Wish I had the money to rent a nice bigbillboard or twelve as close to Microsoft HQ as I could get. The message would read:
Dear Steve,
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Good riddance.
Kthxbai.
No love,
me.
Purdham really is a freaking idiot, isn't he?:-p From where I am sitting, it's about control, not property rights.
How about because I want it on my (insert name of favorite listening device here) to listen to whenever *I* want, not when whoever is controlling the stream decides I can hear it (or not.)
Not a stupid thing at all. Some of us like debit cards that work as credit cards, ie a debit card with a Mastercard logo, for example. I flat out refuse to have a "real" credit card.. I'm trying to get out of debt, not back into it. Its way, way too easy to fall into that "Use the credit card for everything" trap and the next thing you know, it's maxed out, has been, and five years from now you're still paying off the compounded interest on a $5 Subway sub you had for lunch one day. No thanks.
I think it was Sega who tried something similar to the whole cloud computing thing some years ago when they offered their unlimited Sega gaming channel for X dollars per month (transmitted via cable TV lines, like broadband cable today.) You could play any and all the games you wanted, for as long as you wanted, for a flat fee.
Still doesn't help the fact that if the game sucks, no one will want to pay to play.:-\
If you give last.fm a measly $3/month US$, you can create playlists and play only what songs you want to hear. Try that with xm.:-p
Whoever said listening over the net was free needs to get a clue. Someone somewhere is paying for that bandwidth you're leeching. It might not be you, but someone is ponying up the bucks for a connection and the electricity and the hardware to keep it going.
Pfft. I used to have a coffee machine that would grind the beans and then make the coffee with the freshly ground beans. Loved it. Took less than 2 minutes to clean and set the thing up every night. Maybe he needs that two minutes for getting off? Which still leaves him 58 minutes in the hour for coffee making.
Nope. AFAIK You can't leave Pandora streaming in the background while you work without it nagging you once an hour to ask if you are there.. and if you don't respond, it shuts off.:-p That and their recent US only policy (see comment below.)
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Cnet's gotten suckier over the years, that's for sure.
Wish I had the money to rent a nice bigbillboard or twelve as close to Microsoft HQ as I could get. The message would read: Dear Steve, Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Good riddance. Kthxbai. No love, me.
Purdham really is a freaking idiot, isn't he? :-p From where I am sitting, it's about control, not property rights.
How about because I want it on my (insert name of favorite listening device here) to listen to whenever *I* want, not when whoever is controlling the stream decides I can hear it (or not.)
Not a stupid thing at all. Some of us like debit cards that work as credit cards, ie a debit card with a Mastercard logo, for example. I flat out refuse to have a "real" credit card.. I'm trying to get out of debt, not back into it. Its way, way too easy to fall into that "Use the credit card for everything" trap and the next thing you know, it's maxed out, has been, and five years from now you're still paying off the compounded interest on a $5 Subway sub you had for lunch one day. No thanks.
Kids these day have no appreciation of the classics.
I ditched the 2600 for a C=64. It's called upgrading. :)
I think it was Sega who tried something similar to the whole cloud computing thing some years ago when they offered their unlimited Sega gaming channel for X dollars per month (transmitted via cable TV lines, like broadband cable today.) You could play any and all the games you wanted, for as long as you wanted, for a flat fee. Still doesn't help the fact that if the game sucks, no one will want to pay to play. :-\
If you give last.fm a measly $3/month US$, you can create playlists and play only what songs you want to hear. Try that with xm. :-p
Whoever said listening over the net was free needs to get a clue. Someone somewhere is paying for that bandwidth you're leeching. It might not be you, but someone is ponying up the bucks for a connection and the electricity and the hardware to keep it going.
Pfft. I used to have a coffee machine that would grind the beans and then make the coffee with the freshly ground beans. Loved it. Took less than 2 minutes to clean and set the thing up every night. Maybe he needs that two minutes for getting off? Which still leaves him 58 minutes in the hour for coffee making.
Nope. AFAIK You can't leave Pandora streaming in the background while you work without it nagging you once an hour to ask if you are there.. and if you don't respond, it shuts off. :-p That and their recent US only policy (see comment below.)