Troll? I was kidding! It was supposed to be funny! I mean, if it wasn't then fine, sorry, my sense of humor sucks but I'd hardly call it a troll. They need to have a catagory for people to mod things "Not Funny".
I love it when I go on ebay and search for PowerBooks and up pops ten to fifteen auctions for 17" PowerBooks selling for $1500. You might be able to click on one or two of them to see the guys pitch but usually they're closed almost as fast as they open. The times I've been able to see the auction he's usually only taking Paypal and he's got to unload these things FAST!
I guess if someones mind works that way then all they need to do is get one person to bite and their night is made.
I wonder if at some point ebay decided to crack down on this and started shutting down the auctions maybe sellers would start auctioning things like pennies or buttons that also came with a complimentary in-game item. Kind of like those people selling software that has to be bundled with hardware who send you an old floppy drive mounting kit with it to comply with the rules.
I'm sure that probably a lot of music hasn't made it to iTunes yet that people are looking for. How can it not be? The sheer volume of stuff people want is incredible and hopefully it will all (or at least mostly) make it on there.
I think the thing to keep in mind is that yes, no commercial company can measure up to the file sharing networks RIGHT NOW but they're relatively new and have to take a much different approach to assembling their catalog than Napster and Kazaa did. The upside to this is that by doing it "by the book" they might be around 5 years from now and making a profit.
How can something that isn't even finished yet be obsolete? Before you judge them to be completely devoid of merit let them run for a while and take into account what they have to go through to make this music available in this manner.
iTunes probably works well for me because I'm not a big audiophile. I've got a lot of music by many peoples standards but my collection is probably tiny compared to many others. Much of the older stuff that I like (like the Beatles music) I already owned on CD's before Napster appeared so I don't feel a lot of need to go looking for it. Should I need it in the future though I'm sure it'll make it onboard.
And you go for it man. I'm happy with the quality of the songs on iTunes. That's me and obviously different people have different standards.
I also have DSL and I'd be ok with the file sizes if they gave me an option of getting the WAV instead of the AAC but the AAC doesn't suck so I'm good. Hell since I'm mostly about downloading a track or two per album (and not always the "hit single" either) I'd even be willing to go a buck fifty to get the better quality file. Now a lot of people wouldn't but again, that's me.
I respect what you're saying but I think that based on the number of people who've been downloading MP3's and the price that iTunes is asking for individual tracks that they're going to appeal to plenty of people selling it the way they're doing. The Dial-ups are going to require the file size be small enough to at least get in a night and so many people out there are ok with the MP3/AAC kind of quality already that it will be a non-factor to most.
I have but I have to admit that it only applies to movies. I last logged in to get a song before iTunes Music Store came online. Now that's got my music needs covered.
I still go to P2P for the odd South Park episode, that hard to find must have porn, or to get some software. Movies have absolutely nothing to fear from me though. Too much time and the results are crap.
I never said I wasn't stealing their shit. I only said I'd buy it if they met me halfway. iTunes did that and now I'm doing that.
Now let's get with the $5 DVD's and the $29 Photoshop people! Chop Chop!
Legal alternative which gives me music the way I want to buy it. See RIAA guys, now that wasn't so hard was it?
We aren't all theives just looking for free music. Some of us were just looking for what we consider to be an equitable business model for buying songs. I've found iTunes and it's close enough that I'd rather buy music there than download it on Kazaa.
Please no, don't suggest he try again. This guy couldn't write a fucking grocery list much less an article on how to put the RIAA in their place.
The original poster mentioned the good information in here if you could get past the writing but I think he undersold how bad the venting was in this and overplayed the quality of the information. It wasn't worth the read.
So the remake will be a total farce of a show that was in itself a total farce. Galactica fucking blew and twenty plus years later it blows even harder. Without doing it differently there's no way this would fly.
If SciFi really doesn't care about sci-fi then they picked a series to bring back that's right up their alley. Battlestar Galactica was nothing more than an incoherent, Star Wars coat tail riding piece of late 70's network shit.
Honestly I don't know how anyone could not be positive about a "reimagining" of it. The original was so bad that it can only get better.
No doubt they will miss having that critial group of people who watched the original and remain dedicated fans. I'm sure they'll mourn the loss of all 82 of them.
Relative to the number of people who have never watched this show newcommers (people born after this abortion went off the air) will be in the majority. At best this show, if they like it, will prod some of them into trying to see the original movie and/or episodes. Then they will laugh and turn it off.
I don't think they even hear the big companies saying that DRM is good. I don't think that this even registers in their minds.
Why should it? They don't care and it has no effect on them that they can see. Their kid wants this, it does what he says he wants it to do (plays games) and that's the sum total of it.
I don't think game consoles are where the fight over fair use should be fought. Fight it somewhere else where you stand a chance of winning and getting the common mans attention and then apply it here with the precedent. Or we could lose it here and then have the companies apply the precedent to areas where they have a harder time selling their line.
You're only doing this two hours per day? Damnit man! Stop your slacking and pick it up a bit. Minimum 4.5 hous a day or we'll find someone else who can pull his weight!
For the most part I'm in agreement with you but I'd like to point out that yes, you can overclock Macs. People do it all the time. It's almost no different than overclocking Intel processors.
At home, I'm dead set against a Microsoft product entering my house. I absolutely hate that company. At work though I don't have much choice and I have to support 17 servers and 250 or so desktops. All of them are running Windows 2000 and I can't complain about it.
It's very solid and I hardly ever see one crash. A bit of hardware here that doesn't play nice or a user who's had a mountain of crap programs get on his computer through his browser (DON'T CLICK THE FUCKING POPUPS YOU MORONS!!!) can kill it but it's mostly a pretty good OS.
Funny that. It's exactly what I did the moment I fired up Firebird for the first time. Went looking for a theme that would complete the Safari look and I'm set. I still hate the "File...Edit...View" across the top but then it's a small thing really.
Close enough. Finally I can browse at work without constantly changing direction as I try to head for the Safari back button and then change course midway through to go to the IE location of same.
I think more goes into it than you're covering. I agree with the previous poster that sometime around the PII 450-500 things got very comfortable. Yes, obviously more speed is faster and that's better. I don't think he was arguing that you're just as well off with that PII 500 as you are with your 2.2Ghz machine (though he might have sounded that way to you, understandable)
I think he meant that at around that time you could do most of the things you wanted to do in a respectable amount of time and it's been that good or better ever since. If you had to go back to your PII 600 and that was the only machine you could have then you could do a lot of what you need to without much trouble. Certainly you would have to back off on some things but it would be usable. You could get something done on it without growing old waiting for it.
I agree with you but I'm not so certain that I believe that Apple should drop it's comparison to the PC world (though I think we're in agreement there too at least in principle)
I think their focus needs to be on comparing things other than just hauling ass speed and brute strength. There are lots of things about Macs that they can win points on over PC's (just as I will freely admit there are plenty of areas where a PC fits the bill, that's why I own several of them as well as my Macs).
Your "We're Apple - we're not a PC" comment puts it best. That's what I want out of Apple.
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Troll? I was kidding! It was supposed to be funny! I mean, if it wasn't then fine, sorry, my sense of humor sucks but I'd hardly call it a troll. They need to have a catagory for people to mod things "Not Funny".
I love it when I go on ebay and search for PowerBooks and up pops ten to fifteen auctions for 17" PowerBooks selling for $1500. You might be able to click on one or two of them to see the guys pitch but usually they're closed almost as fast as they open. The times I've been able to see the auction he's usually only taking Paypal and he's got to unload these things FAST!
I guess if someones mind works that way then all they need to do is get one person to bite and their night is made.
He already did that to everyone who paid to see Episodes I & II.
I wonder if at some point ebay decided to crack down on this and started shutting down the auctions maybe sellers would start auctioning things like pennies or buttons that also came with a complimentary in-game item. Kind of like those people selling software that has to be bundled with hardware who send you an old floppy drive mounting kit with it to comply with the rules.
You should have submitted that. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of bears shitting in the woods in Soviet Russia.
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I'm sure that probably a lot of music hasn't made it to iTunes yet that people are looking for. How can it not be? The sheer volume of stuff people want is incredible and hopefully it will all (or at least mostly) make it on there.
I think the thing to keep in mind is that yes, no commercial company can measure up to the file sharing networks RIGHT NOW but they're relatively new and have to take a much different approach to assembling their catalog than Napster and Kazaa did. The upside to this is that by doing it "by the book" they might be around 5 years from now and making a profit.
How can something that isn't even finished yet be obsolete? Before you judge them to be completely devoid of merit let them run for a while and take into account what they have to go through to make this music available in this manner.
iTunes probably works well for me because I'm not a big audiophile. I've got a lot of music by many peoples standards but my collection is probably tiny compared to many others. Much of the older stuff that I like (like the Beatles music) I already owned on CD's before Napster appeared so I don't feel a lot of need to go looking for it. Should I need it in the future though I'm sure it'll make it onboard.
And you go for it man. I'm happy with the quality of the songs on iTunes. That's me and obviously different people have different standards.
I also have DSL and I'd be ok with the file sizes if they gave me an option of getting the WAV instead of the AAC but the AAC doesn't suck so I'm good. Hell since I'm mostly about downloading a track or two per album (and not always the "hit single" either) I'd even be willing to go a buck fifty to get the better quality file. Now a lot of people wouldn't but again, that's me.
I respect what you're saying but I think that based on the number of people who've been downloading MP3's and the price that iTunes is asking for individual tracks that they're going to appeal to plenty of people selling it the way they're doing. The Dial-ups are going to require the file size be small enough to at least get in a night and so many people out there are ok with the MP3/AAC kind of quality already that it will be a non-factor to most.
I have but I have to admit that it only applies to movies. I last logged in to get a song before iTunes Music Store came online. Now that's got my music needs covered.
I still go to P2P for the odd South Park episode, that hard to find must have porn, or to get some software. Movies have absolutely nothing to fear from me though. Too much time and the results are crap.
I never said I wasn't stealing their shit. I only said I'd buy it if they met me halfway. iTunes did that and now I'm doing that.
Now let's get with the $5 DVD's and the $29 Photoshop people! Chop Chop!
Legal alternative which gives me music the way I want to buy it. See RIAA guys, now that wasn't so hard was it?
We aren't all theives just looking for free music. Some of us were just looking for what we consider to be an equitable business model for buying songs. I've found iTunes and it's close enough that I'd rather buy music there than download it on Kazaa.
Please no, don't suggest he try again. This guy couldn't write a fucking grocery list much less an article on how to put the RIAA in their place.
The original poster mentioned the good information in here if you could get past the writing but I think he undersold how bad the venting was in this and overplayed the quality of the information. It wasn't worth the read.
So the remake will be a total farce of a show that was in itself a total farce. Galactica fucking blew and twenty plus years later it blows even harder. Without doing it differently there's no way this would fly.
If SciFi really doesn't care about sci-fi then they picked a series to bring back that's right up their alley. Battlestar Galactica was nothing more than an incoherent, Star Wars coat tail riding piece of late 70's network shit.
Honestly I don't know how anyone could not be positive about a "reimagining" of it. The original was so bad that it can only get better.
No doubt they will miss having that critial group of people who watched the original and remain dedicated fans. I'm sure they'll mourn the loss of all 82 of them.
Relative to the number of people who have never watched this show newcommers (people born after this abortion went off the air) will be in the majority. At best this show, if they like it, will prod some of them into trying to see the original movie and/or episodes. Then they will laugh and turn it off.
And lets not forget the "Ron Jeremy Condom Machine" in the mens room on the third floor of Terminal B. There's another example.
I don't think they even hear the big companies saying that DRM is good. I don't think that this even registers in their minds.
Why should it? They don't care and it has no effect on them that they can see. Their kid wants this, it does what he says he wants it to do (plays games) and that's the sum total of it.
I don't think game consoles are where the fight over fair use should be fought. Fight it somewhere else where you stand a chance of winning and getting the common mans attention and then apply it here with the precedent. Or we could lose it here and then have the companies apply the precedent to areas where they have a harder time selling their line.
Figures. Mod this one Offtopic too while you're at it.
See this is all wrong. At this time it's modded "Troll" which is a travesty. It's +1 Funny damnit!
No mod points, can't offset rectal moderator, sorry.
And found a taxable resource that's never, ever going away. It's perfect.
You're only doing this two hours per day? Damnit man! Stop your slacking and pick it up a bit. Minimum 4.5 hous a day or we'll find someone else who can pull his weight!
Now THAT was a damned funny comment. Thank You.
For the most part I'm in agreement with you but I'd like to point out that yes, you can overclock Macs. People do it all the time. It's almost no different than overclocking Intel processors.
I think Kris Kristofferson wrote
"If you waste your time talking to the people who don't listen to the things that you are saying who do you thinks gonna hear.
And if you should die explaining how the things that they complain about are things they could be changing who do you think's gonna care
Your brief answer popped that line into my head. That's all. Good song too.
At home, I'm dead set against a Microsoft product entering my house. I absolutely hate that company. At work though I don't have much choice and I have to support 17 servers and 250 or so desktops. All of them are running Windows 2000 and I can't complain about it.
It's very solid and I hardly ever see one crash. A bit of hardware here that doesn't play nice or a user who's had a mountain of crap programs get on his computer through his browser (DON'T CLICK THE FUCKING POPUPS YOU MORONS!!!) can kill it but it's mostly a pretty good OS.
Funny that. It's exactly what I did the moment I fired up Firebird for the first time. Went looking for a theme that would complete the Safari look and I'm set. I still hate the "File...Edit...View" across the top but then it's a small thing really.
Close enough. Finally I can browse at work without constantly changing direction as I try to head for the Safari back button and then change course midway through to go to the IE location of same.
I think more goes into it than you're covering. I agree with the previous poster that sometime around the PII 450-500 things got very comfortable. Yes, obviously more speed is faster and that's better. I don't think he was arguing that you're just as well off with that PII 500 as you are with your 2.2Ghz machine (though he might have sounded that way to you, understandable)
I think he meant that at around that time you could do most of the things you wanted to do in a respectable amount of time and it's been that good or better ever since. If you had to go back to your PII 600 and that was the only machine you could have then you could do a lot of what you need to without much trouble. Certainly you would have to back off on some things but it would be usable. You could get something done on it without growing old waiting for it.
I agree with you but I'm not so certain that I believe that Apple should drop it's comparison to the PC world (though I think we're in agreement there too at least in principle)
I think their focus needs to be on comparing things other than just hauling ass speed and brute strength. There are lots of things about Macs that they can win points on over PC's (just as I will freely admit there are plenty of areas where a PC fits the bill, that's why I own several of them as well as my Macs).
Your "We're Apple - we're not a PC" comment puts it best. That's what I want out of Apple.