For the same reason someone needs to make instruments for them to play, and microphones for them to sing into, and provide equipment for them to be recorded on. Nobody can do it all.
Not all musicians are able to do all things all along the track from creation of equipment to releasing the finished song. In fact, nobody can do it all.
To follow your logic, why do singers sing songs that they did not write themselves?
Mixing other work into something new is a musical style. Personally, it does nothing for me, but that does not mean I can dismiss it as worthless to anybody.
So you found a device that match the first claim of the Apple patent. Great. Now you'll need to find a device that match ALL claims of Apple's patent. Right. That's the Galaxy S and Tab.
Which would be a great comeback.. If this were a patent case.
What good is toiling away in obscurity making great films that nobody will see, and dying in poverty?
Because only shitty movies are successful? Or doers your inverse snobbery equate good with art house stuff that gets a showing at a film festival, and nothing is ever heard of them again?
Peter Jackson has made some really good movies. Brain Dead was hilarious, The LOTR trilogy is great. King King, watched once, and it was ok.
Tim Burton does some great work. Dark but entertaining too. And beautifully visualised. Are they obscure and penniless? I'm sure I could find many many more who are making enough money to satisfy your idea of success, but still do good work, not just flash in the pan bargain bin in six months movies.
I know a guy who writes lots and lots of songs that nobody will ever hear. It is sad.
And if he enjoys writing them, he has fulfilled the purpose of the exercise.
If the only way you can assess worth is financially, then the failing is yours.
Hype affects people in two ways. First are the people who believe the hype and pay too much for a bad product. Second are the people who don't want to be seen as believing the hype, and refuse to own a good product.
And the inconvenient to your argument third type. The ones who ignore then hype, don't dig their heels in irrationally, and make their own minds up. So they buy what ever the hell they want.
Like it or not, Apple puts out innovative products that work well, and have a minimum amount of crapware to deal with. Spec sheets are great, but what matters most is usability.
Like it or not. You have just outed yourself as one of the first group.
I do suspect that video games often have some negative psychological effects, but I don't think violence is one of them. I don't think violent games make you violent, but rather I suspect that all games, violent and otherwise, tend to encourage passivity and isolation.
Why? Games are active participatory interactive devices. Depending on genre, they require the exercise of problem solving abilities, hand to eye coordination, strategic planning, memory, delegation, and I'm sure many other skills. Passive.. No way. Do nothing and you lose.
Watching sports on TV however.. That is super passive. Getting emotionally caught up in an event you have absolutely no ability to control.. How weird is that? Yet if you watch any sport with fans of that sport, they get excited when their team scores, or when someone drives their car around in a circle faster than someone else.
Even social games (e.g. MMO games) result in people sitting alone in a room, not interacting directly with other people. Instead they have control of an avatar which has interactions with other avatars, which I suspect leads to a specific kind of alienation.
Again.. Why? Many MMORPG systems pretty much require you to be part of a group. Sitting in a pub laughing and chatting, or siting in a room alone laughing and chatting over the internet.. The only difference is the physical proximity. And if you can't relate to people except when in close physical proximity, then perhaps you have a problem. How is playing an RPG with a few people you will likely never meet, any different to the typical paintballing weekend corporate "team building" exercise?
I have a few close friends I have never physically met. Some go back over 10 years. Are they to be considered of less value because I can't go to the pub with them? Is a friend crying on my shoulder because she has just broken up with her boyfriend any less of a personal interaction because it happens through email? Should I have felt less worry during the Brisbane floods because the friend who lives there is one I only know because we "met" in an email group?
Someone on the other end of the internet is no less a person than someone who lives a block away.
If these are one's ONLY social interaction. Then yes. There is a problem. Atypical behavior usually is. But the game causing the problem.. Sorry.. I don't buy it. A symptom.. Certainly. If taken to excess, agreed 100%. But nobody is actually arguing otherwise. The guy who spends months playing WOW or something is someone with a real and serious problem. We all freely acknowledge that. We all present this as a cast iron case of someone with a problem.
Also, many games work by encouraging compulsive behavior. Whether you're talking about the stacking of blocks in Tetris or the grinding for stats in a RPG, there are many video game activities that you can't really enjoy without being a little addicted.
Or the building of sets of cards in poker, or the conquest by moving little playing pieces in chess. Or the search for the next piece when making a jigsaw, or the obsessive search for words that fit in a crossword puzzle. Games are repetitive. It is part of their nature.
Can you play a musical instrument? Good enough to let anybody hear you? Did you just pick it up one day and find you could do it? or did it take months or years of practicing the same song over and over to get good? Do you limit yourself to listening to a song only once? Ever make filled pasta? Put the filling in, fold over the pasta, seal the pasta, repeat.. Quite therapeutic actually. Once you get a rhythm going, you can just daydream. Your hands go on autopilot after a while.
Knitting? A repetitive sequence of knots made with two sticks.
Gardening? Plant the seeds, weed the beds, water the seeds. repeat. Yet this is a therapy often recommended to people who are suffering from stress.
"Settled out of court" translated to normal English really means "We would win against evil Microsoft if we had the funds to take this to the end, but sadly their lawyers are bleeding us dry with continual delays so we accepted their offer to settle."
As far as I remember, "Settled out of court" in this case, meant " Oh Shiiiiiit!!! We could lose the rights to Windows as too generic to trademark!! QUICK BUY EM OFF".
It's a political decision to you. It's a practical one to me. As long as I can get in, I don't care how. If they changed the DRM so I couldn't crack it, I'd quit buying from them.
In what way is it political? Other than as a poor device to cast the opposing view as unreasonable?
You accept an inferior product that you need to unlock. I reject the same product as unsatisfactory. Political.. No. I just don't buy shit.
So I'll ask you again. Do you carry a key to your front door, or do you pick the lock?
I wonder what sort of secret deals they made to get Europe's largest low-fares airlines to use it exclusively for their routemap:
I'm guessing the usual. Free development for x years as showcase customers. After which, the go back to a more workable solution. ITV tried that, but they got sense and now do the catch up service in Flash.
Look up the Milgram experiment. People will do a hell of a lot more than they usually would that is distasteful to them if an authority figure tells them to. You want to see scary.. look in the mirror.
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For the same reason someone needs to make instruments for them to play, and microphones for them to sing into, and provide equipment for them to be recorded on. Nobody can do it all.
Not all musicians are able to do all things all along the track from creation of equipment to releasing the finished song. In fact, nobody can do it all.
To follow your logic, why do singers sing songs that they did not write themselves?
Mixing other work into something new is a musical style. Personally, it does nothing for me, but that does not mean I can dismiss it as worthless to anybody.
So you found a device that match the first claim of the Apple patent. Great. Now you'll need to find a device that match ALL claims of Apple's patent. Right. That's the Galaxy S and Tab.
Which would be a great comeback.. If this were a patent case.
And then shrug, and fire up the soldering iron anyway.
What good is toiling away in obscurity making great films that nobody will see, and dying in poverty?
Because only shitty movies are successful? Or doers your inverse snobbery equate good with art house stuff that gets a showing at a film festival, and nothing is ever heard of them again?
Peter Jackson has made some really good movies. Brain Dead was hilarious, The LOTR trilogy is great. King King, watched once, and it was ok.
Tim Burton does some great work. Dark but entertaining too. And beautifully visualised. Are they obscure and penniless? I'm sure I could find many many more who are making enough money to satisfy your idea of success, but still do good work, not just flash in the pan bargain bin in six months movies.
I know a guy who writes lots and lots of songs that nobody will ever hear. It is sad.
And if he enjoys writing them, he has fulfilled the purpose of the exercise.
If the only way you can assess worth is financially, then the failing is yours.
What are these "friends" you speak of?
Kind of like NPCs and henchmen.
Hype affects people in two ways. First are the people who believe the hype and pay too much for a bad product. Second are the people who don't want to be seen as believing the hype, and refuse to own a good product.
And the inconvenient to your argument third type. The ones who ignore then hype, don't dig their heels in irrationally, and make their own minds up. So they buy what ever the hell they want.
Like it or not, Apple puts out innovative products that work well, and have a minimum amount of crapware to deal with. Spec sheets are great, but what matters most is usability.
Like it or not. You have just outed yourself as one of the first group.
I do suspect that video games often have some negative psychological effects, but I don't think violence is one of them. I don't think violent games make you violent, but rather I suspect that all games, violent and otherwise, tend to encourage passivity and isolation.
Why? Games are active participatory interactive devices. Depending on genre, they require the exercise of problem solving abilities, hand to eye coordination, strategic planning, memory, delegation, and I'm sure many other skills. Passive.. No way. Do nothing and you lose.
Watching sports on TV however.. That is super passive. Getting emotionally caught up in an event you have absolutely no ability to control.. How weird is that? Yet if you watch any sport with fans of that sport, they get excited when their team scores, or when someone drives their car around in a circle faster than someone else.
Even social games (e.g. MMO games) result in people sitting alone in a room, not interacting directly with other people. Instead they have control of an avatar which has interactions with other avatars, which I suspect leads to a specific kind of alienation.
Again.. Why? Many MMORPG systems pretty much require you to be part of a group. Sitting in a pub laughing and chatting, or siting in a room alone laughing and chatting over the internet.. The only difference is the physical proximity. And if you can't relate to people except when in close physical proximity, then perhaps you have a problem. How is playing an RPG with a few people you will likely never meet, any different to the typical paintballing weekend corporate "team building" exercise?
I have a few close friends I have never physically met. Some go back over 10 years. Are they to be considered of less value because I can't go to the pub with them? Is a friend crying on my shoulder because she has just broken up with her boyfriend any less of a personal interaction because it happens through email? Should I have felt less worry during the Brisbane floods because the friend who lives there is one I only know because we "met" in an email group?
Someone on the other end of the internet is no less a person than someone who lives a block away.
If these are one's ONLY social interaction. Then yes. There is a problem. Atypical behavior usually is. But the game causing the problem.. Sorry.. I don't buy it. A symptom.. Certainly. If taken to excess, agreed 100%. But nobody is actually arguing otherwise. The guy who spends months playing WOW or something is someone with a real and serious problem. We all freely acknowledge that. We all present this as a cast iron case of someone with a problem.
Also, many games work by encouraging compulsive behavior. Whether you're talking about the stacking of blocks in Tetris or the grinding for stats in a RPG, there are many video game activities that you can't really enjoy without being a little addicted.
Or the building of sets of cards in poker, or the conquest by moving little playing pieces in chess. Or the search for the next piece when making a jigsaw, or the obsessive search for words that fit in a crossword puzzle. Games are repetitive. It is part of their nature.
Can you play a musical instrument? Good enough to let anybody hear you? Did you just pick it up one day and find you could do it? or did it take months or years of practicing the same song over and over to get good?
Do you limit yourself to listening to a song only once?
Ever make filled pasta? Put the filling in, fold over the pasta, seal the pasta, repeat.. Quite therapeutic actually. Once you get a rhythm going, you can just daydream. Your hands go on autopilot after a while.
Knitting? A repetitive sequence of knots made with two sticks.
Gardening? Plant the seeds, weed the beds, water the seeds. repeat. Yet this is a therapy often recommended to people who are suffering from stress.
Repetition is not in it's self a bad thing e
"Settled out of court" translated to normal English really means "We would win against evil Microsoft if we had the funds to take this to the end, but sadly their lawyers are bleeding us dry with continual delays so we accepted their offer to settle."
As far as I remember, "Settled out of court" in this case, meant " Oh Shiiiiiit!!! We could lose the rights to Windows as too generic to trademark!! QUICK BUY EM OFF".
He died in 1945...
Meh.. They arrived late back then too...
It's a political decision to you. It's a practical one to me. As long as I can get in, I don't care how. If they changed the DRM so I couldn't crack it, I'd quit buying from them.
In what way is it political? Other than as a poor device to cast the opposing view as unreasonable?
You accept an inferior product that you need to unlock. I reject the same product as unsatisfactory. Political.. No. I just don't buy shit.
So I'll ask you again. Do you carry a key to your front door, or do you pick the lock?
You probably know this already, but you can easily strip the DRM from Kindle books.
And you can easily learn how to pick the lock of your front door, so why do you carry a key?
Fools break into their own property. Smart people make sure they own the key as well as the lock.
Break DRM, and someone comes up with nastier DRM.
Reject DRM, and it becomes too expensive to use.
So, you're saying "An iFanboy and his money are soon parted..."?
Exactly.
What are the Android phone manufacturers' profits like? What is Apple's profits like?
Or to rephrase it.. How much easier is it to part an iFanboy from their money at an abnormally high markup?
So in addition to the hardware fragmentation, there will be store fragmentation too. Sounds great.
Tell me.. Have you ever bought a loaf of bread?
Ogg is unrestricted by KNOWNsoftware patents.
Nice.
Looks simpler, perhaps easier to build than the Makerbot. I like the moving head better than the moving x-y stage.
Simple rule.
Don't buy Christmas gifts online after October.
I made the mistake once.
Pretty much any ePub reading device. Buying DRM infected books is optional on just about any reader.
You're not buying schooling, you're buying an expensive piece of paper, called a diploma, to get past the HR filter that requires it.
Which is in it's self a problem. HR is not hiring paper.
I wonder what sort of secret deals they made to get Europe's largest low-fares airlines to use it exclusively for their routemap:
I'm guessing the usual. Free development for x years as showcase customers. After which, the go back to a more workable solution. ITV tried that, but they got sense and now do the catch up service in Flash.
No need to risk being Godwined.
Look up the Milgram experiment. People will do a hell of a lot more than they usually would that is distasteful to them if an authority figure tells them to. You want to see scary.. look in the mirror.
wow, spoken like a true apple customer eh!
Aww. come on.. For an Apple buyer, that counts as extreme modding.
Since when does installing audio/video equipment (stereo/CD/DVD/etc) void a car's warranty?
Since customers became consumers. Sheep are not that bright, and easily frightened.
Apparently you don't know what the word underhanded means.
Come on.. They guy is in marketing. You need to use more meaningless buzz words..
But how else would I annoy people like you?