100 Mbps connections are becoming pretty cheap is some places. 30 euros a month here, no usage cap.
So yes, streaming a BD is definitely something I would consider streaming (in any direction) if there was a point to it. Because obviously it's easier to stream a rip of nearly equivalent quality (not a 720p one, please).
What I'd gladly have would be a streaming friendly P2P network. It always feels a waste to download a movie at 10 time its bitrate, yet not being able to watch it because of that tiny 128kb chunk missing in the first mb... And I'm pretty sure it's the same for whoever is benefiting of my upload.
When Spore was released, I downloaded the iso, mounted, installed, put the crack, et voila. Not a single different line from usual. Works like a charm.
Their aim is definitely to shot at the second-hand market.
The whole Wine idea is that you shouldn't need any 'tips or tricks' to run a program and that Wine should be able to simulate perfectly the chosen Windows platform. 'Bug fixing' being only avoiding regressions between versions.
Hence there isn't really a need for branching. The 1.0 version is only here to tell everyone how far they went, but there is really nothing particular with it. Any given application could have started to work in any older version.
Of course, after they will have reached the point where any Vista application can work flawlessly (as in 'like on Vista, bugs included'), then they may start to 'fix bugs' for real, that is build a strictly spec-compliant Win32 api platform. Using it would obviously break a lot of native applications, but could be the start of a real Wine/win32 platform to which developers could target
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100 Mbps connections are becoming pretty cheap is some places. 30 euros a month here, no usage cap.
So yes, streaming a BD is definitely something I would consider streaming (in any direction) if there was a point to it. Because obviously it's easier to stream a rip of nearly equivalent quality (not a 720p one, please).
What I'd gladly have would be a streaming friendly P2P network. It always feels a waste to download a movie at 10 time its bitrate, yet not being able to watch it because of that tiny 128kb chunk missing in the first mb... And I'm pretty sure it's the same for whoever is benefiting of my upload.
Easy: make it cheaper than the cheapest meat you can currently find in your average supermarket.
Pirated eBook: $0.00
# times you can loan: unlimited
# years you can own: unlimited
Resale value: $0.00
On the other hand, there's no real ethical or legal excuse for pirating something, simply because you don't like the price of it.
Maybe.
But we don't really need them, since there are plenty of ethical reasons to pirate something for the very sake of pirating.
My landline isn't powered any more, DSL signal only.
It would cost 10 euros a month to have it connected to the phone network/power grid.
Well, in 2009 the audio system is still a complete mess and the screen configuration (setting the resolution and multiscreen settings) not far behind.
So much true.
When Spore was released, I downloaded the iso, mounted, installed, put the crack, et voila. Not a single different line from usual. Works like a charm.
Their aim is definitely to shot at the second-hand market.
I don't care anymore, SSD will probably become cheaper than Blu-Ray in a few years.
...a Silverlightblock plugin.
The whole PC gaming industry would like to disagree.
The whole Wine idea is that you shouldn't need any 'tips or tricks' to run a program and that Wine should be able to simulate perfectly the chosen Windows platform. 'Bug fixing' being only avoiding regressions between versions.
Hence there isn't really a need for branching. The 1.0 version is only here to tell everyone how far they went, but there is really nothing particular with it. Any given application could have started to work in any older version.
Of course, after they will have reached the point where any Vista application can work flawlessly (as in 'like on Vista, bugs included'), then they may start to 'fix bugs' for real, that is build a strictly spec-compliant Win32 api platform. Using it would obviously break a lot of native applications, but could be the start of a real Wine/win32 platform to which developers could target
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