"SJ and I had a long chat" yeah right, as if anyone influential enough to have "long chats" with Steve Jobs would waste the amount of time you do trolling on Slashdot.
The problem is that "It just works" also depends on a decent hardware platform.
And of course there's the rather obvious question of whether Microsoft are actually capable of creating the software half of "It Just Works". History would seem to suggest not.
I still remember Bill Gates announcing that in Windows 3.1 there would be no more UAEs (Unexpected Application Errors)! You know how this miracle was achieved? They re-named them to GPF (General Proection Fault).
How does the saying go: "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"?
Nope, the music companies would turn around and say "no more music for you Mr Jobs".
Despite the random wibble sometimes spouted on Slashdot iTMS is not succesful because of some theoretical "monopoly" but because the iPod is the best mp3 player money can buy and people like iTMS. (To clarify: I love my iPod, but I think iTMS is outrageously overpriced and I blame the music companies for that, not Apple. I think it would be quite interesting to compare how much they charge Apple for an Album versus how much they charge a retail store for the same Album on CD).
Excluding programs like JHymn, if you buy an iPod, you're stuck with CDs (ick) or iTMS. If you buy tracks from iTMS, forget loading them onto any other MP3 player.
Untrue. I rip from CDs or buy from allofmp3.com. I could buy from any other store that would seel me un-DRM encumbered MP3 or AAC.
An inference you made from some random nobody's random posting makes you "nervous about the Apple platform"? Frankly I doubt your statement that you are "an Apple user".
You're an idiot. Steve Jobs is and always has been a despot. The result is that Apple produces the best personal computers and mp3 players in the world. Would I work for him? Probably not (I turned down a job working for a different computer despot that had a good chance of making me rich: I knew it also had a good chance of giving me a heart attack so I walked away).
Would I buy computers from this guy? Yep have done several times.
Agreed. I recently went to the Apple Store for a browse (never actually bought anything from there but it's a great place to browse). Anyway, spotted a CD I liked the look of (by The Reduced Shakespeare Company, a 3 CD set). The price: GBP24 !!!! Sorry no way.
So I went to Amazon and bought the physical CDs for GBP12.99.
So yes, I agree that the Apple store prices are a rip off: but the bulk of that fault lies with the record companies, who not only want a royalty on the sale but in Canada they want a tax on it as well! (That's on top of the tax of blank media).
. Don't let the facts get in the way of bashing Apple or anything will you?
The various record companies own the rights to the music: they made it a condition of allowing Apple to sell it online that it had to be DRM'd. Apple had a simple choice: DRM or no music.
iPods have always cost several hundred pounds (GBP): the iPod generation have *always* had the wealth to make a difference.
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In roads into what? Definately not the Mac market, so what was your point again? Sounds like you came up with some random wibble you thought might sound intelligent to do a bit of karma whoring.
As opposed to me that's actually said something that is intelligent in order to do a bit of karma whoring;) (Mind you, my Karma is already excellent so what's the point).
Perhaps because Jef Raskin *didnt* develop the Mac's GUI?
Raskin's vision was for an easy to use, CHEAP, computer for the everyman. It was actually quite different from what the Mac actually became. About the only credit he deserves in that regard is for the name (did you know the marketeers tried to change it to "Bicycle" ?!?) and for starting the project. The rest is pretty much to the credit of Jobs and the Mac team.
They should go after this guy: he signed up to a NDA and then broke it in the biggest way he could. Or are you trying to say it's ok to lie to get some software under priviliged circumstances and then distributing it widely despite saying you wouldn't?
Apple should ensure the guy is punished otherwise either a) other people will do just the same in the future or b) Apple will stop seeding developers and the losers will be Apple and it's users.
The guy deserves a spanking and *I* hope Apple give him one.
And that's why the iPod is so great: it doesn't have all this silly fluff: FM radio *LOL*, OGG (who cares), mics (yeah that's really important in a music player) but the biggest piece of fluff and the one that proves they miss the point complete is: video. Video ahahahahahahaha!
Replacable batteries sound like a good idea, except that they add to the size and require catches and covers that can get lost or broken. And of course if Apple did change to replacable batteries I've no doubt the Yugo drivers would all start whinging about how Apple makes so much money on all the accessories.
Any MP3 player is a luxury item. The iPod is at the top of the heap and the reason you pay more is principally great design: and part of that great design is realising less is more: something the component-assemblers at Creative et al still haven't figured out.
Misleading the consumer, which is what has been ruled here, certainly should be (and is) illegal.
The requirements say you need an internet connection: the truth is you need a Steam account, with additional EULA you have to agree to that isn't even mentioned: oh and Valve have to tear themselves away from cluster fucking their customers long enough to keep the damn Steam servers actually up and running.
The difference is if I play Warcarft3 (for example) single-player or even over my home LAN I do not have to download any patches: only if I play online through BattleNet (for obvious reasons).
In addition WC3 (for eg) does not install some piece of spyware (Steam) the insists on a) running on startup and b) reporting back the the mothership on startup and when running their game etc etc.
As to running in "off line" mode: firstly: it isn't obvious how you turn it on. Second it was easier to just uninstall the game (which isn't *that* great). Oh and a vow never to buy anything from Valve again. Steam on top the shitty last part of Half-Life (the alien planet stuff seriously sucked) has used up their share of my tolerance. And let's face it, it's not as if there's any lack of genuinely great games: as an on-line game even the venerable Battlefield 1942 makes HL2 look like the bag of shite that it is.
I think they included an extra "not" in the article by mistake. Or perhaps "not" is a synonym for "absolutley and finally, definately the last nail in the coffin of this one".
...all may not be lost: Rick Berman said today he's working on a new Trek feature film that will have "a larger scope and budget" than ever."
Interesting, although not what I read. However you'll understand if I don't take Henry Norr's (who??) word for it. Care to link to an Apple page that says that anything is user-servicable?
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Re " their app design on Windows sucks" you've heard the expression: "you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear"?
"SJ and I had a long chat" yeah right, as if anyone influential enough to have "long chats" with Steve Jobs would waste the amount of time you do trolling on Slashdot.
Anyone, but anyone, who calls someone else "Dude" needs to be neutered for the good of the human race.
I'm astonished that none of the other people responding to your post, including the mods, seem to realise your post was a joke!
I didn't think it was even all that subtle a joke so I'm at a loss to explain why no-one else noticed.
If you didn't include the only two sects of Islam then the count would be zero.... All muslims are one or the other.
The problem is that "It just works" also depends on a decent hardware platform.
And of course there's the rather obvious question of whether Microsoft are actually capable of creating the software half of "It Just Works". History would seem to suggest not.
I still remember Bill Gates announcing that in Windows 3.1 there would be no more UAEs (Unexpected Application Errors)! You know how this miracle was achieved? They re-named them to GPF (General Proection Fault).
How does the saying go: "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"?
Nope, the music companies would turn around and say "no more music for you Mr Jobs".
Despite the random wibble sometimes spouted on Slashdot iTMS is not succesful because of some theoretical "monopoly" but because the iPod is the best mp3 player money can buy and people like iTMS. (To clarify: I love my iPod, but I think iTMS is outrageously overpriced and I blame the music companies for that, not Apple. I think it would be quite interesting to compare how much they charge Apple for an Album versus how much they charge a retail store for the same Album on CD).
Untrue. I rip from CDs or buy from allofmp3.com. I could buy from any other store that would seel me un-DRM encumbered MP3 or AAC.
So what was your point again?
Ah, Slashdot, home of the random rant.
An inference you made from some random nobody's random posting makes you "nervous about the Apple platform"? Frankly I doubt your statement that you are "an Apple user".
Well, at least Jobs has never called any of his kernels Stevix...
Published a book titled "I CON". Yeah I can't see why Jobs or Apple would get upset about that.
Would I buy computers from this guy? Yep have done several times.
So I went to Amazon and bought the physical CDs for GBP12.99.
So yes, I agree that the Apple store prices are a rip off: but the bulk of that fault lies with the record companies, who not only want a royalty on the sale but in Canada they want a tax on it as well! (That's on top of the tax of blank media).
The various record companies own the rights to the music: they made it a condition of allowing Apple to sell it online that it had to be DRM'd. Apple had a simple choice: DRM or no music.
iPods have always cost several hundred pounds (GBP): the iPod generation have *always* had the wealth to make a difference.
In roads into what? Definately not the Mac market, so what was your point again? Sounds like you came up with some random wibble you thought might sound intelligent to do a bit of karma whoring.
As opposed to me that's actually said something that is intelligent in order to do a bit of karma whoring ;) (Mind you, my Karma is already excellent so what's the point).
Raskin's vision was for an easy to use, CHEAP, computer for the everyman. It was actually quite different from what the Mac actually became. About the only credit he deserves in that regard is for the name (did you know the marketeers tried to change it to "Bicycle" ?!?) and for starting the project. The rest is pretty much to the credit of Jobs and the Mac team.
They should go after this guy: he signed up to a NDA and then broke it in the biggest way he could. Or are you trying to say it's ok to lie to get some software under priviliged circumstances and then distributing it widely despite saying you wouldn't?
Apple should ensure the guy is punished otherwise either a) other people will do just the same in the future or b) Apple will stop seeding developers and the losers will be Apple and it's users.
The guy deserves a spanking and *I* hope Apple give him one.
"Huh?" is certainly the right expression.
So which is it: is it the same size as an iPod or twice the size?
Replacable batteries sound like a good idea, except that they add to the size and require catches and covers that can get lost or broken. And of course if Apple did change to replacable batteries I've no doubt the Yugo drivers would all start whinging about how Apple makes so much money on all the accessories.
Any MP3 player is a luxury item. The iPod is at the top of the heap and the reason you pay more is principally great design: and part of that great design is realising less is more: something the component-assemblers at Creative et al still haven't figured out.
Misleading the consumer, which is what has been ruled here, certainly should be (and is) illegal. The requirements say you need an internet connection: the truth is you need a Steam account, with additional EULA you have to agree to that isn't even mentioned: oh and Valve have to tear themselves away from cluster fucking their customers long enough to keep the damn Steam servers actually up and running.
In addition WC3 (for eg) does not install some piece of spyware (Steam) the insists on a) running on startup and b) reporting back the the mothership on startup and when running their game etc etc.
As to running in "off line" mode: firstly: it isn't obvious how you turn it on. Second it was easier to just uninstall the game (which isn't *that* great). Oh and a vow never to buy anything from Valve again. Steam on top the shitty last part of Half-Life (the alien planet stuff seriously sucked) has used up their share of my tolerance. And let's face it, it's not as if there's any lack of genuinely great games: as an on-line game even the venerable Battlefield 1942 makes HL2 look like the bag of shite that it is.
Interesting, although not what I read. However you'll understand if I don't take Henry Norr's (who??) word for it. Care to link to an Apple page that says that anything is user-servicable?