What’s up with Microsoft? Are they running low on cash? Not likely. If you have an Xbox360 then you’ll probably pay them around £30 a year for Gold Membership to Xbox Live – allowing access to premium content and online gaming. It all sounds fair enough, but with the BBC’s iPlayer already available on the Xbox’s two main competitor’s consoles – the Wii and the PS3 – Microsoft are missing out. And it’s their own fault:
Xbox 360 iPlayer launch delayed indefinitely
What don’t Microsoft get about this? Have they even heard of ‘value-add’ services? Do they have to charge for absolutely everything??
The BBC themselves aren’t allowed to charge for the iPlayer – what the hell makes Microsoft think they’re allowed to just because a) they’re big bad Microsoft, and b) they have a ’strategy’ to charge for absolutely everything. I mean, what company seriously has the balls to make a strategy to charge for everything? Oh yeah, that would be Microsoft. They really need to wake up and smell the free entertainment. The Xbox is a popular enough console, but how many extra hours do you think people will spend on their console if thy can switch from gaming to watching TV? And if, to put it in an idiotic term used by marketers, they have more backsides on seats for a longer time, this can only be good for the Xbox brand and increase it’s offering. It’ll probably get people interested in Xbox 360 who previously only saw it as a games console rather than a media centre.
Microsoft should stop worshipping the almighty dollar and give a little back to its already paying public, for once. Besides, the BBC is ours – we already paid for it.
GZS







“I’m right, you’re wrong. Screw you. PEACE. x”
1 02 2010I’ve had it with these people. The ones who clutter up message boards and forums of all kinds, just waiting to splurge their (often deluded/self-righteous/downright crazy) opinions onto ordinary folk. I can hear a few “What’s wrong with that?”s and “it’s a public forum, get over it”s. Well, I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it, by (fictional) example:
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Re: UFO’s Over My House
Posted at: 12.09pm PST
Hey all, LOOK AT THIS! I captured this OBJECT today. Id just finished my daily round of taking random photos of the sky from my backyard, wondered inside to make some tea, when I started to look at the photos on my PC screen. AND GUESS WHAT???!!?? At 30000% zoom I found THIS:
MORE EVIDENCE OF ALIEN CRAFT, MY FRIENDS! WATCH THE SKIES! PEACE. COLLIN
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Re: UFO’s Over My House
Posted at: 12.09pm PST
Collin, I think the photo you just uploaded to the site of a ‘UFO Over My House’ is clearly indistinguishable from a ‘bird’. I think that, in all probability, it is a bird – unless you have other photos or eyewitness testimony to suggest otherwise.
Pete
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Re: UFO’s Over My House
Posted at: 12.16pm PST
PETE YOU ARE WRONG, IF ITS A BIRD THEN HOW IS IT HOVERING?????? I KNOW WHAT A BIRD LOOKS LIKE AND THEY DONT HOVER, AND THIS ISNT ONE!!!! I HAVE LOADS MORE PHOTOS OF THESE ‘CRAFT’ AND EXPLAIN WHY I NEVER SEE THEM WITH THE NAKED EYE, ONLY ON PHOTOS??? I TAKE OVER 300 RANDOM SKY PHOTOS A DAY AND *ALLWAYS* CAPTURE SEVERAL OF THESE INTELLIGENTLY CONTROLLED METALIC CRAFT. I ESTIMATE THEYRE OVER 100-FEET IN LENGTH – HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BIRD THAT SIZE????? EVER SEEN A BIRD MADE OF METAL????!? NO, IT’S MORE EVIDENCE OF ALIENS IN SUPER FAST SHIPS MY FRIEND. IM GLAD WE CAN RESPECT EACH OTHERS OPINION, EVEN IF YOU ARE A SKEPTIC AND MORE CLOSE-MINDED THAN ME. PEACE. COLLIN.
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Now, here’s tip for all you PEACE lovers out there: Just because the opposite to PEACE is WAR doesn’t mean that you’re safe from any form of criticism just because you sign off every opinionated, deluded and unscientific wad of shit you spew out with the word ‘PEACE’. Respect is a two-way street, which means you DON’T get to force your opinion down other peoples throats on a public forum, then (predictably) use the ‘close-minded skeptic’ card (and the ‘we all respect each other, DONT WE‘ passive-aggressive card) as if it was reasoned argument, and finally sign the whole sorry, block-caps-riddled thing off with ‘PEACE’. I mean, what in all of crapdom do you think this is achieving?? Ooh! Better not disagree with this dude! After all, all he wants is peace (awwww, what a guy…) and if I pursue this argument, even in a logical and rational fashion, it’s tantamount to saying that I want WAR! I can’t possibly retort, that would be to insult his strong beliefs and rock this lovely guys peace-boat! Mustn’t do that..!
Yes, we can rock that boat. And we must. Everytime someone signs off a crock of crap like that with ‘peace’ it’s our duty, as free thinkers and rationalists, to represent freedom of expression and reject underhanded simple-minded tactics like these at every turn. If these people don’t want their bubbles bursting by the rest of us they should stay off public forums and stick to grubbly little secret societies where everyone is as singlehandedly dumb and narrow-minded as they are.
There, I’ve said it. Peace.
GZS
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