Times Online: The End of the (Free) Pipe Dream? Feb 9, 2006, 02 :30 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (8305 reads) (Other stories by Gervase Markham)
"It's 8am on February 8, 2008. You switch on the kitchen computer--the newest version of Linux boots in only a few seconds--start up Firefox 4 and log in to the BBC News website to put on the morning bulletin while you rummage in the cultery drawer for a spoon.
"Normally, the video over your newly installed 32 megabit broadband connection is super-smooth. However, this morning, newscaster Chantelle Houghton's face looks like a Monet slideshow, the audio is distorted and choppy, and the stream occasionally freezes entirely for several seconds..."
