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However your comment was that it's "horribly overpriced". Since it's been selling in droves, I don't think your statement has a lot of validity. You also implied that only your parent poster thinks it's a good deal. I think it would be much closer to the truth to say that only you think it's a bad deal.
Feel free to not buy one. You just sound pretty silly when you cry about the pricing, when these things have been flying off shelves around the planet. It might not be cheap enough for YOU, but why on earth would Apple lower the price if they can sell all they can make at the price they're asking?
Well, the Bush administration agrees with you. I do not. Microsoft is using their monopoly on desktop operating systems to quash emerging technologies and stagnate the state of the art. The market is not free to evolve, because it's not in Microsoft's market to allow the market to be free.
Microsoft controls the market. That is worse than the government restricting Microsoft.
A Microsoft monopoly is not a free market. It's not restricted by the government, it's restricted by Microsoft.
Just as my "freedom" does not extend to me being allowed to kill you, actors in a free market should not be permitted to unduly restrict access to that market.
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USB mass storage mode does NOT mean that you can just hook up a camera to it. If you hook two hard drives to opposite ends of an IDE cable, they can't copy to one another without a computer to act as the controller.
Now, if the iRiver can act in USB Master mode, that's a different thing entirely.
Nonsense. I simply think that on our political landscape, there are much bigger problems.
Like suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. THAT is what we should be spending our political energy fighting.
This debate is a distraction: It's a red herring to keep us from addressing the serious problems. Setting up such red herrings is the neo-conservative movement's true genius. They're really, really effective at distracting public opinion from big issues and getting them stuck talking around the water cooler about school prayer and gay marriage.
I think both of those topics are important, and need to be discussed and addressed. However, I'd like to get the right to a trial by jury back first.
You don't think being a Christian is stigmatized? I think you live in a fantasy world.
High school is a staggeringly intolerant, cliquish, exclusive place. I think that socializing in that environment is the direct cause of a lot of problems we see in modern society. I don't think that including (or excluding) talking about God is going to make a meaningful dent in that overwhelming problem.
That doesn't mean that social stigma has the force of law, it means that people were addressing the wrong problem.
If I thought that removing "under God" from the pledge, or removing prayer at football games, would stop (or even meaningfully reduce) students from being horrifyingly cruel to one another, I'd be on board in a second.
I don't think talking about God at school. I think the bad feelings about talking about God are a symptom of a much larger problem.
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Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Is the service still available for people who, for instance, buy old boxes on ebay?
I'm not sure it's contradictory to the law of the land. No religion is being established by the government. It could be argued that reverence for a higher power (generically named "God") is part of American civics.
Now, the moment some ignant Bible thumper wants to try to teach Intelligent Design on the same rhetorical footing as the well-established theory of evolution, I will disagree with said Bible thumper most enthusiastically, as I did when I was eight years old, and faced down exactly the kind of social stigmatizing that you mentioned.
That confrontation was key to the genesis of my personal philosophy, and a very positive experience.
If you guys are in the (software) innovation business, then why the heck are you trying to sell boxes at Best Buy? Why on EARTH did you allow DirecTV and Comcast to get away without licensing your software?
I don't pay $80/mo for cable. I pay $40, and $13 to TiVo to download a program guide to me. That's a lot of money for a very little bit of data. That's about eight nice, glossy magazine subscriptions per year. Never mind the hoops I had to jump through to not use your expensive dial-in PoP. (I had to go borrow a landline for a long time to get the software update) I got it working, but that out-of-the-box experience just sucked.
I would have much rather paid for the box outright, and given TiVo a reasonable profit, than die the death of a thousand $13/mo payments. I'm willing to pay for a good user experience, but I hate the feeling that I'm being nibbled to death by just one more monthly fee.
And, no, the lifetime subscription is simply not an option. It's a terrible value, especially because I'm not sanguine about TiVo inc's future.
I like your product, but I'm not responsible to make your business model work for you. I'll be a customer for as long as I get good value, and right now your value proposition is sketchy at best. I really hope you guys can change this.
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However your comment was that it's "horribly overpriced". Since it's been selling in droves, I don't think your statement has a lot of validity. You also implied that only your parent poster thinks it's a good deal. I think it would be much closer to the truth to say that only you think it's a bad deal.
Feel free to not buy one. You just sound pretty silly when you cry about the pricing, when these things have been flying off shelves around the planet. It might not be cheap enough for YOU, but why on earth would Apple lower the price if they can sell all they can make at the price they're asking?
It depends on what your definition of "is" is.
Seriously...unless and until there's a legal definiton of what constitutes spyware, I'm not surprised these guys are suing.
I still think they're Evil, but I'm not surprised they're trying...
Well, the Bush administration agrees with you. I do not. Microsoft is using their monopoly on desktop operating systems to quash emerging technologies and stagnate the state of the art. The market is not free to evolve, because it's not in Microsoft's market to allow the market to be free.
Microsoft controls the market. That is worse than the government restricting Microsoft.
A Microsoft monopoly is not a free market. It's not restricted by the government, it's restricted by Microsoft.
Just as my "freedom" does not extend to me being allowed to kill you, actors in a free market should not be permitted to unduly restrict access to that market.
USB mass storage mode does NOT mean that you can just hook up a camera to it. If you hook two hard drives to opposite ends of an IDE cable, they can't copy to one another without a computer to act as the controller.
Now, if the iRiver can act in USB Master mode, that's a different thing entirely.
Kay. So that feature isn't useful to you. Does that make it not useful to other people?
On what planet can you get a $99 MP3 player with 4GB of storage? Seriously...that's a pretty unrealistic expectation.
Nonsense. I simply think that on our political landscape, there are much bigger problems.
Like suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. THAT is what we should be spending our political energy fighting.
This debate is a distraction: It's a red herring to keep us from addressing the serious problems. Setting up such red herrings is the neo-conservative movement's true genius. They're really, really effective at distracting public opinion from big issues and getting them stuck talking around the water cooler about school prayer and gay marriage.
I think both of those topics are important, and need to be discussed and addressed. However, I'd like to get the right to a trial by jury back first.
Argh. My second to last sentence should read:
"I don't think talking about (or to) God at school is the problem."
I have absolutely no idea. Which model are we talking about?
You don't think being a Christian is stigmatized? I think you live in a fantasy world.
High school is a staggeringly intolerant, cliquish, exclusive place. I think that socializing in that environment is the direct cause of a lot of problems we see in modern society. I don't think that including (or excluding) talking about God is going to make a meaningful dent in that overwhelming problem.
That doesn't mean that social stigma has the force of law, it means that people were addressing the wrong problem.
If I thought that removing "under God" from the pledge, or removing prayer at football games, would stop (or even meaningfully reduce) students from being horrifyingly cruel to one another, I'd be on board in a second.
I don't think talking about God at school. I think the bad feelings about talking about God are a symptom of a much larger problem.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Is the service still available for people who, for instance, buy old boxes on ebay?
I'm not sure it's contradictory to the law of the land. No religion is being established by the government. It could be argued that reverence for a higher power (generically named "God") is part of American civics.
Now, the moment some ignant Bible thumper wants to try to teach Intelligent Design on the same rhetorical footing as the well-established theory of evolution, I will disagree with said Bible thumper most enthusiastically, as I did when I was eight years old, and faced down exactly the kind of social stigmatizing that you mentioned.
That confrontation was key to the genesis of my personal philosophy, and a very positive experience.
It is far more important to learn how to ignore social stigma than it is to learn to multiply.
School officials will find something else to bully children about, I assure you.
You are free to speak, or to not speak. You are not free to dictate other peoples' opinions of you.
Social stigma does not have the force of law.
"I love how /. readers who didn't even bother reading the story are now accusing him of cultural bigotry, though. Very edifying -- "
How is it LESS bigoted to presume that the people who say such things represent "/. readers"? They certainly don't speak for me.
There is no hive mind.
What, you mean the world is full of people who are xenophobic? Stop the presses! Who'd a thunk it?
"BOTH COUNTRIES ARE FULL OF STUCK UP IDIOTS!"
You misspelled "ALL COUNTRIES" and seemed to forget any carriage returns in your rant.
"These lists should be seious"
What does that mean? Apart from the typo...how do you judge how "serious" a list is? I'm really curious for your criteria.
" I also wanted to actually own my own DVR rather than renting it from Comcast."
How does that make sense, if you're paying more for your subscription to TiVO than for the rental on the Comcast box?
Seriously...I'm trying to justify keeping TiVO after my six-month gift subscription expires.
Didn't they go bankrupt two years ago? Seriously...I thought Replay was out of business. Am I wrong?
Whoops.
If you guys are in the (software) innovation business, then why the heck are you trying to sell boxes at Best Buy? Why on EARTH did you allow DirecTV and Comcast to get away without licensing your software?
Those decisions seemed absolutely insane to me.
I'm a TiVo user, and I think the box rocks.
However.
I don't pay $80/mo for cable. I pay $40, and $13 to TiVo to download a program guide to me. That's a lot of money for a very little bit of data. That's about eight nice, glossy magazine subscriptions per year. Never mind the hoops I had to jump through to not use your expensive dial-in PoP. (I had to go borrow a landline for a long time to get the software update) I got it working, but that out-of-the-box experience just sucked.
I would have much rather paid for the box outright, and given TiVo a reasonable profit, than die the death of a thousand $13/mo payments. I'm willing to pay for a good user experience, but I hate the feeling that I'm being nibbled to death by just one more monthly fee.
And, no, the lifetime subscription is simply not an option. It's a terrible value, especially because I'm not sanguine about TiVo inc's future.
I like your product, but I'm not responsible to make your business model work for you. I'll be a customer for as long as I get good value, and right now your value proposition is sketchy at best. I really hope you guys can change this.