All it really shows is that you can't do what most other sites can, which is design a website that works at least pretty well in most browsers, and by making the message large and bold, it seems more important than your services and you just come off as either too arrogant or too lazy to find a few little workarounds.
After all, at first glance, the only things that seem to be "buggy and broken" are a few alignment problems that anyone who spent a few days learning HTML and CSS1 could have fixed.
If there is actually some part of your site that simply doesn't work, I'd understand if you put a small note on that page, but telling people that the web browser that came with their brand new computer is old/obsolete just makes you look as foolish to them as the sites that tell me I don't have the required browser/plugins installed when I know my version of Firefox and installed plugins can handle the site do to me.
It's a podcast feed, which is basically RSS with a description and a link to some mp3 files.
You can use iPodder, iTunes, or Winamp to subscribe to the feed and download or play the mp3 files, or you could just search that page that loaded in your browser for the mp3 links, and download them from there.
Re:Guess who will buy Pixar?
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Pixar For Sale?
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"Considering the vast amounts of money that Pixar movies rake in, they would have to be insane to do that."
This is another thing that Apple made popular in the past few years when they changed their logo from the flat rainbow apple to the glossy colored apple.
But you'll notice that even they have stopped using their 3d glossy logo in most places, and pretty much use just a flat solid color apple now (which BTW, is what they used to tell their dealers and partners to use).
So, if you are going to copy a trend, try to do it before the guy who started it moves on.
Those that scratch easily, but prevent the iPod from getting scratched, and those that don't scratch easily.
The first make little sense to me. You are going to be carrying around a scratched gadget either way, and this way, you will just have to keep paying to replace the protection itself if you want to get rid of the scratches.
The second would be great, but I just don't get why if someone can make a scratch resistant case or cover, can't Apple make the iPod out of the same stuff. I'd gladly pay the extra $20 for the iPod in the first place if it means I don't need it to either be bulkier with a case or look like I covered it in tape.
And again... My iRiver player and my iPod mini are practically scratch-free after years of carrying them in my pockets with change and keys.
And yes, I know that it doesn't offer the more advanced features such as snapshots, but I'm just trying to figure out why they would leave out the creation of virtual machines, if that's a relatively easy task.
AFAIK, the existing virtual machines really just consist of a simple plain text file that describes the machine, and a disk image that can be one created by VMWare or another text file that points to a "standard" image file type.
So, does this mean that if I create those files myself, I don't need the commercial products at all?
"How can an organization like the RIAA justify wanting more than 99 cents per song when you can purchase 44 minutes of audio and video for two dollars?"
I'm wondering the opposite.
Music that I buy, I will probably listen to over and over for years to come, but as much as I like Lost, I'll probably only watch it once or twice. I think the TV shows should be less, especially, since I can get a much higher quality boxed set for less than what Apple is charging.
Apple didn't inlcude Quicktime with the OS until at least 7.5 and I'm pretty sure that even then, Movie Player wasn't included (might be wrong about that part). What we now know as Quicktime Player came even later.
I bet you were one of those people who thought a 100 MB hard drive would always be enough, because it could hold everything YOU needed at the time.
Sure, the iPod is still measured in terms of how many 128k mp3/aac files it can hold, but plenty of us have long since moved on to higher bit rates, are looking forward to uncompressed music, AND use it for storing other non-music things.
You certainly have a point, and I was going to mention that one reason there are less Linux plugins is because the larger studios write their own stuff, but "real work" means what exactly?
A lot of self-employed artists and small studios and offices do real work with Maya these days too.
With the price for Maya Complete at $2000 now, I'd bet that they make up more of its market than Hollywood. Even the bigger studios only have a couple dozen full-time Maya users at the most, and in both cases, there's a good chance many are using Windows because they are also working with Photoshop and other Windows apps.
There is now a new Windows version called Cleaner XL.
Re:AutoCAD is too far up MSs back end...
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Autodesk Acquires Alias
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You're right about the AutoCAD situation, but seeing as how Maya relies on very little from MS, and does pretty much everything in a cross platform way (The UI is built with Maya's own MEL script, the documentation uses Java, the built-in browser uses Mozilla, etc.) it would probably be more work for Autodesk to convert it all to MS-based technologies than to continue to support other platforms.
Whether they decide to cancel them for other reasons remains to be seen. Keep in mind that Alias just recently discontinued the IRIX version, but that probably had more to do with less users compared to Linux than actual porting issues.
"DRM simply enforces the contract you agreed to and which the law recognizes."
It doesn't "simply" do anything. It's capable of doing a lot of things I may never even know about.
And, what contract are you talking about? In my experience, the distibutors do their best to keep consumers from knowing what it is they do and don't have the right to do. Can you explain how that could be considered a contract?
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That's pretty lame.
All it really shows is that you can't do what most other sites can, which is design a website that works at least pretty well in most browsers, and by making the message large and bold, it seems more important than your services and you just come off as either too arrogant or too lazy to find a few little workarounds.
After all, at first glance, the only things that seem to be "buggy and broken" are a few alignment problems that anyone who spent a few days learning HTML and CSS1 could have fixed.
If there is actually some part of your site that simply doesn't work, I'd understand if you put a small note on that page, but telling people that the web browser that came with their brand new computer is old/obsolete just makes you look as foolish to them as the sites that tell me I don't have the required browser/plugins installed when I know my version of Firefox and installed plugins can handle the site do to me.
Both iTunes and Winamp will show the description from the feed.
Or you can load it into any RSS reader.
It's a podcast feed, which is basically RSS with a description and a link to some mp3 files.
You can use iPodder, iTunes, or Winamp to subscribe to the feed and download or play the mp3 files, or you could just search that page that loaded in your browser for the mp3 links, and download them from there.
"Considering the vast amounts of money that Pixar movies rake in, they would have to be insane to do that."
Right...
Because nobody goes to see Star Wars films?
"123 fake street"
Hey, I used to live there!
"Since when would a site submit a URL in the title?"
Since when are browser windows the only ones that have title bars?
This is another thing that Apple made popular in the past few years when they changed their logo from the flat rainbow apple to the glossy colored apple.
But you'll notice that even they have stopped using their 3d glossy logo in most places, and pretty much use just a flat solid color apple now (which BTW, is what they used to tell their dealers and partners to use).
So, if you are going to copy a trend, try to do it before the guy who started it moves on.
Some might say Apple's in the unusual position where they don't need to listen to customers, since they will just buy the stuff either way.
There are two kinds of cases for iPods out there.
Those that scratch easily, but prevent the iPod from getting scratched, and those that don't scratch easily.
The first make little sense to me. You are going to be carrying around a scratched gadget either way, and this way, you will just have to keep paying to replace the protection itself if you want to get rid of the scratches.
The second would be great, but I just don't get why if someone can make a scratch resistant case or cover, can't Apple make the iPod out of the same stuff. I'd gladly pay the extra $20 for the iPod in the first place if it means I don't need it to either be bulkier with a case or look like I covered it in tape.
And again... My iRiver player and my iPod mini are practically scratch-free after years of carrying them in my pockets with change and keys.
My mini's screen is scratch free as well.
The only part that has scratches is the painted on Apple logo on the back.
And yes, I know that it doesn't offer the more advanced features such as snapshots, but I'm just trying to figure out why they would leave out the creation of virtual machines, if that's a relatively easy task.
AFAIK, the existing virtual machines really just consist of a simple plain text file that describes the machine, and a disk image that can be one created by VMWare or another text file that points to a "standard" image file type.
So, does this mean that if I create those files myself, I don't need the commercial products at all?
Yes, you have to be 21 to view porn.
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18 is the age you have to be to star in it.
"How can an organization like the RIAA justify wanting more than 99 cents per song when you can purchase 44 minutes of audio and video for two dollars?"
I'm wondering the opposite.
Music that I buy, I will probably listen to over and over for years to come, but as much as I like Lost, I'll probably only watch it once or twice. I think the TV shows should be less, especially, since I can get a much higher quality boxed set for less than what Apple is charging.
At least Apple's music costs less than the CDs.
Apple didn't inlcude Quicktime with the OS until at least 7.5 and I'm pretty sure that even then, Movie Player wasn't included (might be wrong about that part). What we now know as Quicktime Player came even later.
I won't be surprised when they start suing boycotters for causing a drop in CD sales.
I bet you were one of those people who thought a 100 MB hard drive would always be enough, because it could hold everything YOU needed at the time.
Sure, the iPod is still measured in terms of how many 128k mp3/aac files it can hold, but plenty of us have long since moved on to higher bit rates, are looking forward to uncompressed music, AND use it for storing other non-music things.
Some do.
I got caught stealing music when I was that age, except it was CDs from the local music store.
I got a smack in the head from the clerk and was told not to come back. I can't imagine how my parents would have managed to pay for a lawsuit.
"You know, at real studios doing real work."
You certainly have a point, and I was going to mention that one reason there are less Linux plugins is because the larger studios write their own stuff, but "real work" means what exactly?
A lot of self-employed artists and small studios and offices do real work with Maya these days too.
With the price for Maya Complete at $2000 now, I'd bet that they make up more of its market than Hollywood. Even the bigger studios only have a couple dozen full-time Maya users at the most, and in both cases, there's a good chance many are using Windows because they are also working with Photoshop and other Windows apps.
There is now a new Windows version called Cleaner XL.
You're right about the AutoCAD situation, but seeing as how Maya relies on very little from MS, and does pretty much everything in a cross platform way (The UI is built with Maya's own MEL script, the documentation uses Java, the built-in browser uses Mozilla, etc.) it would probably be more work for Autodesk to convert it all to MS-based technologies than to continue to support other platforms.
Whether they decide to cancel them for other reasons remains to be seen. Keep in mind that Alias just recently discontinued the IRIX version, but that probably had more to do with less users compared to Linux than actual porting issues.
I find that very unlikely, considering that most plug-ins are Windows first or Windows only.
Right, because nobody pirates AutoCAD and 3ds max?
"DRM simply enforces the contract you agreed to and which the law recognizes."
It doesn't "simply" do anything. It's capable of doing a lot of things I may never even know about.
And, what contract are you talking about? In my experience, the distibutors do their best to keep consumers from knowing what it is they do and don't have the right to do. Can you explain how that could be considered a contract?