Personally, I don't believe there is any justification for *ANY* song to cost more than 69 cents. However, there's an easy answer. Don't buy from them. I am proud to say that I have never bought a song from iTunes and never will.
Facebook, MySpace, etc are fads which will die and be replaced by new fads. Look at the recent story about the site Ma.gnolia losing all it's data in a crash. This is the one big weakness of the Internet.
While a handful of programming geeks are fiddling with OGG because it's open source and not "patent-encumbered" the rest of the world couldn't care less. I can download a copy of WinAmp for free and it plays my nasty evil patent-encumbered MP3s just fine. Same with my inexpensive MP3 player.
"This guy's answers are hilarious. They only make sense in a universe where everything is inherently locked down, and your customers are idiots to be abused."
The whole thing is incredibly stupid, but, that's the beauty of a free society. Everyone is free to be incredibly stupid but you can just ignore it. The real questions to be asked are:
1. Why are you downloading songs to your cell phone? B. Why are you buying them from Microsoft?
from TFA: "So what's the purpose of the while loop? To put it simply, it's designed to get the number of years from the number of days since 1980 as well as a remainder of days out of the current year."
WTF? It's supposed to a media player. Just play the media and don't worry about trying to do other crap!
I've never understood all the broohaha over browsers.
If everyone abandons IE and switches to another browser. Microsoft's loss of revenue is exactly zero. If everyone switches to IE, Microsoft's increase in revenue is exactly zero.
I have been forced to use Lotus Notes at work for 10 years now. If you don't understand why people hate Notes just Google "Lotus Notes sucks" and you'll find plenty of detailed explanations of the several million things that are wrong with Notes.
Forget all the babble about neurochemicals. Most con men aren't particularly smart and 99.9% of all cons aren't particularly clever. Con men are successful for one reason and one reason alone -- their victims are greedy and hoping to get something for nothing. This one sentence from the article sums it up perfectly:
"The greed-o-meter goes off in my head, suppressing all rational thought."
If you aren't greedy, if you aren't looking to get something for nothing, it will be nearly impossible for you to be conned.
"People don't recognize that Third World nations need something more sustainable than a band-aid. By giving these people food and clothing, all that is accomplished is a temporary fix and a few feel good points for those who donated. Really Third World nations need to be taught how to fish so-to-speak."
Organizations such as the Peace Corps and many others have spent the past 50+ years trying to educate Africans and "teach them how to fish". 50 years later they are still poor, starving and illiterate. It's time to face the reality that nobody wants to admit.
[If she didn't know she was running linux and bought software that was specifically only made for windows, that's her fault. I don't go to the store and buy new DVD's and try to make them work with my tape deck. The fact that I just wanted to play music is not an argument against the tape deck. Saying "she didn't know" is a cop-out,]
This is utter bullshit. There are numerous technologies that the elderly know nothing about. To say that she's supposed to know about Linux is beyond absurd.
I believe it's going to be just the opposite..... more support calls. Once again everyone is missing the point. It's not the OS -- it's the ability to get things done. I loved OS/2 and BeOS but they were ultimately useless because of a lack of appications and device drivers.
For example my 75 year old aunt has been heavily interested in Geneolgy for many years and has hundreds of pages of data and photos. So she decided that she wanted a computer. She went to Best Buy and bought a Gateway and one of her nephews who "knows about computers" wiped the hard drive and installed Linux (may have been Ubuntu but I don't remember). It turns out that "knows about computers" isn't much more than reading a few pro-Linux anti-Windows articles and knowing how to burn an ISO onto a CD.
For a while everything was fine. She surfed the web, sent e-mail, wrote letters, etc. Then she goes to the store and talks to a salesman about Geneology. He sells her a Geneology program, a scanner for all her old photos and she decides she would like to get a digital camera so she can take more pictures of all her various nephews, nieces, grandchildren, etc. The salesman assures her that everything is "plug and play" and you just follow a few simple directions.
Well, of course nothing works. The software and device drivers are all Windows only. Yes, even the camera requires a driver to transfer pictures. She calls Gateway support but they can't help her. Of course Gateway doesn't know that she's running Linux -- she doesn't know it either and wouldn't know what that meant if you told her. So she calls the nephew who "knows about computers" and he spends some time Googling but can't help. So now she's angry and upset, but she's even more angry and upset when she finds out she can't return the software because it's been opened.
In desperation she calls me. I wipe the hard drive, reinstall Windows XP, all the updates, remove all the crapware, etc. And now she's happily spending many hours with her Geneology. It's not the operating system -- it's the ability to get things done.
The point is very simply this. Yes you can set up a computer with Linux that performs routine tasks and is easy enough for Aunt Mildred to use. But eventually everyone -- even Aunt Mildred -- outgrows routine tasks. Remember WebTV? Remember (hardware) Word Processors? Where are they now? I believe that Dell will save a few dollars by not installing Windows but spend much more than that on support calls. There are a lot of Aunt Mildreds out there.
For a long rime I could figure it out. Why would two companies, both losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, want to merge? How does that make sense? Then I realized -- if Sirius gets XM's subscriber revenue (XM has more subscribers than Sirius) and eliminates as many XM employees as possible -- presto!! They are instantly profitable!
Howard Stern has been whining about the merger since day one and and ranting about how it's not a monopoly. But it's all bullshit. The only thing he cares about is himself -- if the merger is approved it probably means more money for him. After one year on satellite he got an $82 million bonus because Sirius reached certain subscriber levels. If the merger doesn't go through Sirius might go under and he doesn't get the rest of his $500 million.
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Personally I see nothing wrong with the CD cover but I can see how some people might be offended due to the age of the girl involved. For Wikileaks to claim that there is some big scandal going on here involving "child pornography" is just plain stupid and nothing but over-blown junior highscool drama.
"Because, as I understand it, they have permission from Coke to do so."
Your understanding is wrong. It's perfectly legal for Pepsi to say "we're better than Coke". No permission from Coke is needed. It would be condsider fair use.
On the other hand, notice how most advertisements will say that their product is 10% better than "the other leading brand"
There's a reason for this. It's called marketing bullshit. If you say "we are 10% better than XYZ" someone can do their own tests to show that you are lying. But if you just say "leading brand" -- what does that mean? How do you even determine what the "leading brand" is? It's meaningless and nobody can really prove that you are lying. It's marketing bullshit.
An anti-war movie. Gee, how thoroughly unoriginal. They should have used the early Iron Man comics as the basis for the movie. For example, this classic:
I guess it depends on your definition of "fraud". Selling a computer that is "crazy loud" and has several things that don't work is pretty close to fraud as far as I'm concerned. It's obvious that they didn't put a lot of effort into this. They're just trying to get them out the door as fast as possible so they can make some money before Apple shuts them down.
what proved he was guilty (to the jury) was getting up on the stand and offering such patently ludicrous explanations for his suspicious behaviors that the jury decided he was lying, from which the thought naturally follows "if he didn't do it, then why is he lying?" He talked himself into jail.
Hans Reiser isn't a socially maladjusted geek who's just "weird" and "different" from everyone else. He's an arrogant asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and he can't believe that anyone would ever question his explanation for his behavior.
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Personally, I don't believe there is any justification for *ANY* song to cost more than 69 cents. However, there's an easy answer. Don't buy from them. I am proud to say that I have never bought a song from iTunes and never will.
Facebook, MySpace, etc are fads which will die and be replaced by new fads. Look at the recent story about the site Ma.gnolia losing all it's data in a crash. This is the one big weakness of the Internet.
"Ma.gnolia was a one-man operation running on two Mac OS X servers and four Mac minis"
So what? Hard drives are cheap. Buy a couple and make backups.
"Who even uses OGG. Who has even heard of it?"
Exactly.
While a handful of programming geeks are fiddling with OGG because it's open source and not "patent-encumbered" the rest of the world couldn't care less. I can download a copy of WinAmp for free and it plays my nasty evil patent-encumbered MP3s just fine. Same with my inexpensive MP3 player.
"This guy's answers are hilarious. They only make sense in a universe where everything is inherently locked down, and your customers are idiots to be abused."
The whole thing is incredibly stupid, but, that's the beauty of a free society. Everyone is free to be incredibly stupid but you can just ignore it. The real questions to be asked are:
1. Why are you downloading songs to your cell phone?
B. Why are you buying them from Microsoft?
from TFA:
"So what's the purpose of the while loop? To put it simply, it's designed to get the number of years from the number of days since 1980 as well as a remainder of days out of the current year."
WTF? It's supposed to a media player. Just play the media and don't worry about trying to do other crap!
I've never understood all the broohaha over browsers.
If everyone abandons IE and switches to another browser. Microsoft's loss of revenue is exactly zero. If everyone switches to IE, Microsoft's increase in revenue is exactly zero.
I have been forced to use Lotus Notes at work for 10 years now. If you don't understand why people hate Notes just Google "Lotus Notes sucks" and you'll find plenty of detailed explanations of the several million things that are wrong with Notes.
Notes must die.
"Have you ever worked on 3 or 4 pages at once that all needed to be tested in a different browsers?"
No. And most people don't. A triple-engine browser is targetting a pretty small audience.
Forget all the babble about neurochemicals. Most con men aren't particularly smart and 99.9% of all cons aren't particularly clever. Con men are successful for one reason and one reason alone -- their victims are greedy and hoping to get something for nothing. This one sentence from the article sums it up perfectly:
"The greed-o-meter goes off in my head, suppressing all rational thought."
If you aren't greedy, if you aren't looking to get something for nothing, it will be nearly impossible for you to be conned.
"People don't recognize that Third World nations need something more sustainable than a band-aid. By giving these people food and clothing, all that is accomplished is a temporary fix and a few feel good points for those who donated. Really Third World nations need to be taught how to fish so-to-speak."
Organizations such as the Peace Corps and many others have spent the past 50+ years trying to educate Africans and "teach them how to fish". 50 years later they are still poor, starving and illiterate. It's time to face the reality that nobody wants to admit.
No. The record companies need to embrace fair use and stop referring to people sharing their personal property as "piracy".
[If she didn't know she was running linux and bought software that was specifically only made for windows, that's her fault. I don't go to the store and buy new DVD's and try to make them work with my tape deck. The fact that I just wanted to play music is not an argument against the tape deck. Saying "she didn't know" is a cop-out,]
This is utter bullshit. There are numerous technologies that the elderly know nothing about. To say that she's supposed to know about Linux is beyond absurd.
I believe it's going to be just the opposite ..... more support calls. Once again everyone is missing the point. It's not the OS -- it's the ability to get things done. I loved OS/2 and BeOS but they were ultimately useless because of a lack of appications and device drivers.
For example my 75 year old aunt has been heavily interested in Geneolgy for many years and has hundreds of pages of data and photos. So she decided that she wanted a computer. She went to Best Buy and bought a Gateway and one of her nephews who "knows about computers" wiped the hard drive and installed Linux (may have been Ubuntu but I don't remember). It turns out that "knows about computers" isn't much more than reading a few pro-Linux anti-Windows articles and knowing how to burn an ISO onto a CD.
For a while everything was fine. She surfed the web, sent e-mail, wrote letters, etc. Then she goes to the store and talks to a salesman about Geneology. He sells her a Geneology program, a scanner for all her old photos and she decides she would like to get a digital camera so she can take more pictures of all her various nephews, nieces, grandchildren, etc. The salesman assures her that everything is "plug and play" and you just follow a few simple directions.
Well, of course nothing works. The software and device drivers are all Windows only. Yes, even the camera requires a driver to transfer pictures. She calls Gateway support but they can't help her. Of course Gateway doesn't know that she's running Linux -- she doesn't know it either and wouldn't know what that meant if you told her. So she calls the nephew who "knows about computers" and he spends some time Googling but can't help. So now she's angry and upset, but she's even more angry and upset when she finds out she can't return the software because it's been opened.
In desperation she calls me. I wipe the hard drive, reinstall Windows XP, all the updates, remove all the crapware, etc. And now she's happily spending many hours with her Geneology. It's not the operating system -- it's the ability to get things done.
The point is very simply this. Yes you can set up a computer with Linux that performs routine tasks and is easy enough for Aunt Mildred to use. But eventually everyone -- even Aunt Mildred -- outgrows routine tasks. Remember WebTV? Remember (hardware) Word Processors? Where are they now? I believe that Dell will save a few dollars by not installing Windows but spend much more than that on support calls. There are a lot of Aunt Mildreds out there.
Kiss your ass goodbye.
For a long rime I could figure it out. Why would two companies, both losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, want to merge? How does that make sense? Then I realized -- if Sirius gets XM's subscriber revenue (XM has more subscribers than Sirius) and eliminates as many XM employees as possible -- presto!! They are instantly profitable!
Howard Stern has been whining about the merger since day one and and ranting about how it's not a monopoly. But it's all bullshit. The only thing he cares about is himself -- if the merger is approved it probably means more money for him. After one year on satellite he got an $82 million bonus because Sirius reached certain subscriber levels. If the merger doesn't go through Sirius might go under and he doesn't get the rest of his $500 million.
"Just because before we said "You may never merge" doesn't mean it should apply today."
You have a very strange understanding of the word "never".
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ok first of all this is not my video, please to not think it is, i had recently seen it at my friends house and decided to upload it from www.funnyjunk.com!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0sQA9ILZSU
"...the Java-based 'tru2way' solution"
Java -- lol. More of a problem than a solution.
Personally I see nothing wrong with the CD cover but I can see how some people might be offended due to the age of the girl involved. For Wikileaks to claim that there is some big scandal going on here involving "child pornography" is just plain stupid and nothing but over-blown junior highscool drama.
An anti-war movie. Gee, how thoroughly unoriginal. They should have used the early Iron Man comics as the basis for the movie. For example, this classic:
The Invincible Iron Man
Hans Reiser isn't a socially maladjusted geek who's just "weird" and "different" from everyone else. He's an arrogant asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and he can't believe that anyone would ever question his explanation for his behavior.
another Apple clone:
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