You guys seem to have forgotten that here in Australia, our leading media/telco company Telstra has a sophisticated and fool-proof strategy for battling BitTorrent piracy.
It involves charging $150 per Gigabyte for downloads on their 'broadband' service.... and I put 'broadband' in quotes because only in this country could 256Kbs be counted as broadband.
Please, oh please will a foreign telco come over here and kill Telstra! You might need to convince their largest shareholder (the government) to allow you in first, but once you are here, it will be so very easy.
...I want to know when all-purpose E ink displays will be available? The market is screaming out for these!
It blows my mind that we have access to this incredible all-electronic distribution system (internet, duh), but people still insist on printing documents out onto paper to read them!
Sure LCD screens are better to read from than CRT displays, but have you every tried reading a whole book on one?
An inexpensive, high-contrast, low-power electronic book could do away with thousands of tonnes of printed paper every day.
I don't even care if the display is bendable or not, I just needs to meet the above criteria.
I say to the engineers involved: hurry up already!
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You guys seem to have forgotten that here in Australia, our leading media/telco company Telstra has a sophisticated and fool-proof strategy for battling BitTorrent piracy. It involves charging $150 per Gigabyte for downloads on their 'broadband' service.... and I put 'broadband' in quotes because only in this country could 256Kbs be counted as broadband. Please, oh please will a foreign telco come over here and kill Telstra! You might need to convince their largest shareholder (the government) to allow you in first, but once you are here, it will be so very easy.
...I want to know when all-purpose E ink displays will be available? The market is screaming out for these! It blows my mind that we have access to this incredible all-electronic distribution system (internet, duh), but people still insist on printing documents out onto paper to read them! Sure LCD screens are better to read from than CRT displays, but have you every tried reading a whole book on one? An inexpensive, high-contrast, low-power electronic book could do away with thousands of tonnes of printed paper every day. I don't even care if the display is bendable or not, I just needs to meet the above criteria. I say to the engineers involved: hurry up already!