I'll see your anecdote and raise you. Microsoft Works is still in use by people. Remind me again the ease of sharing documents between someone using Works and someone with Word, without formatting errors. Your memory is pretty selective if you're only considering Microsoft Office.

How long is a revived creature going to last in an environment full of toxins and biological hazards against which it has dubious amounts of defense?

When EA and Comcast team up, not even God wins.

For the burgeoning market of people with plenty of time to pen a letter, but not enough time to compose an e-mail of course. And no access to a public library or personal computer with internet access as an added hurdle to their business model.

No it still doesn't, You're not paying the Catholic church's taxes in the exactly the same fashion.

So they're funded in the same way religious groups and non-profit organizations are funded by the government.

playing my heart bleeds for you.

Being the first person to like Slashdot Beta.

Just think, this allows an additional way to access your car without you needing to be there. That couldn't possibly be abused by paranoid/corrupt/curious law enforcement/neighbors/competitors.

Uncle-grandpa seems more fitting in this case.

So you're still installing RealPlayer and VivoActive players on all of your machines because they were once the de facto encoding formats? Oh that's right, some people remember the late 90s and the debacle of having to transcode over and over again every time there's a new "best" video or audio format.

http://www.27bslash6.com/p2p2....

You give them your data the same way you give the road your tires. There's some strange expectation that the rest of your vehicle isn't being consumed / sold / exploited when you do so.

The problem with your math is that 99% of users aren't active contributors when the site works properly. A great deal of them are suddenly up in arms when it's actively broken. People are posting angrily instead of constructively due to the mangling of the site. And it's many of the typical lurkers, AKA the viewership. If people could moderate the beta as -1 off-topic, troll, or flamebait they would all be correct.

Or the one about the guy talking to Himself and things started existing.