I got one of these a couple of months ago. It really does look like a bill and it's only after reading the smaller print at the bottom (or having at least a basic idea of who you're registered with, and why) that you would know it's just a trick.
I have it on my desk somewhere but I can't find it under my huge piles of crap -- um, I mean important work-related documents -- but it's really an interesting scam. As far as I remember it doesn't say the word 'switch' or 'change' anywhere, just 'renew with us', or whatever it is, which is totally misleading. The thing is they just have to set their bots to scan a couple of domain databases and auto-print however many thousand of these things per day and then they can just sit back and collect the payments. They only need 1-2% response and they're rich, almost without lifting a finger.
If it wasn't such a low and dirty trick, preying on the ignorant like it does, I'd have to be impressed and we did laugh when we got it in the mail but it is disgusting and I'm glad something is being done about it.
This can't be the only way they get games for their console, can it? embrace and extend a can of whoopass on every developer out there? I mean that's the only reason they have Halo, the supposed Killer App for the Xbox, and which won't be released on any other platform until late next year.
Hey guys, how about, if you're going to make a console, make some games yourselves! if I couldn't drive I wouldn't buy a car, you know? (ok if I was billg I could have Lee Iacoca as my chauffeur so not a good example) but Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Atari all made killer games for their systems and maybe Microsoft thought they could just put the system out there and everyone else would make software for it. Then when that didn't pan out so well they said "how are you gentlemen, if you won't develop games for our box we buy j00 and make you do it". followed by "j00 r 0wn3d, all your developer, ha. ha. ha." or something.
I'm just worried there's going to come a point where there's no more developers left to acquire and they're going to have to start buying users too. "you will play Halo now." no, i wanna play GT3. "Here's a hundred bucks. play the damn Xbox!" Awesome way to get market share and if anyone can make it profitable it's Microsoft.
It was the Eagle, from Space 1999. you didnt see the 'fuselage' part that often because kids would lose them. i lost mine anyway.
It was this (top left), right?
Man, if you're going to tell somebody something about Pink Floyd get it right!:)
There's only one Syd Barrett song on A Saucerful of Secrets, 'Jugband Blues', David Gilmour had already replaced him when they were making that album. Piper at the Gates of dawn OTOH is almost 100% Syd and an amazing album, recorded at Abbey Road in Studio 1, at the same time that the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's in Studio 2. Syd Barrett was a big infulence on David Bowie and just about every mid-90's indie guitar band. But nobody who's really listened to that second album actually liked it. Corporal Clegg??
Wish You Were Here was a group album, it really wasn't until The Wall that Roger became the boss of it all.
The rest is right though:)
Like you say it was about Syd Barrett being mad and no longer there and it was also about the music industry 'machine', making some unique and talented kid rich and famous, and turning them into a 'product', (think Britney spears but talented) just like all the others. For a big profit. duh.
The line 'By the way, which one's Pink?' is something the record company exec asks them after telling them how much he loves them and how he's such a fan, then it turns out he thinks Pink Floyd is the singer's name or something. Evil record company drone! These are brilliantly profound and insightful lyrics when you're 16. They seem a bit self-important to me now but yeah its basically about record companies hijacking talented peoples' lives and careers to get rich off them, so be careful and don't just sign any old contract and don't expect the record company to care about you in any way other that whether you're profitable or not. This was just after they made one of the biggest albums in history so they must have heard a hell of a lot of offers from greedy people. Lucky they were rich already:)
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I got one of these a couple of months ago. It really does look like a bill and it's only after reading the smaller print at the bottom (or having at least a basic idea of who you're registered with, and why) that you would know it's just a trick.
I have it on my desk somewhere but I can't find it under my huge piles of crap -- um, I mean important work-related documents -- but it's really an interesting scam. As far as I remember it doesn't say the word 'switch' or 'change' anywhere, just 'renew with us', or whatever it is, which is totally misleading. The thing is they just have to set their bots to scan a couple of domain databases and auto-print however many thousand of these things per day and then they can just sit back and collect the payments. They only need 1-2% response and they're rich, almost without lifting a finger.
If it wasn't such a low and dirty trick, preying on the ignorant like it does, I'd have to be impressed and we did laugh when we got it in the mail but it is disgusting and I'm glad something is being done about it.
Well that's good news! They certainly need all the help they can get bringing us all that Texas Tea that we need to live fulfilling lives.
I can sleep easy now. Thanks, technology!
This can't be the only way they get games for their console, can it? embrace and extend a can of whoopass on every developer out there? I mean that's the only reason they have Halo, the supposed Killer App for the Xbox, and which won't be released on any other platform until late next year.
Hey guys, how about, if you're going to make a console, make some games yourselves! if I couldn't drive I wouldn't buy a car, you know? (ok if I was billg I could have Lee Iacoca as my chauffeur so not a good example) but Sega, Nintendo, Sony, Atari all made killer games for their systems and maybe Microsoft thought they could just put the system out there and everyone else would make software for it. Then when that didn't pan out so well they said "how are you gentlemen, if you won't develop games for our box we buy j00 and make you do it". followed by "j00 r 0wn3d, all your developer, ha. ha. ha." or something.
I'm just worried there's going to come a point where there's no more developers left to acquire and they're going to have to start buying users too. "you will play Halo now." no, i wanna play GT3. "Here's a hundred bucks. play the damn Xbox!" Awesome way to get market share and if anyone can make it profitable it's Microsoft.
It was the Eagle, from Space 1999. you didnt see the 'fuselage' part that often because kids would lose them. i lost mine anyway.
It was this (top left), right?
Man, if you're going to tell somebody something about Pink Floyd get it right! :)
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There's only one Syd Barrett song on A Saucerful of Secrets, 'Jugband Blues', David Gilmour had already replaced him when they were making that album. Piper at the Gates of dawn OTOH is almost 100% Syd and an amazing album, recorded at Abbey Road in Studio 1, at the same time that the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's in Studio 2. Syd Barrett was a big infulence on David Bowie and just about every mid-90's indie guitar band. But nobody who's really listened to that second album actually liked it. Corporal Clegg??
Wish You Were Here was a group album, it really wasn't until The Wall that Roger became the boss of it all.
The rest is right though
Like you say it was about Syd Barrett being mad and no longer there and it was also about the music industry 'machine', making some unique and talented kid rich and famous, and turning them into a 'product', (think Britney spears but talented) just like all the others. For a big profit. duh.
The line 'By the way, which one's Pink?' is something the record company exec asks them after telling them how much he loves them and how he's such a fan, then it turns out he thinks Pink Floyd is the singer's name or something. Evil record company drone! These are brilliantly profound and insightful lyrics when you're 16. They seem a bit self-important to me now but yeah its basically about record companies hijacking talented peoples' lives and careers to get rich off them, so be careful and don't just sign any old contract and don't expect the record company to care about you in any way other that whether you're profitable or not. This was just after they made one of the biggest albums in history so they must have heard a hell of a lot of offers from greedy people. Lucky they were rich already