How about streaming low quality videos for free, and paying for SD or HD quality. I guess the only problem with this is, low budget crappy movies would never get revenue, which they probably don't deserve anyway.
The thing about Piracy is, the people who pirate are not people who would have paid for it in the first place.
That's not true. People who downloaded High Definition movies to watch on their big screen TV do it to save them the cost of buying it. Someone might see a BluRay movie they want, but don't want to spend the cash getting it, or rather try downloading it first. If a person can't get the movie for free, but really wants it, they'll pay for it.
I bet some people who want to see this movie will wait till it's out on BluRay and download it, vs going to see at the cinema.
People do it because Trailers Suck! You can't tell a good movie by watch 1 minute of action. I don't like wasting my time to go watch a movie and have to leave half way through because it bored me to death!
I can vouch for that, I downloaded Tron Legacy (cam video). The quality was terrible but it got me interested to go see the movie at cinema. Problem is that these Trailers always make these movies look good, but suck when you go watch them. If it's a good movie, I'll go watch it on the big screen, or buy the Blueray, but I'd like to see what I'm paying for first.
The world today is very different than the world millions of years ago. There were a lot more trees back then, which provided more shade for the ground and more oxygen in the air. It's not Methane alone that is affecting the planet, it's ALL of the ABOVE!
Speech is just a convenient tool that we just happen to have; it could have been some other form of communication. Not every intelligent species in the universe is going to speak.
There is plenty of evidence of water in space, problem is whether it harbors life or can support life. As soon as we find life elsewhere, it will change everything we believe about life on earth. I can't wait for that day to come.
It may not happen today, or this year, but it will happen some day. As crazy as the world is today, and knowing the nature of humans, world destruction is coming.
It was fun when they first came out, but now it's just tiresome to see. Unless you have no life, I don't plan on spending years to get to level 50 so I can see everything in the game. Sorry Bethesda, I don't have time for an MMO.
I don't know where you get your figures from, but at our company, licensing fees are a huge deal. With hundreds of employees, licensing can far outcost any hardware we purchase. An increase in 30% license fee is an enormous jump. Our company pays very large annual license fees that cost nearly $100k,
Hopefully 4G will help alleviate some congestion, or come out with better video compressions. It's going to be a serious problem soon, with every TV / Blueray player with streaming capability. Just in my house alone, we stream video to several TVs.
Eventually it will come down to capping speed or total usage. I don't think the backbone infrastructure is designed to handle so much traffic, and I doubt Comcast is willing to spend millions on upgrading.
It doesn't work. You end up creating drag which expends energy to make energy, that's why its only used on braking systems. Same goes for putting a turbine on the roof, the drag costs more energy than the turbine can produce. Sorry, but there is no free energy unless you get it from the Sun.
People who are used to using iPads/iPhones, and Android Tablets/Phones are not going to jump over to BB. People are used to the apps they love with Apple or Google and I see no reason why they should switch. The company I work for can't live without the Apps they're used to, and I see nothing on RIM's app store that make people say "I need that!".
I've heard this argument so many times, I think it's posted a dozen times a year. I'm sure everyone knows why Linux isn't popular, we live in a Windows World! If the poster doesn't know this by now, he must be brand new to computers!
The total cost for one of these systems is going to be more than a cheap Netbook. At least with a Netbook I have storage to put an OS, lots of ports, Wifi built in, and much more. I've converted my old Acer Netbook into the playrooms HTPC, and it's small enough that it takes up very little space.
We use the word Time in the wrong sense when comparing to how it exists. Time for us is just a measurement from point A to point B. Time really is just the speed of motion, and our perception of that motion.
We don't live in a single Universe, we exist in a Multiverse, with an infinite number of Universes. Time also has no beginning, because there is no way for Time to start without Time already existing.
Too much thinking and not enough science is probably how religion got started. Man see's a lunar eclipse, tries to rationalize whats happening, other believe his story, religion is born. Hence; story of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.
But God and Religion are two different things. God could be interpreted many different ways, religion is a specific belief in ideas, most of which are obsolete non-sense, based on our understanding today.
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How about streaming low quality videos for free, and paying for SD or HD quality. I guess the only problem with this is, low budget crappy movies would never get revenue, which they probably don't deserve anyway.
The thing about Piracy is, the people who pirate are not people who would have paid for it in the first place.
That's not true. People who downloaded High Definition movies to watch on their big screen TV do it to save them the cost of buying it. Someone might see a BluRay movie they want, but don't want to spend the cash getting it, or rather try downloading it first. If a person can't get the movie for free, but really wants it, they'll pay for it. I bet some people who want to see this movie will wait till it's out on BluRay and download it, vs going to see at the cinema.
People do it because Trailers Suck! You can't tell a good movie by watch 1 minute of action. I don't like wasting my time to go watch a movie and have to leave half way through because it bored me to death!
I can vouch for that, I downloaded Tron Legacy (cam video). The quality was terrible but it got me interested to go see the movie at cinema. Problem is that these Trailers always make these movies look good, but suck when you go watch them. If it's a good movie, I'll go watch it on the big screen, or buy the Blueray, but I'd like to see what I'm paying for first.
Vibration could be a means of communication, haven't you seen Tremors?
The world today is very different than the world millions of years ago. There were a lot more trees back then, which provided more shade for the ground and more oxygen in the air. It's not Methane alone that is affecting the planet, it's ALL of the ABOVE!
Speech is just a convenient tool that we just happen to have; it could have been some other form of communication. Not every intelligent species in the universe is going to speak.
There is plenty of evidence of water in space, problem is whether it harbors life or can support life. As soon as we find life elsewhere, it will change everything we believe about life on earth. I can't wait for that day to come.
It may not happen today, or this year, but it will happen some day. As crazy as the world is today, and knowing the nature of humans, world destruction is coming.
It was fun when they first came out, but now it's just tiresome to see. Unless you have no life, I don't plan on spending years to get to level 50 so I can see everything in the game. Sorry Bethesda, I don't have time for an MMO.
I don't know where you get your figures from, but at our company, licensing fees are a huge deal. With hundreds of employees, licensing can far outcost any hardware we purchase. An increase in 30% license fee is an enormous jump. Our company pays very large annual license fees that cost nearly $100k,
from an already vulnerable economy. Maybe this will finally spur open source platforms such as Linux.
The amount of trouble it requires to get OTA channels, isn't worth it, unless you enjoy watching infomercials.
Hopefully 4G will help alleviate some congestion, or come out with better video compressions. It's going to be a serious problem soon, with every TV / Blueray player with streaming capability. Just in my house alone, we stream video to several TVs.
Eventually it will come down to capping speed or total usage. I don't think the backbone infrastructure is designed to handle so much traffic, and I doubt Comcast is willing to spend millions on upgrading.
It doesn't work. You end up creating drag which expends energy to make energy, that's why its only used on braking systems. Same goes for putting a turbine on the roof, the drag costs more energy than the turbine can produce. Sorry, but there is no free energy unless you get it from the Sun.
Maybe they can Eject the Core (Battery) to reduce weight in case of emergency.
People who are used to using iPads/iPhones, and Android Tablets/Phones are not going to jump over to BB. People are used to the apps they love with Apple or Google and I see no reason why they should switch. The company I work for can't live without the Apps they're used to, and I see nothing on RIM's app store that make people say "I need that!".
I've heard this argument so many times, I think it's posted a dozen times a year. I'm sure everyone knows why Linux isn't popular, we live in a Windows World! If the poster doesn't know this by now, he must be brand new to computers!
The total cost for one of these systems is going to be more than a cheap Netbook. At least with a Netbook I have storage to put an OS, lots of ports, Wifi built in, and much more. I've converted my old Acer Netbook into the playrooms HTPC, and it's small enough that it takes up very little space.
He should have downloaded the DVD arts from cdcovers.cc and make those DVD look a little more authentic.
We use the word Time in the wrong sense when comparing to how it exists. Time for us is just a measurement from point A to point B. Time really is just the speed of motion, and our perception of that motion.
We don't live in a single Universe, we exist in a Multiverse, with an infinite number of Universes. Time also has no beginning, because there is no way for Time to start without Time already existing.
Too much thinking and not enough science is probably how religion got started. Man see's a lunar eclipse, tries to rationalize whats happening, other believe his story, religion is born. Hence; story of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.
But God and Religion are two different things. God could be interpreted many different ways, religion is a specific belief in ideas, most of which are obsolete non-sense, based on our understanding today.