On the other hand, competitors continue to do well. In fact, they continue to do better than expected. The future simply isn't in the hands of Apple as some fanboys would like to claim.
History is repeating itself.
If fanboys continue to have something they like, that's all well and good. However, there's simply no need to try and create some sort of self-fullfilling prophecy where Apple is the new Microsoft.
Overpaying for my own Macs didn't work out terribly well.
Those things "don't work well". Compared to Apple's appliances, they are a bunch of crap. People might get the wrong idea from the longevity of an iPod. One of those is going to be a lot more reliable and less prone to obsolescence than an Apple computer.
So? As long as the current trends continue, all of the fanboy whining about "profits" really doesn't matter. At the end of the day, I have the choice to use something else. I have the choice to use something made by a company and used by users that don't try to trivialize me or my requirements.
That may be true. However, this is supposed to be a Red State we're talking about here. Therefore, there should be an implicit underlying assumption that any form of big government is bad and that problems should be solve in the most local terms possible. Generally, larger governments should not be interfering with smaller ones.
That is if the Red States and associated politicians were true to their political rhetoric.
There have been entire new genres and musical movements that only ever got anywhere because of "piracy". There are a number of highly visible and very wealthy "artists" that owe their current net worth to various forms of "piracy".
Yes. Obscurity is far more harmful to an artist even if the artist in question forgets this fact once they become non-obscure.
Sure people would immigrate, but they would settle and stay in one place for awhile. They might "move west" for greater opportunity at some point but even that would lead to people putting down new roots.
This idea that you are some sort of corporate nomad that moves every 3 years at the behest of your employer is a very new thing.
Society simply didn't have the means to be that nomadic. Moving was no trivial matter. You might not even survive the process.
Despite trying to resist the whole corporate nomad thing, I have still managed to live and work in more places than the previous 10 generations of my American ancestors combined.
The tech simply did not support those kinds of shenanigans.
Cedar Point is on a small island in Lake Erie next to a dinky small town. They may need dormitories just so that the labor they probably ship in has some place to stay.
Probably don't need that sort of thing even at Kings Island.
The Chinese have an edge here because their workers live like a scene out of 1984. Of course they are going to have an advantage over any other country that has something resembling work-life balance. Although it's not like the US is great in that respect anyways. The fact that there's somehwere someplace else that's even worse is just sad.
The cost of servicing a large debt is non-trivial.
This has to be factored into the economic realities you use to guide your decision making process. Of course there should be at least some immediate positive feedback from "doing the right thing".
Otherwise the economics of the situation don't make sense to anyone.
You end up with farmers that are begging for food because the economic incentives they are subjected to don't encourage them to work hard.
Anyone that spends a lot of money and goes to school should seem some immediate return on their investment and certainly should be in a better position than someone that never bothered. It's especially true in the long term but should be even somewhat true in the short term.
You usually can't get the first job without the "credential", so you usually end up at a disadvantage when it comes to gaining useful experience. In most fields, a fresh graduate is pretty useless and they need to complete some sort of apprenticeship before they're worth anything.
That leads to the next set of barriers in employment: "experience".
The limiting factor in all of this is ultimately tuition.
The overiding fact here is the fact that College Tuition experiences the greatest inflation rate of anything else by far. Many states have been trying to defund higher education for decades at this point. So trying to assume that "you can just go to a state school" won't work.
Did YOU even go to college?
The same people trying to jack up the prices of in state tuition are also the same exact people that try to supress the minimum wage.
I have never gone out of my way to pay a lot for my storage gear and yet I've never had this sort of problem. The "ghetto version" seems to be find too.
LYING in an attempt to take the moral or intellecual high ground is just supid.
Creative works aren't property. Copying them is not theft.
Moral imperatives need to survive on their own merit rather than depending on specious rhetoric that seeks to ignore morally important details.
The fellow going on about the Beatles should not be in a any sort of legal grey area. That work was created with a certain expiration date. That date should have been honored.
These sorts of discussions usually imply a huge double standard in favor of non-people.
> So never mind about all the benefits something can bring, unless it's 'open' it's useless and has no future?
Pretty much. Any time you try to advocate a new solution to a potentially already solved problem, you are limiting what people can do with it and who can participate.
Although I can't help thinking that this is something that will eventually be declared "too geeky" once the fashionistas have moved on to the next flavor of the month.
The Apple mindset really isn't for creative people. That's just marketing that falls away as soon as someone asks for something interesting.
Except this isn't hardware markers. This is an abusive monopoly that likes to bully around hardware makers. They have been told to stop repeatedly by multiple national governments and even have managed to be officially labeled as a monopoly by a court of law.
Hardware makers are just as much the victim here as anyone else. Always have been.
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Film cameras existed. There were smaller formats for "home use". Technology can take many forms and not necessarily just the ones you're directly familiar with.
Yeah. It doesn't "restrict" things, it "mandates" things.
[rolls eyes]
If you a device that can handle normal PC file sharing protocols then DLNA is redundant. Then just handle the files any way you like. It's a solution from a pre-PC mindset that's a little dated now that every little device is pretty much a PC running Unix.
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On the other hand, competitors continue to do well. In fact, they continue to do better than expected. The future simply isn't in the hands of Apple as some fanboys would like to claim.
History is repeating itself.
If fanboys continue to have something they like, that's all well and good. However, there's simply no need to try and create some sort of self-fullfilling prophecy where Apple is the new Microsoft.
Overpaying for my own Macs didn't work out terribly well.
Those things "don't work well". Compared to Apple's appliances, they are a bunch of crap. People might get the wrong idea from the longevity of an iPod. One of those is going to be a lot more reliable and less prone to obsolescence than an Apple computer.
I would rather have a phone that I don't have to jailbreak just so that I have the same basic functionality as a Nokia dumb phone from 2001.
It's a phone, not a pocket computer.
So? As long as the current trends continue, all of the fanboy whining about "profits" really doesn't matter. At the end of the day, I have the choice to use something else. I have the choice to use something made by a company and used by users that don't try to trivialize me or my requirements.
...and they say the GPL is viral.
RMS has nothing on Apple Corp.
That may be true. However, this is supposed to be a Red State we're talking about here. Therefore, there should be an implicit underlying assumption that any form of big government is bad and that problems should be solve in the most local terms possible. Generally, larger governments should not be interfering with smaller ones.
That is if the Red States and associated politicians were true to their political rhetoric.
There have been entire new genres and musical movements that only ever got anywhere because of "piracy". There are a number of highly visible and very wealthy "artists" that owe their current net worth to various forms of "piracy".
Yes. Obscurity is far more harmful to an artist even if the artist in question forgets this fact once they become non-obscure.
> And the rationalization for stealing someone else's product continues
It's not someone else's "product" or "property" and never was. So that's just a highly bogus sort of thing to start out a morally pompous rant with.
If it's not a new release, then it's likely old enough that it should be legal for anyone to copy and re-publish at will.
The "thievery" here is not one sided. It's dishonest to pretend that it is.
Most of them.
Sure people would immigrate, but they would settle and stay in one place for awhile. They might "move west" for greater opportunity at some point but even that would lead to people putting down new roots.
This idea that you are some sort of corporate nomad that moves every 3 years at the behest of your employer is a very new thing.
Society simply didn't have the means to be that nomadic. Moving was no trivial matter. You might not even survive the process.
Despite trying to resist the whole corporate nomad thing, I have still managed to live and work in more places than the previous 10 generations of my American ancestors combined.
The tech simply did not support those kinds of shenanigans.
Cedar Point is on a small island in Lake Erie next to a dinky small town. They may need dormitories just so that the labor they probably ship in has some place to stay.
Probably don't need that sort of thing even at Kings Island.
The Chinese have an edge here because their workers live like a scene out of 1984. Of course they are going to have an advantage over any other country that has something resembling work-life balance. Although it's not like the US is great in that respect anyways. The fact that there's somehwere someplace else that's even worse is just sad.
Hardly something to emulate.
The cost of servicing a large debt is non-trivial.
This has to be factored into the economic realities you use to guide your decision making process. Of course there should be at least some immediate positive feedback from "doing the right thing".
Otherwise the economics of the situation don't make sense to anyone.
You end up with farmers that are begging for food because the economic incentives they are subjected to don't encourage them to work hard.
Anyone that spends a lot of money and goes to school should seem some immediate return on their investment and certainly should be in a better position than someone that never bothered. It's especially true in the long term but should be even somewhat true in the short term.
This is probably just cumulative selection bias.
You usually can't get the first job without the "credential", so you usually end up at a disadvantage when it comes to gaining useful experience. In most fields, a fresh graduate is pretty useless and they need to complete some sort of apprenticeship before they're worth anything.
That leads to the next set of barriers in employment: "experience".
The entire process feeds upon itself.
The limiting factor in all of this is ultimately tuition.
The overiding fact here is the fact that College Tuition experiences the greatest inflation rate of anything else by far. Many states have been trying to defund higher education for decades at this point. So trying to assume that "you can just go to a state school" won't work.
Did YOU even go to college?
The same people trying to jack up the prices of in state tuition are also the same exact people that try to supress the minimum wage.
I have never gone out of my way to pay a lot for my storage gear and yet I've never had this sort of problem. The "ghetto version" seems to be find too.
Somehow I suspect that this "adapter" will cost more than an entire video card.
Does the content fully exploit the full potential of available output devices? If yes, then it is still "relevant" regardless of how "old" it is.
If laserdisc did 1080p, it would still be relevant as well.
LYING in an attempt to take the moral or intellecual high ground is just supid.
Creative works aren't property. Copying them is not theft.
Moral imperatives need to survive on their own merit rather than depending on specious rhetoric that seeks to ignore morally important details.
The fellow going on about the Beatles should not be in a any sort of legal grey area. That work was created with a certain expiration date. That date should have been honored.
These sorts of discussions usually imply a huge double standard in favor of non-people.
Creative works aren't property.
You don't have an inalienable right to a copyright or patent.
You never did (at least in the US).
> So never mind about all the benefits something can bring, unless it's 'open' it's useless and has no future?
Pretty much. Any time you try to advocate a new solution to a potentially already solved problem, you are limiting what people can do with it and who can participate.
Although I can't help thinking that this is something that will eventually be declared "too geeky" once the fashionistas have moved on to the next flavor of the month.
The Apple mindset really isn't for creative people. That's just marketing that falls away as soon as someone asks for something interesting.
> It is a little clunky to start
You just lost everyone that wasn't an Apple evangelist.
Except this isn't hardware markers. This is an abusive monopoly that likes to bully around hardware makers. They have been told to stop repeatedly by multiple national governments and even have managed to be officially labeled as a monopoly by a court of law.
Hardware makers are just as much the victim here as anyone else. Always have been.
Film cameras existed. There were smaller formats for "home use". Technology can take many forms and not necessarily just the ones you're directly familiar with.
Yeah. It doesn't "restrict" things, it "mandates" things.
[rolls eyes]
If you a device that can handle normal PC file sharing protocols then DLNA is redundant. Then just handle the files any way you like. It's a solution from a pre-PC mindset that's a little dated now that every little device is pretty much a PC running Unix.
That doesn't even represent the full potential of what streaming services can offer. Never mind "stuff in general".