In Reply to: Look in the mirror. posted by volunteer on June 1, 2012 at 08:03:18:
There's something like a quarter million kms of underwater cabling circling the globe carrying communication. Wire was carrying communication in the mid- 1800's. The amount of miles of actual cable carrying communication on land...billions? More? trillions? There are something like a thousand satellites orbiting the Earth carrying and transmiting complex information through the air...we can communicate over the air with telephones not much bigger than a credit card costing a hundred bucks or less. Bouncing that signal from me to a satellite to you and back along the same route with a device that sells for ten bucks in a convenience store that's sophisticated enough to be programmed to communicate only so much information in minutes, and then be thrown in the trash can.
But some companies that have figured out that certain people may pay hundreds, or thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars for a wire carrying simple electricity from a wall to an audio amplifier. Never mind the wire feeding that costs a few cents a foot. Or the same amount of money for a cable carrying audio signal a few feet. And these guys are just scratching the surface of their technology?
Mind boggling, isn't it? Absolutely mind-boggling.
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- RE: Look in the mirror. - finski 08:53:09 06/01/12 (12)
- RE: Look in the mirror. - Sordidman 15:22:14 06/08/12 (0)
- I'm such a geezer. - finski 09:31:26 06/01/12 (10)
- Try $20,000. - Justlisten2 13:49:29 06/01/12 (8)
- Actually - unclestu 17:53:34 06/01/12 (1)
- some misinformation there - Joe Murphy Jr 21:09:45 06/01/12 (0)
- I paid $4,000 for a $5,000 Sony Plasma maybe ten years ago? - Elizabeth 16:52:42 06/01/12 (1)
- I paid $3000 for a 50 inch Toshiba plasma.... - Justlisten2 20:45:44 06/01/12 (0)
- no, try $25k - Joe Murphy Jr 16:21:56 06/01/12 (1)
- Thanks. - Justlisten2 20:41:13 06/01/12 (0)
- RE: Try $20,000. - finski 15:16:41 06/01/12 (1)
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