Yeah and UT2k3, UT2k4, Doom3, Homeworld 2, RTWC, WOW, Rise of Nations, Halo, Age of Mythology, The Sims, The Sims 2 etc.... I could go on but you are obviously a troll.
What the hell are you talking about? Have you never worked in tech support?
Me: Please right click on the desktop.
User: What's a right click?
Me: Press down the right button on the mouse. A Menu should appear.
How does twenty years change the fact that a two button mouse button is harder to use than a one button mouse for a total computer illiterate?
Here's a couple tips for you:
1. If you are involved in computer UI design, do some web design for a while. Then tell us that right click menus are necessary.
2. Calling users "idiots" because they cannot figure out an unintuitive interface is anti-social and it will not make you popular with the ladies.
Gawd bloody f'ing geeks. Grow up, move out of your parent's basement and develop some empathy for the "normals" for crying out loud.
I happen to use a two button+scroll with my powerbook at my desktop but I get by just fine with one button on the trackpad because the UI is designed to work with one button. There is always a main menu item for each context menu item.
Yeah, that's how class action lawsuits work. Sometimes you would be lucky to get even half of that as the lawyers will do their best to eat as much of the settlement through "legal fees".
Now consider that consumers in other jurisdictions/countries will be out of luck but might end up feeling any negative effects caused by them.
Class action lawsuits are nothing but a boondoggle for fat and greedy lawyers.
Consumers who have legitimate claims should deal with Apple on an individual basis and if necessary, take them to court if the matter cannot be resolved amicably.
Doesn't that require paying 99 cents per song on top of the subscription fee?
Why not just use internet radio for free and then "buy" what you like? I can do that with iTunes and iTMS.
Are you a Russian citizen or a resident of Russia? No? Then the licensing of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society does not apply to you as a foreign national.
I read the link you provided and it says nothing to support your assertion of it being legal for you to use. The service may not get shut down but that does not absolve you of legal responsibility or possible prosecution any more than paying for Kazza would.
Do you have a learning disability impairing your reading comprehension? I never questioned the legality of the service operating with Russia but rather the legality of its use by non-residents of Russia. Hopefully, the copyright laws of Russia will change soon causing "services" like this one to shutdown.
There are libraries where you can lend music but are they popular? No.
What is the prime motivator for new markets in capitalism? What determines the success or failure of a market segment? Answer for both: Demand. There have been no CD rental services because there was no demand for them.
Had there been a demand for them, someone would have found a way just as there are Video/DVD rental places.
Need I remind you that there were subscription services out there before iTMS was launched? Need I remind you that the iTMS launch video specifically targeted subscription services as being something people did not want?
How soon people forget that subscription services were tried "before" iTMS and other download only services appeared and had very few subscribers.
That's not the point. You are talking about remembering a song when you hear it again. Most people are not able to recall the exact experience from memory. They may remember the melody and maybe the words but the memory pales in comparison to the time you actually heard the song. It's also difficult to convey to others what the experience was like or how it sounds.
Music cannot really be described to others, it has to be experienced.
Think of the times you've talked with others about movies you've seen. The visual images are easy to capture with words but how do you describe a melody or the quality of performance?
Think of subscription services in terms like this. Say there was a nuclear war and subscription services were no longer functional because of electromagnetic radiation. Now say that backups to CD would still have worked but your subscription service did not allow that. How would you be able to share the music you enjoyed before the war with future generations?
Did they drop you on your head when you were born? What does "artists/copyright holders get 0 cents" mean to you? How is this different than paying membership fees for an illegal P2P or pirate site?
Please explain to me how you can consider allofmp3 legal?
Your CD analogy involves a legally licensed CD whereas when you download from allofmp3 no payment of licensing fees to the copyright holder occurs.
Yeah and millions of people rent DVDs through Blockbuster. Do you see millions of people renting CDs? No?
Here's your answer.
Think for a moment about some good movie you saw last year. Ok, now can you remember any songs you heard a year ago? No?
Songs make less of an impression on your long term memory than visual media like film or theatre. So this is why renting movies is popular whereas music is not.
"That's like saying Verizon should just stop selling CDMA network phones, even though you can only use them in America."
Your analogy is horrible I'm afraid. Those CDMA phones are manufactured specifically for a particular network type whereas iPods are not communication devices designed to work on a specific network in a limited geographic area. Adding this Sirus crap, would handicap its usefulness while travelling around the world. i would not want to play for a feature i would never use or only be able to use in a limited geographic area.
I have news for you, the US of A is not the centre of the universe and people in Canada (like me), Asia and Europe don't give a rats ass about Sirus.
BTW. Did i mention that I don't listen to broadcast radio? If you think XM or Sirus is killing broadcast radio, I have news for you. They are killing themselves with the crap they broadcast and internet radio is also a contributing factor globally. This XM or Sirus is barely on the radar in North America let alone the rest of the world for the average person.
Actually, part of the reason why Apple has such a small marketshare is because they used to focus on and cater to smaller/specialized markets represented by people like you. I would characterize that market as a small group of technology hobbyists within the continental United States with extremely focused interested (one of them being satellite radio) with a complete lack of a larger world view or business sense.
The iPod is an example of where Apple from the get go, designed a product for the mass market. They did not build in features which would only appeal to a small niche market but rather just included the essentials for a solid player.
If you have no interest in the iPod as it now stands, then obviously you are not part of that mass market they are targeting. I am puzzled as to why you would buy one if it had satellite radio when there are other products which might meet your needs better right now. I also don't understand the connection between using iTunes and an iPod with this new feature given that iTunes would not be able to make use if it and you can use iTunes with or without an iPod.
Apple has no interest in your little niche market.
BTW. Are you one of those trolls who said they would buy a headless imac in a second and now that the cheap mini mac is here, you have no interest in buying one?
Why? Because the iPod is an internationally available product. What good with this "feature" do for the rest of us outside of the USA?
Why don't you stop thinking locally and think globally? The reason why Apple is doing so well is precisely because they are thinking globally. Consider that there is no "Japanese" version or "Chinese" version of OS X but rather OS X supports strong localization support.
Even if I was living in the US, why would I care about satellite radio when I don't even listen to regular radio?
Leave it to companies like MSFT and their partners to create different products for different markets.
Are you new around here? This is slashdot. M$ is the enemy.
Have you ever considered using the waybackmachine before you accuse someone of spreading FUD. You are not going to find everything on the net with Google.
How old are you? Where you "born" in the eighties?
Oh for crying out loud. MPEG4? You're looking in the wrong decade. I'm talking about the original version of Media Player and the quicktime version at that time.
BTW. The MP4 container format is based on the Quicktime format but Apple willingly allowed MPEG to base their standard on it.
INAL but Trolltech does not waive their copyright when they release software under GPL. If they had not previously dual licensed it for windows, that external developer would have been in breach of licensing agreements and copyright violation.
Again, INAL but given that they had previously only offered the commercial license to windows developers, it stand to reason that the copyright holders purposefully intended to not allow GPL versions on windows until now.
I knopw that this was meant to be a troll but there is some truth to what you say. But I don't think looks are the main problem with it. The main obstacle for linux adoption on the desktop are some of its advocates who vehemently oppose movements like the LSB and commercial involvement with linux.
Face it guys, it's all well and good to have principles but the average joe/jane wants to have access to closed source apps on their platform of choice.
Linux advocates must also come to the hard realization that many closed source apps have superior UI's to their open source counterparts because those companies took the time and money to hire UI designers.
But the core is open source (darwin) as is the BSD userland and Cocoa is an implementation of the "open standard" called OpenStep developed by NeXT and Sun and the former is now part of Apple. Check out GNUMail which is available for both OSX and GNUStep.
Where is the GNU implementation of the win32/GDI+ api?
As only as they keep the core and only offer optional standard for different market segments (server/desktop/embedded), I'm ok with that.
I do hope, however that the strongly encourage everyone targeting the desktop space to remain consistent in what they offer.
I don't think many of you have much experience with developing closed source applications where you must depend upon certain minimum dependencies being on each machine you install the binary on. I think many of you don't even have any real experience with developing software (open or closed source) and are mainly consumers of these open source projects you vehemently defend and comment on.
If you guys did have experience with that, you would know how important it is for the average joe user for you application to run out of the box without any need for tinkering.
Honestly, if you guys don't get your act together, instead of gaining market share from MSFT, you will start loosing it to Apple instead. The OSS community should get off their high horse, stop listening to freaks like RMS and look at Apple for ideas to borrow concerning application development.
Here are some things that Apple as done right:
-consistent user interface standards for different application types/classes.
-consistent base install to write software against.
-packaging additional proprietary extensions with the third party application (avoids dll/so/framework hell).
-easy to understand/use API with sufficient documentation
Linux can have a real future if they provide easier install/uninstall and a robust base set of libraries closed and open source binaries can be built against for distribution to the general public.
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Yeah and UT2k3, UT2k4, Doom3, Homeworld 2, RTWC, WOW, Rise of Nations, Halo, Age of Mythology, The Sims, The Sims 2 etc.... I could go on but you are obviously a troll.
If you really want to, you can install linux on the bloody thing and enjoy less software and hardware compatiblity.
Have you actually used Mac OS X? It's a *nix OS with a usable GUI.
Me: Please right click on the desktop.
User: What's a right click?
Me: Press down the right button on the mouse. A Menu should appear.
How does twenty years change the fact that a two button mouse button is harder to use than a one button mouse for a total computer illiterate?
Here's a couple tips for you:
1. If you are involved in computer UI design, do some web design for a while. Then tell us that right click menus are necessary.
2. Calling users "idiots" because they cannot figure out an unintuitive interface is anti-social and it will not make you popular with the ladies.
Gawd bloody f'ing geeks. Grow up, move out of your parent's basement and develop some empathy for the "normals" for crying out loud.
I happen to use a two button+scroll with my powerbook at my desktop but I get by just fine with one button on the trackpad because the UI is designed to work with one button. There is always a main menu item for each context menu item.
Now consider that consumers in other jurisdictions/countries will be out of luck but might end up feeling any negative effects caused by them.
Class action lawsuits are nothing but a boondoggle for fat and greedy lawyers.
Consumers who have legitimate claims should deal with Apple on an individual basis and if necessary, take them to court if the matter cannot be resolved amicably.
There is the fink http://fink.sourceforge.net/ project, Gentoo for Mac OS X http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/, Darwin ports http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/ or you could just install linux.
Also check out versiontracker.com for a lot of Open source software with pretty GUIs.
Doesn't that require paying 99 cents per song on top of the subscription fee? Why not just use internet radio for free and then "buy" what you like? I can do that with iTunes and iTMS.
I read the link you provided and it says nothing to support your assertion of it being legal for you to use. The service may not get shut down but that does not absolve you of legal responsibility or possible prosecution any more than paying for Kazza would.
Do you have a learning disability impairing your reading comprehension? I never questioned the legality of the service operating with Russia but rather the legality of its use by non-residents of Russia. Hopefully, the copyright laws of Russia will change soon causing "services" like this one to shutdown.
Don't you find the number of months in your example a bit ironic or creepy?
What is the prime motivator for new markets in capitalism? What determines the success or failure of a market segment? Answer for both: Demand. There have been no CD rental services because there was no demand for them.
Had there been a demand for them, someone would have found a way just as there are Video/DVD rental places.
Need I remind you that there were subscription services out there before iTMS was launched? Need I remind you that the iTMS launch video specifically targeted subscription services as being something people did not want?
How soon people forget that subscription services were tried "before" iTMS and other download only services appeared and had very few subscribers.
Music cannot really be described to others, it has to be experienced.
Think of the times you've talked with others about movies you've seen. The visual images are easy to capture with words but how do you describe a melody or the quality of performance?
Think of subscription services in terms like this. Say there was a nuclear war and subscription services were no longer functional because of electromagnetic radiation. Now say that backups to CD would still have worked but your subscription service did not allow that. How would you be able to share the music you enjoyed before the war with future generations?
Please explain to me how you can consider allofmp3 legal?
Your CD analogy involves a legally licensed CD whereas when you download from allofmp3 no payment of licensing fees to the copyright holder occurs.
Here's your answer.
Think for a moment about some good movie you saw last year. Ok, now can you remember any songs you heard a year ago? No?
Songs make less of an impression on your long term memory than visual media like film or theatre. So this is why renting movies is popular whereas music is not.
Your analogy is horrible I'm afraid. Those CDMA phones are manufactured specifically for a particular network type whereas iPods are not communication devices designed to work on a specific network in a limited geographic area. Adding this Sirus crap, would handicap its usefulness while travelling around the world. i would not want to play for a feature i would never use or only be able to use in a limited geographic area.
I have news for you, the US of A is not the centre of the universe and people in Canada (like me), Asia and Europe don't give a rats ass about Sirus.
BTW. Did i mention that I don't listen to broadcast radio? If you think XM or Sirus is killing broadcast radio, I have news for you. They are killing themselves with the crap they broadcast and internet radio is also a contributing factor globally. This XM or Sirus is barely on the radar in North America let alone the rest of the world for the average person.
The iPod is an example of where Apple from the get go, designed a product for the mass market. They did not build in features which would only appeal to a small niche market but rather just included the essentials for a solid player.
If you have no interest in the iPod as it now stands, then obviously you are not part of that mass market they are targeting. I am puzzled as to why you would buy one if it had satellite radio when there are other products which might meet your needs better right now. I also don't understand the connection between using iTunes and an iPod with this new feature given that iTunes would not be able to make use if it and you can use iTunes with or without an iPod.
Apple has no interest in your little niche market.
BTW. Are you one of those trolls who said they would buy a headless imac in a second and now that the cheap mini mac is here, you have no interest in buying one?
The only radio I listen to is internet radio occasionally via either iTunes or Audion.
Technology for for technology's sake is idiotic.
Why don't you stop thinking locally and think globally? The reason why Apple is doing so well is precisely because they are thinking globally. Consider that there is no "Japanese" version or "Chinese" version of OS X but rather OS X supports strong localization support.
Even if I was living in the US, why would I care about satellite radio when I don't even listen to regular radio?
Leave it to companies like MSFT and their partners to create different products for different markets.
Have you ever considered using the waybackmachine before you accuse someone of spreading FUD. You are not going to find everything on the net with Google.
How old are you? Where you "born" in the eighties?
BTW. The MP4 container format is based on the Quicktime format but Apple willingly allowed MPEG to base their standard on it.
I think you are forgetting that MSFT stole some Quicktime code to create WMP.
That's not a native port. It does not directly target win32 but rather targets an open source *nix compatibility layer for windows.
Again, INAL but given that they had previously only offered the commercial license to windows developers, it stand to reason that the copyright holders purposefully intended to not allow GPL versions on windows until now.
Face it guys, it's all well and good to have principles but the average joe/jane wants to have access to closed source apps on their platform of choice.
Linux advocates must also come to the hard realization that many closed source apps have superior UI's to their open source counterparts because those companies took the time and money to hire UI designers.
Where is the GNU implementation of the win32/GDI+ api?
I do hope, however that the strongly encourage everyone targeting the desktop space to remain consistent in what they offer.
I don't think many of you have much experience with developing closed source applications where you must depend upon certain minimum dependencies being on each machine you install the binary on. I think many of you don't even have any real experience with developing software (open or closed source) and are mainly consumers of these open source projects you vehemently defend and comment on.
If you guys did have experience with that, you would know how important it is for the average joe user for you application to run out of the box without any need for tinkering.
Honestly, if you guys don't get your act together, instead of gaining market share from MSFT, you will start loosing it to Apple instead. The OSS community should get off their high horse, stop listening to freaks like RMS and look at Apple for ideas to borrow concerning application development.
Here are some things that Apple as done right:
-consistent user interface standards for different application types/classes.
-consistent base install to write software against.
-packaging additional proprietary extensions with the third party application (avoids dll/so/framework hell).
-easy to understand/use API with sufficient documentation
Linux can have a real future if they provide easier install/uninstall and a robust base set of libraries closed and open source binaries can be built against for distribution to the general public.