Its a little late for April Fools Jokes

[Atrocities]

The Grid, a million times faster than the fastest internet connection.

The Link

I am trying not to laugh, but if this is true, how much are they going to charge for ISP access to it? $500.00 a month or more?

[GuyOfDoom]

I still remember when charging $40+ for very primitive dial-up wasn't out of the question. I imagine it's going to be very selective to research institutions for quite some time.

[Xrati]

Wow!!! With that speed the spammers can really dump on you!

I hope they are very selective of who they let on this. I would hate to see the hackers have a field day with high speed viruses and spyware.

[PvK]

That story was about as inaccurate and misleading as most FOX "News" stories.

See also:
http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe...id/whatis.html

[Atrocities]

PvK said:
That story was about as inaccurate and misleading as most FOX "News" stories.

See also:
http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe...id/whatis.html

Well at least they are more accurate and balanced than all of the other news sources they compete against.

[AMF]

Atrocities said:

Well at least they are more accurate and balanced than all of the other news sources they compete against.

FOX is about as accurate and balanced as PRAVDA was during the Cold War. And serves much of the same function.

[Atrocities]

AMF said:

FOX is about as accurate and balanced as PRAVDA was during the Cold War. And serves much of the same function.

Fox news, not the opinion shows, is not a right wing propaganda enterprise. To say that Fox News, not the opinion shows, is not accurate or balanced is simply an uninformed and unfair character assassination attempt against the number one news organization on cable TV. If they were so unbalanced, say like MSNBC is, then why are they the ratings leader? Simple answer, more people believe that they are the most balanced of the news networks and therefore are preferred by most people. Again thats the NEWS end of things and not the dumb opinion shows.

[GuyOfDoom]

Ah see there is your mistake. You're assuming ratings has anything to do with accuracy or reliability of a news network. Turns out that's the main problem with FOX news. They often invent or twist the news to get RATINGS.

[AMF]

Atrocities said:
Fox news, not the opinion shows, is not a right wing propaganda enterprise. To say that Fox News, not the opinion shows, is not accurate or balanced is simply an uninformed and unfair character assassination attempt against the number one news organization on cable TV. If they were so unbalanced, say like MSNBC is, then why are they the ratings leader? Simple answer, more people believe that they are the most balanced of the news networks and therefore are preferred by most people. Again thats the NEWS end of things and not the dumb opinion shows.

Well, then you've provided a clear and testable hypothesis for whether Fox as a channel is more biased than other news outlets. Essentially, you are claiming that the more opinion shows has, the more biased they are.

With that I present this factoid:

"The Project on Excellence in Journalism study[38] showed that 68 percent of Fox cable stories contained personal opinions, as compared to MSNBC at 27 percent and CNN at 4 percent."

Ref: Project for Excellence in Journalism, State of the News Media 2006: An Annual Report on American Journalism

Can be found at: http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2006/index.asp

I leave it to you to go, read the report, and, I am certain, come up with some way to dismiss it.

[PvK]

I dunno. I think Comedy Central has the upper hand.