" I got the satisfaction of doing it myself. Thats the key thing here, I think, that most people miss."
I think the point was a cheap alternative to the $140 to $4000 alternative, not doing it yourself. Please also factor in the cost of a drill, drill bit and that thing to hold your caps in place while you drill, as long as you are a college student looking for the cheapest way to get this. Frankly, of those who are video hobbyists or budding producers, $140 is not a lot to hold your $1000 camera still while you are shooing something that might be requiring 5 different people's time. $14 is great for those of us who like to tinker.
I have bought one of these from someone else on Ebay. It is worth paying the $20 to have it built for you. SOmeone else I know that used the plans took about 10 hours to make it.
I really don't think that they switched back to the Rel format from WMP formatt because "everything had been addressed".
It's the free hosting of their content. Do we really think that the "issues" they "fixed" were any of the shady tidbits they include that we all care about here? Nope.
Of course they will track in some form. Look at hotmail. Every link that is found in an email to a hotmail user is modified so that hotmail can track it.
I liken the situation to Tivo. They track everything and will likely monitize on it. It just comes down to whether you trust the company who holds all of the data.
Then we shouldn't pay bands and athletes as much money as they get.
unfortunately, it comes down to the fact that what they are involved with generates a lot of money. What cut of that money are they entitled to? The National Hockey League will likely go on strike next season over money.
Wouldn't it be nice if some charities got more of these proceeds? (In that case, I want to start my own charity)
funding isn't a problem when your end results in one of the most complete and constantly updating tracking databases on earth.
Microsoft shouldn't care how much they lose making passport work because if someone else does it, they will have to pay bank to buy them anyway.
That said, does anyone know of CRM systems that integrate with a web logger that tracks IP and Mac address along with cookie values of some sort (like a user name).
also, anyone know of utlity that can preload content. I mean, as long as there is an internet connection, it can download content to be ready for a browser to be opened? It would be something like what ESPN uses (which only works with IE).
but until one can run Photoshop, Final Cut and After Effects as a 64 bit application, 64 bit is moot to most of those who feel Apple is speaking to them.
While Apple is happy that their server market is doing great, a big part of what they do has been the workstation and the entry level/academic Imac crowds. Apple is showing these ads to convert mind share with these people and that is fine. I am not saying that everyone else ISN'T doing the same kind of marketing grey messages, just that I always liked to put Apple above the dirty tricks sort of campaign.
if they could stand by their claim, then this wouldn't be newsworthy. The point of it all is that the whole "fastest thing" is a grey area. and that because OSX isn't a 64 bit OS yet, the G5s really aren't the fastest is most situations.
I'm not saying that this is the case, but if you are talking about FUD, isn't misleading claims FUD?
Apple likely didn't want to bring notice to support comparisons since that seems to me to be the one place where they actually suck.
how long is their support plan? how much do you have to pay for more support?
Dell and the other mail order PC companies usually offer 3 years tech support and part replacement.
I don't think Apple wants newbie customers (who are the ones who fall for the "fastest claim") to start worrying about what happens when the computer breaks. I know some folks who shy away from one company or another soley because they heard some rumor that it was difficult to get service.
i am hearing of lots of complaints about AOL in this thread. What about refusing to take aol addresses when customers fill out forms. There are a number of people in my life who still use AOL only because of email. I find myself explaining to them that they don't receive emails they didn't know got sent to them that are legitimate. They don't believe me.
Maybe if we don't let them enter an aol address, they will either use a non AOL address, or call AOL to complain after they read the explanation on your website that says why you wont take an AOL address.
whomever has control of your estate will have the paper work to show ICANN so that you can pick whatever registrar you want (which is free of charge) and get control of where the domain points.
While you bring up a topic that has not been dicussed too much, its not like the domain can't be treated like any other item of value.
the domain name for the one linked to by slashdot has a private domain name registration. While it is possible this was done this way so that any teachers or students who would actually think to check who the owner is could not figure out the joke, it could also be there so that whomever is ripping off the idea can not be called out easily.
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Didn't Netscape go down the shitter because AOL bought them???
not that you aren't on track, but I think Netscape particularly failed because AOL is far too narrow minded to contribute to the sucess of anything other than thier dialup service...
So what I get from what you are saying is that it doesn't matter which platform and hardware you run (when considering electricity consumption) but that we should all move from CRTs to LCDs?
"Microsoft is evil, spammers are evil, AOL and Yahoo! are only slightly less evil than the first two; also on the "evil" list are Apple, Sun, IBM, Dell, Oracle, Adobe, and, well, pretty much any company with yearly revenue in excess of $1 million."
Real installed spyware on machines for many years. Microsoft went to court and was forced to change their ways. Real just kept doing crappy things until most of their intellegent customers fled for slightly less crappy products like Windows Media Player.
You just show your ignorance when you say "Microsuck".
I'll let you get back to trading recipies on your Goth web site now.
I'm sure they are ok with that. I refused to buy any of their games because ALL they offered was Real. I will not install Real on any of my machines. While WMP sucks nearly as much, it still isn't as bad as Real's current and past shady tactics.
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The value is getting out of your house. See some hot chicks at the mall. Duh.
" I got the satisfaction of doing it myself. Thats the key thing here, I think, that most people miss."
I think the point was a cheap alternative to the $140 to $4000 alternative, not doing it yourself. Please also factor in the cost of a drill, drill bit and that thing to hold your caps in place while you drill, as long as you are a college student looking for the cheapest way to get this. Frankly, of those who are video hobbyists or budding producers, $140 is not a lot to hold your $1000 camera still while you are shooing something that might be requiring 5 different people's time. $14 is great for those of us who like to tinker.
I have bought one of these from someone else on Ebay. It is worth paying the $20 to have it built for you. SOmeone else I know that used the plans took about 10 hours to make it.
How much money is your TIME worth?
I really don't think that they switched back to the Rel format from WMP formatt because "everything had been addressed".
It's the free hosting of their content. Do we really think that the "issues" they "fixed" were any of the shady tidbits they include that we all care about here? Nope.
Of course they will track in some form. Look at hotmail. Every link that is found in an email to a hotmail user is modified so that hotmail can track it.
I liken the situation to Tivo. They track everything and will likely monitize on it. It just comes down to whether you trust the company who holds all of the data.
Then we shouldn't pay bands and athletes as much money as they get.
unfortunately, it comes down to the fact that what they are involved with generates a lot of money. What cut of that money are they entitled to? The National Hockey League will likely go on strike next season over money.
Wouldn't it be nice if some charities got more of these proceeds? (In that case, I want to start my own charity)
Suzuki has been suing Consumer Reports for years because their tests showed the Suzuki Samuri was very prone to rollovers.
it would be great to somehow sue california under their own anti spam laws
funding isn't a problem when your end results in one of the most complete and constantly updating tracking databases on earth.
Microsoft shouldn't care how much they lose making passport work because if someone else does it, they will have to pay bank to buy them anyway.
That said, does anyone know of CRM systems that integrate with a web logger that tracks IP and Mac address along with cookie values of some sort (like a user name).
also, anyone know of utlity that can preload content. I mean, as long as there is an internet connection, it can download content to be ready for a browser to be opened? It would be something like what ESPN uses (which only works with IE).
I know - those running photoshop, affter effects and final cut get much less real world acceleration than they think they are.
but until one can run Photoshop, Final Cut and After Effects as a 64 bit application, 64 bit is moot to most of those who feel Apple is speaking to them.
While Apple is happy that their server market is doing great, a big part of what they do has been the workstation and the entry level/academic Imac crowds. Apple is showing these ads to convert mind share with these people and that is fine. I am not saying that everyone else ISN'T doing the same kind of marketing grey messages, just that I always liked to put Apple above the dirty tricks sort of campaign.
but the fact remains that the tactic works
if they could stand by their claim, then this wouldn't be newsworthy. The point of it all is that the whole "fastest thing" is a grey area. and that because OSX isn't a 64 bit OS yet, the G5s really aren't the fastest is most situations.
I'm not saying that this is the case, but if you are talking about FUD, isn't misleading claims FUD?
Apple likely didn't want to bring notice to support comparisons since that seems to me to be the one place where they actually suck.
how long is their support plan?
how much do you have to pay for more support?
Dell and the other mail order PC companies usually offer 3 years tech support and part replacement.
I don't think Apple wants newbie customers (who are the ones who fall for the "fastest claim") to start worrying about what happens when the computer breaks. I know some folks who shy away from one company or another soley because they heard some rumor that it was difficult to get service.
when they atart charging 4 thousand dollars per hamburger, I think they will tell them not to make spurious hamburger claims
While G5's are 64 bit, OSx isn't a 64 bit OS.
But they will be in 9 months or a year.
At that point G5s will scream, but until then they wont.
I think VA Tech is banking on a big performance increase then.
i am hearing of lots of complaints about AOL in this thread. What about refusing to take aol addresses when customers fill out forms. There are a number of people in my life who still use AOL only because of email. I find myself explaining to them that they don't receive emails they didn't know got sent to them that are legitimate. They don't believe me.
Maybe if we don't let them enter an aol address, they will either use a non AOL address, or call AOL to complain after they read the explanation on your website that says why you wont take an AOL address.
whomever has control of your estate will have the paper work to show ICANN so that you can pick whatever registrar you want (which is free of charge) and get control of where the domain points.
While you bring up a topic that has not been dicussed too much, its not like the domain can't be treated like any other item of value.
the domain name for the one linked to by slashdot has a private domain name registration. While it is possible this was done this way so that any teachers or students who would actually think to check who the owner is could not figure out the joke, it could also be there so that whomever is ripping off the idea can not be called out easily.
Didn't Netscape go down the shitter because AOL bought them???
not that you aren't on track, but I think Netscape particularly failed because AOL is far too narrow minded to contribute to the sucess of anything other than thier dialup service...
So what I get from what you are saying is that it doesn't matter which platform and hardware you run (when considering electricity consumption) but that we should all move from CRTs to LCDs?
ok, you can go back to being upset about all of the other crappy things in your life now...
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you must not be from around here. This is Slashdot.
"Microsoft is evil, spammers are evil, AOL and Yahoo! are only slightly less evil than the first two; also on the "evil" list are Apple, Sun, IBM, Dell, Oracle, Adobe, and, well, pretty much any company with yearly revenue in excess of $1 million."
Don't forget about the Yankees...
Real installed spyware on machines for many years. Microsoft went to court and was forced to change their ways. Real just kept doing crappy things until most of their intellegent customers fled for slightly less crappy products like Windows Media Player.
You just show your ignorance when you say "Microsuck".
I'll let you get back to trading recipies on your Goth web site now.
I'm sure they are ok with that. I refused to buy any of their games because ALL they offered was Real. I will not install Real on any of my machines. While WMP sucks nearly as much, it still isn't as bad as Real's current and past shady tactics.
And doesn't Linux have players that support WMV?
Except Jobs isn't CEO of Virginia Tech.
I don't know why this is such a big deal - hardware is hardware and he will certainly get his Apples on the cheap.
I could afford a few Macs with his discount too...