What about bit depth? A bazillion pixels is all well and good, but I still find it frustrating that those pixels are limited to 256 grey levels. What would it take to bump displays up an extra couple of bits per channel? Or even doubling them? I think the visual improvement from HDR would trump that of higher pixel density, at least in the things that matter to me (games and movies).
Perhaps we need some new language to describe what they are actually doing, but Unlimited is not it.
You could call it the Fricative model. Flow is restricted but never Stops.
By the way, my experience here in Australia is that they say it's "capped, but we'll throttle if you go over" as opposed to the other, which is "capped, but we'll charge your for excess". I don't recall ever seeing an "unlimited" plan here.
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What about bit depth? A bazillion pixels is all well and good, but I still find it frustrating that those pixels are limited to 256 grey levels. What would it take to bump displays up an extra couple of bits per channel? Or even doubling them? I think the visual improvement from HDR would trump that of higher pixel density, at least in the things that matter to me (games and movies).
Oh, that's right, this was posted on /. a few years ago: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/04/29/1516231/a-touch-screen-with-morphing-buttons
Heh, same thing was reported on by the same site as the current FA: http://singularityhub.com/2009/08/20/a-flexible-touch-screen-changes-surface-to-match-display/
The Matrix is sort of the opposite -- a technological perpetuation of sociological problems. I was thinking more along the lines of Terminator.
Perhaps we need some new language to describe what they are actually doing, but Unlimited is not it.
You could call it the Fricative model. Flow is restricted but never Stops. By the way, my experience here in Australia is that they say it's "capped, but we'll throttle if you go over" as opposed to the other, which is "capped, but we'll charge your for excess". I don't recall ever seeing an "unlimited" plan here.