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The End of Physical Media
L-s-L69 writes "The register is reporting that Forrester is predicting that a third of all music sales will be made by downloads in the next five years. They also predict that almost 15 per cent of films will be viewed by "on-demand" services such as rather than by DVD or video by 2005. "
>>How many hours of quality
>>reading do you get in a week
>>on Slashdot?
Nah.. Too easy.
I want it replaced with a system with no moving parts. As someone who likes to go 4x4'ing it's frustarting when there doesn't seem to be a good CD player appropriate for a jeep. Something that's no big deal if it gets stolen (when the doors and windows are off), yet doesn't skip when pounding the trail. I'm thinking some sort of huge flash media. Or an iPod type of thing that is really just the faceplate of the stereo, and the cradle is the actual stereo unit itself. That way just the faceplate could be taken into your house and sync'd.
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They mean the same thing, 'while' is the original, 'whiles' is a reasonable but now-dead adverbial form, and 'whilst' arose from 'whiles' by some sort of confusion or other.
'While' is probably the better form since it's common and 'whiles' is both spurious (originally) and kind of stupid-sounding, but I think they can be considered interchangeable.
NB: I am a pretentious jackass.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.