Quelle: wb
It was 40 years ago today…that dummy head stereo was first introduced in broadcast audio production. But like quadrophony, it shares the fate as forgotten premature analogue technology. Now a comeback seems around the corner, freshly coined as HRTF, Binaural or Immersive Audio. And you don’t even need dummies to create virtual spatial sound…
Quelle: wbThe first WWW page on a historic browser – requested on 2013/04/30. Quadra 650 running Mac OS 8.1 Note: The page itself could not be opened from the Cern server directly – only by downloading it with a latter Netscape browser in HTML format.
So today we celebrate 20 years of public WWW? Well, just the right occasion for a real vintage experience. So I went to the basement and pulled out the right equipment to check out if it still works, could make a connection to ‚the net‘ and if so revel in memories. At least a partly success!
Quelle: wbFirst rumours in March on SpiegelOnline – along with Telekom ad.
Since Monday this week, a hot discussion develops in Germany, when ISP Telekom declared that starting on May 2nd new DSL contracts will contain speed limits (see press release – German language only). So if new customers provided with the slowest DSL speed „up to 16Mbit/s“ reach a maximum of 75 GB transfer volume, they will have to cope with 384kbit/s until the end of the month – unless they pay extra. The limitation goes up to 400GB/month for the few ones having a „up to 200Mbit/s“ contract.
A fundamental change in business models – or a stategic move? Let’s look at the facts. Weiterlesen