If they carry on like this I can't help but wonder how long it will be before Microsoft (and possibly AOL) offer their own competing DNS services. (Indeed MS could well have this in mind as a future part of their.NET strategy).
(Yes, I know about some of the other alternative registrars but they are small and (unfortunately) don't have the brand recognition for the non tech-savvy to use them.)
There were more than two viewpoints. You missed the middle sequence.
As you say, first viepoint was of dodgy looking skinhead running towards businessman, it looks like a mugging about to happen.
Next set of shots show a car (not visible from previous angle) with some dodgy looking geezers in it, slowing to a halt at a junction, next to skinhead walking along pavement (pavement=sidewalk). Skinhead starts running away from car.
Final sequence, skinhead running towards businessman walking past building site. Some heavy building material is just falling down from above, skinhead grabs businessman pulls him out of the way.
An excellent advert.
>>I guess with this technology in place, computer-controlled lasers would have taken out >>the rescuer before he could act:)
But of course. Think of all the starving lawyers who could have made a tidy packet out of suing the building site. (Won't some think of the children^H^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers !)
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Apple PDA?
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>>So what can apple offer to this world that
>>would entice me to drop my palm-pilot for
>>their peoduct?
It was a LORRY driver who was composing a text message while driving. He failed to see a car in front of him, smashed into it at high speed, killing the guy in the car. Having caused a fatal crash he then completed his text message (it was the text message being sent that got him caught). Presumably he must have sent the text message before calling for an ambulance ! (since most phones won't let you make a call in mid-text-message-compose, and then revert to the message where you left off.)
Nice guy huh ! Drives unsafely, killing someone (not that he would have known whether they were dead, dying or very seriously injured), then completes his text message before calling for an ambulance !
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(and slashdot made me wait before I could add this amendment ! (more grrr...))
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Come on moderators. Take the above AC up from 1.
It is very important to always be aware of Sony's huge interest in TV/Film/Media as well as their harware. Because if they get enough content-controlled hardware out there, then they will have won near total control.
Remember minidisc - IIRC if you record your *OWN* music (obviously using the analogue inputs) then it marks the digital copy as copy-protected - and wont let you make copies - *****of your own music to which you own **ALL** the rights******.
Of course they dont advertise this, you only get to find it out later, when it bites you!
From the above AC's comments, it looks they are doing much the same sort of stuff with their MP3 players.
So why should we expect any different from their TV/video devices.
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If they carry on like this I can't help but wonder how long .NET strategy).
it will be before Microsoft (and possibly AOL) offer their own
competing DNS services. (Indeed MS could well have this in
mind as a future part of their
(Yes, I know about some of the other alternative registrars
but they are small and (unfortunately) don't have the brand
recognition for the non tech-savvy to use them.)
A slight correction...(enhancement?)
:)
There were more than two viewpoints. You missed the middle sequence.
As you say, first viepoint was of dodgy looking skinhead running towards businessman,
it looks like a mugging about to happen.
Next set of shots show a car (not visible from previous angle) with some dodgy looking
geezers in it, slowing to a halt at a junction, next to skinhead walking along pavement
(pavement=sidewalk). Skinhead starts running away from car.
Final sequence, skinhead running towards businessman walking past building site.
Some heavy building material is just falling down from above, skinhead grabs businessman
pulls him out of the way.
An excellent advert.
>>I guess with this technology in place, computer-controlled lasers would have taken out
>>the rescuer before he could act
But of course. Think of all the starving lawyers who could have made a tidy packet out of
suing the building site. (Won't some think of the children^H^H^H^H^H^Hlawyers !)
>>So what can apple offer to this world that
:-) :-)
>>would entice me to drop my palm-pilot for
>>their peoduct?
A spell checker, perhaps ?
Not quite.
It was a LORRY driver who was composing a text message while driving. He failed to see a car in front of him, smashed into it at high speed, killing the guy in the car. Having caused a fatal crash he then completed his text message (it was the text message being sent that got him caught). Presumably he must have sent the text message before calling for an ambulance ! (since most phones won't let you make a call in mid-text-message-compose, and then revert to the message where you left off.)
Nice guy huh ! Drives unsafely, killing someone (not that he would have known whether they were dead, dying or very seriously injured), then completes his text message before calling for an ambulance !
previous title was truncated (grr..)
(and slashdot made me wait before I could add this amendment ! (more grrr...))
Come on moderators. Take the above AC up from 1. It is very important to always be aware of Sony's huge interest in TV/Film/Media as well as their harware. Because if they get enough content-controlled hardware out there, then they will have won near total control. Remember minidisc - IIRC if you record your *OWN* music (obviously using the analogue inputs) then it marks the digital copy as copy-protected - and wont let you make copies - *****of your own music to which you own **ALL** the rights******. Of course they dont advertise this, you only get to find it out later, when it bites you! From the above AC's comments, it looks they are doing much the same sort of stuff with their MP3 players. So why should we expect any different from their TV/video devices.