Downtime < 24 hours. Better than many DSL providers, I'd bet.
Hrm. You must have really shitty DSL providers. When I had DSL, I paid a moderate price for a home 512/256kbps service (£25/month I think), and never had ANY downtime, despite being connected nearly 24/7.
Hrm. You must have really shitty DSL providers. When I had DSL, I paid a moderate price for a home 512/256kbps service (£25/month I think), and never had ANY downtime, despite being connected nearly 24/7.
Why do you need to buy an Xbox? Why not just go and make a computer from the cheapest *new* parts available today? You could probably still buy a 500mhz machine for $200.
So let's see. We've got a cinema, with really rather dated display and sound equipment (this was the first ever multiplex built in the UK) and no real staff. The theater is full, noisier, more cramped, and there are mobile phones going off everywhere because there is nobody to stop them. Meanwhile, people are tumbling in late, because it's so cheap to do so, and this is pissing you off because you paid a higher price than them, and they're obstructing your view of the screen as they climb OVER you to get to the few remaining seats. You're thirsty (no drink) and hungry (no food), and swimming in rubbish (no cleaners). You're surrounded on all sides by people because the movie theater is now 100% full. About half way through the movie, you take half an hour to stumble out of the theater, climbing OVER everybody next to you, and start to search for a toilet. Alas, this search is in vain, because they have scrapped the toilets (too expensive). After having left the building to find a toilet and missed half the film, you eventually climb over people to get back to your seat again.
The Point has been taken over by EasyCinema, and utterly ruined (in my opinion) because they have made it look hideous, with garish white-on-orange colors all over it, and they've removed the refreshments too.
It's a shame. As a regular The Point visitor, I remember when I was a kid, going up to the point at night and seeing it all lit up, it was really magical. I'll not be going to the new econoCinema... just lost some of its magic. I will now go to the new Cineworld nearby.
Considering that when I find a new track I really love, I tend to pig out on listening to it, then forget about it
Do you? Well, I guess you're very different from me then. When I find a good track, I tend keep it forever, and play it regularly. Hence, my 'wonderful track' collection grows over time, and I don't just have to listen over and over and over to the latest releases! Could people reply to this post and say what their habit is when listening to music? How many people really listen to a good track many times, and then *never* want to listen to it again?
I think what's being said is that it's such an incredibly bad way of paying for music that it seems like your money's 'evapourating'. There are still people out there with thousands of LPs and tapes. People like to have these collections around for posterity. Wouldn't it suck if you couldn't even access the music you paid for last *month*? Lots of people in this discussion have been saying that 'youngsters these days' don't listen to music unless it was released recently. For some this may be true, but for some this has always been true. Personally, I'm 19 and I still listen to music that was released in my young childhood (or even before it!) Nothing like a classic tune. I _certainly_ don't want to lose access to music I've paid for. Ever.
Hmm, I think you make a lot of false assumptions here. Let's see...
Even with a Windows client, the service will remain a niche player. The masses want things free. If there's a free option, people will choose that over any subscription service.
Not necessarily, where do you gt your evidence? Perhaps the popularity of Kazaa has much more to do with the wholly unreasonable licensing restrictions and prices placed on legal music nowadays.
We've seen it online with websites that tried or considered charging for access... how many of those are still around?
Sites like Slashdot, that charge subscribers to see stories early? Seems like it's still around today. But it doesn't charge for access, I'll grant that.
How many sites today are making you sit through a full page ad before you see the content
Not many, but more than were doing so before. Even so, banner ads have always been a far better method of integrating ads into websites, and they're still the most effective model for financing websites.
because people refuse to pay for the content and will go elsewhere if the site makes it exclusive
1. Ads != payment. That's what's so good about them (IMHO). 2. If a site makes something exclusive, you can't go elsewhere, it aint gonna be elsewhere.
As long as some form of P2P exists, subscription or pay-per-download will never catch on with the masses.
I think that's a ridiculous assertion. Why wouldn't pay-per-download catch on with the masses? Subscription sucks, but ownership doesn't.
'As long as some form of black market exists, people will never pay more legally for a computer game'. That's not true... so why should this be?
Ummmmm... that's BS. I would think 50 movies a week would fill up at least another good sized garbage bag with nondegradable trash (plastic box, plastic packaging, plastic disc). That's a 50% addition to your waste.
Their only drawback is that they don't last "forever." Big deal. Alkaline batteries don't last forever either, or paper plates, or light bulbs, or cut roses.
The fundamental difference is that the makers of the above products at least manufacture them to last *as long as possible*. This is manufactured *to expire*, which is lame. Are people really gonna be stupid enough to try and use it after 48 hours, realise it's expired, and not say "erm... they could have made this for the same cost and made it last forever! What the !!! are we paying for here???" OK, don't answer that.
Actually, the more I think about this proposed business model, the less sense it makes. Think about it. At the moment, you're paying less for rentals because you physically have the disc/tape for a shorter period of time than if you'd bought it, and therefore far fewer need to be produced. Fair enough.
But, this business model proposes that just as much material is used creating the rental DVDs as standard ones, yet you pay significantly less because it expires! Says something about the amount of money it takes them to manufacture discs, and how much markup there is.
How does that give you the word "dime"? Sound like pure slang to me, there's no way for me to associate that with a monetary value other than to learn it parrot-fashion, which is what i'm criticising.
Half-dollar = dollar.
Huh??
Nickel = 20% of a dollar coin made out of nickel.
Another stupid name for a coin. Who gives a )!££&!£^! what alloy the COIN is made out of?? Its _monetary value_ is what is all important, and "nickel" gives absolutely no indication of this.
It might be able to say "quarter" than "twenty five cent coin", but how about doing something sensible and changing it to a 20 cent coin, then calling it "twenty C" just as we call ours "twenty P"?
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Heh... except we don't have a 'Provincial Sales Tax'. All consumer prices are listed inclusive of 17.5% VAT, or they must say "exc. VAT" if not, and that's the only sales tax we have. Yes, you North Americans definately should adopt it.
Heh, the only argument you can come up with against the $1 coin is that it might fall out of your pocket?? Buy a wallet, with a zip compartment for coins, like I did. No problem anymore.
If you are talking about the gap between 10 and 50, it seems equally plausible to use a 20 (twice 10; as in US paper currency) or a 25 (half fifty; as in US coins).
I beg to differ. 25 is not anything like as plausible, because it's not rounded to 10. It's significantly harder for us to quickly carry out arithmatic with 25 than with a 10-rounded number such as 20. For example, which can you work out quickest:
How much money do I need to give the cashier to receive..
25c change when the item costs $5.82? 20c change when the item costs $5.82?
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Downtime < 24 hours. Better than many DSL providers, I'd bet.
Hrm. You must have really shitty DSL providers. When I had DSL, I paid a moderate price for a home 512/256kbps service (£25/month I think), and never had ANY downtime, despite being connected nearly 24/7.
Downtime
Hrm. You must have really shitty DSL providers. When I had DSL, I paid a moderate price for a home 512/256kbps service (£25/month I think), and never had ANY downtime, despite being connected nearly 24/7.
Why do you need to buy an Xbox? Why not just go and make a computer from the cheapest *new* parts available today? You could probably still buy a 500mhz machine for $200.
Um, if it's not got a domain name, it's very likely to be a hacker scanning your box for possible vulnerabilities.
So let's see. We've got a cinema, with really rather dated display and sound equipment (this was the first ever multiplex built in the UK) and no real staff. The theater is full, noisier, more cramped, and there are mobile phones going off everywhere because there is nobody to stop them. Meanwhile, people are tumbling in late, because it's so cheap to do so, and this is pissing you off because you paid a higher price than them, and they're obstructing your view of the screen as they climb OVER you to get to the few remaining seats. You're thirsty (no drink) and hungry (no food), and swimming in rubbish (no cleaners). You're surrounded on all sides by people because the movie theater is now 100% full. About half way through the movie, you take half an hour to stumble out of the theater, climbing OVER everybody next to you, and start to search for a toilet. Alas, this search is in vain, because they have scrapped the toilets (too expensive). After having left the building to find a toilet and missed half the film, you eventually climb over people to get back to your seat again.
Won't you come to EasyCinema?
Who said they were gonna clean the floors/seats? :-)
The Point has been taken over by EasyCinema, and utterly ruined (in my opinion) because they have made it look hideous, with garish white-on-orange colors all over it, and they've removed the refreshments too.
It's a shame. As a regular The Point visitor, I remember when I was a kid, going up to the point at night and seeing it all lit up, it was really magical. I'll not be going to the new econoCinema... just lost some of its magic. I will now go to the new Cineworld nearby.
Um... except the airlines you've just mentioned are the standard airlines, not the budget ones; the ones that are being driven out of business.
Wow, that website is the biggest collection of Microsoft criticism I've ever seen :-) Thanks for the inspiring read.
Considering that when I find a new track I really love, I tend to pig out on listening to it, then forget about it
Do you? Well, I guess you're very different from me then. When I find a good track, I tend keep it forever, and play it regularly. Hence, my 'wonderful track' collection grows over time, and I don't just have to listen over and over and over to the latest releases! Could people reply to this post and say what their habit is when listening to music? How many people really listen to a good track many times, and then *never* want to listen to it again?
I think what's being said is that it's such an incredibly bad way of paying for music that it seems like your money's 'evapourating'. There are still people out there with thousands of LPs and tapes. People like to have these collections around for posterity. Wouldn't it suck if you couldn't even access the music you paid for last *month*? Lots of people in this discussion have been saying that 'youngsters these days' don't listen to music unless it was released recently. For some this may be true, but for some this has always been true. Personally, I'm 19 and I still listen to music that was released in my young childhood (or even before it!) Nothing like a classic tune. I _certainly_ don't want to lose access to music I've paid for. Ever.
Hmm, I think you make a lot of false assumptions here. Let's see...
Even with a Windows client, the service will remain a niche player. The masses want things free. If there's a free option, people will choose that over any subscription service.
Not necessarily, where do you gt your evidence? Perhaps the popularity of Kazaa has much more to do with the wholly unreasonable licensing restrictions and prices placed on legal music nowadays.
We've seen it online with websites that tried or considered charging for access... how many of those are still around?
Sites like Slashdot, that charge subscribers to see stories early? Seems like it's still around today. But it doesn't charge for access, I'll grant that.
How many sites today are making you sit through a full page ad before you see the content
Not many, but more than were doing so before. Even so, banner ads have always been a far better method of integrating ads into websites, and they're still the most effective model for financing websites.
because people refuse to pay for the content and will go elsewhere if the site makes it exclusive
1. Ads != payment. That's what's so good about them (IMHO).
2. If a site makes something exclusive, you can't go elsewhere, it aint gonna be elsewhere.
As long as some form of P2P exists, subscription or pay-per-download will never catch on with the masses.
I think that's a ridiculous assertion. Why wouldn't pay-per-download catch on with the masses? Subscription sucks, but ownership doesn't.
'As long as some form of black market exists, people will never pay more legally for a computer game'. That's not true... so why should this be?
The jacket is designed for women only. Its small size and narrow armholes are intended to prevent men from using it as an offensive weapon.
:-)
I'm sorry, but how can anyone defend this assumption? The jacket _clearly_ discriminates against fat women!
"Hi honey, I'm home!! Oh, you look great today. So warm and inviting, here let me give you a hu...ZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ..........!"
Of course it's cool! Play SimAnt!!! Oh nooo, it's the lawnmower of doom!
Ummmmm... that's BS. I would think 50 movies a week would fill up at least another good sized garbage bag with nondegradable trash (plastic box, plastic packaging, plastic disc). That's a 50% addition to your waste.
Their only drawback is that they don't last "forever." Big deal. Alkaline batteries don't last forever either, or paper plates, or light bulbs, or cut roses.
The fundamental difference is that the makers of the above products at least manufacture them to last *as long as possible*. This is manufactured *to expire*, which is lame. Are people really gonna be stupid enough to try and use it after 48 hours, realise it's expired, and not say "erm... they could have made this for the same cost and made it last forever! What the !!! are we paying for here???" OK, don't answer that.
Actually, the more I think about this proposed business model, the less sense it makes. Think about it. At the moment, you're paying less for rentals because you physically have the disc/tape for a shorter period of time than if you'd bought it, and therefore far fewer need to be produced. Fair enough.
But, this business model proposes that just as much material is used creating the rental DVDs as standard ones, yet you pay significantly less because it expires! Says something about the amount of money it takes them to manufacture discs, and how much markup there is.
"The Ogg Encapsulation Format Version 0"
Version 0?? I've heard of version 0.1, but never version 0. Does this mean it hasn't been started yet?
Dime = one tenth (deci-) of a dollar.
How does that give you the word "dime"? Sound like pure slang to me, there's no way for me to associate that with a monetary value other than to learn it parrot-fashion, which is what i'm criticising.
Half-dollar = dollar.
Huh??
Nickel = 20% of a dollar coin made out of nickel.
Another stupid name for a coin. Who gives a )!££&!£^! what alloy the COIN is made out of?? Its _monetary value_ is what is all important, and "nickel" gives absolutely no indication of this.
It might be able to say "quarter" than "twenty five cent coin", but how about doing something sensible and changing it to a 20 cent coin, then calling it "twenty C" just as we call ours "twenty P"?
Heh... except we don't have a 'Provincial Sales Tax'. All consumer prices are listed inclusive of 17.5% VAT, or they must say "exc. VAT" if not, and that's the only sales tax we have. Yes, you North Americans definately should adopt it.
'tis a pity the 5 is a coin and not a note
But you've just said that 5 IS a note.
Heh, the only argument you can come up with against the $1 coin is that it might fall out of your pocket?? Buy a wallet, with a zip compartment for coins, like I did. No problem anymore.
If you are talking about the gap between 10 and 50, it seems equally plausible to use a 20 (twice 10; as in US paper currency) or a 25 (half fifty; as in US coins).
I beg to differ. 25 is not anything like as plausible, because it's not rounded to 10. It's significantly harder for us to quickly carry out arithmatic with 25 than with a 10-rounded number such as 20. For example, which can you work out quickest:
How much money do I need to give the cashier to receive..
25c change when the item costs $5.82?
20c change when the item costs $5.82?
I work out the second one much faster.