"Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable?"
Who would pay $0.0014 to see it on cable while you can download it on your favorite torrent site for free?
What about those computers/electronics/bombs that beeps every 5 seconds or everytime you type something. If they really beep like that in real life, it will drive anyone insane just thinking how many beeps it would have made just from typing this message! and what's with the bombs beeping and have all the flashing leds and counters on them, make them easier to find?
For some this may be good news, but for others it may be "Jessica Simpson's music is so crappy that they don't even need to DRM it, cause no one will even want to waste their bandwidth to pirate it."
Like I said, this system can be useful as a ***BACKUP*** or last resort. You want to worry about using this system to limb home with the chance of the enemy jaming your flight controls or you embed yourself the straight to the ground because all the other flight controls were shot out?
This can be useful for military application. In the past, flight controls were mechanically linked or fire by wire, which means they all have some wire/cable/shaft..etc running through the plane and were subjected to damage especially in combat situations. While they usually have multiple backup systems, there have been cases that there were multiple failures due to enemy fire before. I can see the benefit of this wireless system can be use as a backup system.
I actually like seeing real life ads in games, games like SWAT4 with real movie posters or real coke machine makes it much more realistic IMO. But then of course it will get annoying if it's too intrusive, like flyers/posters everywhere on the wall and floor. On another note, I found it interesting that in SWAT4, most of the computers in the game are destructible, while the one with ads on the screen are indestructible.
No, under the policy of "One Country, Two Systems" Hong Kong retains its own legal system, currency, customs policy, and immigration laws (mostly leftover system from the British) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country%2C_two_sy stems So this is no difference than running a server in America....at least that's what's going on for now and the Chinese government do increasingly influence the Hong Kong government these days.
"but there is also pressure from small laptops, the upcoming UMPC"
I have used a Toshiba Libretto 50 for a few years (until I got a Treo 600 couple years ago). The biggest problem I had with this kind of "palmtop" is that the startup time is way too long to be productive. Even with a clean install of Windows, it still takes more than 30 sec to start up and at least 15 seconds for it to come back from hibernation to fully functioning, while a pda will comes back on the moment you press the power button. 30 second startups may be fine if you are using it just as a regular pc, but if you just need to check your address book or email while waiting in line at the post office, that is too long.
Oh great....now Fry's is going to run out of return labels.
Oh the slightly related note, I have a Toshiba Libretto 50 which supposed to only have a Pentium 75 on it. But by the time mine was built, Intel has stopped making P75 and Toshiba ended up putting a P120 in it and underclock it to 75mhz....didn't take long before someone noticed that and a few soldering later, we have P120 Libretto 50s:-)
Really, ever since I started using word processors, I just totally rely on the spell checkers. Sometimes even some simple words will stomp me for a while. My reliance on spell checker grew worse and worse, now I have to have a spell checker running at all times for all the email, IM, message boards. In case you are looking for it, Tiny Spell does a great job.
I think they are a bit late in the game, given that most people are used to PDF and have PDF reader installed already. It's like Firefox, sure it made IE dropped below 90%, that's still a tiny splash and I don't think it will have the chance to become the majority.
Finally we can go tell people all the years of preparing for these evil beast is over! Let's go hunt everyone of them before they eat our children and turn into terrorists!
I have been doing this for years already, but instead of a regular RC tank, I used one that actually shoots 6mm airsoft BB's. Definitely entertaining to drive it down the hall way in the dorm, let it loose and see people's faces:-p
They don't care about anything, I made a few returns before, and they didn't even bother to open up the boxes to check the contents (even though I have broken the seals). Also, there are some "self checkout" lanes in some of their stores. There's supposed to be someone watching you remotely during the process, but I guess they don't care much either.
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"Who would pay $1.99 to download a television episode that only costs about $0.0014 to see on cable?" Who would pay $0.0014 to see it on cable while you can download it on your favorite torrent site for free?
What about those computers/electronics/bombs that beeps every 5 seconds or everytime you type something. If they really beep like that in real life, it will drive anyone insane just thinking how many beeps it would have made just from typing this message! and what's with the bombs beeping and have all the flashing leds and counters on them, make them easier to find?
1) There are a lot more people in India and China. 2) Australia and New Zealand are more developed country.
For some this may be good news, but for others it may be "Jessica Simpson's music is so crappy that they don't even need to DRM it, cause no one will even want to waste their bandwidth to pirate it."
Like I said, this system can be useful as a ***BACKUP*** or last resort. You want to worry about using this system to limb home with the chance of the enemy jaming your flight controls or you embed yourself the straight to the ground because all the other flight controls were shot out?
This can be useful for military application. In the past, flight controls were mechanically linked or fire by wire, which means they all have some wire/cable/shaft..etc running through the plane and were subjected to damage especially in combat situations. While they usually have multiple backup systems, there have been cases that there were multiple failures due to enemy fire before. I can see the benefit of this wireless system can be use as a backup system.
FYI, this is the same group that did the fake U2 roof top concert the day before U2 actually plays in NY.
I actually like seeing real life ads in games, games like SWAT4 with real movie posters or real coke machine makes it much more realistic IMO. But then of course it will get annoying if it's too intrusive, like flyers/posters everywhere on the wall and floor. On another note, I found it interesting that in SWAT4, most of the computers in the game are destructible, while the one with ads on the screen are indestructible.
No, under the policy of "One Country, Two Systems" Hong Kong retains its own legal system, currency, customs policy, and immigration laws (mostly leftover system from the British) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country%2C_two_sy stems So this is no difference than running a server in America....at least that's what's going on for now and the Chinese government do increasingly influence the Hong Kong government these days.
"but there is also pressure from small laptops, the upcoming UMPC" I have used a Toshiba Libretto 50 for a few years (until I got a Treo 600 couple years ago). The biggest problem I had with this kind of "palmtop" is that the startup time is way too long to be productive. Even with a clean install of Windows, it still takes more than 30 sec to start up and at least 15 seconds for it to come back from hibernation to fully functioning, while a pda will comes back on the moment you press the power button. 30 second startups may be fine if you are using it just as a regular pc, but if you just need to check your address book or email while waiting in line at the post office, that is too long.
Cool, now NTP has one more income source
Now if this thing will have on board RFID to the parking meter or somehow has an arm to put quarters into the meter will be perfect.
Just post the URL of such website and before you know it, it will be slashdotted back to the stoneage.
Oh great....now Fry's is going to run out of return labels. Oh the slightly related note, I have a Toshiba Libretto 50 which supposed to only have a Pentium 75 on it. But by the time mine was built, Intel has stopped making P75 and Toshiba ended up putting a P120 in it and underclock it to 75mhz....didn't take long before someone noticed that and a few soldering later, we have P120 Libretto 50s :-)
Really, ever since I started using word processors, I just totally rely on the spell checkers. Sometimes even some simple words will stomp me for a while. My reliance on spell checker grew worse and worse, now I have to have a spell checker running at all times for all the email, IM, message boards. In case you are looking for it, Tiny Spell does a great job.
I think they are a bit late in the game, given that most people are used to PDF and have PDF reader installed already. It's like Firefox, sure it made IE dropped below 90%, that's still a tiny splash and I don't think it will have the chance to become the majority.
Finally we can go tell people all the years of preparing for these evil beast is over! Let's go hunt everyone of them before they eat our children and turn into terrorists!
"Does anybody read the article?" No, of course not, you think people read Playboy for the articles too?
I have been doing this for years already, but instead of a regular RC tank, I used one that actually shoots 6mm airsoft BB's. Definitely entertaining to drive it down the hall way in the dorm, let it loose and see people's faces :-p
They don't care about anything, I made a few returns before, and they didn't even bother to open up the boxes to check the contents (even though I have broken the seals). Also, there are some "self checkout" lanes in some of their stores. There's supposed to be someone watching you remotely during the process, but I guess they don't care much either.
Why did "Wacko Jacko" came up to my mind every time I hear "Home Alone"?