Indeed, and yet the "3 episodes on 1 DVD for £30" BBC DVDs of Doctor Who still sell. (and in fact the "5 episodes for £25" Torchwood series 1 part 1 is still in the charts).
With the notable exception of the BBC's hillarious expensive $10 per episode Dr Who DVDs, very rarely can you get the DVD the morning after the show airs if you missed it. On download, you can.
It's interesting the reaction here, because Apple has got away for years with monopolistic practices in the mac market (forcing you to buy OS-X with the machine etc) because they don't have a monopoly there.
When they try these very Microsoft like stunts in the music market where they DO have an effective monopoly, it's interesting how many immediately attempt to make excuses for them.
Because if we got one it couldn't play blu-ray disks here, might not play games in future if they decide to regionalise those and Sony sues anyone that sells Ps3s abroad remember in order to "Protect us".
Yes but that arguement is like saying a Neon is more expensive than a Viper if you upgrade the neon to beat a Viper on the track.
Perhaps I don't WANT to "upgrade" my Neon to play one of two doomed movie standards when it's perfectly capable of streaming hidef movies from my desktop.
That's like calling the 360 "more expensive if you include the cost of the entire available games library" it's just not valid.
Absolutely. Geo Wars costs less than $5 and there is absolutely no excuse for every single 360 owner not to have to the full version.
You might be interested to know that Geo Wars developers "Bizzare Creations" are working on a new XBLA game for EA (boo!) which appears to be the bastard child of Geo Wars, DDR and Fantavision.
I've not used OS4 but with 1.3, that's definately myth. It's a clunky pile of hell these days, which isn't surprising.
And no, when I say instantly I mean it and I don't see any redrawing at all. This is a 2gb machine admittedly but near a gig of that is currently taken up just by SQL Server and our product.
Yes, redraw on high CPU load is occasionally iffy but to claim windows always artifacts or takes time on a properly specced system is just not true.
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One presumes you never buy a magazine or a newspaper.
Or ever travel on the bus, subway, airplane or taxi services.
After all, all those things aren't free and have adverts.
We have to pay because adverts don't cover the full costs.
Of course, half of the reason for that is the ever more sophisticated ways we develop of avoiding them.
Believe it or not, there are actually people in the world that care about legality.
Then you haven't watched many, for instance virtually ALL the Fox published R2 TV series recently have the "You wouldn't steal a car" ads.
Indeed, and yet the "3 episodes on 1 DVD for £30" BBC DVDs of Doctor Who still sell. (and in fact the "5 episodes for £25" Torchwood series 1 part 1 is still in the charts).
Your cheque for $3000 a month for basic cable will be due on the 30th.
With the notable exception of the BBC's hillarious expensive $10 per episode Dr Who DVDs, very rarely can you get the DVD the morning after the show airs if you missed it. On download, you can.
Apple themselves claim a 75% share of the Mp3 player market, the official figures which don't count Apple stores say 62%.
70% is more than enough to be defined as a monpoly in most countries, for instance Britain.
So presumably you'd agree that all monopoly suits against Microsoft should be dropped since you ARE free to buy a Mac.
Once again, the difference is Apple has a monopoly.
The same reason Norway DOESN'T sue them for forcing you to buy OSX with a mac is the reason they ARE in trouble here.
Conversely Microsoft attracts antitrust suits for OSs but not for media players.
They will be banned if they ever have a monopoly.
Apple still get to include their own media player by default in OS-X because it's not a monopoly, same with MS and Zune.
You're missing nothing, the article is apparently claiming Global hotkeys are new.
You might as well have an article about a new office program with "NEW! TYPE WORDS IN WINDOWS!"
It's interesting the reaction here, because Apple has got away for years with monopolistic practices in the mac market (forcing you to buy OS-X with the machine etc) because they don't have a monopoly there.
When they try these very Microsoft like stunts in the music market where they DO have an effective monopoly, it's interesting how many immediately attempt to make excuses for them.
Fair enough.
And yes while neither was first, they were both so close as to be able to call it simultaneous with a straight face.
Then why did Microsoft and Nintendo both pull it off just fine?
Because if we got one it couldn't play blu-ray disks here, might not play games in future if they decide to regionalise those and Sony sues anyone that sells Ps3s abroad remember in order to "Protect us".
And Nintendo was never fined 9 figures for a decade long bout of price fixing in Europe.
Yes but that arguement is like saying a Neon is more expensive than a Viper if you upgrade the neon to beat a Viper on the track.
Perhaps I don't WANT to "upgrade" my Neon to play one of two doomed movie standards when it's perfectly capable of streaming hidef movies from my desktop.
That's like calling the 360 "more expensive if you include the cost of the entire available games library" it's just not valid.
Absolutely. Geo Wars costs less than $5 and there is absolutely no excuse for every single 360 owner not to have to the full version.
You might be interested to know that Geo Wars developers "Bizzare Creations" are working on a new XBLA game for EA (boo!) which appears to be the bastard child of Geo Wars, DDR and Fantavision.
It looks rather nice.
And indeed this means that, despite various problems, the basic mission of Xbox 1 was a success. That is to say "Become a recognised force in gaming."
It's trivial to get a free game with the 360 at any store, so take another $60 off that.
No, I'd rather Sony don't sue me.
Plus this seems to ignore sales tax.
And indeed uses RRPs by the look of it.
If it shows the UK currency overvalued by 17% the actual PRICE of an ipod is the same.
Unless it's a binary module, then they'll get rid of it for you ;)
I've never met these people. Anyone running a modern KDE or Gnome has generally found it slower in most use in my experience.
I've not used OS4 but with 1.3, that's definately myth. It's a clunky pile of hell these days, which isn't surprising.
And no, when I say instantly I mean it and I don't see any redrawing at all. This is a 2gb machine admittedly but near a gig of that is currently taken up just by SQL Server and our product.
Yes, redraw on high CPU load is occasionally iffy but to claim windows always artifacts or takes time on a properly specced system is just not true.