Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:50:10 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, michaelh@cet.co.jp, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cable modems Message-ID: <19970610225010.32367@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706102301.QAA03841@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 04:01:57PM -0700 References: <199706101847.UAA00782@yedi.iaf.nl> <199706102301.QAA03841@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On the subject of Re: Cable modems, Terry Lambert stated:
> The rest of us live in the armpit of the telecommunications
> industry (like US West and TCI cablevision) and we don't have
Hey careful! I *am* in TCI land, and this TCI is the best cable system I've
ever seen.
> I suspect Europe and Australia to have universal high speed
> access *long* before the US, simple because you guys don't
> have a badly managed antiquated infrastructure that they are
> still trying to amortize over the remaining portion of their
> 20 year accounting cycle.
>
> Bah Humbug!
And you have moronic consumers in the United states who cry "I have to pay $70
a month for a 10mbit link to thie internet? Waaahh thats rediculus! I wanna
pay $5!"
Capitalism works, and if consumers were willing to pay for quality, we wouldnt
be stuck with VHS, crappy NTSC telvision signals, lousy POTS lines, and other
useless (but cheap) products.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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