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. . . continued from July 10 , 2005 Show Notes
Video Podcasting
1 - An average audio podcast is about 15MB in size;
2 - If 1,000 people download the podcast from the web site, it's the equivalent of (1000 x 15) 15,000 MB which is approximately equal to 15GB. Typical web hosting package for small businesses cost about $450 per year for what amounts to 40GB of traffic each month. You can see how three podcasts each month could easily use up all of the monthly site traffic allotment. When that happens, the web host starts charging big money;
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3 - A 640 x 480 video podcast, 30 minutes in length, should run about 200MB in size depending on how it's compressed. Download that 1,000 times and you've sucked up about 200GB. Do three video podcasts per month and you've got just under 1 Terabyte of traffic. That costs lots and lots of money just for data storage—hundreds of dollars each month;
4 - Then there's the cost of the high volume bandwidth. Servers capable of handling multiple, simultaneous 200MB downloads don't come cheap. Neither does the data pipe—literally, the dozens of simultaneous connections needed by users. We're talking thousands of dollars per month.
So what's simple answer to your question Jason? Only the big entertainment networks, game companies and deep pocket operations with their huge data center footprints can even begin to afford video podcasting. At this point in time too, there's another factor preventing widespread video podcasting: your local Internet service provider. The fact is that if everybody on your block decides to start downloading and viewing IPTV shows, video podcasts and streaming video, the servers taking care of the local network are liable to go down real hard.
Video podcasting is coming, just like IPTV. As high speed Internet access penetration continues to improve, the bandwidth costs will come down. Access to video on the Internet will increase correspondingly. Look for much better and broader video access everywhere—but not before 2010.
Web Form Fillers for Mac OS X
Keychain (built into OS X) certainly has its limits. We don't know why, but at the moment there's nothing else available for OS X browsers (or OS 9 browsers for that matter). Look for some form filler plug-ins for the Firefox and Opera web browsers soon.
External Hard Drive Not Recognized
The most obvious thing to check is whether or not the USB or Firewire cable which connects the drive to the computer has come loose. It's also important to ensure that AC power to the drive is also plugged in.
If the obvious is in good order, the next thing to note is that external drives can sometimes be fussy, with USB drive connections being fussier than Firewire connections. If you have not already done so, shut off the power switch on the drive (or unplug it at the power source if the drive has no power switch of its own). Once that's done, shut down your computer. Once the computer is fully off, switch on (or plug in) the external drive again. Then turn on your computer. If the external drive is in proper working condition, Windows should detect it again and enable access to it.
Copiers, Copiers, Copiers
It's hard to find the right copier for your office. Here are a few links which will help you get started:
Cell Phone Autolocation, 911 Service, Intelligent Dialing
Call Emergency 911 on your cell phone and it's hit or miss, depending on what part of the world you're in. And when you do get through, it's also quite likely that emergency services won't be able to track or locate you automatically. Not good. Tie this problem in with really dumb dialing logic and, well, it becomes obvious that the wireless providers have some work ahead of them:
- Open letter on Consumers Union about H.R. 2898, the E-911 Implementation Act of 2003, which is still not being enforced in the U.S.
- Medill News Service piece on PC World about abuse of cell phone location tracking
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