To be fair, games with multi-million dollar budgets like Skrym probably could bankrupt a studio if they released it with no restrictions whatsoever. Software piracy is one of the reasons the games industry abandoned the PC and moved to consoles. I remember id Software stating that pre-release piracy of Doom 3 on the PC cost them millions of dollars.
Didn't Apple already prove this when they converted their music store to a DRM-free format? It seems like nobody around here gives them any credit for that...
Louis CK said in an NPR interview earlier this week:
"And a friend of mine who does torrent stuff a lot says that when torrent users do buy something, they act like they're doing the greatest thing ever.... They're saying, 'I bought something today. I paid for it. And I didn't steal it. I'm the greatest person alive.' "
I've noticed this attitude as well. It's really, really annoying.
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you an example of Early Onset Crotchety Syndrome (EOCS). Symptoms of EOCS include getting angry about stupid crap and ranting about things that don't matter, like having a floating toolbar instead of a permanent status bar that's empty most of the time.
If you or someone you know suffers from EOCS, please, make them go outside for a while.
Welp, guys, this one poster on Slashdot is satisfied with his Kindle Fire, so that means the entire story is wrong. Hell, the NYT should just run its articles past the Slashdot community from now on before publication. You know, to properly vet them and all and make sure they're unbiased.
Welp, guys, this one person's wife likes her Fire, so clearly the article is biased and funded by Apple. In fact, any positive news about Apple is funded by Apple. There's just no way in the world that Apple might be good at making a hardware gadget, nor do they have hardware design experience spanning decades. It's a big conspiracy, I tell you.
Claiming that touchscreen sensitivity can be fixed in software is a huge assumption on your part. The other issues you mentioned could contribute to a poorer software interface through the addition of more screens and navigation.
I don't find the low price to be a convincing justification for a poor experience. People will pay more money for a better tablet, and that's why the iPad owns the market. Clearly, people aren't finding the inferior experience "awesome." The damn thing can't even turn pages smoothly, and it's supposed to be all about consuming media!
The latest iPod touch is almost entirely new hardware compared to the first iPod touch. Devices that drop in price are often existing hardware that becomes cheaper to make. Note that the iPhone 3GS was available for sale at a lower price after the release of the iPhone 4.
The summary fails to cite some of the core reasons for the complaints, which are that this feature will be enabled by default as well as the fact that the Adblock project is hoping to make monetary agreements with advertisers.
These videos were produced at public expense and no one can claim to own them, but multinationals from CBS to Discovery Communications have done just that, getting YouTube to place ads on the video that deliver income to their coffers. What's more, their false copyright claims could lead to the suspension of FedFlix's YouTube account under Google's rules for its copyright policing system. This system, ContentID, sets out penalties for 'repeat offenders' who generate too many copyright claims — but offers no corresponding penalties for rightsholders who make too many false claims of ownership.
What a surprise that the multi-billion dollar advertising company is complicit in displaying as many ads as possible regardless of actual content ownership. Google should be doing more to stop this.
It must be bizarro world today because your post is modded -1 even though what you stated is 100% correct. The iPad is the most popular tablet by a very wide margin, and it's because it's a good product. Slashdot has become so out-of-touch that they actually think it's due to some evil commercial conspiracy. I haven't seen this kind of pseudo-rationalization since the days when Windows 98 was dominant and Linux on the desktop was always around the corner.
Why would they use the Kindle for textbooks? The Kindle is black-and-white and doesn't support the kind of interactivity an iPad would.
Have people lost their minds around here or something? Just because an article exists about something that is a product doesn't mean it's just a big advertisement. You wouldn't even be saying all this if it was written about a product you happened to like, such as an Android device. But because it's the iPad--which Slashdotters have decided they don't like because it's popular--suddenly it's just pandering to Apple.
I know you're trolling, but honestly, many Android fans have become the most annoying people on the planet, even worse than Apple fanboys. Even troll sites like SomethingAwful have had to specifically call out Android fans and ban them on the spot on their forums for obsessive platform trolling. They out-troll the trolls.
You've actually got that completely backwards. Companies go to great pains to prevent their trademarked names from being diluted to the point that they become generic terms for a product category
People here are desperately trying to come up with rationalizations explaining why textbooks are being replaced with iPads rather than other choices they think are better, so you're going to get a lot of completely wrong statements. The post you're responding to wants to believe that evil commercialization has made people completely unaware of any alternatives to the iPad because they supposedly think that all tablets are iPads. At my local Walmart, there are non-iPad tablets sold right next to the iPads, and non-iPods sold right next to the iPods, yet the iPads and iPods sell.
The narrative is that, somehow, alternatives to the iPad would be better (no examples are actually given because most iPad competitors, frankly, suck) but that evil commercialization and ignorance made the inferior product successful. It's a tired cliche that will live forever on Slashdot to explain away the success of anything they don't like.
Yes, yes, the iPad is successful because people are just ignorant. Please continue to repeat the usual Slashdot myth used to explain away why Linux versions of things aren't as popular as closed-source versions of things. There couldn't possibly be any other factors involved.
The level of bitterness in these comments is really sad.
How on Earth is it "pretty sad?" They've decided that the iPad suits their needs better than most of the junky competing tablets. There's a reason the iPad is the dominant tablet right now. How would running an Android tablet (which is what you really want) be any more or less platform agnostic?
Did you not consider the possibility that most other MP3 players sucked, so they went with the iPod because it best suited their needs? That's even more of the case with tablets. The iPad is the #1 tablet by a huge margin because it beats competitors on responsiveness, price, application availability, and design. It almost sounds more like you simply don't like things that are popular.
I was commenting on the linked article, which lists the "process" in this study and uses juggling as an example. Yet the study doesn't involve that process at all, and that's not mentioned until after the hyperbolic headline and several paragraphs.
But you're right that I bucked the usual trend by reading a link first and summary second on Slashdot.
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I think the implication is that people may say such things, but it's really to make themselves feel better, as if they're "making up" for piracy.
To be fair, games with multi-million dollar budgets like Skrym probably could bankrupt a studio if they released it with no restrictions whatsoever. Software piracy is one of the reasons the games industry abandoned the PC and moved to consoles. I remember id Software stating that pre-release piracy of Doom 3 on the PC cost them millions of dollars.
Didn't Apple already prove this when they converted their music store to a DRM-free format? It seems like nobody around here gives them any credit for that...
Louis CK said in an NPR interview earlier this week:
I've noticed this attitude as well. It's really, really annoying.
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you an example of Early Onset Crotchety Syndrome (EOCS). Symptoms of EOCS include getting angry about stupid crap and ranting about things that don't matter, like having a floating toolbar instead of a permanent status bar that's empty most of the time.
If you or someone you know suffers from EOCS, please, make them go outside for a while.
If the FBI is using Carrier IQ data for investigative purposes, doesn't that call into question the earlier claim from security researchers that Carrier IQ isn't logging data?
Absolutely. I will criticize an ad-blocking project for making revenue agreements with whitelisted advertisers.
Welp, guys, this one poster on Slashdot is satisfied with his Kindle Fire, so that means the entire story is wrong. Hell, the NYT should just run its articles past the Slashdot community from now on before publication. You know, to properly vet them and all and make sure they're unbiased.
Welp, guys, this one person's wife likes her Fire, so clearly the article is biased and funded by Apple. In fact, any positive news about Apple is funded by Apple. There's just no way in the world that Apple might be good at making a hardware gadget, nor do they have hardware design experience spanning decades. It's a big conspiracy, I tell you.
Claiming that touchscreen sensitivity can be fixed in software is a huge assumption on your part. The other issues you mentioned could contribute to a poorer software interface through the addition of more screens and navigation.
"All available data points" = whatever user-written reviews an anonymous poster on Slashdot claims to have seen. Sorry, guys, story disproved!
The amount of bitterness emanating from your post is enough to power a whole room full of returned Kindle Fires.
I don't find the low price to be a convincing justification for a poor experience. People will pay more money for a better tablet, and that's why the iPad owns the market. Clearly, people aren't finding the inferior experience "awesome." The damn thing can't even turn pages smoothly, and it's supposed to be all about consuming media!
The latest iPod touch is almost entirely new hardware compared to the first iPod touch. Devices that drop in price are often existing hardware that becomes cheaper to make. Note that the iPhone 3GS was available for sale at a lower price after the release of the iPhone 4.
It's flamebait because it praises a good product by Apple. Incredibly, this is apparently becoming a taboo thing to post on Slashdot.
The summary fails to cite some of the core reasons for the complaints, which are that this feature will be enabled by default as well as the fact that the Adblock project is hoping to make monetary agreements with advertisers.
What a surprise that the multi-billion dollar advertising company is complicit in displaying as many ads as possible regardless of actual content ownership. Google should be doing more to stop this.
It must be bizarro world today because your post is modded -1 even though what you stated is 100% correct. The iPad is the most popular tablet by a very wide margin, and it's because it's a good product. Slashdot has become so out-of-touch that they actually think it's due to some evil commercial conspiracy. I haven't seen this kind of pseudo-rationalization since the days when Windows 98 was dominant and Linux on the desktop was always around the corner.
Why would they use the Kindle for textbooks? The Kindle is black-and-white and doesn't support the kind of interactivity an iPad would.
Have people lost their minds around here or something? Just because an article exists about something that is a product doesn't mean it's just a big advertisement. You wouldn't even be saying all this if it was written about a product you happened to like, such as an Android device. But because it's the iPad--which Slashdotters have decided they don't like because it's popular--suddenly it's just pandering to Apple.
Grow up!
I know you're trolling, but honestly, many Android fans have become the most annoying people on the planet, even worse than Apple fanboys. Even troll sites like SomethingAwful have had to specifically call out Android fans and ban them on the spot on their forums for obsessive platform trolling. They out-troll the trolls.
People here are desperately trying to come up with rationalizations explaining why textbooks are being replaced with iPads rather than other choices they think are better, so you're going to get a lot of completely wrong statements. The post you're responding to wants to believe that evil commercialization has made people completely unaware of any alternatives to the iPad because they supposedly think that all tablets are iPads. At my local Walmart, there are non-iPad tablets sold right next to the iPads, and non-iPods sold right next to the iPods, yet the iPads and iPods sell.
The narrative is that, somehow, alternatives to the iPad would be better (no examples are actually given because most iPad competitors, frankly, suck) but that evil commercialization and ignorance made the inferior product successful. It's a tired cliche that will live forever on Slashdot to explain away the success of anything they don't like.
Yes, yes, the iPad is successful because people are just ignorant. Please continue to repeat the usual Slashdot myth used to explain away why Linux versions of things aren't as popular as closed-source versions of things. There couldn't possibly be any other factors involved.
The level of bitterness in these comments is really sad.
How on Earth is it "pretty sad?" They've decided that the iPad suits their needs better than most of the junky competing tablets. There's a reason the iPad is the dominant tablet right now. How would running an Android tablet (which is what you really want) be any more or less platform agnostic?
Did you not consider the possibility that most other MP3 players sucked, so they went with the iPod because it best suited their needs? That's even more of the case with tablets. The iPad is the #1 tablet by a huge margin because it beats competitors on responsiveness, price, application availability, and design. It almost sounds more like you simply don't like things that are popular.
I was commenting on the linked article, which lists the "process" in this study and uses juggling as an example. Yet the study doesn't involve that process at all, and that's not mentioned until after the hyperbolic headline and several paragraphs.
But you're right that I bucked the usual trend by reading a link first and summary second on Slashdot.