Also, here in the UK, they seem to have started 'turning the volume up' on adverts to really grab your attention. That, the way they treat you as mindless consumers and the whole bullshit science of 'health food' and 'beauty' products make me really appreciate my DVR.
They do that here in the US too. I have yet to figure out what they are thinking? Do they honestly believe we'll pay more attention just because it's louder? All it means is that I either hit the mute button (if I'm watching live) or fast-forward on something I've recorded.
Personally I rate DVR right up there with sliced bread. I can't imagine a world without it anymore. I rarely watch anything live anymore. The morning news is about it.
Most of the stability problems with the 360 are due to rushing it out a year ahead of Sony and Nintendo.. The 360 has a massively higher failure rate than either of the other competing consoles. Sony and Nintendo waited longer, and had better quality control / testing procedures in place to ensure their consoles were fit for market from the get go.
So as with Vista, Microsoft used consumers as their beta testers for the 360.
Stuff like this really makes me with that more companies took the Blizzard "It's ready when it's ready" approach. I'd rather wait longer for a decent product than have the crappy one now.
Agreed. Can't say enough good things about this program. I work at a K-6 school. We switched to Tux Paint as a cheap alternative to buying a new version of Kid Pix and both the students and staff love it.
The real issue weapons on planes...
Think about it. If they allowed people to yammer away (loudly) on their cells on airplanes (where we can't get away from them) the FAA/TSA would have to let us take our guns on the plane to shut them up!
I thought we needed to carry guns on planes to defend ourselves from the snakes.
Now, the first and second Harry Potters were shockingly faithful to the books (although they've diverged as they get further and further along).
Actually I think (IMHO) what happened after the first 2 is that the books themselves began to grow exponentially and there was much more editing of the story to just keep the "key" story plot points.
Yes, because I'm eager to have the idiot who forgot to fill up on the way to work crash landing on my roof. Have you seen the car accident statics lately? People have a hard time driving in snow, let alone dealing with the concept of up and down.
Now if we're just talking hover cars so that roads and bridges aren't an issue, then I'm all for it. Think of the savings in transportation budgets. But nothing higher than what a standard tire would get you.
I'm glad to see that Detroit is serious about creating a replacement for the gasoline engine.
That last statement brought to you by, Sarcasm.
Seriously, WTF? What good is a car that can go 65-100 miles at 25mph? Don't we have these already? Isn't anyone working on a car that can do 500 miles on a charge at 100mph? Or one that will work effectively in the cold of winter?
Agreed. Or at the very least a small "home" version. Imagine the savings in infrastructure costs when you don't need to put in or maintain power lines. You don't need to build huge regional power plants.
I know I'd be in line for one. I live in a part of the US where it's below freezing for at least 3-4 months each winter and usually has a month of 90+ degree weather in the summer. I have electric heat and AC. So I spend a lot of money on electricity.
Plus once you get to that point hopefully electric cars will have become more main stream.
They obviously have never seen our cats. Stress reducers? I don't think so.
I'm right there with you. I think I've cleaned up barf 3 times this week and it's only Tuesday morning. Although I suppose in their defense, I do have 4 of them. And in my defense, the last 3 I took in were rescues.
From TFA: "The software automatically plays the song files in the background (sans volume) and re-records them as MP3 files so they can be transferred to any device.
Does that mean it needs to convert these files in real-time? If so, this is a useless program as it would take weeks of constant running to convert my iTunes purchases.
That might be so if Google where just a search engine, returning cold results based on hard inputs. But that's not what Google is. Google is not some cold search utility, Google is a content provider that makes money on returning the kind of results their customers are looking for, just like any other Web content provider.
Not exactly true. Sure they have sponsored links, but other than that it is a cold search engine (and honestly who ever clicks on the sponsored links?). But returning the results their customers are looking for is the goal of any search engine.
And in either case, content filtering isn't Google's job. That job belongs to the kid's parents. Content shouldn't be filtered for the masses just because parents can't be bother to pay attention to what their kid is doing.
Why do we need organized religions in the first place?
To think that you know what that higher power wants and to try to convince others that you are right about what "God" wants, is just plain arrogant.
If you want to believe in a higher power, fine. That's your right. But respect my right to not believe in a higher power. Freedom of religion also mean freedom from religion.
Really? The first flat-screen iMac made this list? We have about 70 of them here at school and I think we've had to have the logic boards replaced in a half-dozen of them and hard drives in 3 or 4 of them.
Now I'll admit, out of 70 that isn't too bad, but I think it's enough to disqualify it from the list of toughest products ever made.
Strange, because the last time I was in a record store (a few years ago, honestly) the price tag was only about 14 bucks.
Let's see the math on this.....
They say a CD is worth $1,500,000 and you can get it for $14. (First of all you are apparently getting one hell of a deal at the store)
So they are assuming that you are going to make/distribute 107,142.86 copies of that CD? Is that really the math they are trying to use to justify this? Or are they assuming you will make/distribute 100,000 copies at an average price of $15 per CD?
Either way is ridiculous. Maybe their CD sales wouldn't be falling if they would sign some decent music talent. Stop making CDs of crappy American Idol winners and actually have some standards for the music.
Oh and how about some realistic pricing. I could see paying over $10 for a CD back in the day when CDs actually cost more than 5 cents. But these days I can get CDs for pennies. And digital downloads don't even have that expense. You should be paying based on the amount of data you are downloading, not a "per song" fee.
Imagine if you could use these to get a front row view from the back row. Then why would anyone pay 10 times as much for a front row seat? Sports arenas and concert halls would feel the biggest hit from this.
Of course, the places I'd expect a zoom feature to be used the most are the beach and the nudie bar.
First of all, I agree with you completely. Personally I don't understand where Apple thinks there is a market for this thing. Unless they really are working on an iMac style docking station for this thing:
That's okay I misread the title as "Coming Soon - Cyborg Farms"
In my defense, I did just watch the first 2 episodes of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and the last episode of "Stargate Atlantis" last night.
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HA! I always love it when the first post is rated -1 Redundant. It's like a paradox.
They do that here in the US too. I have yet to figure out what they are thinking? Do they honestly believe we'll pay more attention just because it's louder? All it means is that I either hit the mute button (if I'm watching live) or fast-forward on something I've recorded.
Personally I rate DVR right up there with sliced bread. I can't imagine a world without it anymore. I rarely watch anything live anymore. The morning news is about it.
So as with Vista, Microsoft used consumers as their beta testers for the 360.
Stuff like this really makes me with that more companies took the Blizzard "It's ready when it's ready" approach. I'd rather wait longer for a decent product than have the crappy one now.
Just don't comment your code at all. That's the best prank you can pull on someone who has to deal with it after you.
:)
Plus after six months of not looking at it, you can enjoy the pleasure of trying to figure out what does what all over again.
Agreed. Can't say enough good things about this program. I work at a K-6 school. We switched to Tux Paint as a cheap alternative to buying a new version of Kid Pix and both the students and staff love it.
Are you trying to imply that our military is made of up "jarheads"?
I thought we needed to carry guns on planes to defend ourselves from the snakes.
Actually I think (IMHO) what happened after the first 2 is that the books themselves began to grow exponentially and there was much more editing of the story to just keep the "key" story plot points.
Yes, because I'm eager to have the idiot who forgot to fill up on the way to work crash landing on my roof. Have you seen the car accident statics lately? People have a hard time driving in snow, let alone dealing with the concept of up and down.
Now if we're just talking hover cars so that roads and bridges aren't an issue, then I'm all for it. Think of the savings in transportation budgets. But nothing higher than what a standard tire would get you.
And how about a Mr. Fusion to power it?
I'm glad to see that Detroit is serious about creating a replacement for the gasoline engine.
That last statement brought to you by, Sarcasm.
Seriously, WTF? What good is a car that can go 65-100 miles at 25mph? Don't we have these already? Isn't anyone working on a car that can do 500 miles on a charge at 100mph? Or one that will work effectively in the cold of winter?
Damn it, now I'm gonna be pissed off all day.
Agreed. Or at the very least a small "home" version. Imagine the savings in infrastructure costs when you don't need to put in or maintain power lines. You don't need to build huge regional power plants.
I know I'd be in line for one. I live in a part of the US where it's below freezing for at least 3-4 months each winter and usually has a month of 90+ degree weather in the summer. I have electric heat and AC. So I spend a lot of money on electricity.
Plus once you get to that point hopefully electric cars will have become more main stream.
I for one look forward to our nuclear future.
I'm right there with you. I think I've cleaned up barf 3 times this week and it's only Tuesday morning. Although I suppose in their defense, I do have 4 of them. And in my defense, the last 3 I took in were rescues.
Does that mean it needs to convert these files in real-time? If so, this is a useless program as it would take weeks of constant running to convert my iTunes purchases.
Not exactly true. Sure they have sponsored links, but other than that it is a cold search engine (and honestly who ever clicks on the sponsored links?). But returning the results their customers are looking for is the goal of any search engine.
And in either case, content filtering isn't Google's job. That job belongs to the kid's parents. Content shouldn't be filtered for the masses just because parents can't be bother to pay attention to what their kid is doing.
Why do we need organized religions in the first place?
To think that you know what that higher power wants and to try to convince others that you are right about what "God" wants, is just plain arrogant.
If you want to believe in a higher power, fine. That's your right. But respect my right to not believe in a higher power. Freedom of religion also mean freedom from religion.
Nah. Still funny.
Really? The first flat-screen iMac made this list? We have about 70 of them here at school and I think we've had to have the logic boards replaced in a half-dozen of them and hard drives in 3 or 4 of them.
Now I'll admit, out of 70 that isn't too bad, but I think it's enough to disqualify it from the list of toughest products ever made.
Montezuma's Revenge and Moon Patrol
Let's see the math on this.....
They say a CD is worth $1,500,000 and you can get it for $14. (First of all you are apparently getting one hell of a deal at the store)
So they are assuming that you are going to make/distribute 107,142.86 copies of that CD? Is that really the math they are trying to use to justify this? Or are they assuming you will make/distribute 100,000 copies at an average price of $15 per CD?
Either way is ridiculous. Maybe their CD sales wouldn't be falling if they would sign some decent music talent. Stop making CDs of crappy American Idol winners and actually have some standards for the music.
Oh and how about some realistic pricing. I could see paying over $10 for a CD back in the day when CDs actually cost more than 5 cents. But these days I can get CDs for pennies. And digital downloads don't even have that expense. You should be paying based on the amount of data you are downloading, not a "per song" fee.
that the pretentiousness isn't limited to just the members of U2.
U2 is the MOST OVERRATED band EVER!
Imagine if you could use these to get a front row view from the back row. Then why would anyone pay 10 times as much for a front row seat? Sports arenas and concert halls would feel the biggest hit from this.
Of course, the places I'd expect a zoom feature to be used the most are the beach and the nudie bar.
True. Although I think the point of the OP was that there was no built-in way to view movies using just the MacBook Air, except via iTunes.
First of all, I agree with you completely. Personally I don't understand where Apple thinks there is a market for this thing. Unless they really are working on an iMac style docking station for this thing:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/03/apple-creating-imac-like-docking-station/
And how would you rip them from your own DVDs if it doesn't have an optical drive?
That's okay I misread the title as "Coming Soon - Cyborg Farms"
In my defense, I did just watch the first 2 episodes of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" and the last episode of "Stargate Atlantis" last night.