Well this is business and nobody is doing anyone any favors unless it contributes to their bottomline. I think the ISPs will use this to their advantage to identify and boot off those people who are the most gross offenders (aka bandwidth hogs), that are adversely affecting their customer base. Otherwise, why have angry mobs of people who will no doubt hire lawyers and have you spending your money defending your policies in court? Seems like the RIAA has just pushed the potential litigation down one level.
People who are going to watch a lousy cammed copy, aren't the type who are going to see the movie in the theater anyway. They obviously don't care about the large screen experience, decent video or audio quality, so it really can't be counted as an uncaptured source of movie revenue.
That's a byproduct of eBay's wonderful fee hikes. Sellers do this to avoid having to pay the exhorbitant final value fees (which aren't charged on shipping.)
Uh yeah total different market. So let's paint a picture of what a real macbook air user uses a computer for...
Wake up (at 10am) and shuffle into the living room to look for pants. Dig under the sofa for the birkenstocks. Take the Prius down to the local Starbucks, order a Venti mochachino latte, half soy, half skimmed milk with just a dash of cinnamon. Take back order received because it was obvious they used 2% when I clearly said skimmed. Check email, write about the morning and witty people observations in my daily blog. Take some phone calls from my friends on my iPhone while getting evil stares from the couple next to me who are apparently annoyed by my loud conversations which totally don't involve them in any way. Head over to my friend Todd's place around 4pm to hang out and smoke weed. Order out for pizza.
Uh, I think your reasoning is flawed there. How can you draw this as a cause and effect? Maybe it's was a lack of compelling products, or charges taken due to the Li-ion battery recalls. There's absolutely nothing that ties one to the other, so you can't make this claim.
"Another problem is the potential that consumers could be scared off by the prospect of listening to advertisements before being able to make phone calls,"
Yeah I can see this being a problem...
Man falls off cliff...
[People screaming]
"Call 911! Call 911!"
[Guy whips out his Google phone, dials 911, presses (SEND)]
"Hello, welcome to Google phone... we'll be continuing your call, but first this message from your call's sponsor."
"Ever have that rundown, tired and sleepy feeling in the middle of the day..."
[5 minutes later]
"...but wait, there's more! Order now and you'll receive, absolutely free..."
[5 minutes later]
"911 operator, what's the nature of your emergency?"
"Uh nevermind..."
[click]
Yeah those were the best trackballs evar! I did write to Logitech to see if they could start producing them again (they only came in 9-pin serial versions there wasn't ever a USB version produced.) I encourage everyone else to do so. Let's get these back into production!
Yeah, that's my big beef with ink jet printing. It's not so much the cost as it is the hassle of having to get the printer into a good printing state if you haven't printed on it in a while. With a color laser (or in my case I had a Phaser 860 solid ink printer), you just turn in on, print, and then go about your business. You're not sitting there doing head cleaning passes, and nozzle purges, (and the inevitable ink cartridge changes resulting from this procedure) to get the printout that you wanted in the first place.
I've used a TEC grill several times (there's one installed on the houseboat that we go out on every year) and I have not been impressed. It's a little better from a wind resistance standpoint (didn't blow out in heavy winds like the last non-infrared grill we had on there), but because the food drippings drop onto the infra-red plates, the grill is the worst I've ever used in terms of flareups. I much prefer my PGS at home. It's not as hot, but it does a better job of cooking evenly without burning the hell out of the food.
Well actually XP was quite a step up from 98. It had native USB support (98 SE was always kinda hit-or-miss with USB support.) It also broke the 2GB filesize limit which was hindering video editing apps at the time. So yes, the introduction of XP solved a number of problems with former versions of Windows.
With Vista there doesn't seem to be as many solutions being offered. Do you really need glassy looking windows? Do you really need fancy animation for your windows when they open and close? Do you really need draconian activation and DRM slowing down your everyday operations like filecopy? I dunno, but there seems to be less of a case for Vista than there was for XP.
This is definitely a huge breakthrough, because everything else we need to do now can be accomplished by modulating the phase of these sheilds and creating tachyon bursts by reversing the antimatter flow through the deflector shield grid...
But the big factor will be determining how much energy can be put through the system before she cannah take anymore...
This could definitely increase the light sensitivity of a camera since you're not tied to trying to cram millions of photosites into a given chip area. Does anyone remember the linear scanning photography that people use to hack up by mating a linear scanning mechanism from a flatbed/handheld scanner onto the film plane of a camera? Similar idea except they are using an array of mirrors instead of the linear motion of a CCD array.
I wonder what the differential cost of mirrorchip + one-pixel sensor vs. multi-megapixel CCD chip is going to be.
This does kinda remind me of the 12" laserdisc intro (expensive players and expensive discs). The only difference is that it isn't a huge jump in quality over what's currently available (at least not in the average consumer's view.)
The CD and DVD were quantum leaps above the status quo (video tapes), whose effects could be realized simply by buying the player and hooking it up to your existing stuff. For the new HD/BluRay stuff, not only do you have to buy the player, but you also need to upgrade your TV in order to realize the full benefit. That's a major cash outlay for your average consumer.
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Well take away their porn and you'll see what kind of civil unrest that'll cause...
Well this is business and nobody is doing anyone any favors unless it contributes to their bottomline. I think the ISPs will use this to their advantage to identify and boot off those people who are the most gross offenders (aka bandwidth hogs), that are adversely affecting their customer base. Otherwise, why have angry mobs of people who will no doubt hire lawyers and have you spending your money defending your policies in court? Seems like the RIAA has just pushed the potential litigation down one level.
Yeah, shouldn't the question be, "How does Windows 7 stack up against XP?"
Harcourt Fenton Mudd!!!
People who are going to watch a lousy cammed copy, aren't the type who are going to see the movie in the theater anyway. They obviously don't care about the large screen experience, decent video or audio quality, so it really can't be counted as an uncaptured source of movie revenue.
That's a byproduct of eBay's wonderful fee hikes. Sellers do this to avoid having to pay the exhorbitant final value fees (which aren't charged on shipping.)
Uh yeah real "name" and real "email" address. Apparently doesn't know anything about Mailinator or BugMeNot...
Sounds like a mission for Bruce Willis, Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall...
The infinite loop is much faster in SP1...
Uh yeah total different market. So let's paint a picture of what a real macbook air user uses a computer for... Wake up (at 10am) and shuffle into the living room to look for pants. Dig under the sofa for the birkenstocks. Take the Prius down to the local Starbucks, order a Venti mochachino latte, half soy, half skimmed milk with just a dash of cinnamon. Take back order received because it was obvious they used 2% when I clearly said skimmed. Check email, write about the morning and witty people observations in my daily blog. Take some phone calls from my friends on my iPhone while getting evil stares from the couple next to me who are apparently annoyed by my loud conversations which totally don't involve them in any way. Head over to my friend Todd's place around 4pm to hang out and smoke weed. Order out for pizza.
Uh, I think your reasoning is flawed there. How can you draw this as a cause and effect? Maybe it's was a lack of compelling products, or charges taken due to the Li-ion battery recalls. There's absolutely nothing that ties one to the other, so you can't make this claim.
"Another problem is the potential that consumers could be scared off by the prospect of listening to advertisements before being able to make phone calls,"
Yeah I can see this being a problem...
Man falls off cliff...
[People screaming]
"Call 911! Call 911!"
[Guy whips out his Google phone, dials 911, presses (SEND)]
"Hello, welcome to Google phone... we'll be continuing your call, but first this message from your call's sponsor."
"Ever have that rundown, tired and sleepy feeling in the middle of the day..."
[5 minutes later]
"...but wait, there's more! Order now and you'll receive, absolutely free..."
[5 minutes later]
"911 operator, what's the nature of your emergency?"
"Uh nevermind..."
[click]
Yeah those were the best trackballs evar! I did write to Logitech to see if they could start producing them again (they only came in 9-pin serial versions there wasn't ever a USB version produced.) I encourage everyone else to do so. Let's get these back into production!
"Pirate songs, get a brick!"
Finally a reason to send Jessica Alba into space...
Yeah, that's my big beef with ink jet printing. It's not so much the cost as it is the hassle of having to get the printer into a good printing state if you haven't printed on it in a while. With a color laser (or in my case I had a Phaser 860 solid ink printer), you just turn in on, print, and then go about your business. You're not sitting there doing head cleaning passes, and nozzle purges, (and the inevitable ink cartridge changes resulting from this procedure) to get the printout that you wanted in the first place.
I've used a TEC grill several times (there's one installed on the houseboat that we go out on every year) and I have not been impressed. It's a little better from a wind resistance standpoint (didn't blow out in heavy winds like the last non-infrared grill we had on there), but because the food drippings drop onto the infra-red plates, the grill is the worst I've ever used in terms of flareups. I much prefer my PGS at home. It's not as hot, but it does a better job of cooking evenly without burning the hell out of the food.
Well actually XP was quite a step up from 98. It had native USB support (98 SE was always kinda hit-or-miss with USB support.) It also broke the 2GB filesize limit which was hindering video editing apps at the time. So yes, the introduction of XP solved a number of problems with former versions of Windows. With Vista there doesn't seem to be as many solutions being offered. Do you really need glassy looking windows? Do you really need fancy animation for your windows when they open and close? Do you really need draconian activation and DRM slowing down your everyday operations like filecopy? I dunno, but there seems to be less of a case for Vista than there was for XP.
This is definitely a huge breakthrough, because everything else we need to do now can be accomplished by modulating the phase of these sheilds and creating tachyon bursts by reversing the antimatter flow through the deflector shield grid... But the big factor will be determining how much energy can be put through the system before she cannah take anymore...
Yes, but they'd still make you file a return to show that you didn't have to file a return.
Yeah they can include a 'I am not a predator' checkbox on their EULA page.
This could definitely increase the light sensitivity of a camera since you're not tied to trying to cram millions of photosites into a given chip area. Does anyone remember the linear scanning photography that people use to hack up by mating a linear scanning mechanism from a flatbed/handheld scanner onto the film plane of a camera? Similar idea except they are using an array of mirrors instead of the linear motion of a CCD array. I wonder what the differential cost of mirrorchip + one-pixel sensor vs. multi-megapixel CCD chip is going to be.
This does kinda remind me of the 12" laserdisc intro (expensive players and expensive discs). The only difference is that it isn't a huge jump in quality over what's currently available (at least not in the average consumer's view.) The CD and DVD were quantum leaps above the status quo (video tapes), whose effects could be realized simply by buying the player and hooking it up to your existing stuff. For the new HD/BluRay stuff, not only do you have to buy the player, but you also need to upgrade your TV in order to realize the full benefit. That's a major cash outlay for your average consumer.
"N... T... NT... Tentacles... Big difference!"