This is that critical mass thing again. PlaysForSure was still early enough in the general maturity of the net that it's been kinda washed over.
But to pull that stunt *twice* makes an event that will show up at the more dangerous business-analysis-article level, and that's far harder to get away from. Also, it coincides with a strange emergence of audience maturity awareness not even present 8 years ago.
You used to form opinions about stuff from 3 newspapers and *the local retail store*. Products created their own gestalts. Something shows up new, "it was cool"... because it showed up on the shelf.
Now we're asking each other about stuff, and *leveraging our own experts* so that the classical media begins to sound lame if they throw too much eggnog into their spinpuff.
1. A mammoth uphill struggle to beat... many other competitors 2&5. The use of DRM &The lock-up issue....
6. Those many other competitors were your own First Ecosystem PlaysUnsure partners which you sent Charlie the Firestarter to take care of.
7. Paul Thurrott hated the first generation software and tolerated the second.
8. Building 1.5 (Unsure about Win7 SP1 or such) entire operating systems for the exclusive use of your DRM.
9. PlentyOfValueWasLost Microsoft is running out of Economic Distortion cards. Their music initative along with the Xbox is their flagship attempt to glue the consumer user mass. All companies have weird little projects cooked up on some random Thursday in April that dies by February after 1 holiday season, but MS's efforts in musuc is a 6 year affair with some 30% of their publicity exposure. If this tanks it will ricochet somewhere else.
Mods, parent is applying local dialect humor, not trolling.
This is in fact right, because it's a question of service. I don't know if it balances all the way in this one, but there's an equation that says if you up-front someone into a better level of life "as a gift" then carefully (from the science point, not politics) calculate a tax that pays it back, it pays for itself in synergy. Same deal here.
The broadband is free, because this is a conceptual question of service. Really the answer is almost forced by economics as "yes we want it" unless someone comes up with an awesome exception like how their VPN doesn't work on same-carrier lines because of hidden blocks in consumer level plans or something.
Department of red herrings again. Price of zero, *nuisance of zero* with someone else doing evey whit of the support and no flukey problems. Then let them do everything they used to do, but it goes snappier. That's the question.
The survey is carefully worded to "say free" but *imply* not-free like some deal that has a hidden catch.
There's a new field sometimes called "emergence" etc. We do things in the paradigm of possibility. The one brave time your mother in law probably clicked on a movie clip link and found it basically impossible quickly snuffed out any interest she *might* have had. From then on "she didn't bother with that". Give someone the capability to do something new and exciting, then see how the playing field is.
I never really traveled much because I'd get lost which was no fun. I just got a GPS, so now I'll travel like crazy from the repressed energies unleashing decades of squashed hopes.
Mixing industries creates the mistake here. Cable is not interactive (normally) and requires you to sit there staring at things. Broadband can go all kinds of places you might not think of, because the questionnaire was slanted as pointed out elswhere.
As pointed out elsewhere people are irrationally assuming they have to pay more to get the dialup. That's not the question.
I have no landline. I got what's called a "Dry Loop" for DSL.
After some careful thought, I DOWNGRADED my package after that! I never said I or anyone else needed 4 mbit packages! The question was between pure dialup (which never hit posted speeds anyway) and *any* brand of broadband. I have a little trouble seeing movies on Hulu. Yay. An excuse to microwave something while it rebuffers. But just getting past the random stuff Web 2.0 tries to load seems to require Something-Band.
The correct administration of this question is "We already upgraded it for you, and it's always on. It's no charge - paid by some weird government grant. I'll call you in a month. Tell me then how life is."
The classic version is something like "Have you followed through with the cold blooded murder of nice cute little babies named Joey, and eaten them cooked over a light polonaise sauce and marinated for 17 hours until their tender little muscles become moist and juicy?"
Jam enough emotional words into a question and it drags the human cognitive processing system kicking and screaming into irrational byways.
I am with the people of the theory that the internet became the last piece of proof that YHVH doesn't literally exist in the classical sense.
Ever notice that if you pray nothing still happens? With Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener on tap to manage His IT, you'd at least get a Prayer Received message in your ear. Log in to view MyMiracles, compare Manger Construction ideas, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Bleh spelling.
Davey says hi.
Can I buy some of your crickets? Will people have an exit path for the money they locked into zune points?
This is that critical mass thing again. PlaysForSure was still early enough in the general maturity of the net that it's been kinda washed over.
But to pull that stunt *twice* makes an event that will show up at the more dangerous business-analysis-article level, and that's far harder to get away from. Also, it coincides with a strange emergence of audience maturity awareness not even present 8 years ago.
You used to form opinions about stuff from 3 newspapers and *the local retail store*. Products created their own gestalts. Something shows up new, "it was cool" ... because it showed up on the shelf.
Now we're asking each other about stuff, and *leveraging our own experts* so that the classical media begins to sound lame if they throw too much eggnog into their spinpuff.
This sounds a lot like what people hate about WGA. Cue the arguments about "arrrr, I get a great experience and you get nagged".
I still think the future is in premium upsells of some kind, though it's not clear yet what works best.
1. A mammoth uphill struggle to beat ... many other competitors ...
2&5. The use of DRM &The lock-up issue.
6. Those many other competitors were your own First Ecosystem PlaysUnsure partners which you sent Charlie the Firestarter to take care of.
7. Paul Thurrott hated the first generation software and tolerated the second.
8. Building 1.5 (Unsure about Win7 SP1 or such) entire operating systems for the exclusive use of your DRM.
9. PlentyOfValueWasLost
Microsoft is running out of Economic Distortion cards. Their music initative along with the Xbox is their flagship attempt to glue the consumer user mass. All companies have weird little projects cooked up on some random Thursday in April that dies by February after 1 holiday season, but MS's efforts in musuc is a 6 year affair with some 30% of their publicity exposure. If this tanks it will ricochet somewhere else.
Scary. I went for a cheap funny, and landed +1 informative.
http://slashbot.org/
404: Prayer Not Found
Ever notice that some Christian bands still get upset at copyright infrigement? It's like they want you to buy the message.
Along with that other story about schools swiping IP rights, this is the tip of the desperation iceberg.
Schools use the simple-materials classes like Math, Econ, Humanities, etc. to subsidize expensive stuff in the science depts.
But what we're darn close to is that an education consists of 2 books per class, 35 recorded lectures, and custom answers to 2 questions per lecture.
That is NOT "worth" $5,000 (1 quarter semester fee.)
I think the RIAA can help you!
They Borrow their music copies to you.
Mods, parent is applying local dialect humor, not trolling.
This is in fact right, because it's a question of service. I don't know if it balances all the way in this one, but there's an equation that says if you up-front someone into a better level of life "as a gift" then carefully (from the science point, not politics) calculate a tax that pays it back, it pays for itself in synergy. Same deal here.
Not buy. Free.
Damn, that hidden assumption is getting everyone.
The broadband is free, because this is a conceptual question of service. Really the answer is almost forced by economics as "yes we want it" unless someone comes up with an awesome exception like how their VPN doesn't work on same-carrier lines because of hidden blocks in consumer level plans or something.
Department of red herrings again. Price of zero, *nuisance of zero* with someone else doing evey whit of the support and no flukey problems. Then let them do everything they used to do, but it goes snappier. That's the question.
The survey is carefully worded to "say free" but *imply* not-free like some deal that has a hidden catch.
There's a new field sometimes called "emergence" etc. We do things in the paradigm of possibility. The one brave time your mother in law probably clicked on a movie clip link and found it basically impossible quickly snuffed out any interest she *might* have had. From then on "she didn't bother with that". Give someone the capability to do something new and exciting, then see how the playing field is.
I never really traveled much because I'd get lost which was no fun. I just got a GPS, so now I'll travel like crazy from the repressed energies unleashing decades of squashed hopes.
Mixing industries creates the mistake here. Cable is not interactive (normally) and requires you to sit there staring at things. Broadband can go all kinds of places you might not think of, because the questionnaire was slanted as pointed out elswhere.
Wrong question. Choices are 23700k dialup or 8mb broadband for free.
Hi AC.
As pointed out elsewhere people are irrationally assuming they have to pay more to get the dialup. That's not the question.
I have no landline. I got what's called a "Dry Loop" for DSL.
After some careful thought, I DOWNGRADED my package after that! I never said I or anyone else needed 4 mbit packages! The question was between pure dialup (which never hit posted speeds anyway) and *any* brand of broadband. I have a little trouble seeing movies on Hulu. Yay. An excuse to microwave something while it rebuffers. But just getting past the random stuff Web 2.0 tries to load seems to require Something-Band.
The correct administration of this question is "We already upgraded it for you, and it's always on. It's no charge - paid by some weird government grant. I'll call you in a month. Tell me then how life is."
Don't forget the intercalary reforms in the time periods between the Mayans and today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
bleh that was supposed to be "nice sig"
Great point.
The classic version is something like "Have you followed through with the cold blooded murder of nice cute little babies named Joey, and eaten them cooked over a light polonaise sauce and marinated for 17 hours until their tender little muscles become moist and juicy?"
Jam enough emotional words into a question and it drags the human cognitive processing system kicking and screaming into irrational byways.
(Nig Sig. It's a fourth cousin of my point.)
2013 called. They changed their plans and now have a computer.
Nope.
I am with the people of the theory that the internet became the last piece of proof that YHVH doesn't literally exist in the classical sense.
Ever notice that if you pray nothing still happens? With Alan Turing and Norbert Wiener on tap to manage His IT, you'd at least get a Prayer Received message in your ear. Log in to view MyMiracles, compare Manger Construction ideas, etc.
Logging ito Gmail or Yahoo mail faster. The free mail guys like serving ads.
Skies alive Yes.
Families with a Tradition of Detail "dominate the channel". It's tough to listen to. Let them type it and email the first round.
I got my mother to start doing this and I love getting 2 page emails. I was exhausted listening for 38 minute stretches.