Not to mention, how many people rent a DVD, watch it, and then tell their friend "That was a GREAT movie...you HAVE to come over and watch it." They then procede to watch the DVD a second time. Something you can't do with a Self-Destructing DVD.
And what about this. You get a call on the phone mid movie...get up and get the phone, and forget to pause the movie. Now you want to re-watch the part you missed. Can you?
What about special features? Such as deleted scenes, gag reels, games, etc? How many times can you watch those? I know some DVDs like National Treasure have quite involved little games on them.
What about a power outage? The power goes out 1/2 way through a movie. What happens? Is the thing dead? Does half of it still work?
Seems to me that they still have a lot of questions to answer.
it's not whether the deal is based on exclusivity, but rather if the deal went something like this: "We will sell you our chips at a 15% discount. What? You want to offer AMD chips also? In that case we will NOT sell you our chips (or the chips have a 100% markup, or whatever they do). See how well you business does when you can't offer Intel! Pssh...AMD...we'll show them"
This is a money maker for GMC. The remote feature allows them to add more money-making ideas should they think of any (not to mention the ability to charge a subscription fee as someone else mentioned). Basically, this thing will say things like "Looks like your oil is a little low, the nearest GMC Certified Service Center is 3 miles ahead on the right hand side" or "Your wiper fluid is out, you can get an oil change at your local GMC Certified Service Center, and they will fill your wiper fluid too!". Basically, the guy needs $.50 worth of water or wiper-fluid, and instead spends $50 on an oil-change. Why? Well because his car told him to!
I'm not worried about my security. I don't worry about them spying on me, or whatever. I care about my pocket book, and it seems to me that this is simply a fancy way of emptying that for me.
I recently attended one of their "Macromedia Studio 8 Launch" seminars that showed Studio 8, as well as Flash Player 8. The reasoning behind this, is that they now have a SEPERATE Flash player for cell phones (comes on certain Nokia, Seimens, and one more that I can't remember...and they are working on partnering up with more phone companies). You will be asked NOT to install Flash Player on those, and then you will be asked NOT to install Flash Player Mobile on a desktop. IMO...not a big deal.
Games waste time. Games are fun.
Movies waste time. Movies are fun.
Old people watch movies and so do young people. I fail to see the difference between spending two hours watching a movie and spending two hours playing a video game.
I set mine to custom, and at least 36 pixels (this allows for 2 rows of application buttons). At 38 pixels you not only get the 2 rows of buttons, but also the larger panel menu icons.
Maybe as an individual, but many (most?) companies are still heavily bound to their printers. Take for example a law firm, no matter how hard they try, there WILL be paperwork. The court wants physical documents. Because the cost to change to a paperless office (scanners, etc) is so high, companies don't want to switch. Paper is cheap.
Granted, as more companies DO take the leap, and make the switch, the cost will go down. The more of your associates/customers that are paperless, the less technology you need to make the switch. However, I'd say it'll still be a while.
If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet...... then you die. Seriously, do you really believe terrorists won't be using strong encryption, knowing their data packets are probably being sniffed by the feds. This isn't going to stop a single terrorist...
Well, since it says that they want to "be able to interrupt or redirect a airplane's Internet access during a crisis", I assume that they are hoping to block all broadband communication to/from the plane, if they are worried that there is a threat.
Personally, I don't mind having my internet interrupted for a while, even if it *might* be a national security issue.
Just like anything else, different maps have different purposes. That's why different maps exist. For driving directions, sure a street map is great (after all, you drive on...streets)! However, what if you were looking for a good place to hang-glide? A street map will not help you. What about a nice remote spot on a beach? What if you were a trucker, who hauls houses (over-height), and you needed to plan a route that had no bridges (you can get maps from the city for this, BUT quality satellite maps may make this obsolete someday)?
When this becomes a little more refined, it will be nice to apply to frames of video to assist in creating video loops. For example, you mount a camera near the coast, and get 3 hours of footage of the waves crashing against the rocks. You want to make a nice loop of that, which can play indefinitely, but you want to avoid that 'jump' that always seems to occur. Find small sections of the movie where say...10 frames in a row are similar to 10 other frames...
It'll take out a lot of the usual pain.
Well, I see that many people pointed out the PDF vs DOC format, but what about the programs that DO overlap? For example, Frontpage vs Go Live vs Dreamweaver? Illustrator vs Publisher? And that is where Adobe and MS overlap. What adobe was afraid of, was that MS would BUY Macromedia. Then MS would have "Frontpage and Dreamweaver vs Go Live" "Fireworks vs Photoshop" "Publisher vs Illustrator" etc.
I believe that, had their fears come true, it WOULD be bad for Adobe. I am personally impressed with their foresight to stop MS before MS stopped them.
Seriously though, people use internet explorer or outlook express to get child porn. Does this make those products illegal? They were designed to download things! I think it's pretty hard to prove WHY a programmer made a certain program, and I think that is exactly what they will have to prove.
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Not to mention, how many people rent a DVD, watch it, and then tell their friend "That was a GREAT movie...you HAVE to come over and watch it." They then procede to watch the DVD a second time. Something you can't do with a Self-Destructing DVD.
And what about this. You get a call on the phone mid movie...get up and get the phone, and forget to pause the movie. Now you want to re-watch the part you missed. Can you?
What about special features? Such as deleted scenes, gag reels, games, etc? How many times can you watch those? I know some DVDs like National Treasure have quite involved little games on them.
What about a power outage? The power goes out 1/2 way through a movie. What happens? Is the thing dead? Does half of it still work?
Seems to me that they still have a lot of questions to answer.
it's not whether the deal is based on exclusivity, but rather if the deal went something like this:
"We will sell you our chips at a 15% discount. What? You want to offer AMD chips also? In that case we will NOT sell you our chips (or the chips have a 100% markup, or whatever they do). See how well you business does when you can't offer Intel! Pssh...AMD...we'll show them"
This is a money maker for GMC. The remote feature allows them to add more money-making ideas should they think of any (not to mention the ability to charge a subscription fee as someone else mentioned). Basically, this thing will say things like "Looks like your oil is a little low, the nearest GMC Certified Service Center is 3 miles ahead on the right hand side" or "Your wiper fluid is out, you can get an oil change at your local GMC Certified Service Center, and they will fill your wiper fluid too!". Basically, the guy needs $.50 worth of water or wiper-fluid, and instead spends $50 on an oil-change. Why? Well because his car told him to!
I'm not worried about my security. I don't worry about them spying on me, or whatever. I care about my pocket book, and it seems to me that this is simply a fancy way of emptying that for me.
I recently attended one of their "Macromedia Studio 8 Launch" seminars that showed Studio 8, as well as Flash Player 8. The reasoning behind this, is that they now have a SEPERATE Flash player for cell phones (comes on certain Nokia, Seimens, and one more that I can't remember...and they are working on partnering up with more phone companies). You will be asked NOT to install Flash Player on those, and then you will be asked NOT to install Flash Player Mobile on a desktop. IMO...not a big deal.
Games waste time. Games are fun.
Movies waste time. Movies are fun.
Old people watch movies and so do young people. I fail to see the difference between spending two hours watching a movie and spending two hours playing a video game.
I set mine to custom, and at least 36 pixels (this allows for 2 rows of application buttons). At 38 pixels you not only get the 2 rows of buttons, but also the larger panel menu icons.
Maybe as an individual, but many (most?) companies are still heavily bound to their printers. Take for example a law firm, no matter how hard they try, there WILL be paperwork. The court wants physical documents. Because the cost to change to a paperless office (scanners, etc) is so high, companies don't want to switch. Paper is cheap.
Granted, as more companies DO take the leap, and make the switch, the cost will go down. The more of your associates/customers that are paperless, the less technology you need to make the switch. However, I'd say it'll still be a while.
If the terrorists want to kill you at 30k feet... ... then you die. Seriously, do you really believe terrorists won't be using strong encryption, knowing their data packets are probably being sniffed by the feds. This isn't going to stop a single terrorist...
Well, since it says that they want to "be able to interrupt or redirect a airplane's Internet access during a crisis", I assume that they are hoping to block all broadband communication to/from the plane, if they are worried that there is a threat.
Personally, I don't mind having my internet interrupted for a while, even if it *might* be a national security issue.
Just like anything else, different maps have different purposes. That's why different maps exist. For driving directions, sure a street map is great (after all, you drive on...streets)! However, what if you were looking for a good place to hang-glide? A street map will not help you. What about a nice remote spot on a beach? What if you were a trucker, who hauls houses (over-height), and you needed to plan a route that had no bridges (you can get maps from the city for this, BUT quality satellite maps may make this obsolete someday)?
When this becomes a little more refined, it will be nice to apply to frames of video to assist in creating video loops. For example, you mount a camera near the coast, and get 3 hours of footage of the waves crashing against the rocks. You want to make a nice loop of that, which can play indefinitely, but you want to avoid that 'jump' that always seems to occur. Find small sections of the movie where say...10 frames in a row are similar to 10 other frames... It'll take out a lot of the usual pain.
Well, I see that many people pointed out the PDF vs DOC format, but what about the programs that DO overlap? For example, Frontpage vs Go Live vs Dreamweaver? Illustrator vs Publisher? And that is where Adobe and MS overlap. What adobe was afraid of, was that MS would BUY Macromedia. Then MS would have "Frontpage and Dreamweaver vs Go Live" "Fireworks vs Photoshop" "Publisher vs Illustrator" etc.
I believe that, had their fears come true, it WOULD be bad for Adobe. I am personally impressed with their foresight to stop MS before MS stopped them.
Seriously though, people use internet explorer or outlook express to get child porn. Does this make those products illegal? They were designed to download things!
I think it's pretty hard to prove WHY a programmer made a certain program, and I think that is exactly what they will have to prove.
Just use google's text-only cache http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:5p4B1xNAGXkJ: www.asktog.com/Bughouse/10MostPersistentBugs.html+ &hl=en&lr=&strip=1