pete_c
Guru
Figured here "what the heck"?
This topic is only related to internet to the home.
Mobile 4G internet is another topic. (4G in the US is the slowest 4G throughout the world is all I am saying for now).
There is a tug of war going on relating to the Internet in general; well how it is managed and who has the most say about its management. (its really all about money anyways right now). The rules set here in the US is currently very fluid(?).
FCC wiki:
Just recently tested an FTP connection over to Norway. It was my current BB provider to another BB provider in Norway.
The speeds, ping times et all were great.
Note here that the internet infrastructure from the CO to the house is public and not owned by any one BB company whether that is using fiber, copper, wireless or cable today.
The transport between the CO and the internet is provided by whatever company chooses to utilize the infrastructure and typically provides a service / connection based on a tiered bucket charge (data) monthly fee.
It is an international broadcast 2 way broadcast medium. Anybody can use it.
Here I sometimes like to hear radio broadcasts from international radio stations to get a sort of feel about what its like in other countries. (that is something I guess from my old amateur radio days). Years ago I would look at old magazines / newspapers to get a better feel for history. (old 100 years back to present for example). Not just the comments or news but also the advertisements to see what people were purchasing et al.
Well here are a few Wiki paragraphs on the Internet.
The first pre-recorded audio programs wiki (note this is just a little historical thing here). - 1947
A bit more history on the first video recording devices and commercial skipping: (most folks prefer to watch content rather than commercials except maybe during the Superbowl?) - note that this is not specific to the internet but is related to media content presentation on the internet. - 2002
Many CT members here today use the internet for all sorts of stuff. IE: automation in the cloud versus automation at home type of stuff.
I am not going to post right now what I think but would like to know what everybody else thinks?
Here I started to utilize my phone to manage my home automation internationally with the first Palm / Microsoft internet connected phones in the late 1990's. It was slow using GPRS but it worked.
I really want to know what you think it should be like; not what other folks are saying or writing about what it should be like?
Here on Coocoontech I see us as both experimenters and users of new technologies which utilize the internet.
We are also a collection of technophiles here driving much by new technologies and most recently using the internet.
This topic is only related to internet to the home.
Mobile 4G internet is another topic. (4G in the US is the slowest 4G throughout the world is all I am saying for now).
There is a tug of war going on relating to the Internet in general; well how it is managed and who has the most say about its management. (its really all about money anyways right now). The rules set here in the US is currently very fluid(?).
FCC wiki:
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government, created by Congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. § 151 and 47 U.S.C. § 154) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the media, public safety and homeland security. The Commission is also in the process of modernizing itself.
The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission. The FCC took over wire communication regulation from the Interstate Commerce Commission. The FCC's mandated jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions. The FCC also provides varied degrees of cooperation, oversight, and leadership for similar communications bodies in other countries of North America. The FCC is funded entirely by regulatory fees.
Just recently tested an FTP connection over to Norway. It was my current BB provider to another BB provider in Norway.
The speeds, ping times et all were great.
Note here that the internet infrastructure from the CO to the house is public and not owned by any one BB company whether that is using fiber, copper, wireless or cable today.
The transport between the CO and the internet is provided by whatever company chooses to utilize the infrastructure and typically provides a service / connection based on a tiered bucket charge (data) monthly fee.
It is an international broadcast 2 way broadcast medium. Anybody can use it.
Here I sometimes like to hear radio broadcasts from international radio stations to get a sort of feel about what its like in other countries. (that is something I guess from my old amateur radio days). Years ago I would look at old magazines / newspapers to get a better feel for history. (old 100 years back to present for example). Not just the comments or news but also the advertisements to see what people were purchasing et al.
Well here are a few Wiki paragraphs on the Internet.
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide. It is an international network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government packet switched networks, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing and telephony.
The origins of the Internet date back to research commissioned by the United States government in the 1960s to build robust, fault-tolerant communication via computer networks. While this work, together with work in the United Kingdom and France, led to important precursor networks, they were not the Internet. There is no consensus on the exact date when the modern Internet came into being, but sometime in the early to mid-1980s is considered reasonable. From that point, the network experienced decades of sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to it.
The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. Though the Internet has been widely used by academia since the 1980s, the commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of June 2012, more than 2.4 billion people—over a third of the world's human population—have used the services of the Internet; approximately 100 times more people than were using it in 1995. Internet use grew rapidly in the West from the mid-1990s to early 2000s and from the late 1990s to present in the developing world. In 1994 only 3% of American classrooms had access to the Internet while by 2002 92% did.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV). Newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.
The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own policies. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.
Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are being reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol television (IPTV). Newspaper, book, and other print publishing are adapting to website technology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.
The first pre-recorded audio programs wiki (note this is just a little historical thing here). - 1947
Crosby exerted an important influence on the development of the postwar recording industry. He worked for NBC at the time and wanted to record his shows; however, most broadcast networks did not allow recording. This was primarily because the quality of recording at the time was not as good as live broadcast sound quality. While in Europe performing during the war, Crosby had witnessed tape recording, on which The Crosby Research Foundation would come to have many patents. The company also developed equipment and recording techniques such as the laugh track which are still in use today. In 1947, he invested $50,000 in the Ampex company, which built North America's first commercial reel-to-reel tape recorder. He left NBC to work for ABC because NBC was not interested in recording at the time. This proved beneficial because ABC accepted him and his new ideas. Crosby then became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. He gave one of the first Ampex Model 200 recorders to his friend, musician Les Paul, which led directly to Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Along with Frank Sinatra, Crosby was one of the principal backers behind the famous United Western Recorders recording studio complex in Los Angeles.
A bit more history on the first video recording devices and commercial skipping: (most folks prefer to watch content rather than commercials except maybe during the Superbowl?) - note that this is not specific to the internet but is related to media content presentation on the internet. - 2002
Commercial skipping is a feature of some digital video recorders that makes it possible to automatically skip commercials in recorded programs. This feature created controversy, with major television networks and movie studios claiming it violates copyright and should be banned.
For many years, video recorders manufactured for the Japanese market have been able to skip advertisements automatically, which is done by detecting when foreign language audio overdub tracks provided for many programmes go silent, as advertisements were broadcast with a single language only.
The first DVR which had a built-in Commercial skipping feature was ReplayTV with its "4000 Series" and "5000 Series" units. In 2002 five owners of the ReplayTV DVR sued the main television networks and movie studios, asking the federal judge to uphold consumers' rights to record TV shows and skip commercials claiming that features like commercial skipping help parents protect their kids from excessive consumerism. ReplayTV ended up filing for bankruptcy in 2003 after fighting a copyright infringement suit over the ReplayTV's ability to skip commercials.
In May 2012 the US Dish Network began offering a DVR with what it calls AutoHop. The device would automatically skip commercials when displaying programming that the viewer had previously recorded with the PrimeTime Anytime feature. It does not skip ads on any live programs. US broadcasters were angered at the news, and FOX embarked on legal action.
By 2014 many PVR programs such as Windows Media Center, SageTV and MythTV had the capability to skip commercials segments in recorded TV broadcasts after installing third-party add-ons such as DVRMSToolbox, Comskip and ShowAnalyzer, which use various advanced techniques to locate the commercial segments in the video files and save their locations to text files. The text files can also be fed into programs such as MEncoder or DVRMSToolboxGUI which can delete the commercial segments from the recorded video files.
Many CT members here today use the internet for all sorts of stuff. IE: automation in the cloud versus automation at home type of stuff.
I am not going to post right now what I think but would like to know what everybody else thinks?
Here I started to utilize my phone to manage my home automation internationally with the first Palm / Microsoft internet connected phones in the late 1990's. It was slow using GPRS but it worked.
I really want to know what you think it should be like; not what other folks are saying or writing about what it should be like?
Here on Coocoontech I see us as both experimenters and users of new technologies which utilize the internet.
We are also a collection of technophiles here driving much by new technologies and most recently using the internet.