I would have assumed that if you're buying an expensive, trendy, top of the line device which sells itself based on its appearance, that they would have done that before it left the factory?
That's like buying a Ferrari and then realising the paint dissolves in rain, but it's your fault because you were supposed to have it re-painted when you buy it.
I suppose Apple fanboys will put up with any abuse. It's like the beaten wife who tells herself she deserves it.
You're joking. There are all sorts of types of screens which don't scratch, even after heavy abuse. There's no excuse for such an expensive device being so fragile. Apple is cutting corners to save money at the expense of its most loyal customers, and the apologists are STILL out in force defending them.
What's the point in getting an expensive fancy ipod if you need an expensive plastic cover to hide its fancy appearance? You may as well get a non-apple mp3 player because it will be just as ugly.
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It's only popular amongst a small set of jobless geeks with high-speed Internet access. Most people won't want to spend hours and hours downloading a 20 minutes TV show and then watch it in a tiny window on the computer.
Maybe in 20 years when every house has unlimited, 100mbps, quota-less Internet like electricity or water, and it just plugs into the TV without having to fuck about with p2p or mythtv, then it might be possible.
Hello, a device designed to be kept in your pocket shouldn't be damaged by being in your pocket. I've got a cheap and nasty mobile phone, kept it in my pocket with all sorts of crap for over a year now, treated it like shit and there's no scratch on it.
(you did order a case, right?)
Er, hello? The whole point of an ipod nano is that it's small and looks good. It isn't small when it's in a case, and you can't see it either. The cases aren't even out yet, and I bet you'll have to pay through the nose for them as well.
For all the money Apple charge for their high-end products, they should at least be able to take average wear and tear.
Why can't you Apple fanboys just admit that your favourite corporation is treating you early-adopters like guinea pigs? Only guinea pigs who get to pay for the privelege.
So after paying through the nose for a trendy electronics device, I have to pay AGAIN just to stop the thing from being destroyed during every day use?
And surely the whole point of ipods is that they're small and look good. Put them in a case and you may as well use a rio or that new dell thing or something. You'd save money as well.
That's like saying you should put designer sunglasses in cases to stop them being scratched.
When they sell them, I don't think they put a warning on the box saying 'gets horribly scratched just by using it normally'.
Something like that is clearly a faulty product. An mp3 player which can't even sit in your pocket without being damaged isn't much use. Like car tyres which burst on contact with tarmac.
Personally, I don't care if my iPod gets scratched. It's a music player, not a mirror in the Hubble space telescope or something. As long as it plays music, it works for me.
I thought the whole POINT of an ipod over cheaper and more functional devices was its appearance? If its scratched to fuck or you have to put it in an ugly case, surely that defeats the object?
Copyright law is to protect the creators, not the leeches. Public domain is a priveledge, one that you don't deserve because you're probably a pirate anyway. Your constitutions's irrelevent anyway, the berne convention is the most important authority.
That limited time thing is a mere technicality. I don't really care about public domain. Public domain is a priveledge not a right. People's physical property's don't become public properly, so you should be grateful that it happens to intellectual property. Maybe you're just too cheap to pay for things, like most people here.
but then they apparently don't have mod points since your comment is now flamebait.
It's pretty much a given that my posts are modded down, as I'm not part of the reality distortion field that envelops this site. I'll just have to make a few posts talking about how Google's lastest half-baked web-service rip off is the greatest invention ever, or how piracy is a god-given right, to get back to excellent karma.
Considering the French spoken in Canada, Australia actually has more English speakers. Also Canadians speak an English which is more American than anything, whereas Australia have a more unique dialect.
I'm afraid that copyright law is moral and ethical. Breaking it is immoral and communistic. If you don't understand copyright then you are not mature enough. Come back in ten years when you've grown up a bit.
You'd never invite a girl for your first date, to your livingroom.
Yes you would. If you get a girl back to your house, for anything, be it dinner or watching a film in the living room, you're 99% of the way into her cunt. Guaranteed. The only thing that can go wrong is if you do something stupid and fuck it up.
Great, another 'expert' with no clue about business. You do realise that the cinemas make next to no money from ticket prices? They make their money largely from the food and drink.
You say that it's too expensive, then you want them to employ more expensive staff? This doesn't add up. Did you skip maths lessons at school? Here's a hint in case anyone reads your post: hiring more projectionists and more skilled workers costs more money. This money will go on your ticket price. Then you'll be whining that the prices have gone up. THINK FIRST, POST LATER.
How is the business method old? A business method is not obsolete just because it's taken advantage of by criminals. The answer is to stop the crime not to force the businesses to cut revenue streams to cater to the criminals.
They MAKE the damn films, how are they the problem? The problem is piracy by all the children modding up the posts on this article.
It's a wonder how Slashdot is glad that illegal activities are forcing people to change how they do business. Whatever happened to cracking down on the criminals rather than the victims? It's sort of when a burglar breaks into someone's house and the police arrest the homeowner for hurting the burglar's feelings.
If shoplifters were stealing bread from bakeries, you wouldn't suggest that bakers keep their loaves in locked cabinets and put security guards at the front door, you'd suggest the thieves were locked up. How is this any different? Stop sympathising with people who break the law.
This isn't exactly something new. Films have been released straight-to-DVD for years. And before that it was straight-to-video. I don't really trust a film like this, if it was any good he'd want to keep it in the cinemas as long as possible. I expect to see this in the bargain bin within a month.
I really don't give a shit. I'm not a suicide bomber, I don't give a shit about my stuff being searched. Better that than a bomb get on a train and kill a load of people. There's no argument to that. You've lost.
I don't care if the odd asylum seeker or illegal immigrant gets searched or shot, might put some of them off coming here.
Something very expensive and lacking in functionality.
Signed, Sandal-wearing, turtle-neck jumpered, left-wing, limp-wristed graphic designers who pay half a day's wages for a cup of sugary coffee from a trendy cafe.
Again, I refer to the founders of our government. When they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they and subsequent lawmakers have defined exactly under what situations our civil rights can be removed.
Since when is London in America? Typical arrogant fucking fat yank, thinks his stupid fucking laws and constitutions apply over the entire fucking world.
Here's a hint: I don't carry bombs in my bags, so I don't give a shit about coppers looking in them. But then I don't look like a paki so I've nothing to worry about.
Maybe you're a terrorist or an asylum seeker? Either way you can fuck off. Worthless fucking cunt.
It's funny how reduced functionality can be a bonus when 'goooogle' do it. If Microsoft had made you jump through hoops to perform simple functions they'd be slated. I for one don't like someone telling me what to do with my own e-mails as if I can't think for myself, it's patronising.
As for the FP, gmail is far from pretty, I've had mutt colour schemes that look better.
Fucking hell, there are terrorists trying to blow people up, and you're worried about the coppers looking at the tampons in your handbag. Get some priorities!
If someone's carrying contraband, or they're an illegal immigrant (like that Brazilian suicider), then they have no right to complain about being searched. That's the least of their worries! Jesus, we worry more about the rights of asylum seekers and terrorists than we do law abiding citizens.
What a stupid thing to say. Being checked for bombs isn't handing control of your daily life to anyone. You can already be arrested, you can already have your house searched, that's entirely reasonable.
How dare you play the knee-jerk reactionist card to get modded up, that's abusing the system.
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I would have assumed that if you're buying an expensive, trendy, top of the line device which sells itself based on its appearance, that they would have done that before it left the factory?
That's like buying a Ferrari and then realising the paint dissolves in rain, but it's your fault because you were supposed to have it re-painted when you buy it.
I suppose Apple fanboys will put up with any abuse. It's like the beaten wife who tells herself she deserves it.
You're joking. There are all sorts of types of screens which don't scratch, even after heavy abuse. There's no excuse for such an expensive device being so fragile. Apple is cutting corners to save money at the expense of its most loyal customers, and the apologists are STILL out in force defending them.
What's the point in getting an expensive fancy ipod if you need an expensive plastic cover to hide its fancy appearance? You may as well get a non-apple mp3 player because it will be just as ugly.
It's only popular amongst a small set of jobless geeks with high-speed Internet access. Most people won't want to spend hours and hours downloading a 20 minutes TV show and then watch it in a tiny window on the computer.
Maybe in 20 years when every house has unlimited, 100mbps, quota-less Internet like electricity or water, and it just plugs into the TV without having to fuck about with p2p or mythtv, then it might be possible.
Hello, a device designed to be kept in your pocket shouldn't be damaged by being in your pocket. I've got a cheap and nasty mobile phone, kept it in my pocket with all sorts of crap for over a year now, treated it like shit and there's no scratch on it.
(you did order a case, right?)
Er, hello? The whole point of an ipod nano is that it's small and looks good. It isn't small when it's in a case, and you can't see it either. The cases aren't even out yet, and I bet you'll have to pay through the nose for them as well.
For all the money Apple charge for their high-end products, they should at least be able to take average wear and tear.
Why can't you Apple fanboys just admit that your favourite corporation is treating you early-adopters like guinea pigs? Only guinea pigs who get to pay for the privelege.
Like, whatever...
So after paying through the nose for a trendy electronics device, I have to pay AGAIN just to stop the thing from being destroyed during every day use?
And surely the whole point of ipods is that they're small and look good. Put them in a case and you may as well use a rio or that new dell thing or something. You'd save money as well.
That's like saying you should put designer sunglasses in cases to stop them being scratched.
When they sell them, I don't think they put a warning on the box saying 'gets horribly scratched just by using it normally'.
Something like that is clearly a faulty product. An mp3 player which can't even sit in your pocket without being damaged isn't much use. Like car tyres which burst on contact with tarmac.
Personally, I don't care if my iPod gets scratched. It's a music player, not a mirror in the Hubble space telescope or something. As long as it plays music, it works for me.
I thought the whole POINT of an ipod over cheaper and more functional devices was its appearance? If its scratched to fuck or you have to put it in an ugly case, surely that defeats the object?
Moore's Law is about transistors on each circuit. That doesn't go up just by bringing in more cores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
Copyright law is to protect the creators, not the leeches. Public domain is a priveledge, one that you don't deserve because you're probably a pirate anyway. Your constitutions's irrelevent anyway, the berne convention is the most important authority.
Yeah, that sounds user-friendly. No wonder Linux is flying off the shelves.
That limited time thing is a mere technicality. I don't really care about public domain. Public domain is a priveledge not a right. People's physical property's don't become public properly, so you should be grateful that it happens to intellectual property. Maybe you're just too cheap to pay for things, like most people here.
but then they apparently don't have mod points since your comment is now flamebait.
It's pretty much a given that my posts are modded down, as I'm not part of the reality distortion field that envelops this site. I'll just have to make a few posts talking about how Google's lastest half-baked web-service rip off is the greatest invention ever, or how piracy is a god-given right, to get back to excellent karma.
Considering the French spoken in Canada, Australia actually has more English speakers. Also Canadians speak an English which is more American than anything, whereas Australia have a more unique dialect.
I'm afraid that copyright law is moral and ethical. Breaking it is immoral and communistic. If you don't understand copyright then you are not mature enough. Come back in ten years when you've grown up a bit.
You'd never invite a girl for your first date, to your livingroom.
Yes you would. If you get a girl back to your house, for anything, be it dinner or watching a film in the living room, you're 99% of the way into her cunt. Guaranteed. The only thing that can go wrong is if you do something stupid and fuck it up.
Living room > Cinema.
Great, another 'expert' with no clue about business. You do realise that the cinemas make next to no money from ticket prices? They make their money largely from the food and drink.
You say that it's too expensive, then you want them to employ more expensive staff? This doesn't add up. Did you skip maths lessons at school? Here's a hint in case anyone reads your post: hiring more projectionists and more skilled workers costs more money. This money will go on your ticket price. Then you'll be whining that the prices have gone up. THINK FIRST, POST LATER.
How is the business method old? A business method is not obsolete just because it's taken advantage of by criminals. The answer is to stop the crime not to force the businesses to cut revenue streams to cater to the criminals.
They MAKE the damn films, how are they the problem? The problem is piracy by all the children modding up the posts on this article.
It's a wonder how Slashdot is glad that illegal activities are forcing people to change how they do business. Whatever happened to cracking down on the criminals rather than the victims? It's sort of when a burglar breaks into someone's house and the police arrest the homeowner for hurting the burglar's feelings.
If shoplifters were stealing bread from bakeries, you wouldn't suggest that bakers keep their loaves in locked cabinets and put security guards at the front door, you'd suggest the thieves were locked up. How is this any different? Stop sympathising with people who break the law.
This isn't exactly something new. Films have been released straight-to-DVD for years. And before that it was straight-to-video. I don't really trust a film like this, if it was any good he'd want to keep it in the cinemas as long as possible. I expect to see this in the bargain bin within a month.
I really don't give a shit. I'm not a suicide bomber, I don't give a shit about my stuff being searched. Better that than a bomb get on a train and kill a load of people. There's no argument to that. You've lost.
I don't care if the odd asylum seeker or illegal immigrant gets searched or shot, might put some of them off coming here.
Well, how do you know that Rita isn't just the follow-through of Katrina?
Something very expensive and lacking in functionality.
Signed,
Sandal-wearing, turtle-neck jumpered, left-wing, limp-wristed graphic designers who pay half a day's wages for a cup of sugary coffee from a trendy cafe.
Again, I refer to the founders of our government. When they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they and subsequent lawmakers have defined exactly under what situations our civil rights can be removed.
Since when is London in America? Typical arrogant fucking fat yank, thinks his stupid fucking laws and constitutions apply over the entire fucking world.
Here's a hint: I don't carry bombs in my bags, so I don't give a shit about coppers looking in them. But then I don't look like a paki so I've nothing to worry about.
Maybe you're a terrorist or an asylum seeker? Either way you can fuck off. Worthless fucking cunt.
You're joking? Gmail development is slower than a blind spastic with no arms or legs trying to climb up a greased-up lamppost.
In six months, yahoo mail will still be great, gmail will still be fobbing its users off with slow login times and those dreadful labels.
It's funny how reduced functionality can be a bonus when 'goooogle' do it. If Microsoft had made you jump through hoops to perform simple functions they'd be slated. I for one don't like someone telling me what to do with my own e-mails as if I can't think for myself, it's patronising.
As for the FP, gmail is far from pretty, I've had mutt colour schemes that look better.
To be fair, we'll have to see whether they actually survive first. If they're bust within two years then Microsoft will be right.
Fucking hell, there are terrorists trying to blow people up, and you're worried about the coppers looking at the tampons in your handbag. Get some priorities!
If someone's carrying contraband, or they're an illegal immigrant (like that Brazilian suicider), then they have no right to complain about being searched. That's the least of their worries! Jesus, we worry more about the rights of asylum seekers and terrorists than we do law abiding citizens.
This country is fucking insane!!!!
What a stupid thing to say. Being checked for bombs isn't handing control of your daily life to anyone. You can already be arrested, you can already have your house searched, that's entirely reasonable.
How dare you play the knee-jerk reactionist card to get modded up, that's abusing the system.