most people (like me) who live in London are a little bit annoyed at having to pay £1200 extra per year to drive in our own city, but accept it as a necessary evil. i live 1 mile outside the charging zone - it can take 45 minutes to travel 3 miles across town during a bad day.
we already have speed + traffic cameras at many sets of traffic lights, and security roadblocks in the central business district (the City) for the past 8 years have meant that people here are cool/used to the invasion of privacy..
like many cities, the traffic in London is very bad during school months at school times - around 4pm every day, as all the mums + dads pick up their 6 year old in a huge four-wheel drive, London grinds to a halt. there should be strict car-sharing rules around schools, would soon solve the problem. for some reason, we've never quite got our heads round the idea of School Buses either...
there is a commercial product in the uk that does this. very cool. little in-car gps, and a database of where all the speed cameras are in the uk. warns you when you're approaching a camera area.
the movie industry has just watched the music industry lose, badly. the only thing that saves Hollywood at the moment is the lack of generally available cheap broadband.
what frustrates me is how stupid these industries are. if they thought creatively, there are plenty of new (valid, fair, reasonable, profitable) ways to make money in a world where almost all media can be shared online anyway. I can think of lots of examples where I would be happy to pay for some kinds of content online, but in a world where all the media and its players was largely open.
People are not going to steadily "forget" that they can share mp3s over the internet, or download films and watch them, whilst geeks create copy protection schemes for the studios to use.
Its too late. Battle lost. Why are they so stupid?
the Vaios are awful. I have lots of Sony audio & video gear at home, very happy with it. But every time Sony goes near laptops, they just don't seem to get it right.
weird size, cheap feeling, yuck colour, fragile, unreliable.
I saw so many broken Vaios last year.
It puzzles me why Sony can't make this stuff.
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most people (like me) who live in London are a little bit annoyed at having to pay £1200 extra per year to drive in our own city, but accept it as a necessary evil. i live 1 mile outside the charging zone - it can take 45 minutes to travel 3 miles across town during a bad day.
we already have speed + traffic cameras at many sets of traffic lights, and security roadblocks in the central business district (the City) for the past 8 years have meant that people here are cool/used to the invasion of privacy..
like many cities, the traffic in London is very bad during school months at school times - around 4pm every day, as all the mums + dads pick up their 6 year old in a huge four-wheel drive, London grinds to a halt. there should be strict car-sharing rules around schools, would soon solve the problem. for some reason, we've never quite got our heads round the idea of School Buses either...
there is a commercial product in the uk that does this. very cool. little in-car gps, and a database of where all the speed cameras are in the uk. warns you when you're approaching a camera area.
the movie industry has just watched the music industry lose, badly. the only thing that saves Hollywood at the moment is the lack of generally available cheap broadband.
what frustrates me is how stupid these industries are. if they thought creatively, there are plenty of new (valid, fair, reasonable, profitable) ways to make money in a world where almost all media can be shared online anyway. I can think of lots of examples where I would be happy to pay for some kinds of content online, but in a world where all the media and its players was largely open.
People are not going to steadily "forget" that they can share mp3s over the internet, or download films and watch them, whilst geeks create copy protection schemes for the studios to use.
Its too late. Battle lost. Why are they so stupid?
the Vaios are awful. I have lots of Sony audio & video gear at home, very happy with it. But every time Sony goes near laptops, they just don't seem to get it right. weird size, cheap feeling, yuck colour, fragile, unreliable. I saw so many broken Vaios last year. It puzzles me why Sony can't make this stuff.