"I still believe that if the bigs let us download MP3s for a quarter a track, we'd do it."
Don't delude yourself. As long as something is free, people won't pay for it. The only correlary is that some people will pay more for convienience. But again, be serious...if you bought more than one or two albums worth of songs each week it would STILL be money you don't have for beer. Free is always cheaper than cheap for most people.
The Union of KVim? I worked with a couple of guys in that union last year. They were always trying to get me to join. It got kinda creepy when they started bringing all of those animals out of such a tiny car...
It is really easy, but no matter how many I set up around my house I just can't seem to find any hot half-naked women lounging around for me to spy on.
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'Twas exaggerated for comedic purposes, my good friend...
I do own ONE unit, an Ab Roller, which works great for about a month until your muscles get used to it. But for effect it can't be beat...I always laughed when friends came back the next day after doing 3-5 "rolls" complaining about how much their abs hurt.
As long as we're selling things that no one uses anymore, I've got a stairmaster, 3 type of ab machines, and an upright piano that you might be interested in...
"Hey and welcome to the movie. Man, this is cool. Oh hey, anyway, this is Brian Chamberlake III and we're going to watch Tank Girl together. [40 second gap]. Here come the credits. [50 second gap]. Alright...Hey Jim, get me some popcorn! [2 hour gap, end]."
"The City concluded that ORBZ.ORG had no criminal intent to cause the City harm by testing the 'open relay' status its server.
The City also announced that it really like to be capitalized when referred to. It also notes that the word "of" is still banned when referring to stories about The City.
I totally wanted to see the movie, but I couldn't get my character through the doorway. I think it might have been the lighting aroud the theater, or perhaps the fact that my brain wasn't corresponding to my feet movement very well. I tried it for about an hour then got frustrated and left.
Translation: "Hey, I'm in the market for a free MP3 unit. Which one of you manufacturors will be the first one to shut me up by mailing me a free one? I promise to post all of your specs in the article for site's my massive audience!
That's mindless rhetoric. Everything new is new to everyone at some point. If it becomes accepted, it becomes familiar over time. This is true of anything. Programs will be dumbed down, GUIs will be made user-friendly, and devices will label their buttons better.
Even an idiot can use a cell phone or the internet today, just as he'll use a food replicator in 200 years before walking into the corner of a holographic door.
I don't need to know how to build a car to know how to drive a car, and the same goes for computer technology.
A sky survey? Man, that sounds like a rough job...
"Excuse me Mr. Cloud, but what do you think about the war in Afghanistan? Hello? Cloud? Okay, how about chocolate milk, do you like it? Hey, I'm talking to you! Where are you going? C'mon, answer my question! Dammit..."
"She was a hot redhead with large, firm breasts in most of my honors classes."
I think the real story here is about where this girl's breasts were the rest of the day. Did they take different classes? Did they work as a hall monitor?
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"Besides I do believe that _most_ people want to pay for music it's just that there's currently no way to do it."
Heh. I think this mis-statement underlines the point nicely.
Current tally from W.Bradford Paley's Bio:
Semi-interesting javascripts - 1
Dates with real women in the last 6 months - 0
"I still believe that if the bigs let us download MP3s for a quarter a track, we'd do it."
Don't delude yourself. As long as something is free, people won't pay for it. The only correlary is that some people will pay more for convienience. But again, be serious...if you bought more than one or two albums worth of songs each week it would STILL be money you don't have for beer. Free is always cheaper than cheap for most people.
The Union of KVim? I worked with a couple of guys in that union last year. They were always trying to get me to join. It got kinda creepy when they started bringing all of those animals out of such a tiny car...
The M-1? Well, they certainly aren't planning on creative naming schemes!
Ah, yet another story that makes me happy about my 50% purchase of CarrierPigeons.com!
It is really easy, but no matter how many I set up around my house I just can't seem to find any hot half-naked women lounging around for me to spy on.
Maybe I just need to buy more cameras...
Dear Spambot Authors,
Thanks again for your interest. I hope that we were able to help you write the spambots of the future that will be able to detect and sidestep as many of the above protection schemes as possible. We tried to work all of our knowledge into one convienient thread for your development team to peruse.
Thanks for your interest in SlashDot, home of too much information.
Don't worry guys, I heard from a good inside source that Operation: CodeBloatHurricane is still in steady development...
I'm no mathematician, but shouldn't 100% of your employees be making efforts to get the software sold (be it in marketing, coding good products, etc)?
Where are the other 10% of the guys, on nap duty?
'Twas exaggerated for comedic purposes, my good friend...
I do own ONE unit, an Ab Roller, which works great for about a month until your muscles get used to it. But for effect it can't be beat...I always laughed when friends came back the next day after doing 3-5 "rolls" complaining about how much their abs hurt.
As long as we're selling things that no one uses anymore, I've got a stairmaster, 3 type of ab machines, and an upright piano that you might be interested in...
"Hey and welcome to the movie. Man, this is cool. Oh hey, anyway, this is Brian Chamberlake III and we're going to watch Tank Girl together. [40 second gap]. Here come the credits. [50 second gap]. Alright...Hey Jim, get me some popcorn! [2 hour gap, end]."
Total Downloads of this clip: 3
"The City concluded that ORBZ.ORG had no criminal intent to cause the City harm by testing the 'open relay' status its server.
The City also announced that it really like to be capitalized when referred to. It also notes that the word "of" is still banned when referring to stories about The City.
Don't miss the thrilling link to the debate on whether it is PreemptAble or PreemptIble...
Gee, I'm glad no one wasted the $2 on a phone call to this place to get some relevent info before posting it for half a million people to read ;)
I totally wanted to see the movie, but I couldn't get my character through the doorway. I think it might have been the lighting aroud the theater, or perhaps the fact that my brain wasn't corresponding to my feet movement very well. I tried it for about an hour then got frustrated and left.
Translation: "Hey, I'm in the market for a free MP3 unit. Which one of you manufacturors will be the first one to shut me up by mailing me a free one? I promise to post all of your specs in the article for site's my massive audience!
I'm impressed...a lame link and it's already two weeks old on "underground humor" pulse.
Then again, I guess that is a little fast for slashdot. I wasn't banking on seeing this until June at the earliest.
That's mindless rhetoric. Everything new is new to everyone at some point. If it becomes accepted, it becomes familiar over time. This is true of anything. Programs will be dumbed down, GUIs will be made user-friendly, and devices will label their buttons better.
Even an idiot can use a cell phone or the internet today, just as he'll use a food replicator in 200 years before walking into the corner of a holographic door.
I don't need to know how to build a car to know how to drive a car, and the same goes for computer technology.
A sky survey? Man, that sounds like a rough job...
"Excuse me Mr. Cloud, but what do you think about the war in Afghanistan? Hello? Cloud? Okay, how about chocolate milk, do you like it? Hey, I'm talking to you! Where are you going? C'mon, answer my question! Dammit..."
Hey Jeremy, who is this Lance Bass guy and why is he flying around the world 7 times next week?
Ahh..
Another day, another "Tell Me Exactly How To Do My Job post masquerading as an Ask Slashdot question.
:)
"She was a hot redhead with large, firm breasts in most of my honors classes."
I think the real story here is about where this girl's breasts were the rest of the day. Did they take different classes? Did they work as a hall monitor?
Wait a minute, so you're saying that the people with money are influencing the people with power?
Stop the presses, I don't believe it.