I would have gone to buy it at Best Buy anyway, considering it was $9.99 there and you get a CD (higher quality than AAC) and all the liner notes and such.
Bnetd pissed me off for a little while, but this is just rediculous. Especially since a group of friends and I had started developing a strategy game on the engine!
I was going to buy Frozen Throne, but nevermind that. Not that it matters, it'll be the fastest selling expansion pack of all time anyway.
I read an article once (perhaps on IGN, not sure?) that said Nintendo has never lost money or cut even on a hardware sale, they always sell at profit, no matter what.
That probably helps them stay in business. Well, that and the Game Boy.
How is this inventory larger or more complex? When you purchase a full album from iTMS it just downloads every individual track, its not like you get one 70 minute file, wouldn't that be silly? Thus it is not more complex to have individual tracks, they would have to have them if they were selling just full albums, too.
Also, since they are not selling a physical product, there aren't fees associated with warehouse staff or paying for the warehouse itself. On top of that, no fees for trucking and no fees for a computer system in the warehouse to keep track. No fees for forklifts, etc.
how does selling single tracks increase their costs? individual songs would still have to be encoded and able to be searched for, i don't see what you mean.
On the news once here in Orlando they were showing the homes of people on welfare and such. Funny thing is, every single one had at least basic cable.
My mother and I were watching it with an antenna, we couldn't afford cable, but we weren't on welfare.
The Euro is almost exactly equal to a US dollar, if tech companies were forced to pay their labor in Euros, they might as well be paying Americans to do the same thing. To my knowledge, the EU hasn't set it's own minimum wage, but Romania's is $5.50! Higher than it is here...
It has its purposes, but one of them certainly wasn't listening to some random guy's massive collection of Bright Eyes on his ISDN connection, not my idea of fun, no sir.
When we still had ADSL at my office it wasn't uncommon for someone in our IT department to say "Alright, the internet is slow as hell, who is on Kazaa?"
It was typically my boss or his daughter.
We got a faster net connection (SHDSL, optical) and we don't notice it anymore.
Who would want to pay $5 to watch a scratched DVD that skips around?
I don't eat greasy popcorn, I'm not a fatass. And student tickets here (my preferred theatre is at Universal Studios Orlando) are only $5.50.
Crowd reaction is a big part of the movie experience. It is important to see the big movies right when they come out so you can be in a packed theatre.
I would much rather go to the theatre. I haven't been to Blockbuster in years.
I was at a friend's house last night and he was making a converter to use his Xbox controller on his Dual G4. He couldn't get it to work correctly so he had me test it on my laptop. His pins were in the reverse order, but after he fixed it I was playing GTA Vice City with a Xbox controller! Neat! Perhaps he'll be able to play some Oni on his Mac with that controller now...I think I want to make a converter myself, too.
You people are funny, because Apple doesn't even have to do the codework to fix these bugs. They're just patches and updates to the open source software bundled in (sendmail, etc.) Furthermore, usually those fixes are for problems where the server could be rooted, whether you think so or not.
Can you get rid of the bundled browser in Windows so easily?
Yeah, pretty much.
Windows Media Player is given away free so Microsoft can point to a significant [pre]installed base when they make arguments as to why their (Microsoft's) proprietary file formats should be The Standard.
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"...but it seems the ./ Apple news moderation..."
Yeah, damn those dot slash Apple news moderators!
Hypertransport is 1/2 the CPU speed, why is this surprising? Especially since Apple is a HT consortium member.
I would have gone to buy it at Best Buy anyway, considering it was $9.99 there and you get a CD (higher quality than AAC) and all the liner notes and such.
Bnetd pissed me off for a little while, but this is just rediculous. Especially since a group of friends and I had started developing a strategy game on the engine!
I was going to buy Frozen Throne, but nevermind that. Not that it matters, it'll be the fastest selling expansion pack of all time anyway.
I read an article once (perhaps on IGN, not sure?) that said Nintendo has never lost money or cut even on a hardware sale, they always sell at profit, no matter what.
That probably helps them stay in business. Well, that and the Game Boy.
In reply to both of you...
How is this inventory larger or more complex? When you purchase a full album from iTMS it just downloads every individual track, its not like you get one 70 minute file, wouldn't that be silly? Thus it is not more complex to have individual tracks, they would have to have them if they were selling just full albums, too.
Also, since they are not selling a physical product, there aren't fees associated with warehouse staff or paying for the warehouse itself. On top of that, no fees for trucking and no fees for a computer system in the warehouse to keep track. No fees for forklifts, etc.
how does selling single tracks increase their costs? individual songs would still have to be encoded and able to be searched for, i don't see what you mean.
weeks?!?! my friend sat on a list for 8 years to get a phone when he lived in Ukraine (while it was still part of the USSR).
ball is in...parking lot. would you like to try again? you have selected....no.
On the news once here in Orlando they were showing the homes of people on welfare and such. Funny thing is, every single one had at least basic cable. My mother and I were watching it with an antenna, we couldn't afford cable, but we weren't on welfare.
searching on google, either i read it wrong, or i shouldn't believe everything i see on the internet :D
The Euro is almost exactly equal to a US dollar, if tech companies were forced to pay their labor in Euros, they might as well be paying Americans to do the same thing. To my knowledge, the EU hasn't set it's own minimum wage, but Romania's is $5.50! Higher than it is here...
it's called sliding windows and TCP does that already
Yes! Awesome! We aren't needed anymore! Thanks for putting us out of jobs Apple.
where do you teach? i'll be sure to avoid it.
last time i checked the radio wasn't on demand, it was sit-there-for-a-few-hours-and-hear-one-or-two-dece nt-songs.
I thought it was a lame feature anyway.
It has its purposes, but one of them certainly wasn't listening to some random guy's massive collection of Bright Eyes on his ISDN connection, not my idea of fun, no sir.
When we still had ADSL at my office it wasn't uncommon for someone in our IT department to say "Alright, the internet is slow as hell, who is on Kazaa?"
It was typically my boss or his daughter.
We got a faster net connection (SHDSL, optical) and we don't notice it anymore.
This figure doesn't even include Kazaa Lite and the like!
Who the hell would use the standard Kazaa?!
Who would want to pay $5 to watch a scratched DVD that skips around?
I don't eat greasy popcorn, I'm not a fatass. And student tickets here (my preferred theatre is at Universal Studios Orlando) are only $5.50.
Crowd reaction is a big part of the movie experience. It is important to see the big movies right when they come out so you can be in a packed theatre.
I would much rather go to the theatre. I haven't been to Blockbuster in years.
Interesting I should see this post today...
I was at a friend's house last night and he was making a converter to use his Xbox controller on his Dual G4. He couldn't get it to work correctly so he had me test it on my laptop. His pins were in the reverse order, but after he fixed it I was playing GTA Vice City with a Xbox controller! Neat! Perhaps he'll be able to play some Oni on his Mac with that controller now...I think I want to make a converter myself, too.
You people are funny, because Apple doesn't even have to do the codework to fix these bugs. They're just patches and updates to the open source software bundled in (sendmail, etc.) Furthermore, usually those fixes are for problems where the server could be rooted, whether you think so or not.
the range of ip adresses that the RIAA owns
just block them on your firewall
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Can you get rid of the bundled browser in Windows so easily?
Yeah, pretty much.
Windows Media Player is given away free so Microsoft can point to a significant [pre]installed base when they make arguments as to why their (Microsoft's) proprietary file formats should be The Standard.
Ever heard of Quicktime?