Robatoy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com:
If that doesn't work, try this:
Puckdropper
Puckdropper wrote in news:00e46923$0$17123$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:
Now I got there finally via the last url.
The "dystopian" future they're talking about is the Big Brother attitude that "We will determine what can run on our machine/software".
This has both good and bad effects. In the end we'll see.
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It is a proven business model. Sell the 'tool' for cheap, charge an arm and a leg for the proprietary attachments. Xerox didn't sell copiers, they sold paper and chemicals, Gilette doesn't sell razors, they sell blades. Steven Jobs isn't only shrewd, he's diabolical. Which is why I don't have an iTunes account, or have an iPhone. I am starting to think that the iPad is the end of his winning streak. Then again, he's awful good at reading/creating markets. Time will tell.
Like, OMG , IDKT!
You underestimate a culture that will pay top dollar for NEW blue jeans with holes and tears in them.
I get a kick out of those who think it's a 'kid' thing with the OMG's etc.
Remember these? From eons ago? Stuff like FTW, and the classic TTFN!
TTFN!
In England, back in the sixites, it was shorthand for "ta ta for now", or another way of saying goodbye.
Used to get a kick out of the English girls saying, "If you get a chance, knock me up!"
Sure, darling ... at your pleasure! :)
Just like in the 60"s.
On 2/3/2010 9:03 AM, CW wrote: >
In the sixties idiots had to make their own rips and tears, they didn't pay more than the cost of a new pair without rips and tears. Children of idiot's children are observably more idiotic.
??? how can one _under_-estimate such a culture?
Robatoy wrote in news:6c4756ce-fa5f-45d3-8de1- snipped-for-privacy@l26g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:
As long as I get out of it what I want ... I really like my iPhone. ANd Swingman doesn't mind that I buy his music on iTunes. His Request Vol II saved my sanity as I was held captive by the PATH system this evening ...
I like my iPod, although I don't use it as much as I used to with my blackberry playing most of the music on it, so I only need one device, plus the BB streams audio nicely.
I gifted my youngest with an iTouch for Christmas and was moderately impressed with it, but it is not something I have a need for.
The majority of the songs I've purchased on iTunes are now DRM free. I understand the driving forces behind proprietary devices, and particularly the need to enforce intellectual property rights, but would not buy a device that I did not have the ability to use "user created" content.
I do think that DRM is, and will continue to be, the single biggest hindrance to technological advance on the Internet ... it's why I think all this optimism among the unwashed masses with regard to HTML5 is premature. In short, content owners/providers will continue to throw every wrench they can into the works until the vestiges of all the old, pre digital, business models are a thing of the past. This is particularly true of video content, which would probably be the most appealing aspect of HTML5, IMO.
Glad you enjoy the album ... it should have been DRM free, right?
I'm not a fan of that type of music but I can appreciate when something is well done. Good aren't they?
Swingman wrote in news:8vudnc8y99JJvvfWnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:17:35 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:
"Some are sicker than others."
-- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -- George Bernard Shaw
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:57:03 -0500, the infamous Phisherman scrawled the following:
I'd have given them their money's worth, too.
I got 3 words from each actor before 45 seconds of buffering EACH TIME, and I'm on DSL.
-- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -- George Bernard Shaw
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:09:10 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:
That'n went PSA on me, too.
--UNcool in Oregon, and lovin' it!
-- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. -- George Bernard Shaw
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:13:00 -0600, the infamous Swingman scrawled the following:
--snip--
Seen the new Apple iBama yet?
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