For me to ever download movies they're going to need to be in a format that I can easily backup and will play on my Zensonic Z500. That's basically DRM-free Divx or possibly a DVD image I can burn to disc.
Meanwhile, I like buying something physical that sits on a shelf.
What, like "I could care less, but then I'd have to kill you"? No, I'm pretty confident that there isn't a way for "I could care less" to actually mean that you don't care.
And while I'm not stalling my DVD purchases while I wait for High-Def, I am stalling my equipment purchases. Though, as others have mentioned, that's as much about DRM as it is about the "format war".
If Microsoft would just release a Blu-Ray drive for their Xbox 360, I'd buy a 360, the HD-DVD drive, the Blu-Ray drive and upgrade the rest of my AV gear to HD and 6.1 surround. That's several thousand dollars worth of equipment waiting to be bought and all it needs is an affordable combo HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player.
If Microsoft waits too long someone else will come out with a cheap hybrid player and they'll have missed their chance.
Most VHS and a lot of DVD are out of print now. The only way to watch these are to get very lucky and find an overpriced copy or do something illegal.
Unless you're referring to stuff that was particularly hard to get originally, this simply isn't true. There's a rich secondhand market that's fairly capable of supplying anything that used to be popular. Not to mention the huge number of on-line stores you can scan through for that illusive copy of whatever.
Once you step into a casino all bets are off, so to speak. It's one big game from the moment you walk in to the moment you walk out. If you leave with more money than you came in with you win. If you leave with less money you lose. Short of committing a violent act, anything else is (or should be) fair game.
Or to put it another way; Do you think any players would have been contacted if the error was in the casino's favour?
You put a lot more effort into a post that covered what I was going to say. I was simply going to point out that these sort of statements are usually just a last ditch effort to avoid doing exactly the opposite of what the statement claims, and rarely work. But your examples have much more punch, well done.
It was never the case that name-brand PCs were cheaper than Apple. The reason why Pcs are cheaper than Macs is that you can get no-name brand PCs, but you can't get non-Apple Macs. Try comparing them to Asus or BenQ (but not Twinhead, they're crap).
Also, Dell and Sony? They could only have picked worse brands to test against if they'd gone for Acer and Gateway. Try Toshiba and Fujitsu -- of course, then the PCs would have so many features the Macs don't have that the comparison would be just as meaningless.
Great. That's another new Google account I have to nuke to keep my personal stuff off this juggernaut. Methinks I need my own php/mysql server on the net somewhere so I can just write and host my own stuff.
Norton Commander, Norton Utilities, those were the days. Symantec's anti-virus software has been a bit of a joke for a while. And Backup Exec 11 is a complete train wreck. (Oh. Your. God. It must have found at least a dozen different ways to fail since I installed it on our new Exchange server late last year.) People need to know that buying any Symantec product is a huge mistake.
Unfortunately, the wii's motion sensing capability is so novel that developers have been ignoring the networking options.
With a built-in wireless adapter, I was expecting more than just a networked Pokemon game by now. I've had my Wii almost six months and I'm about to pack it up in its box so it doesn't get any dustier. Hopefully a guy where I work will decide he wants it.
Australia already has laws regarding ID for secondhand sales. Basically, if you don't have a driver's license you can't sell to Cash Convertors. And then they have to keep it around for a certain amount of time before they can sell it, just in case it's stolen. Fortunately there's nothing about store credit in the law (just that many stores give you better deals for store credit).
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First time I did that. Second time I streamlined the RAID drivers onto a CD-R.
For me to ever download movies they're going to need to be in a format that I can easily backup and will play on my Zensonic Z500. That's basically DRM-free Divx or possibly a DVD image I can burn to disc.
Meanwhile, I like buying something physical that sits on a shelf.
What, like "I could care less, but then I'd have to kill you"? No, I'm pretty confident that there isn't a way for "I could care less" to actually mean that you don't care.
That's couldn't care less.
And while I'm not stalling my DVD purchases while I wait for High-Def, I am stalling my equipment purchases. Though, as others have mentioned, that's as much about DRM as it is about the "format war".
If Microsoft would just release a Blu-Ray drive for their Xbox 360, I'd buy a 360, the HD-DVD drive, the Blu-Ray drive and upgrade the rest of my AV gear to HD and 6.1 surround. That's several thousand dollars worth of equipment waiting to be bought and all it needs is an affordable combo HD-DVD/Blu-Ray player.
If Microsoft waits too long someone else will come out with a cheap hybrid player and they'll have missed their chance.
I can't imagine I'm the only one thinking this.
It wasn't even really a homonym, if I pronounced it correctly.
Stupid wrong words that are in Firefox's dictionary.
No, there is an OpenGL option.
Please? We don't need separate stories for each DRM press release and each DRM crack. Bring back the quickies!
Save a thought for poor old Dick Smith Electronics. They sell World of Warcraft but you can't say their name on the official WoW forums.
If they do get a recording contract they'll really learn what theft is.
Once you step into a casino all bets are off, so to speak. It's one big game from the moment you walk in to the moment you walk out. If you leave with more money than you came in with you win. If you leave with less money you lose. Short of committing a violent act, anything else is (or should be) fair game.
Or to put it another way; Do you think any players would have been contacted if the error was in the casino's favour?
You put a lot more effort into a post that covered what I was going to say. I was simply going to point out that these sort of statements are usually just a last ditch effort to avoid doing exactly the opposite of what the statement claims, and rarely work. But your examples have much more punch, well done.
And if you're having problems, just mail a hand-written note to the helpdesk quoting the following job number: 1765930248.
It was never the case that name-brand PCs were cheaper than Apple. The reason why Pcs are cheaper than Macs is that you can get no-name brand PCs, but you can't get non-Apple Macs. Try comparing them to Asus or BenQ (but not Twinhead, they're crap).
Also, Dell and Sony? They could only have picked worse brands to test against if they'd gone for Acer and Gateway. Try Toshiba and Fujitsu -- of course, then the PCs would have so many features the Macs don't have that the comparison would be just as meaningless.
Great. That's another new Google account I have to nuke to keep my personal stuff off this juggernaut. Methinks I need my own php/mysql server on the net somewhere so I can just write and host my own stuff.
There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that get Futurama references and those that don't.
I think I saw a 2
Norton Commander, Norton Utilities, those were the days. Symantec's anti-virus software has been a bit of a joke for a while. And Backup Exec 11 is a complete train wreck. (Oh. Your. God. It must have found at least a dozen different ways to fail since I installed it on our new Exchange server late last year.) People need to know that buying any Symantec product is a huge mistake.
I thought nuking it from orbit was the only way to be sure.
Unfortunately, the wii's motion sensing capability is so novel that developers have been ignoring the networking options.
With a built-in wireless adapter, I was expecting more than just a networked Pokemon game by now. I've had my Wii almost six months and I'm about to pack it up in its box so it doesn't get any dustier. Hopefully a guy where I work will decide he wants it.
Australia already has laws regarding ID for secondhand sales. Basically, if you don't have a driver's license you can't sell to Cash Convertors. And then they have to keep it around for a certain amount of time before they can sell it, just in case it's stolen. Fortunately there's nothing about store credit in the law (just that many stores give you better deals for store credit).
We've got a couple of Panasonic 17" LCD screens with a glass front. Makes them heavy, but trivial to clean.