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...better reasoning skills in middle age, Bartzokis long suspected, it would follow that most of the myelin added in those years would appear around the signal-transmitting axons in the higher brain regions that are the seat of sophisticated thought. Essentially, the brain spends decades upgrading itself from a dial-up Internet to a high-speed version, not fully completing the job until...
Instead, the lack of reliable file-sharing programs for the Macintosh platform and the terrible lethargy of contemporary dial-up download times were enough to convince me to abstain from music sharing altogether. I borrowed compact discs from friends and listened to them the not-so-old-fashioned...
...together now? Microsoft and AOL fought bitterly during the browser wars of the '90s and vied for dial-up customers before broadband took off. Today they're losing billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love...
...technology being used is dial-up, and that’s just slower,” he says...
...usually put on lipstick before making a phone call, but this time was different. I was placing my first videophone call over the Internet. Although video chatting online has been possible for years, it hasn't been very practical. That's because most people used dial-up modems, which don't have enough bandwidth to transmit video well. But now that more than a third of all Internet users have DSL or cable-modem connections, online video quality is finally up to snuff, if not exactly Emmy worthy. There's also a low-cost program that makes video chatting simpler...