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Jun. 5th, 2005 at 12:38 PM

So... is anyone planning to get a Permanent Account during Tuesday's 24-hour sale?
Is anyone thinking about it?
... tempting, innit?

In other news: I've edited last Saturday's post to include my biweekly scream for computer help. ;-)

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celandineb

Jun. 6th, 2005 05:58 pm (UTC)

Oh, I'm thinking very seriously about it. Just to lose the trouble of having to renew is worth at least a quarter of the $150 price tag.

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:49 pm (UTC)

Carousel is a lie! There IS NO RENEWAL!

<CHANTING>Renew! Renew! Renew!</CHANTING>

Yeah, I know what you mean.

I forget everything (that I'm supposed to), though.
Er - supposed to remember.
See what I mean?

What? Huh?

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Ill-regulated memories -

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jadziadax

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:01 pm (UTC)

Want to? Yup, you betcha.

Got money for it?

Nope.

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:52 pm (UTC)

Aww

We should start a book sale! *eyes filling and empty shelves*
A bake sale, even! *eyes hobbit stomach*

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yodge

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:14 pm (UTC)

I BLAME YEW FRO MY CURRENT STATE OF POOOOEY!!!

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:51 pm (UTC)

Dknot be pooooey!

Raid the pun bonks!

Adn inslut me with yer 100 ikons faterward!
RplthbpthbpthTHBHBTPTHHTHPBBTHHHTH!

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Yew kant knot say "no" to the hellyay! -

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miyeko

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:22 pm (UTC)

Of course, you should get one, as much as you do and post on this site. (^_^)

I'm considering it, but as I don't really have an extra $150 lying around anywhere.... And if I did, the hospital and doctors and x-ray technicians and MRI technicians and occupational therapists and physical therapists and other assorted medical personnel, oh my, would want it! (>_<)

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banazir

Jun. 7th, 2005 12:15 am (UTC)

150 silver pieces

Of course, you should get one, as much as you do and post on this site. (^_^)
LOL! True...

I'm considering it, but as I don't really have an extra $150 lying around anywhere....
I should start the

banazir LiveJournal Permanence fund.
I should have started it last yeat!

And if I did, the hospital and doctors and x-ray technicians and MRI technicians and occupational therapists and physical therapists and other assorted medical personnel, oh my, would want it!
Awww. (((hugs)))
As I told

jadziadax, we should have ourelves a bake sake!

(>_
Eek! The Borg done assimilated half yer face!

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mrowe

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:31 pm (UTC)

Tempting, but there are too many other, more urgent, things I could do with that $150

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:54 pm (UTC)

Kitty-related things?

Does Misspoes demand tribute?

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PHAT cats -

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ladycalliope

Jun. 6th, 2005 06:58 pm (UTC)

I got one over three years ago. Only one more year until it starts to pay off!

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 07:01 pm (UTC)

Yay!

Testify, sistah!

:-D

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("can I hear a hallelujah?!")

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neadods

Jun. 6th, 2005 07:00 pm (UTC)

I am. Now I just have to hope that the next big thing in internet communication won't blow LJ out of the water for at least 6 years so that it pays off.

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 07:12 pm (UTC)

It very well may, but...

... supplanting is as supplanting does! In a way, LiveJournal supplanted personal and custom blogs, but people still have those. And you could say that wikis have supplanted content management systems (Yahoo! Groups) and mailing lists (Majordomo)... wait, that's a bad analogy, because Wikis and LJ work at cross purposes there.

Well, let me raise an alternative conjecture: Internet communication doesn't advance purely through one technology supplanting another, but by subsumption. Take RSS. It's augmented subscription-based services rather than supplanted them. Even "push" services such as PointCast/EntryPoint/InfoGate lasted three incarnations before portals and RSS completely killed them, and even now, RIM Blackberry systems are subsuming some of the functionality of AvantGo and other PocketPC point-to-point (802.11b WiFi) newsfeeds.¹ So, I fully expect the next generation of Wikis to offer "now with LJ/GJ embedding support" rather than just seize market share from LJ.

¹ As Scott Adams wrote in a Dilbert strip in the calendar for last month: if you or anyone you love understood that, my sincere sympathy!

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idigital

Jun. 6th, 2005 07:13 pm (UTC)

I'd buy one if:

1) I had the money
2) I didn't already earn one

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 08:46 pm (UTC)

Fruits of your labors

I really should learn how to use that text messaging service.
Yet another time sink, wae!

That "Permanent Account, previously an Early Adopter" is quite a badge of prestige! I was going to try for "Permanent Account, previously an Free Account", but some kind anonymous soul beat me to paying for my first two months of paid service this January and February.

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angharad - Jun. 7th, 2005 08:34 am (UTC) - Expand

Seniority by judicious idling -

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banazir

Jun. 6th, 2005 08:53 pm (UTC)

Expected value (risk) == probability * utility/cost

Not tempted in the slightest. I have three years' worth paid by great people and that's quite enough for now. What if one pays the 150 dollars and livejournal.com goes to nonexistence in a year or two? It's too much of a risk of a waste of money to be considered seriously, if you ask me.
Assuming you and I view $150 roughly the same way, the risk depends on how likely you think LJ is to decline or become significantly less useful within the next (150 / 35) years.

I think the chance that it will increase in usefulness is actually higher. I'm rather counting on inheriting some of the upgrade features (as has always been the case with permanent accounts), though. For example, in 5 years I fully expect the icon limit to be higher than 100 (perhaps 1000 like GJ, perhaps gone), the servers to be faster, and many more nifty syndication, embedding, audio, and IM/SMS features to have been added.

Chacun a son gout, though! And you deserve every bit of paid account time you get!

Cheers,
Banazir

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dipping_sauce

Jun. 6th, 2005 09:51 pm (UTC)

I *want* one, but like many other people, I am too po'.

(I need to buy myself a new keyboard first, my spacebar is b0rken.)

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banazir

Jun. 7th, 2005 12:19 am (UTC)

Borken spacebhas

Funny you should mention that: I just got my ThinkPad A31p back.

"Dear IBM customer, we have replaced your:

KEYBOARD        X
HARD DRIVE      X
LCD PANEL       X
FAN             X
SYSTEM BOARD    X

"

I have too many keyboards, you want one?

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Keyboard -

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eightdaysofrain

Jun. 6th, 2005 10:22 pm (UTC)

So... is anyone planning to get a Permanent Account during Tuesday's 24-hour sale?

Thats this week? I saw that message last tuesday and thought it was then. Really need to get my eyes tested again, the glasses I have are absolutely useless (then again two different opticians gave me too totally different readings so ...)

I might do. I was trying to weigh up the pro's and con's of it, but hey you are the mathematician and I knew you'd have it all worked out...
I *think* I can afford to do it this week althoough the money could be better spent ... hmm, decisions decisions.

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angharad

Jun. 7th, 2005 02:57 am (UTC)

I'm getting one. I don't have the money, but I think it's a good investment. Wellokay, the credit card interest for a month or two is a bad investment. Um. Multi-icon!

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banazir

Jun. 7th, 2005 04:11 am (UTC)

When EXACTLY does the sale start?

I thought that, as it is now 23:10 CST Mon 06 Jun 2005, that it is past "midnight EST on June 7^th". Do they mean now through 24 hours from now, or 24 hours through 48 hours from now?

Confuzzedly,
Banazir

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angharad - Jun. 7th, 2005 04:24 am (UTC) - Expand

24 hours -

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angharad - Jun. 7th, 2005 04:39 am (UTC) - Expand

Status -

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