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FCC submits National Broadband Plan to Congress: at least 100M US homes with access to 100Mbps download speeds {Engadget}
Mar 15th 2010 9:31PM @dataninja
Based on your logic, we never would have invented the Atomic Bomb. Germany would have beat us to it.
Xbox Live termination ends in a consolation goodie bag for Halo 2 owners {Engadget}
Mar 5th 2010 5:49PM Better yet, open source the v1 Live server tech so that people can setup their own servers post-mortem.
This would also require the ability to choose your "Live" server in the game though.
Verizon to allow unlimited Skype calling over 3G starting next month {Engadget}
Feb 16th 2010 7:41PM @njseven
Unless you don't need to make phone calls to domestic land lines, you're going to need a voice plan.
Verizon is allowing you to make Skype-to-Skype calls, but if you want to use Skype to call a domestic non-skype phone (landline/mobile)
you will use your Verizon minutes. I'm assuming Skype will be forced to delegate those kinds of calls to Verizon's CDMA voice network rather then send the voice call through Skype's network, thus preventing users from taking advantage of Skype's unlimited domestic calling at very cheap rates.
White House releases economic report as e-book {Engadget}
Feb 14th 2010 6:17PM @pd
Wow, you're the one who has absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Escalating the war in Afghanistan was one of Obama's campaign promises. The reason he had to do that at all is because Bush failed in Afghanistan. Bush invaded Afghanistan years ago, then dropped the ball and sent us into the pointless and costly Iraq War, while Afghanistan returned to a lawless country. What the hell was the point of Bush's invasion of Afghanistan if he was just going to let the country fall apart and become a haven for terrorists again? What a waste of money!
Had Bush kept Afghanistan stable, not invaded Iraq, done away with his tax cuts, he would have had a surplus and he could have paid down U.S. debt. Instead, he left us with $10 trillion in debt, and that was when revenues were higher than they are now, so he squandered even more money!
Bush hid the costs of the Iraq War from us by not raising taxes OR cutting spending, by printing hundreds of billions of dollars and by leaving the financial sector to anarchy so as to artificially inflate the government's revenue via irresponsible lending. The truth is we are only NOW paying for the real costs what Bush did, and THAT is the cause of our debt.
White House releases economic report as e-book {Engadget}
Feb 14th 2010 1:50AM @Mentat Not everything, just for 9/11.
Google launching 1Gbps ISP service to select markets at 'competitive prices' {Engadget}
Feb 10th 2010 4:55PM @aschettler
So move to an area that has Cox. That's the free market, right? /sarcasm
2011 Chevy Volt pinned with a November 1st official production kickoff date? {Engadget}
Feb 8th 2010 4:35PM @Michael Pollard
The gas generator was to give the car ability to travel long range distances, something like 600 miles on a single tank of gas. For short range distances, 40 or so miles which is the equivalent of most commutes, the car can run entirely on electricity.
2011 Chevy Volt pinned with a November 1st official production kickoff date? {Engadget}
Feb 8th 2010 4:31PM The difference between a gas vehicle and an electric vehicle is that with an electric vehicle you can change the energy source because you can generate electricity from multiple sources. You cannot create oil from sunlight, but you can create electricity from sunlight.
Gasoline engines will lose their value as gas prices rise and the oil supply dwindles. Inevitably, they will become useless. Electric engines will continue to be valuable, because you can just swap one energy source for another and keep the same car running.
The Volt has a gas generator which recharges the battery while your driving to keep the car running. I wonder how difficult it would be to switch that to an hydrogen generator, or other fuel source. I'll bet it's a lot easier than trying to get a gas engine to run on something other than gasoline.
Government warns of wireless network congestion again, rides iPad to push its spectrum agenda {Engadget}
Feb 5th 2010 3:17AM @wifigod
Free access to IPTV and charging access to internet seems acceptable to me. But how many channels do you allow? Technically, you could stream an unlimited number of channels over IPTV, but I don't think private ISPs would like that.
Then there is a question of capacity. Can IPTV support the same capacity as OTA television?
I think it would also be nice if users could get free access to any government website as well. This could allow the gov. to reduce paper billing and the sort as all people would have free access over the internet to such information. Anything other than that requires a fee.
But then that raises another question. Having free IPTV and pay internet access delivered over the same medium violates net neutrality, does it not? You're essentially walling off a set of paid services away from free services. I have that image of "Telco ADSL" internet "channel" packages where it's $5 to access search engine, $5 for kids sites, etc. That would destroy the internet that we know. Maybe it's better to just keep the mediums, digital TV and internet, separate.
Government warns of wireless network congestion again, rides iPad to push its spectrum agenda {Engadget}
Feb 4th 2010 5:23PM @pika2000
It'd be nice if companies would actually compete, instead of all raising their txt prices to the same price for example.
Take the recent drop in unlimited voice plans for example. The companies did this because one of them actually had the balls and necessity to compete. They could have done this at any time, the government wasn't preventing them from doing this, but they didn't have any real motivation to. Most carriers have a fat consumer base that they can easily live off of and as long as no one is making waves they are more than happy to not compete at all, screwing the consumer.
The consumer is also too complacent. We are comfortable paying $40 a month for 450 voice minutes, even though that's been the price for around the last decade. Even as technology has made those calls cheaper, we've seen little drop in price.
