My great story is when I bought a MiniDisc player and thought it was great. Then, slowly but surely the proprietary Atrac3 format became more and more of a hastle. Forcing me to store 2 copies of all my music on my PC. Not to mention the extremely slow conversion and transfer rates to the damn thing.
I still have yet to shell out of a true MP3 player or iPod rather opting to burn CD's of anything I want to listen to. I will still, from time to time pull it out and load some songs onto it. But it just isn't worth it.
Oh yeah, and lets not talk about how the navigation buttons rarely work the way they are supposed to due to poor design.
This reminds me of the story a while back on how scientists "cracked" the Mona Lisa and told us she was 69% happy, etc...
Which is good and all, but unless I'm playing The Sims it really doesn't mean anything to me.
Yes, science is good, praise science. But, much like some art I've experienced, sometimes you wonder what the real purpose of it really is. Or more importantly, how can I get ahold of some of their grant money to do research like this.
Why do I get the feeling that this could potentially be the greatest publicity stunt for a Prime Time TV Show?
Ratings for "Without a Trace" are going to skyrocket now because so many people are going to tune in to "find out for themselves." That episode will become the most downloaded clip on for the month of March. And the potential money brought in from increased ratings could more than pay for a $3.6m fine.
Seriously, the best conventional advertising campaign you can think of won't get you this kind of attention.
The problem with this country is that there are so many of GW's constituents that don't make a differentiation between the two and just read "for the children" and get in their pick-ups with their shotguns and ride to Washington to rally behind old Bushie because he's got their best interest at heart.
83% happy and 9% disgusted? And just what does that mean? All of life's greatest mysteries can be solved in a quantitative manner?
I for one don't want my computer to act differently if I'm happy, sad, pissed off, stoned, whatever. Just what I've always wanted, a computer with a Genuine People Personality (TM).
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My great story is when I bought a MiniDisc player and thought it was great. Then, slowly but surely the proprietary Atrac3 format became more and more of a hastle. Forcing me to store 2 copies of all my music on my PC. Not to mention the extremely slow conversion and transfer rates to the damn thing.
I still have yet to shell out of a true MP3 player or iPod rather opting to burn CD's of anything I want to listen to. I will still, from time to time pull it out and load some songs onto it. But it just isn't worth it.
Oh yeah, and lets not talk about how the navigation buttons rarely work the way they are supposed to due to poor design.
This reminds me of the story a while back on how scientists "cracked" the Mona Lisa and told us she was 69% happy, etc... Which is good and all, but unless I'm playing The Sims it really doesn't mean anything to me. Yes, science is good, praise science. But, much like some art I've experienced, sometimes you wonder what the real purpose of it really is. Or more importantly, how can I get ahold of some of their grant money to do research like this.
Why do I get the feeling that this could potentially be the greatest publicity stunt for a Prime Time TV Show? Ratings for "Without a Trace" are going to skyrocket now because so many people are going to tune in to "find out for themselves." That episode will become the most downloaded clip on for the month of March. And the potential money brought in from increased ratings could more than pay for a $3.6m fine. Seriously, the best conventional advertising campaign you can think of won't get you this kind of attention.
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The problem with this country is that there are so many of GW's constituents that don't make a differentiation between the two and just read "for the children" and get in their pick-ups with their shotguns and ride to Washington to rally behind old Bushie because he's got their best interest at heart.
83% happy and 9% disgusted? And just what does that mean? All of life's greatest mysteries can be solved in a quantitative manner? I for one don't want my computer to act differently if I'm happy, sad, pissed off, stoned, whatever. Just what I've always wanted, a computer with a Genuine People Personality (TM).