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I need to dig around on the Hitachi site but it seems they may be on to something big when it comes to hard-drive storage. Like a growth of 100 times more storage on that same sized disk.. Oh yea baby that's what I am talking about. Check out the video. [Hitachi]
Looking for a tutorial or do you like making them check out this site. This one just got added to my permanent resource list. A geek sometimes needs a little help and the repository is nothing like I have seen before. 100% Cool [www.blogcastrepository.com]
Digital Rights Management (DRM)is a tool that doesn't reflect the general preference of legal music downloaders. Before you read on, hoping that I will advocate for the free distribution of music, let me warn you: I'm a strong supporter of copyright and the protection of intellectual property; I want artists and distributors to make a decent living, but I'm frustrated by the current misuse of digital technology that attempts to thwart illegal distribution. In practice, DRM makes creates compatibility problems that make it excessively difficult, and in most cases, impossible, to listen to music that has been purchased online.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported this week that 36 million Americans, 27 percent of internet users, report having downloaded music or video files. Half of this group have skirted the traditional peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and commercial online distribution services (i.e. Napster, iTunes). This is a significant number of digital media users whose sharing of digital media is untraceable by the recording industry and copyright holders.
ScanIT, an Internet security consultancy, reports Microsoft's Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker. The reported 98 percent unsafe rating is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004, except the week between October 12 and 19.
Next week the Supreme Court will rule on a proposal that would force Broadband providers to share their lines with competitors, similar to what the phone companies had to do. If the broadband providers are forced to share, many communities with a single Cable provider would have competition and change how they charge and the feature packages they provide. Competition is normally good for the consumer.
Sony estimates that it will sell over a million units in just the opening days of the release of it’s PSP multi-purpose entertainment device. The PSP will play 3D games, movies, and music. The cost of a PSP including stereo headphones, 32MB memorystick Duo, battery and charger, wrist strap, soft carrying case, and a Spiderman 2 movie will retail for $249.99.