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Ariane Launches A New Way To Get Online
pdaoust007 writes "According to the BBC, 'Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has lifted off after three earlier delays, carrying the world's largest commercial telecoms satellite.' There is also coverage from the CBC and some video here." What's really interesting is what's on board that satellite, though: "Telesat Canada, a subsidiary of BCE, has commercialized the Ka-band technology to allow universal high-speed access to internet service. Apparently, this should make high speed access available anywhere in North America. Gear will be $500 and service $60/month ($CDN)."
NOT FP, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT BECAUSE YOUR SHITCODE SUCKS!!11
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It is official; Netcraft confirms: English is dying.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered English speaking community when Slashdot confirmed that English use has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all Orkut members. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashdot poll which plainly states that English has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. English is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Orkut census.
You don't need a foreskin to predict English's future. The hand writing is on the wall: English faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for English because English is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, English continues to be lost in the Portuguese babble. Long vowels and hard consonants crumple like Volkswagens facing the SUV juggernaut which is Brazil.
American English is the most endangered of them all, having been overwhelmed by 93% of all Brazilians. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time American English scholars Daniel Webster and Noam Chomsky only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: American English is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.Theo, editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, states that there are 350,000 speakers of American English. How many speakers of Portuguese are there? Let's see. The number of English versus Portuguese posts on Orkut is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 350000/5 = 70000 Portuguese speakers. Japanese posts on Orkut are about half of the volume of Portuguese posts. Therefore there are about 35000 speakers of English. A recent article put
Portuguese at about 80 percent of the Orkut market. Therefore there are (70000+5000+700)*4 = 302800 Brazilians! This is consistent with the number of Orkut messages to English speaking groups.
Due to the troubles of Google, abysmal sales and so on, America went out of business and was taken over by Canada who speak two dying languages. Now Canada is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that English has steadily declined in users. English is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If English is to survive at all it will be among Minnesotans and survivalist groups hunkered down in Montana. English continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, English is dead.
Fact: English is dying
I'm thinking I'm going to patent the business practice of operating a data center off an iceberg. Ventilation? Cooling? All taken care of. Cluster processing? Just snag a few mor icebergs. And the land rental cost is probably rock bottom. And since not even the titanic could sink an iceberg, I'd say data security is probably pretty good too...
The RIAA is gonna have its lawyers all over this Ka(zaa)-band satellite!
In the next version, could you please fix your way too good grammer and speling? kthx
imagine sucking my fucking balls.
How much bandwidth do they have in Japan?
So if i'm using a Canadian ISP, does that mean that I could download music without being afraid of the RIAA?
May the moderator that modded that post "flamebait" rot in metamoderation hell. That was funny as hell. Look who posted it, consider differences in population density, go "hmmm", laugh a little to youself.
Civil War 2, by Thomas Chittum. I have a copy, one of the best treatments on the subject you mentioned I have seen. I think his over all analysis in it is very well thought out and presented. What he talks about is coming true, you can see it daily. Read the reviews to see what other folks think about it.