There's very little you can't do that will work in IE whilst staying fully standards-compliant. And most of it can be found with just a little bit of reading - and if that's your area of work, you should be keeping up with such things anyway. Try reading A List Apart a bit, perhaps.
Many distros ship with MULTIPLE pre-installed browsers. All have many different choices available easily enough (considering the average user of those distros). For your average windows user, anything other than IE (if they even know it exists) is not easy to install (by their standards - most of us would find it simple as breathing, but we are not average windows users).
That's part, but not the whole, of the difference here. They also aren't distributing their own browser. Apple is, so I'm not sure how to treat them, but the linux distros are a completely different kettle of fish than M$.
I don't the the exact truth first-hand, but I can easily imagine the record labels writing what appears to be a nice simple contract that treats the artists well, but actually contains loads of legalese that shafts them.
In other words, if the record labels weren't offering the contractual shaftings, the artists wouldn't be signing them.
Neither side is blameless, but I personally place more blame on the labels.
I'm definitely no Apple apologist - I'm as suspicious and untrusting of them as anyone. Nevertheless, I don't think they are to blame by any means.
Apple is paying ALL the incremental costs for these downloads. Bandwidth, server costs, etc. They definitely should be paid some portion of the sale price, and they take only about one third.
Who is taking all the rest then? The labels, vie their contracts, of course.
How much of your paycheck goes on basic living costs like food and accomodation? I would guess that it is a fairly large proportion of it.
I currently live off something like £3200 over nine months for accomodation, and probably another thousand at very minimum on food alone. My total incoming money in a year is probably about £6000, maybe less.
I'm not necessarily arguing with the whole conclusion, but "they spend half their wages on lodging" is not in itself evidence of being maltreated.
Whether true or not, your post comes across as very fanboyish too.
You should never take a manufacturer's claims about their product as fact. If separate, independent testing proves that the Intel offering is better than the AMD chips mentioned, then that's a different matter. In this case, the only information available is from Intel and those they chose, hence it is unlikely to be independent.
They rejected an amendment to a bill, and passed the unamended bill. The bill makes it possible for ISPs et al to ignore the entire idea of net neutrality, amongst other thing. The amendment was intended to enforce net neutrality.
That's an unusual view. Every other person I know either:
- didn't like IE6 or earlier and still doesn't like IE7;
- didn't like IE6 or earlier, but does like IE7;
- loved IE6 and loves IE7 even more.
Out of interest, why do you feel that way?
(Me, I think the first is probably sane, the second is perhaps misguided, and the third is either warped and masochistic, or plain stupid...)
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I was half expecting a response like that. Damn you!:)
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I've written to three different politicians who represent me, one of them twice. One still hasn't responded once, the one I've written two twice responded within a week and a half with a positive response and with the second letter has contacted a central government minister to get a response to my question, and the third responded only after about five weeks but did so including a largish report stating that what I'd written about had been dealt with.
"Things like gapless playback and more format support (I'd love FLAC/APE/OGG) should be easy to add without changing the UI much, if at all. And we should continue to harp on apple until those arrive (probably needing hardware upgrades in the case of format support)."
If the rockbox firmware, running on much older and slower players in some cases, can manage gapless playback and ogg support, along with support for FLAC and Monkey's Audio (with a few flaws at present, mostly with the highest compression rates), then there's not really a hardware problem. Current iPods are roughly as powerful as any of the top-end players - almost exactly the same hardware in some cases - so should be capable of the same features.
I have NO wish whatsoever to see Apple getting more of a monopoly. Competition is almost entirely without exception good for the customer - for you and me. We don't want iPods to stop being sold, or Microsoft to be utterly destroyed, or any competition in any market to disappear entirely.
Many people do prefer the iPod interface - and as normal, they've done their best to patent that interface to stop people trying to improve on it. Apple may not overtly and hugely abuse the monopolistic power they have - and remember that there can be monopoly power whilst still having competitors in the market - but I would say that they do abuse it to a small extent.
Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about the interface; I've used one for a short time and to be frank I preferred the interface of my current player from a few minutes after I got it.
I don't know full details of the technical differences between DVI and PDF, but I do know at least one way in which PDFs surpass DVI.
When reading a longer document electronically (rather than printing it), PDFs can have internal links within the document. This is especially useful as part of the contents. As far as I know, DVI is not capable of that.
The major problem with that game though was no multiplayer. Whilst my bro and I playing it together - well, one watching, one playing - was always fun, it'd have been more fun if we could play at the same time.
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There's very little you can't do that will work in IE whilst staying fully standards-compliant. And most of it can be found with just a little bit of reading - and if that's your area of work, you should be keeping up with such things anyway. Try reading A List Apart a bit, perhaps.
Rather than copy&pasting, I'll just ask you to read this comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189027&cid=155 72646
Many distros ship with MULTIPLE pre-installed browsers. All have many different choices available easily enough (considering the average user of those distros). For your average windows user, anything other than IE (if they even know it exists) is not easy to install (by their standards - most of us would find it simple as breathing, but we are not average windows users).
That's part, but not the whole, of the difference here. They also aren't distributing their own browser. Apple is, so I'm not sure how to treat them, but the linux distros are a completely different kettle of fish than M$.
I don't the the exact truth first-hand, but I can easily imagine the record labels writing what appears to be a nice simple contract that treats the artists well, but actually contains loads of legalese that shafts them.
In other words, if the record labels weren't offering the contractual shaftings, the artists wouldn't be signing them.
Neither side is blameless, but I personally place more blame on the labels.
The artists getting paid less is however not his fault at all. He didn't write, suggest, or sign the artists' contracts.
Or, possibly, that's what the consumer is told they want.
I'm definitely no Apple apologist - I'm as suspicious and untrusting of them as anyone. Nevertheless, I don't think they are to blame by any means.
Apple is paying ALL the incremental costs for these downloads. Bandwidth, server costs, etc. They definitely should be paid some portion of the sale price, and they take only about one third.
Who is taking all the rest then?
The labels, vie their contracts, of course.
How much of your paycheck goes on basic living costs like food and accomodation? I would guess that it is a fairly large proportion of it.
I currently live off something like £3200 over nine months for accomodation, and probably another thousand at very minimum on food alone. My total incoming money in a year is probably about £6000, maybe less.
I'm not necessarily arguing with the whole conclusion, but "they spend half their wages on lodging" is not in itself evidence of being maltreated.
I couldn't.
(Where's my damn mod points when I want them? You need a Funny!)
I was going to reply to the original poster here that it probably does exist... but you'd found it already.
Compare the following:
"Apple's DRM is one of the least annoying there is."
"Horse shit tastes much better than cow shit."
At the end of the day, however much nicer horse shit might be, it's still shit.
Whether true or not, your post comes across as very fanboyish too.
You should never take a manufacturer's claims about their product as fact. If separate, independent testing proves that the Intel offering is better than the AMD chips mentioned, then that's a different matter. In this case, the only information available is from Intel and those they chose, hence it is unlikely to be independent.
As others have said: We really don't.
They rejected an amendment to a bill, and passed the unamended bill. The bill makes it possible for ISPs et al to ignore the entire idea of net neutrality, amongst other thing. The amendment was intended to enforce net neutrality.
At least, I think that's right.
I may be wrong, but I thought most of the money for fiber in the US came from the government in the form of tax cuts and grants and such?
That's an unusual view. Every other person I know either:
- didn't like IE6 or earlier and still doesn't like IE7;
- didn't like IE6 or earlier, but does like IE7;
- loved IE6 and loves IE7 even more.
Out of interest, why do you feel that way?
(Me, I think the first is probably sane, the second is perhaps misguided, and the third is either warped and masochistic, or plain stupid...)
I was half expecting a response like that. Damn you! :)
I've written to three different politicians who represent me, one of them twice. One still hasn't responded once, the one I've written two twice responded within a week and a half with a positive response and with the second letter has contacted a central government minister to get a response to my question, and the third responded only after about five weeks but did so including a largish report stating that what I'd written about had been dealt with.
I think I mostly like my representatives.
Like it is now, you mean?
Really?
Interesting. If you can provide a link or more information on those studies I'd be interested to read it.
In that situation, you're still using windows. Many people do not want to do that.
"Things like gapless playback and more format support (I'd love FLAC/APE/OGG) should be easy to add without changing the UI much, if at all. And we should continue to harp on apple until those arrive (probably needing hardware upgrades in the case of format support)."
If the rockbox firmware, running on much older and slower players in some cases, can manage gapless playback and ogg support, along with support for FLAC and Monkey's Audio (with a few flaws at present, mostly with the highest compression rates), then there's not really a hardware problem. Current iPods are roughly as powerful as any of the top-end players - almost exactly the same hardware in some cases - so should be capable of the same features.
I have NO wish whatsoever to see Apple getting more of a monopoly. Competition is almost entirely without exception good for the customer - for you and me. We don't want iPods to stop being sold, or Microsoft to be utterly destroyed, or any competition in any market to disappear entirely.
Many people do prefer the iPod interface - and as normal, they've done their best to patent that interface to stop people trying to improve on it. Apple may not overtly and hugely abuse the monopolistic power they have - and remember that there can be monopoly power whilst still having competitors in the market - but I would say that they do abuse it to a small extent.
Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about the interface; I've used one for a short time and to be frank I preferred the interface of my current player from a few minutes after I got it.
Not just acronym soup - but acronym soup with acronyms that have exactly nothing to do with security and email in any way, shape, or form.
Or am I not being imaginative enough with the video codec there?
I don't know full details of the technical differences between DVI and PDF, but I do know at least one way in which PDFs surpass DVI.
When reading a longer document electronically (rather than printing it), PDFs can have internal links within the document. This is especially useful as part of the contents. As far as I know, DVI is not capable of that.
Hilariously stupid, in fact.
The major problem with that game though was no multiplayer. Whilst my bro and I playing it together - well, one watching, one playing - was always fun, it'd have been more fun if we could play at the same time.
(Note: we're both uni students.)