on the basis that they might be bad, but the competition is even worse
Actually, the figures don't support that view. Almost 2/3rds of people didn't think the competition was worse. Problem is, they didn't agree on which of the competition was best. Thus, we are once more lumbered with a government which has got in despite being hated by the vast majority of the voters, never mind the electorate as a whole.
Regardless of whether ot not it "seems" illogical is irrelevant, due to the fact that making a claim like that is inherently fallicious.
No it's not, actually. People display patterns of behaviour all the time. Doing something easy badly is a sign that the person or company does sloppy work. Fact of life; claims to the contrary are illogical in that they are based on invalid axioms (ie, that actions by people are independant of previous actions).
It's your job as a consumer to look beyond the adverts,
What, you mean like reading the comments of actual users on, say, Slashdot, you mean?
Actually, trying to claim that all iRiver models have ogg problems based on a review of one model would be Hasty Generalization which is a common logical fallacy.
It would seem illogical to assume that if they didn't care enough to get it right once, that they got it right some other time. It's not like OGG decoding is hard.
Either way, the review has made it clear that deeper investigation than believing iRiver adverts is required; so it's still useful.
It's a review of hardware that claims to play OGG files. Since there are very few such creatures on the market, and I have thousands of OGG files, it's interesting news to me to find that it does not in fact work.
Which is the way I like it, thanks. Windows 2000 users who are facing upgrades will tell you just how much fun it is when your system is finished and you're dumped.
I notice from watching the news and talking to Americans that America is a much more class-ridden society than modern Britain, yet there is almost no representation of this in the shows we see over here.
Is class a taboo subject in America? Many of the comment here make it seem so.
The dollar may be "crashing", but it hasn't shifted much that I've noticed against the pound in the last 12 months.
You've not been paying attention, then. I've spent (and saved) a lot of money on buying things from the US that I would not have been able to afford except the dollar was down to about 60p; even with postage, it's been worth it. The dollar has pulled back a bit now, but we were very close to £1=$2 for a while.
Because, the argument goes, the affordable alternative has up to now been Linux. Now, supposedly, Windows-haters that want an alternative might go to OSX instead. I don't buy it, it grossly underestimates the other reasons people use Macs, but that seems to be the thinking.
Can someone explain me what makes MacOS X running on Intel-based Apple hardware any more of a threat to Linux compared to MacOS X running on PPC-based Apple hardware?
I think the argument is that there are lots of Windows users who hate it (no argument there) but who won't make the jump to Mac because of the price/performance difference.
Personally, I think that on price maybe there is an argument, but performance is not really an issue for 90% of the market, for whom 2GHz is plenty (850MHz is more than I use most of the time). The fact of the matter is that there is not enough software for Macs to make most people change. What there is is very good, but relatively little of it is exclusive. I still can't see any reason for the switch to Intel, especially when you look at AMD's chips.
You probably won't be able to just go out and get a Dell PC and load up OS X on it without a fair amount of work, and that's a reason in itself for some people.
I think that's true, but the "some people" will be a lower number than now. The people saying that this is going to work are too dismissive of the PPC and of why people use Macs. The front end is not a huge sell factor on its own, from what I've seen of Mac users, and the PPC is not a zero sell-factor; the whole package is a combination of things and dismissing any one of them as unimportant is a dangerous gamble, I think.
If the Intel-Mac is not compatable enough with the Windows PC to make games porting so trivial that it starts happening in substantial volumes, then exactly who is going to be brought to Macs that are not already in the market for one?
There's aspects to this move that will put old customers off, but what exactly is there to attract new ones?
Think about it. Is it a unilateral agreement if I sell a piece of woodwork I've done?
I don't see what you're getting at. If you sell a piece of woodwork but stipulate that the buyer is never allowed to sell it or let it be seen in public, that would seem to only benefit you, and that seems much closer to the Apple example to me. I agree you'd have to be an idiot to accept Apple's terms but the reason there's laws about these things is to prevent people being caught out by obscurely worded small-print which takes away rights they think they have because the transfer is dressed as a sale when the "seller" knows it's anything but.
As long as those terms are not considered unilateral (i.e. only in the favor of one party)
Putting aside any issues I might have with the rest of your post (and much of that is down to the variations in laws between countries), can you name an instance of an EULA which is not wholy in favour of one party? The Apple example you cite is a classic case of one-sided restrictions.
The repayment from the artist is long over at 50 years (hopefully). The money goes to the artist.
In theory. Actually, no accounting of the level of detail needed to do that is actually carried out and royalties are pooled and divied up on a very approximate basis. If you read the RIAA (or the BPA)'s websites you eventually realise that no serious effort is made to connect sales to cheques for individual artists.
The fact is, this move isn't going to destroy Apple.
This is true, but it is the end of the Mac; there's simply no point in buying one now. But Apple have the iPod and iTunes and will simply migrate out of the computer market, which has hardly been a success story for them anyway for the last 15 years or so. They blew it when they decided to build luxury computers at luxury prices when they had the chance to build luxury computers at affordable prices. Now it's too late; 1984 has come and gone and the opportunity is lost.
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No they're not. That story is just plain old fashioned rubbish.
Correction: Jobs has indeed lost his mind and decided to sink Apple computers into history. What a twat.
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Apple is planning on switching to Intel chips next year.
No they're not. That story is just plain old fashioned rubbish.
Your whole post is bullshit from start to end. How's life as a corporate shill treating you? I bet you make a lot of friends that way.
EULAs are meaningless crap with no legal standing. They exist only to fool the gulible into giving up their legal rights without a fight. If you bought a CD from a store and it's blank, would you sit at home thinking "Well, I got the CD, that's really all I'm entitled to."? Don't be an asshole; you went to the store to buy a song and no dickhead lawyer is going to change that, nor does the law support such a moronic concept.
By the way, by reading the above you promise never to disagree with me or quote me in anegative way ever. Yeah, funny how EULA's a stupid when a normal person uses them, but when the Sainted Bill or some other rich cunt tries it, suddenly the sheep all fall into line. Pathetic shits like yourself are the reason these people get away with screwing the rest of us over.
I buy software, not a CD, and once I've paid for it there is no law to stop me modifying it. There are plenty of laws that stop me copying it and giving it to other people, but that's a whole different ballgame, and I'm happy with that.
Can someone explain the difference between hacking XP Home to turn it into XP Pro and downloading a warez copy?
Modifying my property is very different to taking something I don't own. If you don't understand that fairly obvious concept then I hope no one allows you to vote. We could end up with countries being run by commercial interests or something crazy like that!
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Actually, the figures don't support that view. Almost 2/3rds of people didn't think the competition was worse. Problem is, they didn't agree on which of the competition was best. Thus, we are once more lumbered with a government which has got in despite being hated by the vast majority of the voters, never mind the electorate as a whole.
TWW
TWW
Regardless of whether ot not it "seems" illogical is irrelevant, due to the fact that making a claim like that is inherently fallicious.
No it's not, actually. People display patterns of behaviour all the time. Doing something easy badly is a sign that the person or company does sloppy work. Fact of life; claims to the contrary are illogical in that they are based on invalid axioms (ie, that actions by people are independant of previous actions).
It's your job as a consumer to look beyond the adverts,
What, you mean like reading the comments of actual users on, say, Slashdot, you mean?
TWW
It would seem illogical to assume that if they didn't care enough to get it right once, that they got it right some other time. It's not like OGG decoding is hard.
Either way, the review has made it clear that deeper investigation than believing iRiver adverts is required; so it's still useful.
TWW
Many, if not most, of which are iRivers. So, yes, a review which points out that they don't work as advertised is useful.
TWW
Why do gay guys get to look like fuckwits?
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It's a review of hardware that claims to play OGG files. Since there are very few such creatures on the market, and I have thousands of OGG files, it's interesting news to me to find that it does not in fact work.
get a zire and a gig of SD ram.
Does that play OGGs?
TWW
Which is the way I like it, thanks. Windows 2000 users who are facing upgrades will tell you just how much fun it is when your system is finished and you're dumped.
emerge world
TWW
Is class a taboo subject in America? Many of the comment here make it seem so.
TWW
TWW
You've not been paying attention, then. I've spent (and saved) a lot of money on buying things from the US that I would not have been able to afford except the dollar was down to about 60p; even with postage, it's been worth it. The dollar has pulled back a bit now, but we were very close to £1=$2 for a while.
TWW
Because, the argument goes, the affordable alternative has up to now been Linux. Now, supposedly, Windows-haters that want an alternative might go to OSX instead. I don't buy it, it grossly underestimates the other reasons people use Macs, but that seems to be the thinking.
TWW
I think the argument is that there are lots of Windows users who hate it (no argument there) but who won't make the jump to Mac because of the price/performance difference.
Personally, I think that on price maybe there is an argument, but performance is not really an issue for 90% of the market, for whom 2GHz is plenty (850MHz is more than I use most of the time). The fact of the matter is that there is not enough software for Macs to make most people change. What there is is very good, but relatively little of it is exclusive. I still can't see any reason for the switch to Intel, especially when you look at AMD's chips.
What was Steve thinking?
TWW
I think that's true, but the "some people" will be a lower number than now. The people saying that this is going to work are too dismissive of the PPC and of why people use Macs. The front end is not a huge sell factor on its own, from what I've seen of Mac users, and the PPC is not a zero sell-factor; the whole package is a combination of things and dismissing any one of them as unimportant is a dangerous gamble, I think.
If the Intel-Mac is not compatable enough with the Windows PC to make games porting so trivial that it starts happening in substantial volumes, then exactly who is going to be brought to Macs that are not already in the market for one?
There's aspects to this move that will put old customers off, but what exactly is there to attract new ones?
TWW
I don't see what you're getting at. If you sell a piece of woodwork but stipulate that the buyer is never allowed to sell it or let it be seen in public, that would seem to only benefit you, and that seems much closer to the Apple example to me. I agree you'd have to be an idiot to accept Apple's terms but the reason there's laws about these things is to prevent people being caught out by obscurely worded small-print which takes away rights they think they have because the transfer is dressed as a sale when the "seller" knows it's anything but.
TWW
Putting aside any issues I might have with the rest of your post (and much of that is down to the variations in laws between countries), can you name an instance of an EULA which is not wholy in favour of one party? The Apple example you cite is a classic case of one-sided restrictions.
TWW
In theory. Actually, no accounting of the level of detail needed to do that is actually carried out and royalties are pooled and divied up on a very approximate basis. If you read the RIAA (or the BPA)'s websites you eventually realise that no serious effort is made to connect sales to cheques for individual artists.
TWW
This is true, but it is the end of the Mac; there's simply no point in buying one now. But Apple have the iPod and iTunes and will simply migrate out of the computer market, which has hardly been a success story for them anyway for the last 15 years or so. They blew it when they decided to build luxury computers at luxury prices when they had the chance to build luxury computers at affordable prices. Now it's too late; 1984 has come and gone and the opportunity is lost.
TWW
Correction: Jobs has indeed lost his mind and decided to sink Apple computers into history. What a twat.
TWW
No they're not. That story is just plain old fashioned rubbish.
EULAs are meaningless crap with no legal standing. They exist only to fool the gulible into giving up their legal rights without a fight. If you bought a CD from a store and it's blank, would you sit at home thinking "Well, I got the CD, that's really all I'm entitled to."? Don't be an asshole; you went to the store to buy a song and no dickhead lawyer is going to change that, nor does the law support such a moronic concept.
By the way, by reading the above you promise never to disagree with me or quote me in anegative way ever. Yeah, funny how EULA's a stupid when a normal person uses them, but when the Sainted Bill or some other rich cunt tries it, suddenly the sheep all fall into line. Pathetic shits like yourself are the reason these people get away with screwing the rest of us over.
I buy software, not a CD, and once I've paid for it there is no law to stop me modifying it. There are plenty of laws that stop me copying it and giving it to other people, but that's a whole different ballgame, and I'm happy with that.
TWW
What did this have to do with the comment you were replying to?
TWW
Modifying my property is very different to taking something I don't own. If you don't understand that fairly obvious concept then I hope no one allows you to vote. We could end up with countries being run by commercial interests or something crazy like that!
TWW
TWW
I'm not sure whether that means you have no imagination or no ethics. Probably both.
TWW