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Here's one reason Blockbuster isn't distributing video via online downloads: it doesn't own the right to digitally share movies with subscribers. And by the look of it, subscription rights aren't up for grabs. Digital-distribution rights - to subscribers, not pay-per-view customers - are in the hands of the three pay-TV movie networks: HBO, Showtime and Starz. And Starz is out to demonstrate just what can be done with those rights, by introducing a beta version of its Vongo service...
...service Vongo provides seems so obvious it's a wonder it's taken this long for anyone to offer it. You pay $10 per month, and can download as many movies as you want. Each feature-length film takes 20 minutes to a half hour to download via a typical cable-modem connection. Surprisingly, the video quality is as good as a DVD, crisp enough even when stretched across the full 15-in. screen of a laptop...
Bored by the challenge of redefining higher learning through the once-per-quarter-century Harvard College Curricular Review, professors hijacked yesterday’s Faculty meeting and directed its agenda once again toward criticisms of University President Lawrence H. Summers. The College is alive again? Nay, it is, unfortunately, floundering. At the risk of deifying a president this page has often disagreed with, we stand unconvinced and unimpressed by the latest Faculty-led outburst against Summers. Further, we urge the remaining disgruntled members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the absence of substantive disagreement with Summers?...
...Clean Up” campaign last year, they silence their criticisms of government for fear of further reprisals. One of the police officers who guards the camp might privately sympathize with the displaced, but has five children of his own and earns three million Zimbabwean dollars per month, about $30 US. School fees and rent consume his entire salary leaving him with exactly nothing for food...
...much inventory was added during that time, rendering the analysis next to meaningless. The Senator further noted figures compiled from the Government Accounting Office indicating that the dollar amount spent by the Defense Department annually to maintain buildings it did not need came to "between $2000 and $3000 per active duty soldier...