Not quite: the telephony equivalent would be for everyone to have their own area code.
While owning your domain is much more feasible on the internet (I have mine), what about the poor schmucks that have used their hotmail address for years, printed it everywhere, and are now dissatisfied with hotmail.
In a portability situation, any incoming mail sent to the hotmail server would just forward to the new mail server. In the current situation, they are are condemned to (semi-)manually checking their old email accounts.
There should be a legal mandate for email address portability. This is mandated for mobile phone and landline numbers (incoming calls are checked against a db then forwarded to the new operator), why not for email addresses ? Price of implementation in IT is orders of magnitude lower than prices in telco world.
DENNIS: Listen -- strange midgets flying in clouds distributing speculations is no basis for a system of communication. Supreme mobile experience derives from a mandate from the geeks, not from some farcical celestial ceremony.
Integration is overrated anyway. Why the heck should my console play films ? some generic codec playback can be in place to play generic stuff like DIVX, but why put an overdimensioned reader that won't be supported by games for said console anyway ?
Consoles have become bloated. Why buy a $500 console that will support flavour A of next gen format that will die in 2 years in favour or flavour B and otherwise will be a lousy first gen player when you could
1)Buy a "to-the-point" console (a naked 360 or a Wii) and a dedicated player. Each can fail without having to replace both. Price comparable. Still the problem on betting on the right horse. 2)Buy a "to-the-point" console, a $40 DVD player, and when it's available (and interesting contents has been released) a $50 flavour B player. Each can fail without having to replace both. Price much lower.
Nice, so, all the people that spent $$$$ on some HD-DVD player or Xbox attachment are going to be mighty pissed off, as they have once again, fallen into what I call the High-Def money pit, where you have to constantly buy some new gizmo because the holders of the DRM willy nilly decide to change things.
How many TVs were sold as HD-ready, only to not be? How many 720p sets or even 1080i sets still don't have an HDMI connection?
Format wars are for idiot that can't wait to buy see the last opus of Vin Diesel in higher def (think of it: good stuff is expensive, but old stuff is cheap even when good, so good stuff will only be released when there is a sufficient user base). Hint: you'll not see quality movies on HD before 2010 dipshit. That's when I *might* buy my BD player for 40
Format wars are for idiot that don't know that industry WANTS idiots to finance their R&D departments by buying overpriced prototypes. VHS vs V2000 vs Betamax. DCC vs MD. DVD-R vs DVD+R. Bluray vs HDDVD. When will these idiots learn ?
There are still people caring about Aerosmith ? Did someone ever hear of them since the release of the music for that comet movie ?
Arguably, Aerosmith was pop rock, a category of music audiophiles will never care about, if only because snobbery is mutually exclusive to popularity. Who cares if the original recordings are lost ?
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Not quite: the telephony equivalent would be for everyone to have their own area code.
While owning your domain is much more feasible on the internet (I have mine), what about the poor schmucks that have used their hotmail address for years, printed it everywhere, and are now dissatisfied with hotmail.
In a portability situation, any incoming mail sent to the hotmail server would just forward to the new mail server. In the current situation, they are are condemned to (semi-)manually checking their old email accounts.
There should be a legal mandate for email address portability. This is mandated for mobile phone and landline numbers (incoming calls are checked against a db then forwarded to the new operator), why not for email addresses ? Price of implementation in IT is orders of magnitude lower than prices in telco world.
Boohoo, there's a piece of paper telling who I am and where I live! I'm being repressed! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
...someone used the "film at 11" correctly today on Slashdot. News at 11.
(only the French will understand this reference)
There's no denying his contribution to hate and bigotry. Truly a national socialist icon.
You can't expect to wield supreme market domination just 'cause some ethereous gnomes threw a statement at you.
DENNIS: Listen -- strange midgets flying in clouds
distributing speculations is no basis for a system of communication. Supreme
mobile experience derives from a mandate from the geeks, not from some farcical
celestial ceremony.
Integration is overrated anyway. Why the heck should my console play films ? some generic codec playback can be in place to play generic stuff like DIVX, but why put an overdimensioned reader that won't be supported by games for said console anyway ?
Consoles have become bloated. Why buy a $500 console that will support flavour A of next gen format that will die in 2 years in favour or flavour B and otherwise will be a lousy first gen player when you could
1)Buy a "to-the-point" console (a naked 360 or a Wii) and a dedicated player. Each can fail without having to replace both. Price comparable. Still the problem on betting on the right horse.
2)Buy a "to-the-point" console, a $40 DVD player, and when it's available (and interesting contents has been released) a $50 flavour B player. Each can fail without having to replace both. Price much lower.
Format wars are for idiot that don't know that industry WANTS idiots to finance their R&D departments by buying overpriced prototypes. VHS vs V2000 vs Betamax. DCC vs MD. DVD-R vs DVD+R. Bluray vs HDDVD. When will these idiots learn ?
Could NOT care less!
Lossless allowed ?
There are still people caring about Aerosmith ? Did someone ever hear of them since the release of the music for that comet movie ?
Arguably, Aerosmith was pop rock, a category of music audiophiles will never care about, if only because snobbery is mutually exclusive to popularity. Who cares if the original recordings are lost ?