I don't know. When someone fones me and i just don't feel like talking to them, i normally just say 'hold on a second *beep*' and then start singing the chorus to cats in the craddle. It's been a while since i did that though ... not many people call anymore
I don't think he's talking about a simple refusal. I think he was referring to Final Fantasies inability to suspend my belief or want to believe in the premis. It just wasn't an interesting take on reality they where painting. The force isn't real sure, but (up until the first movie when they tried to explain it) it kind of makes sense in an 'yeah, that'd be cool' sort of a way.
Of course my big problem with final fantasy is, as cool as the animation was, it was waisted on these ambiguous ornage beings prancing about rather then teh rich and detailed final fantasy creatures that have appeared in almost every incarnation, regardless of story
I mean, there wasnt' a single chocobo or quactaur to speak of...
Jewish Propeganda, eh?
Do you know what i hate about all the 'lost protocalls of teh elders of zion' believers of teh world? It's not fucking true! Why does this upset me. Because i'm a jew and i hardly have a cent to my name. My whole life I figured 'well, enough people hate me, there must be a reason.' Nope. Bar mitzvah came, i was waiting for the secret handshake and a special knock on my door. Never came. Did i get any banks? No. Did I get to control the media? No. Fuck that. It turns out that, as a jew I'm like every other 2nd generation immigrant family on this contienent. Disproportionatly represented in statistics.
See, it turns out that most jews grandparents came to North America either during the pre-WWII pograms, or after world war 2. And, like most poor imigrant families, they settled for a low quality of living and forced their kids to work hard as hell at school. So the second generation where all docters and lawyers and such. You will (and are) seeing the same trend with asian and east indian immigrants. Families come here to find a better standard of living for their children. Former docters from the philipines give up their degrees to run convinience stores all with the hope that their children will amount to something in a free country. And so their kids work hard as hell in school because, if they don't, it's just one more reminder of how the family gave up everything for them. Of course, the second generation is giong to have to deal with even more bigotry then their parents, not because of language diffrences anymore, but this time because of economic prosperity. Just a word of caution
As for Israel politics, I'm not going to even get into it. It's hard to garnish an accurate deffenition of zionism from someone who believes teh jews control the media (and if there are jews responsible for reality tv, i am deeply ashamed and sorry). Zionism is simply the belief that there needs to be a sovreign jewish state. that's it. To call zionism racism is the same as calling the desire for a palastinian state racism. It's not. It's a neccessity brought about by circumstance. But you know, it's pretty easy to throw around scare tactics by comparing people to Nazis. After all, nothign better then the effectivly proven Nazi 'theory of the big lie.' If people like Mr. Transhuman shout loud, often and incredibly absurd claims, people will simply believe them based on the fact that 'no one would make a statement so blatant if it was easily debunked.' Many people are trying to better the lives of the desplaced arabs in the occupied terroties, a.k.a. palastinian people (a term used to describe the native jews and arabs some 50 years ago, but employed today to instill a false history). Currently, Israel is withdrawing from the occupied territories, a move that can only be successful from both sides. If the transhumans of teh world would shut up for 5 minutes, just maybe it could be succesful and the palestinians will have some where to go next time people try and masacare them up in lebenon. Of course if you want to try instill hate and anger in everyone, go for it. But just realise, you are the reason there won't ever be peace, not the isrealies or palastinians who are trying to live normal, vendetta free, lives.
Constantly I hear the 'how could google afford to give 1000 Mb argument' and it's really quite stupid.
When did hotmail come out? I can't even recall but i got my 'before microsoft' hotmail account 8 and a half years ago. Now, at the time, if i recall, teh survice provided 1 Mb of e-mail. Since then, there has been virtually no improvement in services. So, 10 years later,a company provides 1000 Mb of free e-mail. Even if everyone uses all the space they are granted, Google is still earning money. And so is their competition. Had microsoft and yahoo been scaling their services along with computer memory inflation, google would hardly have been making a jump at all
If microsoft loses money, it will be because people are switching to google, not because they are forced to give out more mmemory then they can afford. Had they not been lazy or had decent competition all these years, there would be no danger of a sudden collapse. It's like a fish that's moved from cold water to hot water too fast, it's heart explodes. Google caught them off guard and didn't provide a suitable buffer.
Of course the average person still remains skeptical. A gigabyte still sounds huge, especially when you are primarily filling it up with small flat text files
Attachment size eh? Aventuremail offers 2GB of free storage as well as unlimited attachment size. So if that's your thing, go for it. Personally I think 1GB is enough and 10 MB attachments more then suffice, so i'm going to just stick with my g-mail account. Remember, it's not only size, it's also how you use it and g-mail uses it well!
E-mail with a built in zip program would be cool but i have yet to find someone who doesn't have zip readely available.
You forgot: the gimp
oh wait... that's the one thing that console only can't quite duplicate. Still, the average coder doesn't seem to be all that asthetically inclined, or artistically gifted.
But for me, when i'm in left brain mode, I have fluxbox fine tuned to run all my stupid GUI bloat applications using only the keyboard. But when i switch over to right brain mode, i like to fire up the gimp and make things that look purdy.
Personally, i can see the appeal to a console only system but, it's just all so.. ugly to me...
well normally not a microsoft supporter by any means (g-mail replaced teh very last microsoft thing i had, a hotmail account) i wonder if microsofts actions where all that bad. They closed down an account that had neither received nor sent an e-mail. Granted, there are times that this could be a nuisance, but i doubt one could as easily have an active hotmail account disbarred. Of course, if someone wants to try and report an existing and used hotmail account as spam and gets banned as easily, well then there is a problem.
People relly heavely on their e-mail accounts (prehaps too much so, especially with web based e-mail). Microsoft, as it's been pointed out, services people with a lot more then just a low rate web based e-mail program. It is generally in their best interest to keep everyone happy (enough) with all their services or risk losing a customer to the increasingly attractive competitors
First and foremost, i don't think their wireless connection exactly covered very much of morocco. Africa is the second largest continent in the world. No one has provided North America with free internet yet, I'm not sure how someone would go about transmitting an internet connection for all of africa.
Besides the uneducated africans aren't the ones with computers. Nor are they the litterate members of teh population. Not to mention the fact that nothing on the internet (except mayb obscure linux ports) is available in Xhosa, Zulu, Tutsi, or any of the other 800+ languages and dialects
If you want to educate people in africa, send old text books. Broadcasting wireless is just silly and infeasable.
No. No it wouldn't
Usability shmoosability
Computers where never meant to be usable, practical, or accomplish much of anything. The fact that they do was an unfortunate side affect and now everyone and their mom is apparantly using one.
And then they complain when things go wrong.
Things are supposed to go wrong!
Afterall, if i don't have to work out why I have an error dialog popping up (windows), or why deleting a file called fstab suddenly stops me getting to things like my hard drive (linux) or if i simply don't have to reformat my computer every month or so, then i'm not having fun am i
The inevitable loss to entropy of a file system, not to mention irriversable damage done to system files by my own short sighted tinkering, are what make computers what they are: a hobby.
Unfortunatly, some people decided to tell the general world about the joys of the internet and e-mail and now, not only do we have to contend with the latest fad of cyber clutter (homepages, blogs, pictures of peoples cats) we get viruses and spyware to boot. And, while these viruses afford yet another welcome chance to reformat, suddenly you have to listen to your uncle joel complaining that his computer crashed.
It's a toy. It's supposed to crash. It's a feature.
Oh well... I'm only half joking. All I can say is at least the linux world are trying to provide easy to use, fresh out the box, systems for the productive, unknowledged members of the society, while still maintaining distros that, thankfully, make it as hard as possible to do anything in a speedious manner.
Handguns aren't illegal in canada.
Handgun registration has been required since 1934, with possession of handguns limited to collectors, target shooters and those who can demonstrate a need of guns to protect their lives
As far as i know, with a license, a person can carry a handgun but it must be visible (no concealed weapons).
Fast user switching? Never used it
If Microsoft wants to radically improve their desktop why don't they just include multiple desktops or programming tabbing
Multiple desktops, for onething, are not a new thing by any means, and vastly improve useability and organisation.
And what's sexier then file tabbing?
Stopping a messenger program or the gimp from filling up my task bar and windows by having everything tabbed and/or in it's own desktop is great. And seeing as i'm doing all this in the wonderfully low level, bloat free, fluxbox, sticking these features into XP should not impose a huge preformance hit (multiple desktops might chew up a bit of ram, but not as much as, say, a GUI that needs 3D acceleration...)
Oh and XPs faster boot time... all they do is get your desktop image in the background faster. But XP still loads everything in the background. Personally, i'm far lest frustrated seeing a loading screen tehn when i try to open up my browser and end up opening 3 up out of frustration while waiting. And now i don't have anything opening up in my system tray other then my virus checker. I'd just like my booting to be honest..
Having never owned a PS1, i was over joyed to find FF7 for $20 down at the local EB
Backward compatability is awesome beacuse, quite frankly, with my NES, SNES, n64, and PS2, i am running out of space and outlets around my tv
And some people might say 'ditch the old systems' but I can tell you that, on more then one occasion, my buddies and i have consumed a case of beer and a friday evening reveling in the glory of blades of steel and no newfangledshinyassxbox2 is going to convince me that it isn't an awesome game
my bad...
i guess, upuntil 2 minutes ago, i just assumed most french litreature came from france and many french emersion students i know used to read tintin when learning so i just made the fatal flaw of assuming 'ahah, french comic, must be from france.'
That and i always associated tintin with asterix for some reason, and the proud gauls are most undoubtably french
More to the point, my apologise to Herge~ and teh good people of belgium
But LGPL requires you to include the libraries with your code. Microsoft isn't going to want to have some DLLs that they have to admit where LGPL. Far better to take something like BSD that they can stick in their closed source.
That's it. i'm naming my boxes at home Asterix, Tin-Tin, and Tenticale monster 3 (because french comics, while diverse, just don't capture every facet of human interest)
They already have it
Have two people with gmail accounts hitting refresh constantly
works just like a messenger... erm...
After seeing conversations i think a google messenger could completly blur the liens between e-mail and a messenger (all conversations are e-mail conversations stored on your g-mail account)
'Cause no one else is scanning your e-mail
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Man, I love it when people start whining about a computer searching their e-mail. So i guess yahoo dosen't have a spam filter then? What, hotmail has to parse the text of every e-mail before it determines that that message about penis extensions is spam. How do you think e-mail programs work out that not every mail saying 'Hey, haven't talked to you in a while' is spam
G-mail's problem is not that it scans your e-mail, but rather that the good people are honest and upfront with what they are doing.
I'm sure people would all be thrilled about a virus check if it was billed as 'automatic file parser.' Sure, it might seem weird having a conversation about your favorite jewish actor and getting an add for 'learn hebrew in 24 hours' but that's only because google is utilising what everyone else has. And their only crime was the niavety that people would find this useful. Had they said 'magic pixies work out what you want and sudgest how to get it, while you browse your e-mail,' the tinfoil hate wearing community would embrace it (after all, fairies can't get through tinfoil!).
G-mail is a wonderful, not only because of the unprecedented amoutn of free space, but because of it's intuative and innovative features that help you organise your e-mail while still having that sexy, clean, not 'all up in yo' face' look google is so good for.
If i had to chooose between microsoft and google, i pick the one who vows to 'do no evil' and, so far, has done nothing to make me think otherwise
Strange as this sounds, my girlfriend bought one of those
Still, it bugs me that the 10s and 1s for the numbers each get their own binary digit. I suppose it means more LEDs (and lord knows i want more) but 12 o'clock should be 01100 not 01 0010
Really just decimal if oyu think about it...
That was kind of the point
Record companies can now laud that they've created a new unbreakable copy program and everyone else who doesn't autorun their cds can copy freely. The point is that the music companies can pat themselves on the back for being so clever and show how their new copy protected cds are doing well, and the rest of us cheap bastards can ignore it all together
The sad part is there was probably a great deal of money and research put into this 'solution'
Oh well whatever they can do to tell themselves they are saving the music industry. I just wish they'd pour that money into producing good music. After all, there has been no evidence that P2P programs and music copying are even hurting record sales. Everywhere, except on and aruond college campases, music sales are as strong as ever. I think the problem people are seeing is that file sharing seems to kill the one hit wonder bands of the world. Like a song, download some tracks. If they have nothing else good, store their one song on Simon's Sexy Summmer Mix 83.
Personally, if I want to support an artist I enjoy, I go see them in concert. That's where the artist (not the record company) gets their money. And i'm sure every bad (short of metallica because lars hates everyone) would prefer you to pay $30 on their concert t-shirts, then $20 on their cds.
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I don't know. When someone fones me and i just don't feel like talking to them, i normally just say 'hold on a second *beep*' and then start singing the chorus to cats in the craddle. It's been a while since i did that though
... not many people call anymore
I don't think he's talking about a simple refusal. I think he was referring to Final Fantasies inability to suspend my belief or want to believe in the premis. It just wasn't an interesting take on reality they where painting.
The force isn't real sure, but (up until the first movie when they tried to explain it) it kind of makes sense in an 'yeah, that'd be cool' sort of a way.
Of course my big problem with final fantasy is, as cool as the animation was, it was waisted on these ambiguous ornage beings prancing about rather then teh rich and detailed final fantasy creatures that have appeared in almost every incarnation, regardless of story
I mean, there wasnt' a single chocobo or quactaur to speak of...
Man, that movie is my favorite naked assassin movie ever. Can't wait!
And I still enter IPs
DNS was silly anyway...
Jewish Propeganda, eh?
Do you know what i hate about all the 'lost protocalls of teh elders of zion' believers of teh world? It's not fucking true! Why does this upset me. Because i'm a jew and i hardly have a cent to my name. My whole life I figured 'well, enough people hate me, there must be a reason.' Nope. Bar mitzvah came, i was waiting for the secret handshake and a special knock on my door. Never came. Did i get any banks? No. Did I get to control the media? No. Fuck that. It turns out that, as a jew I'm like every other 2nd generation immigrant family on this contienent. Disproportionatly represented in statistics.
See, it turns out that most jews grandparents came to North America either during the pre-WWII pograms, or after world war 2. And, like most poor imigrant families, they settled for a low quality of living and forced their kids to work hard as hell at school. So the second generation where all docters and lawyers and such. You will (and are) seeing the same trend with asian and east indian immigrants. Families come here to find a better standard of living for their children. Former docters from the philipines give up their degrees to run convinience stores all with the hope that their children will amount to something in a free country. And so their kids work hard as hell in school because, if they don't, it's just one more reminder of how the family gave up everything for them. Of course, the second generation is giong to have to deal with even more bigotry then their parents, not because of language diffrences anymore, but this time because of economic prosperity. Just a word of caution
As for Israel politics, I'm not going to even get into it. It's hard to garnish an accurate deffenition of zionism from someone who believes teh jews control the media (and if there are jews responsible for reality tv, i am deeply ashamed and sorry). Zionism is simply the belief that there needs to be a sovreign jewish state. that's it. To call zionism racism is the same as calling the desire for a palastinian state racism. It's not. It's a neccessity brought about by circumstance.
But you know, it's pretty easy to throw around scare tactics by comparing people to Nazis. After all, nothign better then the effectivly proven Nazi 'theory of the big lie.' If people like Mr. Transhuman shout loud, often and incredibly absurd claims, people will simply believe them based on the fact that 'no one would make a statement so blatant if it was easily debunked.' Many people are trying to better the lives of the desplaced arabs in the occupied terroties, a.k.a. palastinian people (a term used to describe the native jews and arabs some 50 years ago, but employed today to instill a false history). Currently, Israel is withdrawing from the occupied territories, a move that can only be successful from both sides. If the transhumans of teh world would shut up for 5 minutes, just maybe it could be succesful and the palestinians will have some where to go next time people try and masacare them up in lebenon. Of course if you want to try instill hate and anger in everyone, go for it. But just realise, you are the reason there won't ever be peace, not the isrealies or palastinians who are trying to live normal, vendetta free, lives.
Constantly I hear the 'how could google afford to give 1000 Mb argument' and it's really quite stupid.
When did hotmail come out? I can't even recall but i got my 'before microsoft' hotmail account 8 and a half years ago. Now, at the time, if i recall, teh survice provided 1 Mb of e-mail. Since then, there has been virtually no improvement in services. So, 10 years later,a company provides 1000 Mb of free e-mail. Even if everyone uses all the space they are granted, Google is still earning money. And so is their competition. Had microsoft and yahoo been scaling their services along with computer memory inflation, google would hardly have been making a jump at all
If microsoft loses money, it will be because people are switching to google, not because they are forced to give out more mmemory then they can afford. Had they not been lazy or had decent competition all these years, there would be no danger of a sudden collapse. It's like a fish that's moved from cold water to hot water too fast, it's heart explodes. Google caught them off guard and didn't provide a suitable buffer.
Of course the average person still remains skeptical. A gigabyte still sounds huge, especially when you are primarily filling it up with small flat text files
Attachment size eh? Aventuremail offers 2GB of free storage as well as unlimited attachment size. So if that's your thing, go for it. Personally I think 1GB is enough and 10 MB attachments more then suffice, so i'm going to just stick with my g-mail account. Remember, it's not only size, it's also how you use it and g-mail uses it well!
E-mail with a built in zip program would be cool but i have yet to find someone who doesn't have zip readely available.
You forgot: the gimp .. ugly to me...
oh wait... that's the one thing that console only can't quite duplicate. Still, the average coder doesn't seem to be all that asthetically inclined, or artistically gifted.
But for me, when i'm in left brain mode, I have fluxbox fine tuned to run all my stupid GUI bloat applications using only the keyboard. But when i switch over to right brain mode, i like to fire up the gimp and make things that look purdy.
Personally, i can see the appeal to a console only system but, it's just all so
man, i literally just sent off my last invite this morning
next time i get any mroe invites, sure thing
well normally not a microsoft supporter by any means (g-mail replaced teh very last microsoft thing i had, a hotmail account) i wonder if microsofts actions where all that bad. They closed down an account that had neither received nor sent an e-mail. Granted, there are times that this could be a nuisance, but i doubt one could as easily have an active hotmail account disbarred. Of course, if someone wants to try and report an existing and used hotmail account as spam and gets banned as easily, well then there is a problem.
People relly heavely on their e-mail accounts (prehaps too much so, especially with web based e-mail). Microsoft, as it's been pointed out, services people with a lot more then just a low rate web based e-mail program. It is generally in their best interest to keep everyone happy (enough) with all their services or risk losing a customer to the increasingly attractive competitors
First and foremost, i don't think their wireless connection exactly covered very much of morocco. Africa is the second largest continent in the world. No one has provided North America with free internet yet, I'm not sure how someone would go about transmitting an internet connection for all of africa.
Besides the uneducated africans aren't the ones with computers. Nor are they the litterate members of teh population. Not to mention the fact that nothing on the internet (except mayb obscure linux ports) is available in Xhosa, Zulu, Tutsi, or any of the other 800+ languages and dialects
If you want to educate people in africa, send old text books. Broadcasting wireless is just silly and infeasable.
But in vancouver the speed limit is 50km.
Highways?!? We don't need no stinking highways!!!
(gawdamn i hate vancouver traffic)
No. No it wouldn't
Usability shmoosability
Computers where never meant to be usable, practical, or accomplish much of anything. The fact that they do was an unfortunate side affect and now everyone and their mom is apparantly using one.
And then they complain when things go wrong.
Things are supposed to go wrong!
Afterall, if i don't have to work out why I have an error dialog popping up (windows), or why deleting a file called fstab suddenly stops me getting to things like my hard drive (linux) or if i simply don't have to reformat my computer every month or so, then i'm not having fun am i
The inevitable loss to entropy of a file system, not to mention irriversable damage done to system files by my own short sighted tinkering, are what make computers what they are: a hobby.
Unfortunatly, some people decided to tell the general world about the joys of the internet and e-mail and now, not only do we have to contend with the latest fad of cyber clutter (homepages, blogs, pictures of peoples cats) we get viruses and spyware to boot. And, while these viruses afford yet another welcome chance to reformat, suddenly you have to listen to your uncle joel complaining that his computer crashed.
It's a toy. It's supposed to crash. It's a feature.
Oh well... I'm only half joking. All I can say is at least the linux world are trying to provide easy to use, fresh out the box, systems for the productive, unknowledged members of the society, while still maintaining distros that, thankfully, make it as hard as possible to do anything in a speedious manner.
Handguns aren't illegal in canada.
Handgun registration has been required since 1934, with possession of handguns limited to collectors, target shooters and those who can demonstrate a need of guns to protect their lives
As far as i know, with a license, a person can carry a handgun but it must be visible (no concealed weapons).
War skydiving
Yeah, it's about time someone did a 3 dimensional WiFi map. I want to know how high above a signal i can be!!!
Actually I thought it would be more like putting a speed governor on a car. Good thing that never happens...
Fast user switching? Never used it
If Microsoft wants to radically improve their desktop why don't they just include multiple desktops or programming tabbing
Multiple desktops, for onething, are not a new thing by any means, and vastly improve useability and organisation.
And what's sexier then file tabbing?
Stopping a messenger program or the gimp from filling up my task bar and windows by having everything tabbed and/or in it's own desktop is great. And seeing as i'm doing all this in the wonderfully low level, bloat free, fluxbox, sticking these features into XP should not impose a huge preformance hit (multiple desktops might chew up a bit of ram, but not as much as, say, a GUI that needs 3D acceleration...)
Oh and XPs faster boot time... all they do is get your desktop image in the background faster. But XP still loads everything in the background. Personally, i'm far lest frustrated seeing a loading screen tehn when i try to open up my browser and end up opening 3 up out of frustration while waiting. And now i don't have anything opening up in my system tray other then my virus checker. I'd just like my booting to be honest..
Having never owned a PS1, i was over joyed to find FF7 for $20 down at the local EB
Backward compatability is awesome beacuse, quite frankly, with my NES, SNES, n64, and PS2, i am running out of space and outlets around my tv
And some people might say 'ditch the old systems' but I can tell you that, on more then one occasion, my buddies and i have consumed a case of beer and a friday evening reveling in the glory of blades of steel and no newfangledshinyassxbox2 is going to convince me that it isn't an awesome game
my bad...
i guess, upuntil 2 minutes ago, i just assumed most french litreature came from france and many french emersion students i know used to read tintin when learning so i just made the fatal flaw of assuming 'ahah, french comic, must be from france.'
That and i always associated tintin with asterix for some reason, and the proud gauls are most undoubtably french
More to the point, my apologise to Herge~ and teh good people of belgium
But LGPL requires you to include the libraries with your code. Microsoft isn't going to want to have some DLLs that they have to admit where LGPL. Far better to take something like BSD that they can stick in their closed source.
That's it. i'm naming my boxes at home Asterix, Tin-Tin, and Tenticale monster 3 (because french comics, while diverse, just don't capture every facet of human interest)
They already have it
Have two people with gmail accounts hitting refresh constantly
works just like a messenger... erm...
After seeing conversations i think a google messenger could completly blur the liens between e-mail and a messenger (all conversations are e-mail conversations stored on your g-mail account)
Man, I love it when people start whining about a computer searching their e-mail. So i guess yahoo dosen't have a spam filter then? What, hotmail has to parse the text of every e-mail before it determines that that message about penis extensions is spam. How do you think e-mail programs work out that not every mail saying 'Hey, haven't talked to you in a while' is spam
G-mail's problem is not that it scans your e-mail, but rather that the good people are honest and upfront with what they are doing.
I'm sure people would all be thrilled about a virus check if it was billed as 'automatic file parser.' Sure, it might seem weird having a conversation about your favorite jewish actor and getting an add for 'learn hebrew in 24 hours' but that's only because google is utilising what everyone else has. And their only crime was the niavety that people would find this useful. Had they said 'magic pixies work out what you want and sudgest how to get it, while you browse your e-mail,' the tinfoil hate wearing community would embrace it (after all, fairies can't get through tinfoil!).
G-mail is a wonderful, not only because of the unprecedented amoutn of free space, but because of it's intuative and innovative features that help you organise your e-mail while still having that sexy, clean, not 'all up in yo' face' look google is so good for.
If i had to chooose between microsoft and google, i pick the one who vows to 'do no evil' and, so far, has done nothing to make me think otherwise
Strange as this sounds, my girlfriend bought one of those
Still, it bugs me that the 10s and 1s for the numbers each get their own binary digit. I suppose it means more LEDs (and lord knows i want more) but 12 o'clock should be 01100 not 01 0010
Really just decimal if oyu think about it...
That was kind of the point
Record companies can now laud that they've created a new unbreakable copy program and everyone else who doesn't autorun their cds can copy freely. The point is that the music companies can pat themselves on the back for being so clever and show how their new copy protected cds are doing well, and the rest of us cheap bastards can ignore it all together
The sad part is there was probably a great deal of money and research put into this 'solution'
Oh well whatever they can do to tell themselves they are saving the music industry. I just wish they'd pour that money into producing good music. After all, there has been no evidence that P2P programs and music copying are even hurting record sales. Everywhere, except on and aruond college campases, music sales are as strong as ever.
I think the problem people are seeing is that file sharing seems to kill the one hit wonder bands of the world. Like a song, download some tracks. If they have nothing else good, store their one song on Simon's Sexy Summmer Mix 83.
Personally, if I want to support an artist I enjoy, I go see them in concert. That's where the artist (not the record company) gets their money. And i'm sure every bad (short of metallica because lars hates everyone) would prefer you to pay $30 on their concert t-shirts, then $20 on their cds.