It is NOT an instrument. It is NOT a guitar. It is NOT guitar lessons. It is NOT a simulator.
It is a GAME that uses a custom CONTROLLER that happens to be styled after a GUITAR.
It's quite obvious that you haven't played the game, so please move along. If you want to go develop a guitar simulator and training software (HINT: It already exists) Go for it. But that's a completely different market.
Do you think MS makes their employees pay for Windows?
Do you think MS is hiding Vista from all of their employees?
Do you think an MS employee would have to go a download a leaked copy if they wanted to try out the software the company they are working for is building?
Note that I'm not suggesting Apple was outside of their bounds, they had every right to do this. That doesn't make it a good decision.
Where before firing, they had a few employees that would have been talking up the benefits and features of Leopard...instead they now have ex employees that will probably be slinging crap in Apples direction for the rest of their days.
Yes, Apple is right, but are they perhaps too right?
And yes, Apple has every right to handle these things however they like.
I do have to argue though that Apple creates these circumstances themselves. Think about it:
Apple's working on this new release of their OS. Everyone that works there knows it. No one has seen it. No one there can use it, even though they are building it. It's all very hush hush and secretive, very typical Apple style. A build gets leaked onto the internet...a couple employees find it...Hey! I'm working on that! I'd sure like to see it, sheesh, what's the harm if any script kiddie out there can play with it, why can't I play with the darned thing that the company I work for built?
Apple is NOT the DOD. They can, but maybe shouldn't treat their employees like they are.
Why is it tha MS gets lambasted endlessly for trying to lock users into using all of their products on windows, gets berrated for rolling too much in with the OS, vendor lock in etc etc...
But at the same time Apple gets applauded for rolling EVERY SINGLE LITTLE POSSIBLE THING into their OS?
I don't give a damned either way. It's the hypocrisy that I can't stand.
I haven't actually voiced my opinion on this tracking device, nor made any such suggestion as you mention.
Our children don't need to be 1984'd to death, of course. But they DO need to be parented.
Why do you think insurance for 16 year olds is astronomical? Because the industry is just milking this market segment? This segment that has basically no income? lol.
Read some statistics people! Vehicles + 16 year olds = a high death rate.
It's been shown time and again that fewer people choose to drive in Germany BECAUSE of this.
If you're not a good driver, you will not be able to drive in Germany very successfully. A lot of people are simply afraid to drive there, so they don't.
In NA, everyone and their near dead grandmother drive, anywhere, and everywhere, at whatever speed. Good driver or no.
Maybe so you have a chance to react if one of said children does something stupid like walk out into the street without looking?
Sure, maybe it's something that ideally you wouldn't have to deal with, but do you want to try falling to sleep at night, every night, for the rest of your life with nothing but the image of a child rolling across your hood to comfort you?
Sheesh. Does everyone _have_ to get everywhere Right Now, or could we maybe take our time once in a while, if even only for a FEW SECONDS AT A TIME.
One side of this discussion has been completely modded up, and the other has been flagged troll out of existence...but hardly any of the posts flagged as troll were even REMOTELY trolling?
First, completely off topic, good thing you got modded up.
Second, nice personal agenda there.
Third, I PERSONALLY stopped speeding after getting a speeding ticket. Many MANY others do too. You suggest we turn it into a free for all?
Fourt, MOST people simply CAN NOT HANDLE FASTER SPEEDS. Get on ANY highway in North America and tell me that the limits are dangerous because they are TOO SLOW.
You are just a selfish prick that wants the freedom to drive as fast as you like, damned the consequences to anyone else.
You need to move to afghanistan or iraq or something where you don't have to worry about 'The State' giving you speeding tickets for BREAKING THE LAW.
Trust your 16 year old to be good, honest etc etc.
Don't trust your 16 year old to make the right decision the first time they're at a friends house, have a couple drinks with the older brother, and have their shiney new car you bought them sitting outside.
Trust must be earned, and is not a blanket that covers everything all in one go.
_giving_ a 16 year old a car is the STUPIDEST thing ANY parent could do at that point.
For SOO many reasons.
Driving a vehicle is a huge responsibility, one which most 16 year olds are not fully ready for, PARTICULARLY if they're just handed the keys...they have no concept of the repercussions. They have no respect for vehicles. They have no concept of the financial end of things. And by GIVING them a car, you take away the chance for them to learn these things.
I never had my own car until I worked my ass off long enough to buy my own, and pay for my own insurance.
I was able to borrow my parents car, on occasion, but certainly not regularly. And even then, I had to pay for my own insurance.
I've never wrecked a car. I've never been reckless with a car. My sister, my wife, her brother...all similar circumstances growing up. ALL of us have respect for vehicles.
Just about everyone I know though that was given their first car ended up totalling it in one way or the other.
Do you not see the problem here? Come on now, sheesh.
And that's not even arguing this point: Apple uses "i" for branding. THEY set this precedent. If this flies, then anything with the term Pod related to an electronic device would be infringing on apple. How about iLife? iTunes? iWhateverTheHellElse? So we should expect to be seriously restricted in the future on the use of the terms Life, Tunes, and whatever else?
Life, Tunes, Pod, these are all PROPER ENGLISH WORDS. iPod is a brand name. Pod is not. You really want to see this changed?
Or are you a lawyer by chance?
Quit diluting my rights please if you wouldn't mind.
There would be some pretty serious differences betweent the two. Neither is good for you to ingest, but one is just REALLY BAD to get anywhere near you at all!
You DIRECTLY compared the use of Windows by MS to the use of iPod by Apple.
I showed how MS holds very LIMITED use to the term Windows, while you ran off and suggested that this parallels how Apple is trying to use the term iPod...except in the one case Apple is trying to claim control over ALL uses of the (sub) term 'Pod', and MS still only gets to use Windows when talking about THEIR OS.
Then demonstrate that by showing that you DO actually grok how gmail works and have made a conscious decision based on that fact and still want it the outlook way. That would be a different case however.
My god, I can't believe how many people just can't figure this out.
Take a second, look at your emails in google. Now, take a close look at the messages that are grouped together...oh look! It's actually a series of replies, IE: A CONVERSATION.
GMail is not broken. Rather, Outlook and almost every legacy email app out there made a very bad design decision a LONG TIME AGO. So bad and so long ago that we totally forget getting over the hump of figuring out why all the messages are only available in a newest to oldest order by default...Remember trying to piece back together an actual conversation? No, of course not, because it's all but impossible.
Now take a look at GMail again. Take 30 seconds to actually 'see' what's going on. Once it clicks, you'll never go back.
Windows was a word used by microsoft to name their operating system. It has since become rather a popular operating system, but it is still a trademark! No-one else can use windows as the name of their operating system for very good reason. Its called deception.
Sure, but I can still call the windows in my house Windows. I could invent and patent a plastic window to install in your stomach to view what you've eaten and call it bodyWindows. People can create products that work WITH MS Windows like WindowBlinds etc. You're not exactly making a sound case for Apple here, rather, you're pinpointing how very far overboard they have gone, ESPECIALLY when the name of their product is "iPod", NOT "Pod". Their claim to anything containing the term POD is BS, pure and simple.
Not that they won't get away with it, which points, again, to the real problem at hand.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow, sure killed that one didn't you? heh.
Whoosh...
Yeah, um, send 500$ and I'll get you all set up...
It's a GAME.
Repeat after me: IT'S A GAME.
It is NOT an instrument. It is NOT a guitar. It is NOT guitar lessons. It is NOT a simulator.
It is a GAME that uses a custom CONTROLLER that happens to be styled after a GUITAR.
It's quite obvious that you haven't played the game, so please move along. If you want to go develop a guitar simulator and training software (HINT: It already exists) Go for it. But that's a completely different market.
We're all talking wood and the like here and _that's_ the troll you come up with?
pe-nix?
Sheesh, what's slash coming to when the trolls bugger up an opportunity like that?
Lets throw this idea out there:
Do you think MS makes their employees pay for Windows?
Do you think MS is hiding Vista from all of their employees?
Do you think an MS employee would have to go a download a leaked copy if they wanted to try out the software the company they are working for is building?
Note that I'm not suggesting Apple was outside of their bounds, they had every right to do this.
That doesn't make it a good decision.
Where before firing, they had a few employees that would have been talking up the benefits and features of Leopard...instead they now have ex employees that will probably be slinging crap in Apples direction for the rest of their days.
Yes, Apple is right, but are they perhaps too right?
True, all very true.
And yes, Apple has every right to handle these things however they like.
I do have to argue though that Apple creates these circumstances themselves. Think about it:
Apple's working on this new release of their OS. Everyone that works there knows it. No one has seen it. No one there can use it, even though they are building it. It's all very hush hush and secretive, very typical Apple style. A build gets leaked onto the internet...a couple employees find it...Hey! I'm working on that! I'd sure like to see it, sheesh, what's the harm if any script kiddie out there can play with it, why can't I play with the darned thing that the company I work for built?
Apple is NOT the DOD. They can, but maybe shouldn't treat their employees like they are.
Why is it tha MS gets lambasted endlessly for trying to lock users into using all of their products on windows, gets berrated for rolling too much in with the OS, vendor lock in etc etc...
But at the same time Apple gets applauded for rolling EVERY SINGLE LITTLE POSSIBLE THING into their OS?
I don't give a damned either way. It's the hypocrisy that I can't stand.
I haven't actually voiced my opinion on this tracking device, nor made any such suggestion as you mention.
Our children don't need to be 1984'd to death, of course. But they DO need to be parented.
Why do you think insurance for 16 year olds is astronomical? Because the industry is just milking this market segment? This segment that has basically no income? lol.
Read some statistics people! Vehicles + 16 year olds = a high death rate.
It's been shown time and again that fewer people choose to drive in Germany BECAUSE of this.
If you're not a good driver, you will not be able to drive in Germany very successfully. A lot of people are simply afraid to drive there, so they don't.
In NA, everyone and their near dead grandmother drive, anywhere, and everywhere, at whatever speed. Good driver or no.
Maybe so you have a chance to react if one of said children does something stupid like walk out into the street without looking?
Sure, maybe it's something that ideally you wouldn't have to deal with, but do you want to try falling to sleep at night, every night, for the rest of your life with nothing but the image of a child rolling across your hood to comfort you?
Sheesh. Does everyone _have_ to get everywhere Right Now, or could we maybe take our time once in a while, if even only for a FEW SECONDS AT A TIME.
What the hell is going on?
One side of this discussion has been completely modded up, and the other has been flagged troll out of existence...but hardly any of the posts flagged as troll were even REMOTELY trolling?
Bullshit.
First, completely off topic, good thing you got modded up.
Second, nice personal agenda there.
Third, I PERSONALLY stopped speeding after getting a speeding ticket. Many MANY others do too. You suggest we turn it into a free for all?
Fourt, MOST people simply CAN NOT HANDLE FASTER SPEEDS. Get on ANY highway in North America and tell me that the limits are dangerous because they are TOO SLOW.
You are just a selfish prick that wants the freedom to drive as fast as you like, damned the consequences to anyone else.
You need to move to afghanistan or iraq or something where you don't have to worry about 'The State' giving you speeding tickets for BREAKING THE LAW.
There's trust, and there's trust.
Trust your 16 year old to be good, honest etc etc.
Don't trust your 16 year old to make the right decision the first time they're at a friends house, have a couple drinks with the older brother, and have their shiney new car you bought them sitting outside.
Trust must be earned, and is not a blanket that covers everything all in one go.
_giving_ a 16 year old a car is the STUPIDEST thing ANY parent could do at that point.
For SOO many reasons.
Driving a vehicle is a huge responsibility, one which most 16 year olds are not fully ready for, PARTICULARLY if they're just handed the keys...they have no concept of the repercussions. They have no respect for vehicles. They have no concept of the financial end of things. And by GIVING them a car, you take away the chance for them to learn these things.
I never had my own car until I worked my ass off long enough to buy my own, and pay for my own insurance.
I was able to borrow my parents car, on occasion, but certainly not regularly. And even then, I had to pay for my own insurance.
I've never wrecked a car. I've never been reckless with a car. My sister, my wife, her brother...all similar circumstances growing up. ALL of us have respect for vehicles.
Just about everyone I know though that was given their first car ended up totalling it in one way or the other.
Windows -> Operating systems
Apple iPod -> All Electronic Devices
Do you not see the problem here? Come on now, sheesh.
And that's not even arguing this point: Apple uses "i" for branding. THEY set this precedent. If this flies, then anything with the term Pod related to an electronic device would be infringing on apple. How about iLife? iTunes? iWhateverTheHellElse? So we should expect to be seriously restricted in the future on the use of the terms Life, Tunes, and whatever else?
Life, Tunes, Pod, these are all PROPER ENGLISH WORDS. iPod is a brand name. Pod is not. You really want to see this changed?
Or are you a lawyer by chance?
Quit diluting my rights please if you wouldn't mind.
You just go ahead and start rinsing your teeth with Fluorine then mmkay? Enjoy :)
Um, sure, but you've got the wrong substance in mind.
Fluorine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine
Fluoride: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride
There would be some pretty serious differences betweent the two. Neither is good for you to ingest, but one is just REALLY BAD to get anywhere near you at all!
WindowBlinds
They're not windows, it's not an OS, but it works hand in hand WITH the Windows OS.
TightPod
It's not an iPod, but it works hand in hand WITH an iPod to protect it.
Is it really that tough? Apple's out of line, or at least, the lawyers are, plain and simple.
Dude, look back at your post I replied to.
You DIRECTLY compared the use of Windows by MS to the use of iPod by Apple.
I showed how MS holds very LIMITED use to the term Windows, while you ran off and suggested that this parallels how Apple is trying to use the term iPod...except in the one case Apple is trying to claim control over ALL uses of the (sub) term 'Pod', and MS still only gets to use Windows when talking about THEIR OS.
You sniffing much glue these days?
Then demonstrate that by showing that you DO actually grok how gmail works and have made a conscious decision based on that fact and still want it the outlook way. That would be a different case however.
There is nothing to 'fix', except how you view email.
Is email simply a chronoligical list of snippits of information? Or could it contain actual conversations?
Maybe email can be more than you allow it to be, if you were to just let it do so.
You mean message threading.
My god, I can't believe how many people just can't figure this out.
Take a second, look at your emails in google. Now, take a close look at the messages that are grouped together...oh look! It's actually a series of replies, IE: A CONVERSATION.
GMail is not broken. Rather, Outlook and almost every legacy email app out there made a very bad design decision a LONG TIME AGO. So bad and so long ago that we totally forget getting over the hump of figuring out why all the messages are only available in a newest to oldest order by default...Remember trying to piece back together an actual conversation? No, of course not, because it's all but impossible.
Now take a look at GMail again. Take 30 seconds to actually 'see' what's going on. Once it clicks, you'll never go back.
Yes, unfortunately conversation threading is so strange to people that most haven't a clue what they're looking at when they see it.
Once you get used to it, and realize that's the way it should have been ALL ALONG, you're off to the races.
Sure, but I can still call the windows in my house Windows. I could invent and patent a plastic window to install in your stomach to view what you've eaten and call it bodyWindows. People can create products that work WITH MS Windows like WindowBlinds etc. You're not exactly making a sound case for Apple here, rather, you're pinpointing how very far overboard they have gone, ESPECIALLY when the name of their product is "iPod", NOT "Pod". Their claim to anything containing the term POD is BS, pure and simple.
Not that they won't get away with it, which points, again, to the real problem at hand.
Line em up and shoot em all
Fair enough.
But the answer is still the same: Shoot all the lawyers!