A year after the battle of the high definition formats was essentially decided, the future of physical media is more in question than ever before. Sure, we all know that Sony threw enough money at the battle to be the winner, but what have they won? More importantly, has the consumer won? Having two competing formats was not a good thing, but why are prices still so high, and why is adoption still so slow.
So many people are getting worried about the money they have in the bank. It seems we cant go a week without another big name institution getting taken over by the FDIC. Sure it is worrisome, but the good news is thats what the FDIC is there for, and the system is working.
DRM has been around for a while now, from the stupid little code wheels of LucasArts games, Dark red paper with dark blue print from Sim City, all the way to long manuals with obscure passcodes hidden on each page. While all of these are anoying, the more current forms of DRM are more troubling, as they not only try to protect software from being used if it wasn’t legally purchased, they go much farther and penelize the legitimate users, with restrictions so draconian, a sort of self propagating revolt has started on the amazon website. Spore, a new game with one of the most restrictive cases of DRM madness ever seen, has over 2000 reviews giving the game 1 star out of 5. Watch this weeks show, and give us your feedback!
Bandwidth Caps are now a reality for Comcast customers. There has been a huge uproar from the tech and Geek communities. But no matter of its caps, throttling or per gig charges, we are very spoiled here in the United States.
We all love to buy things online, and one of the big benefits is you usually don’t have to pay sales tax. New York passed a state law trying to change that, and online retailers have put up a legal battle, but in the end, can it be avoided?
Airlines nickel and dime youAnyone else remember when flying was a luxury…or at least didn’t feel like a trip to the carnival…where everyone is smiling, but you know they just want all your money?
Mike James has been an active member of the Podcasting community for over two years, and continues to make several shows including MikeThinksNews.com, LetsWatchMovies.com and NewsCastLIVE.com With an offbeat witt, and a sense of humor and timing that has to be experiuence to be understood, one thing is clear, if you want to hear boring sanitized content, look elsewhere, if you want fun, energetic content, you need to listen to Mike.
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