what's the difference? Hibernation resumes after the pc has been off. Right after it's boot sequence, it loads the "image"... can you explain what's different about what you are talking about? Or do you mean a "freshly booted" image... as if it had just completely started up? yeah, ok, that makes sense... nice idea!
If an Aibo can recognize an object, it's storing that information as a set of parameters. It's this set of parameters that it's communicating... RGB values, distance, direction (do Aibos have inertial guidance?) velocity, vector.... it's just data. No nouns and verbs here.
You're not talking about tiered service here, you're talking about Quality of service based on the type of service. Gaming packets should have a higher priority than ftp packets- regardless of the game being played, or where the file is coming from.
What is happening (or rather, what the bill wants to forbid) is varying the QoS based on the payment of the origin company to YOUR ISP...
So maybe Blizzard is willing to pay multiple ISP's (the one for their server, and several big providers: cable companies, phone companies, even little local ISPs could ask for it) to make sure your World of Warcraft game runs smoothly, but Anarchy Online, with all those free players, can't pay up to your ISP, so they only get 5kpbs to you whether you want (or are willing to pay for) more bandwidth or not.
Of course, you should always be able to more to get more, but you would be paying for it by choice.
They could use something better, but why? If the entire HiDef movie fits on one BD, then why force hardware manufacturers to upgrade the firmware codecs? If the the only thing changing is the media and the hardware to read it, the existing codecs (and I'm talking about hardware here, not software for your pc) don't need to be completely re-written, possibly becoming (more) buggy. Easier for HW companies to produce = Faster time to market = Faster returns for $ony.
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what's the difference? Hibernation resumes after the pc has been off. Right after it's boot sequence, it loads the "image"... can you explain what's different about what you are talking about? Or do you mean a "freshly booted" image... as if it had just completely started up? yeah, ok, that makes sense... nice idea!
If an Aibo can recognize an object, it's storing that information as a set of parameters. It's this set of parameters that it's communicating... RGB values, distance, direction (do Aibos have inertial guidance?) velocity, vector.... it's just data. No nouns and verbs here.
You're not talking about tiered service here, you're talking about Quality of service based on the type of service. Gaming packets should have a higher priority than ftp packets- regardless of the game being played, or where the file is coming from. What is happening (or rather, what the bill wants to forbid) is varying the QoS based on the payment of the origin company to YOUR ISP... So maybe Blizzard is willing to pay multiple ISP's (the one for their server, and several big providers: cable companies, phone companies, even little local ISPs could ask for it) to make sure your World of Warcraft game runs smoothly, but Anarchy Online, with all those free players, can't pay up to your ISP, so they only get 5kpbs to you whether you want (or are willing to pay for) more bandwidth or not. Of course, you should always be able to more to get more, but you would be paying for it by choice.
They could use something better, but why? If the entire HiDef movie fits on one BD, then why force hardware manufacturers to upgrade the firmware codecs? If the the only thing changing is the media and the hardware to read it, the existing codecs (and I'm talking about hardware here, not software for your pc) don't need to be completely re-written, possibly becoming (more) buggy. Easier for HW companies to produce = Faster time to market = Faster returns for $ony.