The problem with Apple opening things up is that suddenly they'll need to support a lot more hardware. Sure they could say it's legal to run it on anything but we are only supporting our own hardware, but too many people would run it on el cheapo machines and it would run like crap. Then OS X would start to have the same rep as Windows. As it is, Apple gets to control both sides - hardware and software. That makes it considerably easier to have a reliable system that just works.
IMO the iPod is not a superior piece of hardware. Not talking about the Touch but the other ones. I have a small Sony mp3 player that is about the size of a stick of gum. Has a screen on it, several buttons, and a twisty top that lets me change songs or albums. It works great and has a 55 hour battery life. Apple makes nothing that compares. Sony quit making these because they couldn't sell very many. Apple has cornered the market because they offer a full circle buying experience. You have your hardware (iPod), your software (iTunes), and the content (music from iTunes Store). Nobody thus far has been able to really compete with that. You don't need to buy Apple hardware to use the software or the content, yet people are still buying the crap out of iPods even though they cost more and there are better alternatives out there.
It's the same with their computers. If I want to run OS X and have a trouble free experience, I'm going to do it with Apple hardware because it's the shortest route to a happy experience. MOST consumers don't want to buy a computer and then install the operating system and do this and that and the other thing. They want something that just works and Apple provides that, which is why their market share has been growing considerably since Steve came back.
Ah, new idea... forget buying hard drives from Apple. All we need to do is order a crap load of Apple labels and stick them on each machine. Then we are within the terms of the Eula. Also, if order the labels direct from Apple we aren't violating any copyright or anything I don't think. I wonder what would work as a label... could we just use the Apple stickers that they give out all the time?
What if they order all of their hard drives from Apple and then use cheap commodity hardware for the rest? Technically the os gets installed on the hard drive right? So if you install it on an Apple hard drive would that work? Then again, Apple doesn't actually make the hard drives so the hard drive, even if ordered from Apple, would not technically be an Apple branded item. Hmm...
The problem with this is that if you are going to have access to a pallet of cellphones to steal, you're probably also going to have a truck to move them in. Then if you are smart, you've prepped said truck to block any and all signals from within the trailer which means this thing won't work.
Similar to how expensive cars get stolen and can't be easily tracked with things like LoJack. It's very easy to convert a trailer into a mobile Faraday (sp?) cage. Would probably even easier just to use cheap radio that could transmit enough watts to block everything. That too would be mobile so you could take it from truck to truck.
It always amuses me when a chop shop gets busted due to LoJack. I heard about that happening in Olympia, WA when I lived just north of Seattle. You'd think if they are smart enough to steal really nice cars, they'd be smart enough to setup something to block LoJack and the like.
It's called LoJack and I have it installed in both of my cars. You get a break on your insurance and in the even the vehicle is stolen and not recovered within 30 days you get a refund of the purchase price. However, they have a very good track record of recoveries, usually within a couple hours. I talked with two police officers before buying it and they both said it was great to have. Only works if the police closest to your car have the equipment but it's become standard with most cop shops so that shouldn't be a problem.
They also have an early warning system which I have on one of my cars and it's more annoying than anything. Basically if your car moves without the little box you keep on your key chain being present within the vehicle, you get a phone call / email / or text message (your choice) alerting you. The only problem is you have to change the battery every couple of months or you get false positives.
After having my neighbors truck stolen from right next to my open bedroom window one night, I decided I wanted something more than just a normal alarm (he had an alarm, his truck was locked, we never heard a thing and he never got his truck back) so I went with LoJack.
If you need one of these to keep tabs on your 4 year old son, you should really call CPS and explain your situation. I hear they have programs for parents like you.
Jesus people. Is it really so hard to WATCH your kids? Relying on something like this to keep your kid from wandering into a street and getting hit and injured or possibly killed isn't going to work. You need to actually supervise your child. This also won't work when your kid falls in the pool and it shorts out.
Honey, where's Billy? Oh I'm sure he's around here somewhere... haven't gotten a page saying he's left.
Yes they will but not anytime soon. I grabbed a blu ray rip of I Am Legend and it looked really great compared to a standard rip on my computer screen. I tend to watch movies on my non-hd tv in my living room however so downloading these on a regular basis isn't going to happen for me anytime soon.
I think the tipping point will be when the pre-release rips start showing up as blu ray rips. When the first rip hits we tend to download whatever is offered as long as it's not a crappy cam version, and even then sometimes we just can't help ourselves. If the first high quality rip is blu ray then yea, we're all going to be downloading blu ray rips but until that happens, the regular rips are working just fine.
That's the kicker for me. I want a BD burner on my computer and access to cheap (but well made) blanks so I can burn pirated stuff. It's been years since regular dvd's were really sufficient for our storage needs.
A seven year old with an actually secure computer that not even her parents can gain access to. That's just nuts. And why wait until she can read and write to give her a computer? I can half understand the reading part but writing? She could have been learning to type while learning to write and there is a ton of software for young folks that don't require either skill. Edutainment that uses pictures and colors rather than words. But why lock out the parents? That's pretty troubling.
Actually he's quite strong on national defense. His plan is to bring the troops home which allows them to better defend us and will help curb the hatred some other countries have for us around the globe. I'm all for bringing the troops home. We have people in nearly every country and for what? Does having troops stationed in each little country make us any safer? Furthermore, what gives us the right to have our troops all over? We don't own the globe!
He wants to get us back to what the founding fathers had in mind which as you point out is pretty much national defense. Almost everything else should revert back to the state and local level. Get the feds out of things like marriage and give us back our freedom. Ron Paul is the only candidate that has even broached the subject of seriously smaller government or really reducing taxes on a wide scale (by eliminating the IRS and replacing it with NOTHING).
I agree with you except that I don't think artists can make it 100% without recorded music for profit. There is a cost with issuing recorded music. You need studio time and a whole list of crap. For a cd to come out and get ripped and thrown up on Soulseek, someone had to pay $$. If they no longer get paid for that work, what is to keep them making cd's? They could go just with concerts and then sell live recordings of the concert and save their $$. That would work for established groups... but not for newbies. We need to hear them to decide we want to attend a concert. Maybe a better suggestion is to charge a much smaller price for cd's. I'd buy all of my music on cd if they were only $5 but as it is, I buy no cd's at all.
There is also a book called Virus Hunters of the CDC that shared some of the same info as The Hot Zone. One of those two does reference the outbreak in Reston Virginia.
Demon in the Freezer was great and scared the bejesus out of me. I read that one and one other on Smallpox having thought Ebola was the worst there was. Now I know that Smallpox is far far far worse than Ebola ever hopes to be.
I'm not sure where you are seeing new releases on vhs still as the major studios have quit releasing on the format but whatever.
My point was that there was a time when new stuff was no longer on vhs and I had to upgrade. Sure dvd offered several things that vhs lacked but what does high def offer? The picture and sound are better? Can you honestly tell the difference between 5.1 and 7.1 because I have 7.1 and I can't tell the difference when I play a movie that has DTS ES with 6.1 or Dolby Digital with 5.1. I've yet to come across a source that supported the full 7.1 that my system is setup for.
The bottom line is there is no compelling reason for most consumers to upgrade, which is why high def hasn't taken off like the talking heads said would happen. Maybe part of it is that there seems to be something new and better every other day or how utterly confusing the whole mess is. Remember when all that mattered was what size tv you wanted? Tv's were tv's but no longer. Now we have plasma and lcd and tubes and rear projection and lasers and lions and tigers and bears... oh my.
It doesn't matter which one I prefer as I can't get any newer movies on VHS and haven't been able to for quite some time. Sure I can still buy the player but when I walk into the local video store and peruse the new release rack, what good does my brand spanking new vhs player do for me? I was forced to upgrade to dvd when I wanted to rent new releases and they stopped carrying those on vhs. I'll be forced to upgrade once again when they quit carrying dvd's in favor of whatever format wins out.
I didn't mind so much with vhs->dvd but I don't own a high def tv, have no plans to buy one, and don't have any interest in shelling out more $$$ for yet another player. My current setup works just dandy thank you very much.
We've had to contend with +r and -r for dvd burning and I honestly can't tell you anything about them other than +r seems to work better with my equipment. My burner can handle both and I'm assuming if both of these formats can stay viable long enough, burners, players, and even the game consoles will eventually support both. MS is already on record stating the 360 would be able to support a BR player due to it's current high def player being external. A lot of people bitched that it wasn't included like the BR drive was with the PS3 but I think in the end they made a smart decision to go external. If the format does fail then they can easily switch and probably a lot of the people that have bought drives would buy again to get the new format.
I really don't care who wins out or if we end up with both. I'm sick of needing to replace my movie collection every however many years. I had a crap load of vhs. I now have a library of films on dvd. Am I going to replace everything with the media du jour? No. I have too much money invested in the shiny discs I already have and I don't see those going away for a very long time. Most people I know don't even have a high def tv yet and according to the story yesterday regarding the uber def format the Japanese are working on, why should I upgraded to BR or HDDVD only to have to upgraded again to support the crazy resolutions of yet another format in 2015?
My wife drives 45 minutes each way to work/daycare. We live in Santa Rosa, CA and she works in Windsor... the next town over. A driverless car would be ideal for her. And wouldn't this solve the problem of slow traffic? If all cars were automated... say when you got on the freeway your auto system took over, then they should all be able to go the speed limit... you wouldn't have the stop and go crap that you have now... but ALL cars would have to be automatic so this would only work in certain areas where you were only allowed to get on that particular road if you had an automatic car. Just like car pools now where you need a certain number of people.
I was hoping for Blu Ray to win in the beginning but I was also planning on buying a PS3 back then... now I have a 360 and was kinda hoping hd-dvd would fare a little better. That said, I'm just glad it's over or virtually so. We need one machine that can play everything... PS3 games, 360 games, Wii games, Blu Ray discs, HD-DVD discs, regular dvd's, cd's, divx, xvid, mkv, avi, lmnop and whatever else. An all in one super duper special deluxe player for a thousand easy payments of just $19.95. Call now!
Comcast is the soup du jour round these parts but I don't know anyone who has them for anything other than internet access. I have DISH and all of my friends either have DISH or DirecTV. Comcast is more expensive, offers less channels, and has crappier customer service. Plus I'm dependent on the quality of the wiring in my apartment when using them. Not a problem where I live now, building is only a couple years old, but the townhouse I used to occupy had crap cabling from the early 60's and the high speed internet wasn't so high speed.
You hit the nail on the head. They did indeed have a big "warheads on board" sign. Just like trucks on the highway have to display the proper placards when transporting hazardous material, all USAF flights transporting nukes must display their nukes on board placards. That's just the rules.
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The problem with Apple opening things up is that suddenly they'll need to support a lot more hardware. Sure they could say it's legal to run it on anything but we are only supporting our own hardware, but too many people would run it on el cheapo machines and it would run like crap. Then OS X would start to have the same rep as Windows. As it is, Apple gets to control both sides - hardware and software. That makes it considerably easier to have a reliable system that just works.
IMO the iPod is not a superior piece of hardware. Not talking about the Touch but the other ones. I have a small Sony mp3 player that is about the size of a stick of gum. Has a screen on it, several buttons, and a twisty top that lets me change songs or albums. It works great and has a 55 hour battery life. Apple makes nothing that compares. Sony quit making these because they couldn't sell very many. Apple has cornered the market because they offer a full circle buying experience. You have your hardware (iPod), your software (iTunes), and the content (music from iTunes Store). Nobody thus far has been able to really compete with that. You don't need to buy Apple hardware to use the software or the content, yet people are still buying the crap out of iPods even though they cost more and there are better alternatives out there.
It's the same with their computers. If I want to run OS X and have a trouble free experience, I'm going to do it with Apple hardware because it's the shortest route to a happy experience. MOST consumers don't want to buy a computer and then install the operating system and do this and that and the other thing. They want something that just works and Apple provides that, which is why their market share has been growing considerably since Steve came back.
Ah, new idea... forget buying hard drives from Apple. All we need to do is order a crap load of Apple labels and stick them on each machine. Then we are within the terms of the Eula. Also, if order the labels direct from Apple we aren't violating any copyright or anything I don't think. I wonder what would work as a label... could we just use the Apple stickers that they give out all the time?
What if they order all of their hard drives from Apple and then use cheap commodity hardware for the rest? Technically the os gets installed on the hard drive right? So if you install it on an Apple hard drive would that work? Then again, Apple doesn't actually make the hard drives so the hard drive, even if ordered from Apple, would not technically be an Apple branded item. Hmm...
The problem with this is that if you are going to have access to a pallet of cellphones to steal, you're probably also going to have a truck to move them in. Then if you are smart, you've prepped said truck to block any and all signals from within the trailer which means this thing won't work.
Similar to how expensive cars get stolen and can't be easily tracked with things like LoJack. It's very easy to convert a trailer into a mobile Faraday (sp?) cage. Would probably even easier just to use cheap radio that could transmit enough watts to block everything. That too would be mobile so you could take it from truck to truck.
It always amuses me when a chop shop gets busted due to LoJack. I heard about that happening in Olympia, WA when I lived just north of Seattle. You'd think if they are smart enough to steal really nice cars, they'd be smart enough to setup something to block LoJack and the like.
It's called LoJack and I have it installed in both of my cars. You get a break on your insurance and in the even the vehicle is stolen and not recovered within 30 days you get a refund of the purchase price. However, they have a very good track record of recoveries, usually within a couple hours. I talked with two police officers before buying it and they both said it was great to have. Only works if the police closest to your car have the equipment but it's become standard with most cop shops so that shouldn't be a problem.
They also have an early warning system which I have on one of my cars and it's more annoying than anything. Basically if your car moves without the little box you keep on your key chain being present within the vehicle, you get a phone call / email / or text message (your choice) alerting you. The only problem is you have to change the battery every couple of months or you get false positives.
After having my neighbors truck stolen from right next to my open bedroom window one night, I decided I wanted something more than just a normal alarm (he had an alarm, his truck was locked, we never heard a thing and he never got his truck back) so I went with LoJack.
If you need one of these to keep tabs on your 4 year old son, you should really call CPS and explain your situation. I hear they have programs for parents like you.
Jesus people. Is it really so hard to WATCH your kids? Relying on something like this to keep your kid from wandering into a street and getting hit and injured or possibly killed isn't going to work. You need to actually supervise your child. This also won't work when your kid falls in the pool and it shorts out.
Honey, where's Billy? Oh I'm sure he's around here somewhere... haven't gotten a page saying he's left.
What the bloody fuck?!?!?!
Dog has left the premisses.
Dog is traveling north bound on Cedar Street.
Dog crossing st##$#$@@$$%
Dog no longer moving.
Yes they will but not anytime soon. I grabbed a blu ray rip of I Am Legend and it looked really great compared to a standard rip on my computer screen. I tend to watch movies on my non-hd tv in my living room however so downloading these on a regular basis isn't going to happen for me anytime soon.
I think the tipping point will be when the pre-release rips start showing up as blu ray rips. When the first rip hits we tend to download whatever is offered as long as it's not a crappy cam version, and even then sometimes we just can't help ourselves. If the first high quality rip is blu ray then yea, we're all going to be downloading blu ray rips but until that happens, the regular rips are working just fine.
That's the kicker for me. I want a BD burner on my computer and access to cheap (but well made) blanks so I can burn pirated stuff. It's been years since regular dvd's were really sufficient for our storage needs.
Horrible. Is there any way to go back to the old appearance?
Yes, yes there is.
Reading your description of the ideal solution caused me to soil myself in excitement. Damn you!
Now if only you were the head of some large company and could make this all a reality...
A seven year old with an actually secure computer that not even her parents can gain access to. That's just nuts. And why wait until she can read and write to give her a computer? I can half understand the reading part but writing? She could have been learning to type while learning to write and there is a ton of software for young folks that don't require either skill. Edutainment that uses pictures and colors rather than words. But why lock out the parents? That's pretty troubling.
had a rough time in prison eh?
Actually he's quite strong on national defense. His plan is to bring the troops home which allows them to better defend us and will help curb the hatred some other countries have for us around the globe. I'm all for bringing the troops home. We have people in nearly every country and for what? Does having troops stationed in each little country make us any safer? Furthermore, what gives us the right to have our troops all over? We don't own the globe!
He wants to get us back to what the founding fathers had in mind which as you point out is pretty much national defense. Almost everything else should revert back to the state and local level. Get the feds out of things like marriage and give us back our freedom. Ron Paul is the only candidate that has even broached the subject of seriously smaller government or really reducing taxes on a wide scale (by eliminating the IRS and replacing it with NOTHING).
I agree with you except that I don't think artists can make it 100% without recorded music for profit. There is a cost with issuing recorded music. You need studio time and a whole list of crap. For a cd to come out and get ripped and thrown up on Soulseek, someone had to pay $$. If they no longer get paid for that work, what is to keep them making cd's? They could go just with concerts and then sell live recordings of the concert and save their $$. That would work for established groups... but not for newbies. We need to hear them to decide we want to attend a concert. Maybe a better suggestion is to charge a much smaller price for cd's. I'd buy all of my music on cd if they were only $5 but as it is, I buy no cd's at all.
A port scan of your machine shows you are currently downloading the torrent in question... better things to do you say? Obviously not. lol
There is also a book called Virus Hunters of the CDC that shared some of the same info as The Hot Zone. One of those two does reference the outbreak in Reston Virginia.
Demon in the Freezer was great and scared the bejesus out of me. I read that one and one other on Smallpox having thought Ebola was the worst there was. Now I know that Smallpox is far far far worse than Ebola ever hopes to be.
I'm not sure where you are seeing new releases on vhs still as the major studios have quit releasing on the format but whatever.
My point was that there was a time when new stuff was no longer on vhs and I had to upgrade. Sure dvd offered several things that vhs lacked but what does high def offer? The picture and sound are better? Can you honestly tell the difference between 5.1 and 7.1 because I have 7.1 and I can't tell the difference when I play a movie that has DTS ES with 6.1 or Dolby Digital with 5.1. I've yet to come across a source that supported the full 7.1 that my system is setup for.
The bottom line is there is no compelling reason for most consumers to upgrade, which is why high def hasn't taken off like the talking heads said would happen. Maybe part of it is that there seems to be something new and better every other day or how utterly confusing the whole mess is. Remember when all that mattered was what size tv you wanted? Tv's were tv's but no longer. Now we have plasma and lcd and tubes and rear projection and lasers and lions and tigers and bears... oh my.
It doesn't matter which one I prefer as I can't get any newer movies on VHS and haven't been able to for quite some time. Sure I can still buy the player but when I walk into the local video store and peruse the new release rack, what good does my brand spanking new vhs player do for me? I was forced to upgrade to dvd when I wanted to rent new releases and they stopped carrying those on vhs. I'll be forced to upgrade once again when they quit carrying dvd's in favor of whatever format wins out.
I didn't mind so much with vhs->dvd but I don't own a high def tv, have no plans to buy one, and don't have any interest in shelling out more $$$ for yet another player. My current setup works just dandy thank you very much.
We've had to contend with +r and -r for dvd burning and I honestly can't tell you anything about them other than +r seems to work better with my equipment. My burner can handle both and I'm assuming if both of these formats can stay viable long enough, burners, players, and even the game consoles will eventually support both. MS is already on record stating the 360 would be able to support a BR player due to it's current high def player being external. A lot of people bitched that it wasn't included like the BR drive was with the PS3 but I think in the end they made a smart decision to go external. If the format does fail then they can easily switch and probably a lot of the people that have bought drives would buy again to get the new format.
I really don't care who wins out or if we end up with both. I'm sick of needing to replace my movie collection every however many years. I had a crap load of vhs. I now have a library of films on dvd. Am I going to replace everything with the media du jour? No. I have too much money invested in the shiny discs I already have and I don't see those going away for a very long time. Most people I know don't even have a high def tv yet and according to the story yesterday regarding the uber def format the Japanese are working on, why should I upgraded to BR or HDDVD only to have to upgraded again to support the crazy resolutions of yet another format in 2015?
My wife drives 45 minutes each way to work/daycare. We live in Santa Rosa, CA and she works in Windsor... the next town over. A driverless car would be ideal for her. And wouldn't this solve the problem of slow traffic? If all cars were automated... say when you got on the freeway your auto system took over, then they should all be able to go the speed limit... you wouldn't have the stop and go crap that you have now... but ALL cars would have to be automatic so this would only work in certain areas where you were only allowed to get on that particular road if you had an automatic car. Just like car pools now where you need a certain number of people.
I was hoping for Blu Ray to win in the beginning but I was also planning on buying a PS3 back then... now I have a 360 and was kinda hoping hd-dvd would fare a little better. That said, I'm just glad it's over or virtually so. We need one machine that can play everything... PS3 games, 360 games, Wii games, Blu Ray discs, HD-DVD discs, regular dvd's, cd's, divx, xvid, mkv, avi, lmnop and whatever else. An all in one super duper special deluxe player for a thousand easy payments of just $19.95. Call now!
Can you tell me how it ends?
I've tried watching it several times but I never seem to be able to last more than about three minutes of it... is there a surprise ending?
Comcast is the soup du jour round these parts but I don't know anyone who has them for anything other than internet access. I have DISH and all of my friends either have DISH or DirecTV. Comcast is more expensive, offers less channels, and has crappier customer service. Plus I'm dependent on the quality of the wiring in my apartment when using them. Not a problem where I live now, building is only a couple years old, but the townhouse I used to occupy had crap cabling from the early 60's and the high speed internet wasn't so high speed.
You hit the nail on the head. They did indeed have a big "warheads on board" sign. Just like trucks on the highway have to display the proper placards when transporting hazardous material, all USAF flights transporting nukes must display their nukes on board placards. That's just the rules.