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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...sion rate: 50.6 afghanis=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 21 March-20 March Communications Railroads: 9.6 km (single track) 1.524- meter gauge, spur ... ...) Monetary conversion rate: 4.14 leks=US$l (1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 437 km 425 1.435-meter standard gauge, single t... ...n rate: 4.81 Algerian dinars=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Railroads: 4,146 km total; 2,632 km stan- dard gauge (1.43... ...nks with Saba and Guadeloupe; 6 AM, 2 FM, 2 TV stations; 1 coaxial submarine cable; 1 satellite ground station Defense Forces Branches: Antigua and Ba... ... 67 FM, 134 TV stations; 3 international earth satellite stations; submarine cables to New Zealand and Papua New Guinea; domestic satellite service De... ...(37.9 per 100 popl.) in totally automatic system; tropo- spheric scatter and cable links with Flor- ida; 3 AM, 2 FM, and 1 TV stations; 3 coaxial subm... ...da Cunha Telecommunications: 1,500 radio receiv- ers; no television service; wireless service to Cape Town and Ascension; telephones 310 (1982); coaxi... ... Sundtvatl aristae! Gbtebor Kallegal Maimo See regionalmap V javle ^Uppsala J&TOCKHOLM lopinq ^Gotland Hand Baltic Sea Karlskrona Geography Total area...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ven plotlines, interaction with other e-books (using Bluetooth or another wireless standard), collaborative authoring, gaming and community activitie... ...utomatic and embedded audio conversion and translation capabilities, full wireless piconetworking and scatternetworking capabilities and more". ... ...iven plotlines, interaction with other e-books (using Bluetooth or another wireless standard), collaborative authoring, gaming and community activiti... ...h other's territories. Phone companies were allowed to transmit video and cable companies were allowed to transmit telephony, for instance. This was... ...ressure and temptation, constructing its own censorship codes both in the cable and in the internet media. Institutionalization This phase is the... ... and begins to carry a price tag. This is what happened with the advent of cable television : contents are sold for subscription or per usage (Pay Pe... ...e States. The low compensation of scientists attracts the technology and R&D arms of the likes of General Electric to Asia and Intel to Israel. In ot... ...tly developed by ibooks and Digital Owl. It will be sold to libraries by B&T's Informata division and Reciprocal. The annual subscription for ... ... library, including checking out eBooks from home." Still, it seems that B&T's approach is heavily influenced by software licencing ("one copy one u...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...generative beyond the in- novations that Apple (and its exclusive carrier, AT&T) wanted. Whereas the world would innovate for the Apple II, only Apple... ...o the success of digital networking. 2 In early twentieth-century America, AT&T controlled not only the tele- phone network, but also the devices atta... ...work, but also the devices attached to it. People rented their phones from AT&T, and the company prohibited them from making any modifica- tions to the... ...to obtain a unique IP address, an artifact not intended to be hoarded. Thus, wireless Internet access points could be developed by outsiders without a... ...l embodied so few assumptions about the nature of the medium used that going wireless did not violate any of them. The large variety of ways of physic... ...iders. 15 These arguments about infrastructure tend to end where the network cable does. A network on which anyone can set up a node and exchange bits... ...tion—or to innovate much themselves. For example, Tim Wu has shown that when wireless telephone carriers exer- cise control over the endpoint mobile p... ...9–251 (F.C.C. 1999), available at http://cyber .law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/cable/fcc/fcc.html; Mark A. Lemley & Lawrence Lessig, The End of End-to-E... ...7, at 46 (“Retaining customers will become even harder as phone compa- nies, cable companies, Microsoft, and Netscape make it even easier to use the I...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...utsider lowered their handheld weapons of a barrel and trigger mechanism, cabled into a backpack. Atlas forced Roxanne’s arm down, allowing the man ... ...tlas thought, disappointedly. Never had an operation gone down this badly. Communications were so screwed up that support teams had been sent to the ... ...orry." Alex's apologetic eyes won the man every time. Stephen removed the cables connecting her to the monitors. "Go on, off with you." Stephen shoo... ...sness in verbal expectations, weapons checks, medical kits and hand held communications tossed in allocation. David waited inspection, compulsory f... ...tower." The man acknowledged Shaun with a nod of understanding. Australian Communications, Aus Com, the eyes and ears of the world. Floor after floor... ...ents of ticket dispenses, information booths and cafeteria. Optical fibre cables, water and gas pipes ran through steel framing, walls yet to be pla... ...ompanions with a little history. The flat electronic number pads 192 had wireless earpieces clipped to the devises, which he handed out. His sights ...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... that will have a negative effect on our culture, our kids’ schools, and our communications networks; on free speech, medicine, and scientific research... ...se our ugly jargon rather than theirs—as one of the many ways in which state communications policy is set and the communicative landscape tilted to fa... ...ith friends and families—tattered copies of Disney movies recorded from some cable show could be passed on to siblings whose kids have reached the app... ...ernet Threat 71 ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 71 A&M Records v. Napster. 24 Napster was a “peer-to-peer” file sharing system... ...ol. It is another—relatively small—step toward an Internet that is more like cable TV or iTunes, a one-way flow of approved content. One might decide t... ...t lawyers in the room, you would end up designing something that looked like cable TV or Minitel. The Internet would never get off the ground. The Int... ...of life. Musicologists delight in parsing the patterns of influence further; R&B itself had roots in “jump music” and the vocal style of the “blues sho... ...cle of musical adaptation and development. One wonders whether jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, and soul would even have been possible as musical styles if, ... ...ho, much later, writes the code to man- age Internet Protocol addresses on a wireless network? Why should he? Now the program does more cool stuff. Bo...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...et traffic every 100 days. Telecoms predicted a tsunami of clients clamoring for G3 wireless Internet services. Electronic publishers gleefully fore... ...r optic swelled 100 times. Computer storage catapulted 80,000 times. Broadband and cable modems let computers communicate at 300 times their speed ... ...The Wall Street Journal has recently published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of ti... ...s foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental shops, ... ...oligopolistic environment. Standards are known to decrease prices by cutting down R&D expenditures and systematizing components. Or, take innovati... ... a dominant market share have both the incentive and the wherewithal to invest in R&D and in subsequent branding and marketing. But oligopolies in... ... This methodology is a hybrid between the lone-inventor and the faceless corporate R&D team. An entirely different process of innovation characteriz... ...applications multi-featured, broadband access all-pervasive, and the Internet goes wireless - individuals are increasingly able to emulate much lar... ...ng, computer networking (communal neural networks), telecommunications (especially wireless) and mass transport is bound to alter humanity profound...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...e criteria. One way to measure the desirability of such mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the level of market concentration following the M&A. Is a... ... in this article - click HERE. 9. As offices and homes merge, mobility increases, wireless access to data is made available anywhere and everywher... ...nships, and will interact mostly in cyberspace or by virtual means, both wired and wireless. Read about this inexorable process in this article - c... ...ion - leisure activities - fell prey to the advance of the internet and digital and wireless telecommunications. Whereas the hallmark of the class... ...e criteria. One way to measure the desirability of such mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the level of market concentration following the M&A. Is a... ... This methodology is a hybrid between the lone-inventor and the faceless corporate R&D team. An entirely different process of innovation characteriz... ...dth. With the introduction of radio and satellite broadband services, DSL and ADSL, cable modems coupled with advanced compression standards - vide... ...r optic swelled 100 times. Computer storage catapulted 80,000 times. Broadband and cable modems let computers communicate at 300 times their speed ... ...s to invade each other's turf. Phone companies were allowed to transmit video and cable companies were allowed to transmit telephony, for instance...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...e criteria. One way to measure the desirability of such mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the level of market concentration following the M&A. Is a... ... in this article - click HERE. 9. As offices and homes merge, mobility increases, wireless access to data is made available anywhere and everywher... ...nships, and will interact mostly in cyberspace or by virtual means, both wired and wireless. Read about this inexorable process in this article - c... ...ion - leisure activities - fell prey to the advance of the internet and digital and wireless telecommunications. Whereas the hallmark of the class... ...e criteria. One way to measure the desirability of such mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is the level of market concentration following the M&A. Is a... ... This methodology is a hybrid between the lone-inventor and the faceless corporate R&D team. An entirely different process of innovation characteriz... ...dth. With the introduction of radio and satellite broadband services, DSL and ADSL, cable modems coupled with advanced compression standards - vide... ...r optic swelled 100 times. Computer storage catapulted 80,000 times. Broadband and cable modems let computers communicate at 300 times their speed ... ...s to invade each other's turf. Phone companies were allowed to transmit video and cable companies were allowed to transmit telephony, for instance...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...object. The fact that Light bends is no big secret. Optical fiber telephone cables wires bend light every day. However, what Science does not rec... ...oday, the fact that Light can bend is no big secret. Optical fiber telephone cables bend light every day. But light bending in Outer Space without ... ...un and play as machine-oriented as possible. Walk? Heck. Buy an expensive 4&4, or a moto-cross bike and drive all over Nature… destroying the la... ... movies, then it was speaking movies, then it was movies in color: then came B&W TV, then came color TV. Instead of living and interacting with mem... ...possible. When Bill Mahr’s show: ‘Politically Incorrect’ after becoming a cable TV success, was shown on National TV for the masses: everything ... ...television, short-wave radio, radar, police transmission, and a host of other wireless transmissions… there are hundreds of millions of energy signal... ...ontact was. The point is…Icke never bothered to question the veracity of the communications he received from some unseen source. If he had, and if... ...elieve that there was only one unseen invisible abstract ‘God’… because their communications were so rare: they thought only one undead aura was doi...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...d at last, discussing how far they would enjoy crossing an abyss on a wire cable. “Sup- pose the gyroscope stopped!” Few of them anticipated a tithe o... ... there wasn’t nothing higher than your chimbleys—there wasn’t a wire nor a cable in the sky!” Old SmallWays went to his grave under an intricate net- ... ... Old SmallWays went to his grave under an intricate net- work of wires and cables, for Bun Hill became not only a sort of minor centre of power distri... ... villages, and each showed a distinctive and interesting church beside its wireless telegraph steeple; here and there were large chateaux and parks an... ...stead of above. A striking, and unfish- like feature was the apparatus for wireless telegraphy that dangled from the forward cabin—that is to say, und... ... about that he was probably the last person on board to hear the news that wireless telegraphy was bringing to the airship in throbs and fragments of ... ...e came an end at last to that pause. Some wireless 124 The War in the Air communications had failed of a satisfactory ending, and fleet and city reme... ...sing side was speedily unable to raid its antagonist’s terri- tory and the communications. One fought on a “front,” and behind that front the winner’s... ...nce against Asiatic raiders swooping for petrol or to de- stroy weapons or communications. Everywhere levies were being formed at that time to defend ...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...y other form of house- hold heating, abolished distance with the perfected wireless telephone and the telephotograph…. 16 The World Set Free S S S S ... ...tion. Those shadows symbolised his control. When a messenger came from the wireless room to shift this or that piece in the game, to replace under ame... ...understand. It was as if all the water-pipes and con- cealed machinery and cables of the ways beneath, were beat- ing—as pulses beat. And about her bl... ...ite humility. Men appeared upon those upland slopes with the apparatus for wireless telegraphy; others followed with tents and provisions; a little ca... ...r wireless telegraphy; others followed with tents and provisions; a little cable was flung down to a convenient point upon the Locarno road below. Leb... ... than the originator of the gathering. And then there arrived, some by the cable, most by aeroplane, a few in other fash- ions, the men who had been c... ...epopulation was to be avoided, and their transportation and the revival of communications generally absorbed a certain proportion of the soldiery and ... ... institutional precautions, freedom of inquiry, freedom of criticism, free communications, a common basis of education and understanding, and freedom ...

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