Local cable company upped speed several times to now 50Mbits for basically same $50/month with no limits, but I don't use that capacity. (Don't even have the right modem.) A gig is not necessary for even pretty good quality streaming, let alone for (yuck) Facebook, and such.
I guess you're right.. Just like we don't need more than 640KB of RAM either.
Hardly anyone wants that speed except pirates! Here at Techdirt, the pirato-geeks* assume their greed to download free content is universal, but it ain't.
I think you could just turn your lights off (you know, like in REAL(!) movie theatres) which may stop the kinect from picking up how many people are in the room.
..of course, watching TV with the lights off may then turn into DRM circumvention and get you arrested..
What it definitely IS home to is a couple of annoying industry shills who have little to no reading comprehension and can't image anything outside the fucked up, out of touch, greedy cunt faced corporate box they live in.
I have read every comment in this thread hoping AC would actually give us a link to his creations. For some reason there is a insy little bit of me that hopes he is a real musician, albeit obviously a rather deluded one. I actually feel a bit sad that he didnt. Weird.
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I guess you're right.. Just like we don't need more than 640KB of RAM either.
Hardly anyone wants that speed except pirates! Here at Techdirt, the pirato-geeks* assume their greed to download free content is universal, but it ain't.
* a new term: steal it
It's shit, I don't want it.
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He wishes it was, that way we'd all still be only dial-up and there would be 'no' piracy.
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out_of_the_blue is a dick
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..of course, watching TV with the lights off may then turn into DRM circumvention and get you arrested..
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Maybe it is..Maybe it isn't...
What it definitely IS home to is a couple of annoying industry shills who have little to no reading comprehension and can't image anything outside the fucked up, out of touch, greedy cunt faced corporate box they live in.
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I like it when inane comments are flagged so I don't have to read them.
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Anyway, go NZ judges!
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You give me a free ride there every time I read one of your idiotic rants.
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