"If someone can "hog all the bandwidth", that is a sign of a badly managed network."
Or a sign of users who don't understand what "shared resource" means.
"Ensuring that each user gets their fair share without artifically limiting the whole network is one of the main responsibilities of an ISP."
"Fair share" is right up there with "unlimited" as the most abused words in a discussion about broadband.
If life was fair, then people wouldn't be leaving their P2P connections running full-tilt 24/7 and giving everyone else affected the middle-finger.
"Ten years ago I could have understood it, but with todays technology it should no problem ensuring that each user gets their fair share."
Good thing US schools are teaching a healthy dose of economics right along side their technology courses.
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"Just wait for it to hit the consoles. Unless it fails so hard that it doesn't get ported. But that is unlikely. DRM SecuROM type tactics are killing pc gaming more than piracy."
Riight! Killing it to the point Piratebay will close up shop.
"Don't forget about Microsoft! Games for Windows is a cruel joke. It seems to be primarily about them padding profits by giving the PC sloppy seconds on games that get shoveled out for the 360."
*Looks at the Sins of Solar Empire box he just purchased*
Wow! Danse's right. Just look at the sloppy seconds, games for Windows tagged box I just got. Whatever will I do?
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September 8, 2008 New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper By ERIC A. TAUB
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. â" The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation and decreased ad revenue from their paper product.
While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look â" but not the feel â" of a printed newspaper.
The device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the Sony eReader and Amazon.comâ(TM)s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corporation. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book readers, Plastic Logicâ(TM)s device, which will be shown at an emerging technology trade show in San Diego, has a screen more than twice as large. The size of a piece of copier paper, it can be continually updated via a wireless link, and can store and display hundreds of pages of newspapers, books and documents.
Richard Archuleta, the chief executive of Plastic Logic, said the display was big enough to provide a newspaperlike layout. âoeEven though we have positioned this for business documents, newspapers is what everyone asks for,â Mr. Archuleta said.
The reader will go on sale in the first half of next year. Plastic Logic will not announce which news organization will display its articles on it until the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, when it will also reveal the price.
Kenneth A. Bronfin, president of Hearst Interactive Media, said, âoeWe are hopeful that we will be able to distribute our newspaper content on a new generation of larger devices sometime next year.â While he would not say what device the companyâ(TM)s papers would use, he said, âoewe have a very strong interest in e-newspapers. Weâ(TM)re very anxious to get involved.â
The Hearst Corporation, the parent of Hearst Interactive Media, owns 16 daily newspapers, including The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express and The San Francisco Chronicle, and was an early investor in E Ink. The company already distributes electronic versions of some papers on the Amazon Kindle.
Newspaper companies have watched the technology closely for years. The ideal format, a flexible display that could be rolled or folded like a newspaper, is still years off, says E Ink. But it foresees color displays with moving images and interactive clickable advertising coming in only a few more years, according to Sriram K. Peruvemba, vice president for marketing for E Ink.
E Ink expects that within the next few years it will be able to create technology that allows users to write on the screen and view videos. At a recent demonstration at E Inkâ(TM)s headquarters here, the company showed prototypes of flexible displays that can create rudimentary colors and animated images. âoeBy 2010, we will have a production version of a display that offers newspaperlike color,â Mr. Peruvemba said.
If e-newspapers take off, the savings could be hefty. At the The San Francisco Chronicle, for example, print and delivery amount to 65 percent of the paperâ(TM)s fixed expenses, Mr. Bronfin said.
With electronic readers, publishers would also learn more about its readers. With paper copy subscriptions, newspapers know what address has received a copy and not much else. About those customers picking up a copy on the newsstand, they know nothing.
As an electronic device, newspapers can determine who is reading their paper, and even which articles are being read. Advertisers would be able to understand their audience and direct advertising to its likeliest
"It's not the method that's illegal in the case of P2P, it's the content, for certain values of content. There's nothing illegal about Bittorrent itself."
Does the same apply to the variants that hide the payload as well as who's on either end?
"The universe of possible prions could be much larger than we thought."' Sounds like another good reason to donate your spare CPU cycles to projects like Folding@home."
Ummm, you do realize the story is about Isohunt trying to convince a Canadian COURT, not the RIAA, right? The RIAA is totally irrelevant in this story. The basic question is, is IsoHunt facilitating a crime by hosting torrents? The way to answer that question is simple. Go look. The rest is common sense.
"Because the push to DTV allows corporate interests to make use of the prime spectrum currently allocated for analog broadcasts while the retailers get taxpayer funded advertising that essentially tells a gullible public that the path of least resistance is to go out and buy a new LCD or plasma television - The stores just happen to have plenty of them, and gee aren't they pretty! "
Cynical much? Yes they are pretty and I got two because the analog passed it's first smoke test after years of service. The picture's much better for the same size screen. Lighter weight and slimmer profile making it easier to hang on the wall. AND it can be a computer monitor as well as TV freeing up a PCI slot. So overall the transition has been a win win. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
You know the funny thing about your argument is I've found most people don't actually read their contracts. They just go on and on about "I thought it said...".
"And it is not rocket science to design a game console."
Rocket science? No! But it's harder than you think to bring conflicting goals down to an economic level the majority can afford. Featuritus didn't help.
"Of course, we must acknowledge that MS tried to design custom hardware, a task for which it has no experience. "
Funny, the main two parts that caused most of the issues were from companies that had the expertise (IBM,ATI).
"What people fail to realize is that IBM spent the money to make rock solid products. "
You didn't read the article, did you? The yield on the new IBM processor was hardly "rock solid".
Probably because...let's face it. The intelligence community has an image problem. 9/11 and other incidents made them look like dinosaurs. They need to convince people that they're changing, and for the better. Both internally as well as externally.
I'm not certain if anyone remembers this? But I remember a Popular Science cover when the Timex Sinclair came out and people were crowing about the first "under $100" computer.
"What did we do to our industry? How bad have we fucked it up? Can we change it by unionizing? I'll do anything at this point."
Interesting post and it's best answered by looking at other professions that likewise have the distinction between work and personal blurred. Did unionizing work for them?
"By all means, lets restrict all IT work to people who have the piece of paper, rather than the actual ability. In my experience the people who want the former, are the people who lack the latter."
So what are you saying? That people with the ability couldn't get the piece of paper?
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...Bell bottoms are back in style.
"If someone can "hog all the bandwidth", that is a sign of a badly managed network."
Or a sign of users who don't understand what "shared resource" means.
"Ensuring that each user gets their fair share without artifically limiting the whole network is one of the main responsibilities of an ISP."
"Fair share" is right up there with "unlimited" as the most abused words in a discussion about broadband.
If life was fair, then people wouldn't be leaving their P2P connections running full-tilt 24/7 and giving everyone else affected the middle-finger.
"Ten years ago I could have understood it, but with todays technology it should no problem ensuring that each user gets their fair share."
Good thing US schools are teaching a healthy dose of economics right along side their technology courses.
"Just wait for it to hit the consoles. Unless it fails so hard that it doesn't get ported. But that is unlikely. DRM SecuROM type tactics are killing pc gaming more than piracy."
Riight! Killing it to the point Piratebay will close up shop.
"Who else is rolling out fiber?"
Quaker Oats.
"Don't forget about Microsoft! Games for Windows is a cruel joke. It seems to be primarily about them padding profits by giving the PC sloppy seconds on games that get shoveled out for the 360."
*Looks at the Sins of Solar Empire box he just purchased*
Wow! Danse's right. Just look at the sloppy seconds, games for Windows tagged box I just got. Whatever will I do?
The New York Times
Printer Friendly Format Sponsored By
September 8, 2008
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper
By ERIC A. TAUB
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. â" The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation and decreased ad revenue from their paper product.
While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look â" but not the feel â" of a printed newspaper.
The device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the Sony eReader and Amazon.comâ(TM)s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corporation. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book readers, Plastic Logicâ(TM)s device, which will be shown at an emerging technology trade show in San Diego, has a screen more than twice as large. The size of a piece of copier paper, it can be continually updated via a wireless link, and can store and display hundreds of pages of newspapers, books and documents.
Richard Archuleta, the chief executive of Plastic Logic, said the display was big enough to provide a newspaperlike layout. âoeEven though we have positioned this for business documents, newspapers is what everyone asks for,â Mr. Archuleta said.
The reader will go on sale in the first half of next year. Plastic Logic will not announce which news organization will display its articles on it until the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, when it will also reveal the price.
Kenneth A. Bronfin, president of Hearst Interactive Media, said, âoeWe are hopeful that we will be able to distribute our newspaper content on a new generation of larger devices sometime next year.â While he would not say what device the companyâ(TM)s papers would use, he said, âoewe have a very strong interest in e-newspapers. Weâ(TM)re very anxious to get involved.â
The Hearst Corporation, the parent of Hearst Interactive Media, owns 16 daily newspapers, including The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express and The San Francisco Chronicle, and was an early investor in E Ink. The company already distributes electronic versions of some papers on the Amazon Kindle.
Newspaper companies have watched the technology closely for years. The ideal format, a flexible display that could be rolled or folded like a newspaper, is still years off, says E Ink. But it foresees color displays with moving images and interactive clickable advertising coming in only a few more years, according to Sriram K. Peruvemba, vice president for marketing for E Ink.
E Ink expects that within the next few years it will be able to create technology that allows users to write on the screen and view videos. At a recent demonstration at E Inkâ(TM)s headquarters here, the company showed prototypes of flexible displays that can create rudimentary colors and animated images. âoeBy 2010, we will have a production version of a display that offers newspaperlike color,â Mr. Peruvemba said.
If e-newspapers take off, the savings could be hefty. At the The San Francisco Chronicle, for example, print and delivery amount to 65 percent of the paperâ(TM)s fixed expenses, Mr. Bronfin said.
With electronic readers, publishers would also learn more about its readers. With paper copy subscriptions, newspapers know what address has received a copy and not much else. About those customers picking up a copy on the newsstand, they know nothing.
As an electronic device, newspapers can determine who is reading their paper, and even which articles are being read. Advertisers would be able to understand their audience and direct advertising to its likeliest
"Get the annoying f@cktards we call 'publishers' out of the way"
You mean the people who pay the bills? How's that suppose to work?
*sigh*
All these comments and you all missed this beauty from the last story.
"It's not the method that's illegal in the case of P2P, it's the content, for certain values of content. There's nothing illegal about Bittorrent itself."
Does the same apply to the variants that hide the payload as well as who's on either end?
"The universe of possible prions could be much larger than we thought."' Sounds like another good reason to donate your spare CPU cycles to projects like Folding@home."
Can I donate my spare prions instead?
Ummm, you do realize the story is about Isohunt trying to convince a Canadian COURT, not the RIAA, right? The RIAA is totally irrelevant in this story. The basic question is, is IsoHunt facilitating a crime by hosting torrents? The way to answer that question is simple. Go look. The rest is common sense.
"Because the push to DTV allows corporate interests to make use of the prime spectrum currently allocated for analog broadcasts while the retailers get taxpayer funded advertising that essentially tells a gullible public that the path of least resistance is to go out and buy a new LCD or plasma television - The stores just happen to have plenty of them, and gee aren't they pretty! "
Cynical much? Yes they are pretty and I got two because the analog passed it's first smoke test after years of service. The picture's much better for the same size screen. Lighter weight and slimmer profile making it easier to hang on the wall. AND it can be a computer monitor as well as TV freeing up a PCI slot. So overall the transition has been a win win. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
I've been wondering if that would violate their franchise agreement?* Also I wonder if cable has to carry the subchannels along with the main channel?
*You know? The local channels they presently have to carry.
That's one way to look at it. The other is "we're biting the bullet first. Let's hope nothing bad happens.".
You know the funny thing about your argument is I've found most people don't actually read their contracts. They just go on and on about "I thought it said...".
"Here's hoping that its affair with XMPP will help eliminate ICQ's enormous foothold in Russia."
Why?
"And it is not rocket science to design a game console."
Rocket science? No! But it's harder than you think to bring conflicting goals down to an economic level the majority can afford. Featuritus didn't help.
"Of course, we must acknowledge that MS tried to design custom hardware, a task for which it has no experience. "
Funny, the main two parts that caused most of the issues were from companies that had the expertise (IBM,ATI).
"What people fail to realize is that IBM spent the money to make rock solid products. "
You didn't read the article, did you? The yield on the new IBM processor was hardly "rock solid".
"The IBM PC was bulletproof. "
IBM PC original power supply problem (long)
Probably because...let's face it. The intelligence community has an image problem. 9/11 and other incidents made them look like dinosaurs. They need to convince people that they're changing, and for the better. Both internally as well as externally.
I think this guy said it best.
"Some are wondering if the campaign has shaped up as an utter failure.'""
Prohibition.
"Is the world a better place because of Google?""
When they get around to moving my house from the other side of the county. Then the world will be a better place.
Made me want to buy a pair of shoes. Wonder if they run Linux?
I'm not certain if anyone remembers this? But I remember a Popular Science cover when the Timex Sinclair came out and people were crowing about the first "under $100" computer.
"What did we do to our industry? How bad have we fucked it up? Can we change it by unionizing? I'll do anything at this point."
Interesting post and it's best answered by looking at other professions that likewise have the distinction between work and personal blurred. Did unionizing work for them?
"By all means, lets restrict all IT work to people who have the piece of paper, rather than the actual ability. In my experience the people who want the former, are the people who lack the latter."
So what are you saying? That people with the ability couldn't get the piece of paper?