POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Google Fiber : Re: Google Fiber Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:26:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Google Fiber  
From: nemesis
Date: 2 Aug 2012 15:40:00
Message: <web.501ad716a27451adebb90cbd0@news.povray.org>
Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> The prices look pretty insane though.
> >
> > what is really insane, and brace yourself:
> >
> > with this kind of high-speed connection you'll have HD content on the fly.
> > Movies, TV or games, whenever you want from whatever device you want.  Wanna
> > watch "Avatar" now?  No prob, just click away and start watching.
>
> That's a nice /idea/... except that whoever is serving the content will
> be charging you very large fees for this service.

netflix is just an inexpensive R$ 14 here in Brazil.  Now the fast connection is
up to you, but it's not that hard.  I confortably watch SD netflix with nothing
but a 3G cellphone connection! o_0

> > Wanna play
> > the latest nextgen HD game?  No need to buy the latest and most expensive
> > console or GPU, or download any executable, just click away and start playing
> > right away on you inexpensive android device.
>
> How the heck would that work?

they send you video frames and you send them command inputs.  Continuously.


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