I couldn't agree more. I placed a pretty big order of christmas presents for my family on Dec 6, and all of my items had a projected delivery date of Dec 20. When I complained on the 19th that a lot of my stuff hadn't shipped, they still told me that I'd be delivered by the 24th but tried to extort more money out of me to upgrade my shipping to priority. Finally, on the 22nd they sent me an email saying that because of problems with the supplier, they won't deliver some of my stuff till mid Jan. I understand that if the supplier runs out of stock it's not their fault, but it really pisses me off that they waited untill two days before christmas to tell me I won't be getting my stuff. I'll probably still buy from amazon, but NEVER during the christmas season again.
Not so fast. I would say that they used each other. Us slashdotters got what we wanted; the book has been renamed. And Peguin got what they wanted; free publicity for the newly renamed "A girls life online". This is what you call a win-win situation
Imagine a radio station that allowed one listener at a time to log into the radio stations website and control the play list for the next 80 minutes. A cool idea, but not anything revolutionary. They just multiply this basic idea by 16 channels and broadcast over cable instead of FM. Why would the RIAA care? Until every user has control over their own playlist, what's the big deal?
I doubt this threatens the RIAA, and I'd be surprised if the number of Kazaa downloads from the MIT network decreased as a result.
Now give EVERY user control over their own channel and you've got an interesting system. That's when the RIAA sends in the lawyers.
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I couldn't agree more. I placed a pretty big order of christmas presents for my family on Dec 6, and all of my items had a projected delivery date of Dec 20. When I complained on the 19th that a lot of my stuff hadn't shipped, they still told me that I'd be delivered by the 24th but tried to extort more money out of me to upgrade my shipping to priority. Finally, on the 22nd they sent me an email saying that because of problems with the supplier, they won't deliver some of my stuff till mid Jan. I understand that if the supplier runs out of stock it's not their fault, but it really pisses me off that they waited untill two days before christmas to tell me I won't be getting my stuff. I'll probably still buy from amazon, but NEVER during the christmas season again.
Not so fast. I would say that they used each other. Us slashdotters got what we wanted; the book has been renamed. And Peguin got what they wanted; free publicity for the newly renamed "A girls life online". This is what you call a win-win situation
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Spoken like a true Apple user. Apple's always had more sucess marketing the image then the product. Colored computers - sheesh.
I agree.
Imagine a radio station that allowed one listener at a time to log into the radio stations website and control the play list for the next 80 minutes. A cool idea, but not anything revolutionary. They just multiply this basic idea by 16 channels and broadcast over cable instead of FM. Why would the RIAA care? Until every user has control over their own playlist, what's the big deal?
I doubt this threatens the RIAA, and I'd be surprised if the number of Kazaa downloads from the MIT network decreased as a result.
Now give EVERY user control over their own channel and you've got an interesting system. That's when the RIAA sends in the lawyers.
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