worth nothing. Design doesn't have to actually follow its
predecessors, but design that's done without referring back to those
predecessors will be hollow and without soul.
All _good_ artists do it. They say the Beatles revolutionised pop music
- yes, but they did so on the solid basis of their rock'n'roll
ancestors, and occasionally on Bach. Joyce revolutionised the novel, but
in doing so he referred back to Homer. The concrete flat builders of the
1960s made their own, square, efficient, then-modern style all anew
without borrowing from their predecessors - and where are they now?

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention....

Our 60s house had such thin walls you could hear any slight disagreement
next door, not to mention having constant broken nights when the kids
next door were ill/teething/unhappy.

Watching their creations being broken down as unfit for purpose, that's
where.

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention....

I certainly hope they are but I'm afraid they're more likely to be
riding about on their luxury yatchs in the Caribbean, oblivious to the
misery they've inflicted on other people.

might, in the right wind conditions, actually be /faster/ than a
carrier pigeon. Just.

You may safely consider me underwhelmed by this performance.

robertharvey...

Is that 2.8Mbit/s HSDPA?

have half considered singing up for this, but recalled your under-
enthusiasm

Guy King...

The vendors are likewise underwhelmed by the takeup and are regretting
shelling out the enormous amounts of dosh on the licenses.

Andy Burns...

I gooved they cnvq /so/ much for the licences that they molished 'uge
paper losses and therefore rssrpgviryl got the licence fees back against
tacks?

robertharvey...

The perils of extrapolating, init. 'twas all part of the .com bubble,
like Global Crossing trying to lay enough fibre optic cable to replace
existing world telecoms 200 times over, and expecting to make 200
times as much zbarl.

Note that the people who fund this nonsense are the same ones advising
us what to do with our savings.

Cerumen...

I had one on loan a few fortnight back for a similar trip to my present one.
I found the service, spped and coverage good. The asking price exhorbitant,
and the amount of SFP WiFi available meant it all went back in the box and
was returned.

Just zis Guy, you know?...

Be very careful about "free WiFi" - a lot of it (outside of hotels
and coffee shops, anyway) is infested with exploits.

Countess-Palatine Blackberry the Perplexed of Divine Intervention....

Exploits? Wossat then?

Cerumen...

I am indeed very wary of those. There is one that appears regularly that say
"Free public WiFi network" that is in fact a computer to computer network
that I distrust and eschew totally. Many hotel and bar netjbexes require you

Just zis Guy, you know?...

Wise move. Too few people are sufficiently possessed of Clue to
even recognise the difference.

to view an advert which is not too troublesome but most marinas and yacht
clubs now have netjbexes as well.