2012: The Year The Internet Ends

How the industry will kill the Internet in about 4 years from now.
http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality
A friend sent me a link to this. A lot of what is said there is pretty far fetched however I must admit even the thought of an ISP adopting a cable provider's business model to provide access to the internet is scary. Can you imagine an ISP saying you can access 200 more sites for $39 a month :)

For those of us in the US and the western world having unlimited internet access is almost a given, and choosing ISPs over who provides the highest speed and features such as a fixed IP, phone, TV, etc is taken for granted .

You may find it interesting that on the other side of the world in India for instance access to the internet is limited for the average home user, not by the number of websites you visit but but the amount of bandwidth you are allowed to consume! usually this is to about 256 mb per month! So though this does not go as far as saying what sites you can and cannot access it does limit your access to a lot of rich content.

In all fairness though these limitations are due to the limited bandwidth and infrastructure that is available. Can you imagine the chaos it would cause if ISPs here started doing that?
I shudder at the thought.

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Doing Objects in Visual Basic 2005

Deborah Kurata's new book is out on safari (http://safari.informit.com/) before it is released to the stores on the 28th of Feb 2007. I couldn't find the the sample code for the book on safari's website and the book directs you to http://www.insteptech.com/ ,which, I think is a poorly constructed site cobbled together on frontpage. Anyhow, the sample code isn't there and whats more there is no mention of the book either. Weired.

The book The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series Doing Objects in Visual Basic 2005
itself is a great intro to object oriented development in Vb 2005 and the whole concept of binding controls to objects is just fantastic. The book examines this topic in depth and also details various pros and cons of binding different controls.

Im still reading the book but the material presented in it so far has been so good I cant wait to put the stuff I learn in to practice.