The only thing stopping me from buying one of these E-ink readers is the fact they only render in shades of gray. Sure that's perfectly fine for reading a novel or even newspapers but if you are reading a book about photography for example, well unless the book is about B&W photography you are kind of missing out on the whole point...
In Canada they just launched this service which uses the 1X network to monitor your home. It's much more advanced than classic alarm system because you can also self-monitor over the Internet, get paged/IM's/texted/emailed when something happens in the house etc. It also supports motion activated cameras that send pictures to your web account. I'm sure a similar service must exist in the US. Bottom line is this will work even if you're on VoIP... Oh, and no I'm not affiliated with them, I just thought it was relevant to the discussion. I have not tried them myself but will consider them when my current contract expires.
Toshiba HD players come with 3 free movies (yes three, it's not a typo) and the XBOX-360 add-on comes with one (King-Kong) so this is pretty much a moot point.
Porn is only but one factor in who will win the format war. In the early 80's porn really made a difference in the Beta vs. VHS war because there was such a large demand for people to be able to enjoy porn in the comfort of their own homes. That was a huge driver and made a difference in VHS toppling Beta.
Fast-forward to today, does anybody think that the driver for HD Porn is as strong as being able to watch porn in your own house back then? It's not... So even though porn may be a factor in the blu-ray vs. HD-DVD war, it certainly won't play as big as a role as it did back int he 80's when it was Beta vs. VHS.
All these porn studios won't be able to ignore the millions of PS3's out there for long if there is in deed a market for this kind of stuff so in the end, like Vivid, they will find a way to bring porn to Blu-Ray if they have a chance of making a profit that way.
It's worth noting as well that Toshiba HD-DVD players come with a voucher for 3 free movies and the XBOX-360 HD-DVD add-on bundles the King-Kong movie...
the fact of the matter is that HD-DVD being cracked means studios will shy away from it, even more than today (BD has waaay more sudio support as it is). As far as I'm concerned this seals HD-DVD's fate. Blu-Ray will win, will be eventually cracked and we'll all be happy.
"Sony has convinced you that you *need* blu-ray..and it's just not true."
That depends... I actually bought a PS3 almost solely for watching Blu-Ray movies. If you look around, the 20G PS3 is actually the best high definition DVD player for the money. It's even cheaper than standalone players that won't do a fraction of what the PS3 can do. I know the 360 has an add-on but the lack of HDMI output was a deal-breaker for me. For someone who doesn't need/want HDMI then the 360 + add-on is also a very attractive option.
Now I just need to sit tight and hope Sony's format wins...:-)
I don't care if the system is not perfect. Enough with the conspiracy theories, this is Canada we are talking about not some totalitarian country. If this system can stop just one person accessing kiddy porn that is not technically savvy enough to bypass the system than I am all for it. This is child porn we are talking about remember, every little bit helps.
The CRTC, with their infinite wisdom, only want to price regulate the incumbent phone companies to prevent them from squashing competition from smaller players.
The issue I see with this is that those "other players" are basically huge multi billion dollar cable companies. Don't kid yourself, the CRTC WANTS to see Bell and Telus loose a good chunck of their business and then they might lift their regulation stronghold.
Personally I think it's not a good idea to regulate any form of Internet based technology for the sake of innovation but hey I'm sure those so called governmental experts over at the CRTC knows better...
I find it amusing to see these companies invest millions in technology and licensing to fight a battle they know they are not going to be able to win.
All it takes is one person to circumvent the protection (we all know how good macrovision has been in the past...) or to have access to source material to distribute it to millions using P2P.
They need to change their business model, give us what we want (DRM free mp3 or similar) for a reasonable price or eventually suffer the inevitable... (which could be a good thing too, the music industry reborn)
The idea is great, the technology is there but it's going to take a social shift for people to start using video phones. Until then they will be a novelty...
I work from home a lot... I can just picture myself using a video phone in the morning when I'm still weraing my sweats and I haven't showered or shaved. Yeah right...
This could get interesting if H/W manufacturers eventually start producing specialized hardware to run XORP.
The issue right now is that higher end router gear runs on specialized hardware like ASICS etc. You can not get that kind of performance from general use CPUs...
MacOS is already superior ro Windows IMHO. And powerful x86 hardware is already much cheaper if you insist on running Windows. I don't see any incentive here... Didn't Microsft use to have an old version of NT that ran on the Alpha before?
I wish Apple would fix the gaps between songs issue in albums where the music is supposed to seamelessly go from one song to the next (a lot of it in Pink Floyd, classical stuff etc.).
I mean, this is supposed to be the best portable player in the world isn't it? Am I the only one that find this unacceptable?
People spamming just to be turned in, doing a bit of jail time or paying fines or whatever (after all it's not like you killed someone or stole anything etc.) and then splitting the bounty with whoever turned them in.
So how do you explain Canada being ranked 2nd then? I live here (in Canada) and our infrastructures are definitely not goverment subsidized. Bell Canada, Telus, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable and Videotron (the main players in broadband access) are all privately owned companies.
One thing I noticed when looking at the graph from the OECD website is that cable modems seem to falling behind as the broadband connection of choice except in the US and a few other countries. Canada is about half and hald and the rest of the world is mostly using DSL...
If you traceroute to their IP you will notice that the webserver is in Montreal. Since the store is physically in Toronto chances are that they are just using a Montreal-based hosting company which happens to use Windows...
Maybe for the convenience of not having to go through 10 files to get one that works, that has proper tags in place, that have recording volumes that are the same from song to song, for the consistent ripping quality etc.
Of course napster.ca offers all of these for a price but their files won't play on my iPOD so I am stuck waiting for iTunes Canada if that ever happens...
All of these apocalyptic arguments about the Internet going down etc. would be moot...
Then again one has to wonder how Cisco would have created their empire if their code would have been open sourced. A lot of their business is not only selling H/W but ISO features.
According to my Cisco rep. There will be a SIP image for the 7920 out in the summmer. I have a 7920 at work and it's really a sweet phone... Having a SIP image available will be a bonus (it should then work really well with Asterisk, the open source IP PBX).
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The only thing stopping me from buying one of these E-ink readers is the fact they only render in shades of gray. Sure that's perfectly fine for reading a novel or even newspapers but if you are reading a book about photography for example, well unless the book is about B&W photography you are kind of missing out on the whole point...
In Canada they just launched this service which uses the 1X network to monitor your home. It's much more advanced than classic alarm system because you can also self-monitor over the Internet, get paged/IM's/texted/emailed when something happens in the house etc. It also supports motion activated cameras that send pictures to your web account. I'm sure a similar service must exist in the US. Bottom line is this will work even if you're on VoIP... Oh, and no I'm not affiliated with them, I just thought it was relevant to the discussion. I have not tried them myself but will consider them when my current contract expires.
Toshiba HD players come with 3 free movies (yes three, it's not a typo) and the XBOX-360 add-on comes with one (King-Kong) so this is pretty much a moot point.
Porn is only but one factor in who will win the format war. In the early 80's porn really made a difference in the Beta vs. VHS war because there was such a large demand for people to be able to enjoy porn in the comfort of their own homes. That was a huge driver and made a difference in VHS toppling Beta.
Fast-forward to today, does anybody think that the driver for HD Porn is as strong as being able to watch porn in your own house back then? It's not... So even though porn may be a factor in the blu-ray vs. HD-DVD war, it certainly won't play as big as a role as it did back int he 80's when it was Beta vs. VHS.
All these porn studios won't be able to ignore the millions of PS3's out there for long if there is in deed a market for this kind of stuff so in the end, like Vivid, they will find a way to bring porn to Blu-Ray if they have a chance of making a profit that way.
It's worth noting as well that Toshiba HD-DVD players come with a voucher for 3 free movies and the XBOX-360 HD-DVD add-on bundles the King-Kong movie...
These rootkit allusions are getting really old...
the fact of the matter is that HD-DVD being cracked means studios will shy away from it, even more than today (BD has waaay more sudio support as it is). As far as I'm concerned this seals HD-DVD's fate. Blu-Ray will win, will be eventually cracked and we'll all be happy.
"Sony has convinced you that you *need* blu-ray..and it's just not true."
:-)
That depends... I actually bought a PS3 almost solely for watching Blu-Ray movies. If you look around, the 20G PS3 is actually the best high definition DVD player for the money. It's even cheaper than standalone players that won't do a fraction of what the PS3 can do. I know the 360 has an add-on but the lack of HDMI output was a deal-breaker for me. For someone who doesn't need/want HDMI then the 360 + add-on is also a very attractive option.
Now I just need to sit tight and hope Sony's format wins...
I don't care if the system is not perfect. Enough with the conspiracy theories, this is Canada we are talking about not some totalitarian country. If this system can stop just one person accessing kiddy porn that is not technically savvy enough to bypass the system than I am all for it. This is child porn we are talking about remember, every little bit helps.
Ouch!
What a totally biased review... According to this, Apple should just raise the white flag now and give up.... Yeah rrrright!
RTFA...
The CRTC, with their infinite wisdom, only want to price regulate the incumbent phone companies to prevent them from squashing competition from smaller players.
The issue I see with this is that those "other players" are basically huge multi billion dollar cable companies. Don't kid yourself, the CRTC WANTS to see Bell and Telus loose a good chunck of their business and then they might lift their regulation stronghold.
Personally I think it's not a good idea to regulate any form of Internet based technology for the sake of innovation but hey I'm sure those so called governmental experts over at the CRTC knows better...
Well my point is that you only need *one* person to do this to then distribute a clean copy to the world using P2P technology or the like...
I find it amusing to see these companies invest millions in technology and licensing to fight a battle they know they are not going to be able to win.
All it takes is one person to circumvent the protection (we all know how good macrovision has been in the past...) or to have access to source material to distribute it to millions using P2P.
They need to change their business model, give us what we want (DRM free mp3 or similar) for a reasonable price or eventually suffer the inevitable... (which could be a good thing too, the music industry reborn)
The idea is great, the technology is there but it's going to take a social shift for people to start using video phones. Until then they will be a novelty...
I work from home a lot... I can just picture myself using a video phone in the morning when I'm still weraing my sweats and I haven't showered or shaved. Yeah right...
This could get interesting if H/W manufacturers eventually start producing specialized hardware to run XORP.
The issue right now is that higher end router gear runs on specialized hardware like ASICS etc. You can not get that kind of performance from general use CPUs...
MacOS is already superior ro Windows IMHO. And powerful x86 hardware is already much cheaper if you insist on running Windows. I don't see any incentive here... Didn't Microsft use to have an old version of NT that ran on the Alpha before?
I wish Apple would fix the gaps between songs issue in albums where the music is supposed to seamelessly go from one song to the next (a lot of it in Pink Floyd, classical stuff etc.).
I mean, this is supposed to be the best portable player in the world isn't it? Am I the only one that find this unacceptable?
People spamming just to be turned in, doing a bit of jail time or paying fines or whatever (after all it's not like you killed someone or stole anything etc.) and then splitting the bounty with whoever turned them in.
I smell a scam...
So how do you explain Canada being ranked 2nd then? I live here (in Canada) and our infrastructures are definitely not goverment subsidized. Bell Canada, Telus, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable and Videotron (the main players in broadband access) are all privately owned companies.
One thing I noticed when looking at the graph from the OECD website is that cable modems seem to falling behind as the broadband connection of choice except in the US and a few other countries. Canada is about half and hald and the rest of the world is mostly using DSL...
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If you traceroute to their IP you will notice that the webserver is in Montreal. Since the store is physically in Toronto chances are that they are just using a Montreal-based hosting company which happens to use Windows...
Maybe for the convenience of not having to go through 10 files to get one that works, that has proper tags in place, that have recording volumes that are the same from song to song, for the consistent ripping quality etc.
Of course napster.ca offers all of these for a price but their files won't play on my iPOD so I am stuck waiting for iTunes Canada if that ever happens...
All of these apocalyptic arguments about the Internet going down etc. would be moot...
Then again one has to wonder how Cisco would have created their empire if their code would have been open sourced. A lot of their business is not only selling H/W but ISO features.
According to my Cisco rep. There will be a SIP image for the 7920 out in the summmer. I have a 7920 at work and it's really a sweet phone... Having a SIP image available will be a bonus (it should then work really well with Asterisk, the open source IP PBX).