Better experience? I get nothing but frustration from my wife's iDevices. I haven't used Android, so I can't compare, but Android would have to be pretty bad if Apple is a better experience. (I have an old flip phone. Makes calls. It's off most of the time.)
Good don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
That's right, cheer for your enslavement. You deserve whatever you get. Don't worry about my ass, it's yours that will be sore from the DRM.
I've had far too many problems with this crap. Games that I paid for not working (claiming I had software on my computer that I did not (for mounting images), and even if I did, that would be my own business), DVDs from the store that failed to play (gave up on ever using MS WMP after it told me the content of the DVDs was protected and I couldn't watch it), wife paying for Treehouse on her iPad to keep the youngster pacified at times and it not working (wrong region! WTF? In the same damned region as every day before when it worked), video from a sonar causing recorder to stop recording (claiming copyright flag), video from a camera 100m under the ocean also causing the recorder to stop recording (claiming copyright flag). Not being able to use the HD feed from some of those subsea cameras with a video capture device that will only accept the analog feed from them (for fear it might be copyrighted). This is the future you are embracing. Hope you enjoy it.
Their lack of DRM support is what is causing them to lose market share.
What lack of support is causing loss of market share? I have yet to see anything that requires it in my browser. I realize my own personal experience is hardly representative of users as a whole.
If nobody supported it, no market share would change. Since that is unlikely, market share will change. Some, like myself, will not support DRM laden things whenever possible. Sadly, it's not always possible. Others will say "Yay! My browser doesn't work right, and I can't watch the "premium content" I paid for." and take the DRM in the ass.
What the hell do you need DRM in a browser for? The internet is getting messed up badly enough now, without that crap. Defective by design.
The users have spoken and they don't want ideology, they want technology.
So do I... technology that works. And we'd have a lot more of it without DRM. DRM is not about tech, it is about content. Apples and oranges dude. (Anonomous Coward at that.)
My parents had me on technic sets before I hit third grade.
I gave my nephew his first Technic set for his 4th birthday. He looked and the box and it said "8+", and he said "You know, I'm only four!" He wasn't long figuring out how to build with it though.
Exposing children to new technology is a terrible idea.
An Egyptian legend relates that when the god Thoth revealed his invention of writing to King Thamos, the good King denounced it as the enemy of civilization.
He probably would have been okay with it if the writing was on papyrus, and not on a tablet.
It is not like dice is changing a winning formula, readership is dwindling, they have invested a lot of money, are they supposed to just sit and watch it all collapse?
Obviously then they are not sitting back and watching it happen, they are being proactive by stuffing it into a coffin and burying it before it is dead.
well it comforting to know that the same government that managed this program is now moving on to something as *truly* important as our and our childrens healthcare.
I wish we would start a jobs program to bring electronics manufacturing back to the US. if nothing else, just for peace of mind, to be able to use those parts in critical situations and KNOW they are designed and built properly.
Yep... "Made by NSA"... errr, I mean "Made in USA".
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Isn't that supposed to be windows 8.2?
Windows 8.1 update (as opposed to Windows 8.1) is supposed to be Windows 8.2.
So first Apple thinks its target customers are dumb enough to buy someone else's product by mistake, now MS too?
sought a better experience and a better life.
Better experience? I get nothing but frustration from my wife's iDevices. I haven't used Android, so I can't compare, but Android would have to be pretty bad if Apple is a better experience. (I have an old flip phone. Makes calls. It's off most of the time.)
A better life? Get rid of your damned phones.
Good don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.
That's right, cheer for your enslavement. You deserve whatever you get. Don't worry about my ass, it's yours that will be sore from the DRM.
I've had far too many problems with this crap. Games that I paid for not working (claiming I had software on my computer that I did not (for mounting images), and even if I did, that would be my own business), DVDs from the store that failed to play (gave up on ever using MS WMP after it told me the content of the DVDs was protected and I couldn't watch it), wife paying for Treehouse on her iPad to keep the youngster pacified at times and it not working (wrong region! WTF? In the same damned region as every day before when it worked), video from a sonar causing recorder to stop recording (claiming copyright flag), video from a camera 100m under the ocean also causing the recorder to stop recording (claiming copyright flag). Not being able to use the HD feed from some of those subsea cameras with a video capture device that will only accept the analog feed from them (for fear it might be copyrighted). This is the future you are embracing. Hope you enjoy it.
Their lack of DRM support is what is causing them to lose market share.
What lack of support is causing loss of market share? I have yet to see anything that requires it in my browser. I realize my own personal experience is hardly representative of users as a whole. If nobody supported it, no market share would change. Since that is unlikely, market share will change. Some, like myself, will not support DRM laden things whenever possible. Sadly, it's not always possible. Others will say "Yay! My browser doesn't work right, and I can't watch the "premium content" I paid for." and take the DRM in the ass.
What the hell do you need DRM in a browser for? The internet is getting messed up badly enough now, without that crap. Defective by design.
The users have spoken and they don't want ideology, they want technology.
So do I... technology that works. And we'd have a lot more of it without DRM. DRM is not about tech, it is about content. Apples and oranges dude. (Anonomous Coward at that.)
loss of browser market share
They'll lose market share for implementing DRM.
This might be one of the best things to happen for SpaceX.
Time for SpaceX to jack up the price!
My parents had me on technic sets before I hit third grade.
I gave my nephew his first Technic set for his 4th birthday. He looked and the box and it said "8+", and he said "You know, I'm only four!" He wasn't long figuring out how to build with it though.
"Oh, you should see him use the iPhone!".
He uses an iPhone?! I'm sorry to hear that, I didn't realize he had brain damage.
Exposing children to new technology is a terrible idea.
An Egyptian legend relates that when the god Thoth revealed his invention of writing to King Thamos, the good King denounced it as the enemy of civilization.
He probably would have been okay with it if the writing was on papyrus, and not on a tablet.
Scientist goes to Congress to celebrate Jane Goodall's 80th birthday.
Depends upon your definition of "qualified"
There would be millions of volunteers. If you need a thousand, you could pick the top 0.1%.
Well, we all know that the telephone sanitizers are the first to board...
I know it's a hard concept to understand, but gold only has its value based on consensus as well.
Largely true, but not entirely true. Gold is useful, and therefore valuable for that reason alone.
I tapped a button on my old land line to dial numbers decades before smart phones.
Until movie distributors start skipping DVD and going straight to BD, AD, or whatever for new releases. The film Ishtar, for instance, skipped DVD.
And everyone should skip Ishtar. (And not because it skipped DVD!)
It could explain that weird green diamond thing floating over my head.
There are no THREE DIGIT ID posters left on Slashdot
Not so... I just saw one...
http://games.slashdot.org/comm...
by Rostis (797) Alter Relationship on 2014-02-09 0:18 (#46200149)
It is not like dice is changing a winning formula, readership is dwindling, they have invested a lot of money, are they supposed to just sit and watch it all collapse?
Obviously then they are not sitting back and watching it happen, they are being proactive by stuffing it into a coffin and burying it before it is dead.
which seeks to develop transient electronics that can physically disappear in a controlled, triggerable manner.'
You mean like regular commercial electronics do right after the warranty expires?
well it comforting to know that the same government that managed this program is now moving on to something as *truly* important as our and our childrens healthcare.
right?
Don't forget edumacation.
"Childrens do learn."
Vegetarianism is about the minimization of cruelty and suffering.
Not to the person doing the eating.
"give a chimp a screwdriver and it will use it for everything but its intended purpose"
Particularly with flathead screw drivers, that tends to be quite common among humans as well.
Mind you, the flathead screwdriver is good for a lot of things, but driving screws is not one of them. Gimme a Roberson any day.
Stephen Harper's Tory government is claiming that the documents have been digitized.
Yeah, it's all ones and zeros now.
Harper - 1
Science - 0
their own events in the real world like wedding dates
So if I can't seem to convince the system to let me log in to my computer, I should buy my wife flowers?
I wish we would start a jobs program to bring electronics manufacturing back to the US. if nothing else, just for peace of mind, to be able to use those parts in critical situations and KNOW they are designed and built properly.
Yep... "Made by NSA"... errr, I mean "Made in USA".
Ig Nobel Prize?
Surely this research is a leading candidate!
Or, with some of the "try this at home" do it yourself amateurs, possibly even a Darwin Award.