funny you should mention.. I agreed to buy 51% of the issued stock, but reneged. So if the Vonage execs sue me and win, my first act will be to FIRE THEM ALL. their call. HA.
the point is that while it is perhaps arguable that cocaine cartels, triads, yakuza, etc. may be very nearly as predatory, amoral and rapacious as video game companies, the latter are somewhat easier to sue.
for a permission based system to work for all senders, wouldn't it have to notify the sender that he must perform some additional act before the message gets sent to the recipient? and if so, wouldn't the sender need to be notified via email, and if so, wouldn't this message sometimes be caught in the sender's own spam filter and never seen, preventing the legimate message from being received? if this happens just 1 in 100 times, such a method would be useless for many people.
I am truely sadened that this made it onto Slashdot. Are we openly praising these people?
I have digitally edited your post for the better quality appreciation by the consumer market:
ARR!1! Ye murderous pirating trolls would befoul the pristine intellectual spaceways of ye noble Dot, will ye?! Ye scoundrels deserve no less of an intergalactic keel haulin' than the scrofulous scallywags of the HMS Digital Millenium Falcon herself!! yar!
Apple Computer, not the Apple music label, is suing Creative.
I stand corrected! But why would a mp3 maker sue a talent agency? After all, Creative, or as they are known outside the industry, Creative Artists Agency, are the very people who manage the fine careers of such thespians as Angelina Jolie and TOM CRUISE. Do they really want to go up against a guy whose religion is basically a legal team that worships a volcano?
apple is shameless. first they sue apple computer on some groundless concern over confusing names, and NOW they sue CREATIVE when Apple doesn't even MAKE mp3 players?? They should take advice from the Beatles and "Let it Be".
the bottom line is that if I can invite a chick over to play DDR and then get some play, I'd happily pay a $300 relative premium over a PC where my chances of getting laid start and end at asking a/s/l in CS.
my guess is the average person sees a console as more like a DVD player, which is a social tool (invite people over to watch with you), whereas they don't think a PC is something you buy for the living room because you look like a geek with a PC next to your TV. I think one reason the PS2 was popular is because it looked like a DVD player so it didn't seem so geeky to have one. People who would have laughed at you or thought you were being infantile playing video games didn't even recognize it as a console.
The real next boom in cellphone software services is mobile blogging. Snap a shot while walking and upload and comment on the picture.
Last week for fun I created a site that does that exactly that.. The comment gets attached to the picture like at the bottom of a polaroid snapshot, and get added to a searchable picture blog. you can try it out at http://www.findmoby.com/ (beta)
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so would you refuse to read a paper that calls itself The Daily Dispatch because dispatch can mean homicide as well as message?
Let's start a movement to publicize this horrible practice. Instead of "Free Tibet!" our slogan can be "Free Ipod!"
based on the search terms you appear to be typing into google, contextual ads are the least of your worries.
you think all the AOL users on slashdot are going to throw things at you? what would they throw anyway, promo CDs?
funny you should mention.. I agreed to buy 51% of the issued stock, but reneged. So if the Vonage execs sue me and win, my first act will be to FIRE THEM ALL. their call. HA.
I bet you five bucks I can beat the governor to death with this endangered squirrel. come and get me coppers!
the point is that while it is perhaps arguable that cocaine cartels, triads, yakuza, etc. may be very nearly as predatory, amoral and rapacious as video game companies, the latter are somewhat easier to sue.
for a permission based system to work for all senders, wouldn't it have to notify the sender that he must perform some additional act before the message gets sent to the recipient? and if so, wouldn't the sender need to be notified via email, and if so, wouldn't this message sometimes be caught in the sender's own spam filter and never seen, preventing the legimate message from being received? if this happens just 1 in 100 times, such a method would be useless for many people.
I am truely sadened that this made it onto Slashdot. Are we openly praising these people? I have digitally edited your post for the better quality appreciation by the consumer market: ARR!1! Ye murderous pirating trolls would befoul the pristine intellectual spaceways of ye noble Dot, will ye?! Ye scoundrels deserve no less of an intergalactic keel haulin' than the scrofulous scallywags of the HMS Digital Millenium Falcon herself!! yar!
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Fw3etTOxNawJ:s eattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/20022591 11_photos01.html
toronto sex crimes unit finds pedophiles likely to be trekkies (all but one arrested in a four year span were trekkies)
of course in France it'll be called the Royale.
I stand corrected! But why would a mp3 maker sue a talent agency? After all, Creative, or as they are known outside the industry, Creative Artists Agency, are the very people who manage the fine careers of such thespians as Angelina Jolie and TOM CRUISE. Do they really want to go up against a guy whose religion is basically a legal team that worships a volcano?
apple is shameless. first they sue apple computer on some groundless concern over confusing names, and NOW they sue CREATIVE when Apple doesn't even MAKE mp3 players?? They should take advice from the Beatles and "Let it Be".
congratulations. somewhere deep in the bowels of washington DC, the NSA server monitoring this website has just received its first slashdotting.
put resident evil, quake, and DDR in a nursing home and no doubt you'll be cashing in on grandma's will in no time
let me get this straight.. you are hanging around on slashdot on a friday night laughing at people's social skills?
the bottom line is that if I can invite a chick over to play DDR and then get some play, I'd happily pay a $300 relative premium over a PC where my chances of getting laid start and end at asking a/s/l in CS.
my guess is the average person sees a console as more like a DVD player, which is a social tool (invite people over to watch with you), whereas they don't think a PC is something you buy for the living room because you look like a geek with a PC next to your TV. I think one reason the PS2 was popular is because it looked like a DVD player so it didn't seem so geeky to have one. People who would have laughed at you or thought you were being infantile playing video games didn't even recognize it as a console.
"mistakes were made"
why the passive voice is otherwise known as pentagonese
how can I trust the post of someone who apparently lives in the UK but operates on Eastern Standard Time?
why would they do that? their children can't vote, but other children's parents can.
lucasfilm
all this time we were blaming steroids, but someone's been corking the bats?
maybe if you walked places instead buying gas, and ate fewer cheeseburgers, you wouldn't need to pay so much for those reinforced spandex overalls.
Last week for fun I created a site that does that exactly that.. The comment gets attached to the picture like at the bottom of a polaroid snapshot, and get added to a searchable picture blog. you can try it out at http://www.findmoby.com/ (beta)