Another part of the problem is lack of support for game-related hardware. So many companies produce really awesome joysticks and other kinds of input devices that use USB (which Mac supports natively) but require special drivers that are not available for the Mac OS. I have on several occasions purchased something cool to try to use it on my Mac only to find that it has all the usefulness of a brick because there are no Mac drivers for it.
Logitech is really good at making awesome input devices. They are also miserable at writing drivers so Mac users can use them. This is extremely frustrating.
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Brilliant post.. would mod you up (Insightful) if I could.
I too wonder why certain interests (obsessions) are societally acceptible while others are not. Football = ok, Star Trek = FREAK!!!!! Oprah Winfrey = ok, computers = GEEK!!!!!
What makes liking football "better" than liking Star Trek?
I think the point is that RCA wants their product to be an iPod killer. So does every other manufacturer with a competing product. It's like when Adobe kept coming out with new versions of PageMaker in their attempt to make a "Quark killer." That's how I read it, anyway..
TRUE Apple fans don't "fret" about competition in the market because they--okay, we--know that Apple designs and produces the best. To an Apple fan, 98% of Apple's competition just proves that Apple is the best. The remaining 2% is what drives Apple to continue to innovate and develop even better products.
Apple fans, being mostly fanatical zealots (myself included), will buy Apple products regardless of what else is available to them.. so we don't pay much attention to RCA or HP or Rio or Sony....
Awesome post Kano. Yeah Marathon rocks utterly.. the writing in those games (well, maybe Infinity was a little 'out there') was spectacular, compelling and addictive. And by the way, Marathon absolutely rips on a G3 or G4.
Flamebait?? LOL. I'd sure love for someone to point out to me how a minor joke playing on two lines of dialogue from "Matrix Reloaded" is somehow flamebait.
Unless even making passing references to "Matrix Reloaded" is akin to saying "Yo' momma".
Roger that.. agree with all the above. Just because you don't like what's on the tube when you're out in public doesn't give you the right to adjust it in any way. Someone else in the room may be VERY interested in it.
If we were drilling in ANWR, we would not have to "overlook those little quirks" and would have a lot more power at the bargaining table with the Saudis. But it's more important to some people that we subsidize cultures like that in Saudi Arabia than make caribou have to step over oil pipes in their "pristine wilderness".
> Reminds me of the Furbisexual craze a few years back
There are some things I am so glad to be ignorant of. In my little world, "Furby" is a stuffed animal-thing that makes noises. I don't even want to think about what is implied by a word like "furbisexual".
> You can go to bed and wake up the next morning with several hundred mp3s on your machine all labeled correctly and ready for distribution.
You just assume that everyone who uses TimeTrax does so for the purpose of distributing music.
Let me ask you.. what is the point of this? Do you really think people get a CD and go, "ooh, I can rip all of these songs and UPLOAD them to thousands and thousands of people I don't even know! W00T!" No. The point of TimeTrax was so people can listen to what they want whenever they want on whatever they want.. PC, Linux box, MP3 player, sunglasses, what the hell ever. They're paying for the music by subscribing to XM.. by using TimeTrax it gives them more control over the music than the RIAA wants them to have, so ipso facto it must be a "crime"?
The electronics industry are more and more doing their damnest to limit and restrain the freedom of their customers to use their products however they want. By assuming every customer might actually use their brain and think of a new way to apply the product, they work on the assumption therefore that each customer is a potential criminal.
BRADLEY SMITH: FEC COULD EVENTUALLY REGULATE BLOGS? [10/13 03:17 PM]
Cam Edwards of NRANews.com reports in, after interviewing Bradley Smith, Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. Cam states:
"When I asked him if we're eventually looking at the FEC deciding what blogs run afoul of McCain/Feingold, he said that's the direction we're heading. Not just in determining what blogs might be in violation of McCain/Feingold, but determining what blogs would be able to claim a media exemption. Scary stuff."
Great. So the only way bloggers can keep their First Amendment rights is for a president to be elected who would tear up McCain-Feingold.
Somehow I suspect John Kerry won't go to the mattresses to prevent the FEC from regulating blogs. And George W. Bush already signed McCain-Feingold in the first place.
Muslims believe in Christ too. That doesn't make them Christian. They just think that, in addition to Jesus, there was another man who showed up on earth a few hundred years later and changed it all around again.
I believe in Jesus of Nazareth too, in fact. I just don't believe he was a miracle worker or any kind of anthropomorphized deity.
Sorry, but I can't find anything credible with that argument. I think the vast majority of people download for one of two reasons. They either already like the song and won't pay money for the single (or the CD it comes on), or they are trying out new music for the first time that they wouldn't hear otherwise.
Whenever I've downloaded new music, and found it worth listening to, I've *always* bought the CD. Maybe I'm in the minority, but online sharing of music in my experience always leads to more purchases, not fewer.
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There is a reason we have an Electoral College. If you don't know why it's there, may I suggest a little light reading.
Another part of the problem is lack of support for game-related hardware. So many companies produce really awesome joysticks and other kinds of input devices that use USB (which Mac supports natively) but require special drivers that are not available for the Mac OS. I have on several occasions purchased something cool to try to use it on my Mac only to find that it has all the usefulness of a brick because there are no Mac drivers for it.
Logitech is really good at making awesome input devices. They are also miserable at writing drivers so Mac users can use them. This is extremely frustrating.
I'm not complaining of high resolution images when there's a hot woman in one of them.
I thought it was "fhqwhgads".
Brilliant post .. would mod you up (Insightful) if I could.
I too wonder why certain interests (obsessions) are societally acceptible while others are not. Football = ok, Star Trek = FREAK!!!!! Oprah Winfrey = ok, computers = GEEK!!!!!
What makes liking football "better" than liking Star Trek?
Bet you thought you were kidding.
Is that where all the Apple Evangelists go?
I think the point is that RCA wants their product to be an iPod killer. So does every other manufacturer with a competing product. It's like when Adobe kept coming out with new versions of PageMaker in their attempt to make a "Quark killer." That's how I read it, anyway ..
TRUE Apple fans don't "fret" about competition in the market because they--okay, we--know that Apple designs and produces the best. To an Apple fan, 98% of Apple's competition just proves that Apple is the best. The remaining 2% is what drives Apple to continue to innovate and develop even better products.
Apple fans, being mostly fanatical zealots (myself included), will buy Apple products regardless of what else is available to them .. so we don't pay much attention to RCA or HP or Rio or Sony....
Uh, that actually bothers you? Like there aren't five hundred thousand varieties of BLACK earbuds currently on the market?
Awesome post Kano. Yeah Marathon rocks utterly .. the writing in those games (well, maybe Infinity was a little 'out there') was spectacular, compelling and addictive. And by the way, Marathon absolutely rips on a G3 or G4.
Flamebait?? LOL. I'd sure love for someone to point out to me how a minor joke playing on two lines of dialogue from "Matrix Reloaded" is somehow flamebait.
Unless even making passing references to "Matrix Reloaded" is akin to saying "Yo' momma".
MP3: "We all do only what we are meant to do."
RIAA: "Then you are meant for one thing. Deletion."
One could say the same about CNN.
Roger that .. agree with all the above. Just because you don't like what's on the tube when you're out in public doesn't give you the right to adjust it in any way. Someone else in the room may be VERY interested in it.
If we were drilling in ANWR, we would not have to "overlook those little quirks" and would have a lot more power at the bargaining table with the Saudis. But it's more important to some people that we subsidize cultures like that in Saudi Arabia than make caribou have to step over oil pipes in their "pristine wilderness".
That's why oil is so cheap now. It all makes sense! Thank you for clearing that up for us.
Actually it sounds like your daughter is growing up to be a fine accountant. Give her 15 years and you'll be going to her for financial advice.
> Reminds me of the Furbisexual craze a few years back
There are some things I am so glad to be ignorant of. In my little world, "Furby" is a stuffed animal-thing that makes noises. I don't even want to think about what is implied by a word like "furbisexual".
> Every potential for abuse by a government will be realized eventually. So the potential must not be allowed to exist.
Substitute "customer" for "government" and you've just described the mindset of the RIAA and Microsoft.
Sorry, offtopic, I know.
PIRATE! THEIF! Turn yourself in now before the $INDUSTRY_NAME sues you.
> You can go to bed and wake up the next morning with several hundred mp3s on your machine all labeled correctly and ready for distribution.
You just assume that everyone who uses TimeTrax does so for the purpose of distributing music.
Let me ask you .. what is the point of this? Do you really think people get a CD and go, "ooh, I can rip all of these songs and UPLOAD them to thousands and thousands of people I don't even know! W00T!" No. The point of TimeTrax was so people can listen to what they want whenever they want on whatever they want .. PC, Linux box, MP3 player, sunglasses, what the hell ever. They're paying for the music by subscribing to XM .. by using TimeTrax it gives them more control over the music than the RIAA wants them to have, so ipso facto it must be a "crime"?
The electronics industry are more and more doing their damnest to limit and restrain the freedom of their customers to use their products however they want. By assuming every customer might actually use their brain and think of a new way to apply the product, they work on the assumption therefore that each customer is a potential criminal.
From The Kerry Spot:
BRADLEY SMITH: FEC COULD EVENTUALLY REGULATE BLOGS? [10/13 03:17 PM]
Cam Edwards of NRANews.com reports in, after interviewing Bradley Smith, Chairman of the Federal Election Commission. Cam states:
"When I asked him if we're eventually looking at the FEC deciding what blogs run afoul of McCain/Feingold, he said that's the direction we're heading. Not just in determining what blogs might be in violation of McCain/Feingold, but determining what blogs would be able to claim a media exemption. Scary stuff."
Great. So the only way bloggers can keep their First Amendment rights is for a president to be elected who would tear up McCain-Feingold.
Somehow I suspect John Kerry won't go to the mattresses to prevent the FEC from regulating blogs. And George W. Bush already signed McCain-Feingold in the first place.
Muslims believe in Christ too. That doesn't make them Christian. They just think that, in addition to Jesus, there was another man who showed up on earth a few hundred years later and changed it all around again.
I believe in Jesus of Nazareth too, in fact. I just don't believe he was a miracle worker or any kind of anthropomorphized deity.
Sorry, but I can't find anything credible with that argument. I think the vast majority of people download for one of two reasons. They either already like the song and won't pay money for the single (or the CD it comes on), or they are trying out new music for the first time that they wouldn't hear otherwise.
Whenever I've downloaded new music, and found it worth listening to, I've *always* bought the CD. Maybe I'm in the minority, but online sharing of music in my experience always leads to more purchases, not fewer.
Harvard University will back me up on this.