I hear all this talk of limited Broadband. Maybe I'm just lucky living in a metropolitan area in Canada - DSL and Cable are the same price and is fairly affordable (about $40 Cdn / month). It'd be nice if it were cheaper, but this isn't too bad. Then again, I have heard some grumblings that Canada is a bit further ahead in adoption of newer technology (could be wrong though).
As for the Future of the internet... makes me think - with all these Nodes on the I-Net, sooner or later someone is going to try to put them together in a neural net or something similar. So THE killer app in this case would be the I-Net itself... On a different note, I don't see how this discussion has much to do with Cold Fusion anymore.... <grins> Shawn Grover -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 7:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Future of the internet I agree with this on both counts, even here in Australia the feeling is very mutual. The broadband that is reliable is limited to coverage (Cable), and the DSL services are far to expensive and will kill the market and at the moment is also very unreliable with the uptime. I myself have had the time to think about where the future is headed, and there many opportunities that will open up when this gets sorted, But there has to be 2 things present. 1) The medium has enough coverage to give your product the coverage it needs, and to deliver the way this is to look. 2) Security, this will be a big undertaking and people would be hesitant to hook to something that offers very little protection to any stored information. But I see so much old technology that could be changed for the better, when broadband is here. -----Original Message----- From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2002 12:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Future of the internet The "killer app" for now is broadband, and that's something that the US is really falling behind on. Once broadband is prevalent, it will allow the web to BE both the medium (for information and entertainment) and the mechanism (for delivery of content and information, as well as a voice, video, and data communications medium). If the government/telco's/etc. don't get their collective acts together, we're going to be an InfoTech 3rd world nation. I mean, hell, I live in a neighborhood of $300k houses in suburban Phila and apparently nobody wants to provide brandband to us. After that, I think the next "killer app" is mainstream home/personal server/firewall (or, more accuratly, appliance) for storing information, video, music, etc., but for that to succeed, broadband needs to be prevalent. Sorry, Doug, but I think it goes way beyond the integration of Flash and CF, though personal bandwidth is important for that to succeed as well. Pete ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
