Perhaps, but Apple benefits from the market segmentation as well as the Music labels.
Since iTunes has never been a big money maker for them, I doubt it. That and market segmentation seems designed mostly to piss of customers, especially in an increasingly united Europe.
80% of the players? No, I don't think that's the case.
"80% of the players" would be the iPod, which is why wma is *not* the most compatible format. It doesn't matter how many Rio's and Zune's and DigitalDJ's are out there when there are four iPods for each and every one of them.
And, just as an aside, AAC is also supported by Microsoft devices.
I said "most", not "all". Do you even know how to read?
Name a single executive power that people fear Bush using that Clinton showed any inclination of using when he was president. Do you even know how to think?
Clinton fired 93 US Attorneys, Bush only fired 8. But guess who's getting rake over the rusty razor blades for it?
Why are you so full of shit today, Brandybuck? You are comparing apples to irrelevant oranges. Yes, Clinton did fire all 93 USA's....so did Reagan and the first president Bush. As did the second Bush when he took office. But that was at the start of their terms, not six years in. And not to their own appointees.
But since you want to bring up Clinton's firing of the USA's, lets go ahead and go there. Republicans were pissed when he did it. Absolutely fucking pissed. Nevermind, of course, that Reagan and Herbert Walker Bush did the same damn thing when they took office. Much like how military service was terribly important when Clinton was running against daddy Bush, as opposed to when Reagan was running against Carter or W. was running against Gore or Kerry.
That's the problem with the GOP today: the party is build on idiocy, incompetency, and hypocracy. Go check out that link and marvel in pure IOIYAR philosophy in action.
Have I missed something? I thought the political debate was mostly over (People cause warming)
Not so much, you have that backwards. The scientific debate was over before this president took office, it's only the political debate that has finally started to come around.
(Sun cycles causes most of the warming vs People cause most of the warming)
Fox News myth, along with the story that climatologists were worried about an ice age back in the 70's. But lets say they are right and the sun is warming. That does nothing to change the fact that CO2 causes global warming and humans are the driving cause of that CO2. If the Sun is warming at the same time, that means we have to do much more to reduce emissions, not continue with the status quo.
When you hear someone saying that the scientific debate is over you know a liar is speaking. Scientific debates are NEVER over.
Don't be stupid. Scientists do not debate that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Scientists do no debate on whether or not gravity exists. They might quibble on string theory or thermodynamics, but the basic facts were settled a long time ago. Same with global warming. Climatologists might disagree on projections or how much of a difference we can make, but the basic facts that the Earth is A) warming B) it is caused by CO2 and C) humans are the driving cause were settled a long time ago. Deal with it.
The Windows Media format is actually the MOST compatible, working with far more devices than AAC at present
You have an interesting definition of "most compatible" when wma doesn't work with 80% of the players out there. But your point is moot anyway - if Apple is able to get the music industry on board with this, no manufacturer in the world is not going to add AAC support to their devices, with the exception of Microsoft and Sony.
Most of the executive powers that make people "fear" Bush were in place during the Clinton administration.
Really? Clinton had the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons, tribunals, indefinite detentions w/o a trail or a lawyer, waterboarding, extraordinary rendition, etc etc?
That's why so much of the Democrat congress are acting so strangely: they want those laws, powers, and abuses in place when one of their own finally gets back in the White House.
I am absolutely shocked that no one has given the obvious reply, seeing as how this is slashdot.
Because you were the first incompetent boob to come along. There is a HUGE, obvious difference between a zero day exploit spreading from computer to computer and millions of PC's getting an exploit at the same time because they were set to automatically download updates from Windows Update. Or did you stop to consider the fact that basic security will keep you from being infected by a zero day exploit? A firewall will act as a barrier between your PC and a worm. A firewall will do jack to stop a PC from getting an exploit through Windows Update.
the machinations of the RIAA (which, let's face it, was a pretty benign organization until fairly recently) or the "music industry."
Not so much. For all their bellyaching, both the record and movie industries were founded on piracy. The music industry took advantage of new technologies that weren't covered by old copyright lays, like records and radio, to avoid paying musicians and songwriters royalties. The movie industry didn't settle down in California just for the nice weather, they also did it to get away from Thomas Edison's film patents.
Where do you work at where doing the minimum that is expected of you gets reported on the nightly news? And yes you DO hear about good police action ALL time, whenever a suspect of a crime is caught and arrested.
That, plus the issue of them arresting people with no probable suspicion much less cause. And violating rules on how long people can be held in jail without seeing a judge. The NYPD crossed waaaay over the line between due diligence in investigating threats to the convention and blatant police state behavior.
I know. The problem is that idea is stupid, because Pelosi's efforts from raising the minimum wage to ending the war in Iraq are far more in line with the majority of this country than the administration.
Did any states raise their taxes during the recession? Which is another reason you don't want to cut taxes in a booming economy - you want to save your tax cuts for a bust, to spur the economy.
Yes, Flash is propietary, and yes, it has been abused for unnecessary eye candy
Get Firefox and install Flashblock. It replaces all flash animations with a "play" icon that you click to start, taking care of all those annoying advertisements. You can also whitelist sites like Youtube if you want. Flashblock + Adblock + Noscript = browsing nirvana. Noscript blocks all javascript on a page until you whitelist the site, either temporarily or permanently. And adblock allows you to selectively block scrips on a page.
For example, in one of my classes tests are taken online. The site uses a lot of Flash and javascript, so I have the site whitelisted. But they have a javascript to block right-clicking - one of my biggest pet peeves. So I use Adblock to block that script but leave everything else open.
And what happened in the next time period? The economy took a big dump and states across the country faced budget shortfalls in the billions. Buy not throwing away their surplus to a big tax cut, Massachusetts wasn't hit as hard later on.
You speak as if both sides were equal, which is laughable. You have multi-billion dollar industries with hordes of thousand-dollars-per-hour lawyers and very copyright-holder friendly laws on one side, and consumers on the other. Consumers that in the vast majority of cases are not lawyers nor have teams of lawyers working on their behalf. Consumers that are a very distant consideration after said multi-billion dollar industries throw millions of dollars at Congress.
You need a nice warm cup of Get Some Frikkin Perspective.
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Perhaps, but Apple benefits from the market segmentation as well as the Music labels.
Since iTunes has never been a big money maker for them, I doubt it. That and market segmentation seems designed mostly to piss of customers, especially in an increasingly united Europe.
80% of the players? No, I don't think that's the case.
"80% of the players" would be the iPod, which is why wma is *not* the most compatible format. It doesn't matter how many Rio's and Zune's and DigitalDJ's are out there when there are four iPods for each and every one of them.
And, just as an aside, AAC is also supported by Microsoft devices.
That's what Plays4Sure said.
I said "most", not "all". Do you even know how to read?
Name a single executive power that people fear Bush using that Clinton showed any inclination of using when he was president. Do you even know how to think?
Clinton fired 93 US Attorneys, Bush only fired 8. But guess who's getting rake over the rusty razor blades for it?
Why are you so full of shit today, Brandybuck? You are comparing apples to irrelevant oranges. Yes, Clinton did fire all 93 USA's....so did Reagan and the first president Bush. As did the second Bush when he took office. But that was at the start of their terms, not six years in. And not to their own appointees.
But since you want to bring up Clinton's firing of the USA's, lets go ahead and go there. Republicans were pissed when he did it. Absolutely fucking pissed. Nevermind, of course, that Reagan and Herbert Walker Bush did the same damn thing when they took office. Much like how military service was terribly important when Clinton was running against daddy Bush, as opposed to when Reagan was running against Carter or W. was running against Gore or Kerry.
That's the problem with the GOP today: the party is build on idiocy, incompetency, and hypocracy. Go check out that link and marvel in pure IOIYAR philosophy in action.
Have I missed something? I thought the political debate was mostly over (People cause warming)
Not so much, you have that backwards. The scientific debate was over before this president took office, it's only the political debate that has finally started to come around.
(Sun cycles causes most of the warming vs People cause most of the warming)
Fox News myth, along with the story that climatologists were worried about an ice age back in the 70's. But lets say they are right and the sun is warming. That does nothing to change the fact that CO2 causes global warming and humans are the driving cause of that CO2. If the Sun is warming at the same time, that means we have to do much more to reduce emissions, not continue with the status quo.
When you hear someone saying that the scientific debate is over you know a liar is speaking. Scientific debates are NEVER over.
Don't be stupid. Scientists do not debate that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Scientists do no debate on whether or not gravity exists. They might quibble on string theory or thermodynamics, but the basic facts were settled a long time ago. Same with global warming. Climatologists might disagree on projections or how much of a difference we can make, but the basic facts that the Earth is A) warming B) it is caused by CO2 and C) humans are the driving cause were settled a long time ago. Deal with it.
he needs some cheese to go with that wine.
The Windows Media format is actually the MOST compatible, working with far more devices than AAC at present
You have an interesting definition of "most compatible" when wma doesn't work with 80% of the players out there. But your point is moot anyway - if Apple is able to get the music industry on board with this, no manufacturer in the world is not going to add AAC support to their devices, with the exception of Microsoft and Sony.
How much it warming it causes is the subject of a lot of science and political debate.
Political debate yes, scientific debate no. The latter was over a long time ago.
Most of the executive powers that make people "fear" Bush were in place during the Clinton administration.
Really? Clinton had the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons, tribunals, indefinite detentions w/o a trail or a lawyer, waterboarding, extraordinary rendition, etc etc?
That's why so much of the Democrat congress are acting so strangely: they want those laws, powers, and abuses in place when one of their own finally gets back in the White House.
Why are you so full of shit today, Brandybuck?
I am absolutely shocked that no one has given the obvious reply, seeing as how this is slashdot.
Because you were the first incompetent boob to come along. There is a HUGE, obvious difference between a zero day exploit spreading from computer to computer and millions of PC's getting an exploit at the same time because they were set to automatically download updates from Windows Update. Or did you stop to consider the fact that basic security will keep you from being infected by a zero day exploit? A firewall will act as a barrier between your PC and a worm. A firewall will do jack to stop a PC from getting an exploit through Windows Update.
the machinations of the RIAA (which, let's face it, was a pretty benign organization until fairly recently) or the "music industry."
Not so much. For all their bellyaching, both the record and movie industries were founded on piracy. The music industry took advantage of new technologies that weren't covered by old copyright lays, like records and radio, to avoid paying musicians and songwriters royalties. The movie industry didn't settle down in California just for the nice weather, they also did it to get away from Thomas Edison's film patents.
Where do you work at where doing the minimum that is expected of you gets reported on the nightly news? And yes you DO hear about good police action ALL time, whenever a suspect of a crime is caught and arrested.
That, plus the issue of them arresting people with no probable suspicion much less cause. And violating rules on how long people can be held in jail without seeing a judge. The NYPD crossed waaaay over the line between due diligence in investigating threats to the convention and blatant police state behavior.
I know. The problem is that idea is stupid, because Pelosi's efforts from raising the minimum wage to ending the war in Iraq are far more in line with the majority of this country than the administration.
Did any states raise their taxes during the recession? Which is another reason you don't want to cut taxes in a booming economy - you want to save your tax cuts for a bust, to spur the economy.
What's the point of it as a companion device when my tivo already does everything that apple tv does, and more.
Tivo will wirelessly play iTMS content? Sweet!
Yes, Flash is propietary, and yes, it has been abused for unnecessary eye candy
Get Firefox and install Flashblock. It replaces all flash animations with a "play" icon that you click to start, taking care of all those annoying advertisements. You can also whitelist sites like Youtube if you want. Flashblock + Adblock + Noscript = browsing nirvana. Noscript blocks all javascript on a page until you whitelist the site, either temporarily or permanently. And adblock allows you to selectively block scrips on a page.
For example, in one of my classes tests are taken online. The site uses a lot of Flash and javascript, so I have the site whitelisted. But they have a javascript to block right-clicking - one of my biggest pet peeves. So I use Adblock to block that script but leave everything else open.
Symantec said I should come get checked out.
I would wager that most Mac users that know about Symantics' claims also know Symantics is full of shit.
All solid points, but would be a lot more readable if they didn't have WHERAS at the start of every line. Idiots.
What part of the Dems having the Senate, House and WH in 2008 would make Republicans happy?
Senate has to confirm the nomination though. So: impeach Cheney, refuse to confirm any VP nomination, impeach Bush. Problem solved.
This time period was during a $1B annual surplus
And what happened in the next time period? The economy took a big dump and states across the country faced budget shortfalls in the billions. Buy not throwing away their surplus to a big tax cut, Massachusetts wasn't hit as hard later on.
Apple TV is going to bomb
And it's got less space than a Nomad, lame.
Making a device that costs the same
There's no subscription fee with the Apple TV, so the cost is not the same.
I own a DirecTV TiVo DVR and I love it.
Jobs stated during the unveiling that the Apple TV is not meant to replace a set top box or a Tivo, but rather to be a companion device.
It's trendy. It's branded.
And the reason it's trendy is because they've made good products to build up the brand.
You speak as if both sides were equal, which is laughable. You have multi-billion dollar industries with hordes of thousand-dollars-per-hour lawyers and very copyright-holder friendly laws on one side, and consumers on the other. Consumers that in the vast majority of cases are not lawyers nor have teams of lawyers working on their behalf. Consumers that are a very distant consideration after said multi-billion dollar industries throw millions of dollars at Congress.
You need a nice warm cup of Get Some Frikkin Perspective.