Hopefully the pixel densities will increase dramatically as well. 167ppi is good but 300ppi is the magic number.

On a side note, I would love to have an e-paper computer monitor even if it was monochrome and 768x1024. Staring at a fluorescent-backlit 98ppi screen all day is straining.

Maybe the outsourcing process itself can be outsourced to Boeing; I hear they have some experience with getting subcontractors to complete more complex tasks than they are used to.

Just schedule a reboot, hopefully you are transitioning away from it for critical systems since all security fixes for it will stop in 10 months anyway.

To be fair, hydro is not really expandable so you would end up building more generation facilities anyway as the population and usage per person per year increase.

Tell me where these towns are so that I don't end up with my backyard there

The only thing we can hope for then is for the cost of power to skyrocket and the cost of personal power generation equipment like photovoltaics to plummet.

How could my workplace require what I use on my own computers, especially at home? Personal property shouldn't be used for work anyway!

Everything they do makes me feel less safe

Their hands are not big enough. Also, learning to type on a mechanical keyswitch keyboard would make a big difference but the school keyboards are always membrane.

I agree; China is not going to change until IP law becomes important to them internally. When the Chinese decide that they want strong protection from themselves in the realm of IP law they will begin taking the international issues seriously. Same issue with developing nations blocking expansions to intellectual property treaties through the WIPO; As long as the country is not suffering from internal IP conflict/pressure it will not benefit from strong international IP law and compliance.

If I understand the history correctly, the USA didn't recognize international IP until it joined

Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in 1887 (for patents and to some extent trademarks and industrial design rights) http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=2

and

Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1989 (for copyrights) http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&treaty_id=15

Note that these dates are 100 years apart. Also note the 100/200 years between 1790 when USA IP law was established and the joining of relevant conventions. China's non-compliance is not very different practically from the USA's many generations of non-recognition. However, China is part of the mentioned treaties which could indicate that eventual compliance is not likely. And I realize that international enforcement was probably almost impossible until recently anyway.

Here is a document outlining the positions of various entities on term definitions: http://www.e-nc.org/pdf/FCC_Consultative_Role_ExParte.pdf

Of note is Sprint/Nextel who opine that "underserved" should include all areas where fewer than three broadband providers are present. Presumably they exclude satellite services but include wireless services of at least 3Mbps.

There have been numerous recommendations for avoiding the political realities of raising the definition of broadband while providing meaningful data for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. For example: defining an "underserved area" as below 10 to 15 Mbps. www.ntia.doc.gov/broadbandgrants/comments/731B.doc

The whole situation is disgusting but there are some realistic solutions.

When every other company is spending 75% of their budget on marketing you have a huge disadvantage to make up that's just not possible with quality alone.

Whups, March 2008 not 2009

The FCC just changed the definition for the first time in march by raising it from 200kbps to 768kbps.