...if discs cost only a few dollars each, buying them might be preferable to spending the time and effort to make copies or find them online.
So true. The record companies have to lower the bar. The urge to take is much too high compared with the prices of CD's right now. They're going to have to find a balance.
I mean, say most teenagers have a joe-job at maybe $6.00 an hour. To buy a CD, they have to work two hours flipping burgers or delivering papers.
OR they can spend 20 minutes downloading the same album from the internet. What do you think they're going to do?
The RIAA is going to HAVE to change their model if they want to survive.
$15.00 CD's * Angry customers who leave = $0. $5.00 CD's * Happy customers who stay = More than $0.
You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it
Yes, that's right Jack.. And when VCR's came out, we were in the theaters bootlegging a million movies a day.:rolleyes:
The man has no sense of reality. He reminds me of Billy Sunday.. Preaching and yelling on a streetcorner to everyone and anyone who walked by with most people wishing he would just shut up.
I'd like to say that I can't wait until the people of our generation grow up and start becoming the lawyers and politicians, but by that time I'm sure it'll be a whole new ball game.
=-Jippy
Heh.. I'm glad you didn't mind..:) I actually was going to make a post on Slashdot about a month ago with the link, but I lost it. I found it again last night and thought "I wonder if this would be good enough for Slashdot"..
What's the deal with purposeful misspellings of tech companies lately? Just a few days ago was that story of that Canadian dude getting busted modding PS2's whose company name was "Kustum Komputers".
I hope IBM or microsoft don't file any anti-law suit against them !!
For what? When did it become illegal to take computer parts from two broken machines and put them together to make one working machine? If they were keeping copies of Windows on the machine without also handing over the licence to that copy of Windows, then there would be a problem.
I kind of like this. Microsoft sued all those people from non-profit organizations that donated used computers (with Windows on them) because of licensing issues. Now people are saying "Fine.. If Microsoft is going to give me trouble about this, I'll just bootfuck Windows and install something else". Excellent. Suing those people wasn't the smartest idea, eh Microsoft?
Heh... Those would be fun at LAN parties. Mess with the IR settings in the middle of a game so everyone gets someone elses display. hehehe.... except yours.. of course.:)
=-Jippy
I would pay an extra $50 a year to receive less Spam
That's a good idea... And if you order now, you can become part of our "NO-SPAM / SCAM" list, at the low cost of $299.99! Your name, address, and email will be collected and stored in our special database in which we promise never to spam or scam you again. Trust us!
Well, hopefully my wife and I won't feel the need to pollute the Earth with children that need to be "locked down" in order for them to be safe.
=-Jippy
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...if discs cost only a few dollars each, buying them might be preferable to spending the time and effort to make copies or find them online.
So true. The record companies have to lower the bar. The urge to take is much too high compared with the prices of CD's right now. They're going to have to find a balance.
I mean, say most teenagers have a joe-job at maybe $6.00 an hour. To buy a CD, they have to work two hours flipping burgers or delivering papers.
OR they can spend 20 minutes downloading the same album from the internet. What do you think they're going to do?
The RIAA is going to HAVE to change their model if they want to survive.
$15.00 CD's * Angry customers who leave = $0.
$5.00 CD's * Happy customers who stay = More than $0.
=-Jippy
Aah, irony.
Damnit hell damn crap. I just used up my last mod point when I read this one.
dubstop, You would have had a +1 Funny from me..
bah.
=-Jippy
Already reviewed here.
I won't complain though.. It's a great book..
=-Jippy
You could download a million movies a day, and no penalty for it Yes, that's right Jack.. And when VCR's came out, we were in the theaters bootlegging a million movies a day. :rolleyes:
The man has no sense of reality. He reminds me of Billy Sunday.. Preaching and yelling on a streetcorner to everyone and anyone who walked by with most people wishing he would just shut up.
I'd like to say that I can't wait until the people of our generation grow up and start becoming the lawyers and politicians, but by that time I'm sure it'll be a whole new ball game.
=-Jippy
Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL...
This just in.. Company changes its name to AOLindows. Claims it's just an amazing coincidence.
=-Jippy
I though HP said they were trying to get OUT of their trend of losing business and market share..
Producing entire warehouses of dead computers that no one will buy seems quite counteractive to that plan.
Shrug.
=-Jippy
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When I saw the title, for a second I thought maybe someone hacked a
Jeeze...
=-Jippy
a memorable Doonesbury strip by Gary Trudeau effectively doomed the device.
The Comic
=-Jippy
It's a machine. It's bound to break. It's bound to get jammed.
"Honey, will you run to the store and pick up some eggs?"
"I can't, the 7-11's broken again"
It would be interesting to see a reply to that letter. :)
Laff, they should reply with an MP3 and charge $0.75 to listen to it.
=-Jippy
Never expected to get slashdotted. :)
:) I actually was going to make a post on Slashdot about a month ago with the link, but I lost it. I found it again last night and thought "I wonder if this would be good enough for Slashdot"..
Heh.. I'm glad you didn't mind..
Yup.
Great list! It brought back a lot of memories.
=-Jippy
L.O.R.D. is listed on that page. It's under the year 1989.
=-Jippy
From the article: Sometime prior to 1984, John Sherrick writes Tradewars. It's similar to Star Traders, written in BASIC, and is for BBSes.
.... which was immediately followed up a few hours later with dozens of TradeWars helper programs.
=-Jippy
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That pisses me off. How can they do that??? What's the point of a rating system if the ratings can get reset when they're not doing too good?
Yay download.com! You've turned into 100% pure corporation!
=-Jippy
Oohh.. Just books and magazines.. gotcha.
=-Jippy
What... You mean like a LAN party full of chubby, nacho-eating 15-year olds?
=-Jippy
Shudder.. I hope this is not a trend..
=-Jippy
"One second. Friends is almost over."
=-Jippy
and if they had their ring set to the max volume, death.
=-Jippy
Wow, I didn't know Bill Gates even read Slashdot.
=-Jippy
For what? When did it become illegal to take computer parts from two broken machines and put them together to make one working machine? If they were keeping copies of Windows on the machine without also handing over the licence to that copy of Windows, then there would be a problem.
I kind of like this. Microsoft sued all those people from non-profit organizations that donated used computers (with Windows on them) because of licensing issues. Now people are saying "Fine.. If Microsoft is going to give me trouble about this, I'll just bootfuck Windows and install something else". Excellent. Suing those people wasn't the smartest idea, eh Microsoft?
=-Jippy
Heh... Those would be fun at LAN parties. Mess with the IR settings in the middle of a game so everyone gets someone elses display. hehehe. ... except yours.. of course. :)
=-Jippy
That's a good idea... And if you order now, you can become part of our "NO-SPAM / SCAM" list, at the low cost of $299.99! Your name, address, and email will be collected and stored in our special database in which we promise never to spam or scam you again. Trust us!
=-Jippy
Well, hopefully my wife and I won't feel the need to pollute the Earth with children that need to be "locked down" in order for them to be safe. =-Jippy