Instead of feeding people bullshit like that, why don't they just tell everyone the truth?
"This is a niche product for a niche market and therefore we will never be able to produce anything affordable since each unit is basically built-to-order. We are the little guys, not Sony."
True that, I buy condoms with a big grin on my face. "Yes ma'am, I AM getting some tonight and for the forseeable future. I'll take the economy pack please."
Yeah it's high time we had some new psychological conditions and creative names to go with them.
1. Basement Dweller Syndrome (BDS): Lives in parent's basement despite making nearly 6 figure salaries. Addicted to WoW or FPS games. Characterized by pale skin and almost always either overweight or underweight. Argumentative and caustic when confronted online, pushover in real life. Contact with females infrequent and awkward. Generally high IQ although rampant fanboyism leads one to doubt it.
2. Curmudgeon Coder Disorder (CCD): Loves to program difficult software. Is happiest when working on complex, multi-layered problems. Socially inept by choice but strangely, gets along well with development teams. Level of expertise allows for many personality quirks to be overlooked. See 'Robot guy' from the movie Grandma's Boy. For some mysterious reason people afflicted with CCD somehow end up married with children.
3. Profit.
See what I did there? I left it open for interpretation.;) In reference to the dude in Austria that had the russian chick holed up in his basement for 8 years.
Dude, fuel efficient and Hummer don't belong in the same sentence. It gets 16/20 or 17 combined, which, for a Hummer, isn't bad, but it isn't good either. Believe it or not I know a thing or two about cars.:)
Apple and others will never be able to cut a deal with the RIAA and MPAA to make a box this useful. Trust me, by law it's probably guaranteed impossible at this point. It supports doing a ton of things they don't want you to do, like burning DVD discs of recorded content, ripping DVDs to the hard drive, ripping cds to mp3 format, etc. All of it is unencrypted and the dvd ripping step decrypts the disc as it's being ripped.
It's sad that the laws in this country and others have gotten so restrictive but it's what happens when everyone is distracted with Nascar and football games.
If you have comcast or other cable providers that use firewire on their digital boxen, you can record and watch unencrypted HD streams via firewire. Premium channels will be encrypted and therefore will give you ZERO output on the FW port (that includes anything you pay extra for like HBO and whatnot). Sorry, but them's the rules. Thanks DRM.
That doesn't count citizens, that counts total population. It's the most recent Census Bureau result and I doubt its accuracy to determine legal status.
People don't care about DRM until they run into problems it causes. Like not having a video card with component or hdmi inputs for their HTPCs so they can record from a digital set-top box. Like not being able to use iTMS music on other devices. Like not transferring music FROM their iPod TO their computer if their computer's hard drive dies. The list just goes on and on.
Digital Rights Management is a fucking nightmare if you want to do anything with any digital media these days. The rights are not yours, they're the content producers. BTW the word is 'throughout', not threw out.;)
It's no surprise the Mac gets second billing behind the iPod line. The iPod has done so much more for their profits and shareholders than their Macs ever did, and strangely enough, some people that buy iPods and love them end up buying Macs sooner or later. Plus, Macs have the bling factor due to the high style and high prices, so it becomes an upscale item for Mercedes owners to purchase.
Ultimately, it gets second place on a marquee because more people have an iPod at home than a Mac.
Jeez, I never fall for troll bait, but this time I have to step in.
You shouldn't even begin to compare driver support in BSD to driver support in Linux OR Windows. BSD is about 4 years behind any Linux distro in this respect. However, for the most part, Linux has a much more complete driver set for common hardware *out of the box* than Windows does. XP just seems to be a black hole when it comes to drivers these days..hell anything I order from Dell or other vendors, out of the box on a fresh OEM OS install, needs at LEAST 40 patches from Microsoft before it's somewhat trustworthy.
You should seriously take a nap instead of posting half-ass driver criticisms that aren't even relevant to the discussion.:)
Well I see a few flaws in your post. First of all, I don't see anything on the horizon as far as competition for or replacement of blu-ray or hd-dvd. Secondly, regardless of what your satellite or cable provider is broadcasting in hd, it looks like ass compared to br or hd-dvd discs due to the extreme compression the broadcasters use. Satellite, I'm told, is worse than cable in this department. Finally, comcast et al will never have an on demand library even approaching what netflix and others can offer. I guess it's okay for ppv or paid movies, but again, you have nasty compression.
I haven't even mentioned that no broadcasters have plans to move beyond 720p anytime soon. Those of you with 1080p sets are SOL in the media department until these new disc formats become ubiquitous. I hope you all have nice internal scalers and you sit really far away.:)
Sony's Blu-Ray is already a dead medium? Wow. I would rather say the same about HD-DVD, considering its total lack of support from any of the studios.
At the end of the day, you have to get content from point A to point B, and discs are the most cost-effective way to do that. Blu-Ray is an evolution of the CD and DVD formats that are so widely accepted. Plus, people with HD sets want HD media, and it delivers on all fronts.
However, since the PS3 and other next-gen consoles include standard USB2 ports and whatnot, if Sony wants to distribute Final Fantasy XXXII on a flash memory card, there's nothing stopping them. If and when flash memory of significant capacity gets cheap enough (from a manufacturing standpoint), I'm sure it will be considered.
Yeah, the thing is, it's not just bandwidth. It's server hardware, support staff, an hr department, the CEO tax, you name it, it's all part of an outrageous overhead package. Plus there are power bills, maybe some colo fees, etc. So yeah, you uh, kinda forgot to factor some things in.
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Instead of feeding people bullshit like that, why don't they just tell everyone the truth?
"This is a niche product for a niche market and therefore we will never be able to produce anything affordable since each unit is basically built-to-order. We are the little guys, not Sony."
True that, I buy condoms with a big grin on my face. "Yes ma'am, I AM getting some tonight and for the forseeable future. I'll take the economy pack please."
I seem to remember something like 'it's not the volts, but the AMPS that will kill you' in reference to electrical appliances. Is this correct?
Cool test, I just waded through it and got these results:
Your Aspie score: 94 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 125 of 200
You are both Aspie and neurotypical
Makes perfect sense to me.
Yeah it's high time we had some new psychological conditions and creative names to go with them.
1. Basement Dweller Syndrome (BDS): Lives in parent's basement despite making nearly 6 figure salaries. Addicted to WoW or FPS games. Characterized by pale skin and almost always either overweight or underweight. Argumentative and caustic when confronted online, pushover in real life. Contact with females infrequent and awkward. Generally high IQ although rampant fanboyism leads one to doubt it.
2. Curmudgeon Coder Disorder (CCD): Loves to program difficult software. Is happiest when working on complex, multi-layered problems. Socially inept by choice but strangely, gets along well with development teams. Level of expertise allows for many personality quirks to be overlooked. See 'Robot guy' from the movie Grandma's Boy. For some mysterious reason people afflicted with CCD somehow end up married with children.
3. Profit.
See what I did there? I left it open for interpretation. ;) In reference to the dude in Austria that had the russian chick holed up in his basement for 8 years.
The choice of ugly girl kidnappers worldwide.
Dude, fuel efficient and Hummer don't belong in the same sentence. It gets 16/20 or 17 combined, which, for a Hummer, isn't bad, but it isn't good either. Believe it or not I know a thing or two about cars. :)
YES!
Next question, you in the back with the hair standing straight up and the cloudy eyes...
The H3 is awesome. It's the only vehicle in the world that, at a filling station, if left idling while pumping gas into it, it will never fill up.
Well, what's stopping you from opening up shop, hiring techs and chip engineers, building your own fab, and competing with everyone?
Oh yeah...that's right. The billions of dollars it would require. I knew there was a catch.
All this and more is yours for the low low price of $0 from Knoppmyth.
Apple and others will never be able to cut a deal with the RIAA and MPAA to make a box this useful. Trust me, by law it's probably guaranteed impossible at this point. It supports doing a ton of things they don't want you to do, like burning DVD discs of recorded content, ripping DVDs to the hard drive, ripping cds to mp3 format, etc. All of it is unencrypted and the dvd ripping step decrypts the disc as it's being ripped.
It's sad that the laws in this country and others have gotten so restrictive but it's what happens when everyone is distracted with Nascar and football games.
If you have comcast or other cable providers that use firewire on their digital boxen, you can record and watch unencrypted HD streams via firewire. Premium channels will be encrypted and therefore will give you ZERO output on the FW port (that includes anything you pay extra for like HBO and whatnot). Sorry, but them's the rules. Thanks DRM.
Ohhh, I get it.
*coffee time*
That doesn't count citizens, that counts total population. It's the most recent Census Bureau result and I doubt its accuracy to determine legal status.
People don't care about DRM until they run into problems it causes. Like not having a video card with component or hdmi inputs for their HTPCs so they can record from a digital set-top box. Like not being able to use iTMS music on other devices. Like not transferring music FROM their iPod TO their computer if their computer's hard drive dies. The list just goes on and on.
;)
Digital Rights Management is a fucking nightmare if you want to do anything with any digital media these days. The rights are not yours, they're the content producers. BTW the word is 'throughout', not threw out.
It's no surprise the Mac gets second billing behind the iPod line. The iPod has done so much more for their profits and shareholders than their Macs ever did, and strangely enough, some people that buy iPods and love them end up buying Macs sooner or later. Plus, Macs have the bling factor due to the high style and high prices, so it becomes an upscale item for Mercedes owners to purchase.
Ultimately, it gets second place on a marquee because more people have an iPod at home than a Mac.
Jeez, I never fall for troll bait, but this time I have to step in.
:)
You shouldn't even begin to compare driver support in BSD to driver support in Linux OR Windows. BSD is about 4 years behind any Linux distro in this respect. However, for the most part, Linux has a much more complete driver set for common hardware *out of the box* than Windows does. XP just seems to be a black hole when it comes to drivers these days..hell anything I order from Dell or other vendors, out of the box on a fresh OEM OS install, needs at LEAST 40 patches from Microsoft before it's somewhat trustworthy.
You should seriously take a nap instead of posting half-ass driver criticisms that aren't even relevant to the discussion.
Oh, I wasn't talking about the tier1 provider, I was talking about your operation. :)
Well I see a few flaws in your post. First of all, I don't see anything on the horizon as far as competition for or replacement of blu-ray or hd-dvd. Secondly, regardless of what your satellite or cable provider is broadcasting in hd, it looks like ass compared to br or hd-dvd discs due to the extreme compression the broadcasters use. Satellite, I'm told, is worse than cable in this department. Finally, comcast et al will never have an on demand library even approaching what netflix and others can offer. I guess it's okay for ppv or paid movies, but again, you have nasty compression.
:)
I haven't even mentioned that no broadcasters have plans to move beyond 720p anytime soon. Those of you with 1080p sets are SOL in the media department until these new disc formats become ubiquitous. I hope you all have nice internal scalers and you sit really far away.
Sony's Blu-Ray is already a dead medium? Wow. I would rather say the same about HD-DVD, considering its total lack of support from any of the studios.
At the end of the day, you have to get content from point A to point B, and discs are the most cost-effective way to do that. Blu-Ray is an evolution of the CD and DVD formats that are so widely accepted. Plus, people with HD sets want HD media, and it delivers on all fronts.
However, since the PS3 and other next-gen consoles include standard USB2 ports and whatnot, if Sony wants to distribute Final Fantasy XXXII on a flash memory card, there's nothing stopping them. If and when flash memory of significant capacity gets cheap enough (from a manufacturing standpoint), I'm sure it will be considered.
Yeah, the thing is, it's not just bandwidth. It's server hardware, support staff, an hr department, the CEO tax, you name it, it's all part of an outrageous overhead package. Plus there are power bills, maybe some colo fees, etc. So yeah, you uh, kinda forgot to factor some things in.
By 'friends' I meant Netflix's competitors (Blockbuster, Wal-Mart). But thanks for playing, Mr. -1 Troll. ;p
More DRM-laden crap from Apple? No thanks, I'll stick to Netflix and friends for the time being.