Comic book readers are a completely different demographic than music listeners. They A) aren't already spoiled by free comics, and B) they already pay big bucks to collect them. Buying a download and then printing it out on your own color printer is a small price to pay compared to what you *would* have paid. And besides...many of us would pay a buck to read the first Superman, Spiderman, Batman, etc.
Pop up ads *are* the way to go (until the subscription models work out). The real question is whether or not these places will get smart and not allow those using ad killers (such as Guard-IE.
If everyone used these types of programs, then no one would buy ad space.
11. New metric of average customer IQ all the rage on Wall Street.
10. Fears Red Hat may use its monopoly of the 12 Linux using AOL subscribers against it to keep it off the KDE desktop.
9. Securing the rights to "The Life and Times of Michael Tiemann" movie trilogy their highest priority.
8. Confused Red Hat with the company that makes the Where in the World is Carmen San Diego game.
7. Can simply modify ad campaign to say, "So difficult no wonder you'll have to ask your geek nephew for help printing."
6. Running out of computer users to alienate.
5. "The kids keep teasing me about not being cutting edge, so I had to do something about it, Mom"
4. Negotiations to purchase Microsoft not going so well.
3. Because Red Hat said they would give them the source code to Linux if AOL Time Warner purchased them.
2. Wanted to add to their growing stable of technological has-beens.
1. Steve Case is following 2 month salary rule of thumb for purchasing other companies.
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1) "It's aiming to create something much more than a bigger, faster, box. It's aiming to create the Internet equivalent of a Class 5 telephone switch, something that would sit at the edge of optical backbones and handle IP connections to tens of thousands of users. Hyperchip's developments would potentially replace entire ISP POPs (points of presence) and would have an aggregate capacity measured in - get this - petabits a second."
2) "Hyperchip is addressing this requirement in a totally different (some would say bizarre) way. It's devoted most of its efforts into adapting supercomputer hardware to deliver the scalability it requires. Software - considered the key to success by most terabit router vendors and users - seems to be of secondary importance to the Montreal based startup."
The article says that trials will start at the end of the year. That should prove interesting...
Other vendors that come close?
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Cisco and Juniper can only (currently) route in gigabit speeds.
In the meantime, you could build a poor man's version (of the cotton candy machine) with one of those timers that give electronic units power.
Or...you could perhaps modify an existing coffee maker or bread maker's timer. The trick would be finding schematics so you'd know what to tinker with.
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Comic book readers are a completely different demographic than music listeners. They A) aren't already spoiled by free comics, and B) they already pay big bucks to collect them. Buying a download and then printing it out on your own color printer is a small price to pay compared to what you *would* have paid. And besides...many of us would pay a buck to read the first Superman, Spiderman, Batman, etc.
Pop up ads *are* the way to go (until the subscription models work out). The real question is whether or not these places will get smart and not allow those using ad killers (such as Guard-IE.
If everyone used these types of programs, then no one would buy ad space.
11 Reasons AOL Time Warner Would Buy Red Hat
11. New metric of average customer IQ all the rage on Wall Street.
10. Fears Red Hat may use its monopoly of the 12 Linux using AOL subscribers against it to keep it off the KDE desktop.
9. Securing the rights to "The Life and Times of Michael Tiemann" movie trilogy their highest priority.
8. Confused Red Hat with the company that makes the Where in the World is Carmen San Diego game.
7. Can simply modify ad campaign to say, "So difficult no wonder you'll have to ask your geek nephew for help printing."
6. Running out of computer users to alienate.
5. "The kids keep teasing me about not being cutting edge, so I had to do something about it, Mom"
4. Negotiations to purchase Microsoft not going so well.
3. Because Red Hat said they would give them the source code to Linux if AOL Time Warner purchased them.
2. Wanted to add to their growing stable of technological has-beens.
1. Steve Case is following 2 month salary rule of thumb for purchasing other companies.
Lightreading's article, Hyperchip Hypes Its Hardware, claims that Hyperchip stands out in 2 ways:
1) "It's aiming to create something much more than a bigger, faster, box. It's aiming to create the Internet equivalent of a Class 5 telephone switch, something that would sit at the edge of optical backbones and handle IP connections to tens of thousands of users. Hyperchip's developments would potentially replace entire ISP POPs (points of presence) and would have an aggregate capacity measured in - get this - petabits a second."
2) "Hyperchip is addressing this requirement in a totally different (some would say bizarre) way. It's devoted most of its efforts into adapting supercomputer hardware to deliver the scalability it requires. Software - considered the key to success by most terabit router vendors and users - seems to be of secondary importance to the Montreal based startup."
The article says that trials will start at the end of the year. That should prove interesting...
Cisco and Juniper can only (currently) route in gigabit speeds.
Other competitors that they will have to deal with: Pluris, IronBridge Networks and Charlotte's Web Networks .
In the meantime, you could build a poor man's version (of the cotton candy machine) with one of those timers that give electronic units power.
Or...you could perhaps modify an existing coffee maker or bread maker's timer. The trick would be finding schematics so you'd know what to tinker with.
I don't know much about zero gravity research.
But what *is* it about it that facilitates research in areas like tissue/immunology/etc.?
Why is space preferable to a laboratory on earth?
In fact, when you do a search on CNET's hardware search for SCSI DVD readers, you find only *three*.