More than likely, I can see MS having a hard time with vendors implementing it right, and perhaps simply going up to Jobs and saying "hey you got an iPhone that uses ActiveSync...let's extend that partnership we'll give you a special license deal on this tech - here's what we have in mind for uses with your device - make it happen and we'll take some percent of your profits" and Apple saying "neat, sure - let me see what we can cook up".
Even if Apple and Microsoft compete on several fronts now, when it comes to making money and business sense I'm sure both of the know when to partner up to make something cool even better - if it make sense.
Though I guess it's more fun to imagine some Microsoft vs Apple duel going on where they winning party is the company you like the most.
These guilds make huge noise about it but they've basically cleared all the content and heavily "theorycrafted" the game for the last several months during Blizzard's beta stage.
Although skill does play a part in raiding, everything in WoW can be cleared if you have enough time on your hands to do it. Skill can simply reduced the time to clear the content.
Anyway, this is simply them saying "Wow Blizzard we beta tested the content for you, learned all the tricks to maximize our time to get to 80 and cleared the raid content on beta for you, and you didn't change one bit of it so we would be challenged. Srsly wtf??"
I figured that with this article being about WoW, humor in the form of typical WoW complaints would be appreciated. Oh well, lots of more karma where that came from:P
Push number, wait for bar to fill, push another number, wait for bar, then loot. Rebuff, and start again.
You clearly played a rogue..the most catered to class in the game (well arguably). Please stop crying about how hard and ennui it is to play a rogue...You can 100%-0% more classes, try playing something new and challenging. Just my two cents:D
Given the amount of time Jobs has been back at Apple, and proof of his long term planning strategies (Think OSX86 since 2002 or so? someone remind me), shouldn't investors be looking at Apple for more such long term strategies already underway instead of simply basing their decision on Jobs alone?
I know Jobs is a victim of his own success, with everyone wanting to pry into his private life to see if the "second coming" of Apple will end with him or not. But surely anyone paying attention to what Apple has been doing can use that information to make smart investment decisions instead of basing it all on one man?
There are some very talented people at Apple from what I've seen (people I've met who work at corporate on iphone dev, macosx dev, , etc). I would be surprised if Jobs didnt put in place project leads and managers with vision to supplement or augment his own.
Remember this is not like when Jobs got kicked out because Apple needed to "grow up" and Jobs being ousted as the "not grown up enough" element in the company. He's proven himself very capable of getting very good people together to accomplish the projects and goals in mind.
Personally, I feel that if Jobs stepped down Apple could continue to do quite well. Several years ago, I wouldn't be so sure. I'd sure be interested in someone put some time into evaluating possible choices to take over Jobs job:)
Having previously worked at an Apple Store several years back (and even if I hadn't). I can tell you most people will probably get a "I'm sorry I can not answer that question. Please call corporate to get answers to your question."
Unless Apple has noticed this and given an internal memo of detailed responses to give out, this is the response you will get even from a store manager or supervisor.
Some geniuses may actually give you their own personal view on things but they wont represent Apple, nor will Apple necessarily stand behind said responses.
The only benefit of this is perhaps making more Apple customers aware of what the issues are, if they happen to overhear the conversation.
If you will be participating in this, I'd recommend staying polite. Being a stuck up customer trying to stick it to the man via a part-time, full-time non-corporate employee is not going to win you many friends or make people willing to listen to your cause.
I used to prowl the middle school library (many a moon ago) and this is one of the books that stuck out and I often remember. I am surprised not very many people seem to know it.
The first story in particular about a future where success and failure are rewarded (moving ahead - new experiences) and punished (death) by a set of long ago programmed cold machines. Although the story may seem a bit dark, it left a good impression on me about what it is to be an individual and being creative, and how even when an "authority" may claim something to be wrong, it really isn't. So tempted to go out and see if I can pick it up so I can refresh my memory and come back and read this and think "wow, I was way off":)
Earlier today, I did a search for networksolutionslikesmen at networksolutions.com and checked off every top level domain box. I then did a whois at network solutions. Guess what Network solutions already had all the ownership info filled in! Sweet.
For a second I thought this article was going to be about improving child safety around Thunder Bluff. As it has been observed the reason you don't see many Tauren children around is because they all keep falling off Thunder Bluff to their deaths. More railing around Thunder Bluff would alleviate this serious World of Warcraft issue.
I think maybe the article would have made better use of an appropriate game reference...like "Cleaning up the The Barrens".
Nobody hangs around Thunder Bluff long enough to needing "clean up".
Although my knowledge of architecture/psychology is limited, it seems like low ceilings have always had a psychological impact on people. Architects like Frank Lloyd Wright recognized this and exploited it in places like the Hollyhock House where the front entrance has a small area with an uncomfortably low ceiling, followed by the rest of the room having a high ceiling. When I took a visit to this place about ten years ago, it was explained to us that low ceilings make people uncomfortable and thus the high ceilings would allow more freedom. So naturally guests should never stand at the front entrance too long and in a place like Hollyhock House high ceilings become inviting after you spend any amount of time at the front entrance:-)
I remember writing short stories in 11th grade (many a year ago) using words from the week's vocabulary list in preparation for SATs. One of them was sort of Salem witch trials thing, with a haunted town with missing people and dead bodies. There were some others that were not my typical writing but because it was a "creative writing" and "expressive writing" assignment I decided to explore. At the time I was contemplating becoming a writer, and I thought the best way to do that was to write different stories on different subject even if it wasnt my typical stuff. Playing with words and putting it into a short story has always been fun for me. Some of the stories I wrote could potentially make me look disturbed, but even though I was quite shy in high school I've had a good family background, and common sense in me.
Attitudes like these probably mean the rocker, goth, emo, etc subcultures among teens trying to express themselves or find out who they really are, may find themselves target for "re-education" if someone deems their writing 'disturbing' when it simply may not be.
I'm really concerned about this type of attitude and I hope that politicians do not take advantage of the unfortunate incident in VT to pass legislation that makes everything ever written by our students archived and available as evidence in the future if someone is accused of a crime. Could you imagine someone pulling out your old essay from that bad day you had which you turned in?
I've seen DVORAK layouts which switch to QWERTY while ctrl or command or whatever you call it (flower, apple) is held down. I've seen this available on Mac, and Linux. I'm sure you can find something similar for Windows.
A lot of the standard keyboard shortcuts were not designed around menu action names but rather relative to hand position.
I switched to dvorak at one point but quickly realized the futility as most applications and shortcuts are heavily QWERTY friendly. Of course it doesnt help that I was the only one with the DVORAK layout and everyone at work was on QWERTY so when I had to work off their desk I couldnt just switch.
if you're looking for a dvorak specific keyboard I think the closest with conveniences for a programmer (though I haven't tried it myself) is the blank top happy hacking keyboard.
Love or Hate Apple most people here will have to agree that Steve Jobs essay makes a strong case as to why DRM will not work in the long term.
Thought it's no surprise that due to pressure in certain European countries Apple is re-evaluating their options, I still think this could potentially be a good thing, specially if consumers back up the 'sell DRM-free music' option. This might be as good a time as any. Who knows maybe this is the year that the DRM fight goes up one level.
A lot of the things that Jobs states in his essay are true. More devices with the same DRM scheme will be harder to update once the DRM scheme gets cracked. No matter what new DRM scheme is developed someone will crack it. He told the recording industry 'big four' this when he approached them about the iTunes Music Store, and it's true today as well.
Personally, I stopped buying iTunes music because I recognize that the DRM limits my options with it, and frankly I like choice. I do have an iPod and chances are any music I buy will go on it, and I probably upgrade to an iPod because it does what I need. Over 90% of the music on my iPod is DRM free. I do like to support artists I like and in fact I've bought a good amount of music from iTunes at one point or another not because I wanted DRM music, but I felt at least I had to support the artist in some way. In other cases, I've bought one song from iTunes and bought the CD from a store once i decided I liked that artist.
Steve Jobs also stated in his essay:
Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free.
So what it comes down to is us the consumers who "bitch and moan" about DRM, to take this opportunity while it's still fresh in the RIAA's mind, and write constructive, honest, and polite letters to them letting them know what we think.
Because ultimately DRM-free music is not Apple's concern, it's ours.
Too bad reading comprehension is not a requirement for posting.
This post is definitely offtopic but you really should not try to push a second agenda, by attempting to twisting someone's words to fit your preconceived notion or understanding of what is being said.
Before I start, I will say that I have a dislike of DRM. So this is interesting news.
Actually creating game for Mac requires a lot of resources to be spent. Allowing iTunes music to be playable in other players takes once click. Resources can mean a lot of things, technical limitations, man power, legal reasons.
That said and clarified. There may be a lot of legal (and big financial) reasons why Apple can't allow third parties to play iTunes Store bought music. Unfortunately, Apple is a corporation out to make money so basically it would take Apple a lot of resources (negotiations, loss in revenue from competing products that play Fairplay encrypted iTunes Music Store music, etc).
Apple has the history of being very protective and closed company, from them closing the hardware and destroying their hardware partners, to iTunes, to iPhone with no 3rd party software.
Hardly any different than Microsoft.
IANAL but I don't think there is anything out there that prohibits a 3rd Party to develop music software that loads music onto the iPod. However, because of legal and technological restraints no 3rd party software company can make a program that downloads music from the iTunes Music Store and stores it on the iPod or other devices. I've seen plugins for iTunes that let you connect 3rd party music players to iTunes. However, these players can not playback iTunes Music Store bought music, but you can load up MP3s and i bet AAC just fine.
Apple has created a market with a good product (even if you and your ten closest friends personally don't like it, it pleases enough people to be a success) which they control. This is similar to the way the Mac has been for many years. Apple controlled the software and hardware. There are merits to this that I will not go into because they deal with subjects outside of DRM. Similarly there are merits to the way MS does things they provide the software, someone else provides the hardware.
I just hope that Norway can set a big enough ripple through the European Union to discourage DRM usage, and perhaps in turn in the US and around the world. One of my concerns is what happens in 200 years from now when the software we use now is abandoned. I highly doubt that the MPAA and RIAA have plans to make it easy for us to recover all those works created by people from now once they can no longer make money out of it, and the content is in public domain. DRM is only useful to them as long as they can make money out of implementing it and using it. If Norway's actions can create an unprofitable environment for content distributors frenzied up about DRM, maybe they will change their business plan and we can be rid of DRM for good.
How do companies like Blizzard justify releasing Windows and Mac versions of their games at the same time then?
Blizzard has build up a lot of loyalty from Mac gamers for releasing versions of most of their games on both platforms (Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft, now WoW) and keeping both Windows and Mac updates to these games in line.
I don't keep track of other game companies but I think one reason that Warhammer wont be on Mac is because they're trying to break into a market with probably no previous games, so they don't have the hard numbers on how many Mac users will buy their stuff. Blizzard on the other hand has been able to justify making Mac releases along with Windows releases for a good 10+ years (Starcraft was released in 1997 I think), and not sure what other factors play into their ability to do this (bigger company? hard earned player loyalty?).
It looks like Warhammer will be a great game but unfortunately unless I go out and spend money on a Windows box (and no I don't have loads of disposable income, I save up for what I think is worth my money, and I'd rather spend money on a computer I will use outside of gaming than exclusively a gaming pc), I won't get to see it. But that's ok I have WoW and the TBC content addresses some of the issues with WoW people have commented on, and so far beta has been fun.
At the very least I would love if the Warhammer dev team teamed up with companies like Parallels to make sure that their game runs well side by side with this product on new Intel Macs, so that people have the choice to run Warhammer on an Intel Mac if they want to.
Well I'm bored I dont expect you to read my reply anyway so let me exercise my writing while we're on this subtopic.
You must be that quintessential apple fanboy I keep hearing about but never really ran into fully until now.
Ok, here you are going to insult the original poster, by making an assumption because you hope to gain support from readership who thinks anyone who presents a slightly different view in cases like this must be a delusional fanboy. And then present your own opinion. Nice.
Good trolling.
Please stop assuming 'apple fanboys are after me and cover after Apple."
Now to clarify.
What you read is my cynicism. Corporations use dirty tactics much like politicians. It's called the blame game. You might have seen this if you worked at an office too.
Apple as a member of the corporate world isn't doing anything that any of their competitors wouldn't do.
However, I did not once say it was right.
Please elaborate as to what you mean by "anyone would expect differently" here - I would expect Apple to apologize and maybe recall instead of taking an infantile potshot at Microsoft. Correct?
For the non-bolded part read my above statement. For the bolded part, well they did apologize. Not sure if they're doing a recall, my guess probably not.
However, the next best step is that they offer ways to fix the problem. In fact some of these ways to fix the problem link to Microsoft's own Microsoft Live OneCare Safety Scanner.
I would also expect them to offer information to customers at their local Apple Stores.
And in truth Apple should have made sure their windows production machines were not infected.
No shit?
Again another cheap shot. Thanks. I'm simply stating for clarification that I agree Apple is at fault for not taking care of their stuff. Quoting something that clarifies my comment and adding the phrase 'no shit?' doesn't really contribute anything. Obviously at this point your bias (based on the assumption you originally made) doesn't let you see what I'm really saying.
Please tell me this whole post is actually a joke. Please.
Please tell me when you stop being condescending. Thank you.
Anyway good day to you.
p.s. Oh and just because you see mac in my e-mail and homepage field doesn't mean I wear Apple-brand glasses.
For those who didn't bother to read the article if you follow the link to Apple's website they state the following:
As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.
This is a clarification for the short summary given. Yeah Apple blames MS, it's their competitor, I don't think anyone else would expect differently. However, they also admit to their own mistake. And in truth Apple should have made sure their windows production machines were not infected.
Apple could just as easily turned around and said 'hey! it's windows what do we know! we're not even going to bother acknowledging the problem!' Instead they choose to let people know.
[quote]played through the 1-60 level grind on my free month, battlegrounds seemed a joke with the wait times, and WoW raiding doesn't seem very interesting(at least IMO compared to EQ raiding a few years ago).[/quote]
This problem was depending on which faction had the most population on the realm you choose. However, they recently added Cross-realm pvp with several realms being put into the same Battle group and now you don't have to wait as long for pvp battlegrounds.
Kind of hard to answer your raiding concerns without you actually stating them. Personally, Blizzard has been learning and places like Naxx are a hit.
One thing to consider is that the typical WoW MMORPG player may not be your typical EQ or some other mmorpg player. That means that you get possibly a new social group of players entering a game like WoW than you would have had in EQ and therefore unlikely that the sampling of people you know has the same taste for something like WoW than others. Many people I know in my guild have been long time gamers and only a few are hard core mmorpg players from other such games.
(Despite this being a Dupe, it gives me the chance to post some thoughts and possibility of people moderating them;-) )
I've been using Netflix for the last 2 years. And it's been awesome for me. There have been a lot of good shows that for one reason or another I was never able to watch completely (Farscape, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, a couple of anime series). Sure I could have gone out and bought the series box sets, but in some cases I hadn't watched the whole series to make it worthwhile to buy.
Also since I rarely watch TV, Netflix is a nice alternative for me when I want to watch something. Not only that but I can watch something I'm interested in instead of the boring TV series that seem to be up now. Currently, I've been devouring season after season of Stargate SG-1, with 3-4 DVDs a week.
If instead I wanted to watch several theatre releases, I could see things being left on the shelf and eventually making their way back. I've had a few movies that I rented and didn't really watch.
I agree with above poster. I'm no expert on parenting but I've seen enough from day to day to tell you that most of the time if a kid is meeting some creepy adult over the internet, or imitating a violent video game, etc it is not the (insert form of communication/entertainment here)'s fault. It's the parents' fault.
I was talking with one of my guild mates (we both play World of Warcraft). He works as a tech in a ISP in Australia. He told me that part of the reason for Blizzard's problems was that they signed a long term exclusive contract with SBC to provide service. Ultimately SBC got gobbled up by ATT. In any case my guildmate considered Blizzard's move to sign such a contract a stupid one.
Of course I haven't see any articles that cover if this is true, but I found it interesting, and since my guildmate is in the industry (fixing lines, etc), I figure he should at least know something about this whole mess.:-)
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More than likely, I can see MS having a hard time with vendors implementing it right, and perhaps simply going up to Jobs and saying "hey you got an iPhone that uses ActiveSync...let's extend that partnership we'll give you a special license deal on this tech - here's what we have in mind for uses with your device - make it happen and we'll take some percent of your profits" and Apple saying "neat, sure - let me see what we can cook up".
Even if Apple and Microsoft compete on several fronts now, when it comes to making money and business sense I'm sure both of the know when to partner up to make something cool even better - if it make sense.
Though I guess it's more fun to imagine some Microsoft vs Apple duel going on where they winning party is the company you like the most.
Bump parent up.
These guilds make huge noise about it but they've basically cleared all the content and heavily "theorycrafted" the game for the last several months during Blizzard's beta stage.
Although skill does play a part in raiding, everything in WoW can be cleared if you have enough time on your hands to do it. Skill can simply reduced the time to clear the content.
Anyway, this is simply them saying "Wow Blizzard we beta tested the content for you, learned all the tricks to maximize our time to get to 80 and cleared the raid content on beta for you, and you didn't change one bit of it so we would be challenged. Srsly wtf??"
I figured that with this article being about WoW, humor in the form of typical WoW complaints would be appreciated. Oh well, lots of more karma where that came from :P
Every class is OP! :)
Push number, wait for bar to fill, push another number, wait for bar, then loot. Rebuff, and start again.
You clearly played a rogue..the most catered to class in the game (well arguably). Please stop crying about how hard and ennui it is to play a rogue...You can 100%-0% more classes, try playing something new and challenging. Just my two cents :D
Why not. A computer virus is just a program. So it could be infected by another program (virus).
Given the amount of time Jobs has been back at Apple, and proof of his long term planning strategies (Think OSX86 since 2002 or so? someone remind me), shouldn't investors be looking at Apple for more such long term strategies already underway instead of simply basing their decision on Jobs alone?
I know Jobs is a victim of his own success, with everyone wanting to pry into his private life to see if the "second coming" of Apple will end with him or not. But surely anyone paying attention to what Apple has been doing can use that information to make smart investment decisions instead of basing it all on one man?
There are some very talented people at Apple from what I've seen (people I've met who work at corporate on iphone dev, macosx dev, , etc). I would be surprised if Jobs didnt put in place project leads and managers with vision to supplement or augment his own.
Remember this is not like when Jobs got kicked out because Apple needed to "grow up" and Jobs being ousted as the "not grown up enough" element in the company. He's proven himself very capable of getting very good people together to accomplish the projects and goals in mind.
Personally, I feel that if Jobs stepped down Apple could continue to do quite well. Several years ago, I wouldn't be so sure. I'd sure be interested in someone put some time into evaluating possible choices to take over Jobs job :)
Having previously worked at an Apple Store several years back (and even if I hadn't). I can tell you most people will probably get a "I'm sorry I can not answer that question. Please call corporate to get answers to your question."
Unless Apple has noticed this and given an internal memo of detailed responses to give out, this is the response you will get even from a store manager or supervisor.
Some geniuses may actually give you their own personal view on things but they wont represent Apple, nor will Apple necessarily stand behind said responses.
The only benefit of this is perhaps making more Apple customers aware of what the issues are, if they happen to overhear the conversation.
If you will be participating in this, I'd recommend staying polite. Being a stuck up customer trying to stick it to the man via a part-time, full-time non-corporate employee is not going to win you many friends or make people willing to listen to your cause.
Looking on google it's by Roger Elwood
I used to prowl the middle school library (many a moon ago) and this is one of the books that stuck out and I often remember. I am surprised not very many people seem to know it.
The first story in particular about a future where success and failure are rewarded (moving ahead - new experiences) and punished (death) by a set of long ago programmed cold machines. Although the story may seem a bit dark, it left a good impression on me about what it is to be an individual and being creative, and how even when an "authority" may claim something to be wrong, it really isn't. So tempted to go out and see if I can pick it up so I can refresh my memory and come back and read this and think "wow, I was way off" :)
Just making sure, we're all on the same page.
So I had this idea, like why not help Network Solutions!
Simply use the link: http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/index.jsp to register as many variants of your preferred domain name at various top level domains!
Earlier today, I did a search for networksolutionslikesmen at networksolutions.com and checked off every top level domain box. I then did a whois at network solutions. Guess what Network solutions already had all the ownership info filled in! Sweet.
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=networksolutionslikesmen.com
This could be fun.
For a second I thought this article was going to be about improving child safety around Thunder Bluff. As it has been observed the reason you don't see many Tauren children around is because they all keep falling off Thunder Bluff to their deaths. More railing around Thunder Bluff would alleviate this serious World of Warcraft issue.
I think maybe the article would have made better use of an appropriate game reference...like "Cleaning up the The Barrens".
Nobody hangs around Thunder Bluff long enough to needing "clean up".
Although my knowledge of architecture/psychology is limited, it seems like low ceilings have always had a psychological impact on people. Architects like Frank Lloyd Wright recognized this and exploited it in places like the Hollyhock House where the front entrance has a small area with an uncomfortably low ceiling, followed by the rest of the room having a high ceiling. When I took a visit to this place about ten years ago, it was explained to us that low ceilings make people uncomfortable and thus the high ceilings would allow more freedom. So naturally guests should never stand at the front entrance too long and in a place like Hollyhock House high ceilings become inviting after you spend any amount of time at the front entrance :-)
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See: http://www.waltlockley.com/hollyhock/hollyhock.ht
In any case interesting to see that more angles on this low ceiling/high ceiling idea are being looked into.
I remember writing short stories in 11th grade (many a year ago) using words from the week's vocabulary list in preparation for SATs. One of them was sort of Salem witch trials thing, with a haunted town with missing people and dead bodies. There were some others that were not my typical writing but because it was a "creative writing" and "expressive writing" assignment I decided to explore. At the time I was contemplating becoming a writer, and I thought the best way to do that was to write different stories on different subject even if it wasnt my typical stuff. Playing with words and putting it into a short story has always been fun for me. Some of the stories I wrote could potentially make me look disturbed, but even though I was quite shy in high school I've had a good family background, and common sense in me.
Attitudes like these probably mean the rocker, goth, emo, etc subcultures among teens trying to express themselves or find out who they really are, may find themselves target for "re-education" if someone deems their writing 'disturbing' when it simply may not be.
I'm really concerned about this type of attitude and I hope that politicians do not take advantage of the unfortunate incident in VT to pass legislation that makes everything ever written by our students archived and available as evidence in the future if someone is accused of a crime. Could you imagine someone pulling out your old essay from that bad day you had which you turned in?
I've seen DVORAK layouts which switch to QWERTY while ctrl or command or whatever you call it (flower, apple) is held down. I've seen this available on Mac, and Linux. I'm sure you can find something similar for Windows.
A lot of the standard keyboard shortcuts were not designed around menu action names but rather relative to hand position.
I switched to dvorak at one point but quickly realized the futility as most applications and shortcuts are heavily QWERTY friendly. Of course it doesnt help that I was the only one with the DVORAK layout and everyone at work was on QWERTY so when I had to work off their desk I couldnt just switch.
if you're looking for a dvorak specific keyboard I think the closest with conveniences for a programmer (though I haven't tried it myself) is the blank top happy hacking keyboard.
Thought it's no surprise that due to pressure in certain European countries Apple is re-evaluating their options, I still think this could potentially be a good thing, specially if consumers back up the 'sell DRM-free music' option. This might be as good a time as any. Who knows maybe this is the year that the DRM fight goes up one level.
A lot of the things that Jobs states in his essay are true. More devices with the same DRM scheme will be harder to update once the DRM scheme gets cracked. No matter what new DRM scheme is developed someone will crack it. He told the recording industry 'big four' this when he approached them about the iTunes Music Store, and it's true today as well.
Personally, I stopped buying iTunes music because I recognize that the DRM limits my options with it, and frankly I like choice. I do have an iPod and chances are any music I buy will go on it, and I probably upgrade to an iPod because it does what I need. Over 90% of the music on my iPod is DRM free. I do like to support artists I like and in fact I've bought a good amount of music from iTunes at one point or another not because I wanted DRM music, but I felt at least I had to support the artist in some way. In other cases, I've bought one song from iTunes and bought the CD from a store once i decided I liked that artist.
Steve Jobs also stated in his essay:
Perhaps those unhappy with the current situation should redirect their energies towards persuading the music companies to sell their music DRM-free.So what it comes down to is us the consumers who "bitch and moan" about DRM, to take this opportunity while it's still fresh in the RIAA's mind, and write constructive, honest, and polite letters to them letting them know what we think.
Because ultimately DRM-free music is not Apple's concern, it's ours.
Too bad reading comprehension is not a requirement for posting. This post is definitely offtopic but you really should not try to push a second agenda, by attempting to twisting someone's words to fit your preconceived notion or understanding of what is being said.
That said and clarified. There may be a lot of legal (and big financial) reasons why Apple can't allow third parties to play iTunes Store bought music. Unfortunately, Apple is a corporation out to make money so basically it would take Apple a lot of resources (negotiations, loss in revenue from competing products that play Fairplay encrypted iTunes Music Store music, etc) .
Apple has the history of being very protective and closed company, from them closing the hardware and destroying their hardware partners, to iTunes, to iPhone with no 3rd party software.Hardly any different than Microsoft.
IANAL but I don't think there is anything out there that prohibits a 3rd Party to develop music software that loads music onto the iPod. However, because of legal and technological restraints no 3rd party software company can make a program that downloads music from the iTunes Music Store and stores it on the iPod or other devices. I've seen plugins for iTunes that let you connect 3rd party music players to iTunes. However, these players can not playback iTunes Music Store bought music, but you can load up MP3s and i bet AAC just fine.
Apple has created a market with a good product (even if you and your ten closest friends personally don't like it, it pleases enough people to be a success) which they control. This is similar to the way the Mac has been for many years. Apple controlled the software and hardware. There are merits to this that I will not go into because they deal with subjects outside of DRM. Similarly there are merits to the way MS does things they provide the software, someone else provides the hardware.
I just hope that Norway can set a big enough ripple through the European Union to discourage DRM usage, and perhaps in turn in the US and around the world. One of my concerns is what happens in 200 years from now when the software we use now is abandoned. I highly doubt that the MPAA and RIAA have plans to make it easy for us to recover all those works created by people from now once they can no longer make money out of it, and the content is in public domain. DRM is only useful to them as long as they can make money out of implementing it and using it. If Norway's actions can create an unprofitable environment for content distributors frenzied up about DRM, maybe they will change their business plan and we can be rid of DRM for good.
How do companies like Blizzard justify releasing Windows and Mac versions of their games at the same time then?
Blizzard has build up a lot of loyalty from Mac gamers for releasing versions of most of their games on both platforms (Diablo, Warcraft, Starcraft, now WoW) and keeping both Windows and Mac updates to these games in line.
I don't keep track of other game companies but I think one reason that Warhammer wont be on Mac is because they're trying to break into a market with probably no previous games, so they don't have the hard numbers on how many Mac users will buy their stuff. Blizzard on the other hand has been able to justify making Mac releases along with Windows releases for a good 10+ years (Starcraft was released in 1997 I think), and not sure what other factors play into their ability to do this (bigger company? hard earned player loyalty?).
It looks like Warhammer will be a great game but unfortunately unless I go out and spend money on a Windows box (and no I don't have loads of disposable income, I save up for what I think is worth my money, and I'd rather spend money on a computer I will use outside of gaming than exclusively a gaming pc), I won't get to see it. But that's ok I have WoW and the TBC content addresses some of the issues with WoW people have commented on, and so far beta has been fun.
At the very least I would love if the Warhammer dev team teamed up with companies like Parallels to make sure that their game runs well side by side with this product on new Intel Macs, so that people have the choice to run Warhammer on an Intel Mac if they want to.
Well I'm bored I dont expect you to read my reply anyway so let me exercise my writing while we're on this subtopic.
Ok, here you are going to insult the original poster, by making an assumption because you hope to gain support from readership who thinks anyone who presents a slightly different view in cases like this must be a delusional fanboy. And then present your own opinion. Nice.
Good trolling.
Please stop assuming 'apple fanboys are after me and cover after Apple."
Now to clarify.
What you read is my cynicism. Corporations use dirty tactics much like politicians. It's called the blame game. You might have seen this if you worked at an office too.
Apple as a member of the corporate world isn't doing anything that any of their competitors wouldn't do.
However, I did not once say it was right.
For the non-bolded part read my above statement. For the bolded part, well they did apologize. Not sure if they're doing a recall, my guess probably not.
However, the next best step is that they offer ways to fix the problem. In fact some of these ways to fix the problem link to Microsoft's own Microsoft Live OneCare Safety Scanner.
I would also expect them to offer information to customers at their local Apple Stores.
Again another cheap shot. Thanks. I'm simply stating for clarification that I agree Apple is at fault for not taking care of their stuff. Quoting something that clarifies my comment and adding the phrase 'no shit?' doesn't really contribute anything. Obviously at this point your bias (based on the assumption you originally made) doesn't let you see what I'm really saying.
Please tell me when you stop being condescending. Thank you.
Anyway good day to you.
p.s. Oh and just because you see mac in my e-mail and homepage field doesn't mean I wear Apple-brand glasses.
[quote]played through the 1-60 level grind on my free month, battlegrounds seemed a joke with the wait times, and WoW raiding doesn't seem very interesting(at least IMO compared to EQ raiding a few years ago).[/quote] This problem was depending on which faction had the most population on the realm you choose. However, they recently added Cross-realm pvp with several realms being put into the same Battle group and now you don't have to wait as long for pvp battlegrounds. Kind of hard to answer your raiding concerns without you actually stating them. Personally, Blizzard has been learning and places like Naxx are a hit. One thing to consider is that the typical WoW MMORPG player may not be your typical EQ or some other mmorpg player. That means that you get possibly a new social group of players entering a game like WoW than you would have had in EQ and therefore unlikely that the sampling of people you know has the same taste for something like WoW than others. Many people I know in my guild have been long time gamers and only a few are hard core mmorpg players from other such games.
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(Despite this being a Dupe, it gives me the chance to post some thoughts and possibility of people moderating them ;-) )
I've been using Netflix for the last 2 years. And it's been awesome for me. There have been a lot of good shows that for one reason or another I was never able to watch completely (Farscape, Firefly, Stargate SG-1, a couple of anime series). Sure I could have gone out and bought the series box sets, but in some cases I hadn't watched the whole series to make it worthwhile to buy.
Also since I rarely watch TV, Netflix is a nice alternative for me when I want to watch something. Not only that but I can watch something I'm interested in instead of the boring TV series that seem to be up now. Currently, I've been devouring season after season of Stargate SG-1, with 3-4 DVDs a week.
If instead I wanted to watch several theatre releases, I could see things being left on the shelf and eventually making their way back. I've had a few movies that I rented and didn't really watch.
I agree with above poster. I'm no expert on parenting but I've seen enough from day to day to tell you that most of the time if a kid is meeting some creepy adult over the internet, or imitating a violent video game, etc it is not the (insert form of communication/entertainment here)'s fault. It's the parents' fault.
I was talking with one of my guild mates (we both play World of Warcraft). He works as a tech in a ISP in Australia. He told me that part of the reason for Blizzard's problems was that they signed a long term exclusive contract with SBC to provide service. Ultimately SBC got gobbled up by ATT. In any case my guildmate considered Blizzard's move to sign such a contract a stupid one.
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Of course I haven't see any articles that cover if this is true, but I found it interesting, and since my guildmate is in the industry (fixing lines, etc), I figure he should at least know something about this whole mess.