Step 1: Lack of interesting stories, hence initiate random story search
Step 2: yep, headline looks good 'nuff, let's post the fooker!
Step 3: Rinse and repeat!
Well, content owners will NEVER be pleased, what they'd like you to do is pay $$$$$ and keep the stuff.
There will always be people that copy (be it legal or not). But this creates an opportunity for those people who don't want to spend lots of money on new films but want to stay legitimate as well.
That is very true;
The statements of "traditional" businesses saying that online stores are a significant threat to their success is far exaggerated in my opinion.
If you consider the recent (past 2-3 years) events, how many e-commerce or online stores out there, that actually started some kind of business, are successful? Just a mere handful!
And how many of these are not drowned in debts? Almost none!
Also consider that there still is a very low percentage of customers willing to buy online - especially in europe -, and most of the "online stores" are mere extensions to existing retailers; their "online stock" is just an advertisement to lure more customers into their shops.
The next thing to consider is taxes;
Do we not pay taxes when we pay our ISP to access the internet?
Does the owner of an online shop not pay the ISP? And does the ISP not pay taxes to the government when it runs its business?
To me personally the whole idea sounds just like another sorry excuse for governments to bring in more revenue - so hopefully for the US (or the rest of the world) the idea will be abandoned in 2 years
What all these devices lack IMO are really easy-to-handle userinterfaces; operating on a small screen, using even smaller buttons and keys is not my ideal idea of easy of use.
Heck, i even prefer my good old diary to my palm 5!
I guess we will have to wait for some years, until we can command those gadgets with our very voices or thinking.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you know that the "Patriot Act" is the same as Adolf Hitler's "Reichsgesetz"? Only the wording differs a bit.
Way to go. The US are turning into a police state. Actually, have been for a long time now.
...also called "Zonkism" in slashdot-speak.
Step 1: Lack of interesting stories, hence initiate random story search
Step 2: yep, headline looks good 'nuff, let's post the fooker!
Step 3: Rinse and repeat!
p.s. Sarcasm can sometimes be a wake-up call.
- discs are easy to copy".
Well, content owners will NEVER be pleased, what they'd like you to do is pay $$$$$ and keep the stuff.
There will always be people that copy (be it legal or not). But this creates an opportunity for those people who don't want to spend lots of money on new films but want to stay legitimate as well.
well of course replace it! who needs a defacto standard that in reality is :-)
dodgy old crap ?
orgasm by email in 2010??
;-)
All I can say: the future is NOW!
- all you have to do is to send a porn pic to me
... and I am a step closer to creating my evil army of supersoldiers to finally take over the earth!
...unless my plans are thwarted by my mother again.
The statements of "traditional" businesses saying that online stores are a significant threat to their success is far exaggerated in my opinion.
If you consider the recent (past 2-3 years) events, how many e-commerce or online stores out there, that actually started some kind of business, are successful? Just a mere handful!
And how many of these are not drowned in debts? Almost none!
Also consider that there still is a very low percentage of customers willing to buy online - especially in europe -, and most of the "online stores" are mere extensions to existing retailers; their "online stock" is just an advertisement to lure more customers into their shops.
The next thing to consider is taxes;
Do we not pay taxes when we pay our ISP to access the internet?
Does the owner of an online shop not pay the ISP? And does the ISP not pay taxes to the government when it runs its business?
To me personally the whole idea sounds just like another sorry excuse for governments to bring in more revenue - so hopefully for the US (or the rest of the world) the idea will be abandoned in 2 years
-- just my two pence
What all these devices lack IMO are really easy-to-handle userinterfaces; operating on a small screen, using even smaller buttons and keys is not my ideal idea of easy of use.
Heck, i even prefer my good old diary to my palm 5!
I guess we will have to wait for some years, until we can command those gadgets with our very voices or thinking.