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My Internet transfer rate is slower than yours: 30 MB/sec. I can pay $15 a month extra for a 70MB/sec connection, but I refuse to do that. 30MB/sec is good enough for me. I can even stream Netflix movies at that speed.
Whenever I get impatient with download speed, I remind myself of my first "fast" Internet connection: That was when I upgraded from a 9600 Baud modem, to a 56,000 Baud unit. And I thought that that was fast! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I can only reiterate my belief that new users of the Internet should be forced to spend the first year on a 56k dial-up connection like wot we did. It might just make them think about what they really want from it instead of diving into the time-wasting shallow world of social media!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Why not forcing people to live in a cave with fur rags and flintstone? 
NB: I started with a 1200 baud modem
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Why not indeed? I'm in favour of anything that rids us of this ghastly, overweening sense of entitlement that plagues us! It's high time that we were all reminded that there is a difference between a privilege and a right! Let them eat dirt!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Arrrrggghh! Nooooooo!
Can you imagine just how much of your bandwidth Windows 10 would steal just for updates? 
And just how long to D/L Visual Studio? 3.7GB @ 56Kb s-1 is over a year...so they'd never get it finished...and couldn't ask stupid questions in QA...
You may be on to something here... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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56k?!?
Luxury!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You're correct. It is too slow.
80% of that bandwidth will inevitably be taken up by Netflix streaming, 18% by spam and the remaining 2% will be our traffic.
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Jimmy died in Buriram, Thailand, earlier this year. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I was finally able to locate someone who confirmed he had passed.
I had been in touch with him from time to time after he shared with me in mid-2014 that he had lung cancer. I last heard from him in November, at which point he told me the cancer was now at Stage 4, and it was clear there was no treatment possible, and that he anticipated dying in a month or two:
"I know approximately when I will die and am amazed at the things I think about knowing the end is near."
He is survived by wife, Pu; they do not have children. I do not know much about Jimmy's life., or whether he has any children. Our e-mail contacts were infrequent, and mainly about technical things and expat life, and our experiences with cancer.
yours, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
modified 21-Mar-16 4:59am.
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for Jimmy and his family
BillWoodruff wrote: and our experiences with cancer
so far, and hopefully it continues to be so for a long time, you're doing better than poor Jimmy
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For all who cared about him:
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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He had integrity.
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Thanks for the update Bill. I last heard from him about the same time and had wrote him but he didn't answer.
Last email I got said he had about 6mos. to live and he was starting to falter then.
We became pretty good friends and he had invited me to come see him in Thailand when he first retired and now wished I would have had the time and money to go.
I don't think he had any children and he never talked much about family so I can't speak on that.
I miss his emails and hope he can rest in peace.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Aww...I liked him. RIP Jimmy
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RIP, Jimmy.
/ravi
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Sigh, yet another good guy taken by the scourge! Condolences to Pu.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Nutz , first Henry the elephant then Jimmy, the scary thing 'they always come in three's'!
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RIP Jimmy.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Regards,
Palash
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That is sad news. May all his bits traverse into the ever-after without checksum errors!
Marc
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Sad news. Thanks for sharing, Bill.
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