b) Open iTunes, browse the movie/TV selections, download and watch your movie/TV Show
Uuuhhh... I think it's more like "Open iTunes, browser the movie/TV selections, download your movie... wait an hour or two for the download to complete, then watch.
I don't care what kind of residential service you have, we're not at the point where you can just click on a movie, and suddenly have DVD quality at home. Even a single layer DVD is 4.something gig, and I've never seen a server or a PC or a network card that could handle that much data in anything less than an hour or so. Sure, you may be able to get some crappy Real streaming version that you have to squint to see in some tiny window, instantly, but that's about it. Downloading movies to watch (not pirate) isn't going to be popular for several more years, at least.
I agree. This is probably the strangest business combination I could imagine. Apple specializes in selling low quantities of very expensive items. Wal-Mart specializes in selling high quantities of very cheap items. I don't see how these two companies have anything in common. And you're right. If anything, Apple will get absolutely fucked by this deal, and Wal-Mart just won't care.
Dude, you're overlooking the obvious. On Windows machines, just let each monitor be another instance of Terminal Services. You can run 50 different desktops under the same user, if you want.
No, I'm pretty sure that there used to be CD+R's. I could be wrong. But, like the point I was trying to make, I don't even pay attention to what is what. When I buy blanks, I just care whether they're CD's, DVD's single layer, or DVD's dual layer. All of them really work equally well these days. It's only when the new standards/drives are coming out that you have to worry about what will and will not work. After a few months, the new drives all read anything, no matter how cheap the drives are.
It'll happen the way that it always happens with multiple standards (especially with the shiny disks). Disc readers will just keep adding things that they can read, so it doesn't matter what you put in your drive.
A regular "DVD Drive" that you buy with no brand from China for $20 at your local store now reads: CD Audio, CD data, CD-R, CD+R, CD-RW, DVD single layer data, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD double layer data, DVD+R double layer, DVD-R double layer, DVD-RW double layer. The new standards will just be incorporated the same way, so it doesn't matter one whit to the consumer as to what format the shiny round disc that they put in their drive is. The physical format is the same, so all it is is more software, and another read head. Big deal.
I mean seriously, when was the last time you put a shiny "CD" in your computer drive and had to worry about whether your drive could read it? My newest drive reads so many damn standards that they're running out of space for logos on the front of it!
There's a risk/reward to doing *anything*. I haven't seen any studies or statistics, but just from my own common sense and experience, I know that riding a bike on roads in the US is as dangerous as hell. (ie: more injuries/deaths per man hour on a bike vs a car). I don't think it's rocket science to say that riding a bicycle on a road is dangerous as hell.
As you should be. Riding a bicycle on the streets just about anywhere in the US is dangerous as hell. It's one thing to want to exercise/save gas/not pollute/exert your rights of the road. It's another thing to be dead or paralyzed. I know waaay too many people killed or hurt from riding a bike on the road to ever do so myself (I live in an area where there are more road bikers per capita then I've ever seen before). I keep my bike riding in the woods.
Maybe one day it'll be safe for bicyclists on the road. Until then, the only way I'm getting on a road is in a car. I'm not willing to give up my life to make a statement.
Well, if you're right, then the spammers, scammers, hackers, and con artists are the most "fit" people out there. I don't know if you're right, but the Net has largely devolved into a mess of crime and bad information in the 12 years or so it's been used by the public.
Dude, give it up! "Hackers" now means someone doing something malicious to computers. You can say it means whatever you'd like, but that's not what the word means in common usage. That's how language works. I can tell people that I drove my banana to work today, but "banana" doesn't mean "car" just because I say so, any more than "hacker" means benign computer geek because you and a handful of "hackers" says so. I suggest you move on with your life, and pick a new word for the good guys.
Of course you're right. What it boils down to is the Net is filled to the brim with scams, cons, (bad) hackers, etc., and there's absolutely nothing to stop them. Net crime is absolutely rampant, and there's virtually no law enforcement agency that can do anything about it. Personally, I think it's going to get so bad that all online commerce is going to grind to a halt either because of scared customers, or because companies' litigation costs.
Oh please. You can talk about companies all day, but all of the corporations in the world don't begin to measure up to what consumer whores regular citizens are. You know those hundreds of millions of people shopping at Wal-Mart? You think any of them know or care where their money is going. I'd wager on "no". Hell, Wal-Mart didn't have even a bump in their upward trajectory when they quietly dropped their "Made in the USA" schtick. People just keep buying, and buying, and buying...
And I'm not talking about Wal-Mart, I'm talking about every little thing that regular people buy every day. Hell, I've seen people beat the shit out of each other like animals so that they could save $100 on a laptop computer.
Remember, the only reason these companies are here is because people keep buying stuff from them.
Well, you gotta understand something... many, MANY people buy an iPod specifically for the *bling* factor. Meaning, these are mindless consumer whores who just want something to show off. A bright green or pink iPod is fucking ugly. I really don't need (or want) to tell the entire world that I'm smart enough to hand a clerk a credit card in order to acquire my new gadget. I just want to use the fucking thing. I could care less what color it comes in, and will probably get the brown, if I have a choice.
Well, there are people like myself that won't buy *anything* from Apple, and have been waiting for a good competitor. That, and the iPod is grossly overpriced. MS doesn't have a history of overpricing their consumer products, although Apple does. As long as it's reasonably priced, I'm getting one.
Although it sounds good, do people hate microsoft so much (thanks to windows) that it will not be a success compared to the more-respected apple?
I think that your assumptions are a bit off. I don't know any non-geeks who could care less about Microsoft. Besides, why would they hate Windows? Windows 2000/XP is cheap, easy to use, and works.
That point aside, I'll be buying one because I don't want to give Apple one red cent, and I've been waiting for a good one to come out.
If you want them to make a difference, have them en masse vote Libertarian at the local level.
You're right. Unfortunately, my state (NC) has decided that it's illegal to either be a registered Libertarian or to put Libertarian candidates on the ballot.
Unfortunately, this country is so completely corrupt, and the government is so powerful, that it's really too late for voting to be any more than an empty gesture.
There are people who sit in their cars in my town and use the public wireless for all kinds of things (I saw somebody looking at kiddie porn one night). No way to track down those people after they drive away.
If I want to read about how to grow weed, then I don't care what kind of info is being transmitted (http requests). If I'm spending money, then I'll be using an SSL connection, which still works. No biggie.
I don't know why everybody insists on missing the obvious... just use somebody else's or a public wireless connection. That's *all* that I use, and I'm even more anonymous than somebody using Tor. It's not like a wide open wireless connection is tough to find! The *only* way that I could be tracked down was if the feds found the WAP, then kicked in the doors of every building (and car) within a certain radius, and I happened to still be there.
All this silly Apple hype is is just a disgusting display of consumerism run amok. It's THE shiny gadget to waste your money on, so it's gonna get lots of press. Yuck. But hey, what's patriotism if it isn't going even further into debt to buy more Chinese-made plastic shit that you don't need?
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b) Open iTunes, browse the movie/TV selections, download and watch your movie/TV Show
Uuuhhh... I think it's more like "Open iTunes, browser the movie/TV selections, download your movie... wait an hour or two for the download to complete, then watch.
I don't care what kind of residential service you have, we're not at the point where you can just click on a movie, and suddenly have DVD quality at home. Even a single layer DVD is 4.something gig, and I've never seen a server or a PC or a network card that could handle that much data in anything less than an hour or so. Sure, you may be able to get some crappy Real streaming version that you have to squint to see in some tiny window, instantly, but that's about it. Downloading movies to watch (not pirate) isn't going to be popular for several more years, at least.
I agree. This is probably the strangest business combination I could imagine. Apple specializes in selling low quantities of very expensive items. Wal-Mart specializes in selling high quantities of very cheap items. I don't see how these two companies have anything in common. And you're right. If anything, Apple will get absolutely fucked by this deal, and Wal-Mart just won't care.
Dude, you're overlooking the obvious. On Windows machines, just let each monitor be another instance of Terminal Services. You can run 50 different desktops under the same user, if you want.
This is very old news. Those of us who have been using Froogle were notified about this transition about 6 months ago via email. Ho hum.
No, I'm pretty sure that there used to be CD+R's. I could be wrong. But, like the point I was trying to make, I don't even pay attention to what is what. When I buy blanks, I just care whether they're CD's, DVD's single layer, or DVD's dual layer. All of them really work equally well these days. It's only when the new standards/drives are coming out that you have to worry about what will and will not work. After a few months, the new drives all read anything, no matter how cheap the drives are.
It'll happen the way that it always happens with multiple standards (especially with the shiny disks). Disc readers will just keep adding things that they can read, so it doesn't matter what you put in your drive.
A regular "DVD Drive" that you buy with no brand from China for $20 at your local store now reads: CD Audio, CD data, CD-R, CD+R, CD-RW, DVD single layer data, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD double layer data, DVD+R double layer, DVD-R double layer, DVD-RW double layer. The new standards will just be incorporated the same way, so it doesn't matter one whit to the consumer as to what format the shiny round disc that they put in their drive is. The physical format is the same, so all it is is more software, and another read head. Big deal.
I mean seriously, when was the last time you put a shiny "CD" in your computer drive and had to worry about whether your drive could read it? My newest drive reads so many damn standards that they're running out of space for logos on the front of it!
Relax. Breathe. It'll all be OK.
There's a risk/reward to doing *anything*. I haven't seen any studies or statistics, but just from my own common sense and experience, I know that riding a bike on roads in the US is as dangerous as hell. (ie: more injuries/deaths per man hour on a bike vs a car). I don't think it's rocket science to say that riding a bicycle on a road is dangerous as hell.
I'm also terrified of riding my bike now.
As you should be. Riding a bicycle on the streets just about anywhere in the US is dangerous as hell. It's one thing to want to exercise/save gas/not pollute/exert your rights of the road. It's another thing to be dead or paralyzed. I know waaay too many people killed or hurt from riding a bike on the road to ever do so myself (I live in an area where there are more road bikers per capita then I've ever seen before). I keep my bike riding in the woods.
Maybe one day it'll be safe for bicyclists on the road. Until then, the only way I'm getting on a road is in a car. I'm not willing to give up my life to make a statement.
The Internet is Darwinism at its finest,
Well, if you're right, then the spammers, scammers, hackers, and con artists are the most "fit" people out there. I don't know if you're right, but the Net has largely devolved into a mess of crime and bad information in the 12 years or so it's been used by the public.
That's right. The meaning of the word has changed. Again, get over it.
I get maybe one phish every two weeks or so, it takes me about two or three minutes to report it.
Yeah, well I get approximately 20-30 a day. Consider yourself lucky.
Dude, give it up! "Hackers" now means someone doing something malicious to computers. You can say it means whatever you'd like, but that's not what the word means in common usage. That's how language works. I can tell people that I drove my banana to work today, but "banana" doesn't mean "car" just because I say so, any more than "hacker" means benign computer geek because you and a handful of "hackers" says so. I suggest you move on with your life, and pick a new word for the good guys.
Of course you're right. What it boils down to is the Net is filled to the brim with scams, cons, (bad) hackers, etc., and there's absolutely nothing to stop them. Net crime is absolutely rampant, and there's virtually no law enforcement agency that can do anything about it.
Personally, I think it's going to get so bad that all online commerce is going to grind to a halt either because of scared customers, or because companies' litigation costs.
Oh please. You can talk about companies all day, but all of the corporations in the world don't begin to measure up to what consumer whores regular citizens are. You know those hundreds of millions of people shopping at Wal-Mart? You think any of them know or care where their money is going. I'd wager on "no". Hell, Wal-Mart didn't have even a bump in their upward trajectory when they quietly dropped their "Made in the USA" schtick. People just keep buying, and buying, and buying...
And I'm not talking about Wal-Mart, I'm talking about every little thing that regular people buy every day. Hell, I've seen people beat the shit out of each other like animals so that they could save $100 on a laptop computer.
Remember, the only reason these companies are here is because people keep buying stuff from them.
Sounds better than "iPod" to me...
Well, you gotta understand something... many, MANY people buy an iPod specifically for the *bling* factor. Meaning, these are mindless consumer whores who just want something to show off. A bright green or pink iPod is fucking ugly. I really don't need (or want) to tell the entire world that I'm smart enough to hand a clerk a credit card in order to acquire my new gadget. I just want to use the fucking thing. I could care less what color it comes in, and will probably get the brown, if I have a choice.
Well, there are people like myself that won't buy *anything* from Apple, and have been waiting for a good competitor. That, and the iPod is grossly overpriced. MS doesn't have a history of overpricing their consumer products, although Apple does. As long as it's reasonably priced, I'm getting one.
Although it sounds good, do people hate microsoft so much (thanks to windows) that it will not be a success compared to the more-respected apple?
I think that your assumptions are a bit off. I don't know any non-geeks who could care less about Microsoft. Besides, why would they hate Windows? Windows 2000/XP is cheap, easy to use, and works.
That point aside, I'll be buying one because I don't want to give Apple one red cent, and I've been waiting for a good one to come out.
If you want them to make a difference, have them en masse vote Libertarian at the local level.
You're right. Unfortunately, my state (NC) has decided that it's illegal to either be a registered Libertarian or to put Libertarian candidates on the ballot.
Unfortunately, this country is so completely corrupt, and the government is so powerful, that it's really too late for voting to be any more than an empty gesture.
There are people who sit in their cars in my town and use the public wireless for all kinds of things (I saw somebody looking at kiddie porn one night). No way to track down those people after they drive away.
If I want to read about how to grow weed, then I don't care what kind of info is being transmitted (http requests). If I'm spending money, then I'll be using an SSL connection, which still works. No biggie.
"KISS" = "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
I don't know why everybody insists on missing the obvious... just use somebody else's or a public wireless connection. That's *all* that I use, and I'm even more anonymous than somebody using Tor. It's not like a wide open wireless connection is tough to find! The *only* way that I could be tracked down was if the feds found the WAP, then kicked in the doors of every building (and car) within a certain radius, and I happened to still be there.
I wouldn't call the Iraw war and New Orleans "peaceful" or "prosperous", respectively.
Sorry, but the stereotype doesn't fit. I own a retail store. And yes, it is all about consumerism. /status/penis size.
All this silly Apple hype is is just a disgusting display of consumerism run amok. It's THE shiny gadget to waste your money on, so it's gonna get lots of press. Yuck. But hey, what's patriotism if it isn't going even further into debt to buy more Chinese-made plastic shit that you don't need?