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Comment The death of Last.fm? (Score 5, Interesting) 334

If this does turn out to be true, who is going to use their service ever again? Even if someone doesn't have any pirated music on their computer, who wants their music collection data sent to the RIAA? What about legitimate purchased songs being flagged as being pirated?

I guess one could simple turn off scrobbling, but that is one of the main features of the service.

Comment I like vista (Score 5, Interesting) 374

There, I said it. And I'm probably going to lose karma for this post as everyone seems to hate vista here but oh well.

I know there are going to be dozens (if not hundreds) of vista jokes about this article but I still don't know why everyone hates vista so much.

This is going to sound really weird, and I am not making this up. I'm a Linux user (kubuntu at the moment, used to use slackware and I'm thinking of installing fedora) and I have an old mac that I use regularly too. I wasn't too fond of XP, and I'm not a huge fan of microsoft either because of their dirty business tactics. I got Vista (with sp1) cheap because I'm a uni student. The first thing I did before buying Vista was to make sure that all the parts I had were compatible, and luckily they were as I only just built the computer. Anyway, so I installed vista expecting there to be a million problems, I had a preconceived negative opinion of vista and I was actually quite surprised. Its stable, fast (on my computer, at least) and I'm quite enjoying using it.

However, I never used Vista before SP1 and I didn't have the driver problems. And I guess because I don't use XP that I wasn't missing any of XP's features.

Anyway, I guess my experience isn't the usual experience. Sure, I'm not going to make Vista my main machine (I love kubuntu and os x too much to do that :)) but I don't regret installing Vista.

Comment Can't these problems be easily solved? (Score 1) 178

Obviously mobile phones are becoming more advanced and have more features these days and we want to be able to use them with the same kind of freedom we get with a desktop. Wouldn't the solution be to have an appstore with all the censorship crap and "protection" and also allow users to install whatever the hell they want on their phone via their own means? Wouldn't that appease pretty much everyone? Oh wait, this is about control over what one can do with their own phone that they purchased, such as limiting tethering and VoIP and anything that the phone companies do not want, I totally forgot.

And no, I don't hate apple (typing this on my mac) and I'm thinking of getting an iphone but this crap is really starting to piss me off. I don't want to buy a phone thats locked down so badly that I can't do what I want with it without jailbreaking it. Its ridiculous.

Comment Re:$5 for a feature? (Score 1) 28

Quite frankly, I would like to see that type of model continue on this path. I mean, not having to purchase parts of a game that I'm not going to use would save me money.

I don't think it will ever work like that. I doubt it will ever save consumers money if the gaming industry adopts such a model for all games. I'm sure what the game publishers will do is sell the "basic" game at the same high price which is a price where a lot of people are still willing to pay, and then selling extra features that should probably have very well have been in the original at an extra cost.

I think the gaming industry is going to milk it for all they can rather then provide a fairer price-model by using micro-payments or payments for ad-ons that probably should have been included in the first place. Gaming is sure getting expensive.

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