It would never be accepted by humanity. The first words out of its mouth would be something like "Russian brides v|ag ra! pok3r rooms onl in3 ca$in0!" and humans hate that kind of gibberish.
Ford does not have over 80 percent of the car market, and they don't have the power to design roads that no other car can drive on.
Apple has more than 80 percent of online music sales and portable music player markets
Apple does not have anywhere close to 80 percent of the music market tied up. Ditto for "portable music players" if you include CD, MD, and cassette players. There exist thousands and thousands of options for people who want to feed music into their ears, and the only way you can describe this as a restrictive monopoly of some kind is by jumping through hoops like:
Limit "music" to digital tracks
Limit "tracks" to ones you download from networks
Limit "networks" to the iTMS
Limit your portable player to the iPod
After you've gone through those contortions, congrats, you've built a rock-solid case that Apple has a monopoly. In the "digital networked music "available at one store and playable on one brand of player" market. I can't understand how anyone not in there can hear any music at all.
Koko wa doko desu ka? is a perfectly acceptable sentence if you're asking where you are at this moment in time (standing in the middle of Harajuku with your Lonely Planet guide held upside down, for instance) or if you're pointing to a spot on the map and asking how you might find that place.
The RIAA and MPAA will still continue to lack a clue as how to effectively deal with P2P
The RIAA and MPAA lack a clue as to how to deal with double-deck tape recorders and Betamax. These aren't nimble entities making their effortless way through the digital age, really.
For God's sake, before complaining about the weight you should think about what you'd like to see gone from that machine. I suppose you'll be saying things like they should lose the serial port and parallel port in the year 2005!
Yeah, I'm sort of shocked that we haven't seen a torrent set up of that copyrighted material, you know, to get it out in the open, because information wants to be free. What's wrong with Slashdot today?
I remember times where people actually quoted relevant material from previous mails, trimmed down unnecessary garbage and answered questions *below* the question itself.
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No! It means creating NUCLEAR SUBMARINES that can boot Mac OS X. WinTel fans have no answer for this one.
Unfortunately, the first run of "cheese grater" models are all sitting on the bottom of ocean trenches. Nicely water-cooled, but they'll be working on a version without all those holes, you can bet.
The US is the exact opposite with lousy mainstream artists that can't sing or make music period.
Yeah, that's exactly why nobody in the US listens to those . . . wait a minute. Um, there's a reason they're called "mainstream," and that reason has to do with the fact that they have more listeners than anyone else. That's true on both sides of the pond.
You can replace "iTMS user" and "song[s] online" with "CD listener" and "music discs," or hey, even "rice eater" and "grain." This has always been a place where domestic players enjoy a stranglehold on the consumer until that day when the market cracks open and they get spanked by a foreign competitor.
The consumers like this process, for the most part. Except in the case of rice . . . Most people prefer to spend 10 times as much on something grown in Niigata rather than settle for California-grown stuff (even if it's the same strain). This was only true for individual consumers, though; companies buying rice for use in products are happy to get the savings. Open a pack of rice crackers and you'll be eating rice from Thailand or Australia, usually.
Anyway. Most players in the Japanese online music market are clueless. Yahoo.co.jp just launched its music streaming service to much fanfare, but the downloadable tracks it sells still go for 350 yen . . . and they don't work on Macs or iPods. Yeah, that'll fly.
The point is, you must be used to paying Apple prices, that figure is way off.
No, the point is that Apple doesn't want to give away free shit to people who put money in the pockets of other companies. Don't act like you just undermined the argument by substituting a lower dollar amount in there.
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Yes . . . I, too, wonder how many companies will port their games to Windows XP.
It would never be accepted by humanity. The first words out of its mouth would be something like "Russian brides v|ag ra! pok3r rooms onl in3 ca$in0!" and humans hate that kind of gibberish.
live free or die. . . . In the end, the free shall prevail.
Yeah, but I'm predicting that "die" gets quite a few in the process. How many BSD or Linux users do you know who'll go all the way?
Ford does not have over 80 percent of the car market, and they don't have the power to design roads that no other car can drive on.
Apple has more than 80 percent of online music sales and portable music player markets
Apple does not have anywhere close to 80 percent of the music market tied up. Ditto for "portable music players" if you include CD, MD, and cassette players. There exist thousands and thousands of options for people who want to feed music into their ears, and the only way you can describe this as a restrictive monopoly of some kind is by jumping through hoops like:After you've gone through those contortions, congrats, you've built a rock-solid case that Apple has a monopoly. In the "digital networked music "available at one store and playable on one brand of player" market. I can't understand how anyone not in there can hear any music at all.
Or Type R: Hey, my music store goes way faster when I put this sticker on the back of it!
Koko wa doko desu ka? is a perfectly acceptable sentence if you're asking where you are at this moment in time (standing in the middle of Harajuku with your Lonely Planet guide held upside down, for instance) or if you're pointing to a spot on the map and asking how you might find that place.
Hey, he didn't choose the name "micro soft" for no reason whatsoever.
How about something amazing that will make people go WOW I GOTTA GET THAT?
So you haven't heard about the new DS yet? It's going to sell by the boatload.
Technically speaking, cars can't be bricked. They end up on bricks in your front yard, maybe, but it's different.
Nope. Airbrushing makes porn beautiful. HDTV makes the tiniest zits and wrinkles shine.
The RIAA and MPAA will still continue to lack a clue as how to effectively deal with P2P
The RIAA and MPAA lack a clue as to how to deal with double-deck tape recorders and Betamax. These aren't nimble entities making their effortless way through the digital age, really.
For God's sake, before complaining about the weight you should think about what you'd like to see gone from that machine. I suppose you'll be saying things like they should lose the serial port and parallel port in the year 2005!
Insert nerd-appropriate "mind meld" joke here.
The point is, when an act is accepted by a significant proportion of the population, chances are that act is ethical
Wait, using Windows is ethical? Is this really Slashdot?
Yeah, I'm sort of shocked that we haven't seen a torrent set up of that copyrighted material, you know, to get it out in the open, because information wants to be free. What's wrong with Slashdot today?
I for one would most certainly NOT hit it.
Maybe the pocket was in pants that were also thrown out of a car window at 50 miles per hour. Hope the person wasn't in them at the time.
Quick, patent that idea before Apple starts stir-frying zucchini on the second-generation iPod Nanos to toughen 'em up.
I don't know, man.
I remember times where people actually quoted relevant material from previous mails, trimmed down unnecessary garbage and answered questions *below* the question itself.
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No! It means creating NUCLEAR SUBMARINES that can boot Mac OS X. WinTel fans have no answer for this one.
Unfortunately, the first run of "cheese grater" models are all sitting on the bottom of ocean trenches. Nicely water-cooled, but they'll be working on a version without all those holes, you can bet.
The US is the exact opposite with lousy mainstream artists that can't sing or make music period.
Yeah, that's exactly why nobody in the US listens to those . . . wait a minute. Um, there's a reason they're called "mainstream," and that reason has to do with the fact that they have more listeners than anyone else. That's true on both sides of the pond.
You can replace "iTMS user" and "song[s] online" with "CD listener" and "music discs," or hey, even "rice eater" and "grain." This has always been a place where domestic players enjoy a stranglehold on the consumer until that day when the market cracks open and they get spanked by a foreign competitor.
The consumers like this process, for the most part. Except in the case of rice . . . Most people prefer to spend 10 times as much on something grown in Niigata rather than settle for California-grown stuff (even if it's the same strain). This was only true for individual consumers, though; companies buying rice for use in products are happy to get the savings. Open a pack of rice crackers and you'll be eating rice from Thailand or Australia, usually.
Anyway. Most players in the Japanese online music market are clueless. Yahoo.co.jp just launched its music streaming service to much fanfare, but the downloadable tracks it sells still go for 350 yen . . . and they don't work on Macs or iPods. Yeah, that'll fly.
The point is, you must be used to paying Apple prices, that figure is way off.
No, the point is that Apple doesn't want to give away free shit to people who put money in the pockets of other companies. Don't act like you just undermined the argument by substituting a lower dollar amount in there.