Ah, but industry rejection does not equal product failure. OSX seems pretty nice, with enough of a user-base to continue to exist, even if the industry rejects it.
No way. I have an entire draw full of cables (component video and stereo cables) replaced by two hdmi cables. The real scam is that they charge upwards of $100 for HDMI cables at WorstBuy, but you can buy them on Amazon (generic) for $5 each.
Don't get me wrong, they don't care what we think either. It's just so many years of that type type of mentality has actually convinced themselves that their self-serving decisions are ACTUALLY good ideas. It's borderline psycopathic behavior...tell yourself a lie long enough and it is no longer a lie.
Don't get me wrong, shady loans are part of the problem as well. The problem is, if people wouldn't take loans they couldn't afford, this would be a non-issue, skeezy loan companies or not. It reminds me of when I live in the South East and pawn shops and pay day loan places could charge up to 40% interest rates. People were OUTRAGED at the rip-off practice, yet every payday, there'd be lines and lines of people getting their 40% loans. Can you blame the industry?
Actually, I think it has to do with the bandwidth in your area. My on-demand service hasn't worked since I got it (back in August 07), but last weekend it served up an entire on-demand HD movie damn-near instantaneously.
I have a friend that bought a HUGE 1080p HDTV. He loved to talk about how great things looked on it. He bragged one day about how great a certain nature show looked on his TV -- until I pointed out to him that it was a 4:3 show that the TV was stretching to 16:9.
You know my dad?
I just sold one of my HDTVs and had to warn the guy who was buying it that it would be worse for him, since he didn't have a cable provider with HD content. He says his sd stretched tv "looks great" though. Oh well, I tried...
there'd still be people left who have never used electricity, have never depended on it, and who would quite happily continue living the way they do now if it went away.
I threaten your magical flying machine with my Amazonian spear, you insensitive clod!
SD tv is totally overrated. I can't believe we haven't kicked that dinosaur back to 1970 already. What you are calling "hype" is your inability to discern quality.
It always seems the highest quality video you get from these "HD" channels is the commercials.
Viva America
That's not America. That's just plain old capitalism.
It's also not true. Sure the big boys will have the glitzy HD commercials (think Budweiser during a high-profile football game like Monday Night Football), but most advertisers don't have the budget to run HD right now. Maybe that will change. Until then, they stick to tried-and-true tactics like YELLING A LOT ABOUT THEIR CLEANING PRODUCT and cranking up the gain on the signal.
Screwing me out of my rights eh? As I see it, my two $10 HDMI cables replaced about 10 cables costing well over $100. The lack of spaghetti alone (not to mention the better signal quality) is worth the inclusion of supposed DRM you are alluding too. The problem is, there ISN'T any DRM with my cable company DVR and I could care less if there is on my DVDs, Blu-ray disks or my PSP3 games, because everything just works.
However, the original point was pointing out how it fails as a music player because one cannot use it's basic functions without looking at the device.
I assume you haven't used the iPhone with the headphone it comes with. The headphones have an inline button that controls the basic functions (play, pause, next song, etc). And there are physical buttons on the iPhone for volume control and power. What other basic functions are you looking for?
Nothing takes a forum down faster than drama, and the best way to avoid drama is to simply ensure that no one is allowed to voice dissent. I am in no way kidding. On a site that discusses model airplanes, even the tiniest bit of unpleasantness should be dealt with with a swift and permanent ban and expunging of all evidence that the user and his unpleasantness ever existed.
Totally depends on the content. Slashdot needs dissent, because dissent makes slashdot interesting. You know what the most boring threads on here are? Post something about how universally excepted Linux should be and how it is without flaw and how Ron Paul uses Linux. You get a bunch of +5 insightful posts like, "Yeah, man!".
On the other hand, my main forum (drummerworld.com) is filled with a bunch of moron 12-year old wannabe's and/or potheads who think Travis Barker is the reincarnation of Jesus/Mohammed/Budha because they are, well either 12, high, or both.
I'm one of those people who likes to argu..err, debate. I don't derive pleasure from being right, rather, I derive pleasure from the intellectual requirements involved in looking at an issue from all sides. I particularly like the feeling of having a broader understanding for my own personal use once the argu...err, debate is over. Hence, my 9 billion contradictory posts on slashdot. I may sound like an Apple fanboy, but I can tell you more about what's WRONG with Apple than I can what's right, now that I've spent a year or two on slashdot exploring the opinions of the opposing view.
What a non-story. Who says you have to take a test to attend online classes? I've gotten my entire grad degree online without ever taking a single test. Maybe this is more of a problem for undergrad work, but as far as I can tell, all those freaking hundreds of papers I wrote and hundreds of electronic briefings I've compiled suffice quite nicely as a measurement of how much I've learned.
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How many people will ever install Vista from scratch on their own? Not many, since it comes on the low-end $500 computer they bought at Wal-Mart.
Ah, but industry rejection does not equal product failure. OSX seems pretty nice, with enough of a user-base to continue to exist, even if the industry rejects it.
I don't disagree. I purposely avoided talking about the negligent lenders in my post, as that is another issue altogether.
No way. I have an entire draw full of cables (component video and stereo cables) replaced by two hdmi cables. The real scam is that they charge upwards of $100 for HDMI cables at WorstBuy, but you can buy them on Amazon (generic) for $5 each.
Don't get me wrong, they don't care what we think either. It's just so many years of that type type of mentality has actually convinced themselves that their self-serving decisions are ACTUALLY good ideas. It's borderline psycopathic behavior...tell yourself a lie long enough and it is no longer a lie.
Don't get me wrong, shady loans are part of the problem as well. The problem is, if people wouldn't take loans they couldn't afford, this would be a non-issue, skeezy loan companies or not. It reminds me of when I live in the South East and pawn shops and pay day loan places could charge up to 40% interest rates. People were OUTRAGED at the rip-off practice, yet every payday, there'd be lines and lines of people getting their 40% loans. Can you blame the industry?
Actually, I think it has to do with the bandwidth in your area. My on-demand service hasn't worked since I got it (back in August 07), but last weekend it served up an entire on-demand HD movie damn-near instantaneously.
I have a friend that bought a HUGE 1080p HDTV. He loved to talk about how great things looked on it. He bragged one day about how great a certain nature show looked on his TV -- until I pointed out to him that it was a 4:3 show that the TV was stretching to 16:9.
You know my dad?
I just sold one of my HDTVs and had to warn the guy who was buying it that it would be worse for him, since he didn't have a cable provider with HD content. He says his sd stretched tv "looks great" though. Oh well, I tried...
Thus justifying my purchase of a PSP3 and renting Blu-ray disks, instead of paying to watching HBO in HD.
there'd still be people left who have never used electricity, have never depended on it, and who would quite happily continue living the way they do now if it went away.
I threaten your magical flying machine with my Amazonian spear, you insensitive clod!
If we're going to roll around in consumerism, we may as well go the full mile.
A man/woman after my own heart!
SD tv is totally overrated. I can't believe we haven't kicked that dinosaur back to 1970 already. What you are calling "hype" is your inability to discern quality.
It always seems the highest quality video you get from these "HD" channels is the commercials.
Viva America
That's not America. That's just plain old capitalism.
It's also not true. Sure the big boys will have the glitzy HD commercials (think Budweiser during a high-profile football game like Monday Night Football), but most advertisers don't have the budget to run HD right now. Maybe that will change. Until then, they stick to tried-and-true tactics like YELLING A LOT ABOUT THEIR CLEANING PRODUCT and cranking up the gain on the signal.
Honestly, who cares what definition the Disney channel is in?
Probably the guy who bought the package with Disney HD because he wanted to watch Disney in, well, HD?
Screwing me out of my rights eh? As I see it, my two $10 HDMI cables replaced about 10 cables costing well over $100. The lack of spaghetti alone (not to mention the better signal quality) is worth the inclusion of supposed DRM you are alluding too. The problem is, there ISN'T any DRM with my cable company DVR and I could care less if there is on my DVDs, Blu-ray disks or my PSP3 games, because everything just works.
It's not that they don't care what we think. The problem is that Leahy is a moron and he thinks this (and many other bad policies) is a great idea.
4. No relief from foreclosure for your homes and mine, but only to Countrywide and Fannie Mae.
You know, if people wouldn't take out loans they can't afford, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
If you see major differences between the mentalities of the two (spammers and mass murderers) please detail them here.
Uh, spammers don't kill people? Murder and espionage are the only two crimes worth of the death penalty (as the law stands now).
However, the original point was pointing out how it fails as a music player because one cannot use it's basic functions without looking at the device.
I assume you haven't used the iPhone with the headphone it comes with. The headphones have an inline button that controls the basic functions (play, pause, next song, etc). And there are physical buttons on the iPhone for volume control and power. What other basic functions are you looking for?
Nothing takes a forum down faster than drama, and the best way to avoid drama is to simply ensure that no one is allowed to voice dissent. I am in no way kidding. On a site that discusses model airplanes, even the tiniest bit of unpleasantness should be dealt with with a swift and permanent ban and expunging of all evidence that the user and his unpleasantness ever existed.
Totally depends on the content. Slashdot needs dissent, because dissent makes slashdot interesting. You know what the most boring threads on here are? Post something about how universally excepted Linux should be and how it is without flaw and how Ron Paul uses Linux. You get a bunch of +5 insightful posts like, "Yeah, man!".
On the other hand, my main forum (drummerworld.com) is filled with a bunch of moron 12-year old wannabe's and/or potheads who think Travis Barker is the reincarnation of Jesus/Mohammed/Budha because they are, well either 12, high, or both.
Slippery Slope: some guy runs an Internet forum and bans people for "posting shit" and being "jackasses".
I'm one of those people who likes to argu..err, debate. I don't derive pleasure from being right, rather, I derive pleasure from the intellectual requirements involved in looking at an issue from all sides. I particularly like the feeling of having a broader understanding for my own personal use once the argu...err, debate is over. Hence, my 9 billion contradictory posts on slashdot. I may sound like an Apple fanboy, but I can tell you more about what's WRONG with Apple than I can what's right, now that I've spent a year or two on slashdot exploring the opinions of the opposing view.
Wow, I went from Score: 5, Insightful, to Score: 2, Troll in one day! Nice moderation system!
What a non-story. Who says you have to take a test to attend online classes? I've gotten my entire grad degree online without ever taking a single test. Maybe this is more of a problem for undergrad work, but as far as I can tell, all those freaking hundreds of papers I wrote and hundreds of electronic briefings I've compiled suffice quite nicely as a measurement of how much I've learned.
Another example of a professional getting so engrossed into their art that they can no longer see clearly?