If we're gonna be pedantic, i would say the client and user torrent, the torrent gets read by the torrent client, and the files themselves get downloaded.
You can DL the videos from megavideo, I assume they'll play on Xbox360, but I am not sure about browsing and streaming. It is a flash player I believe.
would probably be worth it. Though lack of all networks, and lack of movies may make it less so.
Hulu (at $9.95/month for back seasons)+ netflix streaming, would greatly reduce my cost on newsgroups (though not as much as the cost). Netflix already does.
The Hulu streaming would be a no brainer to me honestly. I hope they do it.
Though lack of buffers, and download to take with me are a hindrance, legitimacy has value.
A legit one, with ads would be worth the price too. The industry needs to come up with a plan to: 1) make money 2) pay the people producing value 3) allow all you can eat monthly subscription for less than a cable bill
I am sure it is possible, but would require a total reworking of the system.
I would happily pay $20/month for access to what is on megavideo (room mate pays that much a quarter already, and I pay $.33/GB for usenet). If it were totally convenient (like mega video is), and legal, I would pay as much as $40. Mega video is better than cable, unless you like sports, or need to watch something sooner than 3-6 hours after it airs. It's like on-demand, without shitty slow menus to navigate.
And, since I am not sharing copies, not particularly illegal either.
I have a house with a similar system (just purchased).
My first house had an 80's correctly sized boiler with natural gas. It was a 1200 sq ft row home.
It cost me more to heat than my new home (both built 1928), with foam blown in and real attic insulation. The new home had a fifties, very oversized, oil boiler. The new home is 1400 sq ft, and both had similar windows (old windows with storm added). At the time gas vs oil was similar per/BTU.
1) smaller (less expensive) feature size on the chip 2) saved money put into extra ports and chips (Wifi, SD, USB, Bluetooth) 3) somewhat better graphics
Nintendo was smart, they used tech to save money and provide a marginal improvement in raw power and "extras" and standard features.
Additionally they used an inexpensive to make, but fairly modern accelerometers along with an interesting take on pointing.
The Wii-Mote (as a pointer) isn't the first gun add-on, but it is 1) inexpensive, 2) quite lag-free, and 3) fairly accurate
There is more to tech than pumping pixels, and physics. Nintendo decided the ideal way to go about it was to make a base unit that was affordable and had extras come standard.
Also, the wii-mote + nunchuck is a great controller. If only more games would focus on buttons instead of waggles (a lot of games would make do with the 4 buttons that are easy to reach IMO)
It's not that there is a huge quantity of wang, it is simply that the secret wankers are nexted very quickly.
My 20 minute conversation pulls a random aussie out of rotation for over 100 times as long as I pull a secret wanker out of the running (ten seconds tops if the screen loads slowly).
This leads to the secret wankers being very over-represented. If 1/3 of the shots are wankers, that's about.3% being wankers.
Well, the Android phones have been having quite an impact in the market recently. The big benefit of "being able to run the network you want rather than what Steve Jobs says you can run" seems to speak to people, since that's the major thing Android has going for it that the iPhone doesn't.
Apple went with the provider that paid them $400 / handset, and used frequencies that made it easy for them to use the same hardware on both sides of the ocean. It is worth noting, that suing this model they essentially sold a subsidized phone for $500+, this was a massive amount of money. In exchange they limited there customers to a point, I would be willing to be, that in a different universe, where the iPhonewas available on all US networks, there would be no Android.
Apple would have given up a lot of money for a while though (about $100 - $200/phone bringing it down to a typical phone subsidy from the $400 they get from AT&T).
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If we're gonna be pedantic, i would say the client and user torrent, the torrent gets read by the torrent client, and the files themselves get downloaded.
You can DL the videos from megavideo, I assume they'll play on Xbox360, but I am not sure about browsing and streaming. It is a flash player I believe.
Like Hulu, yes.
The issues with Hulu though are:
catalog size, buffering, and portability.
Megavideo allows all of these, the third probably being a non-starter for the industry, but not as big a deal.
Hulu is a great start though, and the first place to look for something.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20007215-93.html
would probably be worth it. Though lack of all networks, and lack of movies may make it less so.
Hulu (at $9.95/month for back seasons)+ netflix streaming, would greatly reduce my cost on newsgroups (though not as much as the cost). Netflix already does.
The Hulu streaming would be a no brainer to me honestly. I hope they do it.
Though lack of buffers, and download to take with me are a hindrance, legitimacy has value.
Fair enough.
I took the post I was responding to, to suggest torrenting a DVD you purchased was legal.
But unless you are purely leaching it is most definitely not.
There is nothing inherently wrong, immoral or illegal about filesharing
there is absolutely something inherently illegal about it.
Yeah, Mega Video is way worth the price.
A legit one, with ads would be worth the price too. The industry needs to come up with a plan to:
1) make money
2) pay the people producing value
3) allow all you can eat monthly subscription for less than a cable bill
I am sure it is possible, but would require a total reworking of the system.
I would happily pay $20/month for access to what is on megavideo (room mate pays that much a quarter already, and I pay $.33/GB for usenet). If it were totally convenient (like mega video is), and legal, I would pay as much as $40. Mega video is better than cable, unless you like sports, or need to watch something sooner than 3-6 hours after it airs. It's like on-demand, without shitty slow menus to navigate.
And, since I am not sharing copies, not particularly illegal either.
I don't know. I've noticed a lot of companies offer apps to their content as a way to control it. Note, not blaming apple.
Epic typo.
It cost me more to heat the old home, with far less exterior wall (row home), than the new one.
Jeez I can be stupid.
Didn't one of them say after a school shooting something along the lines of:
I where fucking clown make-up, I'm sorry I was taken seriously, but that should be a hint
Isn't that how the iPhone works?
I have a house with a similar system (just purchased).
My first house had an 80's correctly sized boiler with natural gas. It was a 1200 sq ft row home.
It cost me more to heat than my new home (both built 1928), with foam blown in and real attic insulation. The new home had a fifties, very oversized, oil boiler. The new home is 1400 sq ft, and both had similar windows (old windows with storm added). At the time gas vs oil was similar per/BTU.
Wouldn't be more fair to say who was doing such when Christianity was a 1400 year old religion?
http://flock.com/faq/show/30#q_9069
they did, and it didn't get enough use,
for version 3 it is no longer a priority.
Stylus FTW.
Not the same hardware:
1) smaller (less expensive) feature size on the chip
2) saved money put into extra ports and chips (Wifi, SD, USB, Bluetooth)
3) somewhat better graphics
Nintendo was smart, they used tech to save money and provide a marginal improvement in raw power and "extras" and standard features.
Additionally they used an inexpensive to make, but fairly modern accelerometers along with an interesting take on pointing.
The Wii-Mote (as a pointer) isn't the first gun add-on, but it is 1) inexpensive, 2) quite lag-free, and 3) fairly accurate
There is more to tech than pumping pixels, and physics. Nintendo decided the ideal way to go about it was to make a base unit that was affordable and had extras come standard.
Also, the wii-mote + nunchuck is a great controller. If only more games would focus on buttons instead of waggles (a lot of games would make do with the 4 buttons that are easy to reach IMO)
I think in a gaming discussion it is appropriate without expanding.
New Super Mario Brothers Wii
I bet it could work as well outside of the visible spectrum though.
I can agree with the motion controls, but I like 2 things about the Wii controllers a lot
1) the cord allowing me to hold the 2 halves of the controller relaxed and apart
2) pointing is useful for some things
That said, I would prefer a game that made use of buttons over motion control for most things.
Doubtful,
It's not that there is a huge quantity of wang, it is simply that the secret wankers are nexted very quickly.
My 20 minute conversation pulls a random aussie out of rotation for over 100 times as long as I pull a secret wanker out of the running (ten seconds tops if the screen loads slowly).
This leads to the secret wankers being very over-represented. If 1/3 of the shots are wankers, that's about .3% being wankers.
Today's kids can't read or write worth a damn.
My friend's 9 year old daughter has a theory on that. She says "If they taught English at school, my classmates would be able to speak correctly"
Worth noting, they teach "Language Arts" not "English".
who's going to pay my social security if we have a one child policy?
isn't this WAY outpacing the cumulative spilling in Nigeria (as in 2 years worth every month)?
Well, the Android phones have been having quite an impact in the market recently. The big benefit of "being able to run the network you want rather than what Steve Jobs says you can run" seems to speak to people, since that's the major thing Android has going for it that the iPhone doesn't.
Apple went with the provider that paid them $400 / handset, and used frequencies that made it easy for them to use the same hardware on both sides of the ocean. It is worth noting, that suing this model they essentially sold a subsidized phone for $500+, this was a massive amount of money. In exchange they limited there customers to a point, I would be willing to be, that in a different universe, where the iPhonewas available on all US networks, there would be no Android.
Apple would have given up a lot of money for a while though (about $100 - $200/phone bringing it down to a typical phone subsidy from the $400 they get from AT&T).
No, simply one where the finished game was released.
The articles about the demise appear to hint that twice it was almost released, and quite awesome.
And honestly, if you're that concerned about scalability, you're not going to be using PHP.
I know that it isn't always the smoothest, but Facebook is PHP, and is pretty fricken huge.