The reason remakes are successful is that we are old geeks that revel in the glow of "classics". My 17 and 19 year old children have never heard of many of my old "classics" and refuse to watch the old "black and white" versions I have. They cant understand why I think the the original The Day the Earth Stood Still or War of Worlds, are not even the same story as the remakes. They did however shell out their twelve bucks for a tried and true forumla. Although the fact that I like the movie title should have chased them away screaming. Hollywood or movie making is about making $. I will invest in a remake that has made money far sooner than I will in a "new" idea. it is simple econonics. Logans Run will make money. Period. Maybe not record amounts, but it will keep everyone involved employeed until the next "great" idea comes along. The purpose is and always has been to make money. So with actors and crew available, but no "great" ideas brimming, Lets do a remake so we all get to eat supper.
If RIAA and MPAA or whoever can charge me for every blank DVD and CD I purchase without proof that I have downloaded anything illegally why are we so upset with the mobsters. My musician friend says he has never seen a cent of what I have paid for my blank media.
Its funny, but I am being forced to look in the direction of some of these sites. I have been downloading movies and tv shows from iTunes because it was too easy. Now my wife would like to watch some of these on our TV, but guess what? I cant! Not without spending another $260 for apple TV. Not because my DVD player wont handle digital media... Our home movies play just fine from a thumb drive. But the stuff I have paid for wont! So my solution, download it from somewhere else.
Sorry I have no sympathy for the MPAA and its DRM. Create a business model that is affordable and competitive with the crimials, and the criminals will go somewhere else and I will continue to buy legit.
We live in a big brother society. Everywhere you go, you are on camera. My city just installed cameras at every intersection, stating it was to help traffic flow analysis, and oh yeah it will also issue speeding an red light photo tickets. Now we are a small city so this was easy to do, but so far, traffic patterns seem the same, but there are a lot more flashes at the intersections now. But more importantly, did you consent to being filmed? I can even pull up the AMA website and watch and capture video from some of these video feeds. I dont remember allowing myself to be filmed.
Walk into a store, look up, again you are being captured on video. Did you consent to that?
Now try this, take your video camera, put it on your shoulder and walk into the local police station... Or even stand outside and take a picture. Google was able to do this all over north america, but I will bet if you stand out there filming for 10 min, you will be asked to leave.
At some point we have given up our right, if we ever really had one, to not be filmed without our consent. At one point, it might have been because we were still reasonably anonymous. Now with a few searches through facebook, I can get an awful lot of pictures to cross reference with my video.
And now the police are saying they should be exempt from all of this video. Fact is we live in a video captured society, and it is getting worse. I remember reading in a novel about a society that had every moment of their lives recored. This was held in a secure private data facility, and only accessed if a crime was committed. I see us heading in that direction.
Lastly, the police have a hard enough time keeping up with catching the criminals. I am on the side of if you are doing nothing wrong, what does it matter. That is why I dont worry about the store video camera, im not stealing. Yes partial editing or videos can be used, but then they are also taken in context.
I am sure... Police arrest suspect. Suspect strikes officer. bystander starts filming. police strike back, wrestle suspect to ground and handcuff. Suspect gets video and charges police.
Would a judger really not take into account that the video started 1/2 way through an incident? And if the media started to sensationalize then its time to charge the media!
In fact in this situation, the police could turn around and use the video to support thier argument that they used "reasonable force". UNLESS they decided on a little payback for the the first hit. But then the police themselfs have sunk to the level of a street gang.
We live in a recorded society. Learn to make home movies or really good disguises.
So who wants to bet they stopped writing the calendar around their 6th beer...
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I believe they had a limited story in season 1 and it was different enough that people said "Hey, way cool!"
Season 1: Hey lets make this island no one understands with WAY bizzare STUFF and see what the audience thinks. And oh yeah, we should do things like throw in a polar bear, some "other" people (well come up with a name later), and make the whole jungle shake to get people really scared and give them a purpose to stay together.
Season 2: Hey it WORKED, were still employed... Now what, lets do it again. Add some more weird stuff, the audience imagination is going wild. We might even be able to skype an idea or two.
Season 3: We should really start to try and tie some of this together. Lets do the easy ones.
Season 4: Im starting to get dry, anybody got an idea where this going yet? Ive got so many loose threads my mind is like an angora sweater. Lets hit the web for some weird ideas.
Season 5: Hmmm... looks like its going end next season. Lets just blow the whole thing up and then we can do what we want next season.
Season 6: Anyone know how to tie this ball of yarn together? Hmmm... me neither. Lets do some weird dream/purgatory/lifeanddeath stuff and the audience will make some stuff up and tie it together for us. Just remember we need to sing kumbayaa at the end OK?
And for me that about sums up the what the writers were thinking about as they drank beer in group think sessions.
A theme I read in many of the replys were centered around "I should be able to make my own choices". Yes to a certain extent. But how many of these people will run back to the gov't when they develop bone cancer? How does the average person who has trouble with their VCR make an informed decsion on a new experimental medical procedure. Medicine will turn into (if not already there) a salemanship game. "Cures baldness, impotence and raises IQ's, come one come all, only 10 cents".
The FDA ensures a standard of research and documentation required to provide some common level of proof. Its not perfect, but I dont trust the masses to make informed decisions. There were a whole bunch of women who thought Thalydimide was a wonder drug, until their babies were born. But for every bad story there is also a good one. If the treatment has the success purported, why not get some investors, and get the approval required and own the procedure, instead of the cowboy approach. This is only going to lead to a legal battle, someone else will find the investors, but the treatment itself could end up in court for years as well as the FDA process.
The only comment this 49 year old is that I produce twice as much code as the youngens in my 40 hr work week, than they do in their 60 hrs (yes I do have a lot of domain knowledge to go along with some experience and libraries I have developed). I actually hit my timelines, give reasonably accurate estimates. But only earn 30% more. Then again, I have three department heads arguing over who gets me next...
My favorite was a contract I did where the company policy was to hire 34 NEW graduates and pay them almost nothing with the monkey-bible theory. I made a TON of money when they need to call in some experience to get their software to work. I wish more companies would do this:)
I would agree with the desensitizing of some of the younger listeners. I have 2 daughters 16 and 18 and I always laugh when they come to me with some "new" music they heard. The last was some Iron Maiden. My 18 yr olds comment was how come my old LP's sounded so good played on my "old" turn table (yes I still have one that I jealously guard) When she compares what she plays on her iPod vs the LP, even she notices the difference.
Isnt this going backwards with so much research being done to distributed renwable energy systems? We are creating a central point of failure or an alien magnetic launch pad. Think about wrapping those super conductors in a coil? I would rather see these dollars spent creating more solar/wind/wave/tide/thermal/etc farms in a distributed system where the brown outs are occuring. By creating these types of farms, the overall cost of creating more decreases as more companies are willing to research and manufacture the components because now there is a market.
As a research project on super conducting it is probably a good project. And I admit my 5 min of research qualifies me only as highly informed, not an expert.
would have this cracked in no time (at least withing the timeframe of one episode)
From what I have see her do, no encryption is safe for more than 41 minutes
Im a pilot and had to quit flying for 4 years due to my medical. When I started flying again, I went up for a few hours of dual instruction just to get checked out.
I was mortified, Im 49 years old and learned to fly in a 1949 fleet canuk with minimal instumentation. One of the greatest skills my instructors taught me was to ALWAYS know where I am.
My young instructor almost laughed at my wax paper covered knee map when we sat down. I have pencil attached to it with 1" marking so I can get scale and distance easily.
We went up practiced a few things and then he said lets head for home. I started to turn to the heading I knew would take us back to the airport, my 25 year old instructor reached for the GPS. By the time he had finished, I was already on heading.
Now the technology is great, but he was really impressed that I knew the heading home, as he said he only had a general idea. I truly wonder what would happen to a young guy like that if the GPS ever failed? More importantly, I will bet he is not teaching the map reading skills that will allow new pilots to accurately, and quickly find their way home. (Just an FYI, I live in Northern Alberta, the land of few man made landmarks and a million little lakes that all look the same and change shape based on water level)
First I would write games that combine the standard or specialized controllers with Natal. This will give new meaning to games like Guitar Hero as you try and press the keys behind your back!
But I can see this extending way beyond gaming. I coach high level amature sports (soccer and hockey) one of my favorite tools is the video camera. Now what if you could put a player on a skating treadmill infront of an XBox and and provide real time stride analysis.
Imagine a golf game with a REAL club. How long will it be before some adds "prop" recognition to their games.
Think of the other controlling aspects from controlling the TV set, phone, security system, automatic window shades. All with a gesture.
Excersize games/videos can take on a whole new dimension with interactive feedback. Heck games themselves can become a workout instead of a thumb bruise.
Now what if this technology is also converted to your PC, Your Car, or imagine a buisness that can react to customer motion! Think about a business that can start profiling body posture. I can think of a few car dealerships that would pay heavy for that.
I grant you that this is still in the future, but the first mouse was nothing more than a block of wood with a.15 cent button drilled into the top.
Wii broke the ground, now comes the assault of the new technology. I wont just stop at gaming.
This is a very interesting question because we only have our own frame of reference to rely on:
What if the "Alien" race is simply a nungry colony of termites in a forest of worlds? They may be intelligent, but driven by an instinct to consume. Then again, they may be peaceful bunny rabbits that will simply over bread us into extinction and their theological beliefs wont stop the breading. (think catholic here:) The possibilities are endless.
I find the show of any kind of military might silly, as any race advanced enough to achieve interstellar flight will simply look at our current weapons and laugh. Remember we cant even colonize our own oceans yet! Let alone travel to another star, think of the technology that this would require?
But who says interstellar flight or alien races would use technology, what if it simply were biological? or what if what we describe as communication has no meaning to them at all? perhaps telepathy or group consiousness is "their" way of communicating, a method we simply cant comprehend or perhaps even achieve.
All of this is purely speculation, but I also wonder why we are trying to say hi? If "they" are remotely interested in us, wouldnt "they" use their technological advancement say hi to whom ever interests them? For all we know the wiggly worm on the sidewalk may be trying to say hi to us, and even view our foot as first contact, until it squishes them?
As far as achieving a common law of war or geneava convention is concerned. They probably havent heard of Geneava if their intent is hostile. Plus the chance that their morals are even close to what are are, are probably remote.
I would simply wait for them to say Hi, sit and listen. I have a strong feeling we will be the student in any form of first contact
The biggest problem we have with our education system is funding. Education costs money. I left because of the BS, parents willing to blame me for their childs issues when I taught them for all of 2 hrs per week?, and the fact that I could earn two to three times as much as a software developer. Simply wasnt worth it. A better way... I dont have the training to fully understand the disorder. I believe before I give advice, I should have a SOLID understanding of the issue. I taught high school, my wife taught elementary and junior high (middle school for the US readers). I can tell you the the Teachers Aides that were assigned to any of the handicapped students were in over their head 50% of the time. Quite often, under trained and overworked. Again it comes back to funding. Someone has to pay the bill, for qualified trained help. Failing that, a teacher can only do so much and then it is upto the parent to take over and get the training themselves. Not an easy solution, but the only one I know of...
As a former teacher, I can agree that there are some poor teachers, but there are also poor mechanics, ditch diggers, and doctors. Remember 50% of the doctors (or teachers) are below average. That being said, 50% of the PARENTS are below average. My point is that a teacher only has a child for a max of 6 hrs per day or 30 hrs per week. In today's world there are so many couples that spend the "required" 6 weeks at home to qualify them as a parent and then get daycare, grandma, etc to raise their child. Then are disappointed when the child has no direction. ADD becomes a quick solution. By labeling ADD parents are relieved of their responsibility because now their child has a disease. Some actually do! Many don't. So before we hang the education system I ask: Are you willing to spend more on education to attract better quality teachers? And, are you willing to take more responsibility for your own childs actions and development?
If I answered the survey while on a business trip, my answer would have been WiFi. If I was on vacation, that last thing that I want is WiFi, (A good supply of beer would be a better choice)
The fact that we now live in a connected world cannot be ignored. Ask people if they would prefer WiFi or power stations to charge thier DVD's and see what answer you get. Most of the people using their computer (that I see are using it to watch a movie). Wifi is simply there for entertainment for a number of people.
But as far as expenses go, it would probably be expensive for the airports, and more and more people are getting their own connection through their Cell phone etc. If my company requires I need internet away from the office, there are too many solutions now available.
I would rather see airports spend money on efficiency, ease of travel, REAL security, maintenance.
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The reason remakes are successful is that we are old geeks that revel in the glow of "classics". My 17 and 19 year old children have never heard of many of my old "classics" and refuse to watch the old "black and white" versions I have. They cant understand why I think the the original The Day the Earth Stood Still or War of Worlds, are not even the same story as the remakes. They did however shell out their twelve bucks for a tried and true forumla. Although the fact that I like the movie title should have chased them away screaming. Hollywood or movie making is about making $. I will invest in a remake that has made money far sooner than I will in a "new" idea. it is simple econonics. Logans Run will make money. Period. Maybe not record amounts, but it will keep everyone involved employeed until the next "great" idea comes along. The purpose is and always has been to make money. So with actors and crew available, but no "great" ideas brimming, Lets do a remake so we all get to eat supper.
If RIAA and MPAA or whoever can charge me for every blank DVD and CD I purchase without proof that I have downloaded anything illegally why are we so upset with the mobsters. My musician friend says he has never seen a cent of what I have paid for my blank media.
Its funny, but I am being forced to look in the direction of some of these sites. I have been downloading movies and tv shows from iTunes because it was too easy. Now my wife would like to watch some of these on our TV, but guess what? I cant! Not without spending another $260 for apple TV. Not because my DVD player wont handle digital media... Our home movies play just fine from a thumb drive. But the stuff I have paid for wont! So my solution, download it from somewhere else.
Sorry I have no sympathy for the MPAA and its DRM. Create a business model that is affordable and competitive with the crimials, and the criminals will go somewhere else and I will continue to buy legit.
We live in a big brother society. Everywhere you go, you are on camera. My city just installed cameras at every intersection, stating it was to help traffic flow analysis, and oh yeah it will also issue speeding an red light photo tickets. Now we are a small city so this was easy to do, but so far, traffic patterns seem the same, but there are a lot more flashes at the intersections now. But more importantly, did you consent to being filmed? I can even pull up the AMA website and watch and capture video from some of these video feeds. I dont remember allowing myself to be filmed.
Walk into a store, look up, again you are being captured on video. Did you consent to that?
Now try this, take your video camera, put it on your shoulder and walk into the local police station... Or even stand outside and take a picture. Google was able to do this all over north america, but I will bet if you stand out there filming for 10 min, you will be asked to leave.
At some point we have given up our right, if we ever really had one, to not be filmed without our consent. At one point, it might have been because we were still reasonably anonymous. Now with a few searches through facebook, I can get an awful lot of pictures to cross reference with my video.
And now the police are saying they should be exempt from all of this video. Fact is we live in a video captured society, and it is getting worse. I remember reading in a novel about a society that had every moment of their lives recored. This was held in a secure private data facility, and only accessed if a crime was committed. I see us heading in that direction.
Lastly, the police have a hard enough time keeping up with catching the criminals. I am on the side of if you are doing nothing wrong, what does it matter. That is why I dont worry about the store video camera, im not stealing. Yes partial editing or videos can be used, but then they are also taken in context.
I am sure...
Police arrest suspect.
Suspect strikes officer.
bystander starts filming.
police strike back, wrestle suspect to ground and handcuff.
Suspect gets video and charges police.
Would a judger really not take into account that the video started 1/2 way through an incident? And if the media started to sensationalize then its time to charge the media!
In fact in this situation, the police could turn around and use the video to support thier argument that they used "reasonable force". UNLESS they decided on a little payback for the the first hit. But then the police themselfs have sunk to the level of a street gang.
We live in a recorded society. Learn to make home movies or really good disguises.
Once again science has put some poor animal out of a job. The snailski's were great spokes family for high speed internet. Now what?...
Strong Beer, mayan calander, 6 pack...
So who wants to bet they stopped writing the calendar around their 6th beer...
I believe they had a limited story in season 1 and it was different enough that people said "Hey, way cool!"
Season 1: Hey lets make this island no one understands with WAY bizzare STUFF and see what the audience thinks. And oh yeah, we should do things like throw in a polar bear, some "other" people (well come up with a name later), and make the whole jungle shake to get people really scared and give them a purpose to stay together.
Season 2: Hey it WORKED, were still employed... Now what, lets do it again. Add some more weird stuff, the audience imagination is going wild. We might even be able to skype an idea or two.
Season 3: We should really start to try and tie some of this together. Lets do the easy ones.
Season 4: Im starting to get dry, anybody got an idea where this going yet? Ive got so many loose threads my mind is like an angora sweater. Lets hit the web for some weird ideas.
Season 5: Hmmm... looks like its going end next season. Lets just blow the whole thing up and then we can do what we want next season.
Season 6: Anyone know how to tie this ball of yarn together? Hmmm... me neither. Lets do some weird dream/purgatory/lifeanddeath stuff and the audience will make some stuff up and tie it together for us. Just remember we need to sing kumbayaa at the end OK?
And for me that about sums up the what the writers were thinking about as they drank beer in group think sessions.
A theme I read in many of the replys were centered around "I should be able to make my own choices". Yes to a certain extent. But how many of these people will run back to the gov't when they develop bone cancer? How does the average person who has trouble with their VCR make an informed decsion on a new experimental medical procedure. Medicine will turn into (if not already there) a salemanship game. "Cures baldness, impotence and raises IQ's, come one come all, only 10 cents". The FDA ensures a standard of research and documentation required to provide some common level of proof. Its not perfect, but I dont trust the masses to make informed decisions. There were a whole bunch of women who thought Thalydimide was a wonder drug, until their babies were born. But for every bad story there is also a good one. If the treatment has the success purported, why not get some investors, and get the approval required and own the procedure, instead of the cowboy approach. This is only going to lead to a legal battle, someone else will find the investors, but the treatment itself could end up in court for years as well as the FDA process.
is a RTF I am going to read!
The only comment this 49 year old is that I produce twice as much code as the youngens in my 40 hr work week, than they do in their 60 hrs (yes I do have a lot of domain knowledge to go along with some experience and libraries I have developed). I actually hit my timelines, give reasonably accurate estimates. But only earn 30% more. Then again, I have three department heads arguing over who gets me next... My favorite was a contract I did where the company policy was to hire 34 NEW graduates and pay them almost nothing with the monkey-bible theory. I made a TON of money when they need to call in some experience to get their software to work. I wish more companies would do this :)
But I have to go outside and play now
Seriously! Cause once they start taking things appart, they will learn LOTS!
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I would agree with the desensitizing of some of the younger listeners. I have 2 daughters 16 and 18 and I always laugh when they come to me with some "new" music they heard. The last was some Iron Maiden. My 18 yr olds comment was how come my old LP's sounded so good played on my "old" turn table (yes I still have one that I jealously guard) When she compares what she plays on her iPod vs the LP, even she notices the difference.
Isnt this going backwards with so much research being done to distributed renwable energy systems? We are creating a central point of failure or an alien magnetic launch pad. Think about wrapping those super conductors in a coil? I would rather see these dollars spent creating more solar/wind/wave/tide/thermal/etc farms in a distributed system where the brown outs are occuring. By creating these types of farms, the overall cost of creating more decreases as more companies are willing to research and manufacture the components because now there is a market. As a research project on super conducting it is probably a good project. And I admit my 5 min of research qualifies me only as highly informed, not an expert.
Is YES! Billable hours here we come!
The genetic mutation is called children. Guarentees less sleep for the parents.
the users dont understand what I write!
would have this cracked in no time (at least withing the timeframe of one episode) From what I have see her do, no encryption is safe for more than 41 minutes
Im a pilot and had to quit flying for 4 years due to my medical. When I started flying again, I went up for a few hours of dual instruction just to get checked out.
I was mortified, Im 49 years old and learned to fly in a 1949 fleet canuk with minimal instumentation. One of the greatest skills my instructors taught me was to ALWAYS know where I am.
My young instructor almost laughed at my wax paper covered knee map when we sat down. I have pencil attached to it with 1" marking so I can get scale and distance easily.
We went up practiced a few things and then he said lets head for home. I started to turn to the heading I knew would take us back to the airport, my 25 year old instructor reached for the GPS. By the time he had finished, I was already on heading.
Now the technology is great, but he was really impressed that I knew the heading home, as he said he only had a general idea. I truly wonder what would happen to a young guy like that if the GPS ever failed? More importantly, I will bet he is not teaching the map reading skills that will allow new pilots to accurately, and quickly find their way home. (Just an FYI, I live in Northern Alberta, the land of few man made landmarks and a million little lakes that all look the same and change shape based on water level)
First I would write games that combine the standard or specialized controllers with Natal. This will give new meaning to games like Guitar Hero as you try and press the keys behind your back!
But I can see this extending way beyond gaming. I coach high level amature sports (soccer and hockey) one of my favorite tools is the video camera. Now what if you could put a player on a skating treadmill infront of an XBox and and provide real time stride analysis.
Imagine a golf game with a REAL club. How long will it be before some adds "prop" recognition to their games.
Think of the other controlling aspects from controlling the TV set, phone, security system, automatic window shades. All with a gesture.
Excersize games/videos can take on a whole new dimension with interactive feedback. Heck games themselves can become a workout instead of a thumb bruise.
Now what if this technology is also converted to your PC, Your Car, or imagine a buisness that can react to customer motion! Think about a business that can start profiling body posture. I can think of a few car dealerships that would pay heavy for that.
I grant you that this is still in the future, but the first mouse was nothing more than a block of wood with a .15 cent button drilled into the top.
Wii broke the ground, now comes the assault of the new technology. I wont just stop at gaming.
This is a very interesting question because we only have our own frame of reference to rely on: What if the "Alien" race is simply a nungry colony of termites in a forest of worlds? They may be intelligent, but driven by an instinct to consume. Then again, they may be peaceful bunny rabbits that will simply over bread us into extinction and their theological beliefs wont stop the breading. (think catholic here :) The possibilities are endless.
I find the show of any kind of military might silly, as any race advanced enough to achieve interstellar flight will simply look at our current weapons and laugh. Remember we cant even colonize our own oceans yet! Let alone travel to another star, think of the technology that this would require?
But who says interstellar flight or alien races would use technology, what if it simply were biological? or what if what we describe as communication has no meaning to them at all? perhaps telepathy or group consiousness is "their" way of communicating, a method we simply cant comprehend or perhaps even achieve.
All of this is purely speculation, but I also wonder why we are trying to say hi? If "they" are remotely interested in us, wouldnt "they" use their technological advancement say hi to whom ever interests them? For all we know the wiggly worm on the sidewalk may be trying to say hi to us, and even view our foot as first contact, until it squishes them?
As far as achieving a common law of war or geneava convention is concerned. They probably havent heard of Geneava if their intent is hostile. Plus the chance that their morals are even close to what are are, are probably remote.
I would simply wait for them to say Hi, sit and listen. I have a strong feeling we will be the student in any form of first contact
The biggest problem we have with our education system is funding. Education costs money. I left because of the BS, parents willing to blame me for their childs issues when I taught them for all of 2 hrs per week?, and the fact that I could earn two to three times as much as a software developer. Simply wasnt worth it. A better way... I dont have the training to fully understand the disorder. I believe before I give advice, I should have a SOLID understanding of the issue. I taught high school, my wife taught elementary and junior high (middle school for the US readers). I can tell you the the Teachers Aides that were assigned to any of the handicapped students were in over their head 50% of the time. Quite often, under trained and overworked. Again it comes back to funding. Someone has to pay the bill, for qualified trained help. Failing that, a teacher can only do so much and then it is upto the parent to take over and get the training themselves. Not an easy solution, but the only one I know of...
As a former teacher, I can agree that there are some poor teachers, but there are also poor mechanics, ditch diggers, and doctors. Remember 50% of the doctors (or teachers) are below average. That being said, 50% of the PARENTS are below average. My point is that a teacher only has a child for a max of 6 hrs per day or 30 hrs per week. In today's world there are so many couples that spend the "required" 6 weeks at home to qualify them as a parent and then get daycare, grandma, etc to raise their child. Then are disappointed when the child has no direction. ADD becomes a quick solution. By labeling ADD parents are relieved of their responsibility because now their child has a disease. Some actually do! Many don't. So before we hang the education system I ask: Are you willing to spend more on education to attract better quality teachers? And, are you willing to take more responsibility for your own childs actions and development?
If I answered the survey while on a business trip, my answer would have been WiFi. If I was on vacation, that last thing that I want is WiFi, (A good supply of beer would be a better choice) The fact that we now live in a connected world cannot be ignored. Ask people if they would prefer WiFi or power stations to charge thier DVD's and see what answer you get. Most of the people using their computer (that I see are using it to watch a movie). Wifi is simply there for entertainment for a number of people. But as far as expenses go, it would probably be expensive for the airports, and more and more people are getting their own connection through their Cell phone etc. If my company requires I need internet away from the office, there are too many solutions now available. I would rather see airports spend money on efficiency, ease of travel, REAL security, maintenance.