all true. and it also ignores another factor -- value for money. the price of one CD is 2 movies tickets (3 hours of entertainment), or the average DVD (1.5 hours entertainment, but can be watched again and again).
however, even though I've watched some of my DVDs 3 or 4 times, most of my CDs have been listened to 80,000 times.
but that doesn't stop me wanting to pay less for CDs. I seem to have amassed hundreds when I was younger, but now life gets in the way and I'd be lucky if I bought 1 or 2 CDs a year.
It feels like Joss Whedon has sold out, something like the Matrix people did with all their product tie-ins before the final two movies (they even made cartoons for god's sake).
then I guess you don't want to know that the Matrix creators started a comic publishing company called Burlyman Entertainment.
oops too late.
Oh well, money is money.
Joss is a big fan of comics, having written a good many of them. perhaps he is doing this because, I don't know... he like comics?
Uhhh... no. The cost of actually pressing a CD has always been, and still is, neglible. High volume and all.
granted, but when you think of how the retail market for CDs has depreciated, the negligible cost 15 years ago for pressed CDs compared to the negligible cost now for pressed CDs is probably considerably more profitable than 15 years ago.
man, that's the longest sentence I've written in a while. hopefully it makes sense - my head hurts too much to revise it.
from tfa: Can't tell you how we got our hands on this image, but what you're looking at is a real live shot of the Xbox 360 that someone sneakily snapped with their cameraphone at Microsoft's Xbox360 Revealed launch party in Los Angeles last night.
several things give it away.
1. the image quality is too good for a camera phone 2. they can't tell us, yet they go on to say where it was got and how. 3. the launch party/reveal was supposed to be live on MTV. 4. this looks really, I mean really, crap. 5. if it wasn't a public reveal, MS would have banned cameras and cellphone cameras.
I'm holding off buying one until the bottom screen has a graffiti input region, or a virtual keyboard. grepping webserver logs using regexp's will be a fucking bitch - worse with the d-pad.
I have to say I don't know much about Card, and I've only ever read Ender's Game.
I'm also not a big fan of Star Trek, but that's for my own reasons.
However, just what is Card's definition of sci-fi? He throws in fantasy shows as examples of good sci-fi. Card lost all credibility with me when he said 'Lost' is the best that sci-fi has ever been.
Considering it's not sci-fi, maybe he's making a more subtle dig at sci-fi writing. Or maybe he's just a gimp.
Although I don't watch Star Trek, I can understand what everyone is going through. I was just as pissed off when I found out Firefly was getting canned, and that hadn't built up decades of love in me..
All this article has really shown me is that I needn't buy any more of Card's books.
I agree and while I think that AU$1.80 is reasonable for a single song, paying for a whole album makes it about the same price as a nice pressed shiny CD with cover, sometimes lyric sheets, etc.
Being in NZ, I'm expecting that when and if they come here, they'll be something like NZ$1.99. Again, that's great for one song, and if there are only 10 songs on an album, it'll cost $20 for the whole thing. A CD in the shop costs about NZ$35. So that's a saving that's worthwhile. But once that CD has 15 songs, the savings become non-existant.
In which case, it's cheaper, or the same price to go and buy the CD.
I'm not saying it's true, I'm just pointing out what my first impression was when I looked at the cover.
based on that, it's not a far reach to imagine why Jobs is so anti the book. I certainly would be.
when I see a lower case 'i' prepending a word, I take it to mean something for the Internet Age.
eg; iMovie is a movie editing suite for the internet age, iPhoto is a photo gallery program for the internet age, iMac is a mac for the internet age, iPod is a pod for the internet age (don't read into that, you'll go nowhere), just as iCon is a Con for the internet age.
it just so happens that it's a play on the word icon. But, please keep in mind that just because you're an icon doesn't mean you're not a con.
1: I drop my cellphone all the time. When I get mad, I throw it against a wall. So far Nokia phones have been the sturdiest, but with a hard drive in it, it wouldn't last me a week.
2: because it's got a hard drive in it, battery life would suck. I'm on call 24/7.
3: I've already got a phone.
4: I've already got a digital camera that does a pissy 5 megapixels.
5: I've got a mini-disc player which plays MP3, ATRAC, and I think WMA (but wfc anyway)
6: I've already got a portable device which plays movies/music -- my laptop. It's got 40GB of drive space.
One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol: "He is... a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation" (Harry F. Waters).
But note the capitlisation. iCon.
I think this is the meaning they intended, while making a joke with the "i" thing like apple uses. It's unfortunate that it makes Jobs seem like a con artist if you read it worng, but I doubt it was the intention.
of course, that's what they'll say in court if it comes to a slander case, but that's not the way it comes across.
I believe it's you who are reading it wrong. But the only people who will truly know are the authors. And they'd be pretty stupid if they admitted a slanderous title in public.
He made a mistake and Apple dealt with it appropriately.
"Oh, Apple, I pirated your software, but it was just a mistake. I wasn't aware that I mounted the image into my bittorrent share directory.
"Sorry, I fucked up. Don't be too harsh. Being a student, I don't have a fully developed brain yet. But this has definitely taught me a lesson. Yessir."
He "signed" an NDA by clicking okay on an electronic license. This is hardly the same as physically signing your name to a mortgage or any other legal contract.
it is actually. If Microsoft shows you some of their source code and make you "sign" an electronic NDA, and you publish that source on the net, what do you think they will do, smart guy?
I must say that it was a complete surprise to check out your posting history and see as many Flamebait, Redundant, and Troll modifiers as anything else. It seems that after 244 posts you are getting better only at being an ass.
the truth hurts doesn't it? People don't seem to like it when I point it out.
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all true. and it also ignores another factor -- value for money. the price of one CD is 2 movies tickets (3 hours of entertainment), or the average DVD (1.5 hours entertainment, but can be watched again and again).
however, even though I've watched some of my DVDs 3 or 4 times, most of my CDs have been listened to 80,000 times.
but that doesn't stop me wanting to pay less for CDs. I seem to have amassed hundreds when I was younger, but now life gets in the way and I'd be lucky if I bought 1 or 2 CDs a year.
It feels like Joss Whedon has sold out, something like the Matrix people did with all their product tie-ins before the final two movies (they even made cartoons for god's sake).
then I guess you don't want to know that the Matrix creators started a comic publishing company called Burlyman Entertainment.
oops too late.
Oh well, money is money.
Joss is a big fan of comics, having written a good many of them. perhaps he is doing this because, I don't know... he like comics?
Uhhh... no. The cost of actually pressing a CD has always been, and still is, neglible. High volume and all.
granted, but when you think of how the retail market for CDs has depreciated, the negligible cost 15 years ago for pressed CDs compared to the negligible cost now for pressed CDs is probably considerably more profitable than 15 years ago.
man, that's the longest sentence I've written in a while. hopefully it makes sense - my head hurts too much to revise it.
and my personal favourite.. prices of blank CDs have come down from $30 to about 50c. surely the cost of pressed CDs has also come down accordingly.
I'll keep that in mind :)
I tire of having to spell out every little thing in my replies - but for the person who marked my post as off-topic:
Sony are starting a new online music store called Connect which is direct competition with Apple's iTunes store.
There is an unnamed record label who are hampering Apple's progress in Australia (and potentially New Zealand).
Sony owns a record label.
Thus: Sony are probably the company who are slowing down Apple's progress.
sigh.
My maths may be wrong and I may be mistaken in my assumption, but please don't mod if you don't understand the topic you're moderating.
Are Sony releasing a competing product?
I call bullshit.
from tfa: Can't tell you how we got our hands on this image, but what you're looking at is a real live shot of the Xbox 360 that someone sneakily snapped with their cameraphone at Microsoft's Xbox360 Revealed launch party in Los Angeles last night.
several things give it away.
1. the image quality is too good for a camera phone
2. they can't tell us, yet they go on to say where it was got and how.
3. the launch party/reveal was supposed to be live on MTV.
4. this looks really, I mean really, crap.
5. if it wasn't a public reveal, MS would have banned cameras and cellphone cameras.
I'm holding off buying one until the bottom screen has a graffiti input region, or a virtual keyboard. grepping webserver logs using regexp's will be a fucking bitch - worse with the d-pad.
yup, right after they do a c-64 version for me.
I have to say I don't know much about Card, and I've only ever read Ender's Game.
I'm also not a big fan of Star Trek, but that's for my own reasons.
However, just what is Card's definition of sci-fi? He throws in fantasy shows as examples of good sci-fi. Card lost all credibility with me when he said 'Lost' is the best that sci-fi has ever been.
Considering it's not sci-fi, maybe he's making a more subtle dig at sci-fi writing. Or maybe he's just a gimp.
Although I don't watch Star Trek, I can understand what everyone is going through. I was just as pissed off when I found out Firefly was getting canned, and that hadn't built up decades of love in me..
All this article has really shown me is that I needn't buy any more of Card's books.
apparently, they've been bumped from the top 3 spots in searches.
searching google for "tiger direct" results in the first 4-5 hits pointing to tigerdirect.com.
searching for "tiger software" results in hit #1 pointing to tigerdirect.com
searching for "tiger" results in hit #2 pointing to tigerdirect.com.
pretty damn good results if you ask me. no confusion here.
in fact, none of the searches pointed me to any Apple pages within the first few hits.
I agree and while I think that AU$1.80 is reasonable for a single song, paying for a whole album makes it about the same price as a nice pressed shiny CD with cover, sometimes lyric sheets, etc.
Being in NZ, I'm expecting that when and if they come here, they'll be something like NZ$1.99. Again, that's great for one song, and if there are only 10 songs on an album, it'll cost $20 for the whole thing. A CD in the shop costs about NZ$35. So that's a saving that's worthwhile. But once that CD has 15 songs, the savings become non-existant.
In which case, it's cheaper, or the same price to go and buy the CD.
I'm not saying it's true, I'm just pointing out what my first impression was when I looked at the cover.
based on that, it's not a far reach to imagine why Jobs is so anti the book. I certainly would be.
when I see a lower case 'i' prepending a word, I take it to mean something for the Internet Age.
eg; iMovie is a movie editing suite for the internet age, iPhoto is a photo gallery program for the internet age, iMac is a mac for the internet age, iPod is a pod for the internet age (don't read into that, you'll go nowhere), just as iCon is a Con for the internet age.
it just so happens that it's a play on the word icon. But, please keep in mind that just because you're an icon doesn't mean you're not a con.
I wouldn't buy one of these for several reasons.
1: I drop my cellphone all the time. When I get mad, I throw it against a wall. So far Nokia phones have been the sturdiest, but with a hard drive in it, it wouldn't last me a week.
2: because it's got a hard drive in it, battery life would suck. I'm on call 24/7.
3: I've already got a phone.
4: I've already got a digital camera that does a pissy 5 megapixels.
5: I've got a mini-disc player which plays MP3, ATRAC, and I think WMA (but wfc anyway)
6: I've already got a portable device which plays movies/music -- my laptop. It's got 40GB of drive space.
One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol: "He is... a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation" (Harry F. Waters).
But note the capitlisation. iCon.
I think this is the meaning they intended, while making a joke with the "i" thing like apple uses. It's unfortunate that it makes Jobs seem like a con artist if you read it worng, but I doubt it was the intention.
of course, that's what they'll say in court if it comes to a slander case, but that's not the way it comes across.
I believe it's you who are reading it wrong. But the only people who will truly know are the authors. And they'd be pretty stupid if they admitted a slanderous title in public.
ok, I'm replying to myself because the retard that modded me flamebait obviously needs everything force fed to them.
If a book about you is called iCon, it implies you are a con artist, why would you sell such a book in your own stores?
everyone seems to have missed one vital piece of information.. the title of the book is iCon.
nuff said.
Your first point may have been somewhat valid , but we don't need ignorant morons
for the record, I don't consider myself ignorant. I'm not disputing anything else as they're purely conjecture.
He made a mistake and Apple dealt with it appropriately.
"Oh, Apple, I pirated your software, but it was just a mistake. I wasn't aware that I mounted the image into my bittorrent share directory.
"Sorry, I fucked up. Don't be too harsh. Being a student, I don't have a fully developed brain yet. But this has definitely taught me a lesson. Yessir."
He "signed" an NDA by clicking okay on an electronic license. This is hardly the same as physically signing your name to a mortgage or any other legal contract.
it is actually. If Microsoft shows you some of their source code and make you "sign" an electronic NDA, and you publish that source on the net, what do you think they will do, smart guy?
I must say that it was a complete surprise to check out your posting history and see as many Flamebait, Redundant, and Troll modifiers as anything else. It seems that after 244 posts you are getting better only at being an ass.
the truth hurts doesn't it? People don't seem to like it when I point it out.
The settlement is good for everybody - he got a second chance, and Apple didn't destroy their customer goodwill in one fell swoop.
I am an Apple customer and I wouldn't have thought less of them had they sued this guy into dust.
Relevant point 1: He signed an NDA which legally bound him to Non Disclosure.
Relevant point 2: Apple are well within their rights, morally and legally, to uphold their contracts.
from TFA:
while I do understand where Apple was coming from I can definitely say it's colored my view of Apple and their products. There's a bad aftertaste here
what a cock smoker.
what is it with faggots who think less of companies because they uphold their legal contracts and don't give everything away for free?
Apple don't need you, you gonad. Go and buy a PC and stick Windows on it. You deserve all the spyware and viruses you can get.
Flame on.
If I bought a new car and only three of the gears worked, I wouldn't upgrade to a newer model, I'd go to their competition.
;)
well as long as those gears are Drive, Park and Reverse, I'm happy
I was going to say that the chance of a turn based MMOG would be nil, but Wizards have done some stupid things before. Supposedly "creative" things...
bring back Basic D&D. 3rd ed with the d20 system is complete toss. you may as well be playing Rolemaster.
Too many rules and garbage to get in the way. they've made it more difficult to actually ROLEPLAY. no wonder the munchkins have taken over.
I have no high hopes for a MMOG.