7/20/2013

[macsupport] Digest Number 9662

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Digest #9662
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Re: iWork by "Josephine Bacon" baconandeggs_2001
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Re: iWork by cheeky_chas

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Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:33 pm (PDT) . Posted by:

"Josephine Bacon" baconandeggs_2001

It is not even just an urban option. Here in the UK, due to the problems involved in laying fibreoptic cable in very densely populated urban areas where there may be old utilities laid underground that are not even mapped, the London suburbs have fibreoptic while we in central London do not!

Josephine Bacon
On 19 Jul 2013, at 16:38, bob morin wrote:

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> On Jul 19, 2013, at 10:23 AM, redhillsranger <jsm5320432@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Unfortunately, a great number of people (and a lot of territory) out there are not located where hi-speed internet is available. Things such as terrain, sparse population and very old and unmaintained overhead phone lines (combined with no cell service) make the concept of doing all things from the cloud, more of a urban option than for most of rural areas.
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> > Maybe this will change in a few years, but it's not there yet.
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> This and other thoughts have not made me a fan of doing things on the cloud and relying on the cloud.
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> bob
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> bob morin
> rbmorin11@gmail.com
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Josephine Bacon
Tamr Translations Limited
179 Kings Cross Road
London WC1x 9BZ
Tel:+44 207 278 9490

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Sat Jul 20, 2013 12:46 am (PDT) . Posted by:

cheeky_chas

Yes and spare a thought for us out in ''the sticks'&#39; Josephine!

On 20 Jul 2013, at 07:33, Josephine Bacon <bacon@langservice.com> wrote:

> It is not even just an urban option. Here in the UK, due to the problems involved in laying fibreoptic cable in very densely populated urban areas where there may be old utilities laid underground that are not even mapped, the London suburbs have fibreoptic while we in central London do not!
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> Josephine Bacon
> On 19 Jul 2013, at 16:38, bob morin wrote:
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>> On Jul 19, 2013, at 10:23 AM, redhillsranger <jsm5320432@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> Unfortunately, a great number of people (and a lot of territory) out there are not located where hi-speed internet is available. Things such as terrain, sparse population and very old and unmaintained overhead phone lines (combined with no cell service) make the concept of doing all things from the cloud, more of a urban option than for most of rural areas.
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>>> Maybe this will change in a few years, but it's not there yet.
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>> This and other thoughts have not made me a fan of doing things on the cloud and relying on the cloud.
>>
>> bob
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>> bob morin
>> rbmorin11@gmail.com
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> Josephine Bacon
> Tamr Translations Limited
> 179 Kings Cross Road
> London WC1x 9BZ
> Tel:+44 207 278 9490
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