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Comment Re:Shocked and appalled (Score 1) 120

by berlamont on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @11:03AM (#23090734) Attached to: Bell Canada's Misinformation About Throttling

The people that are using that amount of bandwidth for the most part don't care if the companies want to charge more while still allowing them to continue using the service how they please. Thats not the freakin' problem, the problem is when they say it's unlimited but then secretly block/throttle someones traffic instead of just telling them they are breaking a rule and making them pay more. Why are these companies so scared to just be upfront with people who want to download this much???

Japanese Lab Creates 'Da Vinci' Voices 183

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday May 19, 2006 @04:47AM from the speaking-with-the-dead dept.

Mikki writes "Using methods employed in criminal investigations, the Japan Acoustic Lab has analyzed the skeletal structures of Leonardo Da Vinci and Mona Lisa's faces to replicate how their voices would have sounded." While Da Vinci is cool, I can think of a slew of other deceased notables worth talking with as well.

IBM and Fuji Announce Tape Storage Breakthrough 254

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 17, 2006 @06:38PM from the data-in-a-volkswagon dept.

robkill writes "IBM and Fuji have announced a breakthrough in the amount of data that can be stored on magnetic tape, a 15X improvement to 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch. IBM estimates that it will be 5 years before this hits the mass market"

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