No, those teenagers will just go to the guy they know to download the shit for them, and sneakernet will reemerge as the most common method of distribution once again.
I made a fair amount of money in the early days of Napster making people mix discs, and the more they clamp down, the more valuable my abilities to find almost anything online become.
Oh my god, four thousand years?? Your life must be horrible!
Seriously, I pirated them before because here they never showed them at all because it would take an infinite amount of time for them to reach us. Four thousand years is nothing.
I agree 100%, Microsoft got a LOT of shit for Vista and while it definitely had it's problems, I was working retail selling computers when it launched and the fact is, a lot of the hardware it was running on sucked ass, particularly the launch HP, Gateway and eMachines towers. On launch night half of the display models were even DOA.
I'm not saying Microsoft wasn't at fault for a lot of the problems with Vista, but I bet a fair amount of the problems might have had something to do with the fact that the 1.8 GHz machines with 512MB-1 GB of ram in them weren't really powerful enough to run it properly. Like Google with Android, the manufacturer of the hardware should be taken into account.
I don't know a single person who has a Samsung Galaxy phone
I call bullshit, I think you know exactly one person with a Galaxy. I say this because the few people I have known with one have never had a problem, nor have I really heard of too many problems with the Galaxy specifically. Of course, you don't have to take my word for it, I know you won't anyway.
I suspect the bigger problem a lot of people have with Android is that it isn't made by Apple and called iOS...
When you are Verizon, out to screw the customer for every dime, your customers don't give a shit about you.
Damn right.
I would switch carriers in a second but since there's only like 4 left in the entire country, and they all rape the shit out of their customers, it really doesn't matter who the hell I'm with. Now I just keep a good supply of lube handy for my monthly ass-raping and bitch about it on Slashdot...
With the ridiculous amount of bias on all sides of the debate, the only you're going to get a reliable answer is to go out and count the damn things...
Not necessarily. Google can't be faulted for the myriad of shitty handsets on the market. It's up to the device manufacturers to properly design and test their device.
Everyone I've ever known that has bought an Android phone has been happy with it. In my not-scientific-in-any-way observations, it's pretty much on par with those satisfied with their iPhone. I'll admit, though, that nobody I know buys the el-cheapo crap when they upgrade, it's skewed more towards Droid, Galaxy, etc. I'm still rolling with an original Droid and while it is a little slow with some newer apps (having only single core 700 MHz processor), it still gets the job done and I'm far more satisfied with this phone than any other cellphone I've had in my life. YMMV, of course.
That will change if they keep trying to maintain a ridiculous artificial scarcity business model...
Not many people pirated music when Napster first hit the scene, but I bet a lot less would today if the RIAA wouldn't have wasted years afterwords trying to shut it down rather than putting their resources into legitimate ways for people to buy music online for a reasonable price.
Frankly, here in the U.S., I've never even seen a library that charges rental. I know that private libraries exist, and I've heard of a couple that charge for a membership to said library, but even those libraries either did not let books leave the premises at all or allowed members to check them out free.
Obviously it's different in other parts of the world, but one of the few things I can genuinely say I am proud of as a U.S. citizen is the sheer number of free libraries that are all over the country. Hell, up in Alaska where my mother lives they actually fly books out to the remote Native American villages free of charge (the state covers the cost). Free libraries enjoy almost universal approval and support.
Someone should let them know that people are going to 'borrow' them one way or another, so they can either provide a legit means to do so that might actually result in a sale, or fight it and get nothing.
I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for the 'legit means to do so' choice.
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No, those teenagers will just go to the guy they know to download the shit for them, and sneakernet will reemerge as the most common method of distribution once again.
I made a fair amount of money in the early days of Napster making people mix discs, and the more they clamp down, the more valuable my abilities to find almost anything online become.
Oh my god, four thousand years?? Your life must be horrible!
Seriously, I pirated them before because here they never showed them at all because it would take an infinite amount of time for them to reach us. Four thousand years is nothing.
(Posting from the event horizon of a black hole)
I agree 100%, Microsoft got a LOT of shit for Vista and while it definitely had it's problems, I was working retail selling computers when it launched and the fact is, a lot of the hardware it was running on sucked ass, particularly the launch HP, Gateway and eMachines towers. On launch night half of the display models were even DOA.
I'm not saying Microsoft wasn't at fault for a lot of the problems with Vista, but I bet a fair amount of the problems might have had something to do with the fact that the 1.8 GHz machines with 512MB-1 GB of ram in them weren't really powerful enough to run it properly. Like Google with Android, the manufacturer of the hardware should be taken into account.
I don't know a single person who has a Samsung Galaxy phone
I call bullshit, I think you know exactly one person with a Galaxy. I say this because the few people I have known with one have never had a problem, nor have I really heard of too many problems with the Galaxy specifically. Of course, you don't have to take my word for it, I know you won't anyway.
I suspect the bigger problem a lot of people have with Android is that it isn't made by Apple and called iOS...
When you are Verizon, out to screw the customer for every dime, your customers don't give a shit about you.
Damn right.
I would switch carriers in a second but since there's only like 4 left in the entire country, and they all rape the shit out of their customers, it really doesn't matter who the hell I'm with. Now I just keep a good supply of lube handy for my monthly ass-raping and bitch about it on Slashdot...
With the ridiculous amount of bias on all sides of the debate, the only you're going to get a reliable answer is to go out and count the damn things...
This is why Android is failing too.
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Not necessarily. Google can't be faulted for the myriad of shitty handsets on the market. It's up to the device manufacturers to properly design and test their device.
Everyone I've ever known that has bought an Android phone has been happy with it. In my not-scientific-in-any-way observations, it's pretty much on par with those satisfied with their iPhone. I'll admit, though, that nobody I know buys the el-cheapo crap when they upgrade, it's skewed more towards Droid, Galaxy, etc. I'm still rolling with an original Droid and while it is a little slow with some newer apps (having only single core 700 MHz processor), it still gets the job done and I'm far more satisfied with this phone than any other cellphone I've had in my life. YMMV, of course.
They don't need to own the companies to do their social engineering work...
They just hire third party companies to go online and astroturf the hell out of anything they get their hands on.
Why does Obama even bother? Based on the petition responses, he doesn't really give a shit what any of us "little people" think, anyway.
I think he's just looking for buzz words to use as he blows more smoke up our collective asses, myself.
Neither party represents the people any more. It's time to call a mulligan on this one and start again...
We could rename them to "liberty pears"...
I'm partial to Freedom Fruit!
You know they're just scouting locations for new Foxconn factories and gold farmers, right?
I don't think even the Chinese have the balls to start WWIII no matter what their capabilities are...
Oh I'm sure someone will come up with something more original in the way of a racial slur for the Europans...
I'm sure they'd take it.
Johnny Appleseed better get his ass overseas pronto...
I'm putting my money on Apple, Mother Nature's screwed. No more apples for us :(
I mean, NOBODY is going to confuse them for the Apple Store. This is just petty.
Then again, everyone I've ever known that's lived in Hawaii has said that it was ridiculous expensive to live there...
There you go, proof that everyone else is just using wrong!
MOST people do not pirate eBooks.
That will change if they keep trying to maintain a ridiculous artificial scarcity business model...
Not many people pirated music when Napster first hit the scene, but I bet a lot less would today if the RIAA wouldn't have wasted years afterwords trying to shut it down rather than putting their resources into legitimate ways for people to buy music online for a reasonable price.
What could possibly go wrong?
Frankly, here in the U.S., I've never even seen a library that charges rental. I know that private libraries exist, and I've heard of a couple that charge for a membership to said library, but even those libraries either did not let books leave the premises at all or allowed members to check them out free.
Obviously it's different in other parts of the world, but one of the few things I can genuinely say I am proud of as a U.S. citizen is the sheer number of free libraries that are all over the country. Hell, up in Alaska where my mother lives they actually fly books out to the remote Native American villages free of charge (the state covers the cost). Free libraries enjoy almost universal approval and support.
Never Forget!
Someone should let them know that people are going to 'borrow' them one way or another, so they can either provide a legit means to do so that might actually result in a sale, or fight it and get nothing.
I'm not gonna hold my breath waiting for the 'legit means to do so' choice.