The guidelines establish industry-wide standards for the protection of the customers and the software publisher in ESD transactions. After strong protests from ISPs, SPA changed its code to suggest that ISPs could do the software community a service by running JavaScript messages across their screens warning users against violating copyright laws. PCS companies are offering cheaper rates and such features as paging, caller ID, voice mail, call forwarding and smooth data communications. Rates could go even lower as PCS operators begin to compete against each other, which spells good news for consumers. The existing rules were ambiguous enough that people were nervous about teaching foreign students, and it's even harder to know what the rules of the game are now because there are new players involved at the Commerce Department.
Most companies make their Web sites available for free, but sell ads to support their efforts.
Ron Johnson, the University of Washington's vice president for computing and communications, says the network will extend the electronic laboratory concept and will be the first virtual learning project to be such a large, transcontinental scale. The result is what they claim is the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of zipping through 1.08 trillion floating point operations per second. To speed things up, the scientists designed the equations necessary for the calculations into the hardwire circuits in an integrated processor.