Yeah, something is missing here. My bet would the re-transmission fees. right now cable pays to re-transmit the signal. I bet Aereo is paying and broadcast TV is scared the cable companies will decide not to pay.

The problem is the world is changing radically right now and many companies are in their death throws as their market is replaced. Broadcast TV is dead it just doesn't know it yet, same as Newspapers. What will ultimately replace them isn't clear, because the do provide a needed service of local news, its just that is about a 1/10th of what they do and get paid for now.

Maybe your mute? you can't speak. sign language (real sign language) is much faster then typing or writing from what I understand. Wear the gloves leave your phone in your pocket, wear a small speaker around your neck. You look fairly normal standing at the bank instead of like a freak waving a clip board.

keep in mind to do sign language, you don't need to be able to see your hands like with typing. you don't have to fish a device out your pocket every time you want to talk...

It would be perfect for any situation where speaking isn't possible. and maybe even typing

  Loud machine rooms? built in speakers in the sound protection gear.
scuba diving?
someone on a respirator?

I'm not saying it would be a airplane or internet, level game changer but I could seriously see folks coming up with some nifty uses for this.

Actually more I sit thinking about it more game changing I think this COULD be... ( if perfected of course)

It very much DOES, just not in the most efficient way.

while this may have limited to no REAL value at the moment, there were a LOT of saying the EXACT same thing about the internet in 92-94.

You naysayers might want to think about that.

Its funny, I had a post last year (maybe 2?) where I came in on the side of "Pagers" for level of service and reliability.

Today, its the opposite, We are in the process of turning ours in because they are becoming LESS reliable then our phones. There are spots less then 5 miles from my hospital where they don't work because the pagers companies are turning off towers as fast as they can.

I fully expect "normal" pagers to be dead in 4-5 years (probably much less)

You forgot "get off my lawn" you geezer

Seriously, things change, get used to it...

You can also live in a tent in the wood and save electricity AND gas...

What was your point?

of course, what do you expect, the employee to stay around making 20-30% less?

Training is only part of the equation, you need to PAY them after you train them...

There just playing loose with the term "building", what they should say is "erected"

This is not uncommon, see the "Liberty" ships built during WW II , the "record" is like 36 hours, BUT 80% of the ship was pre-built and they just it put together.

This gives a level control not available on radio. you can customize stations to the point of "almost" building your own playlist like you would with your own collection.

Streaming = radio customized to the "playlist" level.

To be honest, this is the evolution of radio, the same way B/W was replaced by Color.

The same thing is happening in the TV/Cable/Dish world, its slowly going to View on Demand

You move onto the next provider, (i.e. change radio stations).

This isn't about owning or renting online... this is about streaming, (i.e. pandora, slackware,etc). Think radio, your issue is mute. If one provider dies just select another. You're not purchasing anything.

Do you THINK their not? Seriously like the other poster mentioned, its 2-4 years tops... probably much less for tablets...

Look where we where 5 years ago...

http://www.mobilewhack.com/top-ten-cell-phones-of-2007/

I'm still giggling about the fact that the pollster didn't feel WP7 was worth its own category but WebOS was :P

Exactly,

What killed MySpace was itself, it was a good first attempt but missed the mark. It's fault was it actually gave people to much control over their pages. All I remember about it was getting annoyed because each "kid" (and that was its demographic) had 3-4 music players set to auto play over each other. Add to that the themed pages you couldn't read because it was black on blacker font...

Facebook, solved those issues and made it "grandma" friendly. The demographic that found social networking usable went from kids,goths,bands to basically everyone. Once everyone was on it, it only got stronger.

That's also FB's strength everyone is on it( /. geeks not withstanding). Whatever eventually competes with and ultimately beats FB will have to overcome this. Community(real or imagined) is what will keep FB on top.

intelligence on /. bravo dear sir...