I think one reason that electronics companies don't stand up to the music and motion picture industries is that the latter have unified organizations to act behind. To my knowledge, electronics makers are much more splintered than the entertainment industry. If the like of Sony, Panasonic, and others would band behind a single name, I think we would see more of a spine behind their agenda.
Yeah, I'd spend my vacation there! Unfortunately, Survivor has booked the whole place for the 387th season. You pay for your ticket, then they vote you off. The title is slated to be Survivor: Rip-Off Island.
Just so eveybody knows, Wal-Mart has effectively leveraged its fantastic database of American consumerism into the world's most accurate society predicter. By carefully analyzing when you buy your Chips Ahoy cookies and Diet 7-Up, Wal-Mart now has a bead on your personality. By controlling the webposts you read (by stratiegally placing on sale, thus causing your bladder to reach capacity at the crucial moment) and the food you eat, they are taking seizing the country from beneath our noses! Through careful manipulation, the peoples of Earth will be subdued by their own laziness and fondness for low, low, everyday prices! Only then will the true founders of Wal-Mart be known: the Wal-Martians! They will invade our planet in force and we won't notice until it's too late because Wal-Mart will have alcoholic beverages on sale at 75% off and everyone will be too inebriated to notice! Doom awaits us all! DOOOOOMM I SAY!...okay... I'm...uhh... going to sit in the corner in a fetal position with some aluminum foil over my head, okay? yeah...*incoherent mumbling ensues*
Wow. This is too perfect. Two of the juggernauts of mainstream entertainment have decided to create a new television market, then dominate it before any competition arrives. It's the perfect scheme for them and me. It works like this:
1)The Joneses buy the SBC-MS box/service. 2)The neighbors catch on with a wave of advertising boasting reasonable rates that, unbeknownst to the consumer, are void inside one year. 3)The consumer realizes with growing fear that SBC is fond of the $200 cancellation-of-service charge. 4)The consumer's telvision becomes infected with a crafty virus disguised as a Simpsons episode. 5)The TVs of the world die. 6)I enjoy the ensuing silence with a quiet moment of Zen. 7)Microsoft claims that the virus is a feature, designed to limit the watching of television done by a household.
Here's a nice hypothetical question: What would you do if somehow you knew 24 hours in advance that the world as we know it, i.e. the internet, would collapse? Would you download the latest version of your favorite Linux programs, turn of the computer in quiet resignation, or would you nostalgically make your last few Slashdot posts? Think about it.
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I think one reason that electronics companies don't stand up to the music and motion picture industries is that the latter have unified organizations to act behind. To my knowledge, electronics makers are much more splintered than the entertainment industry. If the like of Sony, Panasonic, and others would band behind a single name, I think we would see more of a spine behind their agenda.
Yeah, I'd spend my vacation there! Unfortunately, Survivor has booked the whole place for the 387th season. You pay for your ticket, then they vote you off. The title is slated to be Survivor: Rip-Off Island.
Just so eveybody knows, Wal-Mart has effectively leveraged its fantastic database of American consumerism into the world's most accurate society predicter. By carefully analyzing when you buy your Chips Ahoy cookies and Diet 7-Up, Wal-Mart now has a bead on your personality. By controlling the webposts you read (by stratiegally placing on sale, thus causing your bladder to reach capacity at the crucial moment) and the food you eat, they are taking seizing the country from beneath our noses! Through careful manipulation, the peoples of Earth will be subdued by their own laziness and fondness for low, low, everyday prices! Only then will the true founders of Wal-Mart be known: the Wal-Martians! They will invade our planet in force and we won't notice until it's too late because Wal-Mart will have alcoholic beverages on sale at 75% off and everyone will be too inebriated to notice! Doom awaits us all! DOOOOOMM I SAY! ...okay... I'm ...uhh... going to sit in the corner in a fetal position with some aluminum foil over my head, okay? yeah...*incoherent mumbling ensues*
Wow. This is too perfect. Two of the juggernauts of mainstream entertainment have decided to create a new television market, then dominate it before any competition arrives. It's the perfect scheme for them and me. It works like this:
1)The Joneses buy the SBC-MS box/service.
2)The neighbors catch on with a wave of advertising boasting reasonable rates that, unbeknownst to the consumer, are void inside one year.
3)The consumer realizes with growing fear that SBC is fond of the $200 cancellation-of-service charge.
4)The consumer's telvision becomes infected with a crafty virus disguised as a Simpsons episode.
5)The TVs of the world die.
6)I enjoy the ensuing silence with a quiet moment of Zen.
7)Microsoft claims that the virus is a feature, designed to limit the watching of television done by a household.
Everyone wins.
Here's a nice hypothetical question: What would you do if somehow you knew 24 hours in advance that the world as we know it, i.e. the internet, would collapse? Would you download the latest version of your favorite Linux programs, turn of the computer in quiet resignation, or would you nostalgically make your last few Slashdot posts? Think about it.