Really? 8TB of hard drive space just because the guy is too lazy to go grab a DVD when he wants to watch it?
I'm currently contemplating exactly that. But I'll admit, I am pretty lazy. (And technically, I think I only need about 6 TB at the moment.)
Avoiding the "because you bought this, we'll lecture you on why you should've bought it" intros does have some real appeal too.
Gotta watch those EULAs...
But due to the paranoid delusions of many, many Americans, air travel is now less convenient than it was 20 years ago.
It's true. Usually we drive from North Dallas to my mother's family's house an hour west of San Antonio. It's about 6 hours by car on average, since we only travel down there on busy holiday weekends. Finally with a good job I decided to "treat" us to a 45 minute plane ride. Between parking, security, waiting on the tarmac, picking up luggage and getting the rental car it actually took us 7 hours to get to our destination. I'm seriously looking at starting a PAC to get high speed light rail between Dallas and San Antonio (with a stop in Austin of course).
Yeah, except with MPEG-LA charging website owners a per-video fee (ensuring most webmasters avoid it) and with both Firefox and Opera refusing to implement it, h.264 already lost the battle as well.
Next Opera version will use GStreamer, which means that, as soon as there's an H.264 codec for it (isn't there one already?), Opera will happily support it.
As for Firefox - given that Google backs H.264, wanna bet that there will soon be a (closed-source, but cross-platform) Firefox plugin that will enable support for it?
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
