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...that Brian and I transmit from the temporary media filing area, a dim restaurant called Buddy's, as the reporters eat ribs and send in their stories and the piped-in sound of Gore's rally speech makes Joe Lieberman sound strangely like Winston Churchill. As Lieberman says, only in America...
What optical-networking companies do is provide the equipment--filters, amplifiers, converters--and systems to companies that are feverishly building out the Internet, such as Level 3, AT&T and Qwest. Although optical fibers that transmit light waves have been around since the 1970s, only in the past few years have companies like JDS Uniphase and Corning figured out how to send prodigious amounts of information through those fibers by dividing light waves into channels and then packing data into each channel. A single channel is like a light bulb going on and off 10 billion times a second, flashing...
...emotion-cuing score. O.K., but we fell for it--for the deft mood setting and the canny vignettes of young love and adult rancor. Fernan Gomez, nearly 60 years in films, carries himself (and the film) with the dignity of a gifted gentleman who knows how to transmit joy and endure suffering. Butterfly is a savory cocktail with a bitter twist...
Today we can do something new. We can reduce the text to bits (which we cannot see or hear), take this new representation and store it, manipulate it or transmit it, and then later render it on a computer display or a piece of paper. The same is true of music, movies, still photographs. While this is widely recognized, few people have a sense of the quantity of bits needed to achieve one representation vs. another. For example, when you read a book, you consume (if you read as fast as I do) about 3 million bits an hour. When...
...mistake to think of the Internet as a big device to transmit knowledge from the University out to people," Fisher says. "The Internet shouldn't be thought of like a television. That loses most of its potential...