Today is a state holiday commemorating the birth of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole.
This article here from Israel is a proof of concept that pigeon enabled internet is faster than ADSL. The birds, using TCP (transmission by carrier pigeon), transmitted 4GB of data faster than an ADSL could have in the given time.
In the News
Date: Thursday, 1 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0100
From: Petri Ojala
Subject: Press Release: McDonalds and EUnet join to offer Global "Internet in a Lunchbox"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
McDonalds and EUnet join to offer Global "Internet in a Lunchbox"
Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- April 1, 2004 -- McDonalds, Inc. and EUnet, Ltd. today announced an agreement which will allow people to access the Internet in virtually everywhere. Access to the Internet is fast becoming a requirement for leading businesses who wish to communicate globally at any place, any time.
"Our restaurants offer the market's most cost-effective solution for daily food substance requirements and together with EUnet we take this small step for our businesses but a great leap to the mankind", says Kechap Mustard, senior vice president for marketing at McDonalds restaurants. "The Information Superhighway will be a significant part of our future and we want to participate in building it. Every highway needs restaurants and together with EUnet we will meet the great demands of the new information society", he adds.
EUnet, the largest commercial Internet service provider in Europe, will together with McDonalds install wireless Internet connectivity via WiFi to every McDonalds restaurant. A revolutionary CRC-free product, McEUnet, will be used to provide access to the Internet for everyone, from small children to senior citizens. "Later we will offer our customers a complete McEUnet-meal with a png of the month. Together with the planned McEUnet birthday party service we will provide a full range of solutions to our customers who need wireless access to the Internet", said Mustard.
"Way to mans heart goes through his stomach and together with McDonalds we can get there. EUnet's goal is to bring the Internet to every dining table and now it's finally for real. McDonalds restaurants are also children's favorite and now we make it possible for children to learn the Internet before they can even read or write", says Glenn Kowack, EUnet CEO. "We haven't accomplished Internet to the belly button yet, but we are very near a breakthrough. Our research staff is already working hard to create recyclable access to the Internet to save the nature. CRC-free McEUnet IP addresses are already recycled", Kowack describes the new service.
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In other news, software giant Microsoft Corporation (MS) announced today that the Windows GUI (code name Foghorn Leghorn) has been ported to Unix and will be on sale next week Thursday, April 1st. Noting that MS had already ported Office to run on Apple's OS X, based on a variation of Unix, MS founder William Gates III (hereinafter SRW: Sir William of Redmond) said it wasn't that difficult to do. SRW went on to say he was sure that MS would soon dominate the market for GUIs running under various versions of Unix and Linux and that both KDE and Gnome would soon be a thing of the past.
