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Afterthoughts: YATS 20

Posted by on August 10, 2012 No comments

Larry Press brings us some afterthoughts for YATS 20.

That claim that Xerox invented the Internet is so wrong!

Governments (US, England and others) funded the research and theory leading to the ARPANet, which demonstrated the feasibility of a large scale network. Critical mass and training were achieved when the US government funded the spread of networking to universities through CSNET for computer science departments, the National Science Foundation NSFNet for connecting all US colleges and universities and the NSF International Connections program, which brought in university and research networks in 28 nations, most of which were in the developing world.

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Afterthoughts: YATS 19

Posted by on August 2, 2012 No comments

Hello and welcome to another installment of Afterthoughts, our YATS blog. Ant Pruitt here. In episode 19 of YATS, Larry discussed his woes of getting the Olympic coverage streamed to him at his convenience. Face it, those of us passionate about the Olympics are battling with the timezone difference. I signed up for the NBC online streaming package with hopes of seeing live feeds at 5 am eastern standard time. Unfortunately, Larry was right about the online experience.

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Afterthoughts: YATS 16

Posted by on July 12, 2012 No comments

Hello and welcome to YATS Afterthoughts, Larry Press here. We talked about the various media stores on episode 16 of YATS, and I came across this article this morning.

The story is so complicated that it makes my head hurt. There are so many dimensions — the media type (movie, TV show, song, podcast, etc.), rental and purchase prices, rental terms, supported devices, available titles, etc. etc. If we could find a way to summarize all of this in charts or whatever, it would be a great service to mankind.

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Welcome to YATS

Posted by on March 17, 2012 2 comments

This is the new home of Yet Another Tech Show. YATS is a collaborative effort of great technology writers and tech evangelists from across the Internet. Keep checking back for updates and how you can subscribe to the show, submit content for our discussions, and participate live when we record.

The core YATS team (or at least those who joined us for our first episode) consists of Ant Pruitt, Larry Press, Mat Lee, and Mike Rothman. We will constantly circulate fresh tech writers for our panel discussion hangout each and every week. We have a great group of people writing for both groovyPost.com and aNewDomain.net. While YATS is an independent show, we all write in some capacity or another for both of these great tech sites.

If you would like to be a part of the discussion as a panel member, please email TheCrew@YetAnotherTechShow.com or send us a form on our Contact Us page.