Yea I've had mixed results, but usually with the very old digital copies that came on a physical DVD and you imported them into iTunes. I don't think I've had a UV code actually expire but I'm sure it happens.
Regaining sovereignty was not dumb. Stopping unlimited immigration was not dumb. Nor is is dumb in America that we're doing the same. Sucks the guys you have to vote for to achieve these objectives, but no one better is in the right.
The 20% drop in the value of your currency would seem to disagree.
Bullshit. Apple store UK is for British people. And British people didn't get a salary raise due to Brexit, and local prices are certainly not linked to USD GBP forex. Apple store items are sold in GBP and no importing cost is involved. This is just another lame excuse to make more profit (or at least keep the same profit).
This is your argument:
"We did something dumb and our currency plummeted, but we shouldn't be held responsible for that! Those developers and that foreign company Apple should just accept less money for what they are selling. We need Apple welfare to keep our app prices from going up!"
The dollar is doing well. it would be much more honest to compare the pound to the euro in that not so subtle piece of advocacy.
The Pound is doing OK as well. 1 USD = 0.816 GBP. Pretty much matching the old pricing. This is just a price increase by Apple. It now matches the way games tend to be priced on Steam: the same number of dollars, pounds, and euros for the game.
UK VAT is 20%. The dollar is now valued at about 20% below the pound. When you add VAT onto the price (because in the US we don't put taxes into the product price, europeans don't always know this) the difference between the dollar and the pound vanishes and they are essentially at parity. So charging 0.99£ is essentially equivalent to charging $0.99 in the US. A friend of mine was bitching about the price of the new Nintendo in the UK until I pointed out that, with taxes taken out of the equation, there would only be about a 3£ difference from what I would pay if I bought one. The Brits are just going to have to come to grips with the fact that their currency has tumbled since the Brexit vote and live with it or find a way to fix it.
Blu-rays usually come with a digital copy included. Usually UV or both a UV and Apple copy. Some give you the option to redeem on Amazon or Google as well. Setting up a UV account is a PITA since you need a UV login and a login to VUDU, Flixster, and link your UV account to several studio redemption sites if the codes won't work straight with VUDU or such. But once you navigate that they work pretty well. Wide device support, offline viewing, and at least with VUDU the stream quality is a cut above Netflix and Amazon.
Pretty sure there are none of those on the directv now service. Not that regular cable channels are much better content wise than rotating infomercials anyway....
This of course runs afoul of many countries consumer protection laws. And, any corporation this size has enough funds and legal staff to know this. It also has the ability to set up proper policies before launching a service. Even when rushing to be third to market.
However, AT&T also knows that any punishment is likely to be a slap on the wrist and an order to comply in the future and is deemed an acceptable expense, and possibly lesser than the expense to set it up right, and respect customers.
So? It only matters if it runs afoul of one country's consumer protections laws: the US. AT&T doesn't sell Directv Now outside the US so while it's nice other countries have better consumer protection laws, it really doesn't apply to this situation at all.
How is this here? It's an obvious marketing statement on a Microsoft blog . No shit they recommend upgrading. I bet there are other MS blogs recommending upgrades for all kinds of products they make. So how the hell does this come close to "news"? Much less news/. should care about?
This has nothing to do with Apple. I don't give a shit about Apple. I don't buy their computers. I never said I did, you just assumed because, probably due to a lack of critical thinking skills that seems to permeate this site lately. It's how this site has gone from a site with geeks to a site with a bunch of technophobes.
Oh please, if someone released a device that cured cancer 100% of the time, and gave it away I could feel confident that I could come here and find people shitting on it for some reason. This site has gone from a site of true geeks to a site populated by people who thing they are geeks, but are actually just cranky aging wannabes who think they know way more than they actually do.
lol are you new here? Anti-apple posts always get modded up, defending Apple will usually get you modded down. It's slashdot: home to cranky old people who hate technology, any big tech companies, the government, and kids on their lawns.
10 minutes can be a long wait for an ambulance. Then once you are in it, what kind of hospital are you going to end up in? I don't even live in an area I consider rural but the closest hospital to me is really no more than a heliport for the university hospitals in the major metro 30 miles away. And having been in their ED I'd be concerned about being treated there for more than an ingrown toenail anyway.
It's going to take a decent size rock hitting somewhere in the US before we finally start to take asteroid surveillance seriously. If one hits a major city (I volunteer Boston) suddenly we'll figure out that hey, maybe we should spend more than what we spend studying the asswiping habits of Filipino used car salesmen on trying to detect giant space rocks that can knock us back into the stone-age or worse.
If artists want to get paid for their work, then they should demand to get paid up front. This expecting revenue every time a song is played is pure communism. Not making enough from your music? Go work for McDonald's.
Maybe. China and NYT went through this recently and although nyt.com was blocked the apps still worked, so China told Apple to remove them. It's possible the apps still worked, creating a bypass to the blocked site. In theory Russia should be able to look and see what servers the apps use for content and block those but I guess this is just easier.
I'd be perfectly happy with it, if it was for notification only. Wash done, great. Fridge door left open, thanks for letting me know.
What I absolutely do not want is the ability to control them via the internet or even locally via WiFi or even Ethernet. It's not even that useful of a feature to begin with. If I want to start a load of laundry I can't exactly load the damn washer with an app, so starting it with one doesn't do me much good. If I want to start it at a later time after it's loaded, I already have the ability to set a delay at the control panel for the washer. I don't need someone being able to turn on my washer constantly, Setting my fridge to 99F, or put my oven in a self-cleaning loop.
He didn't specify it was an IR remote. =c) Radio remote would be fine. A phone widget button could do it, wouldn't even need to open an app.
Yes, getting an RF remote to IR bridge (it is my gear we are talking about here, and it doesn't use RF it uses IR), and placing them all over my house or picking up my phone, unlocking it, and launching an app, finding the right screen, and pressing a button on it is much easier than just saying "Alexa, turn on the theater".
Of course not, but it makes no sense. If the goal is to deanonymize a user, and I have access to their machine to flash firmware on the sound card, then I have all the access I need to deanonymize the user without jumping through that hoop in the first place. If I am able to run arbitrary code there are plenty of ways, much easier and more accurate ways to do this. Hell just pulling access point MAC addresses from the WiFi card would work without jumping through all the hoops you propose.
I'm not saying it's not possible, but it's overly complicated for no good reason. All you need to make it perfect is a sign for free bird seed and a obsessed coyote.
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Yes, because this totally doesn't affect everyday citizens. Oh wait, it does.
Yea I've had mixed results, but usually with the very old digital copies that came on a physical DVD and you imported them into iTunes. I don't think I've had a UV code actually expire but I'm sure it happens.
It states on the packaging that the codes may expire.
We did something dumb
Regaining sovereignty was not dumb. Stopping unlimited immigration was not dumb. Nor is is dumb in America that we're doing the same. Sucks the guys you have to vote for to achieve these objectives, but no one better is in the right.
The 20% drop in the value of your currency would seem to disagree.
Somehow, I wouldn't be surprised to see Disney throw their hat in the ring. They've been buying up content properties left and right, lately.
(Not honestly sure whether that would be a good thing or a bad thing, though...)
They probably wouldn't mind getting the Sony licensed Marvel properties back either.
Bullshit. Apple store UK is for British people. And British people didn't get a salary raise due to Brexit, and local prices are certainly not linked to USD GBP forex. Apple store items are sold in GBP and no importing cost is involved. This is just another lame excuse to make more profit (or at least keep the same profit).
This is your argument:
"We did something dumb and our currency plummeted, but we shouldn't be held responsible for that! Those developers and that foreign company Apple should just accept less money for what they are selling. We need Apple welfare to keep our app prices from going up!"
The dollar is doing well. it would be much more honest to compare the pound to the euro in that not so subtle piece of advocacy.
The Pound is doing OK as well. 1 USD = 0.816 GBP. Pretty much matching the old pricing. This is just a price increase by Apple. It now matches the way games tend to be priced on Steam: the same number of dollars, pounds, and euros for the game.
UK VAT is 20%. The dollar is now valued at about 20% below the pound. When you add VAT onto the price (because in the US we don't put taxes into the product price, europeans don't always know this) the difference between the dollar and the pound vanishes and they are essentially at parity. So charging 0.99£ is essentially equivalent to charging $0.99 in the US. A friend of mine was bitching about the price of the new Nintendo in the UK until I pointed out that, with taxes taken out of the equation, there would only be about a 3£ difference from what I would pay if I bought one. The Brits are just going to have to come to grips with the fact that their currency has tumbled since the Brexit vote and live with it or find a way to fix it.
Blu-rays usually come with a digital copy included. Usually UV or both a UV and Apple copy. Some give you the option to redeem on Amazon or Google as well. Setting up a UV account is a PITA since you need a UV login and a login to VUDU, Flixster, and link your UV account to several studio redemption sites if the codes won't work straight with VUDU or such. But once you navigate that they work pretty well. Wide device support, offline viewing, and at least with VUDU the stream quality is a cut above Netflix and Amazon.
To be fair, we are talking about back catalog titles here and unless they are out of print the DVDs are probably extremely cheap.
Pretty sure there are none of those on the directv now service. Not that regular cable channels are much better content wise than rotating infomercials anyway....
This of course runs afoul of many countries consumer protection laws. And, any corporation this size has enough funds and legal staff to know this. It also has the ability to set up proper policies before launching a service. Even when rushing to be third to market.
However, AT&T also knows that any punishment is likely to be a slap on the wrist and an order to comply in the future and is deemed an acceptable expense, and possibly lesser than the expense to set it up right, and respect customers.
So? It only matters if it runs afoul of one country's consumer protections laws: the US. AT&T doesn't sell Directv Now outside the US so while it's nice other countries have better consumer protection laws, it really doesn't apply to this situation at all.
Guess I should start submitting stories on the Pepsi Challenge too then. They would be just as substantive.
How is this here? It's an obvious marketing statement on a Microsoft blog . No shit they recommend upgrading. I bet there are other MS blogs recommending upgrades for all kinds of products they make. So how the hell does this come close to "news"? Much less news /. should care about?
This has nothing to do with Apple. I don't give a shit about Apple. I don't buy their computers. I never said I did, you just assumed because, probably due to a lack of critical thinking skills that seems to permeate this site lately. It's how this site has gone from a site with geeks to a site with a bunch of technophobes.
Oh please, if someone released a device that cured cancer 100% of the time, and gave it away I could feel confident that I could come here and find people shitting on it for some reason. This site has gone from a site of true geeks to a site populated by people who thing they are geeks, but are actually just cranky aging wannabes who think they know way more than they actually do.
You say experience, I say delusional...
lol are you new here? Anti-apple posts always get modded up, defending Apple will usually get you modded down. It's slashdot: home to cranky old people who hate technology, any big tech companies, the government, and kids on their lawns.
10 minutes can be a long wait for an ambulance. Then once you are in it, what kind of hospital are you going to end up in? I don't even live in an area I consider rural but the closest hospital to me is really no more than a heliport for the university hospitals in the major metro 30 miles away. And having been in their ED I'd be concerned about being treated there for more than an ingrown toenail anyway.
In what world does 30 times the energy of Hiroshima qualify as "minor damage"?
in the world where it explodes 30 times higher in the sky than the Hiroshima bomb.
In a world where larger asteroids could wipe out most complex life on this planet, a rock "only" big enough to destroy a city is still pretty minor.
It's going to take a decent size rock hitting somewhere in the US before we finally start to take asteroid surveillance seriously. If one hits a major city (I volunteer Boston) suddenly we'll figure out that hey, maybe we should spend more than what we spend studying the asswiping habits of Filipino used car salesmen on trying to detect giant space rocks that can knock us back into the stone-age or worse.
If artists want to get paid for their work, then they should demand to get paid up front. This expecting revenue every time a song is played is pure communism. Not making enough from your music? Go work for McDonald's.
Maybe. China and NYT went through this recently and although nyt.com was blocked the apps still worked, so China told Apple to remove them. It's possible the apps still worked, creating a bypass to the blocked site. In theory Russia should be able to look and see what servers the apps use for content and block those but I guess this is just easier.
I'd be perfectly happy with it, if it was for notification only. Wash done, great. Fridge door left open, thanks for letting me know.
What I absolutely do not want is the ability to control them via the internet or even locally via WiFi or even Ethernet. It's not even that useful of a feature to begin with. If I want to start a load of laundry I can't exactly load the damn washer with an app, so starting it with one doesn't do me much good. If I want to start it at a later time after it's loaded, I already have the ability to set a delay at the control panel for the washer. I don't need someone being able to turn on my washer constantly, Setting my fridge to 99F, or put my oven in a self-cleaning loop.
He didn't specify it was an IR remote. =c) Radio remote would be fine. A phone widget button could do it, wouldn't even need to open an app.
Yes, getting an RF remote to IR bridge (it is my gear we are talking about here, and it doesn't use RF it uses IR), and placing them all over my house or picking up my phone, unlocking it, and launching an app, finding the right screen, and pressing a button on it is much easier than just saying "Alexa, turn on the theater".
Of course not, but it makes no sense. If the goal is to deanonymize a user, and I have access to their machine to flash firmware on the sound card, then I have all the access I need to deanonymize the user without jumping through that hoop in the first place. If I am able to run arbitrary code there are plenty of ways, much easier and more accurate ways to do this. Hell just pulling access point MAC addresses from the WiFi card would work without jumping through all the hoops you propose.
I'm not saying it's not possible, but it's overly complicated for no good reason. All you need to make it perfect is a sign for free bird seed and a obsessed coyote.