Off the wall prediction for '08
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Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
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Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAIt will be discovered that the RIAA has the largest number of peer-to-peer music distribution machines in the world...loaded up specifically to trap unsuspecting music lovers :~ :rolleyes: Steve
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Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CA -
To be followed closely by the sequel - Duke Nukem Forever II.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc Clifton -
To be followed closely by the sequel - Duke Nukem Forever II.
But fortunately we have the nanny-state politicians who can step in to protect us poor stupid consumers, most of whom would not know a JVM from a frozen chicken. Bruce Pierson
Because programming is an art, not a science. Marc CliftonOr Duke Nukem Forever-ever :)
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The rule of three: "The first time you notice something that might repeat, don't generalize it. The second time the situation occurs, develop in a similar fashion -- possibly even copy/paste -- but don't generalize yet. On the third time, look to generalize the approach." -
Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAVista will be taken out of market and XP will be re-released, Spain will win the Eurocup, the super string theory will be proved, all Linux flavours will be unified into a single, easy-to-use, easy-to-install competitive OS; the C++ Committee will include an ABI to the 0x draft, at least 50 mexican politicians will be exiled to Antarctica and I'll FINALLY finish my career. Well, that's my wish list, I'll be surprised if some any of these things actually happens. :)
Hope is the negation of reality - Raistlin Majere
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Vista will be taken out of market and XP will be re-released, Spain will win the Eurocup, the super string theory will be proved, all Linux flavours will be unified into a single, easy-to-use, easy-to-install competitive OS; the C++ Committee will include an ABI to the 0x draft, at least 50 mexican politicians will be exiled to Antarctica and I'll FINALLY finish my career. Well, that's my wish list, I'll be surprised if some any of these things actually happens. :)
Hope is the negation of reality - Raistlin Majere
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
all Linux flavours will be unified into a single, easy-to-use, easy-to-install competitive OS
Hey, we're trying to make predictions with actual chances of coming true!! ;P
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
at least 50 mexican politicians will be exiled to Antarctica
I'd probably send 500 to the moon (I don't want them in this planet)!
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
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Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
all Linux flavours will be unified into a single, easy-to-use, easy-to-install competitive OS
Hey, we're trying to make predictions with actual chances of coming true!! ;P
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:
at least 50 mexican politicians will be exiled to Antarctica
I'd probably send 500 to the moon (I don't want them in this planet)!
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
I'd probably send 500 to the moon (I don't want them in this planet)!
Fair enough, I didn't think in the penguins' sake. :)
Hope is the negation of reality - Raistlin Majere
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Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAI subscribe to the Black Swan[^] theory: "...almost all consequential events in history come from the unexpected—while humans convince themselves that these events are explainable in hindsight." I don't know why, but I find it comforting to know that the future may not be as predictable as we like to fool ourselves into thinking.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt
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Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAThe real Roswell story will finally be released :~ Steve
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Lets see... eBay will introduce video ads into Skype to Skype video calls, because with YouTube tightening its control over copyrighted material and Comcast cracking down on BitTorrent, someone with enough time on their hands will have hacked together a service for P2P video broadcasting via Skype's network. Fearing a lawsuit from Viacom, Skype has then complied with their warning, limiting video calls to 10 minutes, forcing pirates to chop up feature films into 9 minute segments. Google will have cooked up their own version of IP calling to make a buck off the exodus of business users fed up with the 9 minute limitation. Roswell:laugh: P.S. What is yours?
"Angelinos -- excuse me. There will be civility today."
Antonio VillaRaigosa
City Mayor, Los Angeles, CAFive years ago I worked for a VoIP company. At one point, several of us engineers proposed offering free phone calls paid for by a short audio ad at the start of the call and every few minutes thereafter. Still a great idea, but management was excessively stupid at that company and drove it into the ground.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke