Then why are downloads so popular?
Because they're quick and seem cheap. Do a google search for Itunes restore, it's not pretty.
Then why are downloads so popular?
I hate the net neutrality debate with a passion. I understand that we need to keep the ISPs from going to a old school AT&T like system where they own everything and tell you what you can do with it, but at the same time some of the network neutrality supporters are way out in left field.
I remember reading an article about a week ago where apparently, because phone through the cable company runs on its own separate internal network, it gives the cable phone service an unfair advantage over services like Vonage. It's by design that it has to work like that, not by malicious intent.
The ISPs do have their problems, but call them out on the big stuff, not the small things. Small time BitTorrent throttling and phone service QoS are small things. Now, if a cable company tries saying that you have to pay them $10 bucks a month for the right to watch your instant movies on NetFlix, THAT'S a big thing.
Because they're quick and seem cheap. Do a google search for Itunes restore, it's not pretty.
Video and VOIP communications require a QoS that BitTorrent doesn't.
Exactly my point. The companies should be able to prioritize traffic that NEEDS it. The net neutrality don't like that idea. More and more they're making themselves look like a bunch of crybabies. As long as the ISP doesn't degrade services to the point of being unusable (BitTorrent was usable with the way Comcast was throttling it) or start charging people to prioritize certain types of traffic, I see no problem with network management. Network engineers know better how to make their network efficient than the FCC does, and upstream BitTorrent traffic can kill a close to overloaded cable node.
Ask Memebag.12 years later, what's the state of physical media viability?
Are you telling me 3D TVs were just a fad? Who could have predicted that?Funny thing is, I was pondering the whole DVD thing when I replaced my TV and discovered that 3D TV's aren't being made anymore. They still make the 3D blue ray players, and I still think the format is convenient. I'm expecting they will be around for quite a while before they disappear though.
Ask Memebag.
When this thread started, I don't think the cloud existed.
My panasonic plasma is 3-d capable. There used to be a couple of cable channels that showed 3-d movies, but I never paid the $300 or so for 2 sets of glasses.
Ah, the good old rear projection TV. Never had one. I went right from a Sony Wega XBR HD tube TV right to a Panasonic Plasma.At one point, I could have paid for ESPN3D and (I think) Starz 3D.
Well, the 3D-ready TV I had suffered from Sony's "green blob" issue....go ahead, look it up...they offered me a sweet deal on a flat-panel 1080p TV.
The 3D one was where the lightbulb would eventually need replaced. I don't believe it ever was replaced before the green blob appeared.
I guess that's true. I've had the same AOL email since '96. All of our emails are in a cloud.Some form of a "cloud" has existed since the dawn of web-based email back in....well, I remember Yahoo mail in 1999.
The "cloud" has definitely existed for longer than we think.