Microsoft had really better tone itself down for the EU. The EU's not going to let some big American company get pushy, and with the recent news of OSS in Europe, as well as the fact Apple is now #1 in the UK education market (passing Dell at #2), someone at Microsoft needs to just comply with what the EU wants. It's not worth the consequences. Tech is fickle, and just because Microsoft has a huge monopoly now doesn't mean it won't become irrelevant in a month.
Since you need it spelt out... my point is that Windows 3.1 was arguably a look-a-like of MacOS in many respects and Microsoft still kicked Apple's ass all over the shop.
That's because of their leverage of monopoly position to illegally coerce the market. Did you miss the antitrust trial? Windows 3.1 didn't win on merits. Go use it for 10 minutes and then go to a Mac from the same time period and you'll realize that immediately.
Actually, it will be Apple's support of playing on iPods that will ensure that iTunes wins out yet again here. With the Bonjour-enabled Front Row, watching those streaming videos on your TV with a Mac mini (or whatever other Front Row Mac you have hooked up) is a piece of cake.
I'm tired of this condescending bias on Slashdot that people chose iPods simply because of the marketing. That was just icing on the cake. The interface and seamless experience made the iPod a fun music player and not a "portable digital MP3 music player." The technical crap is removed from the process.
I don't see how anybody can ignore the fantastic clickwheel interface, perhaps the greatest interface innovation of this decade, and claim the iPod won because of marketing.
And I'm sure that if I were to dig into Google Groups that Mac zealots were saying the same thing about Windows 3.1 when it first appeared.
The difference is that Microsoft was able to use illegal coercive OEM deals to solidify thier monopoly position, so the third-rate Windows 3.1 became the standard.
Tech toys are completely different from this guy was talking about, which was hardcore technical fetishism. "Joe Sixpack" (the most condescending term I've ever heard) may like an XBox 360 and an HDTV, but only on Slashdot will you have people express concern over whether or not they can hack Linux onto the XBox 360 and use the HDTV to construct an Open Source PVR center. See the difference? Joe Sixpack just wanted to play good-looking games.
Quiet, this is Slashdot, where everything Intel does is crap and everything AMD does is amazing, even when Intel's chips outperform AMDs, and AMD is an entire die-size behind. It doesn't need to make sense!
Oh, please, if you're comparing to cancer, Microsoft had multiple tumors last year all year long. Microsoft's vulnerabilities were hardly just "colds" and Apple's was hardly "cancer."
The X-Box barely tied with Nintendo at 15% of the market. Time will tell with the XBox 360, but it's been a less-than-stellar launch, especially in Japan. More Gamecubes sold last Christmas than XBox 360s.
Tablet PCs are regarded as a failure in the market, and the X-Box and XBox 360 haven't been as stellar as hoped, and that is what people are talking about when referring to Microsoft electronic devices. Mice and keyboards are a bit more trivial as electronics devices and don't really count. When it comes to real consumer gadgets, Microsoft has yet to sell a success.
This new Tablet PC device is uncomfortably sized between a small PDA and a small laptop, so it will be compared with both. If I want portable computing, I'll take a MacBook Pro. If I want ultramobile computing, I'll get a Blackberry. There's not much here to make Origami devices stand out from those two extremes.
You willingly chose to buy a DRM product? Clearly the RIAA had a gun to your face and was threatening to throw your mother over the balcony while they stripped you naked and burned a copy of the Bill of Rights in front of your face using a swastika-clad lighter while black-suited Republicans chanted satanic hymns in a candle-lit circle around an alter of The Almighty Dollar(tm)! There's just no way you or the other 87% of the iTunes-using market could possibly be choosing this illegal, immoral, unacceptable, childhood-raping scheme of your own volition. Just no way.
DRM is just fine. It's not "against the constitution" because you don't have a right to buy something without DRM. You have the choice not to buy it. DRM is simply another product.
DRM isn't bad or immoral. It's not anything, as it's just another product you can buy or not buy. It's just copy protection to combat piracy, which itself is bad and immoral, since that takes content without paying people for it. Blame the pirates for forcing content creators' hands.
DRM isn't based on the idea that you are a criminal. In fact, DRM doesn't do anything at all if you don't try to do something wrong like copy iTunes music to someone else's account. You might as well say locks are based on the idea that you are a criminal.
How do people find iTunes DRM acceptable? Because most people don't even notice it's there. It's that liberal a copy protection scheme.
You're just using emotive propaganda to attempt to spread an overly idealistic message. You may as well don a tinfoil hat. If you tried to argue your position rationally, I would be more willing to listen to your points, but as it is, you just went through the dictionary picking out words with emotional connotation behind them to drum up support. I just can't respect that as a debate position.
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There's no such thing as "artificially high." If the market accepts a given price, that's what a product will be at. Just because someone thinks the price of something is high doesn't magically mean they have the right to pirate it like some freeloading hippie without a job.
You, sir, are a scholar and a gentleman. Your calm demeanor and rational way of handling confrontation are an example of maturity to us all, which I am sure brings in the ladies. Please accept my apologies on behalf of your aggressor as he busts your hump and promptly pisses off as you commanded. I extend this token to you out of goodwill.
Sigh, I was waiting for this to hit the Slashdot front page.
This is not "monthly iTunes TV subscriptions." It's a standard pre-order. You pay the full price for the season, and as each show is made available, it downloads it in iTunes. The same thing happens when pre-ordering an album, which will automatically download when it's available (often with bonus tracks). The only difference here is that an entire TV season of The Colbert Report obviously won't suddenly exist at once but will be filmed episode by episode, and so each show downloads as it becomes available.
I see, so to translate your fanboi post, you have decided to believe that Intel's total victory over AMD here doesn't matter because AMD has super-secret magic plans that will instantly kill Intel.
but what will happen once AMD follows into the 65nm arena ? What will Intel do when a finely tuned 65nm 3.6ghz dual-core Athlon64 comes rapping on the door ?
Easy answer. Based on the public roadmaps of both companies, when AMD finally gets 65nm out the door, Intel will be releasing 45nm. AMD is an entire die-size behind Intel. And yet I still believe Slashdotters will be vehemently anti-Intel, because it's the cool, hip thing to do even when Intel clearly has the better chips in 2006/2007.
The sad fact is that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy in the media to bury stories that are unfavorable to their political viewpoint. Liberals don't want to hear truth. Stories from soldiers in Iraq are positive, but lefties watching CNN all day only want to hear bad news so they can feel good about hating Bush some more.
For those who don't know, Mark "Screw Them" Zuniga embodies today's liberal--a person not full of ideas, but full of actual hatred. Pure hatred for people. People call him by his nickname because when some troops died in Iraq during 2004's election year, Zuniga said "Screw them" to the dead troops.
He's the reason the lefties are far, far on the fringe these days, and conservatives and moderates have taken over.
It's because of their new CEO, who reorganized Intel's engineering into groups by target markets instead of by chip models. It's why Intel owns portable computing right now and is set to make huge gains in the desktop space again.
Right, because it can't just be that Intel's new chips are kicking AMD's butt. You just "know" that AMD's pre-production chip will magically have been faster in these tests.
Core Duo and its predecessors are based on the Pentium Pro, but Intel's new chips starting with Merom are a redesign to replace Netburst and vastly improve performance-per-watt.
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Microsoft had really better tone itself down for the EU. The EU's not going to let some big American company get pushy, and with the recent news of OSS in Europe, as well as the fact Apple is now #1 in the UK education market (passing Dell at #2), someone at Microsoft needs to just comply with what the EU wants. It's not worth the consequences. Tech is fickle, and just because Microsoft has a huge monopoly now doesn't mean it won't become irrelevant in a month.
Since you need it spelt out... my point is that Windows 3.1 was arguably a look-a-like of MacOS in many respects and Microsoft still kicked Apple's ass all over the shop.
That's because of their leverage of monopoly position to illegally coerce the market. Did you miss the antitrust trial? Windows 3.1 didn't win on merits. Go use it for 10 minutes and then go to a Mac from the same time period and you'll realize that immediately.
Actually, it will be Apple's support of playing on iPods that will ensure that iTunes wins out yet again here. With the Bonjour-enabled Front Row, watching those streaming videos on your TV with a Mac mini (or whatever other Front Row Mac you have hooked up) is a piece of cake.
I'm tired of this condescending bias on Slashdot that people chose iPods simply because of the marketing. That was just icing on the cake. The interface and seamless experience made the iPod a fun music player and not a "portable digital MP3 music player." The technical crap is removed from the process.
I don't see how anybody can ignore the fantastic clickwheel interface, perhaps the greatest interface innovation of this decade, and claim the iPod won because of marketing.
And I'm sure that if I were to dig into Google Groups that Mac zealots were saying the same thing about Windows 3.1 when it first appeared.
The difference is that Microsoft was able to use illegal coercive OEM deals to solidify thier monopoly position, so the third-rate Windows 3.1 became the standard.
Real alone has 1.4 million subscribers
No, they have 1.4 million renters. You lose your files when you cancel your payments.
Tech toys are completely different from this guy was talking about, which was hardcore technical fetishism. "Joe Sixpack" (the most condescending term I've ever heard) may like an XBox 360 and an HDTV, but only on Slashdot will you have people express concern over whether or not they can hack Linux onto the XBox 360 and use the HDTV to construct an Open Source PVR center. See the difference? Joe Sixpack just wanted to play good-looking games.
Quiet, this is Slashdot, where everything Intel does is crap and everything AMD does is amazing, even when Intel's chips outperform AMDs, and AMD is an entire die-size behind. It doesn't need to make sense!
If you want to start a rant from a Microsoft employee regarding company treatment, simply mention towels.
Oh, please, if you're comparing to cancer, Microsoft had multiple tumors last year all year long. Microsoft's vulnerabilities were hardly just "colds" and Apple's was hardly "cancer."
The X-Box barely tied with Nintendo at 15% of the market. Time will tell with the XBox 360, but it's been a less-than-stellar launch, especially in Japan. More Gamecubes sold last Christmas than XBox 360s.
Tablet PCs are regarded as a failure in the market, and the X-Box and XBox 360 haven't been as stellar as hoped, and that is what people are talking about when referring to Microsoft electronic devices. Mice and keyboards are a bit more trivial as electronics devices and don't really count. When it comes to real consumer gadgets, Microsoft has yet to sell a success.
This new Tablet PC device is uncomfortably sized between a small PDA and a small laptop, so it will be compared with both. If I want portable computing, I'll take a MacBook Pro. If I want ultramobile computing, I'll get a Blackberry. There's not much here to make Origami devices stand out from those two extremes.
You willingly chose to buy a DRM product? Clearly the RIAA had a gun to your face and was threatening to throw your mother over the balcony while they stripped you naked and burned a copy of the Bill of Rights in front of your face using a swastika-clad lighter while black-suited Republicans chanted satanic hymns in a candle-lit circle around an alter of The Almighty Dollar(tm)! There's just no way you or the other 87% of the iTunes-using market could possibly be choosing this illegal, immoral, unacceptable, childhood-raping scheme of your own volition. Just no way.
Wow, you are out on the fringe.
DRM is just fine. It's not "against the constitution" because you don't have a right to buy something without DRM. You have the choice not to buy it. DRM is simply another product.
DRM isn't bad or immoral. It's not anything, as it's just another product you can buy or not buy. It's just copy protection to combat piracy, which itself is bad and immoral, since that takes content without paying people for it. Blame the pirates for forcing content creators' hands.
DRM isn't based on the idea that you are a criminal. In fact, DRM doesn't do anything at all if you don't try to do something wrong like copy iTunes music to someone else's account. You might as well say locks are based on the idea that you are a criminal.
How do people find iTunes DRM acceptable? Because most people don't even notice it's there. It's that liberal a copy protection scheme.
You're just using emotive propaganda to attempt to spread an overly idealistic message. You may as well don a tinfoil hat. If you tried to argue your position rationally, I would be more willing to listen to your points, but as it is, you just went through the dictionary picking out words with emotional connotation behind them to drum up support. I just can't respect that as a debate position.
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You're right; I clearly don't know what sarcasm is or how it is used. Thanks for the help!
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There's no such thing as "artificially high." If the market accepts a given price, that's what a product will be at. Just because someone thinks the price of something is high doesn't magically mean they have the right to pirate it like some freeloading hippie without a job.
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Sigh, I was waiting for this to hit the Slashdot front page.
This is not "monthly iTunes TV subscriptions." It's a standard pre-order. You pay the full price for the season, and as each show is made available, it downloads it in iTunes. The same thing happens when pre-ordering an album, which will automatically download when it's available (often with bonus tracks). The only difference here is that an entire TV season of The Colbert Report obviously won't suddenly exist at once but will be filmed episode by episode, and so each show downloads as it becomes available.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
I see, so to translate your fanboi post, you have decided to believe that Intel's total victory over AMD here doesn't matter because AMD has super-secret magic plans that will instantly kill Intel.
but what will happen once AMD follows into the 65nm arena ? What will Intel do when a finely tuned 65nm 3.6ghz dual-core Athlon64 comes rapping on the door ?
Easy answer. Based on the public roadmaps of both companies, when AMD finally gets 65nm out the door, Intel will be releasing 45nm. AMD is an entire die-size behind Intel. And yet I still believe Slashdotters will be vehemently anti-Intel, because it's the cool, hip thing to do even when Intel clearly has the better chips in 2006/2007.
The sad fact is that there is a vast left-wing conspiracy in the media to bury stories that are unfavorable to their political viewpoint. Liberals don't want to hear truth. Stories from soldiers in Iraq are positive, but lefties watching CNN all day only want to hear bad news so they can feel good about hating Bush some more.
For those who don't know, Mark "Screw Them" Zuniga embodies today's liberal--a person not full of ideas, but full of actual hatred. Pure hatred for people. People call him by his nickname because when some troops died in Iraq during 2004's election year, Zuniga said "Screw them" to the dead troops.
He's the reason the lefties are far, far on the fringe these days, and conservatives and moderates have taken over.
It's because of their new CEO, who reorganized Intel's engineering into groups by target markets instead of by chip models. It's why Intel owns portable computing right now and is set to make huge gains in the desktop space again.
Right, because it can't just be that Intel's new chips are kicking AMD's butt. You just "know" that AMD's pre-production chip will magically have been faster in these tests.
Where's AMD's 65nm?
Core Duo and its predecessors are based on the Pentium Pro, but Intel's new chips starting with Merom are a redesign to replace Netburst and vastly improve performance-per-watt.