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Blockbuster is going to start offering downloads of movies for TiVo customers in Australia. They plan to have over 100 movies available at the launch, and prices will be $5.95 for new releases, with older movies coming in at $3.95. The movies are rented out to you for 30 days at a time, but there is no word on how many times you will be able to watch a film in that period.
>> Blockbuster Offering Movie Downloads On TiVo (Lifehacker)
Turns out someone guy wants to abolish technobabble.
Peter Griffiths, [...] is hoping that his Plain English Campaign can knock down the “walls of techobabble” by “pulling our heads out of the digital clouds and using plain English.” Ironic, really, given that most of the technologically illiterate wouldn’t know that a digital cloud actually refers to an off-site storage hub where information is exchanged.
Come on… Seriously?? Listen, learning words like dongle, WAP and firewire are not really that hard.
“If you’re keen on trying out one of those clever devices from the One Laptop Per Child project, you can get halfway there by running the OLPC’s operating system from a USB drive.”
Suger-on-a-stick is a version of the linux-based ’sugar’ OS used by the OLPC, repackaged to work off a usb drive - cool huh?
>> Sugar On A Stick via Lifehacker
