[opendtv] Re: Commissioner Rosenworcel and NAB on next gen TV
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 04:37:29 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Averages are meaningless here. Most people have both fixed and
wireless broadband. A much smaller number of people rely only on
wireless broadband; but the new "unlimited data" plans allow
subscribers to use much larger data buckets,
Again, Craig indulges in banalities, writing **volumes and volumes** of useless
prose. The simple point is, as low a number as 4 GB is, per month, it shows
exactly what I said. Wireless is not an option for the heavy lifting. Not yet,
maybe not for some time. There is no significant competition for home broadband
service. You have one choice, Craig. How many times does this have to be
repeated?
Your list of applications contains several that are bandwidth hogs
The real work, yes. Anything that isn't trivia. Let's not have to belabor the
obvious again.
The hours of homework is a huge canard. Most homework is NOT ONLINE,
and most of what does require the use of the Internet
As if you even know! More and more, it does. Much of what required a library
before can or is now done online. Many lectures come online too, even for
courses that are not online courses. This is even true for many jobs. You need
broadband for them too. You have this idea that the only thing young kids need
the Internet for is texting or Facebook. Ridiculous.
Do these kids even have computers?
Yes! (Let's not forget. This is the same Craig who swore up and down that only
4% of TV is watched online, after all.)
Only 2 percent of Americans can't get internet access, but 20 percent
choose not to
Those students who can't get Internet access at home have to go elsewhere to
get access, putting them at a disadvantage. Even just writing a report. If you
have Internet access you can do research instantly. If not, you have to trek to
the library. That puts you at a disadvantage. If you don't understand a
problem, you can get help online without too much trouble. If not, you can't.
Does this really need to be belabored? Don't you ever use the Internet, Craig?
You appear weirdly unfamiliar with what should be obvious.
More than just Rosenworcel have pointed out how many homework assignments now
require Internet access, and even if not strictly required, it gives the
student a huge advantage. I didn't comment on all she said that was accurate,
Craig. I think you have this typical formula-thinker's attitude that every
single point she made MUST be wrong. It just makes you wrong, Craig. The only
part she didn't get right, at all, was the business about ATSC 3.0. The rest
was utterly unobjectionable.
Older, less educated, and poorer Americans are much less likely to
be online
Craig suggests it's best to be uneducated. Not a surprise! So, who cares if
people can't get access? Just remain ignorant.
Nobody is denying the importance of the Internet Bert.
What crap. You are, Craig, by not getting why it's an essential telecom
service, much more so than the telephone ever was. For the longest time, you
were frozen on the idea that just VoIP is telecom.
NOBODY needs cable broadband to do their homework Bert.
Again, as if you would even know. She has school-age kids, as does the
Chairman, and all you have is dogma. Who do you think is more credible, Craig?
The U.S. Illiteracy Rate Hasn't Changed In 10 Years
Irrelevant. Like arguing that if, in 1910, kids were doing just fine in school
without the Internet, they could do the same now. It's not just literacy,
genius. As times change, the tools of education have to change too. Education
is not just learning how to read. To get educated properly today, you need to
get way more information across than you did in 1910, get it? Make sense,
Craig. Your arguing is preposterous.
He talks *all the time* about how many millions the FCC is dedicating
to deploy broadband where it doesn't exist (not even DSL).
Ya think? We have been working on this issue for nearly a century,
Then go back and erase the crap you wrote about the USF. The USF is what pays
for deploying Internet service where market forces would make it way too
expensive, so it doesn't exist. Same sort of problem which existed a century
ago for telephone service, for power distribution, and so on. Even Chairman Pai
understands this, in spite of his formulaic narrative. But you seem not to,
Craig.
Bert
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