How come journalists can't tell the difference between a website AND an internet utilising program? CNN, the BBC, just about every news network I've read/accessed/listened to has talked about "a US Judge ordering the Napster WEBSITE closed down. The WEB-PAGE allows users to download music". Rant off.
Well, if Gattaca is round the corner, I better start saving up for college *and* genetic engineering for my kids. At 24, having finished university this year. Sigh. But on the bright side its a good excuse for putting off fatherhood, "honey if we wait till next year, we can have an even smarter kid!"
Are we seeing the beginning of a new trend? In the wake of "electronic" , "digital" , "cyber", "web" etc, all cool tag-words/adjectives added to make a product seem more modern and "happening" but often having little to do with the tag, will "nano" become the buzz-word of the first decade of the new millenium. These satellites aren't nano, they don't involve atomic or molecular level manipulation and they are not build in a nano scale. Why aren't they called "micro-satellites". A much more apt word.
The internet is currently really overloaded (oh the heady days of yesteryear) and jams (at least for me) are occuring constantly. I really love the idea that people are going to be exchanging gb sized files over intercontinental bottlenecks. Also, who, apart from T3 owners is going to be downloading these files? Do they want to distribute DVD quality (12 GB) or compressed films (say 1 GB low quality)? Which leaves the question of storing huge files on hard-disks. You're going to need extremely high capacity links and large disks to utilise this option... whilst corking up the net for others. And another thing, Gnutella isn't the optimal download medium, ftp or http supporting file resumption by i.e. Getright is a more logical choice.
I can't count how many times the issue of building a Lego brick Death Star has appeared on my Internet travels up with "scientific" calculations and size estimates (scale to Lego minifig size). Okay, so why don't all those interested set up www.builddeathstarinlego.org, accept online contributions and start it going. A distributed project with design and manufacture split around the world, joined by the net and UPS.
I would definitely not recommened the mobile phone option (even though I have a fairly internet capable Nokia Communicator). You'll be paying by the minute (cellular services usually don't have fixed rates for tourist clients) for longer times (poor connection speed), so your connection bills will be a lot higher plus you will probably have to order data transmission services with each country provider (cellular phone services don't have data transmission i.e. modem signals as standard- I know I've tried it) which will be expensive. And you have to rent a GSM handset (900/1800/1900 freq) and order a subscription GSM service if you're moving around (prepaid services are generally not transferable) and the phone might not work in some countries (analog services are still dominant in some countries). This means major expense and major hassle. On the other hand you can carry around a modem card and a couple of cables (or just buy the correct ones en site for pennies) with instant connectivity (if you dial your home country ISP which might even be cheaper than those cellular calls) or delayed connectivity (if somebody "lends" you their ISP account). Or you can just go to an internet cafe and ask nicely for upload services.
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Mother Russia... The Ukraine is an independent country...its not Russia. Chernobyl is the USSR's goodbye present to the Ukraine.
How come journalists can't tell the difference between a website AND an internet utilising program? CNN, the BBC, just about every news network I've read/accessed/listened to has talked about "a US Judge ordering the Napster WEBSITE closed down. The WEB-PAGE allows users to download music". Rant off.
For now I'll try out designing my child here
Well, if Gattaca is round the corner, I better start saving up for college *and* genetic engineering for my kids. At 24, having finished university this year. Sigh. But on the bright side its a good excuse for putting off fatherhood, "honey if we wait till next year, we can have an even smarter kid!"
Are we seeing the beginning of a new trend? In the wake of "electronic" , "digital" , "cyber", "web" etc, all cool tag-words/adjectives added to make a product seem more modern and "happening" but often having little to do with the tag, will "nano" become the buzz-word of the first decade of the new millenium.
These satellites aren't nano, they don't involve atomic or molecular level manipulation and they are not build in a nano scale.
Why aren't they called "micro-satellites". A much more apt word.
The internet is currently really overloaded (oh the heady days of yesteryear) and jams (at least for me) are occuring constantly. I really love the idea that people are going to be exchanging gb sized files over intercontinental bottlenecks. Also, who, apart from T3 owners is going to be downloading these files? Do they want to distribute DVD quality (12 GB) or compressed films (say 1 GB low quality)? Which leaves the question of storing huge files on hard-disks. You're going to need extremely high capacity links and large disks to utilise this option... whilst corking up the net for others. And another thing, Gnutella isn't the optimal download medium, ftp or http supporting file resumption by i.e. Getright is a more logical choice.
I can't count how many times the issue of building a Lego brick Death Star has appeared on my Internet travels up with "scientific" calculations and size estimates (scale to Lego minifig size). Okay, so why don't all those interested set up www.builddeathstarinlego.org, accept online contributions and start it going. A distributed project with design and manufacture split around the world, joined by the net and UPS.
I would definitely not recommened the mobile phone option (even though I have a fairly internet capable Nokia Communicator). You'll be paying by the minute (cellular services usually don't have fixed rates for tourist clients) for longer times (poor connection speed), so your connection bills will be a lot higher plus you will probably have to order data transmission services with each country provider (cellular phone services don't have data transmission i.e. modem signals as standard- I know I've tried it) which will be expensive. And you have to rent a GSM handset (900/1800/1900 freq) and order a subscription GSM service if you're moving around (prepaid services are generally not transferable) and the phone might not work in some countries (analog services are still dominant in some countries). This means major expense and major hassle. On the other hand you can carry around a modem card and a couple of cables (or just buy the correct ones en site for pennies) with instant connectivity (if you dial your home country ISP which might even be cheaper than those cellular calls) or delayed connectivity (if somebody "lends" you their ISP account). Or you can just go to an internet cafe and ask nicely for upload services.