Cell Phones. Number Portability. Moving my land-line to the cell phone....
Great. Now noone can call me on my new land-line turned cell phone number too! I used to just imagine that women would call me when I wasn't there and were too shy to leave messages. Now I get to learn the cold, hard truth.
Exactly.. it's more a marketing scheme. Everyone is going to run around switching carriers. The companies will end up with the same amount of business. They'll just get to charge people for dropping out of their contracts or the new activation fees.
Plus, the cell phone companies themselves will love this because everyone is going to run out and get a new phone.
not in the top 100 markets, we can't do the whole switch your home number to the cell number thing until may of 2004. Oh well, I didn't want those telemarketers anyways.
I don't see the theatres footing the bill of making the movies either. So if the movie industry takes most of the profit, I'd say that's probably fair.
And then after a ten year delay and many 3 million dollar toilets purchased, they'll come out and say "Oops. Did we say million? We meant billion. Sorry about that. We also had to spend a couple million on the dolphins with the frickin' laser beams on their heads."
You buy something and then you completely trash it. I could see if it was some company trying to kill a competitor. But this is CNET we're talking about here.
I wonder if they just wanted the domain name for their own online music service...
You can always just rename "Shared Folder" in Kazaa to "Not Shared Folder" too. Or just in case the law uses a regular expression to find 'shared' folders, just called it "My Dole Out Folder".
1) Write Linux flamebait/FUD article 2) Pepper article with ads. 3) Submit the article to/. from bsd_hottie69 or somebody along those lines 4) Article is posted on/. 5) Profit!
Pray that SCO doesn't realize this new untapped business model. They might start placing ads all over their press release pages and start releasing crap just to have all the/. folks immediately hit their pages and make them money. They just might be able to turn a profit this way...
unfortunately emusic is changing their download policy from a 2000 track download limit per month to 40 or 60 depending on your plan. I don't think I'm going to pay 10-15 dollars for 5 or 6 indy albums I may or may not like.
Nah, I say open it and return it. If it's opened the music store is stuck with it and can't return it. Maybe if the music stores start feeling this pain instead of the consumer, they'll push back on the record companies.
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And unfortunately, you can't really believe what he says in those speeches anyways.
I can see it afterwards... "The CIA told me we were going to the moon. Really! How was I supposed to know the data wasn't true?"
Cell Phones. Number Portability. Moving my land-line to the cell phone....
Great. Now noone can call me on my new land-line turned cell phone number too! I used to just imagine that women would call me when I wasn't there and were too shy to leave messages. Now I get to learn the cold, hard truth.
Exactly.. it's more a marketing scheme. Everyone is going to run around switching carriers. The companies will end up with the same amount of business. They'll just get to charge people for dropping out of their contracts or the new activation fees.
Plus, the cell phone companies themselves will love this because everyone is going to run out and get a new phone.
not in the top 100 markets, we can't do the whole switch your home number to the cell number thing until may of 2004. Oh well, I didn't want those telemarketers anyways.
Well heck, I thought it would be more expensive to buy off a senator. We should start saving up and buy our own Slashdot senator or congressperson.
I don't see the theatres footing the bill of making the movies either. So if the movie industry takes most of the profit, I'd say that's probably fair.
That'd be embarrassing to get spam via a smoke signal:
Joe: Hey Bob, I think that message is for you.
Smoke Signal: Bob, are you not satisfying your wife with your small penis?
Bob: <sigh>
They were with my missing sock.
And then after a ten year delay and many 3 million dollar toilets purchased, they'll come out and say "Oops. Did we say million? We meant billion. Sorry about that. We also had to spend a couple million on the dolphins with the frickin' laser beams on their heads."
You buy something and then you completely trash it. I could see if it was some company trying to kill a competitor. But this is CNET we're talking about here.
I wonder if they just wanted the domain name for their own online music service...
You can always just rename "Shared Folder" in Kazaa to "Not Shared Folder" too. Or just in case the law uses a regular expression to find 'shared' folders, just called it "My Dole Out Folder".
Think about it - do you believe more or fewer people are reading the books now that the first 2 films are out?
I stopped reading after the elves never showed up at Helm's Deep. Who is the Tolkien guy and how dare he mess with a Peter Jackson classic film?
Hmm.. This might be a good business model.
/. from bsd_hottie69 or somebody along those lines /.
/. folks immediately hit their pages and make them money. They just might be able to turn a profit this way...
1) Write Linux flamebait/FUD article
2) Pepper article with ads.
3) Submit the article to
4) Article is posted on
5) Profit!
Pray that SCO doesn't realize this new untapped business model. They might start placing ads all over their press release pages and start releasing crap just to have all the
... and be ready, tentatively, for a Q1 2004 release-- about April or so.
If I remember correctly, April would be in Q2.
unfortunately emusic is changing their download policy from a 2000 track download limit per month to 40 or 60 depending on your plan. I don't think I'm going to pay 10-15 dollars for 5 or 6 indy albums I may or may not like.
I've always loved The Singing Latvians. Rest in peace my friends.
Can you hear me now?
Hey shut up! I f*%king heard you the first time!
Terrorists have cut the string that attached the two soup cans together.
{insert OS here} isn't perfect either)
My Atari 800XL isn't suspectible to these types of problems. The only problem is, it's taking 4 hours to post this comment on my 300 baud modem.
This person better get their ass in gear. The properties dialog said he had only used 130 megs of the drive and that's just not right.
I wanna see what happens when you log onto Kazaa with a TB of mp3s.
Nah, I say open it and return it. If it's opened the music store is stuck with it and can't return it. Maybe if the music stores start feeling this pain instead of the consumer, they'll push back on the record companies.
First we bring back the Apple I, now Apollo. Please tell me disco isn't coming back too.
Usually, they listen to songs without recording them. "There's a lot of music there, but we just listen to it and let it go," Torres said.
I don't know about this. I thought they were targeting people who are sharing buttloads of music. They make no mention of how much they were sharing.
... to shoot people with.
Thank you, but I prefer waiting for the special edition depleted uranium release.
The case looks a little big. I'm wondering how much shipping the whole desk is gonna cost ;)