when will what bubble burst? best i can remember is that apple's barely making any money at all off the actual music sales, let alone all the companies following
here i am thinking how pathetic ive become working 18 hours a day and not going out. glad i can read articles like this to feel a lot better about myself
Now's the time. Go out and purchase these. If you don't then you are a thief and the RIAA should be able to prosecute you.
I myself pretty much only download music. Without that "I buy the CD!" lie attached. But now I will, because without this all of our "they're too much!" arguments are gone
And just so you know, major labels don't see profit on an album priced like this until they sell > 700k or so, so yes, they are taking a gambit.
Most of these Windows problems are from people not patching their systems. Same thing would happen just as easily on any OS. More Linux users know how to patch, sure, but imagine if it had the desktops that MS had.
Slashdot Mirror
heh...
I've seen a bunch of info about their network, but are there any stats available regarding their actual bandwidth usage?
Is there a second legal use for bittorrent besides "Linux distributions?"
Maybe a second token example would help further the "not for piracy" argument.
at least name it right!
The Cato institute has their own biases just like Moore does. Don't read it instead, read it in addition to.
definite benefit of a modem: rendering porn.
when youre on some vanilla site, sure, it's torture. it takes forever for an image to render.
but when you get goatse'd and can close it when only the first 10 pixels have rendered... "priceless"
from my SimState
"Frankly, I don't want Budweiser knowing when I choose to buy their beer versus another brands"
I disagree. In a capitalist society, you vote with every dollar you spend. I want every company to know when I stop buying their products!
I patented reading /. posts and posting humorous "oh ya well I'm going to patent..." posts
I own you all.
hyperlinking multiple words like this poster did is very informative to those here that do RTFA ;)
great prose as well.
blasphemer!!!
er...
carlcannabis.blogspot.com/
and no, it's not mine so mark me for trolling but not for spamming!
we dont need no stinkin empirical evidence! see it's not about complaining, per se, it's about ranting!!
for example: carlcannabis.blogspot.com/
when will what bubble burst? best i can remember is that apple's barely making any money at all off the actual music sales, let alone all the companies following
now if only they'd make being fat and addicted to caffeine cool i'd be james dean!
here i am thinking how pathetic ive become working 18 hours a day and not going out. glad i can read articles like this to feel a lot better about myself
wait i just started laughing. crap!
"It is unclear why an exploit was made public before Apple resolved the problem."
no SCO news!
Jeez... if i had a dollar for everything I see on slashdot named CSS i'd have..... 3 dollars! :D
How long until we need to rotate the American Flag icon 180 degrees?
(That may sound like a troll if you haven't read the.. what's it called? oh ya.. Constitution)
Just call it Firebird!
Don't let the monkeys get hold of these! We'll all be doomed!
there are powers OUTSIDE the patriot act? i thought that pretty much covered everything ;)
This goes against everything that I've known /. to be! Now I know how computers feel when we try to divide by zero.
Now's the time. Go out and purchase these. If you don't then you are a thief and the RIAA should be able to prosecute you.
I myself pretty much only download music. Without that "I buy the CD!" lie attached. But now I will, because without this all of our "they're too much!" arguments are gone
And just so you know, major labels don't see profit on an album priced like this until they sell > 700k or so, so yes, they are taking a gambit.
Most of these Windows problems are from people not patching their systems. Same thing would happen just as easily on any OS. More Linux users know how to patch, sure, but imagine if it had the desktops that MS had.