It's actually kind of funny.. People like sleeping in. Most people's work hours have shifted from "8 to 5" to "9 to 6". If you keep screwing with DST, it'll turn into "10 to 7" in fairly short order.
The problem with your argument is that it'll be light after dinner *anyway* since it's Summer. All you've done is push sunset from 8pm to 9pm, and make it really difficult to get little kids to sleep.
Well how much daylight do they need? Sunsets at 9pm are ridiculous. Hell, let's just change the schedule so the dawn is at 5pm.. then you can have tons of daylight!
First gen tibooks and early ibooks have a firmware bug that puts them to sleep when the lid is closed, regardless of whether or not a keyboard/monitor is hooked up.
but this just makes me think he just got a boat load of money because this is nothing but fanboy gushing.
Especially since he didn't even mention the best part. By the time they finally got into Home in the demo, they were on their 4th ps3! That's right, 3 different PS3s crashed and burned during the demo today.
For example, when the TV says a show will be on "10PM Pacific time, 11PM Mountain time", you have to know whether it's PST or PDT.
Well, Arizona is Mountain. Most TV stays the same (primetime always starts at 7pm), but some cable shows move by an hour (Daily Show for example). I just let TiVo figure it out.
It's still a relatively minor problem compared to the problems of actually having to adjust clocks twice a year.
What happens if you have a cron running at 2:30am every night? Does one night a year it not run at all, while another night it runs twice? I never have to even concern myself with that possibility.
I think you get your money worth in sheer fun and 'Ahahaha did you see THAT?'
Haha, you just reminded me of something. Some of the things people say when they die are pretty funny and some are pretty disturbing.. like clenched-teeth "it hurts!".
I was jumping around rooftops and there were a bunch of baddies on one of the roofs. They didn't notice me, so I was going to shoot one of them in the back. Well, I forgot I had my rocket equipped, so I pretty much blew everyone off the roof. One of the bodies landed next to me and quietly asked "..why?" So spooky.
Best estimates are consistently coming in at about $.04 a track.
Those numbers are from 2004. We know Apple gets 34 cents per track. If your 4 cents per track in profit were true, then Apple has to have spent $600 million on infrastructure.
So some songs would have certain set of restrictions, whereas some other songs would have different set of restrictions or none at all? For better or worse, Apple cares about consistency.
Bullshit. What you described is exactly how iTunes is today. Some songs I can click on and select "Convert to MP3" and some I can't.
Does the RIAA have a monopoly on music? Absolutely. They control almost all music in every sphere of commerce except online sales, where Apple has the upper hand.
25% of all music sold in 2006 was from indie labels. If you consider 75% a monopoly, then Apple has one in portable music players.
Were Apple to impliment a no-DRM option for some music, they would have to have the iTMS send a message to iTunes telling whether it should encrypt each particular song it sends. This signal would then become a vulnerability that would be exploitable by hackers.
Where the hell does this come from? I've heard this point multiple times, and it's ridiculous. This signal is no more vulnerable to hackers than the unencrypted music which is sent to the client in exactly the same fashion.
You're making the same mistake a lot of people make when talking about "the labels". They're not one entity. They are 4 different companies. If their contracts are the same, it's because Apple made them the same. These 4 companies couldn't have come up with the exact same contracts on their own.. that would be price fixing. If there's a stipulation in each company's contract that requires everyone to have DRM, it's because Apple put it there.
I'm curious as to what will happen when EMI says "ok, we won't require DRM" and Sony says "we still do"?
Stop treating the labels as one big company. They aren't.
Can you please give me an example on how I can trash my Fedora instalation by just doing an update?
Well, it doesn't "trash" my fedora install, but yesterday I used yum to update my system, and my nvidia packages no longer support my video card. Instead I'm supposed to use nvidia-legacy now, the problem is the legacy rpm is much older than the one I was using two days ago.
That's not really fedora's fault since they don't package nvidia rpms in the first place, instead I have to get them from livna.
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MS has obeyed the GPL for quite a long time now. The Unix for Windows services thingy contains GPLed code, and MS has always had the source available.
Is it ok if I give a few of the biscuits to my neighbor?
It's actually kind of funny.. People like sleeping in. Most people's work hours have shifted from "8 to 5" to "9 to 6". If you keep screwing with DST, it'll turn into "10 to 7" in fairly short order.
The problem with your argument is that it'll be light after dinner *anyway* since it's Summer. All you've done is push sunset from 8pm to 9pm, and make it really difficult to get little kids to sleep.
Jesus, how far away from the equator do you live?
That'd be a valid point, if you didn't change the clocks twice a year.
Well how much daylight do they need? Sunsets at 9pm are ridiculous. Hell, let's just change the schedule so the dawn is at 5pm.. then you can have tons of daylight!
First gen tibooks and early ibooks have a firmware bug that puts them to sleep when the lid is closed, regardless of whether or not a keyboard/monitor is hooked up.
Actually.. that's exactly what it is.
Especially since he didn't even mention the best part. By the time they finally got into Home in the demo, they were on their 4th ps3! That's right, 3 different PS3s crashed and burned during the demo today.
Does it work for single player games too?
I love that I can be playing a single player game, and then see a friend sign in and be able to go multiplayer.
If that were the case, then the day of the switchover should show a 10% drop from the day before.
Well, Arizona is Mountain. Most TV stays the same (primetime always starts at 7pm), but some cable shows move by an hour (Daily Show for example). I just let TiVo figure it out.
It's still a relatively minor problem compared to the problems of actually having to adjust clocks twice a year.
What happens if you have a cron running at 2:30am every night? Does one night a year it not run at all, while another night it runs twice? I never have to even concern myself with that possibility.
Unless you live in Arizona.. in which case, you don't ever have a problem with DST.
Haha, you just reminded me of something. Some of the things people say when they die are pretty funny and some are pretty disturbing.. like clenched-teeth "it hurts!".
I was jumping around rooftops and there were a bunch of baddies on one of the roofs. They didn't notice me, so I was going to shoot one of them in the back. Well, I forgot I had my rocket equipped, so I pretty much blew everyone off the roof. One of the bodies landed next to me and quietly asked "..why?" So spooky.
Oh? What in Windows requires the RMB?
If you're talking about software, well, there's software on OSX that requires the RMB too.. Maya for instance.
Wouldn't they already be asking that? Considering a track purchased from the store can't be converted to mp3, but a track ripped from CD can.
Those numbers are from 2004. We know Apple gets 34 cents per track. If your 4 cents per track in profit were true, then Apple has to have spent $600 million on infrastructure.
Bullshit. What you described is exactly how iTunes is today. Some songs I can click on and select "Convert to MP3" and some I can't.
25% of all music sold in 2006 was from indie labels. If you consider 75% a monopoly, then Apple has one in portable music players.
Where the hell does this come from? I've heard this point multiple times, and it's ridiculous. This signal is no more vulnerable to hackers than the unencrypted music which is sent to the client in exactly the same fashion.
You're making the same mistake a lot of people make when talking about "the labels". They're not one entity. They are 4 different companies. If their contracts are the same, it's because Apple made them the same. These 4 companies couldn't have come up with the exact same contracts on their own.. that would be price fixing. If there's a stipulation in each company's contract that requires everyone to have DRM, it's because Apple put it there.
I'm curious as to what will happen when EMI says "ok, we won't require DRM" and Sony says "we still do"?
Stop treating the labels as one big company. They aren't.
My 360 came with a 1 year warranty. I went ahead and got the 3 year warranty from MS. Someone saying it's out of warranty after 5 months is confused.
No. It was $399. The $499 10 gig model didn't come out until 6 months later.
Well, it doesn't "trash" my fedora install, but yesterday I used yum to update my system, and my nvidia packages no longer support my video card. Instead I'm supposed to use nvidia-legacy now, the problem is the legacy rpm is much older than the one I was using two days ago.
That's not really fedora's fault since they don't package nvidia rpms in the first place, instead I have to get them from livna.