De mannen van X-Bit Labs hebben een vergelijking gepubliceerd van een tiental 19-inch LCD-schermen. Getest worden verschillende modellen van Acer, BenQ, NEC, Prestigio, Samsung en Sony. Na een kort stukje uitleg over de testmethodiek worden de schermen stuk voor stuk getest op kleurenreproductie, helderheid, contrastratio en responstijd. Tevens wordt het design besproken en de bediening. Het blijkt dat er geen duidelijke winnaar aan te wijzen valt. Alle schermen hebben hun sterke en zwakke punten en afhankelijk van je eisen zal je een scherm moeten kiezen. Zo blinkt bijvoorbeeld de ene monitor uit op het gebied van kleurenreproductie terwijl de ander positief opvalt door een lage prijs:
Most displays have pretty much similar parameters, so I just offer you the numbers, trying to reveal their drawbacks and advantages (if any). If you need good color rendition, but the price of displays with S-IPS matrixes is too high for you, you may want to purchase a NEC MultiScan LCD1860NX. If you are satisfied with the color rendition of the Samsung models, and pay much attention to the compact and handy case design, the SyncMaster 192B and 192T may suit you well.
Thus, considering the lack of definite leaders, the choice of the particular model largely depends on you personal preferences. My preferences naturally differ from yours. That's why I avoid making final verdicts and only hope the results of the tests will help you narrow the scope of the models to view them all later 'in the flesh' at the store and make your final decision.
Most displays have pretty much similar parameters, so I just offer you the numbers, trying to reveal their drawbacks and advantages (if any). If you need good color rendition, but the price of displays with S-IPS matrixes is too high for you, you may want to purchase a NEC MultiScan LCD1860NX. If you are satisfied with the color rendition of the Samsung models, and pay much attention to the compact and handy case design, the SyncMaster 192B and 192T may suit you well.
Critics of the DMCA say SBC's case may have a better chance of success than Verizon's, because the subpoenas have now been issued thousands of times, and the burdens on courts and the threats of exposing people's private information are no longer theoretical. "Now you have more of a record of people using and misusing the DMCA," said Wendy Seltzer, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation


The analog hole is open, and now this hole is an open secret, which is important. Computer companies are not traditionally too concerned about this kind of public knowledge, but the entertainment pigopolists very much are. And traditionally the computer companies have looked the other way and whistled, but right now they all seem to be falling over themselves to give in. to join what appears to be a dot.com goldrush. Given Apple's close relationship with Hollywood, it's likely to come under the same kind of pressure. If it caves in, we'll see the same kind of arms race as before, with rapid updates of iTunes from Apple each moving those DLL entry points around a little. Unlike a traditional computer company, Apple has given Hollywood some leverage it wants: access to its copyrighted content, and those terms are set by the entertainment pigopolists.
One half of the money for unclaimed vouchers will be donated to schools in Tennessee to buy computer hardware or software, Microsoft said in a statement. [...] Earlier this month, Microsoft announced class action settlements with several U.S. states worth a total of $200 million. The class actions claimed Microsoft used its Windows monopoly to thwart competition and overcharge customers for its software. Class-action lawsuits are still pending in five states: Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, and Wisconsin.
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In other cases, Internet vigilantes have bombarded spammers with both unsolicited e-mail and regular mail and phone calls, launched attacks on spammers' computers and posted spammers' personal information on the Internet, according to reports.
Merrill Lynch analyst Steven Milunovich, who first noted Gordon's departure from Sun in a Nov. 3 research note, said Sun's turnaround efforts could suffer if more executives defect to rivals."Sun's downturn can become self-reinforcing if too many execs depart," he said in the report.
Azië kent de grootste internetpopulatie met 200 miljoen gebruikers, Noord-Amerika en Europa volgen met respectievelijk 170 en 166 miljoen. Nederland had volgens de UNCTAD 8,6 miljoen internetters, een stijging van 8,7 procent. Over het algemeen laten ontwikkelingslanden hogere groeicijfers zien dan de ontwikkelde landen. De internetpenetratie ligt in eerstgenoemde landen echter op vier procent tegen ruim 32 procent in de laatstgenoemde. Noord-Amerika is op dit gebied koploper, gevolgd door Oceanië en Europa. De landen met de grootste dichtheid worden voornamelijk in Noordwest-Europa gevonden.
Wat de bandbreedte van internationale verbindingen betreft is Europa de onbetwiste nummer een. Hier was halverwege 2002 in totaal ruim 909Mbps aan capaciteit te vinden, terwijl Noord-Amerika over 382Mbps beschikte en Azië over nog geen 79Mbps. De grote capaciteit heeft geleid tot drastische prijsdalingen over de afgelopen jaren, maar gelet op recente cijfers van dit jaar lijkt deze trend te worden doorbroken. Ontwikkelingslanden blijven ook op dit gebied achter, terwijl 70 tot 80 procent van het internetverkeer in deze landen internationaal is.
In de toekomst zullen de technologische ontwikkelingen in de auto niet alleen beperkt blijven tot een ABS-systeem of diefstalbeveiliging, we moeten ook denken aan een digitale sleutel die instellingen van bijvoorbeeld spiegels en de stoelen onthoudt. Michael Rudorfer van BMW Car IT ziet de Trusted Platform Module als een aanzet om een beter beveiligd sleutelgeheugen te maken.
And yet you've been famously cool about Linux. Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux.
Many Taiwanese companies, including AU Optronics (AUO) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO), have drawn up plans to venture into the AM OLED market, according to sources in Taiwan's display industry.
A functional electronic nano-device has been manufactured using biological self-assembly for the first time. Israeli scientists harnessed the construction capabilities of DNA and the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes to create the self-assembling nano-transistor. The work has been greeted as "outstanding" and "spectacular" by nanotechnology experts.