Hilarious notes from a presentation
- Cory Doctorow
- Uncategorized
- Nov 28, 2001
Hilarious notes from a presentation at yesterday’s 802.11 Planet conference in San Jose.
On coding standards: “Consumers don’t care: they just want to access the Web.”
On Sprint’s Wireless Web (lying to the customer, he said: HDML sites only): “What they’re doing to stimulate usage is to charge you a high price.”
On up to: “These are lies by marketing and PR people…they use these little weasel words: up to. You can get speeds ‘up to.’ “
Speeds under 1xRTT et al. are not available individually: only shared. “If there are absolutely no molecules in the air at all and you are making physical love to the transmitter” you can achieve maximum full speeds.
On speeds of 40-60K, “I spit on your 40K. We don’t need no stinkin’ 40K – but a lot of people in the U.S. and around the world dial-up and they get around 40-50 Kbps.”