entertainment market being completely over-saturated.
I know what the dot-com crashes look like. Have we ever had such a large entertainment bubble? It gave us cheap Netflix for a while, but what's it going to look like when it all comes crashing down?
You're implying anyone with the software knowledge is able to do something better for every situation?
I'm implying that anyone that knows this much knows not to trust Best Buy with anything and they'd at least go to an independent shop or travelling tech if they didn't want to deal with it.
mini-displayport is the same as Apple's Thunderbolt - typically a dongle required (unless you use an all-in-one cable).
There is no Ethernet port.
With a single USB port, you're probably going to have a hub - not much different than being stuck with a newer USB type-C.
The only thing truly different between Surface Pro and Mac in that regard is the headphone port. I'm not even saying it's a bad thing - just that it's pointless to mock Apple for it exclusively.
And DRM'ed, "protected media path" audio will also see a huge advance now that we finally got rid of that pesky analog audio transmission.
You know even Apple went DRM-free with music sales years ago.
Spotify and Tidal both implement noisy steganography tracking data into their streams. Protected path is probably not as profitable as just suing the people who file share their copies of the streamed audio.
A2DP technically supports streaming AAC and MP3 directly. You don't have to recompress most music formats. If you're allowing for 300+kbps, you aren't going to have any audio quality issues worse than listening through earbuds in the first place.
Best Buy sells universal power adapters for laptops. Probably would have worked on the netbook. Meanwhile, order a cheaper one on Amazon. Return the BB overpriced power adapter within a week.
The company that had lower prices on their public website, higher prices on their internal in-store site, and then charged you based off the internal site saying you had miss-remembered public price if you called them out on it.
Oh, yes. And even before smartphones were widespread, I printed off the web page when I went back in. The address bar didn't even say "bestbuy.com" for the internal site so I told them to try there, but they refused.
I was AT&T since before they sold off wireless to Cingular
That only sort of happened. AT&T Wireless was already spun off from AT&T when it was sold to SBC/Bellsouth (Cingular). Then SBC bought AT&T and renamed itself AT&T. Then bought Bellsouth and renamed Cingular to AT&T.
if the stream/file has a resolution of 1920x1080 (black bars included in the encode), then stretching it to 2880x1440 will result in black bars on all 4 sides.
When viewing on TV, there's usually an option to zoom to the right position. I don't know why the Blu-Ray spec didn't include more aspect ratios or at least some hinting on what portion of the frame is actually used.
When ripping to a file, I usually crop that out in Handbrake and I think the same is usually true in streaming video on the web (mostly to save bandwidth).
And then there are movies like Life of Pi that are filmed mostly in 16:9 except for one scene where the image goes outside of a 2.35:1 frame. That movie also has portions in 4:3.
I feel like Spotlight finally matched Quicksilver a couple years ago. CMD+Space and it pops up nice and big in the center of the screen (used to be a tiny search bar in the top-right corner). It's more usable than the Windows start menu in that regard.
Welcome to the world of Mac OS X. I've been on a Hackintosh for the last 5+ years as a secondary PC since I got rid of my real Mac a while back (still a Final Cut Pro user).
I used to use Quicksilver because Spotlight's search forced a keyboard shortcut that I didn't like (among other unchangeable settings). I installed TimeMachineEditor because I didn't want Time Machine interrupting my work every 60 minutes to run a backup - Apple gives you "on" or "off", but I was able to use the utility and set 4 hours. Internally Time Machine uses hard links to make its incremental backups - it really is worth setting up as your main backup in some form. My computer's not completely littered with little tools, but there is one for almost every annoyance with OS X.
One thing Apple does get right - GREAT keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots.
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entertainment market being completely over-saturated.
I know what the dot-com crashes look like. Have we ever had such a large entertainment bubble? It gave us cheap Netflix for a while, but what's it going to look like when it all comes crashing down?
core products
I see what you did there.
Would have been if not for climate change.
You're implying anyone with the software knowledge is able to do something better for every situation?
I'm implying that anyone that knows this much knows not to trust Best Buy with anything and they'd at least go to an independent shop or travelling tech if they didn't want to deal with it.
But there's still no "slight added expense of a dongle" because you have no choice whether you are buying it.
I bet an intact Note 7 will be worth some money to collectors in a few dozen years. Problem is keeping it working and not exploded until then.
mini-displayport is the same as Apple's Thunderbolt - typically a dongle required (unless you use an all-in-one cable).
There is no Ethernet port.
With a single USB port, you're probably going to have a hub - not much different than being stuck with a newer USB type-C.
The only thing truly different between Surface Pro and Mac in that regard is the headphone port. I'm not even saying it's a bad thing - just that it's pointless to mock Apple for it exclusively.
That's a completely unrelated issue to what I answered.
I'll speak for them. Yes, it's very easy to do.
Unless someone starts producing ads like that, this Apple crap will have no chance of stopping.
PC is a Microsoft Surface with the same problems.
And DRM'ed, "protected media path" audio will also see a huge advance now that we finally got rid of that pesky analog audio transmission.
You know even Apple went DRM-free with music sales years ago.
Spotify and Tidal both implement noisy steganography tracking data into their streams. Protected path is probably not as profitable as just suing the people who file share their copies of the streamed audio.
A2DP technically supports streaming AAC and MP3 directly. You don't have to recompress most music formats. If you're allowing for 300+kbps, you aren't going to have any audio quality issues worse than listening through earbuds in the first place.
the slight added expense of a dongle
I'm pretty sure it was included in the box with the phone.
They just haven't monetized it yet.
The basis for them is scientifically questionable as there is no clear scientific evidence that child porn leads to rape.
Well...there's pretty good evidence that child rape leads to child porn. Best not to incentivize its creation.
They do not assure data loss
They do their best to ensure that data is lost - just about every fix involves a wipe and reload of Windows.
Best Buy sells universal power adapters for laptops. Probably would have worked on the netbook. Meanwhile, order a cheaper one on Amazon. Return the BB overpriced power adapter within a week.
If you know how to do any of that, you're not taking your computer to Best Buy to be fixed.
The company that had lower prices on their public website, higher prices on their internal in-store site, and then charged you based off the internal site saying you had miss-remembered public price if you called them out on it.
Oh, yes. And even before smartphones were widespread, I printed off the web page when I went back in. The address bar didn't even say "bestbuy.com" for the internal site so I told them to try there, but they refused.
I was AT&T since before they sold off wireless to Cingular
That only sort of happened. AT&T Wireless was already spun off from AT&T when it was sold to SBC/Bellsouth (Cingular). Then SBC bought AT&T and renamed itself AT&T. Then bought Bellsouth and renamed Cingular to AT&T.
Chart form: https://www.att.com/Common/mer...
Video explanation: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/vid... (Sorry, no longer on Youtube)
First they propose something completely absurd, then "compromise" with something slightly less absurd.
Right, first we have the DMCA, but now it gets fixed with the TPP....wait a minute.
if the stream/file has a resolution of 1920x1080 (black bars included in the encode), then stretching it to 2880x1440 will result in black bars on all 4 sides.
When viewing on TV, there's usually an option to zoom to the right position. I don't know why the Blu-Ray spec didn't include more aspect ratios or at least some hinting on what portion of the frame is actually used.
When ripping to a file, I usually crop that out in Handbrake and I think the same is usually true in streaming video on the web (mostly to save bandwidth).
And then there are movies like Life of Pi that are filmed mostly in 16:9 except for one scene where the image goes outside of a 2.35:1 frame. That movie also has portions in 4:3.
Units don't matter when you're talking about an aspect ratio. I was putting them in quotation marks because it was a direct quote from the UI.
I feel like Spotlight finally matched Quicksilver a couple years ago. CMD+Space and it pops up nice and big in the center of the screen (used to be a tiny search bar in the top-right corner). It's more usable than the Windows start menu in that regard.
Welcome to the world of Mac OS X. I've been on a Hackintosh for the last 5+ years as a secondary PC since I got rid of my real Mac a while back (still a Final Cut Pro user).
I used to use Quicksilver because Spotlight's search forced a keyboard shortcut that I didn't like (among other unchangeable settings). I installed TimeMachineEditor because I didn't want Time Machine interrupting my work every 60 minutes to run a backup - Apple gives you "on" or "off", but I was able to use the utility and set 4 hours. Internally Time Machine uses hard links to make its incremental backups - it really is worth setting up as your main backup in some form. My computer's not completely littered with little tools, but there is one for almost every annoyance with OS X.
One thing Apple does get right - GREAT keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots.