It appears that Hasbeen's report on the AGC, to invent an acronym
is now all over the media in Europe but appears to be a secret amongst
our media.
Here is a link to the Express newspaper in the UK.

http://tinyurl.com/bw9sjf5

Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, of the St Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory

Of course one swallow doesn't make a winter of course, but there may
well be some truth to the matter if you remember our conversation on
the Maunder minimum & sunspots recently.

I have got to admit I would relish the red faces that would be all
around if it turns out to be correct.

Dear Bazz,

The article I linked to was an Editorial Opinion
piece of The Age newspaper - and I'm afraid I
don't know the Editor's IT credentials - but if
you want more information you can always Google
other links from all sorts of experts.
There's plenty of them on the web - with all sorts
of opinions. Take your pick of what suits you.

Cheers.

Whoops, that last post was to the wrong thread, aaarrrggghhh

OK Lexi, not to worry, but there are just too many people making too
much just based on repeating what other non technical people are saying.

If it dribbles out of the remote computer it must dribble into yours !

Ah, a new acronym DO DI !

Dear Bazz,

Fair enough.

I'm by no means an IT expert.

However there's certainly plenty of them around
with all sorts of opinions.

What does concern me though is - and I've seen it
many times in our society with various
projects - we take the cheaper option
thinking we will save money - when it ends up costing
us more in the long term. We don't do the proper
long term planning in many cases.
In the case of the NBN -
we don't need an antiquated system - no matter how
cheaper it will be - we want to be able to compete
with our technology on the global market - and not
be left behind in the next century - as an IT
backwater. Of course that's only my opinion -
and I do wish we could keep politics out of it.
But fat chance - right? Especially in this election
year.

Lexi,
You cannot call the coalitions NBN proposal antiquated.
You said;
we don't need an antiquated system - no matter how
cheaper it will be - we want to be able to compete

Competition is completely unaffected by internet speed.
That is another non technical waffle.

It Just isn't antiquated and I suggest you read this non technical article.

http://tinyurl.com/bn2e7ou

I don't know what they mean by Vectored ADSL.
The V or X adsl I knew about was/is used in Canberra some years ago and
was I think 50 Mbit.

Lexi,
The wife called me before I mentioned that it won't be long before we
are engaged in another FTTP vs FTTN like argument.
The Very fast Train project will generate a similar argument.
Except there will be a three way argument;

1. The Highest speed project
2. The fast enough project
3. Money only put into electrified freight lines and reopen branch lines.

It will be all about money and will the money be available anyway ?
It will also be complicated by whether the airlines will still be flying.