Let me fix this "... $2500 on a laptop for their execs, and then tell their employees that the budget only has $1000/year raise increase"
The extra core2 duo, 22 inch monitors, etc may be added on, and this would add to the price - but it is NOT what is required to run the software in an optimal fashion. Otherwise, lets throw in the latest and greatest video card at $900. Got to get the latest and greatest keyboard mouse (could run 100-200)...the latest and greatest nic card (Killer has one for 257$)....and since that exec is going to be working hard hours, we need to get them a brand new herman miller aeron chair at 700... Yea we can tack on stuff to inflat the numbers, but a brand new pretty high end dell laptop for business purposes will run under 900 and that WILL include vista. That IS using core2 duo...anything extra is just smoke and fluff.
How will the hardware cost be 1/2 the cost when you factor in vista/office. At 3-5k...50% of that is 1.5-2.5k. Vista/office for business is not going to cost that much.
While many desktop users "are still fine with machines purchased 3-4 (or more) years ago" that does not make it a good thing to do. I know desktop users who are fine with win95/98....do you recommend they stay on those platforms? I sure don't. While users who are using winXP are going to be fine for the next few years, they will eventually need to upgrade. Nobody is saying run to the store the moment vista hits the shelves (well except MS and people who will reap some benefits from those sales) - most people will say wait until SP-1 (/. people will say wait until SP-3552352).
The cost to upgrade will be there, but for organizations who have been using XP for a number of years, they have gotten their use out of it. They can stay on XP, but it will not cost 1.5 to 2.5k to upgrade.
The government, US that is, allows people to organize to overthrow it, they just require you do it in a peaceful manner. Another name for this is elections. You get a majority of americans to agree on new politicians to replace the president and congress and before you know it - you hae a new government. Keep voting for douchebags (or not voting at all) and this is what you get. If you want to blame someone, blame the person who voted for people like Bush.
Sounds like a logical assumption, but it's a bit like claiming a driver went from Point A to Point B, 100 miles apart, in one hour must have been speeding
Unless said driver can prove he was flown there (chopper, or plane), or they develop teleporting technology...if you go form Point A to point B in 60 minutes, and said points are 100 miles apart, then yes you had to have been driving at LEAST 100 mph, if not moreeee (due to traffic and lights).
How someone did something to know they did something wrong. A lawsuit has to be started so they can do things like subpeona the hard drive. Once they can get the hard drive, they can figure out the "how". This is common legal tactics, and frankly is required. WIthout things like a subpeona there is no legal mechanism to force someone to hand over their material (with some exception like the patriot act).
Not sure what college campus you were on, but the one I attended had showers being used everyday all day. Laundry rooms that had about 45 washers and 45 dryers (per building) and you still had to wait to do your laundry.
On average, most people shower 1/day if not more. I would shower twice/day (in the morning and in the evening after gym). There are very few who do not, or use clean clothes.
Your roomate is an exception.
I never said the toilet was clean enough to eat from, but it is far cleaner then you give credit to.
Also, after taking a shower, a person towels themselves off. Puts on underwear, and pants. The persons butt is not coming in contact with anything else during the day. So when it hits the toilet seat, it is clean.
Now if they said toilet bowl, that would be much different.
Going by that logic, many computer users do not use notepad, calculator and other various utilities. So what. The word "many" is ambiguous to say the least, and I am willing to bet the poster above my other post was implying somewhere in the area of majority.
And for all you know, maybe I do know all the computer users out there...or maybe I just know many of them.
Because it comes with the OS, and if I want the OS I gotta pay for all the added features. It's like buying buying a TV with a feature that lets you watch another show on a mini-screen...even if I do not ever use that feature, i still ahve to pay for it.
What do you mean by many computers are NEVER used for playing music? Everyone I know utilizes their computer for music...not the only reason, but they have it playing in the background. Windows Server edition includes that because the servers can be used for live -streaming and the WMP comes with that feature built in.
Hey, if the casual user is so desperately clingy to ignorance and apathy they DESERVE what they get.
I don't like this statement. It is blaming people for their lack of knowledge on a specific topic. Put it this way, take a doctor - a heart surgeon. Obviously, this person is intelligent enough to have gotten a degree in a highly specializes, sought after, and technical field. The doctor barely knows how to turn on the computer and check e-mail. I am not going to call him apathetic, and I am not going to expect him to learn and become anywhere NEAR a guru. He pays me to do that. He just wants it to work. it is like owning a car. My father is a retired auto-mechnic...he never expected his clients to know what was going on under the hood, he just expect them to show up so he could fix it, and come every 3k mile to get an oil change, etc.
It's bad enough we can't motivate anyone to care about rights and freedoms let alone free software
I can talk to many people about things like that. Some will understand, some won't. Some will care, others will not. Sometimes MS, MPAA, RIAA are correct and sometimes they are not. I am not a fanboy of MS, MPAA, or RIAA but I won't argue when they are correct. MS is wrong in this latest endeavor.
You know what happens when the majority don't evolve right? They get obsolete and a severe case of the EXTINCT.
Unfortunately, because they are the majority, they take us down with it.
Now really.. is this really an issue with 400gb drives?
Well first, not everyone has 400gb drives. In fact, most people have under 100gb. But to me it is more clutter. Things in my registry, loaded in memory, etc. This is resources...so yes, it is an issue. Besides I like my computer to be clean. If i don't use it, then I don't want it on my HD.
I agree here except I really don't like using WMP. At the *minimum* I expect it to secretly send playlists back to MS. It just wants to phone home *way* too much for my tastes
Block it from accessing the Internet. I do that. Firewalls are great.
There are many open source players. Some players will never have DRM. However, they may not play everything as well as WMP does. I use WMP as a fallback when for some unknown reason something plays badly. However there are a lot of things that WMP can't play at all- not even badly. OGG comes to mind tho maybe I'm missing a WMP codec for it since I always use VLC or Winamp for ogg.
Yea but they are not always compatible. When a company makes a program, they generally make it compatible with the most popular programs. So compatibility is not always there. Besides, it again goes to my first point - I do not want multiple media programs on my computer.
True- but when they see us doing "magic" things and they can't- it irritates them enough to find out. Another recent article said that less people are buying DRM'D MP3's off itunes.
You are lucky then. The people I know just want it to work, and don't care how. When they see the magic things, they just say "wow, you know so much. You know my 1 year old is acomputer hacker, little kids they know everything." In the meantime I am trying to get the baby food off the keyboard which was puked up by the one year old, who likes to smack the keys....in fact, likes to smack the table, the toys, and anything else since their motor reflexes are not that great.
I agree. They are good reasons to use OSS. But your average day user is not going to know what to do. This DRM nonsense is going to convenience the tech savvy people, but it will just run over everyone else...and everyone else is 95% of the world (random number off the top of my head, but you see my point).
This statement may have just cost you 2007s contribution from me
Dear Donater - take your 50 cents and go to hell
warming legislation had good components
Yup, and the legislater, which gets paid off by big oil/motor, really cares what will happen in 15 years when those 70 year old politicians are dead? In other news today, the polar ice caps ARE melting as you can now take a cruise directly to the North Poll...wait that must be more propeganda from the tree huggers right?
While we are talking lawsuit, what's the logical argument/premise going to be for filing the suit
Somwhere along the lines "Big motor could have actually made environmentally safer cars for many many years, but has not done so because big oil pads their pockets with a couple extra Benjamins."
Why not grab every last dollar you can by going after the drivers and the cities and states that build the roads and freeways, because without them, the automakers would not have a market, right?
Roads do not make polution. People who drive do so because they need to (i.e. get to work, vacation etc.). Motor companies could have taken the responsible way out and made enviornmentally safe cars many years ago...instead they drag their feet. While other countries are working hard for environmentally friendlier car, our country is dragging their feet.
but Lockyer, this is not the way to solve the problem by making the automotive companies the boogeymen
Actually it is. When big business can circumvent the laws through VERY VERY talented lawyers, by paying off politicians, etc we need to find another venue to make them cry. So we need to sue them, and sue them for so much money they just don't want to go on living. What's a million dollar fine to a multi-billion dollar industry? NOTHING. Whats hundreds of millions of dollars in fines to a multi-billion industry -SOMETHING. Especially when it would have been FAR FAR cheaper for them to produce the technology that would make cars more friendly to our environment.
The problem with your government system, and why the laws are not going to work, is that Big Business is > Big Government. To Big Business, a million dollar fine is just a slap on the wrist...it IS the "cost of doing business".
I hope they lose, I hope they lose so much they cry.
As for the attorney...someone has to do the lawsuit, and that attorney may spend a few years putting in hard work. Do I think he should get paid the equivelant of 5 million/year...no...do I think he should get paid a lot, yes. Apparantly, he is really good at what he does. Though they could have paid him up-front or on an hourly basis (most likely) - so if he wins $1 or $1 billion he gets paid an amount determined by his time.
Stop downloading pr0n and you won't have to worry about refreshing your hard drive every six months. I have been going on two years on my laptop without any issues. No viruses, no spyware. I do regular MS updates, update my virus protection program, my spam blocker, and play games and do work w/o any problems.
It isn't moot because I, like many, do not feel like
1) Having to install multiple music programs. It eats up hard drive space, and clutters my computer
2) I do not want to have to buy another music program, when I already paid for WMP
3) Because this leads the way for other companies to follow suit. I am willing to bet MS is getting a kick-back for this DRM "enhancement" by the various organizations. How long until the other media players follow suit?
4) Because most people, the common user who is not computer savvy, will fall into this trap. And come to think of it, most of the people are not computer savvy and just use what comes out of the box.
5) This will hinder MP3 sales. If I d/l a song from a various source it is NOT MS's business to know how many times I want to back it up. It is not MS's business to know what music I own. It is not MS's business to tell me how many times I can use my CD burner to make 1001 backups.
I have been using MS products since win95 (reluctantly then, but i have no issues with windows products other then it being bloatware/resource hog) - but this is over the top.
....Now offering tours to the North Pole. Direct sea voyage available. Book your tickets before winter comes, or wait 10 years when it won't matter what season it is.
In other news "Global Warming increases tourism. Governments now support global warming emissions, Oil companies and Motor Companies rejoice." br.
In future news "The polar ice cap is no longer polar, nor ice. Come enjoy the nice hot spa's at the tropical North Pole...because any place on Earth is a desert wasteland."
Well nice of you to pass judgement on radio DJs, because as well now know only club DJs "treat the playing and sequencing of music as an artform in and of itself". And honestly, the turntabalist community can look at whoever they like with scorn, being elitist does not make your correct.
I also did mention DJs in specific (as opposed to radio stations) when I said "Many DJs do not get rid of their stuff because it is EXPENSIVE to replace hundreds, if not thousands, of records with CDs.".
In the end, it is still fuzzy logic to say the reason vinyls are coming back and CDs are going out is because vinyls are physical. CDs are physical, and if you angle them at the correct light they are also pretty. And more importantly, you can back them up, copy them to your hard drive, and more.
Thank you captain obvious. Did I say it was a vinyl fad? Nope
but it still reigns supreme in the DJ universe
Yea not every place. I have interned at a couple of FM radio stations, and so did an ex of mine...They had ZERO vinyl records, or turn-tables in their studios. They all used a computer, with a hard drive smack full of music (and some media playing program) and a few CD players and racks of CDs. Even my college radio station has this setup, and they are not nearly as rich as a professional radio station. Many DJs do not get rid of their stuff because it is EXPENSIVE to replace hundreds, if not thousands, of records with CDs. It is much easier to push a button to get to track 10, then find it on a vinyl.
Let me correct this: "CDs, which physical, have no intrinsic value beyond the data contained on them"
Vinyl, which physical, have no intrinsic value beyond the data contained on them
With the exception of collectors items
Vinyl, on the other hand, will always have a purpose if, for nothing else, the sheer nostalgia
Give it time. CDs are still a fairly new medium. When the new format, there will be people who will hold nostalgia to their CDs
As for knowing someone who is fanatical about CD format...i also don't know anyone who is fanatical about Vinyl format.
In the end, my OP is correct - the article uses fuzzy logic.
"it's very possible that the CD might become obsolete in an age of download music but the vinyl record will survive,". The article explains how indie kids are drawn to vinyl because "the tactile joy of owning a physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a credit card number
So CD's might become obsolete in an age of downloaded music, but the vinyl record will survive because indie kids like the "tactile joy of owning a physical object"....CD's aren't physical?
CD's are also easier for indie labels to produce. Vinyl's are expensive to produce, and require specific hardware that is not as common as a cd burner, cd label maker, and cds.
Because caps lock has uses. Let us say you need to type in all capital letters (acronym). Now you have to put a period between each letter. That is annoying. Let us say you want to capitalize a sentence, now you have to hold the shift key down. That is annoying. While I agree there are annoying people WHO ONLY LIKE TO TYPE IN CAPS and these people should be lobotomized, I enjoy my caps lock.
Also, if this is the best thing you can figure out to challenge in life then you need to get a life.
Yea, but all those solutions are based on waxy substances. My PS2, DVD player (x2), CD player, etc all get hot after a while. Won't that melt the waxy subtance, which will then get on the inside of your media player?
Yes, because nothing helps keep a customer more then poor customer service and a lack of people trained to keep the customers. Then again, I do remember their tactics "Oh stay, here let us give you 6 months free." Six months later "Oh stay, here let us give you 6 months free." Followed by someone saying "I noticed on january you accessed this much, and on February that much" - which really makes me you know happy.
AOL just has a rep, and not a great rep. Nobody wants their crappy interface anymore which is bloatware.
Ok if I was raid leader and the first thing my warlock did was CoA over CoS he would be told to fix his mistake. If he would argue, he would be raiding with another guild. CoA? Pfft. CoA ONLY comes out by the third+ warlock in the group...and depending on the mob, the third warlock might be doing CoT.
Dots are always the obvious. And if you think warlocks can't outdamage mages in AOE you are mistaken. I consistantly out damage my mages. Try Nefarian's minions before he lands...I am there with Rain of Fire. Actually, the guild likes to have us locks stand in the middle and do hellfire while priests bubble/heal us.
As a destro lock my character is consistantly doing searing pain (except very few bosses) and doing massive crits. Two nights ago, yea magmadar, three crits in a row for 1000+ with searing pain.
In PvP. It is CoA (unless you are partied with a mage, which my best friend is one, which then I do CoE), Corrupt, Immolate, Searing pain, Conflag, searing pain ---oops my target died. Fel puppy all the way. Fear only when I am 1vs1 or can find a good hiding spot.
When the Naxx world event was going on the most powerful combo would be to have a warrior ride around his horse...aggro 30+ mobs, and then the priest would stand in the middle aoeing them to death. It was beautiful. Only reason priests needed the rest of us was for the end boss.
To say Warlocks aren't designed for AE is wrong...the only time warlocks complain about their AE is in pvp cause it's channel based. In case you didn't know, warlocks have two different talents geared for AOE.
Warlocks have more mana then mages - lifetap, healthstone, lifetap, potion, lifetap, bandages, lifetap, etc.
Mages have better on the ranged attacks with their 41' attacks.
Frost mages don't do as much damage as lock aoe.
Nerf locks? Pfft, buff locks. After DC (which is the only complaint people have about locks) they got nothing in defense. DC being on 2 minute cooldown is not game breaking.
Age of Empires is still one of my favorite games. Probably because I would go to a friends HS classroom (after school hours) with a bunch of friends and we would play maxed out games (I think 5 to a team, I forget the limits). It was a lot of fun as players would shout over to each other "No do this do this you n00b. Stupid morons" and someone else "Type it out!!! They can hear your plans when you shout!!!". It was a lot of fun with pizza, soda, and good friends.
No, not age of empires n00b, Area of Effect. This guy is clearly a mage or a warlock (maybe a priest or paladin). If a warlock, I wonder if he likes to use Rain of Fire or Hellfire.
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... $2500 on a laptop for their execs.
Let me fix this "... $2500 on a laptop for their execs, and then tell their employees that the budget only has $1000/year raise increase"
The extra core2 duo, 22 inch monitors, etc may be added on, and this would add to the price - but it is NOT what is required to run the software in an optimal fashion. Otherwise, lets throw in the latest and greatest video card at $900. Got to get the latest and greatest keyboard mouse (could run 100-200)...the latest and greatest nic card (Killer has one for 257$)....and since that exec is going to be working hard hours, we need to get them a brand new herman miller aeron chair at 700... Yea we can tack on stuff to inflat the numbers, but a brand new pretty high end dell laptop for business purposes will run under 900 and that WILL include vista. That IS using core2 duo...anything extra is just smoke and fluff.
How will the hardware cost be 1/2 the cost when you factor in vista/office. At 3-5k...50% of that is 1.5-2.5k. Vista/office for business is not going to cost that much.
While many desktop users "are still fine with machines purchased 3-4 (or more) years ago" that does not make it a good thing to do. I know desktop users who are fine with win95/98....do you recommend they stay on those platforms? I sure don't. While users who are using winXP are going to be fine for the next few years, they will eventually need to upgrade. Nobody is saying run to the store the moment vista hits the shelves (well except MS and people who will reap some benefits from those sales) - most people will say wait until SP-1 (/. people will say wait until SP-3552352).
The cost to upgrade will be there, but for organizations who have been using XP for a number of years, they have gotten their use out of it. They can stay on XP, but it will not cost 1.5 to 2.5k to upgrade.
The government, US that is, allows people to organize to overthrow it, they just require you do it in a peaceful manner. Another name for this is elections. You get a majority of americans to agree on new politicians to replace the president and congress and before you know it - you hae a new government. Keep voting for douchebags (or not voting at all) and this is what you get. If you want to blame someone, blame the person who voted for people like Bush.
Sounds like a logical assumption, but it's a bit like claiming a driver went from Point A to Point B, 100 miles apart, in one hour must have been speeding
Unless said driver can prove he was flown there (chopper, or plane), or they develop teleporting technology...if you go form Point A to point B in 60 minutes, and said points are 100 miles apart, then yes you had to have been driving at LEAST 100 mph, if not moreeee (due to traffic and lights).
How someone did something to know they did something wrong. A lawsuit has to be started so they can do things like subpeona the hard drive. Once they can get the hard drive, they can figure out the "how". This is common legal tactics, and frankly is required. WIthout things like a subpeona there is no legal mechanism to force someone to hand over their material (with some exception like the patriot act).
Not sure what college campus you were on, but the one I attended had showers being used everyday all day. Laundry rooms that had about 45 washers and 45 dryers (per building) and you still had to wait to do your laundry.
On average, most people shower 1/day if not more. I would shower twice/day (in the morning and in the evening after gym). There are very few who do not, or use clean clothes.
Your roomate is an exception.
I never said the toilet was clean enough to eat from, but it is far cleaner then you give credit to.
Also, after taking a shower, a person towels themselves off. Puts on underwear, and pants. The persons butt is not coming in contact with anything else during the day. So when it hits the toilet seat, it is clean.
Now if they said toilet bowl, that would be much different.
Going by that logic, many computer users do not use notepad, calculator and other various utilities. So what. The word "many" is ambiguous to say the least, and I am willing to bet the poster above my other post was implying somewhere in the area of majority.
And for all you know, maybe I do know all the computer users out there...or maybe I just know many of them.
But why should you be forced to pay for WMP?
Because it comes with the OS, and if I want the OS I gotta pay for all the added features. It's like buying buying a TV with a feature that lets you watch another show on a mini-screen...even if I do not ever use that feature, i still ahve to pay for it.
What do you mean by many computers are NEVER used for playing music? Everyone I know utilizes their computer for music...not the only reason, but they have it playing in the background. Windows Server edition includes that because the servers can be used for live -streaming and the WMP comes with that feature built in.
Hey, if the casual user is so desperately clingy to ignorance and apathy they DESERVE what they get.
I don't like this statement. It is blaming people for their lack of knowledge on a specific topic. Put it this way, take a doctor - a heart surgeon. Obviously, this person is intelligent enough to have gotten a degree in a highly specializes, sought after, and technical field. The doctor barely knows how to turn on the computer and check e-mail. I am not going to call him apathetic, and I am not going to expect him to learn and become anywhere NEAR a guru. He pays me to do that. He just wants it to work. it is like owning a car. My father is a retired auto-mechnic...he never expected his clients to know what was going on under the hood, he just expect them to show up so he could fix it, and come every 3k mile to get an oil change, etc.
It's bad enough we can't motivate anyone to care about rights and freedoms let alone free software
I can talk to many people about things like that. Some will understand, some won't. Some will care, others will not. Sometimes MS, MPAA, RIAA are correct and sometimes they are not. I am not a fanboy of MS, MPAA, or RIAA but I won't argue when they are correct. MS is wrong in this latest endeavor.
You know what happens when the majority don't evolve right? They get obsolete and a severe case of the EXTINCT.
Unfortunately, because they are the majority, they take us down with it.
Now really.. is this really an issue with 400gb drives?
Well first, not everyone has 400gb drives. In fact, most people have under 100gb. But to me it is more clutter. Things in my registry, loaded in memory, etc. This is resources...so yes, it is an issue. Besides I like my computer to be clean. If i don't use it, then I don't want it on my HD.
I agree here except I really don't like using WMP. At the *minimum* I expect it to secretly send playlists back to MS. It just wants to phone home *way* too much for my tastes
Block it from accessing the Internet. I do that. Firewalls are great.
There are many open source players. Some players will never have DRM. However, they may not play everything as well as WMP does. I use WMP as a fallback when for some unknown reason something plays badly. However there are a lot of things that WMP can't play at all- not even badly. OGG comes to mind tho maybe I'm missing a WMP codec for it since I always use VLC or Winamp for ogg.
Yea but they are not always compatible. When a company makes a program, they generally make it compatible with the most popular programs. So compatibility is not always there. Besides, it again goes to my first point - I do not want multiple media programs on my computer.
True- but when they see us doing "magic" things and they can't- it irritates them enough to find out. Another recent article said that less people are buying DRM'D MP3's off itunes.
You are lucky then. The people I know just want it to work, and don't care how. When they see the magic things, they just say "wow, you know so much. You know my 1 year old is acomputer hacker, little kids they know everything." In the meantime I am trying to get the baby food off the keyboard which was puked up by the one year old, who likes to smack the keys....in fact, likes to smack the table, the toys, and anything else since their motor reflexes are not that great.
I agree. They are good reasons to use OSS. But your average day user is not going to know what to do. This DRM nonsense is going to convenience the tech savvy people, but it will just run over everyone else...and everyone else is 95% of the world (random number off the top of my head, but you see my point).
This statement may have just cost you 2007s contribution from me
Dear Donater - take your 50 cents and go to hell
warming legislation had good components
Yup, and the legislater, which gets paid off by big oil/motor, really cares what will happen in 15 years when those 70 year old politicians are dead? In other news today, the polar ice caps ARE melting as you can now take a cruise directly to the North Poll...wait that must be more propeganda from the tree huggers right?
While we are talking lawsuit, what's the logical argument/premise going to be for filing the suit
Somwhere along the lines "Big motor could have actually made environmentally safer cars for many many years, but has not done so because big oil pads their pockets with a couple extra Benjamins."
Why not grab every last dollar you can by going after the drivers and the cities and states that build the roads and freeways, because without them, the automakers would not have a market, right?
Roads do not make polution. People who drive do so because they need to (i.e. get to work, vacation etc.). Motor companies could have taken the responsible way out and made enviornmentally safe cars many years ago...instead they drag their feet. While other countries are working hard for environmentally friendlier car, our country is dragging their feet.
but Lockyer, this is not the way to solve the problem by making the automotive companies the boogeymen
Actually it is. When big business can circumvent the laws through VERY VERY talented lawyers, by paying off politicians, etc we need to find another venue to make them cry. So we need to sue them, and sue them for so much money they just don't want to go on living. What's a million dollar fine to a multi-billion dollar industry? NOTHING. Whats hundreds of millions of dollars in fines to a multi-billion industry -SOMETHING. Especially when it would have been FAR FAR cheaper for them to produce the technology that would make cars more friendly to our environment.
The problem with your government system, and why the laws are not going to work, is that Big Business is > Big Government. To Big Business, a million dollar fine is just a slap on the wrist...it IS the "cost of doing business".
I hope they lose, I hope they lose so much they cry.
As for the attorney...someone has to do the lawsuit, and that attorney may spend a few years putting in hard work. Do I think he should get paid the equivelant of 5 million/year...no...do I think he should get paid a lot, yes. Apparantly, he is really good at what he does. Though they could have paid him up-front or on an hourly basis (most likely) - so if he wins $1 or $1 billion he gets paid an amount determined by his time.
Stop downloading pr0n and you won't have to worry about refreshing your hard drive every six months. I have been going on two years on my laptop without any issues. No viruses, no spyware. I do regular MS updates, update my virus protection program, my spam blocker, and play games and do work w/o any problems.
It isn't moot because I, like many, do not feel like
1) Having to install multiple music programs. It eats up hard drive space, and clutters my computer
2) I do not want to have to buy another music program, when I already paid for WMP
3) Because this leads the way for other companies to follow suit. I am willing to bet MS is getting a kick-back for this DRM "enhancement" by the various organizations. How long until the other media players follow suit?
4) Because most people, the common user who is not computer savvy, will fall into this trap. And come to think of it, most of the people are not computer savvy and just use what comes out of the box.
5) This will hinder MP3 sales. If I d/l a song from a various source it is NOT MS's business to know how many times I want to back it up. It is not MS's business to know what music I own. It is not MS's business to tell me how many times I can use my CD burner to make 1001 backups.
I have been using MS products since win95 (reluctantly then, but i have no issues with windows products other then it being bloatware/resource hog) - but this is over the top.
....Now offering tours to the North Pole. Direct sea voyage available. Book your tickets before winter comes, or wait 10 years when it won't matter what season it is.
In other news "Global Warming increases tourism. Governments now support global warming emissions, Oil companies and Motor Companies rejoice."
br. In future news "The polar ice cap is no longer polar, nor ice. Come enjoy the nice hot spa's at the tropical North Pole...because any place on Earth is a desert wasteland."
Well nice of you to pass judgement on radio DJs, because as well now know only club DJs "treat the playing and sequencing of music as an artform in and of itself". And honestly, the turntabalist community can look at whoever they like with scorn, being elitist does not make your correct.
I also did mention DJs in specific (as opposed to radio stations) when I said "Many DJs do not get rid of their stuff because it is EXPENSIVE to replace hundreds, if not thousands, of records with CDs.".
In the end, it is still fuzzy logic to say the reason vinyls are coming back and CDs are going out is because vinyls are physical. CDs are physical, and if you angle them at the correct light they are also pretty. And more importantly, you can back them up, copy them to your hard drive, and more.
Thank you captain obvious. Did I say it was a vinyl fad? Nope
but it still reigns supreme in the DJ universe
Yea not every place. I have interned at a couple of FM radio stations, and so did an ex of mine...They had ZERO vinyl records, or turn-tables in their studios. They all used a computer, with a hard drive smack full of music (and some media playing program) and a few CD players and racks of CDs. Even my college radio station has this setup, and they are not nearly as rich as a professional radio station. Many DJs do not get rid of their stuff because it is EXPENSIVE to replace hundreds, if not thousands, of records with CDs. It is much easier to push a button to get to track 10, then find it on a vinyl. Let me correct this: "CDs, which physical, have no intrinsic value beyond the data contained on them"
Vinyl, which physical, have no intrinsic value beyond the data contained on them
With the exception of collectors items
Vinyl, on the other hand, will always have a purpose if, for nothing else, the sheer nostalgia
Give it time. CDs are still a fairly new medium. When the new format, there will be people who will hold nostalgia to their CDs
As for knowing someone who is fanatical about CD format...i also don't know anyone who is fanatical about Vinyl format.
In the end, my OP is correct - the article uses fuzzy logic.
"it's very possible that the CD might become obsolete in an age of download music but the vinyl record will survive,". The article explains how indie kids are drawn to vinyl because "the tactile joy of owning a physical object that represents your attachment to a band is infinitely more enjoyable than entering a credit card number
So CD's might become obsolete in an age of downloaded music, but the vinyl record will survive because indie kids like the "tactile joy of owning a physical object"....CD's aren't physical?
CD's are also easier for indie labels to produce. Vinyl's are expensive to produce, and require specific hardware that is not as common as a cd burner, cd label maker, and cds.
Fuzzy logic for t3h win.
Because caps lock has uses. Let us say you need to type in all capital letters (acronym). Now you have to put a period between each letter. That is annoying. Let us say you want to capitalize a sentence, now you have to hold the shift key down. That is annoying. While I agree there are annoying people WHO ONLY LIKE TO TYPE IN CAPS and these people should be lobotomized, I enjoy my caps lock.
Also, if this is the best thing you can figure out to challenge in life then you need to get a life.
Yea, but all those solutions are based on waxy substances. My PS2, DVD player (x2), CD player, etc all get hot after a while. Won't that melt the waxy subtance, which will then get on the inside of your media player?
Yes, because nothing helps keep a customer more then poor customer service and a lack of people trained to keep the customers. Then again, I do remember their tactics "Oh stay, here let us give you 6 months free." Six months later "Oh stay, here let us give you 6 months free." Followed by someone saying "I noticed on january you accessed this much, and on February that much" - which really makes me you know happy.
AOL just has a rep, and not a great rep. Nobody wants their crappy interface anymore which is bloatware.
Ok if I was raid leader and the first thing my warlock did was CoA over CoS he would be told to fix his mistake. If he would argue, he would be raiding with another guild. CoA? Pfft. CoA ONLY comes out by the third+ warlock in the group...and depending on the mob, the third warlock might be doing CoT.
Dots are always the obvious. And if you think warlocks can't outdamage mages in AOE you are mistaken. I consistantly out damage my mages. Try Nefarian's minions before he lands...I am there with Rain of Fire. Actually, the guild likes to have us locks stand in the middle and do hellfire while priests bubble/heal us.
As a destro lock my character is consistantly doing searing pain (except very few bosses) and doing massive crits. Two nights ago, yea magmadar, three crits in a row for 1000+ with searing pain.
In PvP. It is CoA (unless you are partied with a mage, which my best friend is one, which then I do CoE), Corrupt, Immolate, Searing pain, Conflag, searing pain ---oops my target died. Fel puppy all the way. Fear only when I am 1vs1 or can find a good hiding spot.
When the Naxx world event was going on the most powerful combo would be to have a warrior ride around his horse...aggro 30+ mobs, and then the priest would stand in the middle aoeing them to death. It was beautiful. Only reason priests needed the rest of us was for the end boss.
To say Warlocks aren't designed for AE is wrong...the only time warlocks complain about their AE is in pvp cause it's channel based. In case you didn't know, warlocks have two different talents geared for AOE.
Warlocks have more mana then mages - lifetap, healthstone, lifetap, potion, lifetap, bandages, lifetap, etc.
Mages have better on the ranged attacks with their 41' attacks.
Frost mages don't do as much damage as lock aoe.
Nerf locks? Pfft, buff locks. After DC (which is the only complaint people have about locks) they got nothing in defense. DC being on 2 minute cooldown is not game breaking.
*nerf Shammies
Age of Empires is still one of my favorite games. Probably because I would go to a friends HS classroom (after school hours) with a bunch of friends and we would play maxed out games (I think 5 to a team, I forget the limits). It was a lot of fun as players would shout over to each other "No do this do this you n00b. Stupid morons" and someone else "Type it out!!! They can hear your plans when you shout!!!". It was a lot of fun with pizza, soda, and good friends.
No, not age of empires n00b, Area of Effect. This guy is clearly a mage or a warlock (maybe a priest or paladin). If a warlock, I wonder if he likes to use Rain of Fire or Hellfire.