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Comment College Fund (Score 3, Insightful) 234

Hopefully this will amount to a nice college fund for the kid. But in reality, the parents will use all the money to buy TVs and a car. I can't believe the father quit his job over this. Does he really think this is really gonna support his family in 5 years time?
Also, this kid is gonna have to live with this for the rest of his life.

Comment Re:Ads (Score 1) 190

We tout innovation but apparently no one can innovate a way out of using the same ad model for decades. I prefer subscriptions. I'm a happy subscriber of Marvel Digital Comics. Also had HBO at one point. Why can't we subscribe to the channels we want and not pay for the ones we don't want(a la carte). Or better yet have a subscription model per show. The show you like will be ad free while the others, which you'll probably ignore, run like they usually do.

Comment Ads (Score 3, Insightful) 190

I despise how everything I now want to interact with (TV, Internet, video games, the old paper media) must be all based on ads. Can't somebody think of a better way? And if I have a subscription, can't I receive an ad free version. Thank (your favorite deity) for AdBlock and the mute button. I remember a time when there were only two commercial breaks when watching a TV program, now it's four. It sometimes feels like there is more commercials than actual program. I demand that these media outlets pay me for watching these ads. I might actually pay attention to them if I was paid to watch them.

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Submission + - Wired offers 10,000 FREE copies of March '08 issue (wired.com)

rafael writes: In the March 2008 issue of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief, has written a story about why FREE is the future of business. The article will probably be posted on Wired.com sometime in the near future, but in keeping with the spirit of the cover story, the first 10,000 people to fill out the form here will receive a free copy.

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