Can you imagine a place in the world with no such thing as IP rights and regulations? It would be an information hotspot like the world has never seen.
You want music/movies/files, you got them, on demand, piped through a broadband connection.
It's like a geeky vacation spot, with uber-souvenirs.
Even when cablecards follow the standard it's a botched job 90% of the time.
Here, read this article on OCUR.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/ocur
Microsofts own lead for the program couldn't assist in getting the cablecards working.
Shipped by two of the best PC manufacturers in the business, and due to the backwards ass way it's setup, completely unusable on arrival, or with aide from the cable company / microsoft / whomever wants to try.
If that's the future of Media Center PC's, I'd rather just get downloadable content.
Wrong. Again. People buy the mac for OSx, not just to do those things you mentioned. Otherwise they'd just buy Windows, but the big difference is the kernel - shell experience, built from the bottom up OSx "Just Works".
I find some of that to be quite interesting. How about positional audio/video conversation? That would be amazing. A strew of cameras throughout the house, all tunes on a button the user wheres, and lil' mics to pick up their voice? Sweeeett
Everytime new technology comes out, someone always says "Nobody needs that much memory", "What would ordinary people want to do with a computer?", etc...etc...but as we start to experince this new broadband boom, we'll see dozens of services that were just waiting to come out, Video On Demand rentals of HD Content, Full Stereo Phones, Video Phones (Instead of crappy webcam chats), and more I'm sure someone with more time will think of.
Netflix as a corporation has many lawsuits, but their out there with no real basis to start off on anyhow. These plantiffs are suing because the DVD's arent there in "one-day" always. Isn't that the postal services fault? Also because not all the plans were "unlimited rentals", well did ya really think the 7 dollar plan was gonna be the same as the 20 dollar plan? I mean, come on.
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"They could just charge a fee for those paying by credit card"
That's against all major card issuerers policies.
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First the expensive, crippled PS3 launch.
...proud to be an american somedays...(or an..eastern asian..)
Then the iPhone exclusive..
And now this!
"- Force half of them to wear human's clothes (I have no idea what this will do, maybe something interesting)" ..Hahahahah
It's doing very badly. Poor CableCARD. Never had a chance.
Can you imagine a place in the world with no such thing as IP rights and regulations? It would be an information hotspot like the world has never seen. You want music/movies/files, you got them, on demand, piped through a broadband connection. It's like a geeky vacation spot, with uber-souvenirs.
Very well put.
Even when cablecards follow the standard it's a botched job 90% of the time. Here, read this article on OCUR. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/ocur Microsofts own lead for the program couldn't assist in getting the cablecards working. Shipped by two of the best PC manufacturers in the business, and due to the backwards ass way it's setup, completely unusable on arrival, or with aide from the cable company / microsoft / whomever wants to try. If that's the future of Media Center PC's, I'd rather just get downloadable content.
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Wrong. Again. People buy the mac for OSx, not just to do those things you mentioned. Otherwise they'd just buy Windows, but the big difference is the kernel - shell experience, built from the bottom up OSx "Just Works".
Guess she hasn't been on the internet lately.
I find some of that to be quite interesting. How about positional audio/video conversation? That would be amazing. A strew of cameras throughout the house, all tunes on a button the user wheres, and lil' mics to pick up their voice? Sweeeett
Everytime new technology comes out, someone always says "Nobody needs that much memory", "What would ordinary people want to do with a computer?", etc...etc...but as we start to experince this new broadband boom, we'll see dozens of services that were just waiting to come out, Video On Demand rentals of HD Content, Full Stereo Phones, Video Phones (Instead of crappy webcam chats), and more I'm sure someone with more time will think of.
Netflix as a corporation has many lawsuits, but their out there with no real basis to start off on anyhow. These plantiffs are suing because the DVD's arent there in "one-day" always. Isn't that the postal services fault? Also because not all the plans were "unlimited rentals", well did ya really think the 7 dollar plan was gonna be the same as the 20 dollar plan? I mean, come on.
More like it's finger.
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