What is so bad about asking a fair price for a service? why should apple give it away?
Look at the features here:
***1gb mail/web/media content, not much for geeks but more than plenty for most.
***1TB/Mo of throughput -- these two features alone would cost a headty price from a Serverbeach or prohosters or rackspace or any of the like
***Syncing, roaming bookmarks: two features that I have yet to see anywhere else on the consumer level.
*** iLife integration, and photocasting along with.mac hosting -- what geeks have been doing for a long time, made possible to the grandmothers and busy soccer parent set.
So it aint free, well it is ad, spam, spyware, tracker and all-arround garbage free and it works seemlessly with OSX. Seems to me that a lot of people here are just being bastards about it.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, the resteraunt has to buy the food it is giving you so it costs someone along the line
When will we get a PCI cable card reader for linux to work with the HD tuners...with that and a little more tweaking, Myth could bbe soooo much better than propriatery solutions.
You have three options,
one: kill the mini store
two: dis-alow all music store features
three: dis-allow itunes' acess to the network via firewall.
Apple just wants to sell you music, they just sell music,they dont want to sell the info becase that is bad press and they would loose all market share and credibility company-wide pretty much instantly.
This is clearly a violation of the constitution...WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE ACLU DO-GOODERS that are so fast to jump on any race/sex descrimination case? This is obviously a tool for economic harrasment as the poor can blog, but not defend themselves when lawyers are over $100/hr.
Correct me if I am weong, but ODF is only used by OOo and Suns Staroffice (which is the same thing, in a box, with phone support), so even though the format is open, which is undoubtably good, isnt it just locking into Sun because no one else reads / writes ODF?
I welcome competition, I also like to see MS sweating, and apple too for that matter -- not to mention, the cable companys as well as companys like Motorola and Atlant-scientific...and the seemingly crippled giant, TiVo
The more competitors in a marketplace, the better for everyone, the more innovation, creativity and redefinition of the status quo is possible.
Helping you or me wih school doesnt bring in bribes from GE(nbc), Viacom(cbs), Disney(abc), and Nerwscorps(fox).
[sarcasm]
If fat lazy bastards dont get a government check to get a new TV, They cant watch their stories whilst eating bon-bons bought with the foodstamps...THAT Would be harassment! and it would hurt the pooor, and women and children would be the hardest hit! [/sarcasm]
Hate to reply to self but: heres the rest of my thought that I forgot:
If you already paid for WinXP, why the hell should you have to pay AGAIN for the "security" that was supposed to be there...and in 2k, NT4, yadda yadda yadda?
Not flame, genuine curiosity from a 20 year old IT major
OK, am I the only one who has grown weary of the "oh well, another month, another insain exploit" state of mind in which windows users and admins seem to be willing to accept?
Why do people just accept this, I understand a few bugs, and maybe a SINGLE large scale outbreak in something as commonplace as Windows, but this crap is just outright crazy now-a-days.
Businesses would never accept this kind of qualty from, for example, partners, suppliers, and so on, so why do they "just take" this seeminly QC-lacking products from redmond with glee?
This artical summery gives the allusioon that "bugs" and volnerabilities are the same thing. GThey are not, bugs can lead to volnerability, but so do "features" in some cases.
What exactlu do tehy call bugs, one mans "bug" is another mans feature. If a function or dialog in open office for example doesn't have the same capability as MS office, or different capability than the Office equivalent, is that a "Bug" or a feature? depends who you ask...
This is a dumb fucking hick state, I am a conservative on many levels, but the socialist thouight-control conservatives are really pissing me off here,
These people see everything as "taboo" or "risky" and ithuus dont allow much of anything fun.
This state is so messed up it isnt funny, jobs/industry, culture, and positive future outlook are all things that do not exist here, in stead we have nothing but BS like this and of course, two new pro sports statteums in the last 5 years, thanks for nothing...
If you arent here already, DONT COME, and if you are here, you are most likely seeking a way out.
I am about to take a CIS capstone cource that DEMANDS the use of a Microsoft press book on Visio, and a license to use Visio at home...
The school is making me give MS money, along with the money that they get from our tech fee, what can I do? how can one in my position tell MS that I hate their shenanigans without flunking a class for not buying the book?
Kroger knows me as Homer Simpson, Marsh (A local Indiana chain) knows me as Peter Griffin...I just fill out some BS, get the card and go, no harm no foul...Radio shack and CircutCity have my phone number as 654-3210
Fuck them...I am not getting anything for free, so neither will they...
I hear a lot of folks saying that the gov will have an army of people assessing companys computer software...well, if I am the IT manager, I say "You arent getting to touch a PC or set foot in the data center 'till I see a fucking warrent! fourth ammendment bitches!"
There are gertifications for everything else now-a-days, why dont the makers of these special needs interface devices get together with the game companies and form a set of acceptable standards and certification committy tfor individual product varification (a la ESRB ratings) and either a product or title is or isnt "handycap accessable" but the guesswork for the consumer would be gone.
Directv has many call centers (a 3rd party outfit that they pay to makecalls) here in Indiana, one in Lafayette, one in Terre-Hote and some others arround the state, they hire High School students for $7.00/hr and give lotto tickets as prizes for top sellers
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP...I WORKED THERE IN HS (for 6 weeks)
9 of the last 10 itunes song i bought were songs that I heard on the radio but thanks in large part to the RIAA the DJs no longer say what song just played, I type the one line that I remember into google in quotation marks followed by the word lyrics and it has worked EVERY time, usualy the first result!
Never once however has it been any band/lable/RIAA sanctiontd site, just unofficial; FAN sites
Riaa is the best shot in the west, when the target is the shooters foot.
TimeWarner is in all components of the industry, but you still have a choice; Cable or DSL, Cable or DSS, CNN or Foxnews or MSNBC or the web or all of the above, Artists dont HAVE to sign with Warner Music, there are many other lables, or Indy.
Same with movies As far as online content goes, Apple/Yahoo/Napster/google and others in that ilk are eating AOL/Warners lunch
The real Ma Bells of our time are the **AAs that really act in abuse of their monopoly.
Just like offline, If I call a radio station and slander someone on the air, the radio station and / or the phone company can track it if asked in a legal way, If I post signs on light poles and an officer, or servaelance camera sees me, the company can in court supenas the tape or for the officer to testify, if there is a technical way to provide the tape (i.e. it hasnt been recorded over) and the owner of the tape will not hand it over, that is contempt. What is differant online?
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What is so bad about asking a fair price for a service? why should apple give it away?
Look at the features here: .mac hosting -- what geeks have been doing for a long time, made possible to the grandmothers and busy soccer parent set.
***1gb mail/web/media content, not much for geeks but more than plenty for most.
***1TB/Mo of throughput -- these two features alone would cost a headty price from a Serverbeach or prohosters or rackspace or any of the like
***Syncing, roaming bookmarks: two features that I have yet to see anywhere else on the consumer level.
*** iLife integration, and photocasting along with
So it aint free, well it is ad, spam, spyware, tracker and all-arround garbage free and it works seemlessly with OSX. Seems to me that a lot of people here are just being bastards about it.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, the resteraunt has to buy the food it is giving you so it costs someone along the line
it is an expencive service to provide, they have to make the cost up, and maybe profit too...
If you think that I am not a subscriber because I have access to a unix server at school that meets my needs untill I graduate.
When will we get a PCI cable card reader for linux to work with the HD tuners...with that and a little more tweaking, Myth could bbe soooo much better than propriatery solutions.
one: kill the mini store
two: dis-alow all music store features
three: dis-allow itunes' acess to the network via firewall.
Apple just wants to sell you music, they just sell music,they dont want to sell the info becase that is bad press and they would loose all market share and credibility company-wide pretty much instantly.
Apple has WAY too much to loose here
This could easily be added to any MP4 format, and with a little effort could be put onto .ogg or divx,
If your name is tied into the file, then no restriction is needed. If a file appears on the illegal sites, look at the name of the DLer and sue them.
This will not solve the problem of piracy in the east, but it will keep honest people honest.
No really, the big animated ad thingy under the summery whiped it from my oh so fragile short term memory.
This is clearly a violation of the constitution...WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE ACLU DO-GOODERS that are so fast to jump on any race/sex descrimination case? This is obviously a tool for economic harrasment as the poor can blog, but not defend themselves when lawyers are over $100/hr.
Can the damn thing make a call and last 3 days in standby? if so then 98% of customers will be happy.
the setttelment tunes with all that shitware? and where are the CRIMINAL procecuters?
Correct me if I am weong, but ODF is only used by OOo and Suns Staroffice (which is the same thing, in a box, with phone support), so even though the format is open, which is undoubtably good, isnt it just locking into Sun because no one else reads / writes ODF?
The more competitors in a marketplace, the better for everyone, the more innovation, creativity and redefinition of the status quo is possible.
[sarcasm]
If fat lazy bastards dont get a government check to get a new TV, They cant watch their stories whilst eating bon-bons bought with the foodstamps...THAT Would be harassment! and it would hurt the pooor, and women and children would be the hardest hit!
[/sarcasm]
If you already paid for WinXP, why the hell should you have to pay AGAIN for the "security" that was supposed to be there...and in 2k, NT4, yadda yadda yadda?
OK, am I the only one who has grown weary of the "oh well, another month, another insain exploit" state of mind in which windows users and admins seem to be willing to accept? Why do people just accept this, I understand a few bugs, and maybe a SINGLE large scale outbreak in something as commonplace as Windows, but this crap is just outright crazy now-a-days.
Businesses would never accept this kind of qualty from, for example, partners, suppliers, and so on, so why do they "just take" this seeminly QC-lacking products from redmond with glee?
What exactlu do tehy call bugs, one mans "bug" is another mans feature. If a function or dialog in open office for example doesn't have the same capability as MS office, or different capability than the Office equivalent, is that a "Bug" or a feature? depends who you ask...
These people see everything as "taboo" or "risky" and ithuus dont allow much of anything fun.
This state is so messed up it isnt funny, jobs/industry, culture, and positive future outlook are all things that do not exist here, in stead we have nothing but BS like this and of course, two new pro sports statteums in the last 5 years, thanks for nothing...
If you arent here already, DONT COME, and if you are here, you are most likely seeking a way out.
The school is making me give MS money, along with the money that they get from our tech fee, what can I do? how can one in my position tell MS that I hate their shenanigans without flunking a class for not buying the book?
Fuck them...I am not getting anything for free, so neither will they...
I hear a lot of folks saying that the gov will have an army of people assessing companys computer software...well, if I am the IT manager, I say "You arent getting to touch a PC or set foot in the data center 'till I see a fucking warrent! fourth ammendment bitches!"
There are gertifications for everything else now-a-days, why dont the makers of these special needs interface devices get together with the game companies and form a set of acceptable standards and certification committy tfor individual product varification (a la ESRB ratings) and either a product or title is or isnt "handycap accessable" but the guesswork for the consumer would be gone.
On this site, in referance to call centers, It usually refers to call centers in India... Not INDIANA
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP...I WORKED THERE IN HS (for 6 weeks)
Never once however has it been any band/lable/RIAA sanctiontd site, just unofficial; FAN sites
Riaa is the best shot in the west, when the target is the shooters foot.
Cable or DSL,
Cable or DSS,
CNN or Foxnews or MSNBC or the web or all of the above,
Artists dont HAVE to sign with Warner Music, there are many other lables, or Indy. Same with movies
As far as online content goes, Apple/Yahoo/Napster/google and others in that ilk are eating AOL/Warners lunch
The real Ma Bells of our time are the **AAs that really act in abuse of their monopoly.
Just like offline, If I call a radio station and slander someone on the air, the radio station and / or the phone company can track it if asked in a legal way, If I post signs on light poles and an officer, or servaelance camera sees me, the company can in court supenas the tape or for the officer to testify, if there is a technical way to provide the tape (i.e. it hasnt been recorded over) and the owner of the tape will not hand it over, that is contempt. What is differant online?