Last week, Democratic lawmakers announced a new proposal to restore net neutrality laws in an effort to undo the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of rules that ensured equal and open access to all websites and services for internet users and content providers. Today, the internet and the web are words that are used interchangeably, but their functions are different.
The web is a widely used system to access the internet. The internet is a network of computer networks that make it possible for computers and various devices to communicate with one another. Berners-Lee said this communication system has "given marginalized groups a voice," but has also "created an opportunity for scammers, given a voice to those who spread hatred, and made all kinds of crime easier to commit.
So why didn't Vieira and Lauer just fake some knowledge of the existence of Tim Berners-Lee instead of just making light of their own ignorance?
Were they afraid that they would seem nerdy? Would it spoil the moment? Trust me, that had happened much earlier in the evening.
Were people not supposed to know who Berners-Lee was because he was British? After the 16 days of the Olympics are done, there will be plenty more things people will dislike about NBC's coverage of the games.
But, this bit of willful ignorance of one of the world's most innovative minds and someone who developed a communications medium that has made it possible for NBC to show us the Olympics online, just floored me. I'm not worried about London's ability to pull together a well-run Olympics.
He said: " The internet is "one of the many things in the show that Britain can be proud of - and an essential thing of it was that it was an open thing, it wasn't something that could be controlled by any one government. Via: CNN. And there's the fact that it has become a purely commercial event. And are we really pushing the athletes to the edge of what's physically possible just for commercial interests?
The Groove Tiger profile , 30 Jul am. C'mon, the ceremony was totally modern and current and stuff, it had like, tweets and a dance club and drama with crazy hair chick finally getting together with funny hat dude, and we all know giant glowsticks are what the young'uns are all about these days.
Did I mention tweets? But this really applies to the entire opening ceremonies, sooooo I don't care about the Olympics at all, and I only opened a live BBC stream to watch Frank Turner perform just before the official opening, then ended up watching the entire ceremony.
I thought it was great, a very good selection of Britain's cultural and technological history. I'm not British, but I personally didn't need much commentary to get what was going on granted, my country is pretty close to it, so I guess we do know quite a lot about its history already.
We, as the world, owe so much to the digital pioneers, and it's high time they got some credit outside of the 'nerd' circles. Tim Griffiths profile , 30 Jul am. And what else during that whole thing had much to do with the olympics? It's not like they are tyring to induce m coding of a system that will change the world or some crap, they honoured a man who will go down as one of the important names of history let alone of British history and for something that is meant to show off the country while there is a spot light on it I think there is very little that was in it that was as true or valuable to us as that moment.
And let me clear I detest the olympics and have been mostly embarrassed by the whole mess so far and yet you are actually getting me to defend it Apparently they consider this as much part of culture as, say, Mary Poppins and Paul mcCartney. I don't think I disagree. I guess the British are just strange that way. They even put blokes like Darwin on their money. It's not just Kings and Prime Ministers for them.
It was a British opening ceremonies and the British were celebrating a British pioneer who is very relevant to current youth culture. You know: young people, the kind that are still in good enough shape to be athletes. I bet those wipper-snapper athletes appreciate Sir Tim. Yeah, putting smart people on money - what's wrong with these British?
It was a show of patriotism, pride in their history and showcased their major achievements like ummm The Industrial Revolution, Invention of Steam Engines, Amazing musical talent that has come out of England and especially London and other major achievements in the History of the nation ie: Invention of TV, WWW, and modern Health Care.
If you didn't like it your problem, but to state that you think it was stupid and was of no benefit shows the standard parochial nature that most of the world expects from Americans.. Luckily most people on TD aren't like you. Learn about the rest of the world, understand where your OWN cultural and legal history actually came from and maybe you might appreciate and understand the human condition a bit better. TtfnJohn profile , 30 Jul am.
Oh, and speaking of debt there's this small period between and when the UK and Canada were the major parts of the English speaking world that stood up to a nutbar named Hitler alone.
The Aussies up against Japan with the Kiwi's virtually alone. G Thompson profile , 30 Jul pm. I think the apology that the USA owes the world for that other George you had as a president recently cancels it all out.
LOL Oh and not to be picky, but New Zealand and Australia and other commonwealth countries like India etc were part of that action against Hitler in and all with volunteers. On the legal framework, I agree and think most Americans would be surprised where such torts like negligence, trespass of both property and person , Juries, Court system, etc originated from. John Fenderson profile , 30 Jul am.
My wife, too, is a huge Olympics and generally, sports fan and her experience was similar. She thought the opening ceremonies were just awful. Later, she learned that they were actually very good except for Sir Paul's performance , but completely ruined by NBC, so it was impossible to tell.
I wanted to like the ceremony. I tried to watch it. Finally, I had to turn it off. It was really awful. It's pretty obvious that directing a film and directive live presentations require different skill sets. Donnicton , 30 Jul am. Jeremy , 30 Jul am. There was one year of absolute television heaven w. It was during the Atlanta olympics. I believe digital sattelite was just taking off at the time, and the dominant company of the time had an olympics package of 3 different channels.
They were named Red, White, and Blue. The fact that the olympics were in Atlanta made it even more amazing as you never got tape delay, and you could watch entire tournaments rather than just a few select moments. It was so popular that NBC locked it completely down after that. Anyone from the US who has ever played a game on a Counter Strike Source server based in london would understand that even in the telco communities, time delay is a factor.
It doesn't matter in that whether you see it a minute after the rest of the world doesn't really hamper your ability to discuss things with other people on the net. With sporting events, a minute could mean a win or a loss. Gaming online! With gaming every second counts, with video, not so much. It sort of does when you have a live feed from London rather than taped. Audio Carrier TV Signals travel faster because there is less data to compute.
If you see a live feed from London here in the states, a truly live feed on your television I mean, you will notice people talking English in London with their lips way out of sync can get a bit distracting when there is a 3 second delay between sound and lip movement.
That's why the events are pre-recorded. That's why they delay the audio and embed it in the video before it is sent. Then the receiver decoder delays the audio yet again while the video is being decoded.
This problem was solved decades ago. If you encode with proper timestamps on both video frames and audio packets at the source, player software on the receiving end will automatically synchronize them. There may need to be a small amount of buffering, say a second or so, but that's close enough to feel live, and very few people will notice the difference.
Several hours delay however makes it obvious to everyone. Marcel de Jong profile , 31 Jul am. Perhaps the US media should invest in some better equipment. They take 3 hours to provide us here in the states what you guys would see in 3 minutes in Europe.
I should clarify about CSS. It isn't a three hour delay, but the latency is a ln example of time vs distance, and is buffered. Most TV live feeds have a 15 second buffer to censor nudity.
The closer you are to a server by length of cable the less delay you get. Television broadcasts have vastly larger amounts of data and are usually sent through satalites hundreds of miles over us in Earth's orbit.
If I recall, with wireless signals, the further out you go, the slower things get. Hence the three second or so delay in audio vs video. This, here, is already beyond insane. Anonymous Coward , 31 Jul am. Let alone make that a reason to have a big red boob-alert panic button on all of television. Then again, when I was a kid there were commercials for shampoo that had full shots of naked people. Yet for some strange reason I did not turn out to be a sex-crazed psychopath.
Something must be very wrong with me. Are you suggesting that audio electron are faster that video electron? Or that the audio is transmitted terrestrial and the video over satellite?
I don't think either of those are true. Audio uses less data than video and therefore requires little push to transmit over long distances at faster speeds.
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