This protection is to prevent unlimited ripping of CDs, it makes no mention of being unable to use CDs in other devices. The article says there are two formats on the disc, one of which can be read by a PC and requires a key to decode.
I work for the cable company. It's not last mile, and it's not even so much the backbone. We make money. It's that it's not worth it to offer it.
We market to the mass, and 1.5 Mbps is fast enough for 95% of consumers. The 5% of consumers that want faster are already using more than their share of bandwidth and are making up for what others don't use. (ie: the whole pay-per-bandwidth debate) It's not worth it for us to offer higher bandwidth to 5% of users that are going to utilize an exorbitant amount of bandwidth.
We use 7513s at my facility, and they are *heavy* The fully loaded ones we have is somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 lbs. I'd be quite amused to see the flight attendent help the 7513 to its seat.
Although I can't provide any references for this, I did see a Discovery program describing experimental military equipment dealing with brainwaves. What they were showing was very rudimentary, only being able to track general directional movements (left, right, up, down), but the user wore a headband that monitored brainwaves and was able to stear an object through space. I think for many of us, the further development of keyboards is getting a bit redundant. At the moment, I can type faster than I can speak. I would need to speak very quickly to keep up with my keyrate, and because I'm a touch typist, I can do this an just about any keyboard. I'm looking for a device in the not to soon future that we don't need to speak or type, but rather think. Borgification.
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This protection is to prevent unlimited ripping of CDs, it makes no mention of being unable to use CDs in other devices. The article says there are two formats on the disc, one of which can be read by a PC and requires a key to decode.
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doh n : the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
I work for the cable company. It's not last mile, and it's not even so much the backbone. We make money. It's that it's not worth it to offer it.
We market to the mass, and 1.5 Mbps is fast enough for 95% of consumers. The 5% of consumers that want faster are already using more than their share of bandwidth and are making up for what others don't use. (ie: the whole pay-per-bandwidth debate) It's not worth it for us to offer higher bandwidth to 5% of users that are going to utilize an exorbitant amount of bandwidth.
Although entertaining, I doubt this is true.
We use 7513s at my facility, and they are *heavy* The fully loaded ones we have is somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 lbs. I'd be quite amused to see the flight attendent help the 7513 to its seat.
Although I can't provide any references for this, I did see a Discovery program describing experimental military equipment dealing with brainwaves. What they were showing was very rudimentary, only being able to track general directional movements (left, right, up, down), but the user wore a headband that monitored brainwaves and was able to stear an object through space. I think for many of us, the further development of keyboards is getting a bit redundant. At the moment, I can type faster than I can speak. I would need to speak very quickly to keep up with my keyrate, and because I'm a touch typist, I can do this an just about any keyboard. I'm looking for a device in the not to soon future that we don't need to speak or type, but rather think. Borgification.