If physical media is to be replaced by downloads for 1080p HD content anytime in the near future, someone better tell the ISPs, especially in Canada. I'm a Rogers customers (which seems to be becoming the pariah of ISPs in terms of thottling and bandwidth limits), and I'm allowed 60Gb/month as a "mainstream", or average customer. I can get more, if i want to pay for it, but i'm already paying enough for my 60Gb.

If I want to download a single Blueray, that will use more than half of my monthly allowance.

Until the ISPs start handing out realistic speeds and bandwidth caps, at realistic prices, this will never happen.

Lokatana

The dude had a baseball bat, a chainsaw and a crossbow, plus a number of bottles of "unidentified" liquid. You don't test out police encryption with a crossbow! Lok

1. Purchase Generators & Fuel
2. Build solar array
3. Stockpile Food, Batteries
4. Dig a Well
5. Install Wood Stove
6. Wait for Solar Event
7. Watch in dismay as the rioting mobs break down your door and take everything.

-Lok

The sun moves in an 11 year cycle. Right now we're at the bottom part of the cycle, within 3 years we will be back at the top of the cycle. -Lok

I don't see what the big deal is. America has hired a contractor, with an option to renew if he meets his performance objectives and has a positive performance appraisal. When I got my last contract, I didn't get this kind of attention!

:)

-Lok

Many corporations are taking a serious look at PC virtualization, which eliminates the need to purchase PCs.

Instead, toss a bunch of blade racks together, virtualize your userbase, simplify your desktop management, address many of your network security issues, keep all your data "safe" in the data center, allow better user experience for remote users... lots and lots of benefits (if you can get it to work).

In my company (a large bank), we are due to refresh 10's of thousands of PCs, yet instead, we may refresh NONE of them, go with virtualization (and the saved costs of keeping older PCs will fund the new infrastructure). With PCs bought in the last 3-4 years, acting as thin-clients, we can keep them until they break, and replace them with some cheap thintops.

If many companies are going down this route, then it would be no surprise, coupled with the economy, that PC sales in the corporate world would be dropping!

Lokatana