North Korea's detonation of a nuclear weapon put's the whole region in danger. N Korea probably does not have a way to presently deliver a atomic weapon over long distances at this time. But there is always the possiblity that N Korea might choose to detonate a nuclear weapon on the DMZ as a premptive attack method.

Talk:T2 3-D: Battle Across Time

A friend had a free pass to Universal Stuidos Hollywood so I decided to go. The T2 3d was the best of the park. When we waiting in line I noticed that the buiding was named the "Miles Dyson memorial auditorium". I thought this was very humourous since Dyson is a fictional character in T2. The show was great, but I think that Cyberdyne speaker Kimberly Duncan was took away from the show.. They should have had a more serious character. It would have been cool if they had a animtronic version of Arnold Schwarzenegger. They cyberdyne robots had a cartoonish look to them. Would be really cool if they had T2 T-800 Model 101's instead. At the time the show was made the robots were puppets. The cyberdyne factory looked to fake. Overall the show was great.

UNE (Unbundled Networking Elements) & broadband

As luck would have it congress is going to stipulate that the phone companies let other service providers on their networks if they wish to offer IPTV. This is major win for consumers, because if the FCC ruling had gone unchallenged then the carriers would be able to kick others off their networks at will. The carriers fallaciously arge that they it is their networks and so they have the rights to determine what runs on their networks. If a provider like Vonage wants to offer services then they should pay a fair market value. But we should remember that the phone companies even though they built their own networks they are getting the right of way for free. Broadband prices are still high compared to other countries.

We may not see Fios for awhile. Verizon is experiencing significant
difficulties in negotiating cable agreements with different cities.
So far Verizon has only signed 2 agreements for Fios cable service
rights (note:The story was in the WSJ on Thursday or Friday I belive.
The story is not on their website or on the web yet).  The main
reason for the delay is that the cities are demanding multi-million
dollar kickbacks to allow Verizon offer the cable service.

Did anyone catch Ballmers attempt to mislead people about Google at the Gartner symposisum: " But, if you say if the real question is, instead of the comparison just, hey, how are you guys going to get after this search opportunity, the answer is, the good old fashioned way, with innovation."

"Come on, let's do a little audience survey here, in general 50 percent of all searches do not lead to a desired outcome. I ask this audience, is there anybody in the room who believes that the search experience is not going to be dramatically different and better 10 years from now than it is today? No, people can't find what they're looking for, number one. Number two, is there anybody here who is going to deny the fact that it would be nice to get a level of integration between what happens searching inside the enterprise and outside the enterprise? I think not......"

Ballmer first states that 50% of all searches were unsatisfactory. Ballmer than asks if search will not improve in the next 10 years. huh...?? So from Ballmers perspective 50% of all Google users are unsatisfied. Now

87% of searchers say they have successful search experiences most of the time,

Pew Internet research studies indicate that (http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Searchengine_users.pdf )87% of all users have successful search results. Now with almost all things there is room for improvement, but trying to say 50% searches are unsucessful implies that 50% of all people are unhappy.

including some 17% of users who say they always find the information for which

they are looking.

87% of searchers say they have successful

etween the opportunity to innovate in general, the opportunity to innovate in a way that's meaningful not just to an end user, but an end user in business, we see plenty of opportunity and plenty of opportunity in things that, who knows, people may or may not do. I mean, if you read the newspapers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything. But, the truth of the matter is, we've got our heads down, we've got very, very smart people just working on innovation, innovation, innovation, and we think that gives us a great opportunity."

Broadbands Future and opportunity

The future of broadband is about to explode. With the avdvent of IPTV and Wimax as well as other technologies things will change dramatically.

IPTV

Recently Microsoft and SBC announced a joint IPTV ( Internet Protocol television). IPTV will use fiber to the home and or VDSL2. This dramatically speed up internet access and allow technologies that we have dreamed about such as full screen video conferencing.

I was a bit suprised to hear that IPTV was intended for PC
viewing...... So this seems like a way for Microsoft to gain a
foothold in the home enterainment market with it''s Windows Media
player PC devices. Now Microsoft has a direct inroad into home
enertainment. Now IPTV becomes the default choice for those who
choose to use it. Microsoft has talked about X-box becoming the home
entertainment device. With their DRM technology this gives MS the
ability to control and charge for what content is delivered. I
believe Microsoft will use it's money to seed the market. On the
otherhand IPTV creates more competition for Cable and Satellite.....
This raises some interesting questions:
1. Will IPTV be able to be viewed in other formats such as HDTV.
2.Will there be a device to convert IPTV signals to other formats.
3.Can IPTV be be viewed with Realplayer.....??

Recently the Supreme court ruled that the cable companies don't have to allow other ISP's on their networks.
So if the telcos follow suit and are allowed to do the same then the ISP's will respond.
I predict that they will start to deploy fixed point Wimax since it is about to become a standard
later on this year.