I'm sorry, don't most people have to pay for significant operating system upgrades and applications? (Well, I suppose not the open-source crowd.)
And the thing about iLife is that you're only really paying if you need iDVD or GarageBand. The apps I actually use I can continue to download for free. I mean, what use would the iTunes Music Store be to Apple if everyone had to pay $50 just to use it?
That said, I won't buy iLife, I pay $10 a year for a.Mac email account, and I purchase OS upgrades with an education discount. Does that make me retarded?
How on earth did you get to be a senior year English major when you don't enjoy descriptive books and it takes you months to read things?
But honestly, the books are far more richly textured than the movies, and I'm not just talking about the descriptions of things. Also, you get to experience every aspect of the story, instead of only those that the Powers That Be decided were worthwhile or popular. Such as the final scenes with Saruman at Isengard, and the Scouring of the Shire, for example.
Yep, for those two reasons, it pretty much ruins all chances of me ever buying a Sony audio CD ever again. I suppose Sony doesn't care because they will be making at least some of the money back off of me purchasing the tracks through the iTunes Music Store when available, but I won't be helping that dwindling CD-sales bottom line, even if I actually wanted to own the physical CD. Why risk being out $13 when I'm not sure that the disc will play in my stereo or my computer, and I can't burn it to a mix disc or play it on my iPod?
But again, Sony won't care because they'll get some of their money back and I'm such a small fraction of the PC-using, CD-buying demographic that they just don't give a crap about me. And since I know they don't give a crap about me, well, I'm not exactly going to be feeling sorry for them and their losses due to illegal file-sharing.
And, not messing with the rights of the consumer??? I understand that file-sharing is causing problems for them, but this isn't a) trusting the consumer, or b) providing content that all consumers can use. If I buy a CD, do I not have the right to listen to it through my computer, add it to my playlists and perhaps burn it to a mix CD for my own personal use, and play it on my portable music player (none of which is illegal in any way)? If I understand things correctly, I no longer have any of those abilities, just because I don't work in a Windows environment. Sure, there are ways of converting the WMA files or ripping the audio tracks themselves, but this isn't something I should have to be doing to access the content I paid for and have no intention of doing anything illegal with.
I know all these arguments can be made about the iTunes Music Store as well, but the fact is that they now have ways for Windows users (with iPods) to access these tracks, and Windows users now have plenty of other music stores catering to them via WMA files. We're talking about regular old CDs here.
I hear you. I just bought a 15G iPod 3 weeks ago (which only arrived last Friday, due to strange Apple shipping policies) and now I find out that I could have bought a 20G for the very same price! Ah, well, I haven't filled up the 15G one or anything, so I suppose it's alright. I still feel a mite stupid, however.
I hadn't heard even an inkling of this swap beforehand, however. Did anyone see this coming? Was I just not paying attention?
Regarding the whole "prostitution" thing, while checking out Whedonesque, I came across this mention of "companions" and their place in the social structure of ancient Roman society. Interesting read.
Also, just from a personal standpoint, I wish FOX would have shown the series in order so that we could have experienced the meeting of the characters (is Simon really a shady character? Or a mole? Who's the girl in the box?) as we should have.
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And the thing about iLife is that you're only really paying if you need iDVD or GarageBand. The apps I actually use I can continue to download for free. I mean, what use would the iTunes Music Store be to Apple if everyone had to pay $50 just to use it?
That said, I won't buy iLife, I pay $10 a year for a .Mac email account, and I purchase OS upgrades with an education discount. Does that make me retarded?
How on earth did you get to be a senior year English major when you don't enjoy descriptive books and it takes you months to read things?
But honestly, the books are far more richly textured than the movies, and I'm not just talking about the descriptions of things. Also, you get to experience every aspect of the story, instead of only those that the Powers That Be decided were worthwhile or popular. Such as the final scenes with Saruman at Isengard, and the Scouring of the Shire, for example.
Yep, for those two reasons, it pretty much ruins all chances of me ever buying a Sony audio CD ever again. I suppose Sony doesn't care because they will be making at least some of the money back off of me purchasing the tracks through the iTunes Music Store when available, but I won't be helping that dwindling CD-sales bottom line, even if I actually wanted to own the physical CD. Why risk being out $13 when I'm not sure that the disc will play in my stereo or my computer, and I can't burn it to a mix disc or play it on my iPod? But again, Sony won't care because they'll get some of their money back and I'm such a small fraction of the PC-using, CD-buying demographic that they just don't give a crap about me. And since I know they don't give a crap about me, well, I'm not exactly going to be feeling sorry for them and their losses due to illegal file-sharing. And, not messing with the rights of the consumer??? I understand that file-sharing is causing problems for them, but this isn't a) trusting the consumer, or b) providing content that all consumers can use. If I buy a CD, do I not have the right to listen to it through my computer, add it to my playlists and perhaps burn it to a mix CD for my own personal use, and play it on my portable music player (none of which is illegal in any way)? If I understand things correctly, I no longer have any of those abilities, just because I don't work in a Windows environment. Sure, there are ways of converting the WMA files or ripping the audio tracks themselves, but this isn't something I should have to be doing to access the content I paid for and have no intention of doing anything illegal with. I know all these arguments can be made about the iTunes Music Store as well, but the fact is that they now have ways for Windows users (with iPods) to access these tracks, and Windows users now have plenty of other music stores catering to them via WMA files. We're talking about regular old CDs here.
I hear you. I just bought a 15G iPod 3 weeks ago (which only arrived last Friday, due to strange Apple shipping policies) and now I find out that I could have bought a 20G for the very same price! Ah, well, I haven't filled up the 15G one or anything, so I suppose it's alright. I still feel a mite stupid, however. I hadn't heard even an inkling of this swap beforehand, however. Did anyone see this coming? Was I just not paying attention?
Regarding the whole "prostitution" thing, while checking out Whedonesque, I came across this mention of "companions" and their place in the social structure of ancient Roman society. Interesting read.
Also, just from a personal standpoint, I wish FOX would have shown the series in order so that we could have experienced the meeting of the characters (is Simon really a shady character? Or a mole? Who's the girl in the box?) as we should have.