75% percent of the portable media player market is Apple's iPod. 75%. Any online store that prevents their target demographic from transferring their videos and music to the overwhelming media player of choice is choosing failure as a business plan. Bell has chosen failure. Microsoft's business plans are not in the best interest's of consumers or even business partners. Surely the latest MSN license server fiasco and the Play For Sure Zune betrayal are painfully evident lessons in who not to partner with when setting up a media distribution shop.
No I don't. Did you buy into a Microsoft media program? You deserve to be screwed. If it isn't painfully evident that MS cares not a wit for the needs and wants of consumers and only cares about what the corporations think you should have, you simply are not paying attention.
If Lucas had a huge amount to do with the movie, there is no way it won't suck ass. But I'm sure it will chock full of little animals being eaten by progressively bigger animals, and lots of apocryphal nonsense.
Send this article to that Jonathan Zittrain idiot who thinks that putting the web in the hands of everyone everywhere is a failure of technology and will stifle innovation.
Four systems and counting , including my own laptop, i have upgraded to SP3 and not any problems of any kind. Systems even seem snappier. I did have to replace the standard Windows boot screen on my lappy. SP3 would not install with a custom boot up screen. For all my bile directed at Microsoft, XP is the most stable and versatile Windows I've ever used. People don't want to switch because of that, and Vista offers nothing at all compelling. Especially since it expects you to abandon all your current hardware and peripherals.
QWERTY isn't designed to slow typists down. It's designed to avoid jamming. Two quite different things.
But that's not any better, is it? The manual typewriter has been dead for how long? The fact that computer keyboards were standardised on a layout made expressly for mechanical devices is ludicrous, especially when superior designs (Dvorak) were available.
if MS truely was so aweful no one would be using it.
This is nonsense, but I am not sure what kind of nonsense. The modern technological world is full of hardware, software and practices that are not optimal, or are simply stupid. The QWERTY keyboard is one of the most egregious examples: having been designed purely to sell typewriters, or slow typists down, it is an indefensible tragedy that it is the standard. Yet everyone uses it. That use does not excuse or deny it's true awfulness.
Viruses, malware, grayware and a great deal Spam owe their entire existence to the miserable and fatally flawed security model of Microsoft's Windows. This cannot be meaningfully denied. Said ailments make the average PC users daily computer experience a nightmare of inconvenience and paranoia. Yet the vast majority are forced to use it. And that has nothing to do with the quality of the product. It has to do with the monopolistic strong arm tactics that prevented meaningful competition in the PC OS space.
There is this idea that the modern capitalist ideal allows only the best products to survive and inferior products must change or disappear. This idea is mostly fiction. There are products that survive and thrive in the marketplace because they are good products, but they only serve to highlight the background noise of garbage products that owe their existence to the imbalance of the marketplace due to billions of cash bribes. Many of the these bribes are known as marketing.
True Apple believers will stick their heads in the sand and ignore this long running trend of contempt for customers,
You are an idiot. In the age of Microsoft's wanton abuse of users of all shapes and sizes in every market, you can pull this hissy fit out of your ass without a hint of irony? Good job. It never ceases to amaze me that those that spend the most time repeating of the cliche of the "arrogant Mac user" are whiny, arrogant assholes such as yourself, seemingly oblivious to the actual damage Microsoft has done to personal computing.
This idea that there is a "battle" shaping up is an indication of how corporate culture has poisoned the public consciousness. Any halfwit can realise that there is ample space for both Apple and RIM to make quite a nice pile of money without ever worrying about what the other is doing. Microsoft "won" the desktop and what did that get us? Stagnation in technology, and malware as a norm.
It helps that they understand Marketing extremely well.
It helps more that the iPhone makes the competition look sick. Seriously. Everyone else had 25 years to do something slick with the cell phone. Why is it that when Apple leads the way (again) so much ink is spilled trying to defend the status quo, and or trying to pretend that the iPhone is selling simply because of marketing?
The Windows Hegemony was primarily a US construct, and now that developing countries want to move forward with technology, but can learn from the disaster of Microsoftcentric OS policies, the nature of computing will move forward at lightning speed in other countries. Microsoft will be attacked not only from within, but from outside, from interests (GPL, Open Source) alien to Microsoft's need to control everything.
Someone was still making those? That's like finding out that Microsoft Bob was still on store shelves. Or the same way I felt when I found out that Palm had stores.
Tough being an apple zealot these days, isn't it?
After 20 years of putting up with complete and utter horseshit from the Stockholm Syndromed Windows Wankers, Apple and the Mac are on top of the world again, and Apple is releasing the hardware that defines every industry they enter. It's never been a better time to be an Apple Zealot, especially with the naysayers able to dine on so much crow.
Are these the same "sources" that attempted to screw with Apple's stock price by inventing a "whisper number" of one million expected iPhone sales at release when numbers of expected sales were in the 150 to 350 thousand mark?
Welcome to the machine. Is the DHS operating on the legal precedent that "where there is smoke, there is fire"? Where are all you Republicans-stand-for-less-government-intrusion-into-people's-live idiot Bushites now? Still think you have nothing to hide? Still think only the guilty get arrested?
You are an idiot. You do things every single day that you do not want anyone to know about. Every single day. If you don't you are actually a houseplant. How long will a school teacher, as one example, last in a job teaching children if it's revealed that he or she and their spouse rent porn movies from their cable provider? Anyone who honestly believes they have "nothing to hide" and that they have no daily activities that could end their livelihood as they know it it simply an idiot or completely brain dead.
Until high school textbooks or the mainstream media under go the same revision and updating that any wiki goes thru. I can see what people mean by ivory tower academia. No, you don't want anyone operating on you based on what they read on Wikipedia, but what the hell kind of example is that? Does that kind of hyperbole real make any kind of point? "Don't trust everything you read". Gosh, really? Thanks Doc!
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Flamebait? Who am I going to flame? The people complaining about WiFi? THEY AREN'T IN HERE! TECHNOLOGY SCARES THEM!
Is there a planet or a moon to which we can send these people to be with their Luddite kind? Or has another planet already done this to us?
True that. Makes it orders of magnitude worse...
75% percent of the portable media player market is Apple's iPod. 75%. Any online store that prevents their target demographic from transferring their videos and music to the overwhelming media player of choice is choosing failure as a business plan. Bell has chosen failure. Microsoft's business plans are not in the best interest's of consumers or even business partners. Surely the latest MSN license server fiasco and the Play For Sure Zune betrayal are painfully evident lessons in who not to partner with when setting up a media distribution shop.
No I don't. Did you buy into a Microsoft media program? You deserve to be screwed. If it isn't painfully evident that MS cares not a wit for the needs and wants of consumers and only cares about what the corporations think you should have, you simply are not paying attention.
Troll, Eh? You wish. Or didn't you see the Star Wars 'prequels"?
If Lucas had a huge amount to do with the movie, there is no way it won't suck ass. But I'm sure it will chock full of little animals being eaten by progressively bigger animals, and lots of apocryphal nonsense.
Send this article to that Jonathan Zittrain idiot who thinks that putting the web in the hands of everyone everywhere is a failure of technology and will stifle innovation.
It's entirely subjective, I know. Maybe because said systems didn't crash and burn, everything is hugs and puppies after the install.
Four systems and counting , including my own laptop, i have upgraded to SP3 and not any problems of any kind. Systems even seem snappier. I did have to replace the standard Windows boot screen on my lappy. SP3 would not install with a custom boot up screen. For all my bile directed at Microsoft, XP is the most stable and versatile Windows I've ever used. People don't want to switch because of that, and Vista offers nothing at all compelling. Especially since it expects you to abandon all your current hardware and peripherals.
But that's not any better, is it? The manual typewriter has been dead for how long? The fact that computer keyboards were standardised on a layout made expressly for mechanical devices is ludicrous, especially when superior designs (Dvorak) were available.
This is nonsense, but I am not sure what kind of nonsense. The modern technological world is full of hardware, software and practices that are not optimal, or are simply stupid. The QWERTY keyboard is one of the most egregious examples: having been designed purely to sell typewriters, or slow typists down, it is an indefensible tragedy that it is the standard. Yet everyone uses it. That use does not excuse or deny it's true awfulness.
Viruses, malware, grayware and a great deal Spam owe their entire existence to the miserable and fatally flawed security model of Microsoft's Windows. This cannot be meaningfully denied. Said ailments make the average PC users daily computer experience a nightmare of inconvenience and paranoia. Yet the vast majority are forced to use it. And that has nothing to do with the quality of the product. It has to do with the monopolistic strong arm tactics that prevented meaningful competition in the PC OS space.
There is this idea that the modern capitalist ideal allows only the best products to survive and inferior products must change or disappear. This idea is mostly fiction. There are products that survive and thrive in the marketplace because they are good products, but they only serve to highlight the background noise of garbage products that owe their existence to the imbalance of the marketplace due to billions of cash bribes. Many of the these bribes are known as marketing.
You are an idiot. In the age of Microsoft's wanton abuse of users of all shapes and sizes in every market, you can pull this hissy fit out of your ass without a hint of irony? Good job. It never ceases to amaze me that those that spend the most time repeating of the cliche of the "arrogant Mac user" are whiny, arrogant assholes such as yourself, seemingly oblivious to the actual damage Microsoft has done to personal computing.
This idea that there is a "battle" shaping up is an indication of how corporate culture has poisoned the public consciousness. Any halfwit can realise that there is ample space for both Apple and RIM to make quite a nice pile of money without ever worrying about what the other is doing. Microsoft "won" the desktop and what did that get us? Stagnation in technology, and malware as a norm.
It helps more that the iPhone makes the competition look sick. Seriously. Everyone else had 25 years to do something slick with the cell phone. Why is it that when Apple leads the way (again) so much ink is spilled trying to defend the status quo, and or trying to pretend that the iPhone is selling simply because of marketing?
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Why is that the threat that the smartphone presents to corporate security doesn't grab headlines until Apple makes a phone?
The Windows Hegemony was primarily a US construct, and now that developing countries want to move forward with technology, but can learn from the disaster of Microsoftcentric OS policies, the nature of computing will move forward at lightning speed in other countries. Microsoft will be attacked not only from within, but from outside, from interests (GPL, Open Source) alien to Microsoft's need to control everything.
Someone was still making those? That's like finding out that Microsoft Bob was still on store shelves. Or the same way I felt when I found out that Palm had stores.
Tough being an apple zealot these days, isn't it?
After 20 years of putting up with complete and utter horseshit from the Stockholm Syndromed Windows Wankers, Apple and the Mac are on top of the world again, and Apple is releasing the hardware that defines every industry they enter. It's never been a better time to be an Apple Zealot, especially with the naysayers able to dine on so much crow.
This is the funniest thing I've read all year.
Are these the same "sources" that attempted to screw with Apple's stock price by inventing a "whisper number" of one million expected iPhone sales at release when numbers of expected sales were in the 150 to 350 thousand mark?
Welcome to the machine. Is the DHS operating on the legal precedent that "where there is smoke, there is fire"? Where are all you Republicans-stand-for-less-government-intrusion-into-people's-live idiot Bushites now? Still think you have nothing to hide? Still think only the guilty get arrested?
You are an idiot. You do things every single day that you do not want anyone to know about. Every single day. If you don't you are actually a houseplant. How long will a school teacher, as one example, last in a job teaching children if it's revealed that he or she and their spouse rent porn movies from their cable provider? Anyone who honestly believes they have "nothing to hide" and that they have no daily activities that could end their livelihood as they know it it simply an idiot or completely brain dead.
Can't compete? Litigate!
Until high school textbooks or the mainstream media under go the same revision and updating that any wiki goes thru. I can see what people mean by ivory tower academia. No, you don't want anyone operating on you based on what they read on Wikipedia, but what the hell kind of example is that? Does that kind of hyperbole real make any kind of point? "Don't trust everything you read". Gosh, really? Thanks Doc!