Not an excuse. They are a "premium luxury" brand. If they couldn't do right by the customer with the parts they had on hand then they should have given the customer a better replacement.
THIS is what separates the real "quality" brands from the ones that are just over hyped by mindless consipicous consumers.
I am more likely to get a paper cut in the office than hurt myself working inside of a PC. They are big and roomy and specifically designed to be modified.
I don't even need a putty knife to get into the case.
It may be "big and ugly" but it has certain advantages.
There is nothing about this thing that makes it any more suitable for your average apartment dweller in SFO or NYC. It's little more than a standard TV stand and TV. Except it isn't modular and it looks like a cheap piece of crap that came from IKEA.
There are better ways to solve the "problem" from the ad video accompanying this product.
Folder navigation does quite well for 8000 movies. I have that many right now. Being able to organize your own data any way you see fit is a great advantage.
No. It is the Apple approach that fails miserably. Apple will try to scramble your data and flatten any logical heirarchy you might have created. The result will be a jumbled mess that will drive n00bs to export their data onto CDs and file them away in little boxes.
If you want anything fancier, then a PC that is masquerading as a mobile device is more than capable of providing it's own "sleight of hand". You don't really need a PC running iTunes to manage content because you have a device in your hand more powerful than the PCs that ran the first versions of iTunes.
It's funny you mention this because I've recently see this fail quite spectacularly for two Apple devices. So the idea that it is all Unicorns and Bunnies on the Apple side is just mindless propaganda.
The only way to be sure is if you are in control of the device.
This is one highly annoying aspect of iTunes. It will try to DESTROY any new device it sees.
As soon as you have more data than a device can hold, any delusions about syncronization occuring automatically is just wishful thinking. At that point, you need a sane interface that will be easy, consistent,and powerful enough to handle all of the basic use cases a n00b can come up with as well as the more interesting power use cases.
Yes. The fact that Apple does things differently than everyone else is "all your fault". Sorry, but most people just don't buy into that sort of cult mentality. They will see Apple's quirks and at best be annoyed. They are of no real value and only seek to drive away anyone that's ever used a computer before.
Zip drives were NEVER as ubiquitous as a floppy. A few people might have had them here or there but they were hardly commonplace. They gained some traction but still suffered from being an expensive single vendor solution.
I've done this with UK resellers. Sometimes a work won't be available in the US or the UK version will just be cheaper. Since my video playback mechanism is an HTPC, it doesn't matter much to me what region the video came from.
As long as all of the actual applications are using the same underlying libraries, there really is no "fragmentation". These idiots whining about fragmentation are just clueless and superficial. What shell you happen to use is not the sorts of problems that "fragmentation" are supposed to represent.
Besides, if anything is going to cause "fragmentation" it's the new stuff that no one really wants rather than the old stuff that most people are content to keep on using (including Windows users).
Windows reigns supreme over Linux because it was deeply entrenched by the time Linus even started. Windows "reigns supreme" because it is effectively this years version of MS-DOS.
If you don't know what your "friends" would want to watch then you don't know them very well do you?
The idea that current streaming options are a suitable "instant gratification" mechanism always amuses me given that they tend to be subject to things like 28 and 56 day release delays.
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Not an excuse. They are a "premium luxury" brand. If they couldn't do right by the customer with the parts they had on hand then they should have given the customer a better replacement.
THIS is what separates the real "quality" brands from the ones that are just over hyped by mindless consipicous consumers.
80 years of terrorism is pretty impressive for a country that hasn't even been around that long.
I am more likely to get a paper cut in the office than hurt myself working inside of a PC. They are big and roomy and specifically designed to be modified.
I don't even need a putty knife to get into the case.
It may be "big and ugly" but it has certain advantages.
Nope. They raised prices and then dropped content. If he's not a current customer, it's because the suckage became more pronounced.
You do realize that Netflix "rents" actual Blu-ray discs too right?
There is nothing about this thing that makes it any more suitable for your average apartment dweller in SFO or NYC. It's little more than a standard TV stand and TV. Except it isn't modular and it looks like a cheap piece of crap that came from IKEA.
There are better ways to solve the "problem" from the ad video accompanying this product.
Anyone that had furniture.
They simply did not have the resources to squander on disposable crap.
Cheap crap actually has a higher TCO.
Nonsense.
Folder navigation does quite well for 8000 movies. I have that many right now. Being able to organize your own data any way you see fit is a great advantage.
No. It is the Apple approach that fails miserably. Apple will try to scramble your data and flatten any logical heirarchy you might have created. The result will be a jumbled mess that will drive n00bs to export their data onto CDs and file them away in little boxes.
If you want anything fancier, then a PC that is masquerading as a mobile device is more than capable of providing it's own "sleight of hand". You don't really need a PC running iTunes to manage content because you have a device in your hand more powerful than the PCs that ran the first versions of iTunes.
It's funny you mention this because I've recently see this fail quite spectacularly for two Apple devices. So the idea that it is all Unicorns and Bunnies on the Apple side is just mindless propaganda.
The only way to be sure is if you are in control of the device.
This is one highly annoying aspect of iTunes. It will try to DESTROY any new device it sees.
As soon as you have more data than a device can hold, any delusions about syncronization occuring automatically is just wishful thinking. At that point, you need a sane interface that will be easy, consistent,and powerful enough to handle all of the basic use cases a n00b can come up with as well as the more interesting power use cases.
Yes. The fact that Apple does things differently than everyone else is "all your fault". Sorry, but most people just don't buy into that sort of cult mentality. They will see Apple's quirks and at best be annoyed. They are of no real value and only seek to drive away anyone that's ever used a computer before.
Once CD burners hit a certain price point, Zip drives were done for.
This strange Sony device will still be the most expensive option available as everything else will experience the same price drops.
Real enterprises with challenges such as these are not nearly as fussy as you seem to be.
Never mind "SMB grade".
Storing something over 5MB? Just use the internal hard drive.
Just the BDR media by itself without any sort of fancy caddy is going to be more expensive than any other option available.
Zip drives were NEVER as ubiquitous as a floppy. A few people might have had them here or there but they were hardly commonplace. They gained some traction but still suffered from being an expensive single vendor solution.
So buy your pro-corporate definition, the old Sugar Trust would not be unethical.
Perhaps the oil and steel trusts weren't unethical either...
I've done this with UK resellers. Sometimes a work won't be available in the US or the UK version will just be cheaper. Since my video playback mechanism is an HTPC, it doesn't matter much to me what region the video came from.
As long as all of the actual applications are using the same underlying libraries, there really is no "fragmentation". These idiots whining about fragmentation are just clueless and superficial. What shell you happen to use is not the sorts of problems that "fragmentation" are supposed to represent.
Besides, if anything is going to cause "fragmentation" it's the new stuff that no one really wants rather than the old stuff that most people are content to keep on using (including Windows users).
Not quote.
Windows reigns supreme over Linux because it was deeply entrenched by the time Linus even started. Windows "reigns supreme" because it is effectively this years version of MS-DOS.
If features are "missing", the product doesn't even qualify as a beta test version. That means that it shouldn't leave the campus.
It really doesn't matter what kind of excuses you want to offer.
So now you're supposed to just blindly accept incomplete alpha level configuration tools from a company like Apple?
Great...
If it takes 7 hours for you do download a movie, then you aren't going to be streaming anything anyways.
If you don't know what your "friends" would want to watch then you don't know them very well do you?
The idea that current streaming options are a suitable "instant gratification" mechanism always amuses me given that they tend to be subject to things like 28 and 56 day release delays.
It's Africa. You can't live near the water. You will get malaria.
White do-gooders have probably done more damage to Africa by giving incompetent advice than all of the "natural dangers" combined.