"When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good" - you can't say that about the web.
...
Perhaps the survey tells us more about the marketing people at Intel than about people's actual preferences. They might say they would rather give up sex, but it's easier to say than to do.
Do these percentages roughly correlate with the proportion of the population who can no longer see their own private parts due to the size of their gut? Or in fact more likely, the proportion whose PARTNER can no longer see their own privates.....
Although seriously it shows that the internet, like mobile phones before it (and TV before that etc.) has become something that a large section of people now see as a necessity in their life and not just a luxury. I remember when mobiles were considered a luxury item and now it seems almost nobody can manage without one. Likewise, net access used to be the domain of the geek, but now it's something that everyone needs.
That's comprehensive! With a population of over 305,000,000 this is a staggering
0.000695%.
The same taken obviously includes a huge number of people for whom sex and the use of the internet are mutually exclusive ( apart from the 5 finger shuffle )
What most people know about relationships is that the communication is (in the long run) more important than sex. Perhaps if the study asked what people were doing on the internet then they might have a more realistic idea.
Perhaps call girls should advertise 'up to' 8mbps (mucky bonks per session) to your home and then only actually deliver 2.6, but charge you the same anyway?
How would those kinds of punters react to that kind of business model, especially when the same damn whore is giving the bloke next door the full 8 every night of the week?
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Web more popular than sex, says Intel
Anonymous Coward
Web more popular than sex? #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
Does this take the onanistic uses of the web into account?
Paris 'cause she loves surfing.
Anonymous Coward
<title>Hello</title> #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
the internet: £12.50 p/m (o2)
snitch: 50 euro (amsterdam)
first comment on the reg: worthless
(logo: whatever)
ratfox
Not getting any #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
It's easy to say you prefer web, when you're not getting any... I wonder how many were in this situation.
jake
Uh, no. Sorry, Intel ... #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
The web is not more popular than sex.
Rather, the web is more popular than current RealLife[tm] sex.
At least according to most of the machines I get called out to fix ...
Stephen
the best part... #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
is that those figures are almost inverted when it came to a big screen TV...
lglethal
This isn't news.... #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
All it tells us is what we all already knew - Americans are shite in the sack! And quite obviously have no life...
What a surprise...
The Fuzzy Wotnot
Hardly! #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
Judging by the size of the average blocklist I recieve each day, sounds like most people are getting both, albeit in a sort of one-sided way!
Tony
No #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:06 GMT
Can't remember who said it but....
"When it's good, it's very good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good" - you can't say that about the web.
...
Perhaps the survey tells us more about the marketing people at Intel than about people's actual preferences. They might say they would rather give up sex, but it's easier to say than to do.
Andy Worth
Just wondering.... #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
Do these percentages roughly correlate with the proportion of the population who can no longer see their own private parts due to the size of their gut? Or in fact more likely, the proportion whose PARTNER can no longer see their own privates.....
Although seriously it shows that the internet, like mobile phones before it (and TV before that etc.) has become something that a large section of people now see as a necessity in their life and not just a luxury. I remember when mobiles were considered a luxury item and now it seems almost nobody can manage without one. Likewise, net access used to be the domain of the geek, but now it's something that everyone needs.
shay mclachlan
What? #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
What is sex?
Anonymous Coward
Makes sense #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
For some of the male population, the tinterweb is the only chqnce they will get of seeing a nakid ladee.
Paris, Internet, Sex.
Anonymous Coward
So, it #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
"..found that 46 per cent of woman"
Is that the top half or the bottom half..?
Anonymous Coward
Wow 2119 #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
That's comprehensive! With a population of over 305,000,000 this is a staggering
0.000695%.
The same taken obviously includes a huge number of people for whom sex and the use of the internet are mutually exclusive ( apart from the 5 finger shuffle )
Guess it must be a slow news day.....
Mat
Ha! #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
For most people, giving up their internet connection *is* giving up sex!
Paris because..................
Martin Lyne
Does this account #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
..for those of us where they are one and the same?
A cruel choice, to be sure.
Ken Hagan
Web more popular than sex? #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
You mean "cheaper", surely?
Stephen Gazard
Communication more important than sex, then #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 11:18 GMT
What most people know about relationships is that the communication is (in the long run) more important than sex. Perhaps if the study asked what people were doing on the internet then they might have a more realistic idea.
Sceptical Bastard
Two points #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 11:25 GMT
First, the report is from Intel. Well, they would say that, wouldn't they (with a nod to Mandy Rice Davis who knew a thing or two about rumpy-pumpy).
Secondly, don't these people realise that for many geeks the internet *is* their sex-life?
Mine's the one with the Cat5 cable dangling out of the pocket and the semen stain on the front.
Anonymous Coward
Married? #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 12:44 GMT
2 weeks is nothing...
Anonymous Coward
You can spend.... #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 14:03 GMT
HOURS on the web if you're bored enough as opposed to two min.... *coughs* - never mind.
Mitch Kent
a non-sex joke! #
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 16:08 GMT
Intel shouldn't be using polling, surely they should be using interrupts?
Any coat will do, I'm in a hurry.
Anonymous Coward
"Up to" #
Posted Friday 19th December 2008 22:57 GMT
Perhaps call girls should advertise 'up to' 8mbps (mucky bonks per session) to your home and then only actually deliver 2.6, but charge you the same anyway?
How would those kinds of punters react to that kind of business model, especially when the same damn whore is giving the bloke next door the full 8 every night of the week?