get a free pc - with ad breaks

[Rakido]

http://www.metronomy.co.uk/

Welcome to Metronomy, the revolutionary new concept which provides a FREE IBM HOME PC in exchange for your commitment to watch up to 3 minutes of advertising per hour of use.

hmm, why not. If used as a server, it's switched on all the time.


Rakido

[drslump]

this looks to me just as a new form of spy-ware

[Jammrock]

get the PC, take it apart and use it as spare parts.

"You have not been watching your required 3 minutes of ads."

"I don't ever turn it on."

Jammrock

[Guru]

Originally posted by Jammrock
get the PC, take it apart and use it as spare parts.

"You have not been watching your required 3 minutes of ads."

"I don't ever turn it on."

Jammrock

Read the license agrement!

[GNEP]

They could make v. cheap distributed computing boxen though (although limited to 1 per household...)

[cjolley]

Makes me wonder why I have to pay good money for a TV that seems to be approaching 20 minutes of commercials per friggen hour.
You'd think they could give TVs away free too using that business model.
chuck

[Wombat]

Better yet, just don't get a TV. I haven't had one for over 5 years.

[Jammrock]

read ... ?

[Jon P. Inghram]

I've got a TV, but it's only hooked up to a DVD player and occasionally my PC. Got a piece of coax with one end split a part to form a dipole that'll do an ok job of picking up the local stations when there's severe weather and I don't feel like leaving the computer plugged in to monitor the radar. But even then I use my 2m ham radio to listen to the actual facts about the situation from the official storm chasers.

[cjolley]

Originally posted by Wombat
Better yet, just don't get a TV. I haven't had one for over 5 years.

I didn't have one while I was a School Teacher. No time...
As it is we have it mainly for new/weather and movies.
chuck

PS Jammer, we have thousands of books in our house.
I can't bear to part with them.
I still have the SciFi stuff I had in high school 33 - 37 years ago.

[Gurm]

Actually "click this to accept" is no longer a valid "contract", at least not under US Contract Law.

Neither is "by opening this you agree..."

Gotta love the Supreme Court.

- Gurm

[GNEP]

Don't you need consideration for a valid contract anyway? Even if a nominal sum? That's why you see companies being bought for "a dollar".

[Sasq]

Actually for a family that isn't well off that needs a pc for the kids to use for school. It isn't such a bad system.
Chepo ISP dial-up account - dial in the once a month and at least the kids have a word processer for school/uni

[GNEP]

True. In fact I suspect that the economics for the company running the scheme are dodgy and it won't last more than a year... tech support provision will kill them or their reputation.