The companies should adopt some EPA type ratings - like the city and highway ratings for cars. You can have a "highway" or low usage battery rating where wireless radios are off, and real low system usage. And a "city" or high usage battery rating using wireless, watching videos, or playing games.
The Lenovo, Dell, and eeePC I've purchased have lived up to their battery promises, but only under light usage.
You normally take the high road, but this doesn't seem to be the high road. It would be great to see posts trying to engage the RIAA instead of responding with criticisms that they'll ignore. I'm sure you make efforts to contact and engage them, but I'd rather see posts calling on them to have a conversation or debate or Q&A instead of ones like this.
There are so many sites out there that claim Connected Nation and others will do a horrible job mapping - why can't these sites band together and start a grassroots broadband mapping initiative?
I'm not a web developer so unfortunately I'm just another loud-mouth down playing the difficulties involved. But, if a few of you great bloggers got together and started a project based on Google Maps that allowed people to just input their location and the amount of choices they have for broadband or internet access they could do a pretty great job at showing what the competition landscape looks like. I would love to help in that kind of effort.
The best business models I've seen for making money in video games is the MMO market - where you can't play unless you log on (which requires a license key).
For single player games on your PC I can't see where the scarcities are, good thing I'm not a developer.
Valve's Steam platform really seems to be the way to go. The experiment I'd love to see is allowing customers to play games for free for one weekend a month, but if they want to play during the rest of the month they need to buy a license. Letting people get a taste before dropping $50 will really benefit the good games. Very low prices can benefit the bad games.
Listening to Howard Stern over the past week a caller called in and said he mailed Howard a burnt copy of the movie. The studios heard that and freaked out. They called and emailed him and his whole staff begging him not to watch it and promised to hand deliver a DVD once the whole movie was finished. Howard has said he has no desire to watch a bootlegged copy, but since the studio over reacted he got to talk about the fact the movie was available to his 12 million listeners, again.
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The Lenovo, Dell, and eeePC I've purchased have lived up to their battery promises, but only under light usage.
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What about grassroots mapping?
I'm not a web developer so unfortunately I'm just another loud-mouth down playing the difficulties involved. But, if a few of you great bloggers got together and started a project based on Google Maps that allowed people to just input their location and the amount of choices they have for broadband or internet access they could do a pretty great job at showing what the competition landscape looks like. I would love to help in that kind of effort.
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What scarcities?
For single player games on your PC I can't see where the scarcities are, good thing I'm not a developer.
Valve's Steam platform really seems to be the way to go. The experiment I'd love to see is allowing customers to play games for free for one weekend a month, but if they want to play during the rest of the month they need to buy a license. Letting people get a taste before dropping $50 will really benefit the good games. Very low prices can benefit the bad games.
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Studios freaking out
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