From my viewpoint the issue isn't limited to downloading content to my TV, it is just downloading the content - to be played on whatever device I feel the need to play it on. Whether it's streaming video ported to my family room TV, or on my study's PC. The main issue to resolve (if possible) is portability of the data.
This does not seem to be to the advantage of any one company, so none look to be attempting it. The legal issues of platform independence seem to be the key stumbling block. Do any DRM schemes translate from PC, to TV, to portable media player? will the media be archiveable?
Only a few years ago the MMORPG crowd was looked on as very eccentric, outside the social norm etc. With the advent of stricter laws regarding personal behavior,( DUI laws in particular) instead of going to the neighborhood bar more people are heading online to meet up with friends. The MMORPG is now becoming more and more acceptable and visible in society.
Consider that the average MMO will cost the user around $15.00/month and provides a recreational/relaxation avenue that is comparitively risk free and far less expensive, it is no wonder that the number of MMO players is expansive. So for the cost of a good double scotch at a nice bar you can have a virtual world to recreate in, or just hang out in for a month. Stop on the way home from work and grab a bottle - you will be money ahead - not having to deal with violating laws or endangering others, and hang out with like mided people.
I do beleive this movement will continue to grow.
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"Computer analysis of long-term observations by HAT revealed that one of a pair of Sun-like stars 450 light years away dims by about 1.5% every 4.5 days. Follow-up observations this summer using large telescopes in Hawaii confirmed that the dimming is due to a planet half as massive as Jupiter passing or "transiting" across the star's face during its orbit."
I'm not a math/physics major, but I would assume that for that orbital period the distance could not be too large at all (Mercury in comparison has a year of 88(earth)days) Considering that a planet half as massive as Jupiter has a "year" of 4.5 days, one would imagine that forces the planet is experiencing are extreme, almost to the point where I would question if there was a gap between where the sun stops and the planet starts.
Article 35 Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration.
( http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/english/constitution/c onstDetail.jsp?pages=3 )
But then again, is news speech? Is an opinion speech?
If you look at their constitution, it provides for all the freedoms one might want and the support of a caring government.
heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that the tools used to measure the object will affect the object being measured (pico tweezers?) the interactions between femtopeni and mu-boxons cannot possibly be deduced although the wierdness is there.
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From my viewpoint the issue isn't limited to downloading content to my TV, it is just downloading the content - to be played on whatever device I feel the need to play it on. Whether it's streaming video ported to my family room TV, or on my study's PC. The main issue to resolve (if possible) is portability of the data. This does not seem to be to the advantage of any one company, so none look to be attempting it. The legal issues of platform independence seem to be the key stumbling block. Do any DRM schemes translate from PC, to TV, to portable media player? will the media be archiveable?
Only a few years ago the MMORPG crowd was looked on as very eccentric, outside the social norm etc. With the advent of stricter laws regarding personal behavior,( DUI laws in particular) instead of going to the neighborhood bar more people are heading online to meet up with friends. The MMORPG is now becoming more and more acceptable and visible in society. Consider that the average MMO will cost the user around $15.00/month and provides a recreational/relaxation avenue that is comparitively risk free and far less expensive, it is no wonder that the number of MMO players is expansive. So for the cost of a good double scotch at a nice bar you can have a virtual world to recreate in, or just hang out in for a month. Stop on the way home from work and grab a bottle - you will be money ahead - not having to deal with violating laws or endangering others, and hang out with like mided people. I do beleive this movement will continue to grow.
FTA: "Computer analysis of long-term observations by HAT revealed that one of a pair of Sun-like stars 450 light years away dims by about 1.5% every 4.5 days. Follow-up observations this summer using large telescopes in Hawaii confirmed that the dimming is due to a planet half as massive as Jupiter passing or "transiting" across the star's face during its orbit." I'm not a math/physics major, but I would assume that for that orbital period the distance could not be too large at all (Mercury in comparison has a year of 88(earth)days) Considering that a planet half as massive as Jupiter has a "year" of 4.5 days, one would imagine that forces the planet is experiencing are extreme, almost to the point where I would question if there was a gap between where the sun stops and the planet starts.
Article 35 Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration. ( http://www.npc.gov.cn/zgrdw/english/constitution/c onstDetail.jsp?pages=3 )
But then again, is news speech? Is an opinion speech?
If you look at their constitution, it provides for all the freedoms one might want and the support of a caring government.
heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that the tools used to measure the object will affect the object being measured (pico tweezers?) the interactions between femtopeni and mu-boxons cannot possibly be deduced although the wierdness is there.
You know you spend too much time online when you immediately think of "@home" whenever anyone mentions folding