When I buy a DVD or a CD I either pay for plastic or the convenience of enjoying the content when and how I please. In one case I will only spend pennies in the other a lot more. The iTunes solution is even less appealing than the plastic.
Hollywood and musicians are selling convenient access to their content. Anything less reduces the value of their product. Once we understand the dynamics we can build the business model. Unlike the past there are billions of opportunities to make a profitable sale its only greed that is stopping it from happening today. This same greed manifests itself both on the artist side as well as the consumer side.
They were always dumb pipes. They pretended that they had content in order to push out the small ISP's. When people learned what the Internet was about the stopped using the ISP's content. Too bad the small ISP's are no longer here to testify.
No you can't continue to use it as it is. You either upgrade or you don't. if you upgrade you lose OtherOs if you don't you lose since you can't play the games you purchased! What's wrong with you. Sony is deliberately breaking the product! It's no longer what they have advertised.
How would you like it if Windows stopped supporting the hardware that your system came with after an upgrade!
Nothing was free here you fucking idiot we paid for the damn thing!!!!!
Apple had the market on the PC back in the 80's. This attitude is what lost them the desktop market. They will repeat the mistake once more. Apple preforms best when they are not the top dog.
It's the reason I will not purchase anything off the App store. I made a mistake and bought a broken phone. Never again. If they bring the App store to OS X I'm installing Ubuntu.
Apple lost the market back in 1983-84 they are about to repeat it once more.
Sorry guy but the only one I blame is Sony. When I buy a product I expect it to run as advertised irrelevant of what any other individual does with his product.
you answered your own question. One is simulated based on math and the other is a very expensive working / failing product.
What I have a hard time with is that most patents borrow from the past in order to achieve their monopoly. A good example is one click. It's called an account. You setup an account so next time you prove who you are and we will apply your purchase to your account. The only thing is we threw in the word Internet and now it's a software patent.
Publish the data. Publish the code. Show the results. Let a discussion begin.
Stop carbon credits. Set the carbon footprint to follow the product sold. Set labels to show cost to the environment. DO NOT GIVE ANY INCENTIVES TO MOVE CO2 AROUND....
We do have a problem. I don't believe it's as bad as some of the statements made. Offer real solutions to the problem. Reduce consumption.........
STOP labeling people as pro or against. It's not about what you believe. It's about what is.
but can't seem to predict the changes. Opinions are just that opinions unless we can prove them as facts. I'm not saying that AGW does not exist it's just data for now.
I also have a hard time with "carbon credits". Again if it is serious then we need to reduce carbon output and not just defer the blame with over seas production while we continue with our consumption and we need to stop talking about carbon credits and actually reduce carbon emissions.
I used to just buy games that I thought that looked fun to play. After being burnt a couple of times I no longer buy EA games and I certainly don't buy them if they have securerom. I try the demo. I try the torrent. If I like what I see I buy the game (not from EA). Now I have to add ubisoft on the list. Thanks for the advice.
when we don't know what the discussion is all about! My biggest worry is how the USA is trying to create conflict for the sake of profits. It seems that in my lifetime the USA has done more to curtail my freedoms and not protect my interests than any previous generation. This is a comedy.....
Until it doesn't do what the marketing say's it does, but they can't bring it back! One example is the iPhone's limited bluetooth support. Most people I know who bought it want to return it but unfortunately they can't. I am one of them!
I'm on the go. Always on the go. While I have a main office I have several other satellite locations. I was hoping that my iPhone would replace my Nokia. It replaced some features, added a few but removed many more useful ones. I don't expect a device to meet my every need but I hope that it follows standards. I had come to associate Bluetooth to a standard that allowed me to interact with devices in an easy but yet simple way. My wife can send a file to my iMac with Bluetooth but not to my iPhone. iPhone broke the implementation that is (or I) associated with the word Bluetooth. I would expect a device that is designed for "on the go" would connect through various means and not just through iTunes like the iPhone. Before I got my iPhone I could not understand why people wanted to get rid of it, now I know.
As for the iPad if it needs iTunes then its not a serious product.....
I too have an iPhone and I regret it since I purchased it. Limited bluetooth functionality. Needs iTunes to sync. 32GB goes mostly unused because it's terrible at syncing.
I do have almost 3,000 pics which I basically can't share through my phone.......
I had this functionality on my Nokia E61. I feel the iPhone is limited by design. No I don't need an app for that....8^)
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Presumably the only remaining working output would be HDCP-encrypted HDMI output, that's what would be connected to the TV.
to ensure that nobody buys!
When I buy a DVD or a CD I either pay for plastic or the convenience of enjoying the content when and how I please. In one case I will only spend pennies in the other a lot more. The iTunes solution is even less appealing than the plastic.
Hollywood and musicians are selling convenient access to their content. Anything less reduces the value of their product. Once we understand the dynamics we can build the business model. Unlike the past there are billions of opportunities to make a profitable sale its only greed that is stopping it from happening today. This same greed manifests itself both on the artist side as well as the consumer side.
Slashdot users have really gotten more stupid... think for a second.
WoW has no piracy (no, fucking private servers don't count you assholes).
All I have to say about your thinking is Wow.
Geeks drive development because they spend on computers.
We're getting there.
I'm running out of gaming options.
next year will be the year of the Windows workstation.... 8^)
They were always dumb pipes. They pretended that they had content in order to push out the small ISP's. When people learned what the Internet was about the stopped using the ISP's content. Too bad the small ISP's are no longer here to testify.
No you can't continue to use it as it is. You either upgrade or you don't. if you upgrade you lose OtherOs if you don't you lose since you can't play the games you purchased! What's wrong with you. Sony is deliberately breaking the product! It's no longer what they have advertised.
How would you like it if Windows stopped supporting the hardware that your system came with after an upgrade!
Nothing was free here you fucking idiot we paid for the damn thing!!!!!
Apple had the market on the PC back in the 80's. This attitude is what lost them the desktop market. They will repeat the mistake once more. Apple preforms best when they are not the top dog.
It's the reason I will not purchase anything off the App store. I made a mistake and bought a broken phone. Never again. If they bring the App store to OS X I'm installing Ubuntu.
Apple lost the market back in 1983-84 they are about to repeat it once more.
Sorry guy but the only one I blame is Sony. When I buy a product I expect it to run as advertised irrelevant of what any other individual does with his product.
you answered your own question. One is simulated based on math and the other is a very expensive working / failing product.
What I have a hard time with is that most patents borrow from the past in order to achieve their monopoly. A good example is one click. It's called an account. You setup an account so next time you prove who you are and we will apply your purchase to your account. The only thing is we threw in the word Internet and now it's a software patent.
I think you have it backwards. HTML5 and Flash both require different formats for different sizes. Unlike Flash HTML5 is not a one company solution.
Hey man get out of the 1990's
If you wish to complain about hardware support you should complain about VISTA.
How many of you have digital files from 15 years ago that you can read today? 20 years? There was no DMCA back then, now just imagine the future....
Publish the data. Publish the code. Show the results. Let a discussion begin.
Stop carbon credits. Set the carbon footprint to follow the product sold. Set labels to show cost to the environment. DO NOT GIVE ANY INCENTIVES TO MOVE CO2 AROUND....
We do have a problem. I don't believe it's as bad as some of the statements made. Offer real solutions to the problem. Reduce consumption.........
STOP labeling people as pro or against. It's not about what you believe. It's about what is.
but can't seem to predict the changes. Opinions are just that opinions unless we can prove them as facts. I'm not saying that AGW does not exist it's just data for now.
I also have a hard time with "carbon credits". Again if it is serious then we need to reduce carbon output and not just defer the blame with over seas production while we continue with our consumption and we need to stop talking about carbon credits and actually reduce carbon emissions.
What does ACTA have to say about that?
I used to just buy games that I thought that looked fun to play. After being burnt a couple of times I no longer buy EA games and I certainly don't buy them if they have securerom. I try the demo. I try the torrent. If I like what I see I buy the game (not from EA). Now I have to add ubisoft on the list. Thanks for the advice.
Not all software needs to be installed by admin.
there is money to be made by going ape on terrorism... on the other hand nobody is willing to pay any more to make cars safer.
when we don't know what the discussion is all about! My biggest worry is how the USA is trying to create conflict for the sake of profits. It seems that in my lifetime the USA has done more to curtail my freedoms and not protect my interests than any previous generation. This is a comedy.....
Until it doesn't do what the marketing say's it does, but they can't bring it back! One example is the iPhone's limited bluetooth support. Most people I know who bought it want to return it but unfortunately they can't. I am one of them!
for those folks on the go
I'm on the go. Always on the go. While I have a main office I have several other satellite locations. I was hoping that my iPhone would replace my Nokia. It replaced some features, added a few but removed many more useful ones. I don't expect a device to meet my every need but I hope that it follows standards. I had come to associate Bluetooth to a standard that allowed me to interact with devices in an easy but yet simple way. My wife can send a file to my iMac with Bluetooth but not to my iPhone. iPhone broke the implementation that is (or I) associated with the word Bluetooth. I would expect a device that is designed for "on the go" would connect through various means and not just through iTunes like the iPhone. Before I got my iPhone I could not understand why people wanted to get rid of it, now I know.
As for the iPad if it needs iTunes then its not a serious product.....
I too have an iPhone and I regret it since I purchased it. Limited bluetooth functionality. Needs iTunes to sync. 32GB goes mostly unused because it's terrible at syncing.
I do have almost 3,000 pics which I basically can't share through my phone.......
I had this functionality on my Nokia E61. I feel the iPhone is limited by design. No I don't need an app for that....8^)