It wasn't really meant as a comeback, since I wasn't aware that you were posting from a third-grade playground and apparently thought I was too. It was, however, completely sarcastic, which was apparently evident to everyone but you. Anyway, everyone else summed up better than I did what they thought of your post, mods included.
Gee, thanks, guy who gets paid to advertise Windows Phones on Slashdot! Now that you've told me that "WP7 IS revolutionary" I have totally changed my formerly-closed mind! You're a marketing genius.
I just know that between Android and iPhone, I've got enough alternatives for my next phone choice to be easy (I'd likely be satisfied with either, and would just try to see which is better between the two). Microsoft hasn't made anything in the last 12 years that I'd want to buy instead of their competition, so I suppose just their reputation is enough to keep me away unless I hear they've come up with something truly revolutionary.
If they only have to be explained to the stupid people, that's a good indicator that, in fact, they may actually be the funniest. Your sarcasm is ironically misplaced.
It makes sense from their perspective, in a weird "let's-not-give-customers-what-they-want" kind of way. If they provide you with enough of a disincentive to drop their TV service while you keep internet, they feel like they're (at least temporarily) delaying the inevitable march that consumers are making towards the pay-for-what-you-want-to-watch model of content delivered across the net. It's short-sighted, but then again, when's the last time media companies adopted a smart long-term strategy?
Reaching for a justification to not buy a Mac. Lack of right-click-drag when running Windows programs that aren't available in Mac form is probably not in the top 100 on anyone's priority list.
Keep in mind this isn't a recommendation for the techie brother, but for aforementioned non-techie sister of the techie brother. All of the problems you list are really nerd problems (with a healthy dose of anti-Apple mania thrown in, I might add) and not problems for a casual user. If she has the money for a high-end laptop (and does - budget is "up to $2000"), might as well spend it on a Mac. She'll be happier in the long run and the techie brother can stop shopping for countless hours trying to figure out what's customizable and what isn't.
Your statement that it's not trouble-free is correct, but you imply that it's no more trouble-free than the laptops running Windows. It is, actually. By quite a bit.
Just because he was eventually handed an Ivy League degree doesn't necessarily mean he personally got a great education.
I find it difficult to believe that his hundreds of public grammar and pronunciation gaffes were all planned as a way to appeal to the base. Most of that shit was real. Real dumb.
Hardship has nothing to do with it. The reality is that HBO (and most other media creators) are clinging to an outdated business model, and the longer they cling to it, the more people will pirate their shows. I'm not saying it's legal, or even morally right, but it's reality. And really, since when has what's morally right ever influenced the corporations more than the all-mighty dollar? There is a certain irony in watching as all these people download Game of Thrones instead of paying for it simply because they CAN'T pay for it yet, and even if they did, they'd still have to deal with the annoying things like DRM and FBI warnings, etc. It's not one single thing that drives people to download, it's the sum total.
Eventually the business model will change, as the dinosaurs in charge retire or die off, and the next generation takes control of the process. I can't predict what that will be with any accuracy; if I could, I'd be a millionaire, I suppose. But one thing is certain; the current way they're going about it is completely useless. And folks like yourself that focus on the "right" way to do things ("right" as defined by those corps, of course) are missing the forest for the trees.
Your lame attempt to make the bible fit into actual facts would probably be a great consolation to Galileo and his family. "oh, sorry about all the persecution and the heresy charges that ruined your life - turns out, the bible was right in line with science after all!" Idiot.
"If you wanna believe the earth revolves around the sun that's cool, but I'm gonna keep planting my crops based on my assumption that the bible is right."
Sure, that discovery didn't affect that guy either. But it didn't make him any less wrong.
Off-topic, but I do love Slashdot, even if only for the scattered jokes about topics like this. I read this story this morning on the NYT website, and you should see the comments there. Mostly idiots that say "Well, he's stealing so it's no different than stealing a car and giving it to troops overseas!"
Despite how much people like to dump on this site, the commenters are still dozens of IQ points, on average, ahead of the web-at-large.
base theaters which have more technical support and equipment than anything Main St. can rustle up.
Not that this is very important to the topic at hand, but as a former member of our military that spent 5 years overseas, I can tell you that the base theaters pretty much all suck, the sound is awful and the projection is worse, and we went off-base wherever it was possible to watch movies instead. Of course, it's not possible to do that in Iraq or Afghanistan. Just don't tell me about "technical support and equipment" - even if we had it, it sure didn't go into making our base theater any better. Those places blow.
Ummm, if the owner wanted to liquidate it because it was more profitable than keeping it going, isn't that (in a purely capitalist sense) the very definition of it failing?
Your analogy falls apart in recent years though, when you look at the popularity of the iPad and iPhone. Still closed systems, but more "open" options still can't touch them, sales-wise. Probably because these devices aren't just for geeks anymore, and back in the day, a greater % of the PC-owning public was geeks that wanted to tinker with their systems. Now, the vast majority of people buying tablets and smartphones just want it to work - much like when you buy a car; only a small % of people are customizing it with their own after-market parts.
Thing is, 95% of consumers don't really care about repairing their own electronics, if not more. The remaining handful of people that choose not to buy an iPad because of its inaccessibility re:DIY repairs aren't going to make enough of a difference to make any manufacturer change their ways, even assuming ALL of them refuse to buy iPads.
If you look at it objectively, Apple, or anyone else, is pretty much just giving people what they want. It doesn't seem like this 'killer' feature is designed to keep people from accessing the insides of the iPad; after all, what percentage of iPad 1 owners were tinkering around with the insides of it? An insignificant amount, from the perspective of the company selling millions of the thing.
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It wasn't really meant as a comeback, since I wasn't aware that you were posting from a third-grade playground and apparently thought I was too. It was, however, completely sarcastic, which was apparently evident to everyone but you. Anyway, everyone else summed up better than I did what they thought of your post, mods included.
Gee, thanks, guy who gets paid to advertise Windows Phones on Slashdot! Now that you've told me that "WP7 IS revolutionary" I have totally changed my formerly-closed mind! You're a marketing genius.
I just know that between Android and iPhone, I've got enough alternatives for my next phone choice to be easy (I'd likely be satisfied with either, and would just try to see which is better between the two). Microsoft hasn't made anything in the last 12 years that I'd want to buy instead of their competition, so I suppose just their reputation is enough to keep me away unless I hear they've come up with something truly revolutionary.
No, trust me it does. If only for thinking that +5 funny mod points are the ultimate indicator of sarcasm.
Your understanding of the word "theory" in the scientific world gives away your uneducated born-again leanings.
If they only have to be explained to the stupid people, that's a good indicator that, in fact, they may actually be the funniest. Your sarcasm is ironically misplaced.
It makes sense from their perspective, in a weird "let's-not-give-customers-what-they-want" kind of way. If they provide you with enough of a disincentive to drop their TV service while you keep internet, they feel like they're (at least temporarily) delaying the inevitable march that consumers are making towards the pay-for-what-you-want-to-watch model of content delivered across the net. It's short-sighted, but then again, when's the last time media companies adopted a smart long-term strategy?
If you only watch 2 or 3 TV shows regularly, is it more expensive than a DirecTV package?
"integrated communication stream"? Is this the latest in manager-speak bullshit?
Yes.
Reaching for a justification to not buy a Mac. Lack of right-click-drag when running Windows programs that aren't available in Mac form is probably not in the top 100 on anyone's priority list.
I dunno. After having consumed English "alcoholic beverage containing fermented juice", I wouldn't call it wine either.
Since it's only been twice, I think we can call it a coincidence.
Welcome to doing that all on a computer system you're unfamiliar with and will probably hate.
yes, those assumptions you've made are probably all 100% correct about a guy you've never met.
when trying to do a right-click-drag, which a surprising number of people use quite a lot.
Yeah... I'd be surprised if his sister even knew what a right-click-drag was. You're really, really, really reaching.
Keep in mind this isn't a recommendation for the techie brother, but for aforementioned non-techie sister of the techie brother. All of the problems you list are really nerd problems (with a healthy dose of anti-Apple mania thrown in, I might add) and not problems for a casual user. If she has the money for a high-end laptop (and does - budget is "up to $2000"), might as well spend it on a Mac. She'll be happier in the long run and the techie brother can stop shopping for countless hours trying to figure out what's customizable and what isn't.
Your statement that it's not trouble-free is correct, but you imply that it's no more trouble-free than the laptops running Windows. It is, actually. By quite a bit.
Just because he was eventually handed an Ivy League degree doesn't necessarily mean he personally got a great education.
I find it difficult to believe that his hundreds of public grammar and pronunciation gaffes were all planned as a way to appeal to the base. Most of that shit was real. Real dumb.
Hardship has nothing to do with it. The reality is that HBO (and most other media creators) are clinging to an outdated business model, and the longer they cling to it, the more people will pirate their shows. I'm not saying it's legal, or even morally right, but it's reality. And really, since when has what's morally right ever influenced the corporations more than the all-mighty dollar? There is a certain irony in watching as all these people download Game of Thrones instead of paying for it simply because they CAN'T pay for it yet, and even if they did, they'd still have to deal with the annoying things like DRM and FBI warnings, etc. It's not one single thing that drives people to download, it's the sum total.
Eventually the business model will change, as the dinosaurs in charge retire or die off, and the next generation takes control of the process. I can't predict what that will be with any accuracy; if I could, I'd be a millionaire, I suppose. But one thing is certain; the current way they're going about it is completely useless. And folks like yourself that focus on the "right" way to do things ("right" as defined by those corps, of course) are missing the forest for the trees.
Remember..... perception of reality, IS reality.
I think his point was that your insistence on "counting" it as US-made or not is has become irrelevant.
Your lame attempt to make the bible fit into actual facts would probably be a great consolation to Galileo and his family. "oh, sorry about all the persecution and the heresy charges that ruined your life - turns out, the bible was right in line with science after all!" Idiot.
"If you wanna believe the earth revolves around the sun that's cool, but I'm gonna keep planting my crops based on my assumption that the bible is right."
Sure, that discovery didn't affect that guy either. But it didn't make him any less wrong.
Off-topic, but I do love Slashdot, even if only for the scattered jokes about topics like this. I read this story this morning on the NYT website, and you should see the comments there. Mostly idiots that say "Well, he's stealing so it's no different than stealing a car and giving it to troops overseas!"
Despite how much people like to dump on this site, the commenters are still dozens of IQ points, on average, ahead of the web-at-large.
base theaters which have more technical support and equipment than anything Main St. can rustle up.
Not that this is very important to the topic at hand, but as a former member of our military that spent 5 years overseas, I can tell you that the base theaters pretty much all suck, the sound is awful and the projection is worse, and we went off-base wherever it was possible to watch movies instead. Of course, it's not possible to do that in Iraq or Afghanistan. Just don't tell me about "technical support and equipment" - even if we had it, it sure didn't go into making our base theater any better. Those places blow.
Ummm, if the owner wanted to liquidate it because it was more profitable than keeping it going, isn't that (in a purely capitalist sense) the very definition of it failing?
Your analogy falls apart in recent years though, when you look at the popularity of the iPad and iPhone. Still closed systems, but more "open" options still can't touch them, sales-wise. Probably because these devices aren't just for geeks anymore, and back in the day, a greater % of the PC-owning public was geeks that wanted to tinker with their systems. Now, the vast majority of people buying tablets and smartphones just want it to work - much like when you buy a car; only a small % of people are customizing it with their own after-market parts.
Thing is, 95% of consumers don't really care about repairing their own electronics, if not more. The remaining handful of people that choose not to buy an iPad because of its inaccessibility re:DIY repairs aren't going to make enough of a difference to make any manufacturer change their ways, even assuming ALL of them refuse to buy iPads.
If you look at it objectively, Apple, or anyone else, is pretty much just giving people what they want. It doesn't seem like this 'killer' feature is designed to keep people from accessing the insides of the iPad; after all, what percentage of iPad 1 owners were tinkering around with the insides of it? An insignificant amount, from the perspective of the company selling millions of the thing.