Those features were added by and dependent on XBL. Netflix, copy to HD were not present on the shipped unit. You may not think it's fair that they tie those features to XBL, but the did and you agreed to it before they were installed.
They're features that were only enabled by being on XBL. The features I hear people complaining about (like copy to HD) were added by MS through XBL. If you'd never taken it online and signed up for an account, they wouldn't be there. You'd want to check the TOS agreement you clicked through to get those features installed.
You can probably white wash a roof without impacting it's function and have it stay white. If you've seen concrete roads that haven't been blacktopped, they soon start to turn black on their own.
"Speed cameras don't have that problem. The existence of speed cameras don't encourage cities to screw around with well established civil engineering practices just to make a buck."
Sure they do. Anything with a profit potential creates the potential for abuse. We just got speed cameras where I live and the speed limits change arbitrarily in the sections of road where they are placed. My real beef with them is that the speed is not posted at or even near the camera.
Anyway, they only catch out of towners now anyway. Traffic is moving along and suddenly it drops *below* the speed limit until we crawl thru the camera section and then everyone zooms off again. Hard to say if it's just my persepective, but it seems like people are driving faster to make up for time lost in the camera sections.
You're kidding, right? Only a mac user, who is being stroked for spending too much money, could like those ads. We mute the commerical (if we're stuck watching live TV) and talk about how smug apple is about being in last place.
It isn't a business device, but then I don't really think that's what it was designed to do in the first place. The iPhone doesn't play well with corporate data. POP e-mail isn't even available as a pull service from some companies and there is nothing to sync calendar data. All these business articles are trying to pit Apple vs RIM, where I see them as very nice manufacturers that are in different markets. Currently...
Datatel doesn't need admin rights, it just needs rights to a couple of INI files in the Windows directory (at least at our site). A little bit of time with regmon and filemon have gotten us around all the apps that 'need' admin privlidges.
I know you're trying to be snarky, but most.Net applications are in house affairs. That means they control the browser and the O/S that will be used. This is another tool for.Net developers to use to create "rich" interfaces to their programs without having to recreate all their code or write interface layers to use Flash.
I'd imagine that very few of the applications that leverage this will see the public Internet.
Except that you're wrong on every coung. My Blackberry has google maps and you sure as hell can find a location and dial it right from there. I'm also pretty sure every smartphone out there connects to IMAP and POP, Treo sure does. As to your last item, the pricing was already announced and those prices listed were *With two year contract, so that is the special pricing.
Corporate support is A) US based and B) they give a shit about you as a customer. Consumer support is A) off shore and B) they already have all the money you're going to spend on a computer for a while.
I'd like to say that it's B and not A that's the difference. Unforunately I rembember when they offshored the corporate support, it was just as bad. The corporate customers bitched and moaned about how horrible it was and they brought it back.
Right. We had people using 6 year old machines, where there would sit and waaaaaaaait to do work. It took several years of pointing out to people that they were wasting more money in lost productivity than it would cost to upgrade the machines before we got them into a replacement schedule. One was a cost in the ether, the other was a cost in dollars.
Why are you buying models that change that often? The models we buy change maybe every year. We've got 5 years of stuff out there any maybe have 4-6 images for all of it (including the laptops).
Of course if you need to reimage your machines every 6 months, then you're obviously doing some other things wrong too.
As an IT manager, I think your idea is a good one. Now just get your boss to budget the money to get you two machines and the money for me to put together the dev network.
I don't think this guy's going to be out doing next business day repairs for free. That's going to end up being a very expensive $200 savings for the company.
They sell Chess sets at WalMart, Target and ToysRUs and that has to be the perfect eaxmple of a higbrow game. WalMart and Target also sell Opera and Classical CDs, that doesn't diminish from them at all.
Not that you necessarily were, don't be such a snob. It doesn't have to be scarce (usually artifically) and expensive (see last) to be special.
Of course once the computer's decision on sentencing goes to a recommendation that is reviewed by a human, you lose the purported intention to "avoid abuse of discretionary power of judges."
Maybe if a committe of legal scholars reviewed the cases to make sure the computer was doing what it was programmed, but that's a whole system to administer.
It's amazing. I think they're research into duplicating the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field have backfired. Instead of projecting a delusional field of product love outward towards the consumer, like Apple, instead the field has inverted and Sony staff are the ones with the warped sense of reality.
It also has other benefits. On at 3am local time? (west coast, usa for me) Well you're not running around a mostly empty west coast shard. Europe is wide awake and the galaxy is still full of players.
It's also nice that you can play with your friends, even when you didn't plan on playing together. My cousin and I are in the same corp. This didn't require remaking accounts until we were on the same server and when I found out my brother played, he's also in the same game with us.
It's harder for the servers, but when each and every player is paying a recurring monthly fee, I'm less forgiving on that side of the equation.
EVE also has the largest single shard universe in the MMO marketspace. I've been playing for a while and last week's patch that ran about 10 hours long wasn't really what I'd call a rough patch.
I don't see that as a limitation. Movie studios already sell special rental versions. I've run into discs edited for content at Blockbuster and stripped of speical features with NetFlix. They can just press special 'unlocked' discs and sell them at a premium to rental houses.
I think this move would drive customers away in droves, but Sony seems to enjoy seeing how long they can piss in the face of their customers before they go away.
Being wildly successful makes you subject to special scrutiny. You think that Microsoft could get away with selling Computers and the OS the way Apple can? No way! Since Apple is the market in digital media, and even outsells retail (http://news.com.com/iTunes+outsells+traditional+m usic+stores/2100-1027_3-5965314.html), they're lucky that all people want is to let the music be played on other devices.
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Those features were added by and dependent on XBL. Netflix, copy to HD were not present on the shipped unit. You may not think it's fair that they tie those features to XBL, but the did and you agreed to it before they were installed.
They're features that were only enabled by being on XBL. The features I hear people complaining about (like copy to HD) were added by MS through XBL. If you'd never taken it online and signed up for an account, they wouldn't be there. You'd want to check the TOS agreement you clicked through to get those features installed.
You can probably white wash a roof without impacting it's function and have it stay white. If you've seen concrete roads that haven't been blacktopped, they soon start to turn black on their own.
"Speed cameras don't have that problem. The existence of speed cameras don't encourage cities to screw around with well established civil engineering practices just to make a buck."
Sure they do. Anything with a profit potential creates the potential for abuse. We just got speed cameras where I live and the speed limits change arbitrarily in the sections of road where they are placed. My real beef with them is that the speed is not posted at or even near the camera.
Anyway, they only catch out of towners now anyway. Traffic is moving along and suddenly it drops *below* the speed limit until we crawl thru the camera section and then everyone zooms off again. Hard to say if it's just my persepective, but it seems like people are driving faster to make up for time lost in the camera sections.
Find some balls and try again AC.
You're kidding, right? Only a mac user, who is being stroked for spending too much money, could like those ads. We mute the commerical (if we're stuck watching live TV) and talk about how smug apple is about being in last place.
It isn't a business device, but then I don't really think that's what it was designed to do in the first place. The iPhone doesn't play well with corporate data. POP e-mail isn't even available as a pull service from some companies and there is nothing to sync calendar data. All these business articles are trying to pit Apple vs RIM, where I see them as very nice manufacturers that are in different markets. Currently...
Datatel doesn't need admin rights, it just needs rights to a couple of INI files in the Windows directory (at least at our site). A little bit of time with regmon and filemon have gotten us around all the apps that 'need' admin privlidges.
I know you're trying to be snarky, but most .Net applications are in house affairs. That means they control the browser and the O/S that will be used. This is another tool for .Net developers to use to create "rich" interfaces to their programs without having to recreate all their code or write interface layers to use Flash.
I'd imagine that very few of the applications that leverage this will see the public Internet.
Except that you're wrong on every coung. My Blackberry has google maps and you sure as hell can find a location and dial it right from there. I'm also pretty sure every smartphone out there connects to IMAP and POP, Treo sure does. As to your last item, the pricing was already announced and those prices listed were *With two year contract, so that is the special pricing.
Corporate support is A) US based and B) they give a shit about you as a customer. Consumer support is A) off shore and B) they already have all the money you're going to spend on a computer for a while.
I'd like to say that it's B and not A that's the difference. Unforunately I rembember when they offshored the corporate support, it was just as bad. The corporate customers bitched and moaned about how horrible it was and they brought it back.
Right. We had people using 6 year old machines, where there would sit and waaaaaaaait to do work. It took several years of pointing out to people that they were wasting more money in lost productivity than it would cost to upgrade the machines before we got them into a replacement schedule. One was a cost in the ether, the other was a cost in dollars.
Why are you buying models that change that often? The models we buy change maybe every year. We've got 5 years of stuff out there any maybe have 4-6 images for all of it (including the laptops).
Of course if you need to reimage your machines every 6 months, then you're obviously doing some other things wrong too.
As an IT manager, I think your idea is a good one. Now just get your boss to budget the money to get you two machines and the money for me to put together the dev network.
I don't think this guy's going to be out doing next business day repairs for free. That's going to end up being a very expensive $200 savings for the company.
No, but the money you had already budgeted for computer equipment will cover the cost of the upgrade. Not free, but not a new expense either.
They sell Chess sets at WalMart, Target and ToysRUs and that has to be the perfect eaxmple of a higbrow game. WalMart and Target also sell Opera and Classical CDs, that doesn't diminish from them at all.
Not that you necessarily were, don't be such a snob. It doesn't have to be scarce (usually artifically) and expensive (see last) to be special.
Of course once the computer's decision on sentencing goes to a recommendation that is reviewed by a human, you lose the purported intention to "avoid abuse of discretionary power of judges."
Maybe if a committe of legal scholars reviewed the cases to make sure the computer was doing what it was programmed, but that's a whole system to administer.
It's amazing. I think they're research into duplicating the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field have backfired. Instead of projecting a delusional field of product love outward towards the consumer, like Apple, instead the field has inverted and Sony staff are the ones with the warped sense of reality.
It also has other benefits. On at 3am local time? (west coast, usa for me) Well you're not running around a mostly empty west coast shard. Europe is wide awake and the galaxy is still full of players.
It's also nice that you can play with your friends, even when you didn't plan on playing together. My cousin and I are in the same corp. This didn't require remaking accounts until we were on the same server and when I found out my brother played, he's also in the same game with us.
It's harder for the servers, but when each and every player is paying a recurring monthly fee, I'm less forgiving on that side of the equation.
EVE also has the largest single shard universe in the MMO marketspace. I've been playing for a while and last week's patch that ran about 10 hours long wasn't really what I'd call a rough patch.
Or they could go back to the old fashioned blood-sports. I don't think there was ever generating a sellout at the Roman arenas.
Since the early 80s, copy protection schemes have only annoyed the legitimate customers. Why would this be any different?
Anyway, I'd figure that there'd be a mod chip that would repair the authentication code before they were taking ISOs from rental discs.
I don't see that as a limitation. Movie studios already sell special rental versions. I've run into discs edited for content at Blockbuster and stripped of speical features with NetFlix. They can just press special 'unlocked' discs and sell them at a premium to rental houses.
I think this move would drive customers away in droves, but Sony seems to enjoy seeing how long they can piss in the face of their customers before they go away.
Being wildly successful makes you subject to special scrutiny. You think that Microsoft could get away with selling Computers and the OS the way Apple can? No way! Since Apple is the market in digital media, and even outsells retail (http://news.com.com/iTunes+outsells+traditional+m usic+stores/2100-1027_3-5965314.html), they're lucky that all people want is to let the music be played on other devices.