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As from the front page item:
In case you haven't noticed, porn drives almost every new technology. The first adopters of VHS and Beta were pornographers because, at the time of release, they were a cheap format to produce and you could watch it in your own home rather than risk being seen on the way to a theater.
Streaming video was primarily and predominantly popularized (say that five times fast) by pornographic web sites for much the same reason.
DVD itself was driven by the adult industry, and features such as branching and camera angles - almost never used by Hollywood - were adopted to add (I shudder to use the word) depth to titles.
In fact, one of the first movies shown in public involved a nude Italian woman. Video technology has always been driven by the male desire for boobies, and likely will be on into the days of direct neural interface. (For which I wait with bated breath...)
Overall though, take a powder on HD video for now. As the veteran of several format wars - my Dreamcast, Turbo-Grafx 16, Atari Lynx, Game Gear, and countless other relics can attest - I've finally learned the value of patience.
 
No porn does not power every new technology. A handful of devices does not equate to every device. Sorry, but your attempt to be clever has failed.

edit: http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html

That gives a US estimate of 10-12 billion per year. That is about 1/25 the revenue of a Walmart, 1/20th of General motors. Microsoft generates 36 billion. Theres no way a comparatively fledgling industry, can have any chance at furthering and developing major "most" technologies. Sorry son, but the porn industry really doesn't influence quite as much as you would like to believe.

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-companies-by-revenue
 
Whatsisname said:
No porn does not power every new technology. A handful of devices does not equate to every device. Sorry, but your attempt to be clever has failed.

edit: http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html

That gives a US estimate of 10-12 billion per year. That is about 1/25 the revenue of a Walmart, 1/20th of General motors. Microsoft generates 36 billion. Theres no way a comparatively fledgling industry, can have any chance at furthering and developing major "most" technologies. Sorry son, but the porn industry really doesn't influence quite as much as you would like to believe.

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-companies-by-revenue
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Aren't economic stats only as good as how recent they are....in May 2001 porn was just starting to saturate the internet(IMO) and he never said they were a sole driver, just a factor, which is undeniable. Although I think you missed his main point, being he's holding off on the new tech due to being burned so many times in the past.
 
He made a statement that is factually incorrect. I do not really care what his point is.

dx2 said:
Although I think you missed his main point, being he's holding off on the new tech due to being burned so many times in the past.
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Whatsisname said:
No porn does not power every new technology. A handful of devices does not equate to every device. Sorry, but your attempt to be clever has failed.
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No, he is right. Porn is the only reason the internet is what it is today. Without porn, the consumer broadband connection would not exist. We would still be dialing. And his "cleaver attempt" was very successful and funny.
 
dx2 said:
....in May 2001 porn was just starting to saturate the internet(IMO)
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What? Why do you think AOL was so popular in the early 90s. I remember porn saturation of the internet around 1990-1991.
 
Whatsisname said:
Theres no way a comparatively fledgling industry, can have any chance at furthering and developing major "most" technologies. Sorry [/url]
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while i agree with you that the pr0n industry does't drive industry innovation, The pr0n industry is hardly fledgling. It's actually very profitabile and successful. low barriers to entry, no real need to differentiate product, low costs of goods and operations. Fragmented? Yes. Niche? Yes. Fledgling? No.

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dx2 said:
Although I think you missed his main point, being he's holding off on the new tech due to being burned so many times in the past.
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Then he'll be waiting forever. Technology is a double edged sword. you have to jump in at some point in the obscelence curve if you want to enjoy the benefits of it, however you'll always be punished by the diminishing utility of the purchase.

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Actually my point was that video distribution tech has been driven by porn since they tend to be first adopters. They'll be the first indication of who is winning the format wars, as they have been in the past.
By way of rebuttal, I would suggest that market forces do not drive technology so much as jump on bandwagons and that original developers seldom profit so much from new technology than those who are strategically placed to take advantage of it. (Apple invented the PC in the home and how much market share do they control?)
 
This line of thought has been demonstrated in a couple of articles around the net -Porn will be a defining factor in the new format wars. Google it and you'll see.
It's kind of funny that the porn industry is so successful, they're the only ones that aren't hunting down illegal file sharing and I'm sure there's plenty of that in their field.
As most of the articles point out, the industry is an early adopter of any technology that helps them spread more content and has a broad customer base, so yes they carry influence.
Kind of lame isn't it?
Honey, what player are we gonna get?
Ask your brother, he's into porn, he'll know which is the best kind.....
 
You said "almost every new technology".

Tell me how new medical devices are driven by porn.
Tell me how new composite materials are driven by porn.
Tell me how numerical simulations are driven by porn.
Tell me how * are driven by porn.
 
Whatsisname said:
You said "almost every new technology".

Tell me how new medical devices are driven by porn.
Tell me how new composite materials are driven by porn.
Tell me how numerical simulations are driven by porn.
Tell me how * are driven by porn.
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Tell me what any of this crap has to do with general computer hardware.
 
zero_vertical said:
Then he'll be waiting forever. Technology is a double edged sword. you have to jump in at some point in the obscelence curve if you want to enjoy the benefits of it, however you'll always be punished by the diminishing utility of the purchase.

zv
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brilliantly said
 
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