It was a JOKE about upgrading to Vista on a machine that didn't come pre-installed with it. The sales of upgrades hasn't been very brisk the last time I checked.
I was talking about upgrading to Vista and kinda highlighted it to draw attention to the outrageousness of the statement. With the recent lawsuit about the sales of computers up to the release of Vista as "Vista ready" even though they were really not, points out that the upgrade process to Vista is pretty damn steep.
The macs haven't been rev'd in quite a while. I had hoped that revs would occur more frequently with the switch to intel, but it's simply not the case. And sorry, I don't count an additional option for 8-core on the Mac Pro a rev as much as it's another BTO option. Especially when they didn't change anything else on the machine.
mini is still at CD, not C2D. iMacs haven't been updated in over 200 days. macbook and MBP in 150. Compare that with the ONLY way to upgrade on the PC side - buy a new machine, and you begin to see the appeal of Vista over OS X when it comes to hardware sales. Finally, Tiger is on it's way out as well. So people are holding off on new Macs until they come pre-installed with leopard.
Would like to see the figures once leopard comes out;)
How come you can get a ton of different car stereo racks that all play non-DRM'd AAC(burned onto a disk), but you can't get a portable digital music player(didn't want to say MP3 player) which supports non-DRM'd AAC?
There seems to be a big difference in the respective marketplace that I can't figure out.
I think this was done perfectly, you do not. Getting a major label to go 1st lessens many potential roadblocks. You don't see it this way. Oh well, I'll still sleep at night.
Very true. I shouldn't have said M$ lapdogs. They are more anti-Apple bigots.
I just recall the laughing and making fun of Microsoft when their onerous wifi squirting restrictions was revealed. I didn't recall the extreme anger at Balmer/Gates for this as much as the venom towards Jobs for calling for DRM-free music. I guess the difference really stuck in my mind fo some reason.
Yay for lower quality music where one can hear artifacts?
And you know this how? Do you think 128 kbps AAC leaves artifacts enough to discourage you for listening? If so, then I bow to your amazing abilites, because I don't hear it.
Having Indy first sets up a more adversarial positon for Apple when dealing with the major labels. The 1st major to do this gets all the press coverage, all the good will. You seem to think that that they would be MORE receptive if the Indy's went first. I contend that it would have been the exact opposite. A year long study of indy bands sales befor and after would have been step one of a multi-year process. And as we all know about Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Any indy success would have been excused away by the major labels.
Getting a major label to do this first is vital because it's a fundamental shift in their thinking. They had to take the leap without knowing the possible outcome. If the major labels have taught us aything over the years, they would rather get analysis paralysis than take a bold move themselves. And with a stream of DRM-free indy music out there, they would have sat back and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, etc... before taking this leap themselves.
After Jobs made his "get rid of DRM" speech a month or two ago, they were coming out of the woodwork blasting him for being a hypocrite. Maybe these know-nothings will now realize that he couldn't make these changes on his own, he needed the labels themselves to come along.
NOW that one of them is promoting anti-DRM versions, expect the indy stuff to follow suit. These same anti-Jobs people will lament the fact Jobs didn't do this with indy bands 1st. It's called negotiations people. Getting a major label to do this is 10 times better than having ONLY the indy bands DRM free. This is a major change in thinking for the big labels. And that made it well worth the wait.
Maybe if the anti-Jobs people would focus more on Microsoft and their disabling of the Zune wifi for a change, even more progress can be made in the DRM free world. But I'm guessing that the anti-Job reaction to his speech wasn't atually about his speech, it was more about being Microsoft lap dogs.
EVERYONE blastesd the iPod when it 1st came out. $399 for a 5Gig MP3 player, when you can get a 128 meg one for $50 at the time? Everyone called the iPod the albatross that will finally sink Apple.
This comes no where close to the negative reception of the iPod from the "experts".
I didn't buy an iPod until the 3rd generation. I suspect I'll do the same with the iPhone, a long with a lot of other people.
Yes it kinda does matter how it's happening. Right now it's a correlation that CO and Temps are both going up. Yet any scientist that tries to postulate that temps are not necessarily going up BECAUSE of CO2 is getting ostricized. You seem to be in the "lets do something, anything" camp. It doesn't matter if it would actually do a damn thing, as long as it made you FEEL good.
Just look at the EU and their palm oil disaster. They wanted to do something/anything, and it caused an environmental disaster.
That is kinda the point here. It's not a hezbullah headquarters that was bombed, it's obviously a day care center. At least that is what the AP/Reuters want you to believe.
Further satellite observations may eventually show the trend to be short-term. But if the change has indeed persisted at the present rate through the 20th Century, "it would have provided a significant component of the global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports to have occurred over the past 100 years," he said.
A quote from the article I posted prior. Seesm that Richard Willson would disagree with you. But since this would not fit the "humans are the only cause" political agenda, it is swept under the rug. You seems to discount this more readily than evne the most politically motivated scientists - interesting.
And comments like yours like "As it turns out, solar output isn't sufficient to explain the observed global warming. " make me laugh. How do you know? WE can't predict if it's going to rain tomorrow, yet YOU know the sun doesn't account for what we've seen. Sorry, I call BS with your blanket statements.
It's a big unknown, so to discount possible causes seems suspect to me.
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It was a JOKE about upgrading to Vista on a machine that didn't come pre-installed with it. The sales of upgrades hasn't been very brisk the last time I checked.
I was talking about upgrading to Vista and kinda highlighted it to draw attention to the outrageousness of the statement. With the recent lawsuit about the sales of computers up to the release of Vista as "Vista ready" even though they were really not, points out that the upgrade process to Vista is pretty damn steep.
The macs haven't been rev'd in quite a while. I had hoped that revs would occur more frequently with the switch to intel, but it's simply not the case. And sorry, I don't count an additional option for 8-core on the Mac Pro a rev as much as it's another BTO option. Especially when they didn't change anything else on the machine.
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http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
mini is still at CD, not C2D. iMacs haven't been updated in over 200 days. macbook and MBP in 150. Compare that with the ONLY way to upgrade on the PC side - buy a new machine, and you begin to see the appeal of Vista over OS X when it comes to hardware sales. Finally, Tiger is on it's way out as well. So people are holding off on new Macs until they come pre-installed with leopard.
Would like to see the figures once leopard comes out
I bet you were THAT kid in school who always waited to bust everyone for not including the "where X != 0" caveat in math class.
How come you can get a ton of different car stereo racks that all play non-DRM'd AAC(burned onto a disk), but you can't get a portable digital music player(didn't want to say MP3 player) which supports non-DRM'd AAC?
There seems to be a big difference in the respective marketplace that I can't figure out.
They said "Vote for us and we'll lower gas prices" And the sheeple fell for it. QED
I see that your campaign promise to do something about the price of gas is really kicking in now.
What? The price of gas has gone up since the Dems were elected and appears to be headed towards $3.00 a gallon by summertime?
Nevermind. Don't look at the empty promises here, move along.
Rome wasn't built in a day. And if you can't see the value/need to get a major label to sign onto this 1st, then there is nothing else I can say.
I think this was done perfectly, you do not. Getting a major label to go 1st lessens many potential roadblocks. You don't see it this way. Oh well, I'll still sleep at night.
Very true. I shouldn't have said M$ lapdogs. They are more anti-Apple bigots.
I just recall the laughing and making fun of Microsoft when their onerous wifi squirting restrictions was revealed. I didn't recall the extreme anger at Balmer/Gates for this as much as the venom towards Jobs for calling for DRM-free music. I guess the difference really stuck in my mind fo some reason.
And you know this how? Do you think 128 kbps AAC leaves artifacts enough to discourage you for listening? If so, then I bow to your amazing abilites, because I don't hear it.
I didn't think I had to qualify this as an iTunes only discussion. I figured keeping it Jobs centered would have implied that.
Having Indy first sets up a more adversarial positon for Apple when dealing with the major labels. The 1st major to do this gets all the press coverage, all the good will. You seem to think that that they would be MORE receptive if the Indy's went first. I contend that it would have been the exact opposite. A year long study of indy bands sales befor and after would have been step one of a multi-year process. And as we all know about Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Any indy success would have been excused away by the major labels.
Getting a major label to do this first is vital because it's a fundamental shift in their thinking. They had to take the leap without knowing the possible outcome. If the major labels have taught us aything over the years, they would rather get analysis paralysis than take a bold move themselves. And with a stream of DRM-free indy music out there, they would have sat back and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, etc... before taking this leap themselves.
After Jobs made his "get rid of DRM" speech a month or two ago, they were coming out of the woodwork blasting him for being a hypocrite. Maybe these know-nothings will now realize that he couldn't make these changes on his own, he needed the labels themselves to come along.
NOW that one of them is promoting anti-DRM versions, expect the indy stuff to follow suit. These same anti-Jobs people will lament the fact Jobs didn't do this with indy bands 1st. It's called negotiations people. Getting a major label to do this is 10 times better than having ONLY the indy bands DRM free. This is a major change in thinking for the big labels. And that made it well worth the wait.
Maybe if the anti-Jobs people would focus more on Microsoft and their disabling of the Zune wifi for a change, even more progress can be made in the DRM free world. But I'm guessing that the anti-Job reaction to his speech wasn't atually about his speech, it was more about being Microsoft lap dogs.
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EVERYONE blastesd the iPod when it 1st came out. $399 for a 5Gig MP3 player, when you can get a 128 meg one for $50 at the time? Everyone called the iPod the albatross that will finally sink Apple.
This comes no where close to the negative reception of the iPod from the "experts".
I didn't buy an iPod until the 3rd generation. I suspect I'll do the same with the iPhone, a long with a lot of other people.
Just look at the EU and their palm oil disaster. They wanted to do something/anything, and it caused an environmental disaster.
That is kinda the point here. It's not a hezbullah headquarters that was bombed, it's obviously a day care center. At least that is what the AP/Reuters want you to believe.
another fan of truthiness I take it.
How is Adobe going to find other faked war photos like these?
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http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/r189189
http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/r357735
or the woman who shows up to cry over every and all bombed buildings in Reuters' world
http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/beirutw
Source - http://zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/
There are exceptions to every rule.
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Get a state approved license.
So where are all the French loving leftist now?
Which is why it's pure comedy gold when they talk about politics.
A quote from the article I posted prior. Seesm that Richard Willson would disagree with you. But since this would not fit the "humans are the only cause" political agenda, it is swept under the rug. You seems to discount this more readily than evne the most politically motivated scientists - interesting.
Interesting because NASA has said the sun's output has increased every decade since detailed records have been kept(70s) - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_0 30320.html
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sorry it's an older article, but finding any information that conflicts with a human cause for global warming is buried pretty deep.
Perhaps a pretty picture will help - http://www.space.com/images/suncycle_temps_0108_0
And comments like yours like "As it turns out, solar output isn't sufficient to explain the observed global warming. " make me laugh. How do you know? WE can't predict if it's going to rain tomorrow, yet YOU know the sun doesn't account for what we've seen. Sorry, I call BS with your blanket statements.
It's a big unknown, so to discount possible causes seems suspect to me.
Pluto - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warmin g_021009.html
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Triton - http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19980526052143da
Jupiter - http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_