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Comment Who spends any time listening to music at their PC (Score 1) 254

'Why do you actually need to have something downloaded on your PC? The streaming idea is really the future.'"

I don't have any numbers to back this up, but surely the majority of music is listened to off line at the moment, on mp3 players etc? The whole point of portable devices is that you aren't tethered to your PC to listen.

For this to change, it needs to become much easier and cheaper for portable devices to stream music "on the go".

Orlando

Comment Re: I get less than 2% - don't even need filters (Score 1) 330

I simply don't understand how or why people only ever have 1 email address and give it out unconditionally to anyone who asks for it. How can people live like that?

While I use these same techniques to limit spam to my email addresses, you and I are in the minority of people who have the resources, time and savvy to do this.

Without a wide-spread educational campaign I don't think it's fair to expect the average user to have the time or resources to do this, let alone even have the idea. The average user will prefer to rely on their provider supplied spam filter than mess about with 130 addresses.

Orlando..

Comment Re:But at what cost? (Score 1) 79

Interesting. We avoid Sun largely because the after sales support is so bad, at least in our part of the world.

By the time we get someone from Sun to start working on an issue, the equivalent problem with an HP, Dell or IBM box has already been fixed. For me this wins the deal every time.

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