Could we bring back the 8track as well? The anticipation of waiting to find out which song was going to get chopped by the track change was a real charmer.
It also never occurred to me that pops and clicks were really part of a "nuanced" sound, and not the inevitable failure of an archaic mechanical playback process.
The iPhone is a giant step backwards for smartphones and innovation.
If you want an innovative phone that doesn't try to shackle you, get a Symbian, Palm, or Windows Mobile phone.
Now THAT'S a shill, by George! Although I hope to Zeus it's sarcasm.
That's not freedom for consumers. And that's why the North American offerings are garbage. Thiat "freedom" makes companies free to screw over their customer base and rape us for every nickel they can wring out of us.
"We believe in freedom". God, what smug self deluding bullshit.
It's the shills. They can't get their heads around that the fact that is not and has never been a self propagating virus for Mac OS X, and that any remote access hack requires working on each box one at a time, not waiting on an IRC channel for your infected bots to announce themselves.
The vulnerability count only prove that some people are very, very stupid. No amount of vulnerability counting will counter the fact that there are over 150000 various viruses, trojans and assorted other infections for Windows, with multiple vectors. The amount of viruses on OSX? None. Zero. Zip. Nada. And one Trojan. That makes a difference of what? 150000 to one? Anyone pretending that these counts mean a damn thing are shills or stupid. It's not that complex. You can count have all the automotive recalls among various manufacturers you want, but if only one manufacturers autos blow up on a daily basis, it doesn't matter shit how many recalls the other guy issues.
Clean up the video, go CD quality on the sound, and get rid of the dialog artifacts artifacts that were only in there to further the voice over, which I hate with a passion after seeing the first Directos Cut.
This is what I am saying. In the age of Napster the pundits were ranting and raving about the end of purchased music. Yet the iTunes store is a smash success by bucking every single one of the tech analysts predictions. Jobs has already proven that people will flock to legal purchases of content when the terms and conditions of the DRM provide reasonable leeway as to how the consumer chooses to use the content they have purchased. Yes of course you may have to pay some kind of fee or royalty for the privilege of using the content in several different ways. Here's the clue, Freetards: you may have fair use rights under the law, but the content is still going to cost you!
The ONLY way the current situation is going to change is if the studios can actually make money for the content they take all the risks in producing. It's not Jobs fault that the content providers want to shoot themselves in the face with ridiculous fees. But make no mistake, as long as the DVD or some similar format/media is used to encode content, you will be paying extra for legal ways to circumvent the copy protection.
Who wants to grasp the concept that the only way to secure future rights from the grip of a DRM locked down future is to convince the studios, as Jobs is trying to do, that they can make money and give consumers more freedom.
Some of the loudest whiners in here rant and rave constantly about technological freedom that they think is absolutely forever and ever free. It's not. It never was. And if there are not legal avenues for people to acquire studio content and have some freedom with it (Fairplay) that studios can make an income from, you will then get whatever the studios want you to have when and how they say you can have it and that will be the end of it.
So please wake up and pick your targets here. Leave your pathetic anti-Apple biases on the C-Net blogs where they belong.
Nobody cares. I bought a 30 Gig player to listen to my own music.
wireless syncing,
Dogshit slow wireless syncing that requires you have a cable connected to the Zune.
and access to the zune marketplace which, unlike itunes,
...is an abysmal failure, just like the Zune, and purposely, with malice aforethought, broke existing PlayForSure compatibility.
has an ALL YOU CAN DOWNLOAD subscription model for 15USD monthly (about the same price I paid for my last CD purchase).
I won't bother to point out that subscription models are also an abysmal failure (oops), so I will just point out that you pay that fee forever and ever and ever, or you lose your ability to play anything. And you can't burn it to back it up. Good job. Great idea! For almost half that cost, you can download 40 tracks a month from eMusic and OWN YOUR TRACKS FOREVER AND EVER!
That Amazon's rankings are useless for the purpose determining sales leaders, as it's quite easy to manufacture a "top seller" merely by narrowing the field. Look for the actual sales numbers, which Apple readily provides at the end of every quarter, as opposed the obfuscation of the Zune sales since it's inception. If you really think the Zune is going to matter in light of the 30 million iPods that are going to go out the door this holiday season, well, that's cute.
Lets see, this is year 2 of a product line from a company that thinks decades out ( Microsoft may be slow, but they do have their long term strategies well planned out ).
Gales of derisive laughter, Bruce.
What other Microsoft myth would you like to play to defend their miserable consumer products? Microsoft made it's money by locking the overwhelming majority of users into the Windows/Office hedgemony. Period. That was not a "long term" plan, it's a monopoly, and an illegal one at that. They have abused their position of power to deny entry to the market. The prices they charge are clear indication of the lack of competition in that market. Microsoft's success has been in fields where they had no competition, or rigged the game to deny entry to competitors. Now that Microsoft is and has been entering markets where there is healthy, established competition, Microsoft has no chance of eventually controlling those markets unless they can tie it to their exisitng monopoly. They will be a bit player (WinCE) or have a money losing presence (X-Box) which can only be sustained as long as the Windows/Office monopoly remains unchallenged. Since competition in the desktop/office market space is now gaining real traction, it's only a matter of time before shareholders will start complaining about the billions going out the door for no good reason. And let's not run thru the sorry history of Microsoft's abuse of partners as they cast aside their "long term" plans for whatever new "long term" plan comes along (Zune assasinates PlayForSure).
Microsoft started by looking at the market, looking at what they wanted to accomplish, set a budget, and then built a unit and market share forecast. And, they hit that forecast
If their intent was to stuff the channel, they succeeded. If their intent was to have a successful consumer product, it's a miserable failure. There are no metrics by which the Zune can be judged a success unless you narrow the frameworks to the point where the Zune is the top selling 30 Gig Microsoft product that comes in brown.
You want a real honest to goodness success? Look at the iPod sales numbers quarter over quarter. I won't bother to post them here. That would be cruel.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! It's so hard to get across just how hard I am laughing at that sentiment. They aren't selling jack, they stopped making the first generation altogether, and Microsoft's numbers are what's in the channel, not what's sold. Their new ones will be competing against the old ones which are being blown out at firesale prices.
How many definitions of failure are there that one can believe that the Zune is not a failure?
The Service Packs to XP fixed issues and improved the user experience, but each of them degraded system performace by a measurable degree. An average of 20% on many laptops byt some measures. More and more RAM was required to overcome the system sucking done by the Service Packs. That anyone anywhere thought that Vista's performance would improve with a service pack is laughable at best, an indication of some kind of intellectual blindness at worst.
Riiiiight. Just because Microsoft backs HD DVD, let's all just ignore the fact that Blu-ray:
Let's just ignore the fact that I said "Neither of the DRMed to death replacements for the DVD are especially compelling.". But please. Continue to prattle on.
You're just anti-Microsoft because you're pro-Apple. Yes, yes. How insightful of you. We'll continue to avoid discussing the laundry list of real harm Microsoft has caused to consumers and computing so you can spin some horseshit about Apple being as bad as Microsoft because because people went out of their way to choose Apple products. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that what's good for Microsoft is bad for consumers. Nope. None at all.
Except maybe Microsoft's entire history in these matters.
Any world where Microsoft achieves these goals is not a world you want to live in. But thankfully we have Apple. Quicktime crushed Microsoft's aspirations for locking users into their what-will-we-call-it-this-year video format. The iPod and iTunes maintained the supremacy of MP3s over Microsoft's you'll-play-it-when-and-where-and-how-we-tell-you WMA hopes. And now the iPhone exposes WinCE on mobile phones as the miserable also ran it always was.
Neither of the DRMed to death replacements for the DVD are especially compelling. But if one has to win, it has to be anything but HDDVD.
Yes. The clear message is when it comes to digital content and control thereof, anything Microsoft is pushing is bad for consumers. But I would hope by now we wouldn't have to keep explaining why.
""Symbian has suggested that Google is not experienced enough or capable of fully developing a workable mobile platform."
And pundits said Apple didn't know how to pull off a physical phone either. I'm not yet convinced Google has anything worth using at this point or ever. However, the last people you listen to concerning the value of your future efforts are the competition.
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It also never occurred to me that pops and clicks were really part of a "nuanced" sound, and not the inevitable failure of an archaic mechanical playback process.
If you want an innovative phone that doesn't try to shackle you, get a Symbian, Palm, or Windows Mobile phone.
Now THAT'S a shill, by George! Although I hope to Zeus it's sarcasm.
That's not freedom for consumers. And that's why the North American offerings are garbage. Thiat "freedom" makes companies free to screw over their customer base and rape us for every nickel they can wring out of us.
"We believe in freedom". God, what smug self deluding bullshit.
Don't forget that OS X has had more security patches applied lately, so it must be even MORE vulnerable.
Except it isn't.
I like the part where he doesn't think any format backed by Microsoft won't by default have a plethora of anti-consumer "features".
It's the shills. They can't get their heads around that the fact that is not and has never been a self propagating virus for Mac OS X, and that any remote access hack requires working on each box one at a time, not waiting on an IRC channel for your infected bots to announce themselves.
The vulnerability count only prove that some people are very, very stupid. No amount of vulnerability counting will counter the fact that there are over 150000 various viruses, trojans and assorted other infections for Windows, with multiple vectors. The amount of viruses on OSX? None. Zero. Zip. Nada. And one Trojan. That makes a difference of what? 150000 to one? Anyone pretending that these counts mean a damn thing are shills or stupid. It's not that complex. You can count have all the automotive recalls among various manufacturers you want, but if only one manufacturers autos blow up on a daily basis, it doesn't matter shit how many recalls the other guy issues.
...Is a lie. Whatever he means, it's not what you think it means. But surely we all know that by now?
Yahoo is a platform?
Yeah, that was odd as hell. Is someone worried about "Blade Runner" being family friendly?
I damn near died.
Clean up the video, go CD quality on the sound, and get rid of the dialog artifacts artifacts that were only in there to further the voice over, which I hate with a passion after seeing the first Directos Cut.
This is what I am saying. In the age of Napster the pundits were ranting and raving about the end of purchased music. Yet the iTunes store is a smash success by bucking every single one of the tech analysts predictions. Jobs has already proven that people will flock to legal purchases of content when the terms and conditions of the DRM provide reasonable leeway as to how the consumer chooses to use the content they have purchased. Yes of course you may have to pay some kind of fee or royalty for the privilege of using the content in several different ways. Here's the clue, Freetards: you may have fair use rights under the law, but the content is still going to cost you!
The ONLY way the current situation is going to change is if the studios can actually make money for the content they take all the risks in producing. It's not Jobs fault that the content providers want to shoot themselves in the face with ridiculous fees. But make no mistake, as long as the DVD or some similar format/media is used to encode content, you will be paying extra for legal ways to circumvent the copy protection.
Some of the loudest whiners in here rant and rave constantly about technological freedom that they think is absolutely forever and ever free. It's not. It never was. And if there are not legal avenues for people to acquire studio content and have some freedom with it (Fairplay) that studios can make an income from, you will then get whatever the studios want you to have when and how they say you can have it and that will be the end of it.
So please wake up and pick your targets here. Leave your pathetic anti-Apple biases on the C-Net blogs where they belong.
Yes. Yes it does.
the 5.5g ipod out of the water, you get FM radio,
Nobody cares. I bought a 30 Gig player to listen to my own music.
wireless syncing,
Dogshit slow wireless syncing that requires you have a cable connected to the Zune.
and access to the zune marketplace which, unlike itunes,
has an ALL YOU CAN DOWNLOAD subscription model for 15USD monthly (about the same price I paid for my last CD purchase).
I won't bother to point out that subscription models are also an abysmal failure (oops), so I will just point out that you pay that fee forever and ever and ever, or you lose your ability to play anything. And you can't burn it to back it up. Good job. Great idea! For almost half that cost, you can download 40 tracks a month from eMusic and OWN YOUR TRACKS FOREVER AND EVER!
EOM
Poor Microsofties. Pointing out that the Zune is irrelevant makes me a troll, does it? Too funny.
That Amazon's rankings are useless for the purpose determining sales leaders, as it's quite easy to manufacture a "top seller" merely by narrowing the field. Look for the actual sales numbers, which Apple readily provides at the end of every quarter, as opposed the obfuscation of the Zune sales since it's inception. If you really think the Zune is going to matter in light of the 30 million iPods that are going to go out the door this holiday season, well, that's cute.
Gales of derisive laughter, Bruce.
What other Microsoft myth would you like to play to defend their miserable consumer products? Microsoft made it's money by locking the overwhelming majority of users into the Windows/Office hedgemony. Period. That was not a "long term" plan, it's a monopoly, and an illegal one at that. They have abused their position of power to deny entry to the market. The prices they charge are clear indication of the lack of competition in that market. Microsoft's success has been in fields where they had no competition, or rigged the game to deny entry to competitors. Now that Microsoft is and has been entering markets where there is healthy, established competition, Microsoft has no chance of eventually controlling those markets unless they can tie it to their exisitng monopoly. They will be a bit player (WinCE) or have a money losing presence (X-Box) which can only be sustained as long as the Windows/Office monopoly remains unchallenged. Since competition in the desktop/office market space is now gaining real traction, it's only a matter of time before shareholders will start complaining about the billions going out the door for no good reason. And let's not run thru the sorry history of Microsoft's abuse of partners as they cast aside their "long term" plans for whatever new "long term" plan comes along (Zune assasinates PlayForSure).
If their intent was to stuff the channel, they succeeded. If their intent was to have a successful consumer product, it's a miserable failure. There are no metrics by which the Zune can be judged a success unless you narrow the frameworks to the point where the Zune is the top selling 30 Gig Microsoft product that comes in brown.
You want a real honest to goodness success? Look at the iPod sales numbers quarter over quarter. I won't bother to post them here. That would be cruel.
How many definitions of failure are there that one can believe that the Zune is not a failure?
The Service Packs to XP fixed issues and improved the user experience, but each of them degraded system performace by a measurable degree. An average of 20% on many laptops byt some measures. More and more RAM was required to overcome the system sucking done by the Service Packs. That anyone anywhere thought that Vista's performance would improve with a service pack is laughable at best, an indication of some kind of intellectual blindness at worst.
Let's just ignore the fact that I said "Neither of the DRMed to death replacements for the DVD are especially compelling.". But please. Continue to prattle on.
You're just anti-Microsoft because you're pro-Apple. Yes, yes. How insightful of you. We'll continue to avoid discussing the laundry list of real harm Microsoft has caused to consumers and computing so you can spin some horseshit about Apple being as bad as Microsoft because because people went out of their way to choose Apple products. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that what's good for Microsoft is bad for consumers. Nope. None at all.
Except maybe Microsoft's entire history in these matters.
Neither of the DRMed to death replacements for the DVD are especially compelling. But if one has to win, it has to be anything but HDDVD.
Yes. The clear message is when it comes to digital content and control thereof, anything Microsoft is pushing is bad for consumers. But I would hope by now we wouldn't have to keep explaining why.
And pundits said Apple didn't know how to pull off a physical phone either. I'm not yet convinced Google has anything worth using at this point or ever. However, the last people you listen to concerning the value of your future efforts are the competition.