Virgin launches 200Mb broadband pilot

Interesting stuff. What can you possibly do with a 200Mb broadband connection? HDTV and 3D Games and still you have some spare for p2p. Apparently, the limitation in this context are the routers, especially the wireless ones. This is quite a paradigm shit and can disrupt the current media setup massively. With 200MB broadband you can really enjoy streamed HD, on demand HD content, interactive 3D gaming etc etc....

The cost of electricity

Surfing around for content on renewable energies, I found an extremely interesting research on the cost of producing electricity made by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The research is dated 2004 and very well written. Although the price of fuels have changed a bit since then, it is still quite valid and an interesting source on the economics of electricity production. Please click here to access the full...

Lethal index!

Nice application for iPhone -shame I don’t have an iPhone, but I might fix this sooner or later, I am a crackberry addict right now. It tells you the risk you are facing in the location you are. Here’s the features list: View each areas’ overall “Lethal Index” which tells you how dangerous that area is. The Lethal Index is made up of a separate “Wildlife Index,”...

Natural resources: how long will they last?

Love the chart below (courtesy of flowingdata), very informative. Also interesting to see how faster we will run out of natural resources if the world starts using them at half the US pro-capita consumption rate. Simply put: the current situation is not sustainable, and there need to be a convergence in pro-capita consumption, and it cannot be upward, toward the US rate, but downward. Unless new technologies and...

Localization and customization

People always confuse these very different terms that have far reaching consequences in the online and tech world, especially when related to products. Here’s what the Oxford dictionary says: localize (also localise) • verb 1 often as adj. localized restrict or assign to a particular place. 2 make local in character. customize (also customise) • verb modify (something) to suit a particular individual or...