The same with product activation, which was touted for win2k.
Actually, it was Office 2000 that was the first (limited) testbed for product activation.
Maybe their technique for these less palatable aspects of their business is to announce, allow the fuss to die down, and then introduce it when it has become 'old news'.
Suggest you track down a copy of 'Barbarians Led By Bill Gates' [Edstrom & Eller, 1998] for the history of Microsoft's history of trying to foster new technologies onto an unknowing (and sometimes uncaring) world.
Or maybe I'm crediting them with too much intelligence.
They're not lacking intelligence, its sense and sensitivity that they have a shortage of, judging by some of their efforts...
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Perhaps this is valid in your universe, but in ours we have the Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC.
You have my deepest sympathy.:)
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All water under the bridge, since we both know that Darius is the One True Pop Don!:)
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I'd like to see your working for that.
Okay!
Gay = appeals to blokes (+ the confused old folks!) Straight = appeals to blokes + young impressionable girls with cash to burn
Actually, that's probably more than twice, my excuse being that I used the same calculator as the person who does the sums for the RIAA.:)
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There hasn't been any good pop music since Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Some would say that there hasn't been any good pop music from Michael Jackson since 'Thriller'.:)
(I was this close to doing IN SOVIET RUSSIA..., but I resisted the urge.)
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Yep, they're all music-related, to varying degrees of talent (and in Shakira's case, a tenuous grip on the English language to boot!)
Gareth Gates is the bloke who didn't win the UK's Pop Idol contest, but will probably outlast the winner, Will Young, by dint of having
A decent singing voice.
Not being gay, hence twice the potential audience.
Having a discernable personality.
As for Las Ketchup, all I know is that I've somehow managed to avoid hearing this all year long. But I bet that if you play it backwards you get Osama Bin Laden saying 'Ha Ha Ha! Ya Missed Me!':)
Given that a console costs a fair bit less than even the most basic PC, and is lot easier to look after (no BSOD or GPF on a console - yet), this should be filed under 'no-brainer'...
It doesn't really matter. The main thing is to push the envelope, so that anybody staggeringly stupid enough to buy the 'top end' drive pushes down the price on the nice 36x drives the rest of us will purchase.
But isn't this how most music is currently? Not that you have a EULA, but the copyright holder usually only gives you a limited use license to listen to the music, you at no point actually own the music.
For items that you can physically hold in your hand (tape,CD,vinyl), the above does not apply, for now. Although the music industry is doing its damnedest to try and rectify that.:(
My original post was more along the lines of 'All your files are belong to Microsoft', only with better wording.:)
It lets you download music to it, then presents you with an EULA informing you that you do not own the music, but merely have a limited licence to listen to it. Pressing the Play button constituted agreeing to the EULA, pressing any other button gives you a BSOD.:)
I've got no problem with your objective, but the way you currently go about it runs the risk of getting you marked as the Second Coming of Lewis A Mettler.:)
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The same with product activation, which was touted for win2k.
Actually, it was Office 2000 that was the first (limited) testbed for product activation.
Maybe their technique for these less palatable aspects of their business is to announce, allow the fuss to die down, and then introduce it when it has become 'old news'.
Suggest you track down a copy of 'Barbarians Led By Bill Gates' [Edstrom & Eller, 1998] for the history of Microsoft's history of trying to foster new technologies onto an unknowing (and sometimes uncaring) world.
Or maybe I'm crediting them with too much intelligence.
They're not lacking intelligence, its sense and sensitivity that they have a shortage of, judging by some of their efforts...
Perhaps this is valid in your universe, but in ours we have the Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC.
:)
You have my deepest sympathy.
MT.
All water under the bridge, since we both know that Darius is the One True Pop Don! :)
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I'd like to see your working for that.
:)
Okay!
Gay = appeals to blokes (+ the confused old folks!)
Straight = appeals to blokes + young impressionable girls with cash to burn
Actually, that's probably more than twice, my excuse being that I used the same calculator as the person who does the sums for the RIAA.
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(Damn the subject line limit!)
I'll get mine in cash, mind.
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He's definitely a bloke. You've got him mixed up with Nelly Furtado... oh, wait, I know what you're next question is...
? ?!! :)
[Mark&Lard] Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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The real news to me in this story is that Lycos still exists.
! !
[Mark&Lard] Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo??
There hasn't been any good pop music since Michael Jackson's Thriller.
:)
Some would say that there hasn't been any good pop music from Michael Jackson since 'Thriller'.
(I was this close to doing IN SOVIET RUSSIA..., but I resisted the urge.)
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Gareth Gates is the bloke who didn't win the UK's Pop Idol contest, but will probably outlast the winner, Will Young, by dint of having
As for Las Ketchup, all I know is that I've somehow managed to avoid hearing this all year long. But I bet that if you play it backwards you get Osama Bin Laden saying 'Ha Ha Ha! Ya Missed Me!'
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You have never walked past an XBox display in the Mall, have you =)
:)
I have. Maybe they're only shipping over QA'd XBoxen over to Europe, and selling all the others to you guys Stateside.
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Given that a console costs a fair bit less than even the most basic PC, and is lot easier to look after (no BSOD or GPF on a console - yet), this should be filed under 'no-brainer'...
It doesn't really matter. The main thing is to push the envelope, so that anybody staggeringly stupid enough to buy the 'top end' drive pushes down the price on the nice 36x drives the rest of us will purchase.
:)
Now that's what I call Insightful!
No, no, no! Ya got it all wrong!
In Soviet Russia, 52 CDRW drives hit YOU in the head!
Now we just need for CD-R/W media that can write *reliably* at 52x !
I can see these drives being woefully under-utilised till middle of next year...
And I suppose that all your base are belong to Amazon, too huh?
:)
No... but, well... let's just say that a Beowulf cluster of Jeff Bezos just doesn't bear thinking about!
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In Soviet Russia, 1-Click patents YOU!
If they did, I think Jeff Bezos will be getting some far worse that a lump of coal from Santa on Christmas Eve... :)
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But isn't this how most music is currently? Not that you have a EULA, but the copyright holder usually only gives you a limited use license to listen to the music, you at no point actually own the music.
:(
:)
For items that you can physically hold in your hand (tape,CD,vinyl), the above does not apply, for now. Although the music industry is doing its damnedest to try and rectify that.
My original post was more along the lines of 'All your files are belong to Microsoft', only with better wording.
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I want the rarest iPod in the world: the one signed by Bill Gates.
:)
I hear he was drunk at the time.
So was Steve Ballmer, that's why your music gets interspersed with whooping, hollering, and chants of "Developer! Developer! Developer!"
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Ooooh, is there a 'Britney Spears' signed mp3 player "in the coming months"?... :D
:)
More to the point, will it refuse to play in proximity to a Christina Aguialera or Justin Timberlake edition player?
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AdaPod - will only play marching band music, barfs on anything else.
It happened already. What, you mean you haven't heard Die Another Day yet? :)
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The foolish and unwary.
:)
It lets you download music to it, then presents you with an EULA informing you that you do not own the music, but merely have a limited licence to listen to it. Pressing the Play button constituted agreeing to the EULA, pressing any other button gives you a BSOD.
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Kevin Mitnick edition iPod (plays music, DOSes your iMac).
Hillary Rosen edition iPod (plays nothing, shops you to the Feds for file-sharing)
Nick Cave edition iPod (plays music, but you hear only silence)
Satan edition iPod (plays music in reverse, you hear voices telling you to 'do it! do it!')
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I've got no problem with your objective, but the way you currently go about it runs the risk of getting you marked as the Second Coming of Lewis A Mettler. :)