August 6, 2004

Although this post seems to be all about Apple, and the iPod, in fact it is really about the future of downloadable music (legal and illegal), and a good glimpse of what will happen with downloadable movies, and TV shows. I recently signed up for "High-Speed Xtreme-I".  5 Mb download and 1 Mb upload speed.  Suddenly the idea of downloading television is closer to reality.  Instead of looking for what is on TV, I expect that I will soon be able to sit down and program my own evening's entertainment.  I mean in real time, not the "set it up for future watching" like TiVo.  I mean every movie ever made, every television episode ever made ON DEMAND. The only thing stopping this from happening today is bandwidth.   Perhaps you would need 500 Mb download.  I remember when I was using 2400 baud. Now don't ask me to convert baud to Mb, I can't.  However the point is that bandwidth will grow, you can count on that.  It will grow a lot, and the opportunities to use it will grow just a bit faster and a bit bigger.  What I mean is that demand will always outpace supply.  Oh, and it will get cheaper. Downloading music is nice, but it only makes me want to download movies, and TV shows.  That is the future.  Bandwith will make it easy and cheap. 3:35:38 PM

Feds Arrest Man in 2001 Anthrax Probe FindLaw- Federal agents investigating the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks searched homes Thursday belonging to the founder of an organization that trains medical professionals to respond to chemical and biological attacks. He was later arrested in an altercation with family members at a motel, police said. Property records list the New York homes as the addresses of Dr. Kenneth Berry, 48, a bioterrorism expert who once advocated the distribution of anthrax vaccine in major cities. It was not immediately known why the agents searched the homes. Hours after the search, Berry was arrested and charged with four counts of assault following an altercation that police described as a domestic dispute at a motel in Point Pleasant Beach. He posted $10,000 bail and was later released from the Ocean County Jail. 10:40:52 AM