To 5g or not to 5g

[tombogan03884]

WTF is 5G ?
My connection had it and canceled it,
 or changed his password, I haven't asked,
But I never saw any difference either way.

[Timothy]

The tinfoil hat crowd said there was something that was gonna suck out your brain with 5G.  Not being able to afford good tinfoil means I’m susceptible to brain sucking cell phones.

I bought the new iPhone SE cuz it’s small and I copped two for $450 bucks total when they rolled out in 2020 deal.  So far so good!  No, it’s not 5G!

No issues but they put out a new upgrade about once a month but my last three iPhones did as well.

[Pathfinder]

All - ALL - 5G patents are owned by the CCP, mostly through Huawei. I for one will never go 5G.

[Rastus]

Strictly speaking for personal device speed, the only need I see for 5G would be for internet use.  Even with streaming video, etc., I don't see where the extra speed will make a marked difference for a phone...there's not that much video data needed like on a large screen TV that uses streaming video.  Now, if you hook up your home internet to it...as in a hotspot...maybe that will make a difference. 

Most likely the big deal is speed in congested areas.  So my perception is that it benefits phone companies and densely packed users.  Otherwise not of much use to me....unless I am missimg something relevant to me.

[TAB]

For cloud based engineering  software it might be a thing.  Lots of companies  are going that route.   It eats up data, but uses lesa computing power.

[Sponsor]

[Rastus]

Cloud based is going back towards the old mainframe model.  That should not affect the need for 5G speed.  You send a few inputs in and the machine at the other end crunches out the numbers and sends you a report and a few charts back. 

I was in the old "mainframe wars" back in the 80's when the users of that kind of software fought to get it taken from the IT departments and put on individual machines.  We used to be bottlenecked because the reports had to be printed at a central location.  We had a blazingly fast 56k connection to send the reports back. 

Eventually processors got fast enough to support multi-million lines of code and iterative software designed to run complex simulations.  I had been running simulations on a baby Cray in the Houston office and really complex ones on a Cray in LaHabra (except Thursday's when they ran payroll!).  Then Digital put out the dax workstation machine which was quick in the day and after the 486 processors hit things really started taking off on the desktops.

[tombogan03884]

F%ck it.
I know point and click.   

[TAB]

Well my phone died yesterday.   I bought it dec 29 2015.

Sadly no one had the phone I wanted in stock.  So I had to buy a cheap one until they get the one in stocks.   ( s10e)   

The only thing I see better about the new phone over old is the USB type c.   It does not care which way you stick it in.

[Jim Kennedy-ar154me]

  It does not care which way you stick it in.

I was going to say something about my "girlfriend" but then my brain took over and I decided against it. ;^)
 

[TAB]

I was going to say something about my "girlfriend" but then my brain took over and I decided against it. ;^)
 

the real question is does she liked it the same way as your wife