I go to concerts. I still buy CDs and concert BluRays I subscribe to 2 music streaming services
But that's MY choice. I shouldn't be REQUIRED to part with money to listen to music. We have the technology available that allows anyone to download any song they want for free. Streaming services offer free options.
They stifle innovation and hold back our society. Let inventors and creators duke it out. Whoever has the best ideas with the best implementation sells more and makes the most money.
Music and movies are an art form, like painting or literature. All works should be free as in beer, and revenue should come from live performances and donations. Let the public decide what they want to hear and how.
GFWL was a marketing gimmick to boost the PC gaming market. It sucked beyond suck, and I usually bought GFWL games then downloaded the pirate version SPECIFICALLY to avoid dealing with the GFWL garbage.
It never allowed us to play Xbox 360 games on the PC.
FF is currently a fail in so many levels, the worst of which are:
1. Bloated 2. Trying to be Chrome
The only reason I keep it around at home is because my stupid bank's security add-on thingy only works in IE and FF. Otherwise, it's Chrome Canary all the way.
Replying to myself just to post that this new layout looks shit on Chromium. That's all I can get at work besides IE 9 and an outdated version of FF (20, I think)..
I fail to see what kind of financial loss Lenovo customers might have incurred over this incident to warrant a class action suit.
Business customers use their own system image so they're unaffected by this malware.
Home customers get to see different ads on their screen besides Google's own Adsense garbage. BFD!
This leaves us unscrupulous lawyers, who'll get all the money while customers who registered their machine will receive a $50 mail-in rebate on their next purchase.
Your great great great grandfather was long dead when Pong was invented.
Seriously, can you imagine ANY setting (besides an arcade parlor, which are few and far in between nowadays) where a gaming VR headset makes sense? Are you willing to buy more than one for when friends come over to play VR Wii sports? Are you going to plug it in a car's 12V accessory adapter to play during a long trip?
Call me old fashioned, but once I get home from work, I want to sit on the couch, grab a gamepad and a beer, and play games. Not jump like a fucking monkey, not wave hands in the air like a cheerleader, etc.
VR seems to be more work than fun, especially if you want to get the fully immersive shebang, which will likely require that 360-degree treadmill thingy and a nice surround sound system.
Down the road, government steps in screaming MONOPOLY and breaks Google up into smaller companies, separating its money-making ad business and leaving the rest of the company to starve.
I'll take a plastic phone over a metalic one any day. Plastic is lighter, doesn't bend permanently (hello, iPhone 6 Plus), doesn't scratch as easily as metal, a damaged back cover is cheap to replace, etc.
Having said that, it's nice to see Samsung dropping one of its 943329658 SKUs for a change. Choice is great, sure, but too many choices is bad and confusing for most.
>I find the whole business with it, the hack & blaming North Korea to be a stupid fucking incident and I'm not rewarding Sony for being a cunt.
Speak for yourself.
I found it to be the most brilliant marketing campaign in ages. Everyone bought into the hype, including heads of the nations involved, and an otherwise stupid movie soared in popularity.
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> Besides, the seller should set the price, not the buyer.
I see someone failed ECON 101.
I spend money on music alright.
I go to concerts.
I still buy CDs and concert BluRays
I subscribe to 2 music streaming services
But that's MY choice. I shouldn't be REQUIRED to part with money to listen to music. We have the technology available that allows anyone to download any song they want for free. Streaming services offer free options.
RIAA should just stay out of the way.
They stifle innovation and hold back our society. Let inventors and creators duke it out. Whoever has the best ideas with the best implementation sells more and makes the most money.
Music and movies are an art form, like painting or literature. All works should be free as in beer, and revenue should come from live performances and donations. Let the public decide what they want to hear and how.
Fuck you RIAA / MPAA.
GFWL was a marketing gimmick to boost the PC gaming market. It sucked beyond suck, and I usually bought GFWL games then downloaded the pirate version SPECIFICALLY to avoid dealing with the GFWL garbage.
It never allowed us to play Xbox 360 games on the PC.
This seems to be different. Here's hoping...
Oh, and
3. RAM-hungry
FF is currently a fail in so many levels, the worst of which are:
1. Bloated
2. Trying to be Chrome
The only reason I keep it around at home is because my stupid bank's security add-on thingy only works in IE and FF. Otherwise, it's Chrome Canary all the way.
Unless this means I'll be able to play Xbox One games on PC (he did say "whichever platform"), I'm not interested.
Replying to myself just to post that this new layout looks shit on Chromium. That's all I can get at work besides IE 9 and an outdated version of FF (20, I think)..
Any scammer worth his salt does his homework and already knows the victim's kids' / grandkids' names anyway, so this is kind of pointless.
Best advice is to hang up and try to contact the supposed kidnapped person first.
Everyone wants everyone else to follow rules, but not themselves.
I fail to see what kind of financial loss Lenovo customers might have incurred over this incident to warrant a class action suit.
Business customers use their own system image so they're unaffected by this malware.
Home customers get to see different ads on their screen besides Google's own Adsense garbage. BFD!
This leaves us unscrupulous lawyers, who'll get all the money while customers who registered their machine will receive a $50 mail-in rebate on their next purchase.
I couldn't care less what operating system run on my devices. Do you care about what embedded OS your dishwasher runs?
As long as Win 10 runs my existing Windows-only apps and games, I'm happy.
Life's too short to worry about operating systems.
Your great great great grandfather was long dead when Pong was invented.
Seriously, can you imagine ANY setting (besides an arcade parlor, which are few and far in between nowadays) where a gaming VR headset makes sense? Are you willing to buy more than one for when friends come over to play VR Wii sports? Are you going to plug it in a car's 12V accessory adapter to play during a long trip?
Call me old fashioned, but once I get home from work, I want to sit on the couch, grab a gamepad and a beer, and play games. Not jump like a fucking monkey, not wave hands in the air like a cheerleader, etc.
VR seems to be more work than fun, especially if you want to get the fully immersive shebang, which will likely require that 360-degree treadmill thingy and a nice surround sound system.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Flamebait? Realy? The Catholic church has killed more innocent people than all other religions combined.
(no, I'm not muslim, I hate all religions the same)
Indeed.
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You should be querying your optometrist, who recommended these glasses, not random strangers on
Wrong.
Down the road, government steps in screaming MONOPOLY and breaks Google up into smaller companies, separating its money-making ad business and leaving the rest of the company to starve.
I'll take a plastic phone over a metalic one any day. Plastic is lighter, doesn't bend permanently (hello, iPhone 6 Plus), doesn't scratch as easily as metal, a damaged back cover is cheap to replace, etc.
Having said that, it's nice to see Samsung dropping one of its 943329658 SKUs for a change. Choice is great, sure, but too many choices is bad and confusing for most.
>I find the whole business with it, the hack & blaming North Korea to be a stupid fucking incident and I'm not rewarding Sony for being a cunt.
Speak for yourself.
I found it to be the most brilliant marketing campaign in ages. Everyone bought into the hype, including heads of the nations involved, and an otherwise stupid movie soared in popularity.
My life is more important than saving a few bucks by allowing a stoned 16-year-old to drive me around town in a rainy night.
I hereby declare that I can take care of my own posting and am fully responsible for my actions, drunk or otherwise.
Fuck you Big Brother.
I meant this, sorry:
http://www.amiright.com/misheard/stories/blacksabbath.shtml
Let's not forget the lawsuits that miseheard song lyrics have generated over the past.
Most famous case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Solution
Yes, which was loaded through OtherOS.
Goddamn liberals will regulate the hell out of Tesla until its out of business. Look no further than the dealership vs direct sales debacle.
/. liberal bias, I got karma to burn.
This is bullshit, I dont want my tax dollars wasted on stupid legislation o line some poliician's pockets. Let the free market sort it out.
And fuck