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Quixote wrote:
> ">^,,^<" <miracle@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:38sr4uF5rls60U1@individual.net...
>> ScratchMonkey wrote:
>>> Seen on SlashDot:
>>>
>>>
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/04/0548206
>>>
>>> The US held a tea party for their protest. Does this mean Mr. K will
>>> throw a LAN party?
![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
>>
>>
>> In the Times article, I found this quote ("Ofcom predicts that
>> more than half of Britain's households will be watching television
>> over the internet by 2012.") to be patently stupid.
>> How would more than one person sit comfortably around a
>> desktop monitor or laptop screen? Both are still too small to place
>> across a room and watch, so that negates the comfy armchair or sofa.
>> Nope, it will never happen. One person watching a DVD on their
>> computer makes sense, but a whole family huddled in front of a
>> monitor to watch? No way.
>> The UK government is just fishing around for a bigger source of
>> future revenue.
>>
>> So there's my lousy 2 cents.
![Smile :) :)](/data/assets/smilies/smile.gif)
>>
>> (Hey! There's no numpad on this laptop! How am I supposed to
>> make the "alt 0162"?!?)
>>
>
> Remember my toy?? http://www.streamium.com/products/sl300i/ This
> is how. It streams from the internet or my harddrive to my 35" incher
> in the living room. Brings out the best of Whole Heap of Trouble. :^)
>
> Quixote
Ah, of course. Technology is progressing at an almost imaginable
pace, so goodness knows where we'll be in just a mere 5 or 10 years
from now.
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>^,,^< Miracle