It's been ages since I've used iTunes because I think Amazon is infinitely better and DRM free but aren't at least some of the songs on iTunes DRM free now so how can I can be locked out of using them?
I could buy that but the fact is most people don't care about formats like FLAC and from my experience in downloading music a lot of people have a horrible sense of quality. I have no problems with people downloading music. In fact people that do make the effort to be honest when their pockets allow it should have no guilt, in my mind. But I remember even in the napster days giving up on some stuff and just recording my tapes and splitting side A and B into individual songs because the quality was sadly infinitely better than what I was finding. I do believe for a lot of people they'll never a reason to pay. These are the same low class people that would come into one of my first jobs (with Target) asking how they can copy PSX games. Not surprisingly most of them were trailer trash and no doubt living off the government. Their whole lifestyle is about getting everything for free. They add nothing to the economy and they add nothing to file sharing either. They're just a drain on everyone.
greatest of working conditions, to being made in the worst.
Having worked in factories over summer breaks I can certainly say the conditions are better than china but let's not pretend working in a factory anywhere should ever be associated with the word great.
Companies, like Microsoft (who use Foxconn) aren't exactly poor. It's as you say their brand and placing Apple in your news story will grab far more attention than listing even 50 no-name brands that use foxconn or even factories with worse conditions.
Apple is the 3rd largest phone manufacturer, not smart phone manufacturer, just phone manufacturer. Any sort of stereotype against them is just the same old stereotype spewed out by angry wintel nerds who hate anything remotely different to them.
1 is pretty easy to get over and 2 is obvious but it would be interesting to see how they actually monitor it. If they do monitor what you sell, what happens if I open two accounts on two computers? I think sharing the music for free with people is a bit more ethical than allowing them to sell it. But if they are vigilant about monitor stuff then fair enough. At least they're trying.
Yes but sharing an inferior copy is different than selling a 100% exact copy numerous times. It says it deletes the song from your drive but given that it has not access to my portable USB drive I could copy that music onto my main drive numerous times and sell it.
I also agree for the most part about convenience but Amazon sells high quality mp3s for $.99 and they're DRM free. You can hardly call that too expensive or inconvenient.
I agree but if I keep backups of all my music they're not going to be able to delete copies of music on a USB drive not even connected to the computer. I wonder if they'll monitor for people that are selling the same song over and over.
My concern would be as well is that someone decides to sell their low quality torrented music and you still have to worry about it being a quality version. Even if the 30 second preview is from the actual file it doesn't tell me if it cuts off too early.
I agree with him but I can also see why people would be against it. What's stopping me from selling numerous copies of my MP3s and retaining my original copies?
I'm not really going to argue that but then again I don't go to the movie theatre and buy DVDs instead which I do get to keep.
But that said no one is expecting to own the movie. The problem is with stuff like this (or hats in TF2) is that I don't think they make it clear that you aren't buying a hat like you're buying a real hat. Unfortunately people aren't that bright so that's why they get upset over this but not their theatre ticket.
With physical games though I do think it's worse. Some does get to keep their console game or TF2 and I think there is an assumption all that DLC they buy they get to keep too which likely isn't going to be the case. Given how much people pay for some of it (like £7 for a hat in TF2 which you rarely ever see) I don't blame them for being upset.
I do agree the mere fact they paid for it doesn't mean they get to keep it. They need to learn this and perhaps think twice about doing it which is why I'm glad these people lost their stuff and they're upset. They're learning a good lesson now and hopefully it will lead to them not blindly buying into the whole DLC thing.
I appreciate a lot of PC gamers moved over to consoles when the Xcrement Box came out but console gaming is not PC gaming and shouldn't try to be. If you want to upgrade there is a system that can handle that, it's a PC.
PC developers have already shit all over console gaming by lowering the quality bar and making patching a necessity and we're losing genres because there are too many people who can't handle a game that doesn't scream masculinity even if it's being played by children. So please, go back to your PCs and jerk off over all the video cards you could buy and leave consoles alone.
There are a lot of ways to cut government waste without taking things away from citizens. We could start by taking away the benefits from congressmen and look into ways to stop them from accepting stupid bids from companies which result in them paying way more for things than if they were consumers. And lastly, cut a significant chunk out of the defense budget and focus more on protecting our borders and staying out of other people's business unless absolutely necessary.
Linux obviously does better on the server but I'm glad they did go for the desktop and I hope more companies continue to do so. We're not going to see any decent improvements in the desktop if people don't focus on it and Linux certainly won't gain desktop users by assuming no one wants to use it on the desktop.
I don't see the problem. It makes sense to focus on one core product and make it the best and because it's open source anyone that wants KDE with Ubuntu can do that. I'm not sure you want to do it but you can.
The article isn't about operating systems crashing and you could argue that actually a lot of Linux apps do crash when they rely on poor drivers. Linux itself is rock solid but it does have shitty apps too.
By the looks of it, it has something to do with iOS 5. Taking that out of the equation puts Android on top (not that it's doing a bad job of catching up anyway) so either Apple cocked up something in iOS 5 or a lot of developers rely on something they shouldn't have.
Open/Libre Office do not open a lot of documents ok. I've had plenty of jobs I've applied for that include a word doc of an application form. I fill it in, it looks relatively close to the original. I close it and open it again and it's a fucking mess.
Even bullet points seem to cause problems. For whatever I find it nearly impossible to use a standard bullet point. It likes to change itself quite often to anything but a normal bullet point.
Open / Libre office are very good solid offerings but sharing Word formats between them and MS Office is still problematic.
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It's been ages since I've used iTunes because I think Amazon is infinitely better and DRM free but aren't at least some of the songs on iTunes DRM free now so how can I can be locked out of using them?
I could buy that but the fact is most people don't care about formats like FLAC and from my experience in downloading music a lot of people have a horrible sense of quality. I have no problems with people downloading music. In fact people that do make the effort to be honest when their pockets allow it should have no guilt, in my mind. But I remember even in the napster days giving up on some stuff and just recording my tapes and splitting side A and B into individual songs because the quality was sadly infinitely better than what I was finding. I do believe for a lot of people they'll never a reason to pay. These are the same low class people that would come into one of my first jobs (with Target) asking how they can copy PSX games. Not surprisingly most of them were trailer trash and no doubt living off the government. Their whole lifestyle is about getting everything for free. They add nothing to the economy and they add nothing to file sharing either. They're just a drain on everyone.
Does it really matter? You're ok with them being equally shit? How about demanding they all raise their standards?
greatest of working conditions, to being made in the worst.
Having worked in factories over summer breaks I can certainly say the conditions are better than china but let's not pretend working in a factory anywhere should ever be associated with the word great.
Companies, like Microsoft (who use Foxconn) aren't exactly poor. It's as you say their brand and placing Apple in your news story will grab far more attention than listing even 50 no-name brands that use foxconn or even factories with worse conditions.
Apple is the 3rd largest phone manufacturer, not smart phone manufacturer, just phone manufacturer. Any sort of stereotype against them is just the same old stereotype spewed out by angry wintel nerds who hate anything remotely different to them.
1 is pretty easy to get over and 2 is obvious but it would be interesting to see how they actually monitor it. If they do monitor what you sell, what happens if I open two accounts on two computers? I think sharing the music for free with people is a bit more ethical than allowing them to sell it. But if they are vigilant about monitor stuff then fair enough. At least they're trying.
Yes but sharing an inferior copy is different than selling a 100% exact copy numerous times. It says it deletes the song from your drive but given that it has not access to my portable USB drive I could copy that music onto my main drive numerous times and sell it.
I also agree for the most part about convenience but Amazon sells high quality mp3s for $.99 and they're DRM free. You can hardly call that too expensive or inconvenient.
I agree but if I keep backups of all my music they're not going to be able to delete copies of music on a USB drive not even connected to the computer. I wonder if they'll monitor for people that are selling the same song over and over.
My concern would be as well is that someone decides to sell their low quality torrented music and you still have to worry about it being a quality version. Even if the 30 second preview is from the actual file it doesn't tell me if it cuts off too early.
I agree with him but I can also see why people would be against it. What's stopping me from selling numerous copies of my MP3s and retaining my original copies?
I'm not really going to argue that but then again I don't go to the movie theatre and buy DVDs instead which I do get to keep.
But that said no one is expecting to own the movie. The problem is with stuff like this (or hats in TF2) is that I don't think they make it clear that you aren't buying a hat like you're buying a real hat. Unfortunately people aren't that bright so that's why they get upset over this but not their theatre ticket.
With physical games though I do think it's worse. Some does get to keep their console game or TF2 and I think there is an assumption all that DLC they buy they get to keep too which likely isn't going to be the case. Given how much people pay for some of it (like £7 for a hat in TF2 which you rarely ever see) I don't blame them for being upset.
I do agree the mere fact they paid for it doesn't mean they get to keep it. They need to learn this and perhaps think twice about doing it which is why I'm glad these people lost their stuff and they're upset. They're learning a good lesson now and hopefully it will lead to them not blindly buying into the whole DLC thing.
Believe it not your average person will ask their friends. Comparing tech specs websites doesn't mean anything to them.
This will hopefully be a few more people that will learn the lesson not to buy imaginary shit.
I appreciate a lot of PC gamers moved over to consoles when the Xcrement Box came out but console gaming is not PC gaming and shouldn't try to be. If you want to upgrade there is a system that can handle that, it's a PC.
PC developers have already shit all over console gaming by lowering the quality bar and making patching a necessity and we're losing genres because there are too many people who can't handle a game that doesn't scream masculinity even if it's being played by children. So please, go back to your PCs and jerk off over all the video cards you could buy and leave consoles alone.
Sounds like it's pretty buggy and definitely a beta so I wouldn't complain too much for not getting it.
There are a lot of ways to cut government waste without taking things away from citizens. We could start by taking away the benefits from congressmen and look into ways to stop them from accepting stupid bids from companies which result in them paying way more for things than if they were consumers. And lastly, cut a significant chunk out of the defense budget and focus more on protecting our borders and staying out of other people's business unless absolutely necessary.
They want a non-existent government for the average citizen. For businesses and the military they want it be as big as they can get it.
Yes but it has GTA 3 and Angry birds.
Yes if you want to pretend you're still using Windows.
Linux obviously does better on the server but I'm glad they did go for the desktop and I hope more companies continue to do so. We're not going to see any decent improvements in the desktop if people don't focus on it and Linux certainly won't gain desktop users by assuming no one wants to use it on the desktop.
I don't see the problem. It makes sense to focus on one core product and make it the best and because it's open source anyone that wants KDE with Ubuntu can do that. I'm not sure you want to do it but you can.
Clearly companies aren't hiring enough people with MBAs.
The article isn't about operating systems crashing and you could argue that actually a lot of Linux apps do crash when they rely on poor drivers. Linux itself is rock solid but it does have shitty apps too.
By the looks of it, it has something to do with iOS 5. Taking that out of the equation puts Android on top (not that it's doing a bad job of catching up anyway) so either Apple cocked up something in iOS 5 or a lot of developers rely on something they shouldn't have.
Open/Libre Office do not open a lot of documents ok. I've had plenty of jobs I've applied for that include a word doc of an application form. I fill it in, it looks relatively close to the original. I close it and open it again and it's a fucking mess.
Even bullet points seem to cause problems. For whatever I find it nearly impossible to use a standard bullet point. It likes to change itself quite often to anything but a normal bullet point.
Open / Libre office are very good solid offerings but sharing Word formats between them and MS Office is still problematic.