Here’s what I think is going to be big in the near future: A lot of the commercial software publishing places have immense pipes for software downloads, now. And if the people in the forums are telling the truth, download speeds are mostly not capped (on the software publisher’s end). The most prominent online publisher right has got to be Valve, with their Steam distribution system (http://www.steampowered.com/ ) which they used to distribute Halflife 2. I heard that they had a phenomenal amount of bandwidth available for the release of HL2 – something like 1,500 Mb/s. I’m not aware of…
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Washington State Governor’s Race The Saga Continues In an election fraught with problems and strife, now new charges of impropriety have come to light. The dead have spoken, seemingly, and their clear choice for governor is Christine Gregoire. According to the King County elections manager, as many as 22 dead people voted in the election last November. These cases are under investigation and criminal charges may be filed in at least three of the instances. That tidbit, problems with provisional ballots and also the fact that King County may have had several thousand more votes than actual registered voters all…