If Sony wins a format war, does that mean the end times are near? Should I be stocking up on canned goods and water and working on my underground bunker?
> Do you have to pay the phone company for a special box to use their phone lines?
Well, yes. At least up until relatively recently, you had to pay a monthly rental fee to "Ma Bell" for each telephone that you wanted. Now you get to go buy your own from WalMart or newegg.com or whatever, although I understand that there are some people still happily paying for the black Model 500 deskset.
And hey, I'm not in the least supporting cable companies here, but their model is pretty much based on "The" Phone Company of yore.
Actually, the standard Magic 8-Ball gives twenty distinct results. In a fit of utter boredom some years ago, I wrote them all down and ranked them according whether they were positive, negative, or non-specific. There followed a multiple-day email exchange in my workgroup, discussing my interpretations, and whether something like "reply hazy try again" indicated an actual answer or a problem with the prediction abilities of the mystically encased dodecahedron.
The line in TFA about turning over the rental business to Netflix relates to something that happened in 2005. Nothing to do with a download service at all. No squishing involved, on anybody's part.
Well, no, they don't. TFA makes mention of the fact that in 2005, Wal-Mart closed its DVD rental operation and handed off the customers to NetFlix. This download service is something completely different.
You are assuming that all of those songs need to be purchased at $1 apiece. What about the CDs I already have at home? I know that Sony lawyer said that ripping even one song is OMG theft, but I don't live on her world. What about all the stuff I downloaded from eMusic when I belonged? There was a cost, but not anything close to $1/song.
It's socially awkward to refuse to add someone to your friends list
No, it's not. Nor does clicking the easily found "deny" button automatically make somebody "a foe." Actually, come to think of it, this here Slashdot place is one of the only ones I've come across that allows both friend and foe designations.
-- but removing someone from your friend-list is practically a declaration of war.
No, it's not. Well, maybe if you're so unable to deny the initial friend request then this is a problem, but neither of these seem to me to be problems with the sites themselves. They sound like user problems to me.
I had to reload the page (laptopgiving.org) several times before the pictures and links showed up.
As for T-Mobile, they are giving one year of free Wi-Fi access, so you can use your XO, or any WiFi device, at Starbucks, Borders, several US airports, etc. It's not free mobile phone service.
I was a yellow-shirt. The job is nothing more than a glorified greeter; I'm surprised we didn't have a roll of stickers to give to the kids. There was no running of names/credit cards against anything. On truck night I got to put things in locked cabinets, though!
3, sir; in particular the "button-pushing monkey" part. I did a few months at BB when in between real jobs, and the service desk folks were not the brightest LEDs in the box. I once found a hard-drive that had been returned -- the drive was there, but the UPC had been cut from the box for whatever scam^W rebate offer was going on.
"Not Will Robinson" is probably one of those guys who goes on and on about having thrown away his TV every time a television or TiVo story gets posted. Forget the children, won't somebody please think of the pop-culture references?
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If Sony wins a format war, does that mean the end times are near? Should I be stocking up on canned goods and water and working on my underground bunker?
> Do you have to pay the phone company for a special box to use their phone lines?
Well, yes. At least up until relatively recently, you had to pay a monthly rental fee to "Ma Bell" for each telephone that you wanted. Now you get to go buy your own from WalMart or newegg.com or whatever, although I understand that there are some people still happily paying for the black Model 500 deskset.
And hey, I'm not in the least supporting cable companies here, but their model is pretty much based on "The" Phone Company of yore.
1) www.google.com
2) (your search term here) site:wikipedia.org
3) go
Presto.
Like submitting one's own blog post as a Slashdot story?
Actually, the standard Magic 8-Ball gives twenty distinct results. In a fit of utter boredom some years ago, I wrote them all down and ranked them according whether they were positive, negative, or non-specific. There followed a multiple-day email exchange in my workgroup, discussing my interpretations, and whether something like "reply hazy try again" indicated an actual answer or a problem with the prediction abilities of the mystically encased dodecahedron.
Yeah, I know, welcome to /. and all that.
The line in TFA about turning over the rental business to Netflix relates to something that happened in 2005. Nothing to do with a download service at all. No squishing involved, on anybody's part.
Well, no, they don't. TFA makes mention of the fact that in 2005, Wal-Mart closed its DVD rental operation and handed off the customers to NetFlix. This download service is something completely different.
You are assuming that all of those songs need to be purchased at $1 apiece. What about the CDs I already have at home? I know that Sony lawyer said that ripping even one song is OMG theft, but I don't live on her world. What about all the stuff I downloaded from eMusic when I belonged? There was a cost, but not anything close to $1/song.
I know. I have the 80 pound three book omnibus.
And apostrophes don't indicate plurals, but you don't see me shouting about it.
I dare you to take that umbrage to the UK or Australia.
Insert Futurama/Single Female Lawyer joke here.
It's socially awkward to refuse to add someone to your friends list
No, it's not. Nor does clicking the easily found "deny" button automatically make somebody "a foe." Actually, come to think of it, this here Slashdot place is one of the only ones I've come across that allows both friend and foe designations.
-- but removing someone from your friend-list is practically a declaration of war.
No, it's not. Well, maybe if you're so unable to deny the initial friend request then this is a problem, but neither of these seem to me to be problems with the sites themselves. They sound like user problems to me.
I had to reload the page (laptopgiving.org) several times before the pictures and links showed up.
As for T-Mobile, they are giving one year of free Wi-Fi access, so you can use your XO, or any WiFi device, at Starbucks, Borders, several US airports, etc. It's not free mobile phone service.
> If it was posted they were homosexuals and they weren't, that'd be defamation.
Why?
I keep trying to tag things like this with "pimpmyblog" but it doesn't seem to work.
Do you mean Magic Voice?
Wasn't it HP that refused to fix somebody's laptop hinge because they were running Linux?
Ah, here it is -- sticky keys, not broken hinge, but still. You might want to give that cute gal in Canada a call back.
You can pay with dynamic link libraries?! Cool. Do they have to be all different ones, or can you use like, 400 copies of comctl32.dll?
I was a yellow-shirt. The job is nothing more than a glorified greeter; I'm surprised we didn't have a roll of stickers to give to the kids. There was no running of names/credit cards against anything. On truck night I got to put things in locked cabinets, though!
3, sir; in particular the "button-pushing monkey" part. I did a few months at BB when in between real jobs, and the service desk folks were not the brightest LEDs in the box. I once found a hard-drive that had been returned -- the drive was there, but the UPC had been cut from the box for whatever scam^W rebate offer was going on.
> five complete games at an amazing price. That would be great, even if the games weren't any good ...
Ummm, no it wouldn't be great. I'd be pissed that I spent 50-ish dollars on crap.
"Not Will Robinson" is probably one of those guys who goes on and on about having thrown away his TV every time a television or TiVo story gets posted. Forget the children, won't somebody please think of the pop-culture references?
Right, he clearly said every second story, so the first result doesn't count.
HTH, HAND.
How does a Geek Squad guy know what her CD purchasing habits are?