I agree, not everyone can afford high-bandwidth connections to the Internet. Also, not everyone wants to watch a film on a computer / media centre PC for example people who just aren't all that tech savvy (they'll always be people who just can't do technology - my mum for example wouldn't be able to access movies from my computer and it doesn't matter how easy it is, she can't even work the DVD player).
If content is all stored on hard drives and not on media where you can just go out and buy it, it will leave those without the high speed connections or the ability to access the technology from accessing new content.
I thought Windows, OS X, Linux GUIs were supposed to be intuative. You don't really need much training to know how to work a word processor. Isn't Microsoft striving for usability? Isn't that the goal of GUI designers. If they aren't accessable without lots of training then the UI designers need to go back and actually do what they're paid for.
I believe that's the University of Essex in the UK - we went on a tour there to see their robotics dept. The helicopter is hovering above their powerd floor so that robots can re-charge whilst on the floor (that's how I could tell it was the UK Essex)
Pretty cool idea though - wish I'd gone to that campus now instead of the Southend one.
Could this also be because OSX work so well together and with Tiger coming out, burst the bubble a bit. If people start using this as opposed to PDFs one of the (many) cool features of OSX will be obsolete.
Or that was my first thought when I saw the headline anyway.
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That would probably be becasue it's most likely paid for by the licence fee.
So your friends would play and you'd just sit and WATCH them play? Who's wasting time?
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I agree, not everyone can afford high-bandwidth connections to the Internet. Also, not everyone wants to watch a film on a computer / media centre PC for example people who just aren't all that tech savvy (they'll always be people who just can't do technology - my mum for example wouldn't be able to access movies from my computer and it doesn't matter how easy it is, she can't even work the DVD player).
If content is all stored on hard drives and not on media where you can just go out and buy it, it will leave those without the high speed connections or the ability to access the technology from accessing new content.
I thought Windows, OS X, Linux GUIs were supposed to be intuative. You don't really need much training to know how to work a word processor. Isn't Microsoft striving for usability? Isn't that the goal of GUI designers. If they aren't accessable without lots of training then the UI designers need to go back and actually do what they're paid for.
Or is it just me?
As someone who lives in England I find this quite interesting as I've never had to swear an oath to the Queen in my life.
But then I've never wanted to work in Government or the Army so maybe that's the difference.
From here in England it seems like the British Empire can be anywhere else except here (e.g. Canada, Australia etc).
I believe that's the University of Essex in the UK - we went on a tour there to see their robotics dept. The helicopter is hovering above their powerd floor so that robots can re-charge whilst on the floor (that's how I could tell it was the UK Essex)
Pretty cool idea though - wish I'd gone to that campus now instead of the Southend one.
Oh well...
Could this also be because OSX work so well together and with Tiger coming out, burst the bubble a bit. If people start using this as opposed to PDFs one of the (many) cool features of OSX will be obsolete.
Or that was my first thought when I saw the headline anyway.