You're confused. It's the IT code monkey that's more replaceable. He has no real skills to speak of and has probably already been replaced by some guy in Mumbai.
No. The "guy in IT" has likely already dropped out of the industry entirely.
The supply situation isn't nearly as unbalanced as you make it out to be. Expectations in a game studio are quite a bit higher than for your typical "guy in IT".
You're conflating designers and programmers. They aren't necessarily the same thing. Actually, they usually aren't the same thing. Although there is some overlap.
All of the criticisms you just leveled at the game industry can be applied equally well to any job in IT. It's especially true of any tech nexus like Silicon Valley.
If you aren't into it, you're going to be miserable and wondering why you put up with any of the shit. You will also likely be rather bad at it too.
Perhaps those were the only ones that anyone knows about.
They took one of the highlighted songs and played it for the jury to gain sympathy. Ironically it was a song old enough that it should have been in the public domain.
Jamie claimed that the P2P thing someone else's doing and that most of the stuff there didn't even reflect her musical tastes. Apparently, it was mostly a lot of relatively obscure Scandanavian Metal bands.
Most of what Jamie was supposed to be sharing is the kind of stuff that the RIAA tends to hide from the general public in it's role as gatekeeper.
On the other hand, there should be some record of what her download ratio actually was. There should be no reason to guess it. Without that information, all she ever did was to "make something available".
MediaSentry doesn't count and self serving assumptions aren't good enough.
The more relevant question is why would want to buy it on a phone?
Sure. Load it up at home. Although you also need to be easily get it back off again. The way tech has progressed, a phone makes a handy portable hard drive.
You can carry around ANYTHING, not just music.
Although this only works if your phone vendor allows it.
Computing is about gettting stuff done. It's not about using particular branded products. Even if you do choose to fixate on a particular brand, it's rather likely that the brand won't be recognizable by "later in their careers".
No. I actually LOOK at the results of a Google search like that rather than just smugly presenting the results without even bothering to check them first.
> What alternatives? USB 3.0 doesn't count, it's too slow
Sure it does. Not everyone needs the most expensive thing that money can buy. So USB3, eSATA, and even GigE become very viable alternatives for an entire ecosystem that will magnify your costs by 5x or 10x.
Plus, you've got the storage solutions already being used by actual professionals with the money to spend. Ironically enough, these pro users are being left out in the cold by Apple.
> I think the wild success of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, etc, and how they've redefined their respective markets has proven that the/. demographic are no longer the trendsetters for consumer electronics.
We're talking about computers here not "consumer electronics".
But thanks for confirming that Apple is no longer a computer company in your rush to denigrate Apple computer users.
> On the other hand, I don't see many people lamenting anymore that TVs no longer have user-serviceable parts.
Nice conflation there.
TVs were NEVER upgradeable devices. While they were user serviceable, you never had to worry about a new version of TV-OS making your old TV slow to a crawl until you added some more RAM to it.
A TV is actually an appliance that won't need to be tinkered with during it's effective life.
A Mac is not.
Needing more RAM and more storage during the life of the device is expected.
People with real PCs don't really care that it is "an expansion interface". We already have that. This is why I can functionally replace a current Mac Mini with crappy old Compaq that I bought 4 years ago because it was the cheapest thing I could lay my hands on at the time.
The whole "expansion interface" aspect of it just makes it more of a security headache as does the display requirement.
It's a solution for a problem that most of us (non-Apple users) simply don't have.
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You're confused. It's the IT code monkey that's more replaceable. He has no real skills to speak of and has probably already been replaced by some guy in Mumbai.
No. The "guy in IT" has likely already dropped out of the industry entirely.
The supply situation isn't nearly as unbalanced as you make it out to be. Expectations in a game studio are quite a bit higher than for your typical "guy in IT".
You're conflating designers and programmers. They aren't necessarily the same thing. Actually, they usually aren't the same thing. Although there is some overlap.
People are missing a bit on the logic.
They take the fact that most professionals are enthusiasts to erroneously conclude that most enthusiasts will become professionals.
In Venn terms, it's a little circle nearly completely inside a much larger circle.
All of the criticisms you just leveled at the game industry can be applied equally well to any job in IT. It's especially true of any tech nexus like Silicon Valley.
If you aren't into it, you're going to be miserable and wondering why you put up with any of the shit. You will also likely be rather bad at it too.
Perhaps those were the only ones that anyone knows about.
They took one of the highlighted songs and played it for the jury to gain sympathy. Ironically it was a song old enough that it should have been in the public domain.
Jamie claimed that the P2P thing someone else's doing and that most of the stuff there didn't even reflect her musical tastes. Apparently, it was mostly a lot of relatively obscure Scandanavian Metal bands.
Most of what Jamie was supposed to be sharing is the kind of stuff that the RIAA tends to hide from the general public in it's role as gatekeeper.
That's not reliable data.
On the other hand, there should be some record of what her download ratio actually was. There should be no reason to guess it. Without that information, all she ever did was to "make something available".
MediaSentry doesn't count and self serving assumptions aren't good enough.
The RIAA is supposed to be proving something.
The more relevant question is why would want to buy it on a phone?
Sure. Load it up at home. Although you also need to be easily get it back off again. The way tech has progressed, a phone makes a handy portable hard drive.
You can carry around ANYTHING, not just music.
Although this only works if your phone vendor allows it.
There's only one problem with that argument: Napster.
> What massive innovation has the RIAA stifled?
The very one you gush over. RIAA fought it tooth and nail. Even when they relented a tiny bit, they still installed Apple as a new monopoly.
What "educational opportunites"?
Computing is about gettting stuff done. It's not about using particular branded products. Even if you do choose to fixate on a particular brand, it's rather likely that the brand won't be recognizable by "later in their careers".
Schools should be teaching concepts not products.
Unless the BIOS level emergency shut off kicked in, permanent damage to the machine was unlikely.
If running a little hot was that dire, all Mac users would be in serious trouble. Most laptop users too.
> Install linux on a macbook air and you will see how much a difference machine temperature and battery performance are.
You think you're funny.
Unfortunately, I've done this sort of things before.
Linux will give me far better visibility and control over what governs the temperature and battery life of the device.
The problem with MacOS is that it treats you like a mushroom.
> If memory serves me correctly
No it doesn't serve you correctly. You are a clueless nitwit.
No. I actually LOOK at the results of a Google search like that rather than just smugly presenting the results without even bothering to check them first.
> What alternatives? USB 3.0 doesn't count, it's too slow
Sure it does. Not everyone needs the most expensive thing that money can buy. So USB3, eSATA, and even GigE become very viable alternatives for an entire ecosystem that will magnify your costs by 5x or 10x.
Plus, you've got the storage solutions already being used by actual professionals with the money to spend. Ironically enough, these pro users are being left out in the cold by Apple.
> You can't replace the battery in the Galaxy Tab, either, but nobody around here sharpened their pitchforks over it.
Nobody is forced to use the Galaxy Tab if they want to run Android on a tablet.
Who are you? Pauly Shore?
It doesn't have to be metal to be recyclable.
An engineer would not want one. The poor engineering tradeoffs are rather obvious. The benefits are largely cosmetic and pretty irrelevant.
> I think the wild success of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook Air, etc, and how they've redefined their respective markets has proven that the /. demographic are no longer the trendsetters for consumer electronics.
We're talking about computers here not "consumer electronics".
But thanks for confirming that Apple is no longer a computer company in your rush to denigrate Apple computer users.
> On the other hand, I don't see many people lamenting anymore that TVs no longer have user-serviceable parts.
Nice conflation there.
TVs were NEVER upgradeable devices. While they were user serviceable, you never had to worry about a new version of TV-OS making your old TV slow to a crawl until you added some more RAM to it.
A TV is actually an appliance that won't need to be tinkered with during it's effective life.
A Mac is not.
Needing more RAM and more storage during the life of the device is expected.
I'm not stupid enough to think that wasting money is something to brag about.
> The iPod (and a lot of Apple's devices) offers a far superior
It hasn't done that in quite a long time.
The lead that Apple had on other vendors in this regard is ancient history.
Speaking of high end workstations being locked out of TB...
Thunderbolt was conspicously missing from the recent Mac Pro refresh.
If it's less than $200 you will be breaking just about even with what you can already get as an internal card.
People with real PCs don't really care that it is "an expansion interface". We already have that. This is why I can functionally replace a current Mac Mini with crappy old Compaq that I bought 4 years ago because it was the cheapest thing I could lay my hands on at the time.
The whole "expansion interface" aspect of it just makes it more of a security headache as does the display requirement.
It's a solution for a problem that most of us (non-Apple users) simply don't have.