It's about covenience and instant availability- read lazyness. Amazon is easier to use than a library. Itunes is easier to use than waiting for Amazon CDs. All the economic pointers suggest an Itunes offering quick movie downloads will kill DVD purchases.
Until we have an instant book binder, it'll always be better to buy a bound book than to print one out and staple the pages together.
What if all the research on String Theory and the mechanism of Gravity (IANATP) comes good and a method to repel gravity is discovered, let's say about 2015?
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It's about covenience and instant availability- read lazyness. Amazon is easier to use than a library. Itunes is easier to use than waiting for Amazon CDs. All the economic pointers suggest an Itunes offering quick movie downloads will kill DVD purchases.
Until we have an instant book binder, it'll always be better to buy a bound book than to print one out and staple the pages together.
What if all the research on String Theory and the mechanism of Gravity (IANATP) comes good and a method to repel gravity is discovered, let's say about 2015?
Bit of a bummer for the investors.
I hate to say it, but the Microsoft speech engine has been taking frequency values since about '97.
I have fond memories of programming the much hated genie agent to sing Iggy Pop.
Strangely surpisingly accurate...
How long before you can search for Microsoft on Kazaa and download the code to XP?
mmmmmm p2p.
Yes and that internet thing is full of porn and paedos, we shouldn't be using that...
What if Sun had had the same worries about JAXP?
This is a redundant argument made many times before, all technology can be used for good and bad, how this got modded up so far I have no idea.
I would bet that in two years, the majority of popular downloads will be delivered with P2P.