No, I actually meant that paying for fake MySpace friends is pathetic. I totally agree w/you on the prostitution issue...
Bottom line, I suppose, is that people will pay for whatever they want, legal or otherwise, if (a) it's available, and (b) they have the money. Upon further review, perhaps my comparison of the two was a bit clumsy. Probably not worth a score 5 (but hey, I'm happy to get it)
Fabuloso, dude, but I wasn't talking about sharing music with another human, I meant just being able to beam tunes to the device, from your PC, *without* plugging the damn thing in. I can't speak for the rest of the rabble, but that capability would certainly appeal to me.
But it's a moot point; Zune blows and everyone knows it, even communist China:
Truly, truly disturbing. Saddest part perhaps is that the dozens of students who witnessed it didn't rise up and beat the living shit out of these so-called "cops".
I know that's an unrealistic expectation, but this is simply outrageous. Beyond the pale.
"...so myopic that they cannot phantom anything outside of the game..."
Definitely a 5-point post, but I think the word you're looking for in the last paragraph is fathom. Which, in addition to being a unit of nautical measurement equal to six feet, is also a verb meaning to penetrate the truth, to comprehend, to understand.
Clearly it's time to submit my patent for a four-wheeled carriage device, powered by an internal combustion engine (an invention for which I also have patent-pending)...
mmmmm... well, OK. I'll concede that there's a slim, very remote chance the original poster might have been intending to speak sarcastically. But I really don't think sarcastic inversion applies to the vast majority of the "could care less" crowd.
re: "I did not know shit about Salt Lake City(and could care less)"
*ahem* -- FYI, the expression is "couldn't care less." Think about it. If you "could care less," that would imply, in fact, that you care a great deal, which is probably not the meaning you were intending.
This phrase is constantly misspoken by induhviduals, and every so often I spend a few moments of my copious free time correcting them. Congrats, you're today's winner.
Go ahead, mod me down for being off-topic; I couldn't care less...
LPFM is not restricted to the non-comm. band (i.e. 88.1 thru 91.9). All 100 FM channels are available. The one that recently went on the air in Nashville (www.radiofreenashville.org) is on 98.9.
All good except for the hate-crime analogy. So-called hate crimes codify motivation, not intent. One's intent is to purposefully cause harm, but the motivation or reason is because you're white/black/gay/whatever.
Take out the massive spike for fiscal '06 Q1 and you have a very healthy, ordinary looking sales curve. Are we to think that Apple is in full-blown panic mode just because they aren't moving 10 million units a month? I find that very hard to believe.
When I go to the COWS demo page and click on the button to activate the spell checker, it politely craps out with the err msg "window.launch_spellingcow is not a function"
Please... I hardly need to be lectured on the subjectivity of music apppreciation. That really wasn't my point. Like Frank Zappa said many years ago, "If it sounds bitchin' to you, then it is bitchin'." And I couldn't agree more.
But certainly the major labels' woes can be traced back to when they started sacrificing quality acts for those which would simply move alot of product, fast. Nowadays all a producer needs is a group of Playboy-quality babes who can kinda-sorta sing (Spice Girls, Pussycat Dolls, etc.) and a hot computer generated rhythm track to go behind it.
But do the majors really spend time nowadays developing new artists? Seems to me that if an act can't score at least a moderate hit right out of the gate, he/she/they get dropped by their label almost immediately.
You belabor the obvious. I may be nuts, but I just don't think people want to rent music.
If the music marketeers really want to stick it to Apple they'd sell non DRM'd music that plays on any device (like eMusic does), but at a much higher bit rate, like 256K.
"But gee, won't folks just swap those files? Wouldn't that kill the business?" This is the mentality the music companies have to overcome. If all the major labels did this, the business would explode, not implode.
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No, I actually meant that paying for fake MySpace friends is pathetic. I totally agree w/you on the prostitution issue...
Bottom line, I suppose, is that people will pay for whatever they want, legal or otherwise, if (a) it's available, and (b) they have the money. Upon further review, perhaps my comparison of the two was a bit clumsy. Probably not worth a score 5 (but hey, I'm happy to get it)
People have paid for sex for thousands of years. Pathetic as it may seem, why is it surprising that they'd pay for cyber-friends as well?
Looks like some sort of all-girl make-out session.
No, I'm not saying that like it's a bad thing.
Fabuloso, dude, but I wasn't talking about sharing music with another human, I meant just being able to beam tunes to the device, from your PC, *without* plugging the damn thing in. I can't speak for the rest of the rabble, but that capability would certainly appeal to me.
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But it's a moot point; Zune blows and everyone knows it, even communist China:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/28/cont
re: "What WiFi devices should it "link up" with that it doesn't? iPods?"
Uh... how 'bout... computers?
In the words of Edina from the great BBC show Absolutely Fabulous:
"I don't want more bloody choice... I just want nicer things!"
Truly, truly disturbing. Saddest part perhaps is that the dozens of students who witnessed it didn't rise up and beat the living shit out of these so-called "cops".
I know that's an unrealistic expectation, but this is simply outrageous. Beyond the pale.
"...so myopic that they cannot phantom anything outside of the game..."
Definitely a 5-point post, but I think the word you're looking for in the last paragraph is fathom. Which, in addition to being a unit of nautical measurement equal to six feet, is also a verb meaning to penetrate the truth, to comprehend, to understand.
Clearly it's time to submit my patent for a four-wheeled carriage device, powered by an internal combustion engine (an invention for which I also have patent-pending)...
...I submitted this story (from a different source) to /. five days ago. But am I bitter? Noooooooo, of course not.... grrrrrrrrr....
excess of TLA's in parent post
mmmmm... well, OK. I'll concede that there's a slim, very remote chance the original poster might have been intending to speak sarcastically. But I really don't think sarcastic inversion applies to the vast majority of the "could care less" crowd.
What is this "use net" everyone's talking about? I use the net every day....
re: "I did not know shit about Salt Lake City(and could care less)"
*ahem* -- FYI, the expression is "couldn't care less." Think about it. If you "could care less," that would imply, in fact, that you care a great deal, which is probably not the meaning you were intending.
This phrase is constantly misspoken by induhviduals, and every so often I spend a few moments of my copious free time correcting them. Congrats, you're today's winner.
Go ahead, mod me down for being off-topic; I couldn't care less...
Indeed. I had to resist the urge to hurl when I read the quote, "The improvement shows as we raised our quality bar even higher!"
Ugh....
LPFM is not restricted to the non-comm. band (i.e. 88.1 thru 91.9). All 100 FM channels are available. The one that recently went on the air in Nashville (www.radiofreenashville.org) is on 98.9.
Yes, you are the only one who noticed that.
All good except for the hate-crime analogy. So-called hate crimes codify motivation, not intent. One's intent is to purposefully cause harm, but the motivation or reason is because you're white/black/gay/whatever.
... is a complete and utter waste of bandwidth. "Sales are declining at an unprecedented rate."
Bullsh1t. Look at all of iPod's quarterly sales:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales
Take out the massive spike for fiscal '06 Q1 and you have a very healthy, ordinary looking sales curve. Are we to think that Apple is in full-blown panic mode just because they aren't moving 10 million units a month? I find that very hard to believe.
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When I go to the COWS demo page and click on the button to activate the spell checker, it politely craps out with the err msg "window.launch_spellingcow is not a function"
Firefox 1.5.0.6 on XP Pro
Please... I hardly need to be lectured on the subjectivity of music apppreciation. That really wasn't my point. Like Frank Zappa said many years ago, "If it sounds bitchin' to you, then it is bitchin'." And I couldn't agree more.
But certainly the major labels' woes can be traced back to when they started sacrificing quality acts for those which would simply move alot of product, fast. Nowadays all a producer needs is a group of Playboy-quality babes who can kinda-sorta sing (Spice Girls, Pussycat Dolls, etc.) and a hot computer generated rhythm track to go behind it.
But do the majors really spend time nowadays developing new artists? Seems to me that if an act can't score at least a moderate hit right out of the gate, he/she/they get dropped by their label almost immediately.
And of course the established music industry only signs really, really good bands to contracts.
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You belabor the obvious. I may be nuts, but I just don't think people want to rent music.
If the music marketeers really want to stick it to Apple they'd sell non DRM'd music that plays on any device (like eMusic does), but at a much higher bit rate, like 256K.
"But gee, won't folks just swap those files? Wouldn't that kill the business?" This is the mentality the music companies have to overcome. If all the major labels did this, the business would explode, not implode.