The limiting factor is really the bandwidth, not the storage space.
But with the prevelance of Netflix and the like, we're now used to our (legal) choices in movies arriving to us in 1-3 days (-ish). All of a sudden, queueing up your torrents in the morning for veiwing after work (or at night, etc) looks reasonable.
The corallory explains that stupidity is the most common element in the universe. You claim that buying a Mac is stupid. Therefore, if buying a Mac was stupid, Macs should be the dominant computing platform. Obviously, they are not.
Ergo, it is inheritly unstupid (Destupid? Il-stupid? Anti-stupid?) to buy a Mac.
I distinctly recall my disappointment at the pricing of the iPod mini when it came out. I thought it was at least $50 overpriced, maybe more.
And it went on to be their bestseller until replaced by the Nano.
Shows what I know.:-)
I think the market may expand here. The high-end cellphone market is so small because most of the devices are so effin' hard to use for non-geeks. My wife's eyes glaze over when I try to explain to her how to use Google Maps on my 7100t. She may (note: MAY) find the interface on the iPhone easier.
I, too, have a kickass camera. Several of them. And I already own an iPod. And I have a Blackberry from work.
But I still want the iPhone.
Because I usually don't have all three on me at all times. For instance, the light here at sunset a few days ago was *killer*. It didn't matter what your camera was aimed at, a good photo was sure to ensue.
Except I don't carry a camera around with me at all times. There's a great photo that was never taken.
What about downtime? Or waiting in line at the bank? Or the countless other times during the day when you're bored silly?
This is a killer device, and will make the RAZR look like, well, a razor.
The best you'll be able to do with this (for iTunes, Front Row and iTV integration) is add some applescript to have it convert the videos for iPod use and then drop them into iTunes.
And it iPod resolution, too. Crappity crapcrapcrap.
And thus, my dream of TiVo ends. Looks like it's an El Gato for me.
Or watching it on other TV's in the home. I like the idea of one central media server versus having TV shows, movies and music scattered on various devices around the home.
Clearly, this is an attempt by Roxio to stay relevant on the Mac. But there's no word yet of iTunes integration for full-size videos. Therefore, I have doubts (which hopefully will be settled tomorrow) about how this will work with 'iTV".
What I find fascinating about the article is, it seems to miss one of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights, and the greivous damages done against it in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
If the New Orleans authorities went around and rounded up anyone carrying, oh, say, a tv camera, right after the hurricane, that'd be big news, and outcry would be heard how our First Amendment Rights were being violated, and it would have made the list.
But something very similar to that happened, just not the First Amendment, and it didn't make the list
A guess some rights are more equal than others...
I think with new Apple products, it comes down to this:
If it's a gadget that Steve Jobs uses in his everyday life, he wants it to be better. And if it makes sense for Apple to build it, they do.
Steve uses computers - Apple improves the Mac line and OS X to where they're the most stylish, well-designed computers on the market.
Steve listens to music - Apple comes out with the iPod
Steve doesn't play video games - I'm an unabashed Mac fanboy, but I gotta admit that OS X just blows for game selection.
Steve uses a cellphone - Hmmm..... Now here's where it gets interesting. Is there a cell phone on the market today that even approaches the power, design and ease of use of a Mac or an iPod? Obviously, no. Now, is Steve willing to shake up the cell phone industry like he did the music biz?
Take a look at what the Boers did with "sporting arms" against the British at the turn of the last century. Or what the "snipers" in Iraq are doing to US servicemen there. In reality, those 'snipers' wouldn't even make decent deer hunters: they're spraying and praying with an AK-47 at under 200 yards, and still managing to kill large amounts of military personnel.
In my garage, unloaded and under lock and key (I have kids) is an M1903 Springfield.30-06 rifle with a 4x Leopold scope. A decent shooter, armed with that and playing their cards right, could give upwards of an infantry platoon a very bad day.
The Continental Army did not start out as an organized, military force: It began as farmers and freemen, sniping with their sporting arms from wherever they could. And much the same exists today. What matters is the willpower not to become a victim.
That's both the reason why HD-DVD/BluRay came out in the first place and why both will fail.
I'm smack dab in the middle of the target market for this, a movie freak with a good job and a penchant for the latest gadgets.
But I have no desire to replace my hundreds of DVD's just to get 1080p. My 60" (insert Darth Vader's Theme here) Sony (gasp!) tv and upconverting DVD player do a bang-up job of recreating the movie theatre experience in my home. Anything more isn't missed, I'll be hanged if Sony and the rest of the studios are going to force me to switch when I don't want to. I'll move to BitTorrent before I do that.
IIRC, Jobs was able to get the labels to buy into the iTunes Music Store because the market at the time was limited to just Mac users, and therefore the impact on the wild success (NOT!) the other online music ventures backed by the RIAA wouldn't be significantly impacted.
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The limiting factor is really the bandwidth, not the storage space.
But with the prevelance of Netflix and the like, we're now used to our (legal) choices in movies arriving to us in 1-3 days (-ish). All of a sudden, queueing up your torrents in the morning for veiwing after work (or at night, etc) looks reasonable.
The corallory explains that stupidity is the most common element in the universe. You claim that buying a Mac is stupid. Therefore, if buying a Mac was stupid, Macs should be the dominant computing platform. Obviously, they are not.
/. as an AC, on the otherhand...
Ergo, it is inheritly unstupid (Destupid? Il-stupid? Anti-stupid?) to buy a Mac.
Trolling
Either that, or the tinfoil hat's beginning to cut off circulation.
I distinctly recall my disappointment at the pricing of the iPod mini when it came out. I thought it was at least $50 overpriced, maybe more.
:-)
And it went on to be their bestseller until replaced by the Nano.
Shows what I know.
I think the market may expand here. The high-end cellphone market is so small because most of the devices are so effin' hard to use for non-geeks. My wife's eyes glaze over when I try to explain to her how to use Google Maps on my 7100t. She may (note: MAY) find the interface on the iPhone easier.
I, too, have a kickass camera. Several of them. And I already own an iPod. And I have a Blackberry from work. But I still want the iPhone. Because I usually don't have all three on me at all times. For instance, the light here at sunset a few days ago was *killer*. It didn't matter what your camera was aimed at, a good photo was sure to ensue. Except I don't carry a camera around with me at all times. There's a great photo that was never taken. What about downtime? Or waiting in line at the bank? Or the countless other times during the day when you're bored silly? This is a killer device, and will make the RAZR look like, well, a razor.
The best you'll be able to do with this (for iTunes, Front Row and iTV integration) is add some applescript to have it convert the videos for iPod use and then drop them into iTunes.
And it iPod resolution, too. Crappity crapcrapcrap.
And thus, my dream of TiVo ends. Looks like it's an El Gato for me.
Or watching it on other TV's in the home. I like the idea of one central media server versus having TV shows, movies and music scattered on various devices around the home.
Clearly, this is an attempt by Roxio to stay relevant on the Mac. But there's no word yet of iTunes integration for full-size videos. Therefore, I have doubts (which hopefully will be settled tomorrow) about how this will work with 'iTV".
The software upgrade came from Sony, and both Rovers now have a rootkit.
four new skills included in revised flight software uploaded to their onboard computers.
The rovers can fly now? That's some mighty good software!What I find fascinating about the article is, it seems to miss one of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights, and the greivous damages done against it in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. If the New Orleans authorities went around and rounded up anyone carrying, oh, say, a tv camera, right after the hurricane, that'd be big news, and outcry would be heard how our First Amendment Rights were being violated, and it would have made the list. But something very similar to that happened, just not the First Amendment, and it didn't make the list A guess some rights are more equal than others...
"Bush sucks".
The Microsoft Zune store was working just fine.
Huh.
I think with new Apple products, it comes down to this:
If it's a gadget that Steve Jobs uses in his everyday life, he wants it to be better. And if it makes sense for Apple to build it, they do.
Steve uses computers - Apple improves the Mac line and OS X to where they're the most stylish, well-designed computers on the market.
Steve listens to music - Apple comes out with the iPod
Steve doesn't play video games - I'm an unabashed Mac fanboy, but I gotta admit that OS X just blows for game selection.
Steve uses a cellphone - Hmmm..... Now here's where it gets interesting. Is there a cell phone on the market today that even approaches the power, design and ease of use of a Mac or an iPod? Obviously, no. Now, is Steve willing to shake up the cell phone industry like he did the music biz?
Aye, there's the rub.
It's like "Processed Cheese Food" : It's not cheese, it's the food that cheese eats.
but the wife won't be happy (and we all know what that means).
This is /. , so no, the majority of people here will have no clue.
Fantastic! "Time's Person Of The Year" for 2006" will look great on my resume!
Heck, I'd be satified if he finished his Requiem Mass...
If there ever was a comment that needed a "+6, Funny" score, it's that one. Well played, Mr/Mrs/Ms/Miss/whatever AC.
No, not when you think about it. Consider the typical big-box electronics store customer:
"Excuse me, do you have any PS3's?"
"No."
"Nintendo Wii's?"
"No."
"Well, what do you have in stock?"
"The xBox 360."
"We'll take it."
Having product on the shelves covers a multitude of sins.
In my garage, unloaded and under lock and key (I have kids) is an M1903 Springfield .30-06 rifle with a 4x Leopold scope. A decent shooter, armed with that and playing their cards right, could give upwards of an infantry platoon a very bad day.
The Continental Army did not start out as an organized, military force: It began as farmers and freemen, sniping with their sporting arms from wherever they could. And much the same exists today. What matters is the willpower not to become a victim.I'm smack dab in the middle of the target market for this, a movie freak with a good job and a penchant for the latest gadgets.
But I have no desire to replace my hundreds of DVD's just to get 1080p. My 60" (insert Darth Vader's Theme here) Sony (gasp!) tv and upconverting DVD player do a bang-up job of recreating the movie theatre experience in my home. Anything more isn't missed, I'll be hanged if Sony and the rest of the studios are going to force me to switch when I don't want to. I'll move to BitTorrent before I do that.
Well, we know how that one ended.
This a trial balloon, and a very big deal.Never seen 'Xian' used before
Heh. I used that as a note-taking shortcut throughout Bible school. It's not common, but it is used.Maybe there's still hope: Maybe they both can lose.
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