It's not about the general features, all massive storage media players have these, it's about the small things.
A lot of companies try to improve a product by %100 by adding one new feature, but the iPod improves 100 of the existing features by %1.
This is what makes it so good, the small things, and so forth. Plus the simplistic design and so on. Buttons are annoying to use and hard on fingers, and more importantly hard to use in pockets. So, the add the click wheel where all you have to do is turn it a little bit to do whatever it will do.
It's the small things, the amount of effort put into perfecting these devices and the ease of use on the UI that makes them so great.
It's a good product, and on top of that, iPods are a recognizable name so they are consumers' first choice. Just like how the WalkMans were popular in the '80s, iPods have taken that place.
Doesn't anyone else think that free speech includes the right to offend others?
I bloody fucking do, as soon as we can't offend others then I'll be pissed off, mainly because offending others is what I do best.
It is very important to Microsoft that people who buy the console also buy the games, with mods, they can add third-party software inciting them not to buy the games.
Microsoft doesn't make any profit at all from people who don't buy games. It's bad business, they don't make a dime from selling the 360s themselves.
This is also my theory behind the shortage in so that only those who really want the 360 buy the 360, and those who really want the console also really want the games.
This was M$'s strategy all along, sheesh, takes you a while to figure out that they only profit off of the software. I think this is what they were doing for the PSP as well : maximizing profits.
Since well, they own the console you paid for, right? I'm tired of this corporate manipulation.
Many people think that Wikipedia is freely open for editing, this is not the case.
Wikipedia is meant to be a Encyclopedia in eternal progress of completion. Every entry needs to have the bias and unfactual points shaved out to a NPOV as well as adding additional factual support.
As Wikipedia exists on the web more and more it's catalogue of articles becomes increasingly more full and any POV or bias is shaved down slowly with an effective moderation team.
People think that wikipedia is free for editing and unreliable, however this is not the case.
Of course, no body could ever possibly write about something that interests them, right?
Oh no, of course not, such could never ever ever ever fucking happen, right? Hey, look, I'm writing something pertaining to videogames right now instead of doing a raid of WoW, I guess I'm not a real gamer.
Point made, I'm right your wrong, now shoo, carry your tail between your legs and waddle away.
My step-mom is one of those people as well. She plays puzzle games and solitaire all the time, this isn't just recently, I know that she's been playing solitaire games on her computer since like.. well.. ever
... the consumer can be to blame for buying the same old sequels over and over again.
For example, if people stopped buying the Madden series.. logically, the demand will dwindle as will the funds to make the game, and therefore they stop making the game.
So, if we encourage this sort've behaviour through purchasing these 'Madden' titles then we encourage lack of creativity since they really don't to make new and innovative titles if there is enough demand for the same old shit.
It's not like the early days of videogaming where essentially a small cliche of the population were videogamers and the developers had to try to make games that are neat and innovative, now people buy through franchise. Example, hrmm, I liked the last Halo/KOTOR/Madden, so I'll buy the next one, etc.
This is why innovative games today aren't as succesful and the sequel crap is.
So, yeah, it is mostly the consumers' fault for not being as explorative towards innovative titles and forcing such little competition to make the games industry un-innovative.
.. they aren't all that disgusting, I can't really imagine the ratio bacteria that really gets on one butt cheeks as opposed to their hands. The most of the disgusting bacteria would probably come from urine that gets caught on it.
Even that dries up and evaporates over time and doesn't happen on most toilet seats since either men put the seat up, or they're using the urinal.
Seriously? Not everyone can afford to have a flying car, irrelavant of how marvelous they may be.
Unless you're completely bankrupt everyone has a DVD player, and unless new DVD players are going to be backwards compatible with current gen DVD copies, I don't feel like going out and purchasing all my box-sets again. Face it, DVDs, for the most part, are here to stay for at least the next 10 - 15 years until everyone can afford to own a HD TV and an HD - DVD player.
This is marketing scum encouraging everyone to "BUY BUY BUY!".
..which is no surprise to anyone, was the broken scheduling.
People schedule when they want to watch something, with Fox however, during this period, it became sorta random for viewers. However many fans that it did have we turned off since it had become an impossibility to find when to watch it.
Many people say that wikis aren't good for general discussion. This isn't what wikis are about. These wikis are about getting a general idea of the discussion and have it filtered through into one fine print page that everyone has agreed on, or at least most people have agreed on.
It's about reaching a conclusion among his voters, which is very important in developing both support and an idea of what the people want.
.. yes, if people could one day track all their socks, where they came from or where the missing half of the pair is then someday it will revolutionize the way you and I live.
The government is currently rejecting any patents for such technology since it's so dangerous and detrimental to society. The want to cover up the gnome conspiracy, but no, we need to start a revolution and take back our socks.
This is the only real rebuttal that pro-copy protection people have. The indie community will be terribly hurt by any new laws that state that it's now legal to opy illegally.
Also, I think it would be better to abolish ones claim on intellectual property after a reason timespan, similar to how patents expire, with the exception that it's shorter. Like per se, 3 to 5 years.
This gives the creator some incentive to make a product, giving it an edge in the industry for a few years, and after that, when everyone's seen it and it's big boom is over, I think the bit of intellectual property should go to the community.
I think that this plan will work best with both sides. Demoting the greed that seems to lay on both sides.
Plus, is the developing world really hurting since they can't get a OEM copy of Windows? I think what's really hurting them is their seeming lack of food, fair trade policies, and a decent education.
I'm thinking here, what if prediction-hype like this is used as an alternative to those freaking focus-groups to test the waters on what a market for such a product would be like.
If you can get this to project on a level of transparency on tinted glasses, then they'll sell like hotcakes.
People wear glasses all the time, therefore, it won't look weird, and also, just like volume, you can adjust the transparency to decide how much of reality you want to let in.
It's funny, how 50 years of fighting the communists and their adapting their policy of censorship.
I think the US is reaching the breaking point where the government is no longer transparent.
As soon as it reads : "FCC censorship" on your monitor when you visit Rotten.com, that's when you know the communists really have won. Plus, "FCC" kinda sounds like "KGB"... amirite, or what?
I think this article itself proves the corporate stronghold on American Politics.
"greatest economic assets."
Such a statement is ill-worded. The world wide record industry, according to the RIAA site , is a mere 40 billion dollars. Now, this may seem grand, but on the scale of the entire United States GDP, it's only...
...subtract the one...
...carry the two...
...that's really only about 8.5% of the US economy, which totals at about 11 trillion.
If that's bad math, which I have a rousing suspicion that it is, then please be a good samaritan and fix it.
I would also consider it good samaritan-ship to be generous and share music, isn't that what they teach us to do in school? To share? It's not as if a bucaneer would ripping it directly off their site w/o permission, they'd really only be sharing music with their friends?
Is their really any difference between lending a CD to friend and sharing music via online?
Because they see a dip in their profits, doesn't really mean that they're losing money.
They're just making less. There's a difference.
This greed is pathetic. If you've ever felt a tinge of sympathy, or even empathy for these people you oughtta be ashamed. Who gives a damn, shut them up and tell them to stop bitching. If they decide to pull Britney Spears or My Chemical Romance off of iTunes, will anyone really shed a tear?
...C'mon people, we've all tried to publish a good ol' spoof article on wikipedia here and there. Unfortunately, none of them have made it through, so we've had to resort to several other sites where the Internet isn't such serious business.
Damn, if only I could've gotten that site past about me being the greatest man in the universe.
The media has no sense of humour, and that's a damned shame.
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It's not about the general features, all massive storage media players have these, it's about the small things.
A lot of companies try to improve a product by %100 by adding one new feature, but the iPod improves 100 of the existing features by %1.
This is what makes it so good, the small things, and so forth. Plus the simplistic design and so on. Buttons are annoying to use and hard on fingers, and more importantly hard to use in pockets. So, the add the click wheel where all you have to do is turn it a little bit to do whatever it will do.
It's the small things, the amount of effort put into perfecting these devices and the ease of use on the UI that makes them so great.
It's a good product, and on top of that, iPods are a recognizable name so they are consumers' first choice. Just like how the WalkMans were popular in the '80s, iPods have taken that place.
Doesn't anyone else think that free speech includes the right to offend others? I bloody fucking do, as soon as we can't offend others then I'll be pissed off, mainly because offending others is what I do best.
how many people and janitors might lose their job over this in the coming years.
It is very important to Microsoft that people who buy the console also buy the games, with mods, they can add third-party software inciting them not to buy the games.
Microsoft doesn't make any profit at all from people who don't buy games. It's bad business, they don't make a dime from selling the 360s themselves.
This is also my theory behind the shortage in so that only those who really want the 360 buy the 360, and those who really want the console also really want the games.
This was M$'s strategy all along, sheesh, takes you a while to figure out that they only profit off of the software. I think this is what they were doing for the PSP as well : maximizing profits.
Since well, they own the console you paid for, right? I'm tired of this corporate manipulation.
Many people think that Wikipedia is freely open for editing, this is not the case.
Wikipedia is meant to be a Encyclopedia in eternal progress of completion. Every entry needs to have the bias and unfactual points shaved out to a NPOV as well as adding additional factual support.
As Wikipedia exists on the web more and more it's catalogue of articles becomes increasingly more full and any POV or bias is shaved down slowly with an effective moderation team.
People think that wikipedia is free for editing and unreliable, however this is not the case.
Of course, no body could ever possibly write about something that interests them, right?
Oh no, of course not, such could never ever ever ever fucking happen, right?
Hey, look, I'm writing something pertaining to videogames right now instead of doing a raid of WoW, I guess I'm not a real gamer.
Point made, I'm right your wrong, now shoo, carry your tail between your legs and waddle away.
>:(
My step-mom is one of those people as well. She plays puzzle games and solitaire all the time, this isn't just recently, I know that she's been playing solitaire games on her computer since like.. well.. ever
.... when do we get to blow zombies' heads off from Hell?
Soon, rite?
>:D
... the consumer can be to blame for buying the same old sequels over and over again.
For example, if people stopped buying the Madden series.. logically, the demand will dwindle as will the funds to make the game, and therefore they stop making the game.
So, if we encourage this sort've behaviour through purchasing these 'Madden' titles then we encourage lack of creativity since they really don't to make new and innovative titles if there is enough demand for the same old shit.
It's not like the early days of videogaming where essentially a small cliche of the population were videogamers and the developers had to try to make games that are neat and innovative, now people buy through franchise. Example, hrmm, I liked the last Halo/KOTOR/Madden, so I'll buy the next one, etc.
This is why innovative games today aren't as succesful and the sequel crap is.
So, yeah, it is mostly the consumers' fault for not being as explorative towards innovative titles and forcing such little competition to make the games industry un-innovative.
.. they aren't all that disgusting, I can't really imagine the ratio bacteria that really gets on one butt cheeks as opposed to their hands. The most of the disgusting bacteria would probably come from urine that gets caught on it.
Even that dries up and evaporates over time and doesn't happen on most toilet seats since either men put the seat up, or they're using the urinal.
So, are toilet seats really that unclean?
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Seriously? Not everyone can afford to have a flying car, irrelavant of how marvelous they may be.
Unless you're completely bankrupt everyone has a DVD player, and unless new DVD players are going to be backwards compatible with current gen DVD copies, I don't feel like going out and purchasing all my box-sets again. Face it, DVDs, for the most part, are here to stay for at least the next 10 - 15 years until everyone can afford to own a HD TV and an HD - DVD player.
This is marketing scum encouraging everyone to "BUY BUY BUY!".
..how is he supposed to pay for this? Most people don't even earn this in a lifetime.
..which is no surprise to anyone, was the broken scheduling.
People schedule when they want to watch something, with Fox however, during this period, it became sorta random for viewers. However many fans that it did have we turned off since it had become an impossibility to find when to watch it.
Many people say that wikis aren't good for general discussion. This isn't what wikis are about. These wikis are about getting a general idea of the discussion and have it filtered through into one fine print page that everyone has agreed on, or at least most people have agreed on.
It's about reaching a conclusion among his voters, which is very important in developing both support and an idea of what the people want.
In this goal, he will be succesful.
Yeah, judging by his platform, I'm sure Maddox would vote for him as well.
He's running independently, right?
.. yes, if people could one day track all their socks, where they came from or where the missing half of the pair is then someday it will revolutionize the way you and I live.
The government is currently rejecting any patents for such technology since it's so dangerous and detrimental to society. The want to cover up the gnome conspiracy, but no, we need to start a revolution and take back our socks.
JOIN THE REVOLUTION TODAY!
I must say that consoles are doing nothing new.
Do you have business reports.. wikipedia articles or anything to back up this claim?
This is the only real rebuttal that pro-copy protection people have. The indie community will be terribly hurt by any new laws that state that it's now legal to opy illegally.
Also, I think it would be better to abolish ones claim on intellectual property after a reason timespan, similar to how patents expire, with the exception that it's shorter. Like per se, 3 to 5 years.
This gives the creator some incentive to make a product, giving it an edge in the industry for a few years, and after that, when everyone's seen it and it's big boom is over, I think the bit of intellectual property should go to the community.
I think that this plan will work best with both sides. Demoting the greed that seems to lay on both sides.
Plus, is the developing world really hurting since they can't get a OEM copy of Windows? I think what's really hurting them is their seeming lack of food, fair trade policies, and a decent education.
I'm thinking here, what if prediction-hype like this is used as an alternative to those freaking focus-groups to test the waters on what a market for such a product would be like.
well.. thoughts?
If you can get this to project on a level of transparency on tinted glasses, then they'll sell like hotcakes.
People wear glasses all the time, therefore, it won't look weird, and also, just like volume, you can adjust the transparency to decide how much of reality you want to let in.
Amirite, or whut?
It's funny, how 50 years of fighting the communists and their adapting their policy of censorship.
I think the US is reaching the breaking point where the government is no longer transparent.
As soon as it reads : "FCC censorship" on your monitor when you visit Rotten.com, that's when you know the communists really have won. Plus, "FCC" kinda sounds like "KGB"... amirite, or what?
I think this article itself proves the corporate stronghold on American Politics.
...subtract the one...
...carry the two...
...that's really only about 8.5% of the US economy, which totals at about 11 trillion.
"greatest economic assets."
Such a statement is ill-worded. The world wide record industry, according to the RIAA site , is a mere 40 billion dollars. Now, this may seem grand, but on the scale of the entire United States GDP, it's only...
If that's bad math, which I have a rousing suspicion that it is, then please be a good samaritan and fix it.
I would also consider it good samaritan-ship to be generous and share music, isn't that what they teach us to do in school? To share? It's not as if a bucaneer would ripping it directly off their site w/o permission, they'd really only be sharing music with their friends?
Is their really any difference between lending a CD to friend and sharing music via online?
Because they see a dip in their profits, doesn't really mean that they're losing money.
They're just making less. There's a difference.
This greed is pathetic. If you've ever felt a tinge of sympathy, or even empathy for these people you oughtta be ashamed. Who gives a damn, shut them up and tell them to stop bitching. If they decide to pull Britney Spears or My Chemical Romance off of iTunes, will anyone really shed a tear?
...C'mon people, we've all tried to publish a good ol' spoof article on wikipedia here and there. Unfortunately, none of them have made it through, so we've had to resort to several other sites where the Internet isn't such serious business.
Damn, if only I could've gotten that site past about me being the greatest man in the universe.
The media has no sense of humour, and that's a damned shame.