So, then, you are admitting that it is in fact true that special cables are required for newer iPods, not required for previous iPods, even though the connectors are the same, and the actual video which comes out of them is the same, and that the new cables are at least one order of base-10 magnitude more expensive, and for branded cables are TWO base-10 orders of magnitude more expensive? And that the cables you linked to are not the same as the ones I linked to?
Well then I accept your apology.
I already owned video cables for an iPod. There is no GOOD reason I should have to buy new ones, only BAD reasons. Shit, next you would sit there and defend Apple if they required you to buy a proprietary USB cable for your new MacBook... and then another new proprietary USB cable for your next MacBook.
What I said was correct. It's a whole bunch of bullshit from Apple, which never stops. It's a bunch of bullshit, packaged alongside some seriously beautiful and usable products. They are great products, but hardly products worth putting up with the bullshit, for me (and some others). Many customers don't mind being chumps (which is why Apple is the most valuable company in the world), but some of us do.
My complaint was in fact off topic, so I accept that mostly; and it was also somewhat insightful, so I accept that; but it was not at all a troll, so I reject those mods.
Apple makes great products, and I was their customer for almost twenty years, but a few years ago I gave them up. I could no longer stand the bullshit and shenanigans which come with all their products. For me, the breaking point came when my next-gen iPod couldn't use the $1 cables I'd had with my previous-gen iPod, and now I was expected to buy Apple-branded chip-locked cables for $50. FIFTY DOLLARS!
No. No, no, no. Fuck you, no. I still own and like my MacBook Pro (from 2007), but it is starting to get a little long in the tooth, and in the next couple years I'll replace it with something other than a Mac. I replaced my iPod with an Android pod. I bought an Android tablet instead of an iPad. I'm a programmer who might write apps, but I don't even consider the iOS platform.
iBooks? Sounds great! The world desperately needs to shake up the textbook industry, and I'm happy that a large company is doing something about it. But no, I won't consider it. Since I gave up Apple, they have continued to release products which look great and reportedly work great, but no, I'm not willing to put up with the bullshit to use them, because that would make me feel like a chump.
I do have a sliver of hope that all the bullshit was due to Steve Jobs' personal hatred for his customers, and now that he is dead perhaps Apple will slowly shed that hatred. There are no signs of that yet, but I would expect it to take a while.
I agree with you, and besides, what kind of culture does Canada have anyway? I mean, sheesh, they've only been a country since 1982. Even I am older than that!
They explicitly make the point that all this legal bullshit is a result of the dying business model:
"If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn't stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it's only when he's beaten that he turns to appeal to the ref. SOPA shows Hollywood is beaten."
I was't addressing your first point, but I will: your critique is only valid with the untenable assumption that "the cloud" is less reliable than whatever infrastructure the organization would otherwise have. If you have essential infrastructure, then "the cloud" is not so bad a place to put it, considering all networks have downtime, and generally cloud services have pretty fricking good (though imperfect) uptime. Superduperduper organizations can do one better by having redundant local/cloud infrastructure, if they can afford it. Remember, the police can also storm your server closet.
My point was closer to the second of your points: yes, what I am saying is that putting files in the cloud is not at all what the OP described, which is "putting all your eggs in one basket". That's my whole point: he's a luddite with some kind of inferiority complex surrounding the current evolution in information infrastructure, and he need not be, because "the cloud" is a step forward, even though like all solutions it is imperfect.
If a person only has one copy of a file, then it doesn't at all matter which basket it is in, does it? Yes, I am assuming people know what the fuck they are doing. If they don't then it's hardly surprising that they would have problems, is it?
If you put your eggs into one basket, that's a risk, and that risk is unrelated to "the cloud". But the vast overwhelming majority of people who put things "in the cloud" also keep them on their computer, thus "the cloud" is a backup, or else their computer is. And for those people who don't use the cloud as a backup, they have still improved the security of their files, because "the cloud" is more secure and has greater uptime than computers run by people who don't know what they are doing.
I hope you phrased that comment in the form of a question because you are prepared to accept the large number of factually correct responses you have received and will continue to receive.
I hope you didn't phrase that comment in the form of a question in order to employ the all-too-common crank tactic of using rhetorical question with the implication that there can't possibly be an answer to this ever-so-clever question.
It's called the arrogance of ignorance: I don't know how this could possibly be, therefore it can't possibly be. Sometimes this tactic is used to support magic (I don't know how the universe came to be, therefore it must have been supernatural/God/magic) or political nonsense (I don't know how due process works, therefor fascism/totalitarianism/unlawfulness).
No it's not, you luddite. If I upload a file into the cloud, the file now exists in two places. I have it, and the cloud has it, and now maybe other people have it too. It is exactly the opposite of everything putting their eggs in one basket. It is more like magically multiplying your single egg among many baskets, so that any basket which disappears still leaves you with a bunch of eggs in a bunch of baskets, with plenty of eggs for everyone.
If I'm wrong, then you will kindly point out how now nobody can pirate movies anymore, because the only copy (the only egg) of those movies existed on Megaupload (the only basket).
Indeed, I just learned that today, here on Slashdot, from other posters like you. Thank you for being informative!
Still, in my experience I have never seen DRM via DVI, and so basically my point stands. When I'm confronted by a difficulty which was set up on purpose by those I gave money to in exchange for entertainment, I stop doing business with those people, because they treated me unethically.
No? Really? I've been using exclusively DVI for, huh, maybe five years now. I haven't owned a computer with VGA since 2006, and the big (30-inch) screen I just bought won't even work with VGA (it has a VGA hookup, but VGA won't drive all its pixels). DVI is a great standard. Even at work my two 19-inch monitors each use a DVI connection from the dual-port graphics card in my Dell tower.
HDMI is okay, it does have that nice petite connector, but all the DRM bullshit means I will only use it when I have to, and I've never had to.
Both "affect" and "effect" are both nouns and verbs.
But, "effect" is usually a noun, and he did in fact use it incorrectly. So you are mostly right, but not precisely right. As a fellow grammar nazi, surely you understand how important our pedantry is, so we must get these things exactly right.
I'm baffled by this because the Windows command line is absolutely, positively useless in every way. It lacks a proper history function, proper tab completion, proper environment variables, it is not possible to configure most things with text files, scheduling tasks is practically impossible, the multi-rooted filesystem is an unfunny joke, and most of all Batch scripts are literally, not figuratively, the least useful form of programming I have ever seen, including taking a shit on a keyboard and hoping for the best. The entire Windows stack is completely inappropriate for use in any business, let alone as a server, and thinking of using it without the GUI makes me fear and hate it even more than I fear and hate Windows right now.
No. No, Microsoft, no. No, no, no. If you want to make the world a better place, here is a three-step plan:
1. Discontinue Windows. Burn it in a fire, and then apologize for it. 2. ??? 3. The world is a better place.
I was a TouchStream owner until recently. I bought a Truly Ergonomic keyboard and am quite happy with it. My favorite feature of the TS was the columnar layout, and the TE keyboard does a good job in that regard. Obviously the TE doesn't have the multitouch gestures, but it does have physical keys. To some people, that means it is not at all a replacement for the TS, but for others like me, it means it is the perfect replacement for the TS. Good luck.
PS I'm typing this on the TE right now. I recommend it.
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Apology accepted. Let's be friends.
So, then, you are admitting that it is in fact true that special cables are required for newer iPods, not required for previous iPods, even though the connectors are the same, and the actual video which comes out of them is the same, and that the new cables are at least one order of base-10 magnitude more expensive, and for branded cables are TWO base-10 orders of magnitude more expensive? And that the cables you linked to are not the same as the ones I linked to?
Well then I accept your apology.
I already owned video cables for an iPod. There is no GOOD reason I should have to buy new ones, only BAD reasons. Shit, next you would sit there and defend Apple if they required you to buy a proprietary USB cable for your new MacBook... and then another new proprietary USB cable for your next MacBook.
What I said was correct. It's a whole bunch of bullshit from Apple, which never stops. It's a bunch of bullshit, packaged alongside some seriously beautiful and usable products. They are great products, but hardly products worth putting up with the bullshit, for me (and some others). Many customers don't mind being chumps (which is why Apple is the most valuable company in the world), but some of us do.
Good for you! You made it through the gauntlet of Apple bullshit. Most of us don't make it.
Here's the cables which can't be used with newer iPods, it says so right on the page:
http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Video-Cable-Apple-Watching/dp/B0006N5I5I
Well I got +Insightful, -Off Topic, and -Troll.
My complaint was in fact off topic, so I accept that mostly; and it was also somewhat insightful, so I accept that; but it was not at all a troll, so I reject those mods.
Which part of it is not true?
Here are the old cables, selling for THIRTY SIX CENTS
http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Video-Cable-Apple-Watching/dp/B0006N5I5I
Note how the page says "Does Not Support New Ipod Classic, Ipod Nano 3G And Ipod Itouch"
Here are Apple's cables:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC748ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA0OQ
They now cost $40 instead of $50.
So, again, which part was not true? I previously gave a 1:50 ratio for the prices, and here I have shown a 1:111 ratio.
quoth "Consumers will have no choice but to accept the changes."
HOLY SHIT REALLY!?!?
No, not really. Stop with the bullshit hyperbole. Consumers have a choice whether or not to accept the changes.
How the fuck did this make it onto Slashdot? This is literally, not figuratively, the most disappointing story I've ever seen here.
Apple makes great products, and I was their customer for almost twenty years, but a few years ago I gave them up. I could no longer stand the bullshit and shenanigans which come with all their products. For me, the breaking point came when my next-gen iPod couldn't use the $1 cables I'd had with my previous-gen iPod, and now I was expected to buy Apple-branded chip-locked cables for $50. FIFTY DOLLARS!
No. No, no, no. Fuck you, no. I still own and like my MacBook Pro (from 2007), but it is starting to get a little long in the tooth, and in the next couple years I'll replace it with something other than a Mac. I replaced my iPod with an Android pod. I bought an Android tablet instead of an iPad. I'm a programmer who might write apps, but I don't even consider the iOS platform.
iBooks? Sounds great! The world desperately needs to shake up the textbook industry, and I'm happy that a large company is doing something about it. But no, I won't consider it. Since I gave up Apple, they have continued to release products which look great and reportedly work great, but no, I'm not willing to put up with the bullshit to use them, because that would make me feel like a chump.
I do have a sliver of hope that all the bullshit was due to Steve Jobs' personal hatred for his customers, and now that he is dead perhaps Apple will slowly shed that hatred. There are no signs of that yet, but I would expect it to take a while.
I agree with you, and besides, what kind of culture does Canada have anyway? I mean, sheesh, they've only been a country since 1982. Even I am older than that!
Chuck Norries doesn't pipe to /dev/null, he roundhouse kicks data streams out of existence.
No. You have lept from athiests pointing out how ridiculous it is to believe in magic, with physically battering someone. That is untenable.
RTFA
They explicitly make the point that all this legal bullshit is a result of the dying business model:
"If movies and TV were growing rapidly, that growth would take up all their attention. When a striker is fouled in the penalty area, he doesn't stop as long as he still has control of the ball; it's only when he's beaten that he turns to appeal to the ref. SOPA shows Hollywood is beaten."
To "kill Hollywood" is not just hyperbole, it is synecdoche.
I was't addressing your first point, but I will: your critique is only valid with the untenable assumption that "the cloud" is less reliable than whatever infrastructure the organization would otherwise have. If you have essential infrastructure, then "the cloud" is not so bad a place to put it, considering all networks have downtime, and generally cloud services have pretty fricking good (though imperfect) uptime. Superduperduper organizations can do one better by having redundant local/cloud infrastructure, if they can afford it. Remember, the police can also storm your server closet.
My point was closer to the second of your points: yes, what I am saying is that putting files in the cloud is not at all what the OP described, which is "putting
all your eggs in one basket". That's my whole point: he's a luddite with some kind of inferiority complex surrounding the current evolution in information infrastructure, and he need not be, because "the cloud" is a step forward, even though like all solutions it is imperfect.
If a person only has one copy of a file, then it doesn't at all matter which basket it is in, does it? Yes, I am assuming people know what the fuck they are doing. If they don't then it's hardly surprising that they would have problems, is it?
If you put your eggs into one basket, that's a risk, and that risk is unrelated to "the cloud". But the vast overwhelming majority of people who put things "in the cloud" also keep them on their computer, thus "the cloud" is a backup, or else their computer is. And for those people who don't use the cloud as a backup, they have still improved the security of their files, because "the cloud" is more secure and has greater uptime than computers run by people who don't know what they are doing.
I hope you phrased that comment in the form of a question because you are prepared to accept the large number of factually correct responses you have received and will continue to receive.
I hope you didn't phrase that comment in the form of a question in order to employ the all-too-common crank tactic of using rhetorical question with the implication that there can't possibly be an answer to this ever-so-clever question.
It's called the arrogance of ignorance: I don't know how this could possibly be, therefore it can't possibly be. Sometimes this tactic is used to support magic (I don't know how the universe came to be, therefore it must have been supernatural/God/magic) or political nonsense (I don't know how due process works, therefor fascism/totalitarianism/unlawfulness).
No it's not, you luddite. If I upload a file into the cloud, the file now exists in two places. I have it, and the cloud has it, and now maybe other people have it too. It is exactly the opposite of everything putting their eggs in one basket. It is more like magically multiplying your single egg among many baskets, so that any basket which disappears still leaves you with a bunch of eggs in a bunch of baskets, with plenty of eggs for everyone.
If I'm wrong, then you will kindly point out how now nobody can pirate movies anymore, because the only copy (the only egg) of those movies existed on Megaupload (the only basket).
Indeed, I just learned that today, here on Slashdot, from other posters like you. Thank you for being informative!
Still, in my experience I have never seen DRM via DVI, and so basically my point stands. When I'm confronted by a difficulty which was set up on purpose by those I gave money to in exchange for entertainment, I stop doing business with those people, because they treated me unethically.
Entertainment should be easy or GTFO.
No? Really? I've been using exclusively DVI for, huh, maybe five years now. I haven't owned a computer with VGA since 2006, and the big (30-inch) screen I just bought won't even work with VGA (it has a VGA hookup, but VGA won't drive all its pixels). DVI is a great standard. Even at work my two 19-inch monitors each use a DVI connection from the dual-port graphics card in my Dell tower.
HDMI is okay, it does have that nice petite connector, but all the DRM bullshit means I will only use it when I have to, and I've never had to.
If it does not, then nothing does.
This statement is correct, but it's not correct in the way we wish it were correct.
That comment right there is a candidate for +7 Insightful. Well done.
Both "affect" and "effect" are both nouns and verbs.
But, "effect" is usually a noun, and he did in fact use it incorrectly. So you are mostly right, but not precisely right. As a fellow grammar nazi, surely you understand how important our pedantry is, so we must get these things exactly right.
Meth is a fucked up drug. Stick to caffeine and weed, people.
I'm baffled by this because the Windows command line is absolutely, positively useless in every way. It lacks a proper history function, proper tab completion, proper environment variables, it is not possible to configure most things with text files, scheduling tasks is practically impossible, the multi-rooted filesystem is an unfunny joke, and most of all Batch scripts are literally, not figuratively, the least useful form of programming I have ever seen, including taking a shit on a keyboard and hoping for the best. The entire Windows stack is completely inappropriate for use in any business, let alone as a server, and thinking of using it without the GUI makes me fear and hate it even more than I fear and hate Windows right now.
No. No, Microsoft, no. No, no, no. If you want to make the world a better place, here is a three-step plan:
1. Discontinue Windows. Burn it in a fire, and then apologize for it.
2. ???
3. The world is a better place.
I was a TouchStream owner until recently. I bought a Truly Ergonomic keyboard and am quite happy with it. My favorite feature of the TS was the columnar layout, and the TE keyboard does a good job in that regard. Obviously the TE doesn't have the multitouch gestures, but it does have physical keys. To some people, that means it is not at all a replacement for the TS, but for others like me, it means it is the perfect replacement for the TS. Good luck.
PS I'm typing this on the TE right now. I recommend it.