Word: wiring
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...much less than was previously thought, plus the plan to produce modems that connect at a screamingly high 1.5 million bits per second is actually modest by DSL standards. The makers of the technology believe it can squeeze as much as 8 million bits out of a copper phone wire ? perhaps more. "It's the great bandwith horizon," says Ramo. "You never get any closer to the edge...
Needing to win and winning are two different things, however. The two teams battled wire to wire, see-sawing back and forth as they attempted to stay in contention. In fact the outcome of the meet was unknown until after the final relay was swum...
...WIRE) Ann Arbor, Mich--Michigan senior defenseman Chris Fox was charged yesterday with "assault with intent to do great bodily harm" stemming from an incident that occurred on June...
...this unusual confluence of private correspondence with public access and potential traceability that is making news in Japan. In Japan, an article from Reuters' wire service--a prime example of the positive possibilities of the Internet--reported, an official study has recommended that the government consider unmasking the people who post libelous, slanderous or otherwise damaging statements on the Internet. At the present moment, such action would be a breach of Japan's constitution, which protects the privacy of personal communication. The study, issued by the Japanese Posts and Telecommunications Ministry, found that the use of the Internet for defamation...
...while working at the Wall Street Journal. The Journal's management was proud of its resistance to technology in those days, so reporters and editors worked with manual typewriters, carbon paper and No. 2 pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized me to the power...