Nobody runs the Internet !!! and Winners of 'open-source Oscars'

Do you want to know who does it? Do you know it? Well... If not, a simple answer and some extra information about IETF here:

Who Runs the Internet

SourceForge unveils the winners... I am happy to see 7 Zip as the winner of the top award. I just start using it a couple of weeks ago and it is simply fantastic, forget about Winzip or Winrar.

SourceForge unveils winners of 'open-source Oscars'

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Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista

Again... somebody else (besides me and probably you) is attacking Vista, why? because there is not any real reason to move to Vista unless you want a nice interface and a lot of problems with your printer, camera, web cam, sound card, nvidia board, etc, etc, etc...

Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista

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More NEWS from chris.pirillo.com

Today, I checked chris.pirillo.com web page to see if there was something interesting there, and I found the following ones... really, it is scary to see how much control "corporate america" has over the people not only in America but also their influence around the globe.

• "... I will not argue against the benefits of talking about ones feelings and discovering why we may behave in certain ways, but I’ll go on record by stating that psychiatry is a bunch of hoo-ha (and yes, that’s a very scientific term)..." Psychiatry: No Science, No Cures

• "... I can’t get Verizon FIOS in my area because it’s serviced by Qwest. WTF!? Do we really want the wireless Internet spectrum to run into the same problem? “No, I’m sorry - you can’t get online here. You don’t have a ClearSprint account. You’ll have to sign up for a rate that we set for you... " They Want to Pwn the Wireless Internet

• "... Geeks have been discussing this for good reason - it’s a game changer, and wireless oppressors networks are NOT HAPPY about it..." Wireless Broadband Industry Changes?
  

Don't be a robot, think for yourself!

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The 7 Most Exciting Moments in Science

7. Otto Loewi --> chemical transmissions of nerve impulses
6. Rene Descartes --> first attempt of Cartesian coordinates
5. Nikola Tesla --> idea for an alternating current motor
4. Edwin Hubble --> prove the existence of galaxies
3. Robert Hooke --> discovered biological cells
2. Henri Becquerel --> with Marie and Pierre Curie, they discovered radioactivity
1. Alexander Fleming --> discovered penicillin kills bacteria

Do you want to know why they are considered the most exciting moments in science? Just follow the link to read the stories behind each entry on the list.

http://discovermagazine.com/2007/jul/the-7-most-exciting-moments-in-science

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Swedish woman gets superfast Internet

"STOCKHOLM, Sweden - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said."

Original source here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_hi_te/sweden_high_speed_internet

But seriously, who really needs that speed? Don't you have more than enough with 6, 4 or even 1.5 Mbps? What do you really do that justifies this amount of speed? Do you still watch TV via cable? Did you know that you only need 1.5 Mbps to download IPTV? So, unless you have 4 computers downloading streams for IPTV at the same time (meaning you, your wife and your 2 kids are watching TV shows on 4 different computers at the same time... mmm...) then, just then you might need 6+ Mbps.

Well, more speed then more charges then more profit for the company providing this service.

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