I think I remember reading a rumor before they came out with tv shows on itunes that the next itunes was to going to have something built in to let people share like bittorrent and get itunes store credit for doing this with the files they had bought.
Now: 1) It was a rumor a long time ago. 2) If you don't purchase anything from the iTunes store you probably could care less if the rumor was true or not.
No phones are contractually tied to Cingular. Oh yeah, you only get them for cheap if you sign a contract with them, but they do nothing and I mean nothing if you have a phone issue.
Have a phone problem? Do you have phone insurance through the outside company all of the ones use (Lockline I think)? If not, tough. Cingular sells you a phone that they but their little orange man on but does nothing to make sure it works. Problem? Lockine or ebay are the only options.
I'm guessing that someone who might have thought of getting you a gift, you already gave this rant to and they decided just to get you some nice socks.
Whoopee! The advertisers found out what the kids like and decided to use that to try and get more eye balls.
How about just dealing with it when the compaines lie and that whole false advertising thing?
Do people really think places like youtube and myspace were created for the community to use? No, they were created so they could get bought out by the big corporations and those corporations could put advertisments up.
Oh, and having a link in your signature to something you are trying to hock and replying to this article that this should have been looked into a long time ago... yeah, kinda hypocritcal.
Likely way less than 1% of the world's population have ever contributed to wikipedia, and less than 10% have ever read it. It only represents a very narrow cross section of information, culture, whatever compared to what is available in written form or in artefact form.
I'm no statistician but I am guessing that way less than 1% of the world's population has ever been an archaeologist and less than 10% has read up on all of their work. Does it make the narrow focus meaningless? I don't think so, it just adds another POV.
By the way, if I'm a US citizen, running a company based in Switzerland, hosting a site through a UK company, with servers based in Canada - does this law apply? How about if the domain is registered through a US company, but me, the company, the host, and the servers are all based outside the US?
If you really care what the "Im so rebellious that I wear exactly what the rebellious people wear" clerk at Tower thinks of you then you have many more problems above and beyond the CD in your hand.
When Google going down disrupts my ability to get the police, firemen, or ambulance to my place in an emergency then I will worry why they are not responsible to the government.
Until then... I have other things I would prefer the government worry about.
It's not gaming and it's not social networking
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Trusting Users Too Much
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Social sites give so much power and emphasis on users yet a handful still have the power to wreck these sites. Until these issues are properly addressed, social sites will continue to be gamed.
It's whining. People aren't happy with just contributing to the conversation, because there is no conversation. It's all about oneupmanship (or however it's spelled). It's about a better, more sarcastic comment then the one before. It's about popularity among people we don't even know. It's about bragging rights to who, I don't even know. I don't go bragging about comments I make here, at digg, or any other place I visit.
Social networking is about networking and being social, getting to know people and networking with them. It's right in the name.
Help forums and mailing lists are more social networking than these web 2.0 sites.
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Isn't that frowned upon?
Breaking in. Taunting someone and then getting paid to fix things? Bad precendece I would think.
Good question.
I think I remember reading a rumor before they came out with tv shows on itunes that the next itunes was to going to have something built in to let people share like bittorrent and get itunes store credit for doing this with the files they had bought.
Now:
1) It was a rumor a long time ago.
2) If you don't purchase anything from the iTunes store you probably could care less if the rumor was true or not.
When you are emo everything relates to abandon.
No phones are contractually tied to Cingular. Oh yeah, you only get them for cheap if you sign a contract with them, but they do nothing and I mean nothing if you have a phone issue.
Have a phone problem? Do you have phone insurance through the outside company all of the ones use (Lockline I think)? If not, tough. Cingular sells you a phone that they but their little orange man on but does nothing to make sure it works. Problem? Lockine or ebay are the only options.
"full legitimate usage" is very subjective.
I am guessing this is based on what the content creator thinks and varies greatly.
It seems most people are for free stuff until they begin losing money.
Shouldn't they do that once balance > $0.00?
Most non-profits have to prove they are before they can get that status, not afterward or once money is to be given to them.
Flip the burgers.
Sorry. Now that makes complete sense. I can't argue with you there. Please accept my humble apologies.
Who are you ducking from around here?
Sit back, relax, and wait for the Insightful rather than the Redundant moderation points to start rolling in on your comment.
The patches caused more harm than good so they decided to pull them?
Damn them for not releasing patches that make a more unstable system! Damn them I say!
I'm guessing that someone who might have thought of getting you a gift, you already gave this rant to and they decided just to get you some nice socks.
Shit. It's a gift. Say thank you and smile.
Whoopee! The advertisers found out what the kids like and decided to use that to try and get more eye balls.
How about just dealing with it when the compaines lie and that whole false advertising thing?
Do people really think places like youtube and myspace were created for the community to use? No, they were created so they could get bought out by the big corporations and those corporations could put advertisments up.
Oh, and having a link in your signature to something you are trying to hock and replying to this article that this should have been looked into a long time ago... yeah, kinda hypocritcal.
I just saw a commerical for a blackberry on cnn.com which touted the ability to spend more time with the kids because the antique salesman had one.
I really liked his comment until you got to it.
Granted, both of you could be talking out of your asses and I wouldn't know the difference.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/181924 2
I think there is only supposed to be one bottom line.
It wouldn't be the first and won't be the last time I misread and miscommented.
Oh well. At least I wasn't an asshole about it. Was I?
I'm no statistician but I am guessing that way less than 1% of the world's population has ever been an archaeologist and less than 10% has read up on all of their work. Does it make the narrow focus meaningless? I don't think so, it just adds another POV.
http://www.zappa.com/cheezoid/whatsnew/world-news/ FZ-Proposal/
Rather impressive for 1983. Oh, and it's been copyrighted.
Grammar checker was off, but seems the spellchecker worked fine.
I think you just don't want to pay the taxman.
If you really care what the "Im so rebellious that I wear exactly what the rebellious people wear" clerk at Tower thinks of you then you have many more problems above and beyond the CD in your hand.
When Google going down disrupts my ability to get the police, firemen, or ambulance to my place in an emergency then I will worry why they are not responsible to the government.
Until then... I have other things I would prefer the government worry about.
It's whining. People aren't happy with just contributing to the conversation, because there is no conversation. It's all about oneupmanship (or however it's spelled). It's about a better, more sarcastic comment then the one before. It's about popularity among people we don't even know. It's about bragging rights to who, I don't even know. I don't go bragging about comments I make here, at digg, or any other place I visit.
Social networking is about networking and being social, getting to know people and networking with them. It's right in the name.
Help forums and mailing lists are more social networking than these web 2.0 sites.
That's an annoying amount of change to carry around.
What's wrong with $1.75 or $2.00?