DISQUS

If the Kindle were meant as a netbook, I can understand the hold up. I know they want to ability to sell me books while on holiday, but I'd be happy to get a European Kindle with just Wi-Fi.

Maybe the new Zune is so awful that after seeing it your life would lose all purpose. Makes sense to hold off buying anything if that is the case.

Wow! Congratulations mate.

Having spent a few weeks with a Mac now, I'm loving it more and more. That being said, used and old, it cost me more than a new shiny Dell which would outperform it in any aspect. Apple products are things of desire. They are priced that way and are aimed towards certain people. There's nothing wrong with that.
The quality thing hasn't been much of an issue in years. iPods break all the time, they are notorious for being extremely unreliable products, but they are nice and elegant. The lower range Macs are really embarrassing, yet they have high resale value (no one would ever think about selling a 3 year old PC).
Mac may be ahead of the game when it comes to operating systems (strange, because that's supposed to be Microsoft's domain), but does the price tag still justify it?

Heh heh, I'm guessing my old ProDOS skills won't be of much help these days...

So huge in fact, that for the first time in 20 years I have purchased an Apple product. I am (almost, it's in the mail) a proud owner of a used Mac Mini. Exciting times.

My vote is for Amazon as well. In the end of the day they are the ones who are really benefiting the consumer. Apple could learn a thing or two about not ripping off its clients.
Don't get me wrong, no one should EVER buy a T.I. album, no matter how low the price is, but if you do, at least you're only getting swindled for 4 bucks.

I actually had to go back to IE after using Opera for years. Back in the days of IE 6 Opera wasn't displaying all the web pages correctly (especially in foreign languages) and I had to revert. I used Maxthon though which was a great solution until Firefox came and saved the day.

I don't mind the F13 remake. The series was always fun no matter what they did with it. Nightmare on Elm Street on the other hand deserves much better than a TV ad director.
What's wrong with getting Rob Zombie to do it? He did a great job with Halloween.

And here I was thinking that the issue was that $9.99 was too high for these kind of games...

That's a ridiculous price. If I read 30books this year and pay full price for them it'd still be cheaper. They should have made it dirt cheap and focused on selling eBooks.

Notice how the battery is almost empty. It must have been on for half an hour prior to its picture being taken :-)
But seriously, the keyboard was the main reason I bought my G1...I guess most people don't need it though.

If physical CDs were $5 I'd be buying them left and right.

I'd rather they took their time and released it properly. Many of the Windows 7 features were originally planned for Vista. Microsoft did a rush job on that one and look at how it turned out. As long as they support Windows XP till 2010 I'm fine with waiting.

It seems that a lot of the people who would be interested in video on demand and any online solution would be the ones not living in the US. I know there are a lot of licensing hurdles, but these services could be much more profitable if they were to monetize the millions of users wishing to watch Lost in relatively "real time".
The amount of TV piracy that goes on in Europe should be proof enough. People are paying various P2P services a lot of money to be able to watch their favorite shows.

Looks promising..

I find it very strange that they released it in the summer. It's an extended TV episode and for that matter most people will probably be watching it on DVD.

Hmm...tried to prop this story with the bookmarklet but it just reacted the way the old bookmarklet did (i.e. asking me to start over)....am I doing something wrong?

SilentJay74, this is how Digg works. If you want transparency and accountability go to Mixx or Propeller.
I doubt they're gonna change anything. Digg is built for the masses, namely 16 year olds who want to argue about top ten lists.
The fact that you and other more "inquisitive" members are active in this system is just a disturbance for those who run Digg.
Of course I prefer your contribution to Digg, but neither of us are their key domographic.

yup, simplicity goes a long way for most people

I never understood why Pownce didn't take. It's a superior product to Twitter but I guess people go where their friends go. If Pownce had a bigger user base, I don't think I'd be using Twitter at all.

You're right, I'm over simplifying things.
I think it would make for a nice post - new business models for musicians.

All I'm saying is that the actual album is worth (at least to me) much more than anything else. I don't care about how many gigs I've seen and certainly not how many t-shirts I've purchased.
What I do care about deeply is the great music I've been listening to my whole life. If someone were to wipe all this amazing music from my memory, I'd be willing to pay a lot of money to get it back.
Devaluing recorded music, or just making it a vessel so that second rate acts could perform live in front of teenagers would take a lot of really talented musicians out of the equation.

It's a common argument that merchandise and tickets sales are the product, but I still think the album is the true product. Here's why:
http://www.theplugg.com/2008/03/23/michael-arri...

I'm assuming that your traffic=money scheme means advertising. So in that case, the idea is to set up a site where you can download a certain album for free. This site will contain ads which will be considered the income for this album.
Now let's say the album cost $50,000 to make (including marketing and other overheads). Let's also say that equates to one RSS post on your site (there are many bands, many albums).
Now the big question is, do you make $50,000 from each post on this site?