Is anyone else worried that this gives the TV industry a chance to become an RIAA/MPAA clone and go chasing people who have for years been downloading their favourite TV shows via torrents and IRC? In the UK at least it's still legal (if a bit grey) to download and watch (delayed viewing) broadcast TV shows recorded by someone else. Brace yourself for a whole new round of lawsuits and law changes when they wake up and realise that people are already downloading tv 'on demand', as it were, for free.
I have a broadband connection, 1Mbps, plenty fast enough. That means it gets me pretty riled up when a site refuses to load because of a sly bit of javascript that means I'm waiting to contact ads.annoying.crap.server.net where an ad is hosted. Staring at white space while waiting for some budget server to catch up so I can look at a site that would otherwise be instantaneous is no fun.
I use opera with js turned off unless I absolutely need it. Even then it's just a quick press of F12 to turn it on momentarily.
Js would be my first proposal for room 101, closely followed by flash (I might add it's a blessing that the flash guys haven't pulled their heads out of their a***es and released a 64bit binary yet).
In summary: Let the damn page load at its own pace and if the ads don't appear in time it's the advertisers loss. Don't try to make me wait for them because I won't.
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Is anyone else worried that this gives the TV industry a chance to become an RIAA/MPAA clone and go chasing people who have for years been downloading their favourite TV shows via torrents and IRC? In the UK at least it's still legal (if a bit grey) to download and watch (delayed viewing) broadcast TV shows recorded by someone else. Brace yourself for a whole new round of lawsuits and law changes when they wake up and realise that people are already downloading tv 'on demand', as it were, for free.
I have a broadband connection, 1Mbps, plenty fast enough. That means it gets me pretty riled up when a site refuses to load because of a sly bit of javascript that means I'm waiting to contact ads.annoying.crap.server.net where an ad is hosted. Staring at white space while waiting for some budget server to catch up so I can look at a site that would otherwise be instantaneous is no fun.
I use opera with js turned off unless I absolutely need it. Even then it's just a quick press of F12 to turn it on momentarily. Js would be my first proposal for room 101, closely followed by flash (I might add it's a blessing that the flash guys haven't pulled their heads out of their a***es and released a 64bit binary yet).
In summary: Let the damn page load at its own pace and if the ads don't appear in time it's the advertisers loss. Don't try to make me wait for them because I won't.