Maybe competitors will crack each others DRM systems to prove them insecure and "leak" code through 14-year-old kids in northern europe. (:
A company owned by Sky (Rupert Murdoch satelite pay tv) were implicated in the cracking of the protection used by direct competitor ITV Digital amoungst others.
No-one prooved anything as such but it is seriously possible.
Indeed. Beowolfing (is that a new word) conviently skips a lot of that. The law was actually changed when the US realised that the Playstation 2 was technically a super computer. Not that they had jurstiction on the PS2 itself but it brought home it was daft.
Sky will let you buy say, the subscription based Film Four if you only have a basic Sky sub.
Up till now the US cable providers would only let you buy something like Film Four if you had already subbed yourself to their premium group of chans. I.e - like Sky saying you could only buy Film Four if you were already subscribed to Sky Movies.
This has been rules illegal.
What it doesn't mean is that you can buy Sky Sports 3 without Sky Sports 1 (again a uk example). They're allowed to package channels like that all they like. It just means that they can't put conditions on you buying a channel that usually comes on it's own.
I'm not sure what they'd have done about the rise of the PC as a games machine. That was really in it's infancy in 94/95 when the Amiga really started to suffer. Civilisation and Sim City were about the height at that point.
But would the Amiga have had an answer to Playstaion? Or 3dfx?
Over time this tends toward programs that the user population wants to use
Actually over time it tends to result in programs the programming segment of the population wants to use.
It's the same effect that makes Linux wonderful for some but a huge barrier to others. The stuff that makes average Joe want it is not what the programmer will feel is worth programming.
This may of course be different if he's on staff, but that does tend to knacker the "Anyone, anywhere" bit.
True, there will soon be as many Tivo brands as you care to name.
But people will still call them "Tivo"s.
It's like in the UK, every vacumn cleaner is usually referred to as a "hoover". Or in the US "Xerox".
You cannot buy that brand recognition. Assuming Tivo themselves don't screw up, they will have a healthy share of the PVR industry for a decade or more.
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Maybe competitors will crack each others DRM systems to prove them insecure and "leak" code through 14-year-old kids in northern europe. (:
A company owned by Sky (Rupert Murdoch satelite pay tv) were implicated in the cracking of the protection used by direct competitor ITV Digital amoungst others.
No-one prooved anything as such but it is seriously possible.
You say zip, they think WinZip.
Indeed, I have no access to a standard land line so I can't use a Tivo, it's as simple as that.
If they let me hook it onto my ethernet to share the ADSL I'd be in the store before you can read the entire Lord of the rings trilogy.
(It's a long way to the shops)
But then some years ago it was actually difficult to imagine ghz.
:)
I remember a friends reaction on going from 386-25 to P100. He hadn't the faintest clue where the power was going to go.
He soon found out
Indeed. Beowolfing (is that a new word) conviently skips a lot of that. The law was actually changed when the US realised that the Playstation 2 was technically a super computer. Not that they had jurstiction on the PS2 itself but it brought home it was daft.
And I'd have got away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids.
Yeah I know, but you have to admit it really doesn't scan the "proper" way round.
This was also parodied in a great simpsons episode, with Lisa's mentor, (forget the first word) gums.
Bleendin' Gums Murphy.
"Why do they call you Bleedin gums?"
"You go to the dentist right?"
"Yes"
"Not me."
Explain THIS
They broke the code!
Not if it's largely feature complete.
:)
If the first release was largely feature finished then you could call it beta.
and it's the inital relases so...
They always say that men do one task quicker, but women are better at handling multiple tasks.
As a result of this scientific study I say.
Macs are from Mars
Windows is from Venus!
The same way Sky Digital does here.
This row is about the following.
Sky will let you buy say, the subscription based Film Four if you only have a basic Sky sub.
Up till now the US cable providers would only let you buy something like Film Four if you had already subbed yourself to their premium group of chans. I.e - like Sky saying you could only buy Film Four if you were already subscribed to Sky Movies.
This has been rules illegal.
What it doesn't mean is that you can buy Sky Sports 3 without Sky Sports 1 (again a uk example). They're allowed to package channels like that all they like. It just means that they can't put conditions on you buying a channel that usually comes on it's own.
I'm not sure what they'd have done about the rise of the PC as a games machine. That was really in it's infancy in 94/95 when the Amiga really started to suffer. Civilisation and Sim City were about the height at that point.
But would the Amiga have had an answer to Playstaion? Or 3dfx?
Over time this tends toward programs that the user population wants to use
Actually over time it tends to result in programs the programming segment of the population wants to use.
It's the same effect that makes Linux wonderful for some but a huge barrier to others. The stuff that makes average Joe want it is not what the programmer will feel is worth programming.
This may of course be different if he's on staff, but that does tend to knacker the "Anyone, anywhere" bit.
Well kinda.
If they turn out ot be copy protected, back they go.
mmm...Sale of Goods act (UK)
Live in the UK. AOL isn't QUITE as huge and the Amiga had 8 very good years :)
True, but that was hoover's fault.
And my mother still calls her dyson "a hoover".
True, there will soon be as many Tivo brands as you care to name.
But people will still call them "Tivo"s.
It's like in the UK, every vacumn cleaner is usually referred to as a "hoover". Or in the US "Xerox".
You cannot buy that brand recognition. Assuming Tivo themselves don't screw up, they will have a healthy share of the PVR industry for a decade or more.
Notice also that revenue fell less than units.
i,e - in a recession they were putting prices UP!
Won't work in the UK.
Sale of goods act states goods "must be fit for the purpose sold". If it has the cd logo on, it must play in my CD logo Cd drive.
If it doesn't, back it goes for a refund.
original Nintendo Entertainment System was a fraction of the size everywhere else in the world as it was in the U.S
Nope, only in Asia was it small. The SNES however was much smaller elsewhere.
I don't know why, but it's definetly a lot less confusing a name.
Yes, instead of all those devices that can do a job now you can do 6 things!
1/6th as well as the component devices.
Depends how many jobs in America would be picked up by the commercial Linux sector.
Although aren't most of them european anyway?
That would be the point.
If it goes to 0 and you're not already chunky penut butter, you know you don't have working altimeters.
And isn't the name "Divx" a copyright?