By pricing music out of the market to avarage citizens, they just feed the pirate market. This is exactly what trent is asking australians to do. BTW what does a CD costs in Australia?
Wow, of course sepending the 50K a month to provide sys admin over the internet (back when you had the crazy idea that printing press not computers were the worst offender to the enviroment) was a great idea. "Hey look theres one crazy nut who will pay us $50 a year to do it." Obviously it was a lack of vision on their part I mean you were willing to pay 50 buck a year.
Do you see greater value in purchasing a version that you can watch on your iPod than you do in purchasing the DVD?
I don't own an iPOD However I can view them full-screen on my computer which is how I watch DVDs since my Laptop has a bigger screen than my tv. I understand that this makes me atypical to the point of being irrelevant to the success of iTunes Video.
Guess my question is how much of your example is due to the fact that you COULD download from iTunes and it's the new fun thing to do? Do you see this technology as something with staying power, and if so, why?
Yes, the novelty of downloading them from the itunes store will fade. I believe that the staying power will hold because you can get an episode the day after it airs, where it takes at least 6 month after a show has aired for it to be available on DVD. In the end you're trading convenience over quality. Which almost always wins in the end, just look at the crap the avarage american eats for lunch.
I still wonder if it would be illegal to buy a game, and never install and agree to the EULA. Could I legally distribute copies of it, claiming I was ignorant of the EULA, and didn't agree to anything anyway?
The game is still copyrighted. Unauthorised duplication of copyright material for other than personal use is illegal, with or with out an EULA.
I think sometime soon people will start distributing cracks designed to install legitimately purchased software without agreeing to the EULA. I wonder if that would hold up in court.
So true, snipers tend to be the type who think they're playing team death-match or something. They sit around getting head-shots and racking up kills while all the flags are capped by the opposing team. That's why my DC server always had deathcam enabled.
From Wikipedia: Los Angeles
On September 4, 1781, settlers from the San Gabriel Mission founded the town and named it "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula"
From Wikipedia: Louisiana
Louisiana was named by the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in honour of Louis XIV in 1682.
I'm guessing that the LA abbreviation was applied to Louisiana first, as it was named almost 100 years prior to Los Angeles.
I had to help my sister figure out some computer related things at work this morning. They had AOL dial-up internet. I didn't even know they made that anymore.
The full quote is: "It's funny. He'd gone all the way to California to get this film made. And it ended up being made by two blokes from down the road."
In England instead of saying dude they say "bloke". Now I can see how at first glance it might seem they meant to say. "Two blocks down the road." I had to do a double-take myself.
Well either it's them or IMDB being as IMDB has a pretty graphic to match their title I doubt it's them. Good find though, I'm off to blockbuster right now.
Yeah, that wouldn't confuse people. Especially the majority of their first time users, the ones who are already somewhat familiar with windows and two button mouse.
WOW, you're a genius! You should send them your résumé, right now!
Other people have covered this one so I'll just add an anecdote. the first time I saw a multi button mouse (well trackball really) was on my grandpas old ass mac (OS 7 or something). He had all the extra buttons mapped to things ( select all, copy, and paste I believe).
Yeah, it's been trivial to do what you want for quite a while now.
Uhm if you read the post clearly he said he was a resant imigrant to the UK. Also this national ID is a UK (not US) thing. I'm guessing that he did in fact come from the US, so the national ID he was refering to was probably his Diver's License.
Au contraire, mon cher! It is quite on topic. Electricians routinely fish for wires through walls...
Perhaps except two things most sparkies I know wouldn't use such a cheep SOP fish-tape. Secondly fish-tape is used to fish wire through conduit. fishing cables, and romex through walls is usually done with fish-stix. Yes triads-men have a sense of humor too.
iRiver is the third leading seller of MP3 portables with 5.6% of the market, following the number two seller Rio which holds 6.4% of the market. And the Apple iPod? No surprise, only a whopping 65.8% of all units shipped.
Reminds me of the old adage: "Second place is the first loser"
I always thought that was a rather annoying way to look at it.
In this case I think it applies. 65.8 : 6.4 is just over a factor of ten. Damn Apple really does dominate that market. Hopefully this works out for iRiver. Otherwise there probably not going to last long. They're getting creamed (at 5.6%).
Though I suppose one can say by the same logic Apple is getting creamed in the computer market. Though I wonder how their numbers compare to other vendors (ei Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc) as opposed to apple vs. the entire PC market.
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By pricing music out of the market to avarage citizens, they just feed the pirate market. This is exactly what trent is asking australians to do. BTW what does a CD costs in Australia?
Wow, of course sepending the 50K a month to provide sys admin over the internet (back when you had the crazy idea that printing press not computers were the worst offender to the enviroment) was a great idea. "Hey look theres one crazy nut who will pay us $50 a year to do it." Obviously it was a lack of vision on their part I mean you were willing to pay 50 buck a year.
Hawking is a Brit? How come he talks with an American accent? They couldn't give him a voice box with an English accent?
It's called a spliff and yeah it's not as common it the US.
Why can't Sony just make a two sided disk like we have now for widescreen and standard? Blue-ray on one side and DVD on the other?
"Steal", "Share"? It's all just a matter of semantics these days.
He describes Kevin Smith and Matt Stone as: "two of my personal favorites"
Maybe he's just upset that he won't be old enough to watch it when it comes out. Just make sure mommy and daddy get that IFC subscription.
Do you see greater value in purchasing a version that you can watch on your iPod than you do in purchasing the DVD?
I don't own an iPOD However I can view them full-screen on my computer which is how I watch DVDs since my Laptop has a bigger screen than my tv. I understand that this makes me atypical to the point of being irrelevant to the success of iTunes Video.
Guess my question is how much of your example is due to the fact that you COULD download from iTunes and it's the new fun thing to do? Do you see this technology as something with staying power, and if so, why?
Yes, the novelty of downloading them from the itunes store will fade. I believe that the staying power will hold because you can get an episode the day after it airs, where it takes at least 6 month after a show has aired for it to be available on DVD. In the end you're trading convenience over quality. Which almost always wins in the end, just look at the crap the avarage american eats for lunch.
I still wonder if it would be illegal to buy a game, and never install and agree to the EULA. Could I legally distribute copies of it, claiming I was ignorant of the EULA, and didn't agree to anything anyway?
The game is still copyrighted. Unauthorised duplication of copyright material for other than personal use is illegal, with or with out an EULA.
I think sometime soon people will start distributing cracks designed to install legitimately purchased software without agreeing to the EULA. I wonder if that would hold up in court.
Everyone hates the sniper, even his own teamates.
So true, snipers tend to be the type who think they're playing team death-match or something. They sit around getting head-shots and racking up kills while all the flags are capped by the opposing team. That's why my DC server always had deathcam enabled.
They'd probably lose.
From Wikipedia: Los Angeles
On September 4, 1781, settlers from the San Gabriel Mission founded the town and named it "El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula"
From Wikipedia: Louisiana
Louisiana was named by the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle in honour of Louis XIV in 1682.
I'm guessing that the LA abbreviation was applied to Louisiana first, as it was named almost 100 years prior to Los Angeles.
Could be the German influence. From what I remember a good deal of the KDE developers are German.
I had to help my sister figure out some computer related things at work this morning. They had AOL dial-up internet. I didn't even know they made that anymore.
The full quote is:
"It's funny. He'd gone all the way to California to get this film made. And it ended up being made by two blokes from down the road."
In England instead of saying dude they say "bloke". Now I can see how at first glance it might seem they meant to say. "Two blocks down the road." I had to do a double-take myself.
Where is the joke? I don't get it.
Well either it's them or IMDB being as IMDB has a pretty graphic to match their title I doubt it's them. Good find though, I'm off to blockbuster right now.
Yeah, that wouldn't confuse people. Especially the majority of their first time users, the ones who are already somewhat familiar with windows and two button mouse.
WOW, you're a genius! You should send them your résumé, right now!
Other people have covered this one so I'll just add an anecdote. the first time I saw a multi button mouse (well trackball really) was on my grandpas old ass mac (OS 7 or something). He had all the extra buttons mapped to things ( select all, copy, and paste I believe).
Yeah, it's been trivial to do what you want for quite a while now.
Uhm if you read the post clearly he said he was a resant imigrant to the UK. Also this national ID is a UK (not US) thing. I'm guessing that he did in fact come from the US, so the national ID he was refering to was probably his Diver's License.
But we have ill tempered sea bass, thats gotta count for something.
Au contraire, mon cher! It is quite on topic. Electricians routinely fish for wires through walls...
Perhaps except two things most sparkies I know wouldn't use such a cheep SOP fish-tape. Secondly fish-tape is used to fish wire through conduit. fishing cables, and romex through walls is usually done with fish-stix. Yes triads-men have a sense of humor too.
They sorta do.. If you have a new BMW that is.
iRiver is the third leading seller of MP3 portables with 5.6% of the market, following the number two seller Rio which holds 6.4% of the market. And the Apple iPod? No surprise, only a whopping 65.8% of all units shipped.
Reminds me of the old adage: "Second place is the first loser"
I always thought that was a rather annoying way to look at it. In this case I think it applies. 65.8 : 6.4 is just over a factor of ten. Damn Apple really does dominate that market. Hopefully this works out for iRiver. Otherwise there probably not going to last long. They're getting creamed (at 5.6%).
Though I suppose one can say by the same logic Apple is getting creamed in the computer market. Though I wonder how their numbers compare to other vendors (ei Dell, HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc) as opposed to apple vs. the entire PC market.
When did this TLD come about?
Yeah me too. 6' even and 145lbs and I'm a tradesman for gods sake.