How would you feel if you pay per video and got Rick Rolled? Or accidentally watched a Chris Crocker video?
This will never work for user-submitted videos. Only if they offer HD, full-episode shows that I want to watch on any PC I own with no DRM would I even consider looking at it.
I'm in the same boat as well. I don't mind having to put the CD in to play but only allowing you install it 3 times or phoning home every 10 days? No thanks. I'd rather not play. Best wishes, EA.
That's just your and your friends' nerdiness. Not really, my parents don't do that either, and I doubt many others also prefer to buy from online shops they are aware of since earlier. It's a trust thing, and people aren't as stupid as you think. Maybe in the early 2000's, but even my mom is reasonably seasoned as an Internet user these days.
So I think it's not specific to nerds to not buy, but rather a special group of ad-buyers that buy.
My mom doesn't know anything about a computer.
But, my dad clicked the faux close button on a banner ad once as I was sitting there. I told him he just got owned and he seemed slightly confused.
Yes, there are people out there who click on the ads!!!
"If they do it, they better do it excellent, excellent, excellent because the iPod sure is. Doing something weaker and somehow trying to use your size and market power . . . that's just not good [enough] if you don't turn out something superior."
Don't you remember that quote from Pirates of Silicon Valley? The one where Bill Gates finally confronts Steve Jobs about Windows and when Steve yells "Our stuff is better!" Bill Gates replies "That doesn't matter!"?
It doesn't matter. Sure it's good to have a better unit, but a better unit != a more succesful unit.
Microsoft will come out with a decent player, but leverage its Windows userbase and connectivity with MSN and Windows Media Player to get regular Joe Users to buy the unit. A marketing and media frenzy will ensue and suddenly everyone will be buying their players. It doesn't matter if it's crappier!
I understand your point and his, but you've got to realize that this type of person is the majority of computer users. If you want increased quality software (by bringing more developers [and money] to the table) and an increase in userbase, there has to be a way to find common ground for both parties: people who like to use the command line and people who want everything done by graphical means.
That's the benefit of Linux, it has both. I just think that some of the command-line people should lower the 'holier than thou' elitist attitude that is very common in Linux. It's scaring Joe User away.
By the same token, I understand the comment posted above that states the passenger of the car is trying to be a mechanic and wants to adjust technical things in a non-technical way.
I am not very technically adept at Linux, but that shouldn't affect the value of my opinion. Nor should it affect the value of the original poster's opinion. Everyone starts somewhere, and the best way to find out is to ask questions. IE: Why are we doing it this way? Why not this way? etc.
Tell me: Why can't someone create an app that compiles a new kernel? One that has checkboxes for every command-line switch?
Sheesh.. The Nintendo lifestyle is looking more attractive by the minute. Aren't they the only ones making games any more?
I was the hugest Xbox fan for the first year, then they turned their backs on gamers and went for the money: movie licence games and ports from the PS2. Xbox Live beta was a blast and then 12-year-olds invaded.
I gave up and bought a GameCube two years after the Xbox and I've had just about as much fun on that. Right now it's been collecting a lot of dust, though. I just don't have the time to enjoy console games like I used to. I find that if it's not on a PC and I can convince myself that I'm in a working environment to satisfy my guilt of playing when I should be working, it's impossible to get up and go over to the TV and sit down to just play games.:/ Maybe I should see someone about that.
No, actually, the way I understood it was that the server would create a shoutcast station for just you, based on the playlist you created.
Maybe someone can dig up an article or something.
I seem to remember a college or university doing this a few years back in order to avoid the RIAA's wrath on music swappers. They created a server that would broadcast a digital radio station, based on the music you 'requested' off of the server. So technically, the music only streamed to you and all of the music stayed in one place.
Yes.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790 75116X/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/103-9805707-9527825 ?v=glance
Although not the exact movie that was talked about, this is the movie I thought they were referring to.
Haha whoa whoa..easy there, fellah. I never professed that I was holier than thou or a superior user.. I'm just saying that you have to start off assuming that people know nothing about computers because they generally don't know anything. If anyone wants to come in and talk at a higher level, I am always available. But take it from someone who works retail: most people (AKA Joe User) know nothing, if not very little, about computers.
Also, there's no need to insult my job. I realize it is shitty and I never claimed it to be great. I'm only 21 and I'm still in college. At least I'm working and not doing drugs like half of the population my age.
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How would you feel if you pay per video and got Rick Rolled? Or accidentally watched a Chris Crocker video? This will never work for user-submitted videos. Only if they offer HD, full-episode shows that I want to watch on any PC I own with no DRM would I even consider looking at it.
fried, man.
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I'm in the same boat as well. I don't mind having to put the CD in to play but only allowing you install it 3 times or phoning home every 10 days? No thanks. I'd rather not play. Best wishes, EA.
My mom doesn't know anything about a computer.
But, my dad clicked the faux close button on a banner ad once as I was sitting there. I told him he just got owned and he seemed slightly confused.
Yes, there are people out there who click on the ads!!!
"If they do it, they better do it excellent, excellent, excellent because the iPod sure is. Doing something weaker and somehow trying to use your size and market power . . . that's just not good [enough] if you don't turn out something superior." Don't you remember that quote from Pirates of Silicon Valley? The one where Bill Gates finally confronts Steve Jobs about Windows and when Steve yells "Our stuff is better!" Bill Gates replies "That doesn't matter!"? It doesn't matter. Sure it's good to have a better unit, but a better unit != a more succesful unit. Microsoft will come out with a decent player, but leverage its Windows userbase and connectivity with MSN and Windows Media Player to get regular Joe Users to buy the unit. A marketing and media frenzy will ensue and suddenly everyone will be buying their players. It doesn't matter if it's crappier!
Someone actually read the EULA?
I understand your point and his, but you've got to realize that this type of person is the majority of computer users. If you want increased quality software (by bringing more developers [and money] to the table) and an increase in userbase, there has to be a way to find common ground for both parties: people who like to use the command line and people who want everything done by graphical means.
That's the benefit of Linux, it has both. I just think that some of the command-line people should lower the 'holier than thou' elitist attitude that is very common in Linux. It's scaring Joe User away.
By the same token, I understand the comment posted above that states the passenger of the car is trying to be a mechanic and wants to adjust technical things in a non-technical way.
I am not very technically adept at Linux, but that shouldn't affect the value of my opinion. Nor should it affect the value of the original poster's opinion. Everyone starts somewhere, and the best way to find out is to ask questions. IE: Why are we doing it this way? Why not this way? etc.
Tell me: Why can't someone create an app that compiles a new kernel? One that has checkboxes for every command-line switch?
I'm still trying to figure out if that was a joke or not.
I wonder how he stole them? And how long did it take for him to give them back? Did they ever find them?
Yeah, what he said.
Sheesh.. The Nintendo lifestyle is looking more attractive by the minute. Aren't they the only ones making games any more? I was the hugest Xbox fan for the first year, then they turned their backs on gamers and went for the money: movie licence games and ports from the PS2. Xbox Live beta was a blast and then 12-year-olds invaded. I gave up and bought a GameCube two years after the Xbox and I've had just about as much fun on that. Right now it's been collecting a lot of dust, though. I just don't have the time to enjoy console games like I used to. I find that if it's not on a PC and I can convince myself that I'm in a working environment to satisfy my guilt of playing when I should be working, it's impossible to get up and go over to the TV and sit down to just play games. :/ Maybe I should see someone about that.
That's nothing. Just wait until they can power rockets with 126lb NIMFO MILFs. That'll launch MY pocket rocket.
I don't get it.
Funny? It should have been modded Insightful.
No, actually, the way I understood it was that the server would create a shoutcast station for just you, based on the playlist you created. Maybe someone can dig up an article or something.
I seem to remember a college or university doing this a few years back in order to avoid the RIAA's wrath on music swappers. They created a server that would broadcast a digital radio station, based on the music you 'requested' off of the server. So technically, the music only streamed to you and all of the music stayed in one place.
Don't worry about it.. It was fine. :)
-Fellow Canadian
Whoa. Slashdot totally fucked that one up :)
Click here for the Firefox movie.
Yes. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790 75116X/qid=/sr=/ref=cm_lm_asin/103-9805707-9527825 ?v=glance
Although not the exact movie that was talked about, this is the movie I thought they were referring to.
Wasn't that movie called Firefox? Conspiracy theorists abound.
Why are you worrying about the price of the lights? When a person down the street buys one, just go and steal his :)
So which was it: Were the interviews were valuable or no? knyuk knyuk
HAHAHAHAHA
True, true.
One of my co-workers once said to a customer: "If you use a switch as opposed to a router, you have to use crossover cables on all of the computers."
Haha whoa whoa..easy there, fellah. I never professed that I was holier than thou or a superior user.. I'm just saying that you have to start off assuming that people know nothing about computers because they generally don't know anything. If anyone wants to come in and talk at a higher level, I am always available. But take it from someone who works retail: most people (AKA Joe User) know nothing, if not very little, about computers. Also, there's no need to insult my job. I realize it is shitty and I never claimed it to be great. I'm only 21 and I'm still in college. At least I'm working and not doing drugs like half of the population my age.