You Know Who’s Stupid?

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Clarissa

April 11, 2014

People who buy digital content.

I made a huge mistake of buying several episodes of my favorite show from Amazon Instant Video, counting on being able to watch it whenever I wanted.

But no, it turns out that the way the system works is that I can only access my content when the vendor wants. I haven’t been able to watch my shows for days. I just spent an hour doing my hair without any show to watch.

Serves me right for doing something as stupid as buying digital content.

This is, of course, a pretty minor inconvenience. But imagine a whole university completely cut off from all of its textbooks because something is malfunctioning on a server somewhere. That would not be as minor. >

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7 responses to “You Know Who’s Stupid?”

Stille (@aperfectbalance)

April 11, 2014

It’s stupid if you buy digital content that can only be kept on the buyer’s servers, or that requires said servers to be online and answering for you to use your stuff.

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1. Clarissa
  
  April 11, 2014
  
  And that’s exactly what I did. Idiot.
  
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  1. Stille (@aperfectbalance)
    
    April 11, 2014
    
    Think of it this way – you learned your lesson with something as insignificant in the grand scheme of things as a TV show, and you’ll be able to use this experience to prevent larger blunders like your university switching to online textbooks 😉
    
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AcademicLurker

April 11, 2014

This is, of course, a pretty minor inconvenience. But imagine a whole university completely cut off from all of its textbooks because something is malfunctioning on a server somewhere.

“Ed Tech.” is such a fad driven wellspring of terrible ideas…

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Sister

April 11, 2014

Why are you spending an hour doing your hair?

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1. Clarissa
  
  April 11, 2014
  
  It gets so matted that I need forever to prepare it for the steampod. I almost broke the steampod’s little brush today.
  
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Jones

April 15, 2014

All aboard the Jolly Roger, where you liberate your purchased content from the hands of the New Intellectual Property Regime …

Otherwise, your hair must be a rather tortured thing — I sense it needs to stage palace revolts on occasion so it will get the attention that it craves. 🙂

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