I found this thread of troll posts in metamod and rated ech one of you.
Macs RUN EVERYTHING important and ALL popular games have almost ALWAYS been on the Mac too. There have always been a bazillion forms of solitare and minesweeper and Macs have ALWAYS been [and remain] superior in CD burning, Photoshop, and content creation.
"Windows boxes" have NEVER [and still aren't] 1/2 the cost of EQUIVALENT PCs. The people that buy bargain bin PCs for >$500 are just outright foolish and the people that buy greater than 4 year old PCs have more headaches [and should be seriously concerned about licensing issues].
Right now Macs are actually LESS than PCs. If you decked out an equivalent PC to an eMac with a 17" monitor, like graphics card, like programs, like keyboard - you would be at about a $1000 PC for the $799 eMac
Mac OS 8/9 worst ever? Unstable? My Mac OS 9.2.2 install was pretty rock solid on my rock solid hardware Pismo PowerBook AND my Twentieth Anniversary Mac and my iMac and my eMac and ALL of my client's machines.
At first, I hated OS X - even now panther presents MANY problems - like sleep and boot issues. Now I can't live without Mac OS X.
You certainly are in the minority in your opinion, I think you meant to say XP just caught up to OS 9.
And by the way, OS 8.6 is the most stable OS Apple has EVER put out with the smallest memory requirement. 8.6 can also be tweaked with appearance themes, hacks, control panels and extensions to almost mimic OSX.
I have several people that have found me through eBay and Yahoo auctions. I now do business with them directly.
Since I have a very trackable and reliable presence on the internet I'm able to have a solid enough reputation.
I have over 2000 positive feedbacks on eBay
Nearly 100 +'s on Yahoo
If one Google's my business name; adzoox it comes up with over 20 pages of links to my website, slashdot posts, forum posts, mac help articles, etc.
I do the same thing. I have 4 people that I regularly contact if I need something that I either want cheaper than I can find on eBay or just want a good deal on and don't want to hassle with an auction.
I think it's easy to find people like this in the tech/gadget/electronics purchase area locally as well. I have several people that have a "list" with me. I see something on their list I call them.
After trying to geta Mac version of the eluminX keyboard (the 1st company to market illuminated keyboards) - I found out that they were granted a patent on the illuminated keyboard - using luminous material.
If you notice, they haven't released a USB version - I have been made aware that they will be seeking an injunction against ALL knockoffs before they release the new version.
Honestly most all gaming throughout history has been political. If you look at Cowboys and Indians as children - you'd see children hating Indians for no other reason than hating Indians. These games instill racial and political hatred for Indians even in modern culture -
* half of hatred for Indians comes from parental upbringing * 1/4 childhood games * 1/4 most likely personal opinion - but influenced by the other 2
(above would be stats for the 45 & up crowd)
Just about all Video games in the 80's & 90's that involved oriental characters (ninjas, etc) showed a white guy beating up the "communist evil chinese" - not in all cases, but most. This subtlely instills hatred of race - rather than just hatred of political philosophy.
I agree - this was their contemporary Loch Ness, UFO, Bigfoot story - except theorized by intellectuals. In fact - it may have been an exercise in creative writing and hypothesis for all of them.
That said, I think Plato also wrote about Dinosaurs too.
You say not surprising like it were a bad thing for Apple to have 5 million songs downloaded - if even 1/10th of 1% of those = 5000 people - purchased additional songs it was worth the FREE publicity Apple got.
This promo wasn't a failure by ANY means:
Let's say Pepsi produced 100 million bottles with free song caps. Out of those, 70 million were sold. 50% of the buyers had computers (down to 35 million) and 50% of them had broadband (down to 17.5 million) and 50% of them were interested in digital music (now down to ~9 million).
Apple got over 1/2 of those people to use iTunes, many for the first time. Many of these people, now that they had to download the software are likely to remain apple music customers.
Then you break it down further - those who like the iTunes Store that also drink Pepsi and those that have a portable player that will play them and those that were just generally confused and thought that it was STILL stealing or thought that it was exclusively an Apple Promotion.
I KNOW older people that think ALL downloaded music must be stolen or illegal AND I know people who think iTunes ONLY works on Macs or if it has an Apple Logo and says Apple Computer it must be Apple/Mac ONLY.
I'd say; if we take ALL that into consideration they actually had a 75-90% redemption rate.
Honestly a Mac comes with everything one needs and I would seriously have to debate if the 1st 10 programs I would need aren't already installed from the default DVD or CD restores:
1) iTunes 2) AppleWorks (reads my word, excel and creates them too) 3) DVD Player 4) Quicken 5) Safari 6) iPhoto 7) Garageband 8) Quicktime 9) iMovie/iDVD - same purpose so lumped together 10) iChat AV
Of course my decent CD burning software is built in.
Those are my first 10 - but then there's Photoshop, Toast, Real player, Windows media Player, Graphic Converter, Salling Clicker and other stuff.
SpyMac is an embarassment of flim flam artistry. It is one of the greatest rabbit tricks ever pulled out of a Mac hat.
People think there's concerns with Gmail and privacy - yet YOU would trust your email to a site that HAS NEVER backed away from the iWalk PDA being a fake, that consistently breaks MUG rules (they claim to be a MUG, yet moderators post rumors - a no no).
THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD TRUST SPYMAC with any password, email address, home address or any other information
SpyMac is just the shiniest car in the parking lot. Be careful though, there may be flood damage under the hood.
The other thing that bothers me about SpyMac is that their moderators troll the web and forums looking for ANYONE that says something bad about the site.
So what do states like mine (South Carolina) really want?
Our govenor says that promoting small business and entrepreneurs is the key while attracting big companies like BMW.
Yet, taxing VoIP is against the sentiment entirely. I know that telephony (especially on the business side) is a VERY expensive part of my overhead. I plan on switching to Vonage soon. Taxing it would make it less of an advantage vs regular phone service.
So either our goverments want it easier to for small business to succeed due to the reduction of overhead costs that the internet brings or they don't.
It goes the same for taxes in general over the internet. Not having to collect and send in sales taxes is HUGE relief of manpower!
Downhill Battle should definitely be questioned for their motives too.
They are sleazy and quite arrogant in the way they handle "their objectives and causes"
Remember, this is the same company that started Tunesrecycler - send in your Pepsi iTunes caps codes and we won't use them - thereby sending a message to Apple that artists hate iTunes DRM and prices.
mmmm yeah right.
I wrote a story on my website about this. I sent the link to them and got a very arrogant response.
I'd agree... and I'm going to respond so hopefully you won't get modded a troll.
There isn't a site with as much a following or effect on the stories that are posted.
Slashdot readers (for the most part) provide a real insight into these tech issues.
You can almost bet that the people that mentioned in the articles READ these pages and gain insight about their own work - it's almost like this site is a free survey and test ground for techs/engineers/scientists.
I disagree with you on THIS particular article (I work in the "computer assited video industry somewhat)... this is important news. I do agree that the political agenda here is to preach to the choir though - it's staring to offend more and more people.
Circuit City released permanent unlock codes for them LONG ago!
Apple would have to go out of business for something like that to happen - and if that happened Quicktime/AAC/All other Apple programs would be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
How did Playfair that is for PCs get you, as a Mac user, more interested in iTunes?
You had to post this AC because it couldn't be further from the truth.
Apple exists to serve... it does NOT serve to exist. Why push Music and Garageband? Serve a market. Why push iMovie and create iDVD? Serve a market. Why create a niche hardware item like the iSight? Serve with the BEST camera and the best solution for video conferencing. Gateway for instance - they build computers to make a profit - no innovation - nothing special - they serve to exist!
This is the REAL disadvantage to releasing programs to Windows users. It really sucks that Apple has to deal with this and the "/. mentality" that everything should be free. That's communist. Apple is capitalist. They have a solution, it's paid. You have a free solution - Kazaa/P2P!
I agree with the parent. If you don't like Apple DRM - don't try to circumvent it by HACKING IT - just do something that HAS NOT BEEN termed illegal - go buy the CD and then sell the CD back to a used store once you've ripped it. You'll come OUT WAY ahead of iTunes prices.
Guys that like ESPN also like Star Wars Clone Wars on Cartoon Network - and who DOESN'T like Dexter's Lab and The old Looney Tunes - women like Cartoon Network to babysit the kids.
As for Sci Fi - same guy factor - plus seems women like the miniseries like Stephen King Reruns and Taken.
Now channels like The Golf Channel may get hurt but out cable companies should reserve garbage like that for a higher tier.
Who needs CSPAN 2?
There will be enough geeks/kids to support TechTV
Women and Couples WON'T drop TLC because of Trading Spaces and Discovery because... well because.
Most of the other good channels are in your basic package or are just repeat channels that run what the other did a few nights ago.
There is PLENTY of support for individual channels. You just make each one $1.29 - including network.
BUT it's "PEOPLE" who bring the technology cost don so small businesses can use it to. Iomega wants a commodity - businesses want low costs. Usually the low cost solution wins.
The compression software to go from 35 to 90 GB isn't there.
AND it explicitly says NO MAC support at this time - it is a USB 2.0 drive (for now) which would mean OS X only at the moment even if your assumption holds true.
Iomega continues down the path of proprietary hardware.... why can't they take their awesome knowledge of storage technology and make standards better.
For instance:
* reintroduce the Disc2@ CD burn labelling that was in Yamaha Drives
* find a way like Plextor has to burn even MORE data to standard CDRs
* increase DVD-/+R writing speeds with blue lasers & be the fi1st to market & make deals w/ companies like Apple
* design CD burners that label & burn all in 1 drive - small dye sub printers COULD EASILY FIT in a 5.25" drive bay
* sell integrated media readers into CDRW/DVDR drives or what about w/ front facing firewire and USB ports
* reintroduce the Nakamichi jukebox 5.25" 5 disc drive!
* Something
There's no Mac or Linux support - Iomega (at one point in time) was HUGE in the Mac Owner's hardware regime (especially at ad agencies)
Since "the click of death fiasco" and the fact that Zip carts never really decreased in price, a lot of Mac users switched to CDRs.
Why doesn't Iomega get the fact that CD drives = everyone has them - Rev drives - NO ONE HAS THEM?
This is like Gateway - Gateway SEEMS to have thought people actually WANTED their flavor of PC - Iomega seems to think people WANT their proprietary standard!
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I found this thread of troll posts in metamod and rated ech one of you.
Macs RUN EVERYTHING important and ALL popular games have almost ALWAYS been on the Mac too. There have always been a bazillion forms of solitare and minesweeper and Macs have ALWAYS been [and remain] superior in CD burning, Photoshop, and content creation.
"Windows boxes" have NEVER [and still aren't] 1/2 the cost of EQUIVALENT PCs. The people that buy bargain bin PCs for >$500 are just outright foolish and the people that buy greater than 4 year old PCs have more headaches [and should be seriously concerned about licensing issues].
Right now Macs are actually LESS than PCs. If you decked out an equivalent PC to an eMac with a 17" monitor, like graphics card, like programs, like keyboard - you would be at about a $1000 PC for the $799 eMac
What are you talking about?
Mac OS 8/9 worst ever? Unstable? My Mac OS 9.2.2 install was pretty rock solid on my rock solid hardware Pismo PowerBook AND my Twentieth Anniversary Mac and my iMac and my eMac and ALL of my client's machines.
At first, I hated OS X - even now panther presents MANY problems - like sleep and boot issues. Now I can't live without Mac OS X.
You certainly are in the minority in your opinion, I think you meant to say XP just caught up to OS 9.
And by the way, OS 8.6 is the most stable OS Apple has EVER put out with the smallest memory requirement. 8.6 can also be tweaked with appearance themes, hacks, control panels and extensions to almost mimic OSX.
OSX Theme
SmoothText
ADock
PowerWindows (menu/window transparency)
Steve's Browser (column views)
8.1 is rock solid on 68040 hardware and can be tweaked through hacks/control panels to resemble 9.
I have several people that have found me through eBay and Yahoo auctions. I now do business with them directly.
Since I have a very trackable and reliable presence on the internet I'm able to have a solid enough reputation.
I have over 2000 positive feedbacks on eBay
Nearly 100 +'s on Yahoo
If one Google's my business name; adzoox it comes up with over 20 pages of links to my website, slashdot posts, forum posts, mac help articles, etc.
I do the same thing. I have 4 people that I regularly contact if I need something that I either want cheaper than I can find on eBay or just want a good deal on and don't want to hassle with an auction.
I think it's easy to find people like this in the tech/gadget/electronics purchase area locally as well. I have several people that have a "list" with me. I see something on their list I call them.
...and it makes it annoying when watching movies in the dark."
This would be why the keyboard lumination shuts off after 15 minutes of inactivity - something that would happen if you were really watching a movie.
After trying to geta Mac version of the eluminX keyboard (the 1st company to market illuminated keyboards) - I found out that they were granted a patent on the illuminated keyboard - using luminous material.
If you notice, they haven't released a USB version - I have been made aware that they will be seeking an injunction against ALL knockoffs before they release the new version.
I wonder if this will improve performance or even work under Virtual PC for Mac.
Ever since I upgraded to 6.1 Windows XP performance became horrendus. I had to reload 98 - a speed demon in Virtual PC.
Someone post here if they are willing to try this in Virtual PC.
Honestly most all gaming throughout history has been political. If you look at Cowboys and Indians as children - you'd see children hating Indians for no other reason than hating Indians. These games instill racial and political hatred for Indians even in modern culture -
* half of hatred for Indians comes from parental upbringing
* 1/4 childhood games
* 1/4 most likely personal opinion - but influenced by the other 2
(above would be stats for the 45 & up crowd)
Just about all Video games in the 80's & 90's that involved oriental characters (ninjas, etc) showed a white guy beating up the "communist evil chinese" - not in all cases, but most. This subtlely instills hatred of race - rather than just hatred of political philosophy.
I agree - this was their contemporary Loch Ness, UFO, Bigfoot story - except theorized by intellectuals. In fact - it may have been an exercise in creative writing and hypothesis for all of them.
That said, I think Plato also wrote about Dinosaurs too.
You say not surprising like it were a bad thing for Apple to have 5 million songs downloaded - if even 1/10th of 1% of those = 5000 people - purchased additional songs it was worth the FREE publicity Apple got.
This promo wasn't a failure by ANY means:
Let's say Pepsi produced 100 million bottles with free song caps. Out of those, 70 million were sold. 50% of the buyers had computers (down to 35 million) and 50% of them had broadband (down to 17.5 million) and 50% of them were interested in digital music (now down to ~9 million).
Apple got over 1/2 of those people to use iTunes, many for the first time. Many of these people, now that they had to download the software are likely to remain apple music customers.
Then you break it down further - those who like the iTunes Store that also drink Pepsi and those that have a portable player that will play them and those that were just generally confused and thought that it was STILL stealing or thought that it was exclusively an Apple Promotion.
I KNOW older people that think ALL downloaded music must be stolen or illegal AND I know people who think iTunes ONLY works on Macs or if it has an Apple Logo and says Apple Computer it must be Apple/Mac ONLY.
I'd say; if we take ALL that into consideration they actually had a 75-90% redemption rate.
Honestly a Mac comes with everything one needs and I would seriously have to debate if the 1st 10 programs I would need aren't already installed from the default DVD or CD restores:
1) iTunes
2) AppleWorks (reads my word, excel and creates them too)
3) DVD Player
4) Quicken
5) Safari
6) iPhoto
7) Garageband
8) Quicktime
9) iMovie/iDVD - same purpose so lumped together
10) iChat AV
Of course my decent CD burning software is built in.
Those are my first 10 - but then there's Photoshop, Toast, Real player, Windows media Player, Graphic Converter, Salling Clicker and other stuff.
SpyMac is an embarassment of flim flam artistry. It is one of the greatest rabbit tricks ever pulled out of a Mac hat.
People think there's concerns with Gmail and privacy - yet YOU would trust your email to a site that HAS NEVER backed away from the iWalk PDA being a fake, that consistently breaks MUG rules (they claim to be a MUG, yet moderators post rumors - a no no).
THERE IS NO WAY I WOULD TRUST SPYMAC with any password, email address, home address or any other information
SpyMac is just the shiniest car in the parking lot. Be careful though, there may be flood damage under the hood.
The other thing that bothers me about SpyMac is that their moderators troll the web and forums looking for ANYONE that says something bad about the site.
So what do states like mine (South Carolina) really want?
Our govenor says that promoting small business and entrepreneurs is the key while attracting big companies like BMW.
Yet, taxing VoIP is against the sentiment entirely. I know that telephony (especially on the business side) is a VERY expensive part of my overhead. I plan on switching to Vonage soon. Taxing it would make it less of an advantage vs regular phone service.
So either our goverments want it easier to for small business to succeed due to the reduction of overhead costs that the internet brings or they don't.
It goes the same for taxes in general over the internet. Not having to collect and send in sales taxes is HUGE relief of manpower!
Downhill Battle should definitely be questioned for their motives too. They are sleazy and quite arrogant in the way they handle "their objectives and causes" Remember, this is the same company that started Tunesrecycler - send in your Pepsi iTunes caps codes and we won't use them - thereby sending a message to Apple that artists hate iTunes DRM and prices. mmmm yeah right. I wrote a story on my website about this. I sent the link to them and got a very arrogant response.
I'd agree ... and I'm going to respond so hopefully you won't get modded a troll.
... this is important news. I do agree that the political agenda here is to preach to the choir though - it's staring to offend more and more people.
There isn't a site with as much a following or effect on the stories that are posted.
Slashdot readers (for the most part) provide a real insight into these tech issues.
You can almost bet that the people that mentioned in the articles READ these pages and gain insight about their own work - it's almost like this site is a free survey and test ground for techs/engineers/scientists.
I disagree with you on THIS particular article (I work in the "computer assited video industry somewhat)
You don't think Apple and Dell have very deep pockets for lawyers?
Apple is sued or is suing on a biweekly basis it seems and I'm SURE are taking this frivolity very seriously!
How The Grinch Stole Sex.com - a very funny flash cartoon with a little background on the story and the legal matter.
Has anyone made an emulator for Mac OS X or Windows for the reader?
If you force a broadband on someone like a senior citizen or a parent - by say just surprising them by hooking it up - they will never go back.
Most "non tech savvy" people just can't comprehend how fast it truely is and how much time a broadband connection saves!
DIVX is disabled?
Circuit City released permanent unlock codes for them LONG ago!
Apple would have to go out of business for something like that to happen - and if that happened Quicktime/AAC/All other Apple programs would be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
How did Playfair that is for PCs get you, as a Mac user, more interested in iTunes?
You had to post this AC because it couldn't be further from the truth.
/P2P!
Apple exists to serve... it does NOT serve to exist. Why push Music and Garageband? Serve a market. Why push iMovie and create iDVD? Serve a market. Why create a niche hardware item like the iSight? Serve with the BEST camera and the best solution for video conferencing. Gateway for instance - they build computers to make a profit - no innovation - nothing special - they serve to exist!
This is the REAL disadvantage to releasing programs to Windows users. It really sucks that Apple has to deal with this and the "/. mentality" that everything should be free. That's communist. Apple is capitalist. They have a solution, it's paid. You have a free solution - Kazaa
I agree with the parent. If you don't like Apple DRM - don't try to circumvent it by HACKING IT - just do something that HAS NOT BEEN termed illegal - go buy the CD and then sell the CD back to a used store once you've ripped it. You'll come OUT WAY ahead of iTunes prices.
Guys that like ESPN also like Star Wars Clone Wars on Cartoon Network - and who DOESN'T like Dexter's Lab and The old Looney Tunes - women like Cartoon Network to babysit the kids.
... well because.
As for Sci Fi - same guy factor - plus seems women like the miniseries like Stephen King Reruns and Taken.
Now channels like The Golf Channel may get hurt but out cable companies should reserve garbage like that for a higher tier.
Who needs CSPAN 2?
There will be enough geeks/kids to support TechTV
Women and Couples WON'T drop TLC because of Trading Spaces and Discovery because
Most of the other good channels are in your basic package or are just repeat channels that run what the other did a few nights ago.
There is PLENTY of support for individual channels. You just make each one $1.29 - including network.
Right now it ranges from 74 cents to $1.16
BUT it's "PEOPLE" who bring the technology cost don so small businesses can use it to. Iomega wants a commodity - businesses want low costs. Usually the low cost solution wins.
The compression software to go from 35 to 90 GB isn't there.
AND it explicitly says NO MAC support at this time - it is a USB 2.0 drive (for now) which would mean OS X only at the moment even if your assumption holds true.
For instance:
* reintroduce the Disc2@ CD burn labelling that was in Yamaha Drives
* find a way like Plextor has to burn even MORE data to standard CDRs
* increase DVD-/+R writing speeds with blue lasers & be the fi1st to market & make deals w/ companies like Apple
* design CD burners that label & burn all in 1 drive - small dye sub printers COULD EASILY FIT in a 5.25" drive bay
* sell integrated media readers into CDRW/DVDR drives or what about w/ front facing firewire and USB ports
* reintroduce the Nakamichi jukebox 5.25" 5 disc drive!
* Something
There's no Mac or Linux support - Iomega (at one point in time) was HUGE in the Mac Owner's hardware regime (especially at ad agencies)
Since "the click of death fiasco" and the fact that Zip carts never really decreased in price, a lot of Mac users switched to CDRs.
Why doesn't Iomega get the fact that CD drives = everyone has them - Rev drives - NO ONE HAS THEM?
This is like Gateway - Gateway SEEMS to have thought people actually WANTED their flavor of PC - Iomega seems to think people WANT their proprietary standard!