Every one shows the launch date, 11.17.06. Though, I think there are actually more ads in that subway station than there will be PS3s in all of Canada that day.
Well, that's ok. Steve's getting one, so we'll all go play at his house.
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PC-FX - Manufacturer: NEC - Date: 1994 - Region: JP
- 'Sequel' to the TurboGraphx-16
Actually the name is TurboGrafx-16, not "TurboGraphx-16", "TurboGrafix-16", "TurboGraphix-16" or even "TurboGraphics-16"...
That console has to be the one with the name being written incorrectly most of the time...
When I was on Windows, I used Opera (in fact I still use Opera 6.0 on my ThinkPad 760XL). When I switched to Mac, I started to use Safari. Firefox felt a bit sluggish on Windows, but I have no idea how people can tolerate it on OS X. It feels as heavy as iTunes on my G4/1.42GHz. And if someone tells me to upgrade my computer for a damn browser, when my PC can do video editing, then the problem isn't my computer, it's the damn browser.
That's the problem right there. Why the hell does Mozilla creates its own UI? Every operating system already has windowing and widgets APIs in place. Heck, one of the reason I hate Firefox on OS X is because even the form widgets don't look like OS X. I feel like I'm using an old version of Windows when I see pull-down menus and radio buttons in Firefox!
Except that a browser isn't an OS and as such shouldn't even have "it's own standards" when every OS has said standards in place.
Once again, here's the obligatory car analogy: "Our car has square wheels, that's our way. If you want round wheels, fine, but you'll have to find and install them yourselves."
I don't know about the USA release but my Canadian release here has both a CD and a DVD. No "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo anywhere, though. On the other hand, my Mac didn't have any trouble at all with the "CD" and acted as if it were a regular audio CD. No idea if it causes any problem on Windows systems.
I don't know if you're trolling, but you certainly knew iTunes wasn't available for OpenBSD. You should've burned your tracks to an audio CD before removing OS X and installing OpenBSD.
Seriously, why bother writing two or three sentences anymore? Just put a single link on a single word, that's even less helpful and even less work for the editors.
WTF IS ALEXA?
Another case of "I don't want to waste 30 seconds to explain WTF the news is about, let 50K users waste a few minutes and slashdot a website trying to figure out what it is".
Likewise- multiple friends have lost the use of their iTUNES songs now based on machine changes.
You can reset the list of allowed computers in your iTunes account. There's absolutely no good valid reason that your friends "lost" their iTunes-bought songs. They should contact Apple if they need help with this.
I think a fair rate is more like.33 for a song.
Just be glad that Steve Jobs is fighting for us, or else the labels would already be at 2$/track (or more, especially for new songs). You may think 0.99$/track is unfair, but then again an audio CD at 25$ for 12 tracks isn't fair either.
Everyone working on websites should test their browser with an (X)HTML validator, a CSS validator, IE5/IE6/IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari. However, not everyone has access to Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
Well, you're right for full albums. As an example, the last album I bought was Straight Outta Lynwood by "Weird Al" Yankovic. At 17$CAD for the CD+DVD (though I just watched the DVD and was a bit dissapointed that "White and Nerdy" wasn't on it even though it's in the TV ad), I paid more for it but can rip in the format and bitrate of my choice. AAC is one of the best CODEC right now, but who knows what will replace it in 5 or 10 years? MP3, for example, is about a decade old now.
But for single tracks the iTunes Store is great, especially for the "I want it now without even going out" impulse purchases. I bought about 25 tracks online and that "Weird Al" CD in two years. Without the iTunes Store it would only be that CD.
Very funny. Like everyone fills his iPod with tracks bought on-line. I had over 60 CDs when I bought my iPod, that filled it up at least half-way (preferred tracks, etc). OverClocked Remix filled pretty much the rest of it, with the exception of about 25 tracks bought online via the iTunes Store (which I would have never bought if I had to buy the whole CD for those single tracks).
Thanks for playing the "I''ll try to use the same 5-years old lame FUD about the iPod" game.
eMusic doesn't have the music that people want. Of course, what people wants depends on the marketing and airplay, but still. Saying that eMusic can replace the iTunes Store is like saying an Intellivision can replace a Wii.
I'd rather go get free music on overclockedremix.org than 0.25$/tracks on eMusic.
There's no "div tables". There's div and there's table. One is used to group things, the other is used to display tabular data (like an spreadsheet). If you're using tables to make your website layout, you're stuck in the Netscape 3 era and seriously need to get up to speed on CSS.
Everyone used AllOfMP3.com? Are you sure? How many people (outside of Slashdot) even knew it existed? And from those that knew it existed and used it, how many knew it wasn't legal even though they were paying for the songs?
And you're right, nobody wants DRM music. Apple's iTunes Store proves this with only 1.5 billion songs downloaded so far.
My guess is that this move by the RIAA won't increase the P2P traffic by more than 0.01%.
Because, of course, people can now carry a laptop with a Wi-Fi connection instead of an iPod. It may be free, but it's stuck in your browser. How is that better than iTunes+iPod?
Steve Jobs was right with the 0.99$/track pricing. Unless you're a huge music consumer (and I do use consumer in the real sense, i.e. fast-food never-stop-eating-even-though-it's-crap sense), paying 0.99$ is less trouble than trying to find a good encode of a song you want, not to mention the morons who normalize their tunes before encoding and uploading on P2P networks, the bad metadata, the start/end song clipping, the badly scanned and/or low-res artwork (if any), etc.
Well, I don't use FireFox. Making me use a different browser with an additionnal plug-in just so I can download videos doesn't "fix" the problem with YouTube. You can't download the videos from that website. The fact you can use what is basically a hack to do what you want doesn't fix the website itself. That's almost like saying the iPod can play Ogg Vorbis files.... if you install Linux and some other player software and an Ogg Vorbis plug-in on it.
Also, what does this plug-in saves the movies as? Flash movies? Useless.avi files? At least with Google I have the choice of the video format, and I always get.mp4 files which work on every modern OS and platforms.
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BTW I'm Canadian.
As the owner of the world-famous leading branded JELLO.COM site, which is a world leader in gelatinous desserts, I must inform you that we find your site, "HELLO.COM" is illegally infringing on our established trademark. Your site bears a confusingly-similar mark which could tarnish our reputation and dilute our market standing in the public mindshare.
You are hereby ordered to relinquish your domain registration and terminate all marketing which bears the infringing HELLO.COM mark, or any other mark which closely or confusingly encroaches on our intellectual property.
As a token of good faith, we will reimburse you $15/year to cover your registration fee, and give you a coupon redeemable for five dollars on JELLO products.
Actually the name is TurboGrafx-16, not "TurboGraphx-16", "TurboGrafix-16", "TurboGraphix-16" or even "TurboGraphics-16"...
That console has to be the one with the name being written incorrectly most of the time...
Ok sure, why not!
I'm launching iTunes as I'm typing this and my credit card is ready!
When I was on Windows, I used Opera (in fact I still use Opera 6.0 on my ThinkPad 760XL). When I switched to Mac, I started to use Safari. Firefox felt a bit sluggish on Windows, but I have no idea how people can tolerate it on OS X. It feels as heavy as iTunes on my G4/1.42GHz. And if someone tells me to upgrade my computer for a damn browser, when my PC can do video editing, then the problem isn't my computer, it's the damn browser.
I'm sticking with Safari, thanks.
Isn't Fusion a razor anyway? You know, the one that combines hot and cold in the ad but does nothing special in real life?
That's the problem right there. Why the hell does Mozilla creates its own UI? Every operating system already has windowing and widgets APIs in place. Heck, one of the reason I hate Firefox on OS X is because even the form widgets don't look like OS X. I feel like I'm using an old version of Windows when I see pull-down menus and radio buttons in Firefox!
Except that a browser isn't an OS and as such shouldn't even have "it's own standards" when every OS has said standards in place.
Once again, here's the obligatory car analogy:
"Our car has square wheels, that's our way. If you want round wheels, fine, but you'll have to find and install them yourselves."
Call me too, we'll play a game of Duke Nukem Forever together. On my Phantom console.
I don't know about the USA release but my Canadian release here has both a CD and a DVD. No "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo anywhere, though. On the other hand, my Mac didn't have any trouble at all with the "CD" and acted as if it were a regular audio CD. No idea if it causes any problem on Windows systems.
30 years already! And you kept track of it all! I don't know what to say!
I don't know if you're trolling, but you certainly knew iTunes wasn't available for OpenBSD. You should've burned your tracks to an audio CD before removing OS X and installing OpenBSD.
Seriously, why bother writing two or three sentences anymore? Just put a single link on a single word, that's even less helpful and even less work for the editors.
WTF IS ALEXA?
Another case of "I don't want to waste 30 seconds to explain WTF the news is about, let 50K users waste a few minutes and slashdot a website trying to figure out what it is".
Just be glad that Steve Jobs is fighting for us, or else the labels would already be at 2$/track (or more, especially for new songs). You may think 0.99$/track is unfair, but then again an audio CD at 25$ for 12 tracks isn't fair either.
Everyone working on websites should test their browser with an (X)HTML validator, a CSS validator, IE5/IE6/IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari. However, not everyone has access to Windows/Linux/Mac OS X.
I suggest using Browsershots.org.
Thank god one of the biggest software company on the planet is finally catching up to open-source projects that are five years old.
Oh wait...
Well, you're right for full albums. As an example, the last album I bought was Straight Outta Lynwood by "Weird Al" Yankovic. At 17$CAD for the CD+DVD (though I just watched the DVD and was a bit dissapointed that "White and Nerdy" wasn't on it even though it's in the TV ad), I paid more for it but can rip in the format and bitrate of my choice. AAC is one of the best CODEC right now, but who knows what will replace it in 5 or 10 years? MP3, for example, is about a decade old now.
But for single tracks the iTunes Store is great, especially for the "I want it now without even going out" impulse purchases. I bought about 25 tracks online and that "Weird Al" CD in two years. Without the iTunes Store it would only be that CD.
Very funny. Like everyone fills his iPod with tracks bought on-line. I had over 60 CDs when I bought my iPod, that filled it up at least half-way (preferred tracks, etc). OverClocked Remix filled pretty much the rest of it, with the exception of about 25 tracks bought online via the iTunes Store (which I would have never bought if I had to buy the whole CD for those single tracks).
Thanks for playing the "I''ll try to use the same 5-years old lame FUD about the iPod" game.
eMusic doesn't have the music that people want. Of course, what people wants depends on the marketing and airplay, but still. Saying that eMusic can replace the iTunes Store is like saying an Intellivision can replace a Wii.
I'd rather go get free music on overclockedremix.org than 0.25$/tracks on eMusic.
There's no "div tables". There's div and there's table. One is used to group things, the other is used to display tabular data (like an spreadsheet). If you're using tables to make your website layout, you're stuck in the Netscape 3 era and seriously need to get up to speed on CSS.
Everyone used AllOfMP3.com? Are you sure? How many people (outside of Slashdot) even knew it existed? And from those that knew it existed and used it, how many knew it wasn't legal even though they were paying for the songs?
And you're right, nobody wants DRM music. Apple's iTunes Store proves this with only 1.5 billion songs downloaded so far.
My guess is that this move by the RIAA won't increase the P2P traffic by more than 0.01%.
Because, of course, people can now carry a laptop with a Wi-Fi connection instead of an iPod. It may be free, but it's stuck in your browser. How is that better than iTunes+iPod?
Steve Jobs was right with the 0.99$/track pricing. Unless you're a huge music consumer (and I do use consumer in the real sense, i.e. fast-food never-stop-eating-even-though-it's-crap sense), paying 0.99$ is less trouble than trying to find a good encode of a song you want, not to mention the morons who normalize their tunes before encoding and uploading on P2P networks, the bad metadata, the start/end song clipping, the badly scanned and/or low-res artwork (if any), etc.
Well, I don't use FireFox. Making me use a different browser with an additionnal plug-in just so I can download videos doesn't "fix" the problem with YouTube. You can't download the videos from that website. The fact you can use what is basically a hack to do what you want doesn't fix the website itself. That's almost like saying the iPod can play Ogg Vorbis files.... if you install Linux and some other player software and an Ogg Vorbis plug-in on it.
.avi files? At least with Google I have the choice of the video format, and I always get .mp4 files which work on every modern OS and platforms.
Also, what does this plug-in saves the movies as? Flash movies? Useless
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With giant crabs!