Easy answer - you don't. There you go. Nobody has to buy anything from iTMS.
However, if you missed this week's episode and don't know anyone who taped/Tivod it, or maybe you've been wondering about the show and just want to watch the pilot to see if you want to watch the rest... Well, then maybe you'd want to download it this way.
Honestly, if you do watch these shows every week, why would you then go and download them from iTunes? I don't think that's what it's meant for.
You pay to see a movie in the theater, and yet they squeeze commercials in there, too. (Man I HATE those. I like previews, HATE movie theater commercials.)
As an MIT person, I can honestly say I have no idea why anyone would include a course number in their submission and expect it to make any sense to anyone else. But then, people often include random acronyms or other jargon in their submissions that require explanation in the comments - so I don't think it's an MIT-only problem. Just in general,/.ers who either think "Oh, this is common knowledge!" when it's not, or "Hey, I'll show how extra-special I am by using terminology nobody else knows!"
I haven't downloaded 6 yet, but there are ads for Lost and Desperate Housewives on the front page of the store. Unfortunately, it seems like you can't really get to the main TV index (if it exists) from these...
Well, see, there's this mode on the iPod where you don't have to look at it, you can just listen to it. It's called "music." It's as safe to use in the car as listening to the radio, especially if you just let it play and don't fiddle with song selection.
Seriously, how could Apple make it safer to watch video while driving? It's NOT SAFE TO WATCH VIDEO WHILE DRIVING, and if people are too stupid to realize that then there's not much Apple can do about it. I suppose they could make video not work while the car is running, but what if the person in the passenger or back seat is the one watching? What should/can Apple do to ensure the safety of the stupidest 1% of their user base?
From there, the sky's the limit, because you own purchased video forever. Watch as many times as you choose, share between five computers, burn to data CDs or sync to the new iPod.
Sounds like it's exactly like the DRM for music, except you can't burn actual DVDs. Until someone posts the workaround next week.
Well, that seems to be why they're switching to Intel - the nonexistence of G5 PowerBooks, etc etc.
To be fair, they did update the iMac, adding in iSight, a remote, and new software - but for some reason, the person who submitted this story ignored everything released today except the video iPod.
No kidding. I don't even pay for cable, no way am I shelling out for a Tivo + subscription. But $2 an episode? I might drop that here and there. I like TV more than my husband, so we don't watch it much/at all when he's home (prime time) - now if I have some time during the day I can check out new shows I don't have a chance to watch in the evenings.
I'm wondering what their full-season pricing will be (you know it's coming, like album pricing). How much cheaper than the DVD?
There are already portable DVD players. In fact, you can even get DVD players installed right in your car. Wasn't there a guy charged with manslaughter b/c he'd illegally installed his DVD player in the front seat so he could watch it while driving, and killed someone?
Um, iTunes has been playing videos for a long time now. A year? At least? If not more. They've even had a "music videos" section of the store, with (free) videos to download.
Will the influx of new Ipods bring the price of the current models to levels where I may decide to buy one?
You obviously don't buy Apple products much. They almost never reduce the price on existing models - they just upgrade what you can get at each price point. So the nano isn't likely to cost under $199 anytime soon (or ever), but a year from now you'll be able to get twice the space for that price.
If you want a cheaper iPod, try ebay, or refurbished models in Apple's store.
Thus you must never have had any desire to do any console online gaming, correct?
Um, not really. MarioKart might be fun online. If, y'know, all my friends who don't live near me had the same system as me. Which isn't all that likely. Some of my friends have a console of one type or another, some play PC games, some don't play video games really at all.
Sorry, but not having to get my friends together in one place to avoid playing against a horrid CPU is REVOLUTIONary.
Yeah, god forbid you should have to be social.
Do you really, honestly think that moms (the point of this thread) give a rat's ass whether they can play online? Most moms I know are so desperate for non-work-related adult contact that they'd *much* rather have people come over to play.
I'm not a mom (yet - might be by the time xbox 4 rolls around, never know). But as a 20-something woman who plays video games a decent amount (not constantly, but a couple times a week), I have never had any desire to own an X-box. Nintendo has done a great job of giving me exactly the kind of games I want, from Mario to Zelda to Nintendogs. Is the 360 going to have those kinds of games? And there's no way in hell I'd ever spend over $300 on a console. Heck, I don't even spend over $100 on consoles. (Which means, yes, I'll have to wait for a Revolution a bit.)
*My* mom freaks out when she plays video games - she's the type who yelps every time she gets near a bad guy, and swings the controller around in her attempts. There's only one console maker who seems to be trying to cater to her, and it's not XBox!
Which "new" technology (they're all new to someone who hasn't used any of them) do you think is more approachable for the average non-gamer:
1) Remote control-type device that you hold in your hand. When you want something to move, you move it. When you want to shoot at (or in some other way affect) an object, you point at it and hit a button.
2) Strangely-shaped (though somewhat nice ergonomically) device with what looks like several ways to move your character; you have to figure out which to use for what, and get used to the thumb movements. When you want to do anything, you have to remember specific combinations of the many buttons.
I can totally see how the Revolution could be more approachable. I'm not entirely sure yet that I'd rather use it for traditional types of games (which for me means Mario and Zelda), but I'm definitely ready to give it a shot.
This is a great point. I don't play photorealistic games, for the most part - see my sig, I'm a Mario and Zelda girl. But even when you're going for brightly-colored cartoons in the graphics, realistic sounds can make the experience much more immersive.
Except that Apple doesn't usually discount the older models - it just drops them completely and puts an upgrade at the same price point. So chances are, people wouldn't be paying less for the 1.42 model anyhow.
I used this analogy somewhere else, but I'll give it to you too. Does that mean that if a friend and I buy a Pepsi, and his has a free iTunes song in it and mine doesn't, that I didn't get what I paid for? I've still got my Pepsi, as advertised. I just didn't win the extra.
Just like I complained when the bottle of Pepsi I bought didn't contain a winning iTunes code. Who cares that I got the Pepsi I paid for? I wanted the free stuff, damn it!
So someone who is looking at a Mac-mini and some eMachine or something like that, the small difference in performance that the faster processor has might make a difference, and it could get them in trouble.
Except that the whole point is that the box is labelled with the slower processor speed. So if the Mini is comparing favorably to an eMachine on speed, then the person will still be getting the faster of the two machines - but they might get an even faster machine than they expected. What are they going to say - "Hey, I wanted one just a little faster, this one is too fast?"
Eh, you can always say that. You know the next upgrade isn't more than a few months away at any point (uh, unless it's a PowerBook), so you can always wait for the next big thing at the same price point... But if you need a computer NOW, that doesn't help you much, does it? At least this time, there's a chance you'll get the upgrade without waiting.
Copy/paste with the mouse (middle button) is handly
I agree - but you could always get a mouse with programmable buttons. Mine has a normal right and left mouse button, plus a button that goes back in the web browser and when I click the scroll wheel it goes forward in the browser - but I could program those two to do com-C and com-V if I wanted.
I agree on the desktops, though... I have never understood why Apple didn't just build them into the OS. Yes, they might confuse newbies, but just make it turned off by default.
You've already had plenty of explanations of the close-but-not-quit thing, but I just wanted to say why I *love* this feature. If I have an application that is slow to startup (like, say NeoOffice/J, or anything that requires firing up Classic mode), if I close my last window and leave the app running the background I don't have that startup wait when I want to open another document. I HATE it in Windows, when I close a Word document, and then five minutes later when I open another one I have to sit though Word firing up again.
But nobody's forcing me to leave things running. If I don't want to do that, I can Command-Q or quit from the menu. If I decide later that I've got too much open, I can quit from the dock.
So, basically - you have more choice here than you do in Windows. If you want to quit every time you close the last document, you can do it - either with keyboard or mouse. If you don't want to, you don't have to.
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However, if you missed this week's episode and don't know anyone who taped/Tivod it, or maybe you've been wondering about the show and just want to watch the pilot to see if you want to watch the rest... Well, then maybe you'd want to download it this way.
Honestly, if you do watch these shows every week, why would you then go and download them from iTunes? I don't think that's what it's meant for.
You mean, in the ten minutes between the announcement of the video iPods and the announcement of the TV shows on iTMS? :^P
You pay to see a movie in the theater, and yet they squeeze commercials in there, too. (Man I HATE those. I like previews, HATE movie theater commercials.)
I actually meant burning the stuff you buy on iTMS to a DVD - but that's useful, too. :)
But the CDs are shinier. They make excellent wallpaper.
As an MIT person, I can honestly say I have no idea why anyone would include a course number in their submission and expect it to make any sense to anyone else. But then, people often include random acronyms or other jargon in their submissions that require explanation in the comments - so I don't think it's an MIT-only problem. Just in general, /.ers who either think "Oh, this is common knowledge!" when it's not, or "Hey, I'll show how extra-special I am by using terminology nobody else knows!"
I haven't downloaded 6 yet, but there are ads for Lost and Desperate Housewives on the front page of the store. Unfortunately, it seems like you can't really get to the main TV index (if it exists) from these...
Seriously, how could Apple make it safer to watch video while driving? It's NOT SAFE TO WATCH VIDEO WHILE DRIVING, and if people are too stupid to realize that then there's not much Apple can do about it. I suppose they could make video not work while the car is running, but what if the person in the passenger or back seat is the one watching? What should/can Apple do to ensure the safety of the stupidest 1% of their user base?
From there, the sky's the limit, because you own purchased video forever. Watch as many times as you choose, share between five computers, burn to data CDs or sync to the new iPod.
Sounds like it's exactly like the DRM for music, except you can't burn actual DVDs. Until someone posts the workaround next week.
To be fair, they did update the iMac, adding in iSight, a remote, and new software - but for some reason, the person who submitted this story ignored everything released today except the video iPod.
I'm wondering what their full-season pricing will be (you know it's coming, like album pricing). How much cheaper than the DVD?
Apple.com is touting 150 hours of video, I dunno where 3 hours comes from.
This is a problem, but it's not Apple's problem.
Um, iTunes has been playing videos for a long time now. A year? At least? If not more. They've even had a "music videos" section of the store, with (free) videos to download.
You obviously don't buy Apple products much. They almost never reduce the price on existing models - they just upgrade what you can get at each price point. So the nano isn't likely to cost under $199 anytime soon (or ever), but a year from now you'll be able to get twice the space for that price.
If you want a cheaper iPod, try ebay, or refurbished models in Apple's store.
Um, not really. MarioKart might be fun online. If, y'know, all my friends who don't live near me had the same system as me. Which isn't all that likely. Some of my friends have a console of one type or another, some play PC games, some don't play video games really at all.
Sorry, but not having to get my friends together in one place to avoid playing against a horrid CPU is REVOLUTIONary.
Yeah, god forbid you should have to be social.
Do you really, honestly think that moms (the point of this thread) give a rat's ass whether they can play online? Most moms I know are so desperate for non-work-related adult contact that they'd *much* rather have people come over to play.
*My* mom freaks out when she plays video games - she's the type who yelps every time she gets near a bad guy, and swings the controller around in her attempts. There's only one console maker who seems to be trying to cater to her, and it's not XBox!
1) Remote control-type device that you hold in your hand. When you want something to move, you move it. When you want to shoot at (or in some other way affect) an object, you point at it and hit a button.
2) Strangely-shaped (though somewhat nice ergonomically) device with what looks like several ways to move your character; you have to figure out which to use for what, and get used to the thumb movements. When you want to do anything, you have to remember specific combinations of the many buttons.
I can totally see how the Revolution could be more approachable. I'm not entirely sure yet that I'd rather use it for traditional types of games (which for me means Mario and Zelda), but I'm definitely ready to give it a shot.
This is a great point. I don't play photorealistic games, for the most part - see my sig, I'm a Mario and Zelda girl. But even when you're going for brightly-colored cartoons in the graphics, realistic sounds can make the experience much more immersive.
I used this analogy somewhere else, but I'll give it to you too. Does that mean that if a friend and I buy a Pepsi, and his has a free iTunes song in it and mine doesn't, that I didn't get what I paid for? I've still got my Pepsi, as advertised. I just didn't win the extra.
Just like I complained when the bottle of Pepsi I bought didn't contain a winning iTunes code. Who cares that I got the Pepsi I paid for? I wanted the free stuff, damn it!
Except that the whole point is that the box is labelled with the slower processor speed. So if the Mini is comparing favorably to an eMachine on speed, then the person will still be getting the faster of the two machines - but they might get an even faster machine than they expected. What are they going to say - "Hey, I wanted one just a little faster, this one is too fast?"
Eh, you can always say that. You know the next upgrade isn't more than a few months away at any point (uh, unless it's a PowerBook), so you can always wait for the next big thing at the same price point... But if you need a computer NOW, that doesn't help you much, does it? At least this time, there's a chance you'll get the upgrade without waiting.
I agree - but you could always get a mouse with programmable buttons. Mine has a normal right and left mouse button, plus a button that goes back in the web browser and when I click the scroll wheel it goes forward in the browser - but I could program those two to do com-C and com-V if I wanted.
I agree on the desktops, though... I have never understood why Apple didn't just build them into the OS. Yes, they might confuse newbies, but just make it turned off by default.
But nobody's forcing me to leave things running. If I don't want to do that, I can Command-Q or quit from the menu. If I decide later that I've got too much open, I can quit from the dock.
So, basically - you have more choice here than you do in Windows. If you want to quit every time you close the last document, you can do it - either with keyboard or mouse. If you don't want to, you don't have to.