Sometimes I'll even repetitively fiddle with something at hand while I'm thinking about something else.
That, my friends, is how you pitch one right over the plate.
Newsflash: we live in a world where Windows owns 90% of the consumer desktop market. It isn't going away, and neither is WMA. Yeah, some of my friends have chosen WMA because they had a choice between that and MP3 at the time. It's unfortunate, but they'll never know that because they'll still have plenty of variety in players and music portability.
Really, if Linux and Apple communities want their respective platforms to succeed, they need to drop the fanboy attitude and realize that not everyone is willing to completely drop everything they're used to. If we make platform change (Windows, WMA, or anything else) an all or nothing proposition, it's going to fail.
These people have thousands of songs in WMA, and enjoy it because the compression size is about one half of mp3. Would e you have them convert all those files (not to mention loss more quality in the process, as they'd be going from lossy to lossy) and take up way more hard drive space? Well, they won't. Instead they're going to buy one of the dozens of wma/mp3 players out there. Most every mp3 player does wma nowadays except the iPod.
Any other ideas, smart ass?
I've had several friends who have been ready to iPods, only to ditch it due to lack of WMA support. The way they see it, there is only one player that supports ACC, and many more that support WMA, and they don't want to invest in a format that's not going to be around for a while (the whole Beta-Max vs. VHS quandry).
Want to compete better with WMA, Apple? Then you must, MUST find more companies to support your format. Either that, or break down and support WMA. Either one of those will make the iPod look like a more versatile player, and more people will buy into it. Until then, their losing customers...and it will start to matter after a while..
Well, I use VPC to access the windows-only management program for my AP (it was cheap, and I had a pc then...). Also, as other have mentioned, there are loads of in-house programs that (unfortunately) are written for Windows only. Then there's the whole Exchange-MAPI thing that still is only fully implemented in Outlook for WIndows. Not to mention CRM software...that's a whole other platform lock-in story. True, the home user will probably not want for software selection...but the business/enterprise user (in order to co-exist in a Windows environment, Windows virtualization/emulation is still a necessary evil.
When was the last paid update to Mac OS X? Oh yeah, it was a year ago...when the last major revision came out. And the last major revision before that was expensive too...oh wait, it was free. What were you saying again?
This line is here to foil obnoxious lame post filter...
(Even More) Offtopic: Wouldn't it make more sense to give users more powerful message filtering capabilities than using faulty programming logic to block crapflooding (logic that also blocks legitimate posts, like code snippits or (on-topic) ascii art and poetry that happens to have uniform line lengths?
I suppose if I really cared, I could get a book on perl and hack around with the slashcode myself...has anyone ever tried doing a blog site in EJB?
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An Apple user involved with weed?! NO WAY!
How's that phrase go? "One man's dead technology..."
Sometimes I'll even repetitively fiddle with something at hand while I'm thinking about something else. That, my friends, is how you pitch one right over the plate.
Newsflash: we live in a world where Windows owns 90% of the consumer desktop market. It isn't going away, and neither is WMA. Yeah, some of my friends have chosen WMA because they had a choice between that and MP3 at the time. It's unfortunate, but they'll never know that because they'll still have plenty of variety in players and music portability. Really, if Linux and Apple communities want their respective platforms to succeed, they need to drop the fanboy attitude and realize that not everyone is willing to completely drop everything they're used to. If we make platform change (Windows, WMA, or anything else) an all or nothing proposition, it's going to fail.
These people have thousands of songs in WMA, and enjoy it because the compression size is about one half of mp3. Would e you have them convert all those files (not to mention loss more quality in the process, as they'd be going from lossy to lossy) and take up way more hard drive space? Well, they won't. Instead they're going to buy one of the dozens of wma/mp3 players out there. Most every mp3 player does wma nowadays except the iPod. Any other ideas, smart ass?
I've had several friends who have been ready to iPods, only to ditch it due to lack of WMA support. The way they see it, there is only one player that supports ACC, and many more that support WMA, and they don't want to invest in a format that's not going to be around for a while (the whole Beta-Max vs. VHS quandry). Want to compete better with WMA, Apple? Then you must, MUST find more companies to support your format. Either that, or break down and support WMA. Either one of those will make the iPod look like a more versatile player, and more people will buy into it. Until then, their losing customers...and it will start to matter after a while..
Also, I think the FCC would have a hard time catching you and I can see them dragging you off to prison for it.
I submit the following informational video for you to watch.
Well, I use VPC to access the windows-only management program for my AP (it was cheap, and I had a pc then...). Also, as other have mentioned, there are loads of in-house programs that (unfortunately) are written for Windows only. Then there's the whole Exchange-MAPI thing that still is only fully implemented in Outlook for WIndows. Not to mention CRM software...that's a whole other platform lock-in story. True, the home user will probably not want for software selection...but the business/enterprise user (in order to co-exist in a Windows environment, Windows virtualization/emulation is still a necessary evil.
Preview doesn't allow the viewing of annotated or highlighted pdfs...I just ran into that the other day...
You caught your daughter breaking the law, so you drop $250 on a toy for her? Can you be my parent?
Didn't we just have updates at Christmas?
Mars is not bigger than earth. Fourth paragraph, picture.
http://humbabe.arc.nasa.gov/MarsToday.html
Winamp = owned by AOL
Windows Media Player = owned by Microsoft
Something tells me these companies aren't relying on these products as a source of income...
See, you just flawed your argument right there with your "Guiness in a bottle" quip. It's not natural, and neither is EMACS.
and every workstation doesn't have telnet? Or can't get ssh?
Fucking classic...
That's a decision left up to the user. It is slow; it does not, however, cease to function at all.
Well, not after the tenth time, no...
When was the last paid update to Mac OS X? Oh yeah, it was a year ago...when the last major revision came out. And the last major revision before that was expensive too...oh wait, it was free. What were you saying again?
This line is here to foil obnoxious lame post filter...
(Even More) Offtopic: Wouldn't it make more sense to give users more powerful message filtering capabilities than using faulty programming logic to block crapflooding (logic that also blocks legitimate posts, like code snippits or (on-topic) ascii art and poetry that happens to have uniform line lengths?
I suppose if I really cared, I could get a book on perl and hack around with the slashcode myself...has anyone ever tried doing a blog site in EJB?
Try prepending http:// to the front of your link; if you don't slashdot apparently assumes the link is local.
Apple has the right to sell said music for three years (through iTMS, of course).
At least, that's how I read it.
http://penguinppc.org/projects/bootx/
So, I could burn a substance and use the energy from that to power a lawn mower....hmm, but what substance can I use...
...how to build your own Lockheed C-5 Galaxy on the cheap.