99.9% of the music I've got is in MP3's, which I can play on a toaster. I've got a couple albums that I've bought from iTMS, and I could rip those to a platform-agnostic format if I cared to. Unless and until Apple makes a dramatic mis-step, they are definitely the least of a lot of weevils.
You're right. All four people who use their phones as their primary music player are out of luck.
Yes, I'm exaggerating, and yes, things may change in the future, but today, I don't think that this impediment is as wide-spread as you seem to believe.
These folks never pretended to be Great Scientists. They can and do, however, come up with clever ways to perform experiments that would otherwise be expensive or dangerous.
They sometimes do the dangerous stuff anyway.
I think it's a superb show. I like the way they often go back and revisit things that people say they got wrong. You know, kinda like scientists are supposed to.
I have an extensive science and engineering background, and I think they do a terrific job. Do they get everything right? No. Who cares?
"It's not wrong to dislike something just because the groupthink says you should like it"
Wrong or not, it's pretty silly. Why let groupthink shape your opinion at all? Judge for yourself. You don't like the show...fine! No skin off my nose. You probably like all kinds of things I don't. Who cares?
Yeah, I'm gonna rush right out and examine something that "...may not seem as easy to use as Matlab,"
Matlab is an astonishingly powerful application, but the ease-of-use factor is not there. And we're being told that this ROOT thing is more powerful and less user friendly?
Uh huh. If I need to use Matlab, I'll use Matlab. If I need something less powerful than Matlab, I'll use Excel. More powerful than Matlab...what the hell are you going to do with that kind of power? I'm sure somebody has a problem that's too big for Matlab, but I'm glad it's not my job to get my brain around those.
They can do whatever they want. I find Excel is the best tool for a large number of tasks. I don't really understand why other people would want me to stop using the tools I'm familiar with, and use tools that are either less capable or more complicated. Seems like a pretty silly thing to me.
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Your mom does.
(Oh yes...I went there.)
"consider that they are taking this stance because they know who their key, and most influential customers are"
So what? Why they do no evil is irrelevant, as long as they do no evil.
Yeah, I don't think that Ringworld had any turtles.
Uh huh. But you're still an ass.
As long as their interests align with mine, I don't much care about their motivations.
99.9% of the music I've got is in MP3's, which I can play on a toaster. I've got a couple albums that I've bought from iTMS, and I could rip those to a platform-agnostic format if I cared to. Unless and until Apple makes a dramatic mis-step, they are definitely the least of a lot of weevils.
Fear not. Apple will be along soon enough to show everybody how it's done.
Never say never, right?
I will never pay my phone company for content. It's just not going to happen. Anything they're selling is overpriced and underperforming.
I'm used to Apple being a minority player in the computer market. I'm sure that iPods, or their future analogs, will be just fine in their niche.
That's assuming that Apple doesn't raise the bar again.
You're right. All four people who use their phones as their primary music player are out of luck.
Yes, I'm exaggerating, and yes, things may change in the future, but today, I don't think that this impediment is as wide-spread as you seem to believe.
I don't care about their altruism, I'm just glad that there's a player with some money whose interests in this case align with mine.
Wow, it's almost like at some point in the last ten years, technology has, like, changed or something.
Amazing!
What a narrow-minded view.
These folks never pretended to be Great Scientists. They can and do, however, come up with clever ways to perform experiments that would otherwise be expensive or dangerous.
They sometimes do the dangerous stuff anyway.
I think it's a superb show. I like the way they often go back and revisit things that people say they got wrong. You know, kinda like scientists are supposed to.
I have an extensive science and engineering background, and I think they do a terrific job. Do they get everything right? No. Who cares?
"It's not wrong to dislike something just because the groupthink says you should like it"
Wrong or not, it's pretty silly. Why let groupthink shape your opinion at all? Judge for yourself. You don't like the show...fine! No skin off my nose. You probably like all kinds of things I don't. Who cares?
I think saying "eventuates" was even more embarassing.
Uh huh.
You don't always get what you pay for, but in this case? I'm delighted to pay for OS X and Excel.
Yeah, I'm gonna rush right out and examine something that "...may not seem as easy to use as Matlab,"
Matlab is an astonishingly powerful application, but the ease-of-use factor is not there. And we're being told that this ROOT thing is more powerful and less user friendly?
Uh huh. If I need to use Matlab, I'll use Matlab. If I need something less powerful than Matlab, I'll use Excel. More powerful than Matlab...what the hell are you going to do with that kind of power? I'm sure somebody has a problem that's too big for Matlab, but I'm glad it's not my job to get my brain around those.
They can do whatever they want. I find Excel is the best tool for a large number of tasks. I don't really understand why other people would want me to stop using the tools I'm familiar with, and use tools that are either less capable or more complicated. Seems like a pretty silly thing to me.
Or, uh, I could just use Excel...
Uh huh. Any way you slice it, that dichotomy doesn't mean anything. Most don't.
If it was funny, I would have laughed. See, that's how you can tell when stuff is funny...you laugh at it! It's pretty straightforward.
I still think your distinctions are completely meaningless. I am a Windows "OS Expert", and that's why I use a Mac.
You pay attention to marketing? Guess you're not a member of the "cyber-elite" either...
Oh, right, because most dichotomies are meaningful and accurate. Thanks for sharing!
"Naturally performance suffers in this situation"
Really? Seems to me like running a pile o' apps is pretty transparent. Overhead seems minimal on my PowerBook.
Oh good. Who needs that pesky remote administration? It's much better to have to walk to each desk and plug crap in by hand.
Your ideas are intriguing. Do you have a newsletter?
"Remember, Mac OS X is often targetted towards more inexperienced users"
Uh, says you. I know exactly what I'm doing, and I think MacOS X is pretty rockin'.