True. But the grandparent (GigsVT) sounded to me like his problem wasn't in not being able to get a refund (which is a policy implementation problem), but in not being able to buy a machine without Windows in the first place (which is a policy existence problem).:)
This is unlike books or movies where books/movies for adults are seperate from the children's stuff. You would be hard pressed to find a place selling Playboy or Stephen King novels right beside colouring books.
Try your local mass market retailer, like Target or Wal-mart. I don't think you'll see a significant separation between Stephen King and the kids' books. At least, I don't in mine.)
$5 is possible, but I'm expecting $10. (Which, at least for the talkies, I don't think is insulting if they did a decent job setting up whatever compatibility mode or VM they're using.)
I have had to update my firmware at least once to get a disc to play (the first batch of Bond Blu-rays wouldn't actually play--the menu would work, but choosing Play just dumped me back to the menu as if the movie had finished).
I don't believe that it was a BD+ problem, or the menu would have never loaded (unless I misunderstand how BD+ works). It's even odds as to whether it was a bug in the player or a bug in the authoring software that they added a workaround for, though.
Why would there be such a huge price discrepancy? The private companies have several advantages that will cut their prices, most notably economy of scale and existing infrastructure.
If we're closing schools, the solution is to fund them properly from the appropriate source (those who use them) and not increase an already-high and completely-unrelated gas tax.
Blu-ray has a 2-3 year head start on marketplace penetration, and Apple hasn't even managed to match the most basic of features (video resolution & # of sound channels), much less matching video/sound quality or allowing any bonus features. Overtaking Blu-ray with downloads at this point will require divine intervention.
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It's from 6.0 to 6.1. And did you complain when you didn't get a free upgrade from 2000 (5.0) to XP (5.1)?
It should've taken at least one, to turn off the mirroring that's the default mode for some inane reason.
True. But the grandparent (GigsVT) sounded to me like his problem wasn't in not being able to get a refund (which is a policy implementation problem), but in not being able to buy a machine without Windows in the first place (which is a policy existence problem). :)
Yes, the hardware manufacturers should be able to choose what they do and don't sell. They should not be arms of the state.
Dell's much more likely to do that for a business like a college that buys many machines than for any individual customer.
If you don't like the manufacturers' policies, buy from someone else.
It's not fair to those of you who were stuck with Vista; I think it's there to prevent those of us who skipped it from getting a free ride.
This is unlike books or movies where books/movies for adults are seperate from the children's stuff. You would be hard pressed to find a place selling Playboy or Stephen King novels right beside colouring books.
Try your local mass market retailer, like Target or Wal-mart. I don't think you'll see a significant separation between Stephen King and the kids' books. At least, I don't in mine.)
You're thinking of the Secret of Monkey Island remake. These are unchanged.
$5 is possible, but I'm expecting $10. (Which, at least for the talkies, I don't think is insulting if they did a decent job setting up whatever compatibility mode or VM they're using.)
I have had to update my firmware at least once to get a disc to play (the first batch of Bond Blu-rays wouldn't actually play--the menu would work, but choosing Play just dumped me back to the menu as if the movie had finished).
I don't believe that it was a BD+ problem, or the menu would have never loaded (unless I misunderstand how BD+ works). It's even odds as to whether it was a bug in the player or a bug in the authoring software that they added a workaround for, though.
The moment you make an exception, it's no longer a principle.
Why would there be such a huge price discrepancy? The private companies have several advantages that will cut their prices, most notably economy of scale and existing infrastructure.
Apple only dropped the PowerPC Macs three years ago, so it's more like how a 2.4 GHz Pentium IV is still perfectly good for just about everything.
(For the first Blu-ray players, that is. Making 2000 the year of comparison for DVDs.)
2003? Try 2006.
I believe that they issue odd numbers first, followed by even numbers (or the other way around).
If other travelers were inconvenienced, they only have the TSA's unreasonable seizure and detention to blame, not the detainee.
XP would actually be NT 5.1. Windows 7, being about as much of an improvement on Vista as XP was on 2000, would properly be labeled NT 6.1.
Yup. It's also the hometown of Brannon Braga.
If we're closing schools, the solution is to fund them properly from the appropriate source (those who use them) and not increase an already-high and completely-unrelated gas tax.
Well, most of Disney. I think that Pixar's doing a pretty darn good job of keeping their spirit alive
Touché. (Though Apple has been more proactive about iPod updates than Apple TV so far.)
Blu-ray has a 2-3 year head start on marketplace penetration, and Apple hasn't even managed to match the most basic of features (video resolution & # of sound channels), much less matching video/sound quality or allowing any bonus features. Overtaking Blu-ray with downloads at this point will require divine intervention.
There have been some key revocations for software players, but I'm not aware of any for hardware ones.