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I think it is important to remember a cloud based system and a dumb terminal are two different things.
@Sledge: In my native Finland and here in Germany, in fact in whole Europe, I know nobody who has to pay over €30-35 per month from internet price normally being between €14.95 and €24.95, and I know nobody who has not at least 6/1 Mbps unlimited connection. Just two price / speed examples: in our second home in Western Germany we have a "slow" connection, only 20/2 Mbps, unlimited DL/UL, which costs us €19.95 per month. Here in Leipzig we have a VDSL 100/20 Mbps connection, also unlimited DL/UL. It costs us €49.95 per month but €24.00 of that is because of IPTV which uses half of the bandwidth, leaving for Internet "only" 50/10 Mbps.
In how many areas in USA these kind of speeds are standard, as in here?
Kari
our local UK exchange is 8meg, tho as i live 2 miles from it, the best we can get in my village is about 2.5meg on a good day. the recently replaced labour govt. had a target to provide 2meg to every household by 2012.
the current gov. wants to extend that to fibre & higher speeds by 2015. currently only large cities like london have higher speeds.
british telecom says that 66% of the UK will be covered by 2015, tho only 25% of subscribers in that area will actually be connectable. ho-hum....
speed isn't everything anyway, the faster connections just lets the content providers add fancier bells and whistles, and pages don't seem to load any faster as they now have to do more work to give the politically correct trendy look with fancy backgrounds, shading, transparencies, shadows, active elements, hidden trackers, ads, and tons of other junk.
like the recent trendy changes to google images in searches and in photobucket where i now waste more time waiting for auto-zooming on mouse-overs, applets and popup thingies with shaded transparent borders in lieu of scrollbars that the programmers think look cool...
ah, well if they didn't keep adding these things they'd have nothing to do and would get laid off. 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' is an anathema nowadays.
Can you imagine companies allowing all their computing (OS and Data) to be on the cloud?
From time to time we do get outages, and that would render a lot of people 'twiddling thumbs' until the network was restored.
At the moment we do have a number of company applications that do work via the cloud. These are primarily timesheet and internal data applications (OS and Data on the cloud) that are accessed worldwide to the servers in Sweden.
At the best of times it is painfully slow and at worst, once you click to connect you can go and put the kettle on whilst it loads.
Reminds me of the early HP3000 days :)
Wow that is a serious drop in only 2 miles. The server I used for the example is more like 100 miles from my house and the rated speed of my connection is 12/1.