wow, free telephone service and all we haveto do is have ads! what will they think of next? How about a TV service like HBO, but free! with commercial interruption to support it!
or maybe it'lll work like AdSense, and whatever your talking about on the telephone will be interrupted with "directed advertising" delivering only advertisments relating to your conversation!
With the way cable is transmitted, there really isn't any reason why I can't order 10 cable cards, 1 for each of my TVs and subscribe to full cable service. Then just sell/rent the cards out to my neighbors (or anybody on the same node as me) for $20/month and turn a decent profit.
I'v seen it done with satellite and digital cable boxes, maybe cable cards as well?
Sure Sirius already has it, and Sirius costs more. The way i see it, XM gives you the option of wheather or not to take the streaming. I prefer many of the free shoutcast stations available, but I do as well often use my XM boombox to listen in the house.
It all comes down to options, XM lets you decide wheather or not you need streaming audio. I don't need it, but there are many that might.
Also, XM really dosen't have commercials, it has the occasional "station identifier" on the music channels, but no commercials. The talk radio channels do have commecrials, but many of these channels are syndicated radio shows that leave space for the FM stations to have commecials. XM has to fill these spaces with something, and it's only sometimes commercials.
I call BS on this one, There is no way the telco is expected to keep every single line ever installed live. Think of all the old BBS lines that were installed years ago, do you really expect all those lines to remain active?
If your really sure about this, maybe you should start a class-action against every telco in north america.
HEY! you can't have XM radio here in Canada! Seems people are more concerned about the recording software then they are about this guy using American sat. service in Canada. Apparantly, even paid subscription to American satellite service in Canada is illegal.
(And no, that's not an XM antenna on the roof of my car...:P )
I think there is actually a mod out there to add either a coaxial or optical connector to your XM, though i think someone might have already posted about that...
This could take some time....
With that much space, some sortof continuous defrag would be needed or the allocation table would be just way too big. the cluster size would be massive compared with modern drives as well...
With memory prices now, it could have some extreme caching on it that would help both of these things out.
Would something like this work in a very high altitude, Where the Oxygen is a little more thin? I know gasoline engines have some trouble operating at high altitude. I suppose you would haveto go quite high up for it to be a problem.
Just a thought...
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or maybe it'lll work like AdSense, and whatever your talking about on the telephone will be interrupted with "directed advertising" delivering only advertisments relating to your conversation!
I'v seen it done with satellite and digital cable boxes, maybe cable cards as well?
I can get one delivered in about 30 minutes... even comes with a pizza!
I dunno about you, but I'd rather she hit me with a Segway then a car...
A satellite/wi-fi booth seems cool, but somehow lacks something the old wired booth had.
It all comes down to options, XM lets you decide wheather or not you need streaming audio. I don't need it, but there are many that might.
Also, XM really dosen't have commercials, it has the occasional "station identifier" on the music channels, but no commercials. The talk radio channels do have commecrials, but many of these channels are syndicated radio shows that leave space for the FM stations to have commecials. XM has to fill these spaces with something, and it's only sometimes commercials.
for example:
2004 Lamborghini Gallardo 1/4 mile time is 12.40 seconds
1999 Honda Civic Si 1/4 mile time is 15.70
Imagine, with just this one device installed on a totally stock Honda, you can bring it into the same league as a Lamborghini...
If your really sure about this, maybe you should start a class-action against every telco in north america.
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(And no, that's not an XM antenna on the roof of my car... :P )
I think there is actually a mod out there to add either a coaxial or optical connector to your XM, though i think someone might have already posted about that...
...Then i don't haveto pay for other people's wiretaps? or will this somehow be added to cellular/VoIP providers as well?
This could take some time.... With that much space, some sortof continuous defrag would be needed or the allocation table would be just way too big. the cluster size would be massive compared with modern drives as well... With memory prices now, it could have some extreme caching on it that would help both of these things out.
Would something like this work in a very high altitude, Where the Oxygen is a little more thin? I know gasoline engines have some trouble operating at high altitude. I suppose you would haveto go quite high up for it to be a problem. Just a thought...