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MP3s From The Phone Box
An Economist writes "The .com bubble has come and gone, but the great ideas and implementations are starting to come through thick and fast now. The BBC reports on a planned development in the UK - download MP3s (or the like) from the phone box. Walking along the street and fancy a song - just plug in your iPod/MuVo/iRiver/whatever... awesome! Perhaps the lauded benefits of eCommunication are just beginning to be felt - plus it increases the viability of old-tech phone boxes, which are socially beneficial but financially challenged."
a beep in the song every minute reminding me to put in 2 quarters?
No? Quick respond NOW! As I am one of the Y generationn I can't wait for more than 10 SECONDS!
So, you want a 3 day waiting period on phone sex and internet porn?
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
Man don't even joke like that....
Nah ... warjiving.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
How about being able to download old episodes of Dr Who from a phone booth... how cool would that be?
Other possible things to dispense from a phone booth:
"Cause its so more practical to load music at a phonebooth, in public, than in the comfort of your home."
I guess you could pay for your song in quarters...that is, unless the song was recorded outside of your area code...
I still use payphones, and now I won't feel as dirty for not having a cell because I can just say I'm downloading music.
The .com bubble has come and gone, but the great ideas and implementations are starting to come through thick and fast now.
And look! Everyone's still unemployed! The entire fucking economy is using computers, and the average technically-intelligent person has about as much chance of finding a job in technology that lasts longer than five weeks as they do of pulling a Faberge egg out of their ass.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Hey man, I'm just trying to get the latest BT through BT!
moo.
We call them junction boxes.
I'll give you an example - in English sports, there are several competitions involving teams from throughout the WHOLE COUNTRY, and not one of them is known as the 'World Series'.