[Info-vax] A possible platform for VMS?

[Dirk Munk]

Richard Maher wrote:
> On 3/3/2015 5:53 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
>> Richard Maher wrote:
>>> On 3/2/2015 10:45 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I just looked up Sweden and all but a few *very* low populated areas
>>>> in the far north has 10 Mb/s or better to over 90% of households.
>>>>
>>>> The governements goal is that at least 90% of all housholds and
>>>> business will have 100 Mb/s via fiber at year 2020.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> What's your tax rate?
>>>
>>> Here the govt wants to rollout some NBN (National Broadband Network) the
>>> biggest EVER publicly funded project while cutting old age pensions and
>>> I say NO! Let the movie pirates and pedophiles pay for the speed if they
>>> want it.
>>
>> And how about people working at home, who would like the work the same
>> way as they do at the office? So the same speed and response times? How
>> about companies that need access to remote servers, looking for
>> documentation on parts, manuals etc.? I know that this is a major
>> problem for small and medium sized companies in rural areas, in fact it
>> may be such a problem that these companies have to move to more
>> populated areas thus making it more and more impossible for small
>> villages etc. to survive. Highly undesirable.
>
> I sometimes work from home with ~5MB. Maybe I'm just a slow typer?
>
> What do these imaginary workers of yours do? Ride their battle-chickens
> around WoW for a living?

Imaginary? I know big companies that expect their workers to work at 
home as much as possible, thus saving on office costs. If these workers 
go to the office, there is no fixed working place for them. Quite often 
they even can't find a proper place to work. Costs saving you know.

>
> For those who need/desire it let them pay or move! I'm not paying for
> evryone to have there own personal EMR machine or helicopter so fucked
> if I'm paying for them to download GoT to their fucking NAS.

It should be obvious to you that you can't pay for a single high speed 
connection. These connections are only viable when they are made 
collectively.

>
> Small villages died when the bank, the post office and the store closed
> because there are nonviable especially when you want the cheap prices 10
> miles away. But they really died when smoking was banned in pubs and
> everyone stayed home.

Maybe if the village is hardly 150 years old like in the US, that may be 
true. However when villages are a thousand years old, or even thousands 
of years old, then those changes matter. Let me give you an example. 
These days if you have a building project in Europe, and  there is a 
chance that there could be traces of previous human activities there, 
then by European law you are obliged to perform a archeological survey 
on that spot. Some years back they wanted to build some new house near a 
English village, and the archeological survey came up with a bronze age 
grave field. They extracted the bones, and they were also successful in 
extracting DNA from those bones. The DNA from those bones was compared 
with DNA from people in that area, and they found matches. The same 
families had lived there for thousands of years. We want those villages 
to stay alive, in fact a very recent pole showed that 86% of the people 
in The Netherlands are very worried about what you might call the 
quality of living in those villages.