That's not what "people" want. That's only what "SeaFox" wants.
You really think people don't appreciate being able to increase the storage on their cell phone or tablet without having to buy a whole new device? And I'm sure there's no gamers out there with Macs who would like to be able to use a high-end graphics card without having to plunk down for the top-end pro tower from Apple.
Go to any Mac forum and read from the creative professionals upset the Mac Pro hasn't been updated in any major way in three years. Or the folks with 24-27" iMacs annoyed they have that IPS screen and can't watch HD video on it unless they either rebuy their movies on iTunes or jump through hoops encoding/space-shifting their own content because they can't just pop the disc in the drive and play it like on a PC.
If you're gonna be a troll, you could at least not make yourself look like a moron in the process.
You do realize that Jobs was the one who said "people don't know what they want"?
Yes, and he never said Apple offers what people want either. Otherwise we'd have an expandable desktop Mac that's smaller and cheaper than the Mac Pro. We'd have a Mac Pro that doesn't make a joke out of the "Pro" part. We'd have native blu-ray playback on Macs, and and SD card slots for user-expandable memory on iDevices as well.
Apple simply offers them something that is attractive to them, and and Microsoft's version is not.
I don't see why people get so scared of forking code. Differentiation and species drift happens in nature all the time...>
I think the fear here is that the forking of code will lead to browsers that interpret "standards" differently and don't display web pages the same way. We'll be back to "I have to use Internet Explorer for site x and Netscape to get site y to work right."
One thing about homogenous browsers, we're more likely to all be on the same page on how to read the web (pun not intended).
Isn't Windows RT pretty much Windows 8 without the normal Desktop mode?
That would pretty make it a statement that Metro itself is a failure, and what's more we're talking about a tablet device, the very thing the Metro interface was created for.
Forget trying to make it work for a desktop OS, Microsoft. Your creation can't even cut it on its home turf.
The Korean "war" never ended. It has been ongoing since 1950
Yes, that's exactly how the Administration is going to spin it, too. "We aren't getting involved in the Second Korean War, this is just the first one from the '50s and it never has ended."
I did, too. Which sounded kinda dumb at first but a roving computer collection also sounds lame.
I think the story of Apple being told as a very long open-face pop-up-book would be better. Lots of cardboard stand-up recreations of important Apple events and scale model buildings.
Coming soon! FBI listening devices installed on water pipes. 'Cause you tap out out morse code on them and hear it further down the pipe in other rooms.
I'm pretty certain that stating "Buy from the US" can be viewed as a blessing on the Grey Import business.
Actually no. Adobe's Paul Robson made that clear. "If you purchase your Adobe product in the US, we’re not obligated to provide you a warranty. We want you to buy from us."
Is that all they have to poke Australians with? No warranty? I'm so used to software coming with no warranty to start with it's not even a feature I expect anymore.
As long as it's valid serial and da kopyright kops can't get me that's what matters. And for many people simply having the software run is all that counts..
What I don't understand is the IR port. Between that and the stylus with the Note, it makes me wonder why Samsung wants to drag us back to the bad old days of Windows Mobile.
In Japan people often exchange their contact info via close-quarter IR transmission from phone to phone instead of verbally telling each other and having to manually enter it and ask what kanji make up the name, etc. Not a bad feature.
'Course if the U.S. ever tried it they'd fuck it up by using a proprietary data format so you'd only be able to exchange info with people on the same brand phone as you.
But who really is more engaged: A live-tweeting audience member, or someone staring silently at the stage?
The person staring at the stage is more "engaged" as far as the production itself. When you get immersed into media the point is to forget where you really are and the distractions that come with it (like your smartphone). Hence, someone who stops to tweet about a performance by definition has to break some of their focus on the stage to do the tweeting, and if they were that tuned into the event they would forget to do it.
Remember when you went to the movies and something really fantastic or unexpected happened in the film? Remember how fucking dead quiet it got in there (when the movie itself wasn't playing any music)? No babies crying, nobody getting up to go to the bathroom/concession stand, half the audience forgetting they have popcorn in their hand? That is what they call "riveted to their seats" engagement. And nobody is tweeting or doing anything because they don't want to take their eyes off the screen or miss any dialog from crunching popcorn.
The controversy raises a number of questions that are hard to answer: Is sustained focus even possible in mass audiences anymore? If not, what have we lost?
I don't think any of this is really about focus or engagement. It's about money. Or to be more precise, marketing. Advertising loves social media, and viral marketing especially. It's not enough you come to the movie/concert/performance and paid admission. If you're not using social media to talk about -- and by extension advertise -- the event you're not giving enough back to the makers for the entertainment they gave you they feel now. These theater groups, symphonies, etc are all dealing with the same thing: an aging audience. They need fresh blood, and not just fresh blood but fresh blood that will get the word out. In today's world social media is the hottest thing in advertising, so they want tweeters in their performances.
As in, I never said the iPad was better. They are one and the same. Both devices made to steer their audiences towards their respective content crops by design. But it's a simple fact an iPad lets you eat from both fields, and the Kindle tablet does not (that's not Amazon's fault obviously).
The ways the Amazon Kindle Fire is superior in geek minds is ways most consumers -- and by extension, the marketplace -- don't care. Raise the Kindle to the same price as an iPad and you'll see how much "Open" is worth to the sheeple.
Then have school during reasonable hours where working parents can take them and then after work, pick them up. Why is it that schools start at 8:30 or later, long after a parent must be at work and end at 2:30-3:30, right in the middle of the afternoon, long before the normal work day is over?
A payoff from the babysitters union no doubt.
* School isn't meant to be a babysitter.
* School only runs for 7 hours a day including breaks, and the work day is at least an hour and half-hour longer for most people, to say nothing of travel time. Plus there's the 8-5 work schedules vs the 9-6 people. It's impossible for school to function as a babysitter to cover every parent's time away from home without increasing the length of the school day. I actually would have welcomed this. If there's one thing I resented all through school it was spending such a large chuck of my day inside the building only to leave and still not have my time as my own.
The system is set up where there really needs to be a stay-at-home parent available or other care/activity arrangements made for that extra time until such a point as your youngster can be trusted to be home alone, and it's the parent's responsibility to do that, as it should be. If you see this as a problem for the upwards mobility of today's worker, guess what? You're right. Making it difficult to be a "good worker" career-wise unless you're rich enough to hire a nanny is just another one of those silent workplace discriminations.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of asshole would make a device so useless and restricted and then charge so much for it. But then I think, why not raise the price by two hundred dollars, make it white and then it will sell like plastic hotcakes.
How is the iPad "restricted" compared to a Kindle? (since that's obviously what you're alluding to)
Amazon has a Kindle app, Amazon Instant Video app, and a Cloud Player app, meaning the iPad can access all the same content as the Kindle Fire, plus all content from Apple's iBookstore and iTunes media store. You can read PDFs on an iPad as well without having to send your documents to Amazon electronically first, as well as read other non-DRMed formats.
And if you're going to talk about how Kindle's OS is based on oh-so-open Android, or how easy it is to root a Kindle to install some version of Linux, save it. It's great you're interested in that stuff but honestly 90% of the market has zero interest in doing stuff with their device the restrictions on their tablet's ecosystem have anything to do with. The tablet is by design a consumer device. As long as folks can surf the web, watch their videos, play their music and play Angry Birds there's nothing defective about the system from their point of view.
One vocal opponent is Missouri State Representative Delus Johnson... He's sure that it'll increase economic development in the later part of the year; giving people a little more daylight to do their Black Friday shopping.
LMAO.
Ignoring the fact people shop indoors, where there's this marvelous invention called electric lights and they can't even tell how dark it is outside oftentimes, the real Black Friday Rush people are either at home on their computers buying online or had to go out and stand in line at the store all through the night to get the doorbuster deals anyway.
Why is it so important to have sunlight in the morning, give me evening sunlight that I can enjoy after work. I don't need sunlight for my morning deuce.
Children walk to school early in the morning. The brighter outside it is, the better parents feel (how much this really impacts safety is debatable). School ends long before the sub goes down, so having extra daylight at the end of the day is of less importance.
The real joke is that many of the site users apparently cheered the "move". Apparently forced labor concentration camps, widespread torture, arbitrary arrest and murder of citizens by the government, collective punishment for entire families and villages, complete absence of freedom of speech, no independent media, death penalty listening to foreign radio are bad, but not as bad as IP laws that prevent you from downloading stuff you want for free.
Red herring much? Cheering a move to NK doesn't imply cheering human rights abuses.
The cheering was for no other reason that the Pirate Bay was moving to a country that would not give a rat's ass what the U.S. or EU thought about copyright law and file sharing, nothing more. It is possible to hold mutually exclusive opinions on these two topics last time I checked.
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That's not what "people" want. That's only what "SeaFox" wants.
You really think people don't appreciate being able to increase the storage on their cell phone or tablet without having to buy a whole new device? And I'm sure there's no gamers out there with Macs who would like to be able to use a high-end graphics card without having to plunk down for the top-end pro tower from Apple.
Go to any Mac forum and read from the creative professionals upset the Mac Pro hasn't been updated in any major way in three years. Or the folks with 24-27" iMacs annoyed they have that IPS screen and can't watch HD video on it unless they either rebuy their movies on iTunes or jump through hoops encoding/space-shifting their own content because they can't just pop the disc in the drive and play it like on a PC.
If you're gonna be a troll, you could at least not make yourself look like a moron in the process.
I don't want Blu-ray playback, if it means the OS has to conform with the required DRM hooks.
If you're on a Mac the OS already does. It's more about licensing with MPEGLA and protecting the iTunes ecosystem.
You do realize that Jobs was the one who said "people don't know what they want"?
Yes, and he never said Apple offers what people want either.
Otherwise we'd have an expandable desktop Mac that's smaller and cheaper than the Mac Pro. We'd have a Mac Pro that doesn't make a joke out of the "Pro" part. We'd have native blu-ray playback on Macs, and and SD card slots for user-expandable memory on iDevices as well.
Apple simply offers them something that is attractive to them, and and Microsoft's version is not.
Not people in plane crashes.
I don't see why people get so scared of forking code. Differentiation and species drift happens in nature all the time...>
I think the fear here is that the forking of code will lead to browsers that interpret "standards" differently and don't display web pages the same way. We'll be back to "I have to use Internet Explorer for site x and Netscape to get site y to work right."
One thing about homogenous browsers, we're more likely to all be on the same page on how to read the web (pun not intended).
Antagonising a rogues state into launching a nuclear attack?
If all it takes is some Internet trolling to start a thermonuclear war I hardly think we can call ourselves "safe" before this happened.
I didn't know that. And I own the Director's Cut blu-ray, too.
I'll have to rewatch it now with his commentary turned on.
I'm in Texas which is at-will, that does not mean they an fire someone for being black.
No, but they could fire you for wearing black shoes, since there's no law against discriminating against someone for the color of their shoes.
Isn't Windows RT pretty much Windows 8 without the normal Desktop mode?
That would pretty make it a statement that Metro itself is a failure, and what's more we're talking about a tablet device, the very thing the Metro interface was created for.
Forget trying to make it work for a desktop OS, Microsoft. Your creation can't even cut it on its home turf.
The Korean "war" never ended. It has been ongoing since 1950
Yes, that's exactly how the Administration is going to spin it, too.
"We aren't getting involved in the Second Korean War, this is just the first one from the '50s and it never has ended."
Historically the history of the world is written by the victors of wars between nations.
I did, too.
Which sounded kinda dumb at first but a roving computer collection also sounds lame.
I think the story of Apple being told as a very long open-face pop-up-book would be better. Lots of cardboard stand-up recreations of important Apple events and scale model buildings.
Coming soon! FBI listening devices installed on water pipes.
'Cause you tap out out morse code on them and hear it further down the pipe in other rooms.
I'm pretty certain that stating "Buy from the US" can be viewed as a blessing on the Grey Import business.
Actually no. Adobe's Paul Robson made that clear. "If you purchase your Adobe product in the US, we’re not obligated to provide you a warranty. We want you to buy from us."
Is that all they have to poke Australians with? No warranty?
I'm so used to software coming with no warranty to start with it's not even a feature I expect anymore.
As long as it's valid serial and da kopyright kops can't get me that's what matters.
And for many people simply having the software run is all that counts..
What I don't understand is the IR port. Between that and the stylus with the Note, it makes me wonder why Samsung wants to drag us back to the bad old days of Windows Mobile.
In Japan people often exchange their contact info via close-quarter IR transmission from phone to phone instead of verbally telling each other and having to manually enter it and ask what kanji make up the name, etc.
Not a bad feature.
'Course if the U.S. ever tried it they'd fuck it up by using a proprietary data format so you'd only be able to exchange info with people on the same brand phone as you.
But who really is more engaged: A live-tweeting audience member, or someone staring silently at the stage?
The person staring at the stage is more "engaged" as far as the production itself. When you get immersed into media the point is to forget where you really are and the distractions that come with it (like your smartphone). Hence, someone who stops to tweet about a performance by definition has to break some of their focus on the stage to do the tweeting, and if they were that tuned into the event they would forget to do it.
Remember when you went to the movies and something really fantastic or unexpected happened in the film? Remember how fucking dead quiet it got in there (when the movie itself wasn't playing any music)? No babies crying, nobody getting up to go to the bathroom/concession stand, half the audience forgetting they have popcorn in their hand? That is what they call "riveted to their seats" engagement. And nobody is tweeting or doing anything because they don't want to take their eyes off the screen or miss any dialog from crunching popcorn.
The controversy raises a number of questions that are hard to answer: Is sustained focus even possible in mass audiences anymore? If not, what have we lost?
I don't think any of this is really about focus or engagement. It's about money. Or to be more precise, marketing. Advertising loves social media, and viral marketing especially. It's not enough you come to the movie/concert/performance and paid admission. If you're not using social media to talk about -- and by extension advertise -- the event you're not giving enough back to the makers for the entertainment they gave you they feel now. These theater groups, symphonies, etc are all dealing with the same thing: an aging audience. They need fresh blood, and not just fresh blood but fresh blood that will get the word out. In today's world social media is the hottest thing in advertising, so they want tweeters in their performances.
What does "open" do for the average consumer?
Idiot alert.
As in, I never said the iPad was better. They are one and the same. Both devices made to steer their audiences towards their respective content crops by design. But it's a simple fact an iPad lets you eat from both fields, and the Kindle tablet does not (that's not Amazon's fault obviously).
The ways the Amazon Kindle Fire is superior in geek minds is ways most consumers -- and by extension, the marketplace -- don't care. Raise the Kindle to the same price as an iPad and you'll see how much "Open" is worth to the sheeple.
Then have school during reasonable hours where working parents can take them and then after work, pick them up. Why is it that schools start at 8:30 or later, long after a parent must be at work and end at 2:30-3:30, right in the middle of the afternoon, long before the normal work day is over?
A payoff from the babysitters union no doubt.
* School isn't meant to be a babysitter.
* School only runs for 7 hours a day including breaks, and the work day is at least an hour and half-hour longer for most people, to say nothing of travel time. Plus there's the 8-5 work schedules vs the 9-6 people. It's impossible for school to function as a babysitter to cover every parent's time away from home without increasing the length of the school day. I actually would have welcomed this. If there's one thing I resented all through school it was spending such a large chuck of my day inside the building only to leave and still not have my time as my own.
The system is set up where there really needs to be a stay-at-home parent available or other care/activity arrangements made for that extra time until such a point as your youngster can be trusted to be home alone, and it's the parent's responsibility to do that, as it should be. If you see this as a problem for the upwards mobility of today's worker, guess what? You're right. Making it difficult to be a "good worker" career-wise unless you're rich enough to hire a nanny is just another one of those silent workplace discriminations.
Sometimes I wonder what kind of asshole would make a device so useless and restricted and then charge so much for it. But then I think, why not raise the price by two hundred dollars, make it white and then it will sell like plastic hotcakes.
How is the iPad "restricted" compared to a Kindle? (since that's obviously what you're alluding to)
Amazon has a Kindle app, Amazon Instant Video app, and a Cloud Player app, meaning the iPad can access all the same content as the Kindle Fire, plus all content from Apple's iBookstore and iTunes media store. You can read PDFs on an iPad as well without having to send your documents to Amazon electronically first, as well as read other non-DRMed formats.
And if you're going to talk about how Kindle's OS is based on oh-so-open Android, or how easy it is to root a Kindle to install some version of Linux, save it. It's great you're interested in that stuff but honestly 90% of the market has zero interest in doing stuff with their device the restrictions on their tablet's ecosystem have anything to do with. The tablet is by design a consumer device. As long as folks can surf the web, watch their videos, play their music and play Angry Birds there's nothing defective about the system from their point of view.
One vocal opponent is Missouri State Representative Delus Johnson... He's sure that it'll increase economic development in the later part of the year; giving people a little more daylight to do their Black Friday shopping.
LMAO.
Ignoring the fact people shop indoors, where there's this marvelous invention called electric lights and they can't even tell how dark it is outside oftentimes, the real Black Friday Rush people are either at home on their computers buying online or had to go out and stand in line at the store all through the night to get the doorbuster deals anyway.
Why is it so important to have sunlight in the morning, give me evening sunlight that I can enjoy after work. I don't need sunlight for my morning deuce.
Children walk to school early in the morning. The brighter outside it is, the better parents feel (how much this really impacts safety is debatable).
School ends long before the sub goes down, so having extra daylight at the end of the day is of less importance.
Hooray!
Jar Jar Bink will be shot first!
* rereads sentence *
oh... wait. :-(
The real joke is that many of the site users apparently cheered the "move". Apparently forced labor concentration camps, widespread torture, arbitrary arrest and murder of citizens by the government, collective punishment for entire families and villages, complete absence of freedom of speech, no independent media, death penalty listening to foreign radio are bad, but not as bad as IP laws that prevent you from downloading stuff you want for free.
Red herring much?
Cheering a move to NK doesn't imply cheering human rights abuses.
The cheering was for no other reason that the Pirate Bay was moving to a country that would not give a rat's ass what the U.S. or EU thought about copyright law and file sharing, nothing more. It is possible to hold mutually exclusive opinions on these two topics last time I checked.
How can we be expected to trust robots when they're already becoming terrorists?