robertgiam - Slashdot User

Comment Actually, the title was CmdrTaco's not mine (Score 1) 646

by robertgiam on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @08:03PM (#31591660) Attached to: SSD Price Drops Signaling End of Spinning Media?

I wrote the original story. In the article, I didn't talk about optical storage. Slashdot chose to use a different title over here. But, now that I think about it, I'm not so sure that BluRay will be as long lived as DVD. But it won't be because of SSD. It'll get knocked off by streaming and download services. But pricing is a major issue there. If studios allowed for better rental terms for 1080p VOD from Amazon, Netflix, etc. BluRay would be suffering now - at least amongst folks with 10+ Mbps Internet connections. You can already get high quality downloads to your DVR, PS3, or other box. So better rental terms (like 72 hours instead of 24) + More pervasive high speed broadband + BluRay/DVD-like Interactivity (languages, subtitles, commentaries, etc) = no need for BluRay.

Submission + - French net filtering plan moves forward (goodgearguide.com.au)

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angry tapir

on Thursday February 18, 2010 @01:23AM

angry tapir writes: "French lawmakers have voted to approve a draft law to filter Internet traffic that Slashdot previously discussed. The government says the measure is intended to catch child pornographers. The Senate, where the government has a majority, will soon give the bill a second reading. If the Senate makes no amendments to the text, that will also be its final reading, as the government has declared the bill "urgent," a procedural move that reduces the usual cycle of four readings to two."

Submission + - Google's Nexus One is Actually a Steal at $49 (gadgetopolis.com) 2

Submitted by gjt on Thursday February 04, 2010 @10:50PM

gjt writes: I initially posted a story ragging on the Nexus One. But then a commenter pointed out a problem with my initial logic. I investigated the commenter's thoughts. After doing some math, I concluded that the $529 unlocked/unsubsidized Google Nexus One gPhone is much cheaper than it appears to be. In fact it's only $49 when you do the math — and that's unlocked! Google likes to say that the Nexus One represents "Our new approach to buying a mobile phone". But it actually seems as though T-Mobile deserves most of the credit by providing a $20/month discount to customers who purchase an unsubsidized phone — which for some reason didn't seem to get much attention when T-Mobile created the new plan back in October 2009.

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