I never kept up with iOS's security patches, but I think it's both camps that should be releasing patches to their phone OS. Android and Apple only get "fixes" when new versions come out... that is unacceptable for both phone types. I don't think Android is avoiding fixing their problems with the OS, but I do think carriers are being pricks about supporting their product after the sale. The Android phone makers are more traditional than Apple in that regard. In the history of cell phones, most manufacturers went into hiding after you paid for the product.:) Apple's a breath of fresh air w/r/t keeping things current and patched (and supporting phones) They just need to do it off-cycle like their computer OS. I hope they keep it up, and not become just another Samsung with their phones...
As a former Apple enthusiast... it's simply not true. There are a lot of people happy with their product purchases, regardless of company. Apple does nothing special. They have problems with their products like every other company. (Batteries on their laptops, logic board failures on the G5's... etc. etc.) I am not saying that Apple is more or less reliable than competitors, because YMMV. But they do NOT under ANY circumstances do anything to "make customers happy." They do A LOT of marketing to convince customers that their (Apple) way is the right way to go and that happiness WILL come from owning an Apple product. That is not making customers happy. That's bloody good marketing.
What we get from this is not that "one company has made software updates work pretty smoothly" (they've had HUGE problems in the past with OS X, and I don't fault them for it, because it's just how things go). What we get is that Apple's a pretty good mobile phone company. What we get from the OEMs and other ecosystems that use Android is that diversity of hardware and software reminds us more of Microsoft Windows than anything else... but more importantly, we see that the Android ecosystem has a bunch of assholes at the top who control the hardware. (Not just one asshole.):-)
That's the whole point. They don't update because they're "iDrones", they update because it fucking works
If it just works, why upgrade? They upgrade because they are fans of Apple and they want the new features, not simply because it "works." Some people love that ecosystem. Some people feel that choice is more important that "smooth updates". YMMV. A feature has been deemed compelling by the iPhone fans and they have responded with upgrading. "It just works" is only a side effect of controlling both sides of the equation (phone/OS). The vibe I get from a great many Apple users reminds me of status and one-upping the next person. Is the iPhone 4S a hunk of crap now that the new iPhone is out? Certainly not, but some people (regardless of ecosystem) want the "latest and greatest" of everything. It just seems that a majority of those who are attracted to Apple products are not tinkerers and hobbyists (among other things), but people who view computers and phones as an appliance. I was not a typical Apple customer. I enjoyed tinkering with OS X. I skinned it early on with hacks, I fiddled with all sorts of things under the hood. I returned to Linux to continue to do that...:)
compared to the one company that actually wants you to be a happy customer and voluntarily return to buy more
I disagree. To me, Apple has not been concerned about happy customers. They are concerned with their brand recognition and reputation. They only want dependency, just like every other company. The difference between Apple and say, Microsoft, is that Apple is willing to charge into new markets, leaving old ones behind. With an enigmatic and charismatic leader like Jobs, they were able to pull that off successfully (upon his return to Apple). I don't know how well that will work without "His Steveness". They didn't call it a reality distortion field for nothing... I am not demonizing Apple or lauding Android. I like what I like. It just so happens that I used to like Apple's OS X, but I have never liked their phone. My Mac Mini is on its way to being a Linux box. I have been a Linux user off and on since college. What I have learned is that I can work better in Linux than I can any other OS. That is just me, though, and it is my personal opinion. YMMV. No warranties expressed or implied. Operators are standing by.
I'm sure, quite sure, that the behemoth that is Facebook, which depends on advertising dollars for its very life, won't use the info gathered for "statistical purposes" to punish.
Exactly! How can you advertise the right kind of bomb making material coupons without knowing who is and who is not a terrorist? I suppose trolling the "jobs" section Facebook profiles would help, but this is more targeted (no pun intended).... so the money saving coupons from "Jihads are Us" and "72 Virgin Megastore" go to the proper terrorists.
American citizen..in the mid east, sitting with war criminals. Funny how people leave that whole part out.
Even _ONE_ American Citizen deprived of their rights is too many. And the "one" he killed is the one we know about. Think we're getting 100% free info on this whole program? I don't.
Wrong. IT's not a stronger patriot act
It added no limitations on the warrantless wiretapping of citizens here and abroad. It's stronger.
and? His focus has been on criminals, while trying to get a program so the people brought here forcible can become citizens.
Gosh, a rational approach.
It's funny, when the elephant does it... it's a crime against our American roots and spirit of openness. When a donkey does it, it's "a rational approach."
oh, you have no real facts, so an ad hom attack. yeah, a real moron comes from nothing, goes to law school and then gets to be the first black president.
http://youtu.be/T_AAMa_X2dM
Sounds like George W. Bush with a different accent. Before you pull the "well those were little mistakes" or whatever, remember that Shrub (who I also thought was an idiot, and I wasn't the only one) did these same things and was lambasted as being a sub-par moron in a suit. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Funny, when you look at the facts and context you ain't got shit for an argument.
The battery is replaceable, so I think the disposable comment is hyperbole.
I wasn't the one to coin that particular phrase, actually. I read it in an editorial from some tech website... it got me to thinking... soldered RAM, sealed cases, no (easily) removable battery.... it's becoming a commodity in the Appleverse. I believe the article made a valid point, and when you start considering the technical background of Apple's stereotypical customer, it doesn't seem so far-fetched. I don't think it'll come to that end, but it certainly brings to the forefront how things are cyclical. We had the freedom and now it's swinging back to removing that freedom (or at the very least, making it extremely difficult for those who aren't buying into the mindset Apple is putting out there.)
I don't see it that big a deal to take it to Apple to have it replaced. It's covered by the original warranty and Applecare covers it longer. If you didn't have a service plan and its out of warranty, your looking at $80.
I think you still have to factor in travel time, waiting periods, and so forth. For $70, you can most likely get a replacement Android battery shipped two-day air via Amazon (I did that for my Galaxy S. It was around $39 IIRC.) But the point I think we can take from this is that Apple (and other companies) are trying to wrest control of your devices from you and creating a dependence on their support/help while you own the product. If that's fine with most people, I respect that. I just don't like the idea. It feels like a step backwards. The tech that liberated us and advanced us is becoming another thing that tethers and restricts us. Sure, that's hyperbole, but it sounded good in my head.:)
I think the iPhone has nice features, and its very stylish, but I do not like the ecosystem surrounding Apple these days. To be fair and honest, I have a G5 tower and a Mac Mini... I have not been pleased with the direction of OS X, and plan to make the Mini an Ubuntu machine... whenever I get a wild hair.:) PPC Linux is a good idea for my boat anchor of a G5, but I need a new HDD as the reason its a boat anchor at the moment.:)
What I've never understood is the non-user replaceable battery with (now almost all) Apple products. Why create a disposable anything at that price? And if its not disposable, why do people sign up to be stuck taking the device (laptop/phone) to the Apple Store so they can overcharge labor and materials?
Regardless of how great the phone may be (or laptop for that matter.) If I can't change the battery myself, I'm not buying it. That holds true for any device.... There's no need for that shit THIS far into commodity hardware. Back when equipment was fragile and new (and expensive), maybe I could see it, but these days people should at least have a choice. If, after all is said and done, someone's all thumbs, by all means take it to a store and have them replace the battery. Telling ME I have to just lost that company a sale. I may be in the minority, but I can't figure out why... convenience it ain't. Going to the damn Apple Store like some junkie needing a fix because Jobs' zombified corpse wanted all his toys hermetically sealed is just beyond stupid. The worst part of it is, Apple's products went from "closed" to "semi-open if you're not a technophobe" to "fairly open" back to "sealed with a curse"... laptops and all. I mean, RAM too? Who the hell are they kidding with that crapola? The Mac Pro is still "open", but they update that with the same frequency a turtle walks around the world. (Not to mention it's overpriced.) I guess I'm a dying breed. So be it. Saves me money.:)
(Speaking batteries, and other things, that's why I don't own a Vita or PSPGo, well, truthfully the only reason I didn't own a Go was it sucked ass....):)
Well, Obama was the one against all the thumping, yet he's killed American citizens with drones, escalated the occupation of Afghanistan, kept gitmo open (don't give me that shit "the congress made him"... he signed the NDAA into law and asked for a STRONGER patriot act). And he's deported more people in his term of office than Bush did in 8 years. It doesn't matter what colors he's wearing... he's just as much of a moron as the last guy. Anyone who thinks otherwise should stop drinking the kool-aid.
When you've got the press mostly lapping up your "goodness", you've got a bully pulpit the other team would kill for. Is he the teflon president all over again? Not quite, but damn close.
And yet, there are laws that protect that here in the United States. I am sad to say they're not exported. Violence is the last bastion of cowards anyway.
No it's not. Hate speech (as the statists would have it) is a nice blanket term for "stuff that's not PC" or "stuff that offends us". It's not about saving anything, but suppressing YOUR speech and mine.
So? "Hate Speech" is dangerously close to labeling speech for purposes of stifling that speech (or outright suppressing it). The movie, though crude and silly, is not advocating anything. (It never says "Kill all the Muslims!" or "I command all followers of FSM to rise up and eliminate the Muslim scourge"), so in effect, it's not anything like what we'd call "hate speech" in the United States. (Which I detest as a human being, but as an advocate of personal liberty do not feel should be repressed or restricted.)
"Hate Speech" is a convenient way to censor. If I say the Holocaust was a big fat lie perpetrated by the Jewish elite to deflect from all their theft of Nazi gold, I can be labeled as a "hate speech" promoter, or at the very least, a nutjob. Those things in and of themselves aren't grounds to censor my speech. (Keep your knickers calm, I don't believe the Jews were stealing Nazi gold... it's just an outrageous illustration.:) )
The amount that the US government is backpedaling over this video is pathetic, and it's not even clear if the video sparked the protests in the first place (just a convenient scapegoat for Anti American protests in the Muslim world. Particularly the Libyan embassy ones. There have been attacks and skirmishes for the last year on the embassy there.)
Remember, in the United States, you don't have a right NOT to be offended. The concept of Freedom of Speech means that someone may say something you find offensive... That's the price of freedom. I don't care if Muslims are offended. I don't care if you are offended, just as you shouldn't care if I am offended. As a human being, we can be tolerant of each other and still have free speech, or as Penn puts it "the marketplace of ideas exists because of freedom of speech."
Thank goodness they're not completely drinking the Microsoft Metro kool-aid.:) I know what cpu will be in my next linux box (the same manufacturer that's in my current one... AMD.)
Give them time... they only sent out 1,000,000 warning letters so far... there'll be some poor sap who downloaded a Disney movie and he'll be on the hook to bail out Greece...
Well said. (Sorry I used all my mod points in another thread...):-)
The key here, and you imply it I think, is that we have entrusted these assclowns with power WE granted them, and they CONTINUE to ignore us. They expand the federal government to vastly unconstitutional levels (has been since the New Deal, unfortunately), and they ignore fundamental liberties by claiming "national security" (liberties are not "granted" by the Constitution or the government (Pelosi, I'm looking at you) like some of the asshats have alluded... we HAVE those rights by being born, but that's another story).
They insist that they're "fans of freedom" as they pick our pockets, bankrupt our country, and generally piss all over the People. Yet, idiots still vote for them. I've not voted for a major party candidate in 15 years or more. I just can't take it. Sure, that makes my voting sheet a little sparse in some elections (particularly local), but I just can't in good conscience use my vote to further the erosion of MY liberty.
On a similar note, France is steamrolling some interesting tax "reform" into law, and it appears that this "reform" has become the blueprint most people who don't even pay any income taxes to rally around so the "rich can pay their fair share." Remember kids, you can't EVER let a politician who has the power to tax you to define the word "fair.":) I weep for our Republic and all the morons who are riding shotgun in this hand-basket we find ourselves in.
I guess the bar for 'difficult' has been lowered rather tremendously.
Do the movies work with Linux? I don't use Windows. I never tried, but I assumed the requirements are windows/mac.
Netflix is losing support from studios due to strangling license agreements, and like I said in the previous post... most people like to RENT. NOT buy. Studios make that difficult. Yes, it is difficult.
His point is not that they're not "available", but that they're not conveniently available. Some people still like to rent videos. I do from time to time, because I hate movie theaters. But I don't much anymore because it gives the MPAA money. Still, the point Pogue was making was very well put regarding the industry's efforts to stamp out piracy, but at the same time trying to retain the business model they used when computers had 4k and 22-columns. The movie (and entertainment industry in general) is living in a dream world where they believe they can enforce artificial scarcity through purchased legislation and bullying. They can't. But they certainly try VERY hard... which is why I don't like to give them money, even a little. It fuels their machinery that is trying to actively stomp on my freedoms and my privacy.
One movie out of all those is available to rent or view on one of the services that the MPAA touts as "legitimate"? Seems pretty stupid of the movie companies to complain about piracy as they try their damnedest to make it difficult to view a movie. Yet they're surprised when it's copied...
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I never kept up with iOS's security patches, but I think it's both camps that should be releasing patches to their phone OS. Android and Apple only get "fixes" when new versions come out... that is unacceptable for both phone types. I don't think Android is avoiding fixing their problems with the OS, but I do think carriers are being pricks about supporting their product after the sale. The Android phone makers are more traditional than Apple in that regard. In the history of cell phones, most manufacturers went into hiding after you paid for the product. :) Apple's a breath of fresh air w/r/t keeping things current and patched (and supporting phones) They just need to do it off-cycle like their computer OS. I hope they keep it up, and not become just another Samsung with their phones...
As a former Apple enthusiast... it's simply not true. There are a lot of people happy with their product purchases, regardless of company. Apple does nothing special. They have problems with their products like every other company. (Batteries on their laptops, logic board failures on the G5's... etc. etc.) I am not saying that Apple is more or less reliable than competitors, because YMMV. But they do NOT under ANY circumstances do anything to "make customers happy." They do A LOT of marketing to convince customers that their (Apple) way is the right way to go and that happiness WILL come from owning an Apple product. That is not making customers happy. That's bloody good marketing.
If it just works, why upgrade? They upgrade because they are fans of Apple and they want the new features, not simply because it "works." Some people love that ecosystem. Some people feel that choice is more important that "smooth updates". YMMV. A feature has been deemed compelling by the iPhone fans and they have responded with upgrading. "It just works" is only a side effect of controlling both sides of the equation (phone/OS). The vibe I get from a great many Apple users reminds me of status and one-upping the next person. Is the iPhone 4S a hunk of crap now that the new iPhone is out? Certainly not, but some people (regardless of ecosystem) want the "latest and greatest" of everything. It just seems that a majority of those who are attracted to Apple products are not tinkerers and hobbyists (among other things), but people who view computers and phones as an appliance. I was not a typical Apple customer. I enjoyed tinkering with OS X. I skinned it early on with hacks, I fiddled with all sorts of things under the hood. I returned to Linux to continue to do that... :)
I disagree. To me, Apple has not been concerned about happy customers. They are concerned with their brand recognition and reputation. They only want dependency, just like every other company. The difference between Apple and say, Microsoft, is that Apple is willing to charge into new markets, leaving old ones behind. With an enigmatic and charismatic leader like Jobs, they were able to pull that off successfully (upon his return to Apple). I don't know how well that will work without "His Steveness". They didn't call it a reality distortion field for nothing... I am not demonizing Apple or lauding Android. I like what I like. It just so happens that I used to like Apple's OS X, but I have never liked their phone. My Mac Mini is on its way to being a Linux box. I have been a Linux user off and on since college. What I have learned is that I can work better in Linux than I can any other OS. That is just me, though, and it is my personal opinion. YMMV. No warranties expressed or implied. Operators are standing by.
I'm sure, quite sure, that the behemoth that is Facebook, which depends on advertising dollars for its very life, won't use the info gathered for "statistical purposes" to punish.
/sarcasm
Exactly! How can you advertise the right kind of bomb making material coupons without knowing who is and who is not a terrorist? I suppose trolling the "jobs" section Facebook profiles would help, but this is more targeted (no pun intended).... so the money saving coupons from "Jihads are Us" and "72 Virgin Megastore" go to the proper terrorists.
It's a win win!
Good point. I wonder about that sometimes, since I am firm in my assertion that this is a one party system.
OOPS. forgot to provide a link noting the expansion of the PATRIOT Act...
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/20/obamas_dismal_civil_liberties_record/
American citizen..in the mid east, sitting with war criminals. Funny how people leave that whole part out.
Even _ONE_ American Citizen deprived of their rights is too many. And the "one" he killed is the one we know about. Think we're getting 100% free info on this whole program? I don't.
Wrong. IT's not a stronger patriot act
It added no limitations on the warrantless wiretapping of citizens here and abroad. It's stronger.
and? His focus has been on criminals, while trying to get a program so the people brought here forcible can become citizens. Gosh, a rational approach.
It's funny, when the elephant does it... it's a crime against our American roots and spirit of openness. When a donkey does it, it's "a rational approach."
oh, you have no real facts, so an ad hom attack. yeah, a real moron comes from nothing, goes to law school and then gets to be the first black president.
http://youtu.be/T_AAMa_X2dM Sounds like George W. Bush with a different accent. Before you pull the "well those were little mistakes" or whatever, remember that Shrub (who I also thought was an idiot, and I wasn't the only one) did these same things and was lambasted as being a sub-par moron in a suit. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Funny, when you look at the facts and context you ain't got shit for an argument.
Funny indeed.
I wasn't the one to coin that particular phrase, actually. I read it in an editorial from some tech website... it got me to thinking... soldered RAM, sealed cases, no (easily) removable battery.... it's becoming a commodity in the Appleverse. I believe the article made a valid point, and when you start considering the technical background of Apple's stereotypical customer, it doesn't seem so far-fetched. I don't think it'll come to that end, but it certainly brings to the forefront how things are cyclical. We had the freedom and now it's swinging back to removing that freedom (or at the very least, making it extremely difficult for those who aren't buying into the mindset Apple is putting out there.)
I think you still have to factor in travel time, waiting periods, and so forth. For $70, you can most likely get a replacement Android battery shipped two-day air via Amazon (I did that for my Galaxy S. It was around $39 IIRC.) But the point I think we can take from this is that Apple (and other companies) are trying to wrest control of your devices from you and creating a dependence on their support/help while you own the product. If that's fine with most people, I respect that. I just don't like the idea. It feels like a step backwards. The tech that liberated us and advanced us is becoming another thing that tethers and restricts us. Sure, that's hyperbole, but it sounded good in my head. :)
:) PPC Linux is a good idea for my boat anchor of a G5, but I need a new HDD as the reason its a boat anchor at the moment. :)
I think the iPhone has nice features, and its very stylish, but I do not like the ecosystem surrounding Apple these days. To be fair and honest, I have a G5 tower and a Mac Mini... I have not been pleased with the direction of OS X, and plan to make the Mini an Ubuntu machine... whenever I get a wild hair.
What I've never understood is the non-user replaceable battery with (now almost all) Apple products. Why create a disposable anything at that price? And if its not disposable, why do people sign up to be stuck taking the device (laptop/phone) to the Apple Store so they can overcharge labor and materials?
:)
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Regardless of how great the phone may be (or laptop for that matter.) If I can't change the battery myself, I'm not buying it. That holds true for any device.... There's no need for that shit THIS far into commodity hardware. Back when equipment was fragile and new (and expensive), maybe I could see it, but these days people should at least have a choice. If, after all is said and done, someone's all thumbs, by all means take it to a store and have them replace the battery. Telling ME I have to just lost that company a sale. I may be in the minority, but I can't figure out why... convenience it ain't. Going to the damn Apple Store like some junkie needing a fix because Jobs' zombified corpse wanted all his toys hermetically sealed is just beyond stupid. The worst part of it is, Apple's products went from "closed" to "semi-open if you're not a technophobe" to "fairly open" back to "sealed with a curse"... laptops and all. I mean, RAM too? Who the hell are they kidding with that crapola? The Mac Pro is still "open", but they update that with the same frequency a turtle walks around the world. (Not to mention it's overpriced.) I guess I'm a dying breed. So be it. Saves me money.
(Speaking batteries, and other things, that's why I don't own a Vita or PSPGo, well, truthfully the only reason I didn't own a Go was it sucked ass....)
Well, Obama was the one against all the thumping, yet he's killed American citizens with drones, escalated the occupation of Afghanistan, kept gitmo open (don't give me that shit "the congress made him"... he signed the NDAA into law and asked for a STRONGER patriot act). And he's deported more people in his term of office than Bush did in 8 years. It doesn't matter what colors he's wearing... he's just as much of a moron as the last guy. Anyone who thinks otherwise should stop drinking the kool-aid.
When you've got the press mostly lapping up your "goodness", you've got a bully pulpit the other team would kill for. Is he the teflon president all over again? Not quite, but damn close.
And yet, there are laws that protect that here in the United States. I am sad to say they're not exported. Violence is the last bastion of cowards anyway.
No it's not. Hate speech (as the statists would have it) is a nice blanket term for "stuff that's not PC" or "stuff that offends us". It's not about saving anything, but suppressing YOUR speech and mine.
So? "Hate Speech" is dangerously close to labeling speech for purposes of stifling that speech (or outright suppressing it). The movie, though crude and silly, is not advocating anything. (It never says "Kill all the Muslims!" or "I command all followers of FSM to rise up and eliminate the Muslim scourge"), so in effect, it's not anything like what we'd call "hate speech" in the United States. (Which I detest as a human being, but as an advocate of personal liberty do not feel should be repressed or restricted.)
:) )
"Hate Speech" is a convenient way to censor. If I say the Holocaust was a big fat lie perpetrated by the Jewish elite to deflect from all their theft of Nazi gold, I can be labeled as a "hate speech" promoter, or at the very least, a nutjob. Those things in and of themselves aren't grounds to censor my speech. (Keep your knickers calm, I don't believe the Jews were stealing Nazi gold... it's just an outrageous illustration.
The amount that the US government is backpedaling over this video is pathetic, and it's not even clear if the video sparked the protests in the first place (just a convenient scapegoat for Anti American protests in the Muslim world. Particularly the Libyan embassy ones. There have been attacks and skirmishes for the last year on the embassy there.)
Remember, in the United States, you don't have a right NOT to be offended. The concept of Freedom of Speech means that someone may say something you find offensive... That's the price of freedom. I don't care if Muslims are offended. I don't care if you are offended, just as you shouldn't care if I am offended. As a human being, we can be tolerant of each other and still have free speech, or as Penn puts it "the marketplace of ideas exists because of freedom of speech."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/09/1115235/amd-to-support-coreboot-on-all-upcoming-processors
:) I know what cpu will be in my next linux box (the same manufacturer that's in my current one... AMD.)
Thank goodness they're not completely drinking the Microsoft Metro kool-aid.
Samsung: The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your breast, and the wind in your hair...
WRONG! Apple, what is best in life?
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
Give them time... they only sent out 1,000,000 warning letters so far... there'll be some poor sap who downloaded a Disney movie and he'll be on the hook to bail out Greece...
Well said. (Sorry I used all my mod points in another thread...) :-)
:) I weep for our Republic and all the morons who are riding shotgun in this hand-basket we find ourselves in.
The key here, and you imply it I think, is that we have entrusted these assclowns with power WE granted them, and they CONTINUE to ignore us. They expand the federal government to vastly unconstitutional levels (has been since the New Deal, unfortunately), and they ignore fundamental liberties by claiming "national security" (liberties are not "granted" by the Constitution or the government (Pelosi, I'm looking at you) like some of the asshats have alluded... we HAVE those rights by being born, but that's another story).
They insist that they're "fans of freedom" as they pick our pockets, bankrupt our country, and generally piss all over the People. Yet, idiots still vote for them. I've not voted for a major party candidate in 15 years or more. I just can't take it. Sure, that makes my voting sheet a little sparse in some elections (particularly local), but I just can't in good conscience use my vote to further the erosion of MY liberty.
On a similar note, France is steamrolling some interesting tax "reform" into law, and it appears that this "reform" has become the blueprint most people who don't even pay any income taxes to rally around so the "rich can pay their fair share." Remember kids, you can't EVER let a politician who has the power to tax you to define the word "fair."
Particularly, no. There's this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Souls_(Buffy_novel)
Who'd want to be paid in Faygo? :)
Indeed.
:)
Movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_souls (1962)
KISS Album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Souls:_The_Final_Sessions (1996)
(some band I've never heard of): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Souls_(Miranda_Sex_Garden_album) (2000)
I could go on, but my toast is burning.
I guess the bar for 'difficult' has been lowered rather tremendously.
Do the movies work with Linux? I don't use Windows. I never tried, but I assumed the requirements are windows/mac.
Netflix is losing support from studios due to strangling license agreements, and like I said in the previous post... most people like to RENT. NOT buy. Studios make that difficult. Yes, it is difficult.
His point is not that they're not "available", but that they're not conveniently available. Some people still like to rent videos. I do from time to time, because I hate movie theaters. But I don't much anymore because it gives the MPAA money. Still, the point Pogue was making was very well put regarding the industry's efforts to stamp out piracy, but at the same time trying to retain the business model they used when computers had 4k and 22-columns. The movie (and entertainment industry in general) is living in a dream world where they believe they can enforce artificial scarcity through purchased legislation and bullying. They can't. But they certainly try VERY hard... which is why I don't like to give them money, even a little. It fuels their machinery that is trying to actively stomp on my freedoms and my privacy.
One movie out of all those is available to rent or view on one of the services that the MPAA touts as "legitimate"? Seems pretty stupid of the movie companies to complain about piracy as they try their damnedest to make it difficult to view a movie. Yet they're surprised when it's copied...
I'm not surprised to see the astroturfing come in so quickly, either.
But like Lewis Black said (regarding Arkansas schools, but this is appropriate):
"Hey, we moved up from shitty shitty shitty to stinky farty smelly!" (apologies for the paraphrasing).
It's all about perspective.... so I guess it's you who doesn't really know shit.