How can laptop manufacturers still claim that they look after their customers when the move to widescreens is clearly a selfish one? Just because your concerns aren't being addressed, that doesn't make it selfish. As this thread shows, many people prefer widescreens. Many still prefer non-widescreens.
The first thing you need to do is to abandon the idea that ultraportables are the same as budget laptops. They are two different types of machines, with different goals and uses.
Think of an ultraportable as more of a supercharged PDA. Bigger screen, keyboard, etc... In short, it has a small subset of a PC's functionality. A budget laptop is meant to have the main features as a regular laptop, just with decreased performance to help meet a lower price point.
Their costs may be similar, but they are two different machines for two different markets.
[quote]You may not even know if software you are buying is pirated.[/quote]
Let's be reasonable - you have a pretty good idea of whether or not it may be pirated. Are you buying it on eBay from an overseas seller? Yeah, pretty good chance. Buying it from a street vendor in Asia? Yeah, pretty good chance. Buying it at a brick & mortar retailer in the U.S.? Probably not.
All this worrying and posturing over piracy, and the biggest culprit is China. Yet we just can't wait to suck up to them and try to pry some money from that economic powerhouse.
Oh come on. They are pulling it because it was *too* successful? That makes ZERO sense. The rep said that it didn't fit what the brick & mortar customers were looking for. Just leave it at that and stop looking for the conspiracy and/or coming up with lame excuses to try keep Linux from possibly being cast in an unfavorable light.
just because some over zealous luddites want 1080p content does not mean the bulk of the Tv viewers do.
You might want to check the definition of 'luddite'. Unless we're talking about something like people holding on to 1080p in the face of 4320p. It sounds like you are using it to refer to a minority of people that want advanced tech, but it's generally used to refer to a group of people that want to cling to obsolete tech/discourage the use of new tech.
As an example, after hearing so much about the Sandman chronicles, I browsed through one. I found the art disappointing, and the story mildly interesting.
Yes, there are great examples of American comic artists - Frank Miller comes to mind. Pretty hard to take this seriously after those two comments. Dismissing one of the best comics because after browsing one issue you found that the art was disappointing?
And holding up Frank Miller as a great example? Clearly you haven't read his stuff lately. All Star Batman & Robin is one of the worst high-profile comics around.
"but if you step up and stop hijackers there is no way to hijack a plane."...except for the the plane on 9/11 where the passengers *did* step up. They stopped the plane from reaching the hijacker's target, but it *was* hijacked.
DRM is(was?) an attempt to *take* control. Control over what you wanted to listen to and where. Before DRM, I could listen to a CD on any player. I could even loan it to a friend (*gasp!*). DRM attempts to limit that to certain machines, and by extension, to certain circumstances. DRM attempts to control your consuming habits.
By no longer using DRM, they are ceasing to attempt to take control in this manner. Things just revert to what they were. It's a return to the normal status, not a loss of control.
1) Most people never come anywhere near to filling their player. The majority of people that I know put 100-200 songs on a player. Yet they have +40GB players./boggle
2) Who has room for 40,000 songs? I have 32GB filled on my player, and that is just a little over 6000 songs. I guess the assumption is that everyone is using a new 160GB ipod?
Who said it would? There is no single tip that will make your computer completely safe, and the article never implied that it would. This is just a strategy to lessen risk.
[quote]Seems to me that this would be a lot easier if step one was install linux...[/quote]
Yeah, because reformatting, installing (and learning) a new OS as well as finding replacements for all of your commonly used programs is soooo much easier than installing five programs.:P
The people that "believe a bus traveling 70 mph can clear a 50-foot gap in a freeway" are probably not the ones that are going to be trying to solve complex physics problems. Unless they are designing the next mars rover or need to commandeer a runaway bus, I don't see this as a major problem.
I have no idea where that $20 average came from. If we use the list price (which was almost always much higher than what anyone actually paid), some of the higher priced titles would come in around $18.98. But the average price paid was much closer to $14.
I can remember paying closer to $19 back in 1987 when CD's were still relatively new. But not in 1997.
E3 isn't for hardcore gamers or even casual gamers. It's for industry people. Retailers want to know what will be hot so they can know what to order. Wii Fit was unveiled to continue generating interest in the system and games with retailers and industry, not so that gamers will drool over the system.
"it's bound to pit the new group against other Best Buy factions like Geek Squad." The divisions are factions? So does that mean I need exalted rep to buy from them?
Argh, I hate faction grinding.
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I don't think the account is correct. I was in the IRC chatroom where iD announced the availability of files, and it was in the afternoon. Perhaps the files were uploaded to multiple servers, then access was locked to the public until there were sufficient mirrors.
I love ebooks that I compile myself, but I'm not going to pay $20 for an ebook that has a life expectancy that is dependant upon a device that will be obsolete in a few short years.
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Way to quote out of context! Read the article and it's very different than what this horrible summary implies.
The first thing you need to do is to abandon the idea that ultraportables are the same as budget laptops. They are two different types of machines, with different goals and uses. Think of an ultraportable as more of a supercharged PDA. Bigger screen, keyboard, etc... In short, it has a small subset of a PC's functionality. A budget laptop is meant to have the main features as a regular laptop, just with decreased performance to help meet a lower price point. Their costs may be similar, but they are two different machines for two different markets.
[quote]You may not even know if software you are buying is pirated.[/quote] Let's be reasonable - you have a pretty good idea of whether or not it may be pirated. Are you buying it on eBay from an overseas seller? Yeah, pretty good chance. Buying it from a street vendor in Asia? Yeah, pretty good chance. Buying it at a brick & mortar retailer in the U.S.? Probably not. All this worrying and posturing over piracy, and the biggest culprit is China. Yet we just can't wait to suck up to them and try to pry some money from that economic powerhouse.
Oh come on. They are pulling it because it was *too* successful? That makes ZERO sense. The rep said that it didn't fit what the brick & mortar customers were looking for. Just leave it at that and stop looking for the conspiracy and/or coming up with lame excuses to try keep Linux from possibly being cast in an unfavorable light.
I think there is a bit of truth to the article. I mean, Leeroy Jenkins would be a perfect suicide bomber.
I bet this guy also lectures the delivery boy about how Pizza Hut should make pizza.
"but if you step up and stop hijackers there is no way to hijack a plane." ...except for the the plane on 9/11 where the passengers *did* step up. They stopped the plane from reaching the hijacker's target, but it *was* hijacked.
Giving up control of content? Who's doing that?
DRM is(was?) an attempt to *take* control. Control over what you wanted to listen to and where. Before DRM, I could listen to a CD on any player. I could even loan it to a friend (*gasp!*). DRM attempts to limit that to certain machines, and by extension, to certain circumstances. DRM attempts to control your consuming habits.
By no longer using DRM, they are ceasing to attempt to take control in this manner. Things just revert to what they were. It's a return to the normal status, not a loss of control.
"How long before the disgruntled sysadmin replaces the disgruntled postal worker in the zeitgeist?"
First, people would need to know they exist. Second, they'd need a vague, rudimentary knowledge of what a sysadmin does.
So, probably never.
1) Most people never come anywhere near to filling their player. The majority of people that I know put 100-200 songs on a player. Yet they have +40GB players. /boggle
2) Who has room for 40,000 songs? I have 32GB filled on my player, and that is just a little over 6000 songs. I guess the assumption is that everyone is using a new 160GB ipod?
Who said it would? There is no single tip that will make your computer completely safe, and the article never implied that it would. This is just a strategy to lessen risk.
[quote]Seems to me that this would be a lot easier if step one was install linux...[/quote] Yeah, because reformatting, installing (and learning) a new OS as well as finding replacements for all of your commonly used programs is soooo much easier than installing five programs. :P
I used to use cingulate, but I switched to verizon.
The people that "believe a bus traveling 70 mph can clear a 50-foot gap in a freeway" are probably not the ones that are going to be trying to solve complex physics problems. Unless they are designing the next mars rover or need to commandeer a runaway bus, I don't see this as a major problem.
I have no idea where that $20 average came from. If we use the list price (which was almost always much higher than what anyone actually paid), some of the higher priced titles would come in around $18.98. But the average price paid was much closer to $14.
I can remember paying closer to $19 back in 1987 when CD's were still relatively new. But not in 1997.
E3 isn't for hardcore gamers or even casual gamers. It's for industry people. Retailers want to know what will be hot so they can know what to order. Wii Fit was unveiled to continue generating interest in the system and games with retailers and industry, not so that gamers will drool over the system.
I noticed the same thing. I was interested in the article quoted, not the advertisement.
So....can I nail my cousin?
I don't think the account is correct. I was in the IRC chatroom where iD announced the availability of files, and it was in the afternoon. Perhaps the files were uploaded to multiple servers, then access was locked to the public until there were sufficient mirrors.
They contain trade secrets proprietary to AT&T that could help competitors.
What trade secrets? Like how to illegally divert traffic to the NSA?
DRM.
I love ebooks that I compile myself, but I'm not going to pay $20 for an ebook that has a life expectancy that is dependant upon a device that will be obsolete in a few short years.