Chances are if you download their fake copy, you are bound to have other real and illegal copies of other stuff. It is bogus entrapment, and I'd laugh it out of court if I were a judge.
There is no crime involved by downloading a fake torrent, because you aren't getting any copyrighted material. Intent? What is the intent? "My intent was to see what was in this file that was made freely available (offered even!) via the internet. If I found it to have copyrighted material, I would have removed it. But since it had this lovely monochrome screen and no copyright notice, or end-user license agreement, I kept it as a free and lovely screen saver."
Nothing a $2 piece of mylar wouldn't fix, err, prevent. The nano instance you mention was a limited run, and generally considered a manufacturing default, and not a design problem. Why haven't we heard anything since, and why doesn' my 2nd gen nano scratch easily? The screen on an iPhone must have to be different as well, because of the touch controls. My point is, people are criticizing the iPhone because people's Sanyo touch screens suck. That makes no sense at all, especially since they've yet to actually use an iPhone.
Frankly I'm tired of people bashing the iPhone because of their experiences with (fill-in-the-brand) phones on the market now. If you haven't learned ANYTHING from Apple product histories, you should at least know that Apple always uses existing technologies, but raises the bar on quality and performance to more acceptable levels. The aforemention iPod is a perfect example. Or you could go back to the inclusion of a CD Rom player, or how Apple basically caused USB to become standard, or how they led the charge to shrink down to 3.25 drives from the old 5" ones, etc. etc. etc.
Ok, it sucks your crap brand phones smudge and the touch pad doesn't work well, but I'm willing to bet none of your complaints are coming from an Apple branded product. For example, the treadmill at the gym has a touch screen and after 20 runners a day, it doesn't smudge. Do I claim the iPhone won't smudge because of that? Let's just wait and see shall we? I'm more worried about the phone scratching like an iPod than I am anything else, and that's based off brand history, not pure speculation.
Don't you love it when people confuse drive, passion and success with ego? Steve Jobs doesn't give a shit about what people that don't like Apple products think, and that's why Apple faithful continue liking Apple products. Apple makes products IN SPITE of the bottom-line and not because of. Steve's "ego" is what drives this. He ultimately guides the company in the directions he thinks it should go. I think it is cool that a CEO actually gets a say in what products are made and how they are designed. This is why Apple makes such insanely great products. Steve's "ego" doesn't allow for sell-out corporate dweebs to crank out mediocre crap, and I am thankful for that.
Nothing kills credibility like using (Brandname)+boy in your argument other than using it twice in one post. Congrats. You are now officially a Lackscredibility fanboy.
Please tell me I can stop using Word for my masters papers? Anyone who has had to suffer through a year and a half of graduate work using the piece of crap Word has my sympathy. Just today, I made YET ANOTHER "user-defined" set of APA formatted styles and templates, only to have Word say "fuck off, you'll use this font and spacing, and you'll like it".
p.s., how in the world does your iSight camera scan dvds onto your hard drive?
I've used Macs since 1988 and couldn't find the feature in OS X either. Then again, someone else made a good point that is evidently true, I didn't go searching for how to do it! It used to be on by default, in OS 7-9. I used to be able to start up my computer, dial-in to the web and get my email and shut down, all without even turning the screen on. OS X, until today, has been a pain in my ass for keyboard navigation. Thanks for whoever posted that.
Although I'm fiercely loyal to Macs, I have to disagree with this. Since when is using a right-mouse button an "advanced" feature? I think it is stupid that right click is off by default. I'm going to guess in a year or two, there will be more new Mac users than the old crusties who still live with one mouse button and rest there left hand on the apple key.
Other than that, though, your point is valid. The click+drag, and double click features of my trackpad are on for me, but off for my wife, because she can't seem to control her clicks. She actually bought me a 24" iMac on accident last month because she was using my login and clicked "buy now"...not that I'm complaining!;-)
Good point, but it must also be considered that many (or most) custom software packages require significant reworking to make it work any time the PCs are changed as well. In my old development job, we used Toolbook, which is PC only, yet all three times we upgraded our PCs, our software no longer worked and required major overhauls. Of course, a better solution would have been to use industry standard software, such as Macromedia multi-media suites, which would ensure better cross-platform compatibility (important in Education) and better compatibility even within pc-centric environments.
With all new Macs being Intel native, the ability to run Windows flavors will only become more elegant, thus rendering this entire conversation irrelevent. The question this time next year might: "Should we invest in these 250 Dell PCs that only run Windows, or should we be safe and get the Macs that can run both?" I say this only because my tech coworkers at school who know little to nothing about Macs are already murmuring these sort of things. Tech savy people, even if they are 100% pc, still hear things in the industry. Being the geeks most of us are, they are going to at least look into the possibility. I had the most anti-Apple person on our staff over the other night to help me install Windows XP Professional, and he's already talking about getting a MacBook Pro.
the vast majority of business applications are not available for the mac. Period.
1993 called and want's its argument back. It wasn't a valid argument then, nor is it now, especially with Intel Macs. PERIOD.
Would you care to tell us what some of the "vast majority" apps are? I'm the registrar in a public school, and we use PCs. The list of software I use several times a day include: A cross platform student information system (database), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop Elements. Everything else is web based. All of these are available on Macintosh, and most of them run better on Macs. The only problem I see with a Mac at my school would be integrating with the Outlook mail server, but even them I'm sure there is some sort of workaround, and there is always the Outlook Web Access in a pinch.
Who's the clown? You just proved his point for him. The first guy was bitching that Apple makes everything open with Apple software, so the second guy merely pointed out, in Applespeak, how to change that on a Mac. Then you go and tell the second guy how to do it on a PC, thus proving his point to the first guy. Point being, if you don't want Quicktime to open your video file, change it yourself. I fail to see the part where the guy was ripping on Windows change file associations...he was merely stating that you've been able to this for 10+ years, with sarcasm. Please keep your clown comments holstered.
Look how cavalierly they ignore all my settings and repeatedly install iPodhelper and other junk in the start up tray.
Is it really Apple's fault you use a horrible MS operating system? When I use iTunes on my PCs, nothing installs in the system tray on startup (other than quicktime), yet iTunes works fine, even if it is a resource hog. I've never even seen iPod helper, and I own three iPods right now (and have owned 5 total). Maybe I paid attention during install and unchecked those boxes? I wish I could say the same about any chat software or virus software. After my pc boots up in about a minute, it is another minute or two before I can use it...none of that due to Apple software.
You know, you could always use a Mac and avoid all the problems you describe that are Win OS oriented problems and not Apple problems.
Forgot to mention this:
"The sex industry represents a significant portion of the world's economy, and has been credited with driving technological advances in popular media, such as home video and DVD, pay-per-view, live streaming video and video on demand." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_industry
You can see the Apple backs Blu-Ray in the easiest way possible. They're a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association and have a seat on it's board. http://www.blu-raydisc.com/
Not to mention he refered to Avid as "Acid". Unless, or course, he means the awful ACID Pro suite of sound editing software, which would only double his ignorance.
I had friends like that that I gave my old dvd players to so they could have something to entertain themselves and the kids.
Last time I checked public parks and playgrounds are free and entertaining. Fun is what you make out of it. A bat and a ball or a frisbee, for example, are pretty cheap too. Maybe some people should reevaluate their priorities?
Do neither of those two groups of people deserve to watch movies?
They can have their out-dated disk technology, but this small portion of society shouldn't keep the majority of consumers mired in soon-to-be-obsolete formats. I think the people you are refering to here probably watch stuff on VCRs anyway. I think the industry LOVES disk media, because it gets scratched, broken and lost, so people buy multiple copies. I personally can't stand the shiny bastards and the novelty wore off for me some time around 1988.
What's next, are you going to go on a personal crusade to save dial-up internet access for the poor? I don't know, call me a snob, but I am thoroughly disappointed by how slow our society is to adopt progress.
I'm pretty tech savy, but everytime I go into an electronics place and see the 75% or so of tvs that have distored sd images, it makes me think it must be VERY complicated if the stores can't be bothered to set them up correctly. I haven't bought one yet, partially on the fears of having fat news broadcasters and stupid distorted racecars on my screen. That'll change as soon as I can find a salesperson who is older than, oh, 20, and can explain the technical aspects of why/how to setup an HD widescreen tv to have acceptable non-hd 4:3 ratio image.
I'm I the only one who notices how ridiculously horrible the average cinema experience is? Why do we pay $10 for incredibly lame picture quality again? Stupid consumers and their low standards!
I, for one, am floored every time I go into the cable company to pay my bill and see the HD programming (what company has HD tv, but doesn't have online bill payments!!?? Oh yeah, mine.) The only problem is, as far as I can tell, Discover and ESPN are the only channels in the line-up. As soon as more channels have HD than not, I think I'll sign up.
Anyone who claims to see no difference in HD programming and standard tv, ESPECIALLY when they are displayed side-by-side in nearly every electronics store, is smoking something.
Until the consumer stops demanding media on disks, the industry won't focus on developing enough bandwidth to download HD movies. I'm really quite pissed that people still have VCR tapes and even audio CD's. Isn't it time to move on from media storage devices like these? I quite like having my entire cd collection of 20 years on a 3" portable firewire drive, and would hope to see it fit on flash memory in the near future. I can't understand the desire for all these stupid shiny disks!
Neither will I, but I will rent the hell out of some! Better yet, I'd like to download the shit out of some, but since we keep pushing for shiny metal disks INSTEAD of universal and massive wireless bandwidth access, my download scenario is years away.
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There is no crime involved by downloading a fake torrent, because you aren't getting any copyrighted material. Intent? What is the intent? "My intent was to see what was in this file that was made freely available (offered even!) via the internet. If I found it to have copyrighted material, I would have removed it. But since it had this lovely monochrome screen and no copyright notice, or end-user license agreement, I kept it as a free and lovely screen saver."
Nothing a $2 piece of mylar wouldn't fix, err, prevent. The nano instance you mention was a limited run, and generally considered a manufacturing default, and not a design problem. Why haven't we heard anything since, and why doesn' my 2nd gen nano scratch easily? The screen on an iPhone must have to be different as well, because of the touch controls. My point is, people are criticizing the iPhone because people's Sanyo touch screens suck. That makes no sense at all, especially since they've yet to actually use an iPhone.
Ok, it sucks your crap brand phones smudge and the touch pad doesn't work well, but I'm willing to bet none of your complaints are coming from an Apple branded product. For example, the treadmill at the gym has a touch screen and after 20 runners a day, it doesn't smudge. Do I claim the iPhone won't smudge because of that? Let's just wait and see shall we? I'm more worried about the phone scratching like an iPod than I am anything else, and that's based off brand history, not pure speculation.
Don't you love it when people confuse drive, passion and success with ego? Steve Jobs doesn't give a shit about what people that don't like Apple products think, and that's why Apple faithful continue liking Apple products. Apple makes products IN SPITE of the bottom-line and not because of. Steve's "ego" is what drives this. He ultimately guides the company in the directions he thinks it should go. I think it is cool that a CEO actually gets a say in what products are made and how they are designed. This is why Apple makes such insanely great products. Steve's "ego" doesn't allow for sell-out corporate dweebs to crank out mediocre crap, and I am thankful for that.
Nothing kills credibility like using (Brandname)+boy in your argument other than using it twice in one post. Congrats. You are now officially a Lackscredibility fanboy.
Ok, that is pretty cool then about the scanning. I had no idea what you were talking about, but that makes sense now.
p.s., how in the world does your iSight camera scan dvds onto your hard drive?
I've used Macs since 1988 and couldn't find the feature in OS X either. Then again, someone else made a good point that is evidently true, I didn't go searching for how to do it! It used to be on by default, in OS 7-9. I used to be able to start up my computer, dial-in to the web and get my email and shut down, all without even turning the screen on. OS X, until today, has been a pain in my ass for keyboard navigation. Thanks for whoever posted that.
Other than that, though, your point is valid. The click+drag, and double click features of my trackpad are on for me, but off for my wife, because she can't seem to control her clicks. She actually bought me a 24" iMac on accident last month because she was using my login and clicked "buy now"...not that I'm complaining! ;-)
With all new Macs being Intel native, the ability to run Windows flavors will only become more elegant, thus rendering this entire conversation irrelevent. The question this time next year might: "Should we invest in these 250 Dell PCs that only run Windows, or should we be safe and get the Macs that can run both?" I say this only because my tech coworkers at school who know little to nothing about Macs are already murmuring these sort of things. Tech savy people, even if they are 100% pc, still hear things in the industry. Being the geeks most of us are, they are going to at least look into the possibility. I had the most anti-Apple person on our staff over the other night to help me install Windows XP Professional, and he's already talking about getting a MacBook Pro.
It's refreshing to see a fellow slashdotter admit their mistakes. Thanks, and I remove the insuation that you might be the clown ;-)
Would you care to tell us what some of the "vast majority" apps are? I'm the registrar in a public school, and we use PCs. The list of software I use several times a day include: A cross platform student information system (database), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop Elements. Everything else is web based. All of these are available on Macintosh, and most of them run better on Macs. The only problem I see with a Mac at my school would be integrating with the Outlook mail server, but even them I'm sure there is some sort of workaround, and there is always the Outlook Web Access in a pinch.
Who's the clown? You just proved his point for him. The first guy was bitching that Apple makes everything open with Apple software, so the second guy merely pointed out, in Applespeak, how to change that on a Mac. Then you go and tell the second guy how to do it on a PC, thus proving his point to the first guy. Point being, if you don't want Quicktime to open your video file, change it yourself. I fail to see the part where the guy was ripping on Windows change file associations...he was merely stating that you've been able to this for 10+ years, with sarcasm. Please keep your clown comments holstered.
You know, you could always use a Mac and avoid all the problems you describe that are Win OS oriented problems and not Apple problems.
Forgot to mention this: "The sex industry represents a significant portion of the world's economy, and has been credited with driving technological advances in popular media, such as home video and DVD, pay-per-view, live streaming video and video on demand." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_industry
Actually, no, I've never read it on slashdot. I'm relatively new here. Why should we "trust" you? Are you in porn or something?
Adobe and Avid are indeed two different entities. They even reside on opposite coasts.
Not to mention he refered to Avid as "Acid". Unless, or course, he means the awful ACID Pro suite of sound editing software, which would only double his ignorance.
What's next, are you going to go on a personal crusade to save dial-up internet access for the poor? I don't know, call me a snob, but I am thoroughly disappointed by how slow our society is to adopt progress.
I'm pretty tech savy, but everytime I go into an electronics place and see the 75% or so of tvs that have distored sd images, it makes me think it must be VERY complicated if the stores can't be bothered to set them up correctly. I haven't bought one yet, partially on the fears of having fat news broadcasters and stupid distorted racecars on my screen. That'll change as soon as I can find a salesperson who is older than, oh, 20, and can explain the technical aspects of why/how to setup an HD widescreen tv to have acceptable non-hd 4:3 ratio image.
I, for one, am floored every time I go into the cable company to pay my bill and see the HD programming (what company has HD tv, but doesn't have online bill payments!!?? Oh yeah, mine.) The only problem is, as far as I can tell, Discover and ESPN are the only channels in the line-up. As soon as more channels have HD than not, I think I'll sign up.
Anyone who claims to see no difference in HD programming and standard tv, ESPECIALLY when they are displayed side-by-side in nearly every electronics store, is smoking something.
Until the consumer stops demanding media on disks, the industry won't focus on developing enough bandwidth to download HD movies. I'm really quite pissed that people still have VCR tapes and even audio CD's. Isn't it time to move on from media storage devices like these? I quite like having my entire cd collection of 20 years on a 3" portable firewire drive, and would hope to see it fit on flash memory in the near future. I can't understand the desire for all these stupid shiny disks!