Monthly Archives: July 2006

Network neutrality: The cell network

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Dan Siemon

From Newsforge, Today’s cell phone system argues for retaining network neutrality. Consider the closed, anti-innovation system that is the cell phone network. Do you want the Internet to be like that? Is that best solution for the rest of the … Continue reading →

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The Future of Computing

Posted on 2006-07-24 by Dan Siemon

The Future of Computing: From mainframes to microblades, farewell to GHz CPUs provides a nice overview of trends in CPU and system design. I have a couple of comments to add. When in late 1950s computers became fast enough to … Continue reading →

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Ottawa, OLS and the war museum

Posted on 2006-07-19 by Dan Siemon

Arrived in Ottawa today for OLS. Managed to get in early enough to make it over to the new (2005?) Canadian War Museum. Unfortunately, there was only two hours left before close. Two hours was not nearly long enough to … Continue reading →

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Rocketboom on net neutrality

Posted on 2006-07-17 by Dan Siemon

Today I decided to checkout Rocketboom for the first time. This site seems to get a lot of press so I figured I should at least take a look. Browsing the archives I found this piece on net neutrality. It … Continue reading →

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Science funding in Canada

Posted on 2006-07-16 by Dan Siemon

During the latest episode of CBC’s excellent national science program Quirks and Quarks (podcast) there was mention of www.sciencefunding.ca. There are some interesting documents available on that site which discuss how science is funded in Canada. The letter in this … Continue reading →

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