Probably 'cos everyone (!) remembers the P2P version of the BBC's iPlayer http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/08/isps-to-bbc-we-throttle-iplayer-unless-you-pay-up.ars and the wonderful effect it had on many an ISP in the UK.

Using P2P distribtuions for very large traffic usages is still a bad idea for the same reasons as it was three years ago.

in the Uk unlimited txt plans aren't unusual, or even for pay-as-you-go have very small per txt fees even free if you top up by £x per month

For me in the UK I would prob say this happened around the year 2000 if not before. So this prob means litres, kilograms, meters and ISO paper is just around the corner for the USA soon then :-)

other way around for you MPG conversion

I'm getting 45MPg (UK) which is 56MPG (US)

Interesting to see this as US centric vote.

I was in the US a couple of months ago (I live in the UK) and there was big advertising hording bigging-up the latest Ford Fusion hybrid thing claiming to get 45MPG! Now my 1.8 2 year old Toyota Avensis (for the US readers think just smaller than the Camry) and I get 45MPG no problem and that's UK gallons.

Nice to see Ford US finally bringing in the Fiesta to compete with the Far East little cars.

You guys really need to keep up, stop talking about $2.80 a gallon being bad - $7.60 a US gallon is very good pricing here if you can find it that cheap and smell the coffee not the pollution :-)

oh so that's where all the bees have gone to....http://viewzone2.com/lostbeesx.html

oh dear, I had pictures of a pipe from the boots into your trousers when the firm's name of Gotwind was read....I must get out more :-)

Funny 'cos CBS joined up with ABC and Fox News Channel to create the Network news Service in response to CNN over 20 years ago.

If this goes ahead the USA will have 1 big news service for TV news - maybe some sort of competition commission might block this?

only 4 digit ones are worth anything :-)

is that those who adapt quickest to a changing environment survive (not the biggest, quickest or strongest). maybe thats what happened the Boskops couldn't adapt.

Field has a specific headache he’s hoping DirectAccess will ease: file synchronization. “Someone might take their laptop home for weeks or months at a time, and it won’t synchronize their files on the network until [the laptop] is brought back in.” He anticipates that DirectAccess will make his life easier because he “won’t need to worry about people losing files because they rarely bring in their laptop,” he says.

What!!!- has he actually tried file sync-ing over something that's more than about 10ms latency away....and thats most people off LAN these days.

I read with interest Mr Field talking about GP and all things M$, he needs to get out more. GPO's are good but they can be complemented by other technologies, not just what M$ gives you in this particular release. monocultures bad and being brain washed into a single vendors view is not a good idea.

yeah right, they were for vista and then the sound guys got stuffedd with major api changes from the final Vista RC to the RTM versions.

I've believe it when i see it..

the brain tells me its the most important part so...