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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    John At Bar:


    Friend of Mine

    Gets me my drinks for free

    Quick with a joke

    Light of your Smoke

    Place he wants to be(unchecked)

    Believes he could be a movie star


    Paul:

    Real estate novelist

    Never had time for a wife

    Slowly getting stoned


    Piano:

    Sound like a carnival


    Microphone:

    Smells like a beer

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/24/09

    @Illiterate?EmailMeForHelp_GitEmSteveDave: Sing us a song, you're the keyboard man.
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    Image of Frood Frood
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    So can I set this up to play "Lets Get It On" when I open up Firefox?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/24/09

    @Frood: You've just described a feature that's been in Windows since Windows 95.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    Didn't someone do one of these for that MC Hammer song?
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    Image of bucho54 bucho54
    04/24/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: I think it looked something like this:


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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    04/24/09

    @bucho54: Ha Ha. Yes. That's it! That's a funny one.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    @everybody: alright, lock it down. nothing to see here.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    This post is officially played out.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    And let's not forget this classic:


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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/24/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: 3 in a row. Ahyuck.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/24/09

    In reply to Popular Songs Remixed Into Windows Dialog Boxes
    What about..


    Photobucket

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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    04/10/09

    In reply to $1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular
    Hmmm, I think I learned something about this in economics. Lets see...

    Step 1) Increase price

    Step 2) ????

    Step 3) Profit

    Dammit I forget what the middle step was. I guess this is why I failed economics.
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    Image of madog madog
    04/10/09

    @Xeno wishes there was a preview button:


    Step 2) Use logic to explain that the drop in sales still equals the same profit as before.


    And you forgot:


    Step 5) Curl up in fetal position telling ourselves that everything is going to be OK,

    Step 6) Cry,

    Step 7) Curse our God.

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/12/09

    @Xeno wishes there was a preview button:
    Does "Step 2" involve underpants in some way?
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    Image of Boots_Mcoy Boots_Mcoy
    04/10/09

    In reply to $1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular
    i keep saying it. Till things change...LIMEWIRE is the way to go.
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    Image of madog madog
    04/10/09

    @Boots_Mcoy: Limewire? Pish posh. Would have thought a fellow Giz reader would have upgraded to stea..... Legally downloading music with BitTorrent.


    For Shame!

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    Image of Signore Pinko-Panko! Signore Pinko-Panko!
    04/10/09

    In reply to $1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular
    When I took psych 301 back in college, the professor said something about how price increases should be no more than 10% at a time. Humans, apparently, don't really perceive 10% changes. Anything more than that, and we get cranky. If the price had gone up to $1.09, people probably would have essentially shrugged.


    Of course, the labels are still making hand over fist, it seems, so I guess my prof needs to go look at the data some more...

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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/12/09

    @Poppie:
    Not to disagree with you about the 10% bit, but the pop music industry is in pretty bad shape thanks to iTunes. This is an industry that is about hit singles, not music acts. Churn out the "latest greatest" and pack an album of not-hits around it. Sell it, and rake the moneys in.


    Then along comes iTunes, with it's single-track pricing model, and suddenly all the little kids could buy just the songs that they've been told are popular, and skip all the bundled stuff. Now you've got a label that used to be able to rake in $15 or more for a hit song only getting a buck. Sure, the wealth gets spread out a bit more (they can "collect 'em all" rather than having to pick and choose which ones they really liked enough to buy a whole album to get it).


    The thing that's really been holding up the pop music production line is the sale of short ringtones that cost multiple times what you'd pay for the whole song.

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    Image of The Illuminator The Illuminator
    04/10/09

    In reply to $1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular
    Kanye sucks. All rappers sound like robots.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/10/09

    @The Illuminator: I'm no Kanye fan myself, but I gotta say that he still sounds a great deal better than a lot of the random generic yippety yap that comes out of the hiphop genre. That said, it's actually a pretty difficult thing to do, and some are exceptionally good at it.
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    Image of hu_hu_cool hu_hu_cool
    04/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: So, we're hating rappers and hip hopers.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/10/09

    @hu_hu_cool: Who's hating? I personally don't like much of the new stuff that comes out these days.


    @valkilmerisawful: Que?

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    Image of frigg frigg
    04/10/09

    @The Illuminator: If you're talking about the robotic-sounding aggressively applied auto-tuning effect that snaps pitches to the nearest note in the scale (the effect that made its first big splash with Cher's "Do you believe in Love") that's become very trendy in hip hop vocals these days, I agree.


    It was used creatively for awhile and now, all of a sudden, it's everywhere and therefore annoying. It has nothing to do with the talent of the rapper or rap itself. It's just a trendy production fad that will hopefully burn itself out quickly so rap can get back to the business of rapping and stop trying to pretend that it's Cher.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Can I get an Amen for some Slick Rick?
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    Image of fate47 - Meh. fate47 - Meh.
    04/10/09

    @hu_hu_cool: Good thing the Beastie Boys are hip hoppers and not hip hopers.


    /sarcasm

    (There ya go Ponies.)

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/11/09

    @fate47: Actually, they're punk turned rappers turned punk.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    04/12/09

    @The Illuminator:
    I hear he also likes fishsticks.


    @frigg:
    Actually...autotune is used _precisely_ because it can hide the fact that someone can't sing to save their life. Cher wouldn't have survived long enough to cut the first autotuned song if she couldn't hit a note, but it didn't take long before pop music execs figured out that if you've got a singer who meets all of the requirements except the ability to sing, you just autotune their vocals and pass it off as a "creative/artistic" thing. There was at least one of those boy-toy "song and dance" bands that had one member who was always autotuned, and I'm guessing he didn't get a lot of solo bits (which is kinda sad when you consider how unsuited music CDs are for showing off his line-dancing skills).


    @adaorardor:
    I've heard of rap, but who is this "William Burroughs" that you speak of?

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/10/09

    In reply to $1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular
    The consumer: Killing corporate hubris since the beginning of time.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/10/09

    In reply to $1.29 iTunes Songs Mysteriously Get Less Popular
    And I can't even go to the iTunes store

    Without some prices too high for people to buy
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    Image of TheSonOfKrypton TheSonOfKrypton
    04/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Kaiser, you know that 99.999999% of the people who frequent Gizmodo won't even see what you did there right? I mean, you know it'll fly RIGHT over their heads right? What a waste of cleverness....
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    Image of eriegz eriegz
    04/11/09

    @TheSonOfKrypton: Wow, let me lay down my coat for the fucking golden child to walk on.


    *Excited chatter in the crowd of admirers forming around him*:


    "Is it true he can understand any joke, no matter how humorously complex?"


    "I heard that one time he was the only commenter, besides the o.p. of course, who got the joke!"


    "I heard that once, he laughed at a joke that was whispered between two friends across a room!"

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    04/11/09

    @eriegz: I am NOT bald. Dangit.


    And I never met Eddie Murphy either.

     Reply
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    Image of UZI13 UZI13
    04/11/09

    Oh it all falls down! LOL
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    04/11/09

    IDGI. Please explain.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/14/08

    In reply to 'CrackBerry Love' Tribute Ruins Ten Years of BlackBerry in About Four Minutes
    WTF was that. I feel like I just woke up from a crack-coma while being dragged through a time warp.


    I still want a Blackberry though.

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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    11/14/08

    In reply to 'CrackBerry Love' Tribute Ruins Ten Years of BlackBerry in About Four Minutes
    American Idol-worthy.
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