Considering I, like many others, use FlashBlock in Firefox, I, and many like me, couldn't give a hoot about Flash anything. Even in YouTube, which is about the only reason I can see that I from time to time want/need to use Flash. Flash games? Tee, hee....
Which of course depends upon the definition of what a "need" is. No one 'needs' a TV but most people have at least one. Everyone buys things they do not 'need'.
To repeat: Apple designs and develops products that people want and when they buy and use Apple products they like them.
All companies advertise/market. Microsoft is not shy about advertising/marketing. If it was all about advertising/marketing Microsoft would be running the world.
Here comes the myth. "Advertising will pay for it".
Advertising paid (and pays) for radio, for TV (OTA Free TV may be on the way out, but that's only because of limited broadcast range and the success of cable and satellite 'services'), for magazines and pays for lots of other things things. It's no myth. I have web sites online and have since 1996. They all pay for themselves through advertising alone and I do quite well, thank you.
There are many ways to monetize a business in addition to advertising, as well. For musicians it may be concerts, as an example of how free music can work for a musician or band.
Sounds nice, but what the US founding fathers wrote and intended are not reality in the US today (if they ever truly were). To say the US has the best judicial system on the planet is, at best, wishful thinking. Can you say "extraordinary rendition"? That is, of course, the extreme, but even in everyday life for the "every day Joe" it's not much different. Police can hold you as long as they want unless you're really rich and 'connected' (in short unless you can afford a really good lawyer).
Both are commercial accounts. That's just the way they limit their services. I don't live in a big city, and I live in Ohio, so my options are very limited. Where I live I have to pay for 2 commercial accounts to get the throughput I need.
My connections are commercial connections, but where I live I have to pay for 2 commercial accounts to get the throughput I need. I do agree that for 'personal' use for most people a 10mbit/s connection is probably sufficient. The servers I have are all rented Softlayer dedicated servers. I have several that I wouldn't trust any company to back up as a sole backup. I know if I have backups here there's no way I can ever complain about lost data, including lost backups, if disaster strikes a datacenter. Even here everything runs on UPS and I have a 17KW standby generator that kicks in and is online in less than 10 seconds when the electric goes out (rare these days where I am, but it happens). It's like insurance. My income depends upon my being prepared and one can only be prepared if one has a good disaster recovery plan. I recently read a thread on a forum about a person who lost 6 years of work because her server drive crashed. She didn't have a RAID drive on the server, or any type of failover protection, and the datacenter had a corrupted backup. I've seen this stuff happen over and over again over the years, but I have no pity for people who do not plan and do not do simple things like verifying backups are 'good'. That person lost 6 years of work. The most I would lose would be 24 hours, if that. The important part is that I literally have backups here, at my home. I hope that disaster doesn't strike, and I don't really think about it much these days, but I assume disaster will strike at some time. "Be Prepared" isn't just the boy scout motto. To me it's how I live in more ways than one.
I don't telecommute. I work for myself. I have had sites on the internet since 1995 and haven't worked for anyone for many years. 10mbit/s may serve your needs, and that's well and good. My needs are obviously different than yours. Doing an rsync on several large servers keeps my connections very busy. Actually I have 2 different accounts here. Each is 15Mbps down and they both stay busy 24/7/365. I live in a semi-rural area in Ohio and that's the best / fastest service I can get where I live. Since I net over US$600 a day the cost of a faster connection is trivial.
Some of us have both enough money *and* a life. A faster connection would save me time that I could use to do other things. I keep websites online and keep them all backed up/mirrored here. If I could download sites and their databases faster, I'd have more free time. I have to admit, working from home is wonderful. No set 'working' hours, so I can stay up all night and sleep all day if I want to. No 'boss' to have to contend with. No traffic jams to fight every day. My car is in my garage most of the time, as I watch friends go through cars and repairs at 10 times the rate I do. I'm guessing you have to go to a job somewhere if you don't understand how many of us would benefit from faster connections at home. My sympathy goes out to you.
Don't bother. WD has a box and it simply doesn't play "any format you can throw at it". I have one and it's in the closet. Total garbage. I also tried a Mvix a few years ago. Trash.
A Mac Mini *will* play any format thrown at it as long as you have a couple of helpers such as Perian, Flip4Mac and VLC.
I have almost 20TB of media files on a media server (10 drives total via a mix of USB 2.0 and Firewire 800) and the Mac Mini I recently bought handles everything.
You must have been asleep for the last 20 years or so (or you have severe, advanced Alzheimer's disease) if you really believe it was under Obama's watch that oversight of oil wells were allowed to "...diminish to the point of catastrophe...". He's been in office less than 2 years. BP has a history of safety violations going back years. Bush II, Clinton, Bush I and Reagan are all complicit in reducing and/or eliminating the regulatory structure in the oil business (and other businesses as well, considering Enron, the savings and loan crisis of the 1980's, the stock market meltdown, the housing bubble, etc.).
More people are partially blind than totally blind. They can manipulate a touch screen with big button icons but the text is too difficult to read for them to read a book comfortably. But you are correct - As a general rule, touchscreen interfaces are not vision-impaired friendly.
I do not for a minute doubt the Guild and Apple have an understanding and that it plays a part in it, but I don't think that discounts the possibility that the Authors Guild learned a lesson from the Kindle incident. My own opinion is the Authors Guild were stupid to make a fuss over the Kindle read aloud (text to speech) feature to begin with. My sister has been legally blind since a car accident back around 1970. She can technically see, but not very well. Now approaching her 70's (I'm 60 myself and my eyesight is going fast - I have a 24" monitor and special "computer" glasses for when I want to go online), she has gotten audio books from the library for years - For free. I would think that would be a big selling point. I used to drive a lot before I retired and have a couple hundred audio books on tape in my closet. I have no desire for, or need for, an iPad, but I like the idea. And, so what if there is some sort of agreement or understanding between the Guild and Apple? Companies (and people for that matter) make agreements and establish understandings every day. I don't see them as necessarily 'evil'. I have no idea why you would say that the Authors Guild has learned a lesson is unlikely. Maybe they don't have their heads totally up their asses like the RIAA and the MPAA.
"They" don't have to "play it" so that it looks like the US is the aggressor. The events of the last 60 years or so proves the fact that the US is an aggressor nation.
You can misuse words quite well. Faux and Sarah have taught you well! As to death by stoning, much the same thing goes on in the US, but it's seldom publicized.
The same way many people in the US see guns. The NRA makes a big deal out of it as many rednecks in the US do in general. The NRA sells the idea that everyone should own a gun using the same logic - A gun is for defense. If you do not have a gun (or in this case offensive capabilities and weapons) you are open to attack (such as being robbed). It's not a flaw in the poster's logic, it's your failure to encompass the entire scenario of defense.
You must be very paranoid to bring in aspects such as worrying about Apple changing society to a point where everyone will have to buy only Apple devices. Your complaints are teabagger type paranoia vapid complaints. I hope you use Oven Strength aluminum foil for your hat. It must really get to you that consumers and developers are flocking towards Apple products because they like them and are buying them. It always pisses off minorities like you when you don't get your way even though the majority of people want something else.
You're such a small group that no one cares if your experience is ruined or not. Apple is a business that intends to (and does quite well) make money. Any company would have a hard time making money by designing and selling a device that only you and your 5 friends want. Unfortunately for you the world, and what the majority of the people want, is changing. The 'iPad' is shit meme has failed. It is popular, it does what many, many people want. Personally I think you're just jealous that a company that makes something you personally have no use for is so successful.
Consumer Reports did abbreviated tests and did not do any comprehensive tests or any significant comparison tests. They admitted it. They said they have to do further testing. Consumer reports did what they did for their own self promotion. I used to read Consumer Reports but they went to hell in a hand basket years ago.
If you're going to use the term "severe", you might want to cite some numbers. From everything I'm reading it's a minor issue. I don't own an iPhone and and have no intention of buying one so I don't have a dog in this fight, but without actual numbers / comparisons using the word 'severe' is simply inflammatory, unfounded rhetoric.
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Considering I, like many others, use FlashBlock in Firefox, I, and many like me, couldn't give a hoot about Flash anything. Even in YouTube, which is about the only reason I can see that I from time to time want/need to use Flash. Flash games? Tee, hee....
Which of course depends upon the definition of what a "need" is. No one 'needs' a TV but most people have at least one. Everyone buys things they do not 'need'.
To repeat: Apple designs and develops products that people want and when they buy and use Apple products they like them.
All companies advertise/market. Microsoft is not shy about advertising/marketing. If it was all about advertising/marketing Microsoft would be running the world.
Answer: Apple succeeds due to more than advertising, and marketing is harder than you'll admit.
Yup - Apple designs and develops products that people want and when they buy and use Apple products they like them.
All companies advertise. Microsoft is not shy about advertising. If it was all about advertising Microsoft would be running the world.
Here comes the myth. "Advertising will pay for it".
Advertising paid (and pays) for radio, for TV (OTA Free TV may be on the way out, but that's only because of limited broadcast range and the success of cable and satellite 'services'), for magazines and pays for lots of other things things. It's no myth. I have web sites online and have since 1996. They all pay for themselves through advertising alone and I do quite well, thank you. There are many ways to monetize a business in addition to advertising, as well. For musicians it may be concerts, as an example of how free music can work for a musician or band.
Sounds nice, but what the US founding fathers wrote and intended are not reality in the US today (if they ever truly were). To say the US has the best judicial system on the planet is, at best, wishful thinking. Can you say "extraordinary rendition"? That is, of course, the extreme, but even in everyday life for the "every day Joe" it's not much different. Police can hold you as long as they want unless you're really rich and 'connected' (in short unless you can afford a really good lawyer).
Both are commercial accounts. That's just the way they limit their services. I don't live in a big city, and I live in Ohio, so my options are very limited. Where I live I have to pay for 2 commercial accounts to get the throughput I need.
My connections are commercial connections, but where I live I have to pay for 2 commercial accounts to get the throughput I need. I do agree that for 'personal' use for most people a 10mbit/s connection is probably sufficient. The servers I have are all rented Softlayer dedicated servers. I have several that I wouldn't trust any company to back up as a sole backup. I know if I have backups here there's no way I can ever complain about lost data, including lost backups, if disaster strikes a datacenter. Even here everything runs on UPS and I have a 17KW standby generator that kicks in and is online in less than 10 seconds when the electric goes out (rare these days where I am, but it happens). It's like insurance. My income depends upon my being prepared and one can only be prepared if one has a good disaster recovery plan. I recently read a thread on a forum about a person who lost 6 years of work because her server drive crashed. She didn't have a RAID drive on the server, or any type of failover protection, and the datacenter had a corrupted backup. I've seen this stuff happen over and over again over the years, but I have no pity for people who do not plan and do not do simple things like verifying backups are 'good'. That person lost 6 years of work. The most I would lose would be 24 hours, if that. The important part is that I literally have backups here, at my home. I hope that disaster doesn't strike, and I don't really think about it much these days, but I assume disaster will strike at some time. "Be Prepared" isn't just the boy scout motto. To me it's how I live in more ways than one.
I don't telecommute. I work for myself. I have had sites on the internet since 1995 and haven't worked for anyone for many years. 10mbit/s may serve your needs, and that's well and good. My needs are obviously different than yours. Doing an rsync on several large servers keeps my connections very busy. Actually I have 2 different accounts here. Each is 15Mbps down and they both stay busy 24/7/365. I live in a semi-rural area in Ohio and that's the best / fastest service I can get where I live. Since I net over US$600 a day the cost of a faster connection is trivial.
Some of us have both enough money *and* a life. A faster connection would save me time that I could use to do other things. I keep websites online and keep them all backed up/mirrored here. If I could download sites and their databases faster, I'd have more free time. I have to admit, working from home is wonderful. No set 'working' hours, so I can stay up all night and sleep all day if I want to. No 'boss' to have to contend with. No traffic jams to fight every day. My car is in my garage most of the time, as I watch friends go through cars and repairs at 10 times the rate I do. I'm guessing you have to go to a job somewhere if you don't understand how many of us would benefit from faster connections at home. My sympathy goes out to you.
Yup - I'd jump on it. Of course I could write it off as a business expense.
When you can't compete in a market, sue... That's the ticket!
Don't bother. WD has a box and it simply doesn't play "any format you can throw at it". I have one and it's in the closet. Total garbage. I also tried a Mvix a few years ago. Trash. A Mac Mini *will* play any format thrown at it as long as you have a couple of helpers such as Perian, Flip4Mac and VLC. I have almost 20TB of media files on a media server (10 drives total via a mix of USB 2.0 and Firewire 800) and the Mac Mini I recently bought handles everything.
You must have been asleep for the last 20 years or so (or you have severe, advanced Alzheimer's disease) if you really believe it was under Obama's watch that oversight of oil wells were allowed to "...diminish to the point of catastrophe...". He's been in office less than 2 years. BP has a history of safety violations going back years. Bush II, Clinton, Bush I and Reagan are all complicit in reducing and/or eliminating the regulatory structure in the oil business (and other businesses as well, considering Enron, the savings and loan crisis of the 1980's, the stock market meltdown, the housing bubble, etc.).
More people are partially blind than totally blind. They can manipulate a touch screen with big button icons but the text is too difficult to read for them to read a book comfortably. But you are correct - As a general rule, touchscreen interfaces are not vision-impaired friendly.
I do not for a minute doubt the Guild and Apple have an understanding and that it plays a part in it, but I don't think that discounts the possibility that the Authors Guild learned a lesson from the Kindle incident. My own opinion is the Authors Guild were stupid to make a fuss over the Kindle read aloud (text to speech) feature to begin with. My sister has been legally blind since a car accident back around 1970. She can technically see, but not very well. Now approaching her 70's (I'm 60 myself and my eyesight is going fast - I have a 24" monitor and special "computer" glasses for when I want to go online), she has gotten audio books from the library for years - For free. I would think that would be a big selling point. I used to drive a lot before I retired and have a couple hundred audio books on tape in my closet. I have no desire for, or need for, an iPad, but I like the idea. And, so what if there is some sort of agreement or understanding between the Guild and Apple? Companies (and people for that matter) make agreements and establish understandings every day. I don't see them as necessarily 'evil'. I have no idea why you would say that the Authors Guild has learned a lesson is unlikely. Maybe they don't have their heads totally up their asses like the RIAA and the MPAA.
Maybe the Authors Guild has learned a lesson in how not to be pricks.
"They" don't have to "play it" so that it looks like the US is the aggressor. The events of the last 60 years or so proves the fact that the US is an aggressor nation.
You can misuse words quite well. Faux and Sarah have taught you well! As to death by stoning, much the same thing goes on in the US, but it's seldom publicized.
The same way many people in the US see guns. The NRA makes a big deal out of it as many rednecks in the US do in general. The NRA sells the idea that everyone should own a gun using the same logic - A gun is for defense. If you do not have a gun (or in this case offensive capabilities and weapons) you are open to attack (such as being robbed). It's not a flaw in the poster's logic, it's your failure to encompass the entire scenario of defense.
You must be very paranoid to bring in aspects such as worrying about Apple changing society to a point where everyone will have to buy only Apple devices. Your complaints are teabagger type paranoia vapid complaints. I hope you use Oven Strength aluminum foil for your hat. It must really get to you that consumers and developers are flocking towards Apple products because they like them and are buying them. It always pisses off minorities like you when you don't get your way even though the majority of people want something else.
You're such a small group that no one cares if your experience is ruined or not. Apple is a business that intends to (and does quite well) make money. Any company would have a hard time making money by designing and selling a device that only you and your 5 friends want. Unfortunately for you the world, and what the majority of the people want, is changing. The 'iPad' is shit meme has failed. It is popular, it does what many, many people want. Personally I think you're just jealous that a company that makes something you personally have no use for is so successful.
Consumer Reports did abbreviated tests and did not do any comprehensive tests or any significant comparison tests. They admitted it. They said they have to do further testing. Consumer reports did what they did for their own self promotion. I used to read Consumer Reports but they went to hell in a hand basket years ago.
If you're going to use the term "severe", you might want to cite some numbers. From everything I'm reading it's a minor issue. I don't own an iPhone and and have no intention of buying one so I don't have a dog in this fight, but without actual numbers / comparisons using the word 'severe' is simply inflammatory, unfounded rhetoric.
A flaw, yes. A *serious* flaw, no.