>Re-buying movies I already own if I want them in the better format? oh, the horror of it all! better things cost more money??????? I'm still waiting for Apple to send me a new MacBook. I bought an iBook 3 years ago. surely tehy don't expect me to pay more money for a better computer!?!?!?!?!?!?!11/1/1/1
you don't have to rebuy your DVDs. they still work even if you buy a Blu-Ray player. I agree about player price though, it's still way too high, especially given that the current players are mostly crap (~minute boot ups and menu loads).
>By saying, "oh this is not Apple's fault, but your own" is being a typical Apple drone
hey I got to +5 so less of the "typical" thanks.
with technology, sometimes a little effort and learning is required from the user.
and there will always be people who are unwilling or unable to adapt. basically, 'old' people.
do you honestly think it's all on Apple (or anyone else) to develop better products with no demands on users to make small efforts to use them? I'd say 'grow up', but once again, that's more of the attitude of an 'old' person.
think of something interesting and 'futuristic' like the Minority Report interface. you'd be the guy bitching that your arms get tired and your eyes start to hurt because of the low contrast. true enough, but just because we don't like listening to you bitch doesn't make us 'drones' (hint: you're the one droning... [ho ho ho]).
at the moment, all Apple is asking from its users is: 1. have opposable thumbs 2. rely on visual and/or audio feedback from keys instead of touch* 3. use the suggestion/correction software instead of always trying to hit every key I think that's reasonable.
don't agree? don't buy it. but don't bitch from the sidelines that no one's given you your flying car yet - it was scrapped when the focus group complained it was 'too weird and difficult' to not feel the road underneath them.
* incidentally, the iPhone DOES provide touch feedback: when I'm not touching it, I don't feel it. when I do touch it, I feel it. sure, this isn't any guarantee my touch has been correctly recognised but the exact same thing can be said for 'physical' keyboards where the feedback contains no information about which letter key was pressed (f/j aside) or how that press was interpreted by software. so let's not start getting all teary eyed and nostalgic:
"back in my day we had REAL keys. you could type 500 words a minute all day long without the slightest ache AND we didn't need no newfangled software to help us..."
"Had an iPhone for a 8 months... The problem with the keyboard is... [it] leads me to pressing much harder than I need to, which leads to sore thumbs after more than just a few text messages."
let me get this straight, you claim the problem with the iPhone is that 8 months was insufficient time for you to learn to stop pressing so hard that it causes you physical pain!?
I don't think Apple is to blame for you having less capacity for learning than a pet.
reductio: I have the same problem with silent desktop keyboards. there's no sound to let me know when to stop pressing so by the end of the day I'm just pounding my bloody fists through the table just to hear the click of my shattered bones rattling about.
>For science I rather find the more we understand, the more we realize we don't understand.
that's a terrible way of phrasing it.
try: the more clearer our picture of the universe becomes, the more we appreciate how much more clear it can still yet become.
>500+ years ago scientists thought the earth was flat.
500+ is a bit ambiguous. but what's more surprising is that there are religious people TODAY who still believe:
-the world was created fully-formed a few thousand years ago -God injects souls into cells when a sperm and egg meet -priests can turn wine into blood and bread into flesh -God will listen to your thoughts and act on them if he likes you enough -God hates it when people with the same genitalia love each other -the weather is a messaging service by which God reveals his displeasure with human society -babies just aren't good enough until they've had parts of their body chopped off -babies just aren't good enough until they've been baptised -women just aren't good enough -there are some animals that are more holy than others and (must/must not) be killed -the testimony of ancient texts, complete with known mistranslations and forgeries, is more valuable than the consensus of modern experts -murder, violence and threats are acceptable responses to someone who doesn't share your beliefs -human beings using medicine to heal each other is against God's will etc. etc.
sorry, I thought we were talking morals, not legalese.
Apple is operating under the fair assumption that copyright laws WILL be enforced. if their business model is now to be circumvented, they should be given a chance to respond, i.e. by raising the price of their OS when sold on its own.
if you don't care about morality then we're having two different debates so never mind.
>Apple's choice of business model is its problem, not ours!
[warning]bad car analogy ahead[/warning]
lol, you're the kind of guy who would make the first payment on a new car, then take off never to be seen again screaming 'see you later fuckers! I gave you some money and you gave me a car, it's a problem with your business model not mine!"
you must have bypassed the entire point that Apple sells its OS MUCH cheaper than MS does because Apple is being subsidised by hardware costs that are required to run Mac OS.
if you aren't paying Apple for the hardware, you should pay full price for the OS.
Think about how people accept that an 'unlocked phone' should cost more than one that is contract-assisted. So an 'unlocked' Mac OS should cost more than one bundled with a Mac computer. Simple. So pay up the extra money, or shut up.
indeed, if it's about 'making a statement' rather than a money issue, I'm sure the OP would be delighted to donate the appropriate extra money to Apple.
what does the most expensive version of Windows OS sell for these days? you can just make a donation of about that much, fair?
some military types have no respect even for the constitution or their own rules of conduct ( http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/atheist.soldier/index.html ), so what makes you think they'll listen to congress when it comes to spending money on luxuries for themselves?
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GH4 will kick the crap out of RB2 anyway. you're better off.
there have been improvements to standard big bang model such as inflation in order to explain the extra observations.
but I don't think anyone would suggest the big bang is wrong, merely incomplete
>You'll pardon that I don't accept your theory without reservations.
that's fine so long as you apply a proportional level of reservation to every other piece of information in the world.
> The existence of peer-reviewed articles hypothesize a Big Bang were also predicted by my hypothesis
saying it doesn't make it true.
you fail to understand the meaning of the word predict.
show me your notes from last Monday that PREDICTED everything that was to come on Tuesday.
you didn't have your precise calculations published in a peer-review journal.
also, your unkempt appearance adds nothing to your credibility. I suggest you invest in a new razor.
>Now, who's uninformed?
you are.
science is about understanding the universe.
the existence of a supreme being is a very important proposition for how we understand the universe.
as Laplace put it: je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là
>True - debated, theorized, not proven. And for inclusive definitions of "explosion", too.
what is your requirement for proof that doesn't recognise the prediction and detection of the microwave background?
>No faked evidence required.
yes you do. the order of creation is different.
in fact, the Bible isn't even self-consistent when it come to the order, let alone consistent with reality.
>*ABSOLUTELY NOTHING* justifies phoning home without having asked the user at some point.
it's a phone. it's called the iphone.
>I'd rather have something else which wasn't bound to the fancies of Lord Steve, but currently cannot afford it..
cut back on the crack.
>Re-buying movies I already own if I want them in the better format?
oh, the horror of it all! better things cost more money??????? I'm still waiting for Apple to send me a new MacBook. I bought an iBook 3 years ago. surely tehy don't expect me to pay more money for a better computer!?!?!?!?!?!?!11/1/1/1
you don't have to rebuy your DVDs. they still work even if you buy a Blu-Ray player. I agree about player price though, it's still way too high, especially given that the current players are mostly crap (~minute boot ups and menu loads).
very few companies find it profitable to give away additional-functionality updates for 7 year old hardware
DRM was a given.
JVM wasn't.
therefore JVM is to blame.
to defend the OP, the PS3 is by far the fastest Blu-Ray player, and that has a "supercomputer" core to handle the JVM.
what would you suggest is the problem (and accounts for the PS3 speed)?
I wanted to go for Blu-Ray, but there is still no Blu-Ray player that can compete with the PS3 for features.
The war ended too early. There are no cheap players and the expensive ones are poor value.
The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'
That's what I said
The looser the waistband, the deeper the quicksand
Or so I have read
My baby fits me like a flesh tuxedo
I'd like to sink her with my pink torpedo
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
I met her on Monday, 'twas my lucky bun day
You know what I mean
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day
You know what I mean
My love gun's loaded and she's in my sights
Big game is waiting there inside her tights, yeah
Big bottom, big bottom
Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em
Big bottom drive me out of my mind
How could I leave this behind?
>By saying, "oh this is not Apple's fault, but your own" is being a typical Apple drone
hey I got to +5 so less of the "typical" thanks.
with technology, sometimes a little effort and learning is required from the user.
and there will always be people who are unwilling or unable to adapt. basically, 'old' people.
do you honestly think it's all on Apple (or anyone else) to develop better products with no demands on users to make small efforts to use them? I'd say 'grow up', but once again, that's more of the attitude of an 'old' person.
think of something interesting and 'futuristic' like the Minority Report interface. you'd be the guy bitching that your arms get tired and your eyes start to hurt because of the low contrast. true enough, but just because we don't like listening to you bitch doesn't make us 'drones' (hint: you're the one droning... [ho ho ho]).
at the moment, all Apple is asking from its users is:
1. have opposable thumbs
2. rely on visual and/or audio feedback from keys instead of touch*
3. use the suggestion/correction software instead of always trying to hit every key
I think that's reasonable.
don't agree? don't buy it. but don't bitch from the sidelines that no one's given you your flying car yet - it was scrapped when the focus group complained it was 'too weird and difficult' to not feel the road underneath them.
* incidentally, the iPhone DOES provide touch feedback: when I'm not touching it, I don't feel it. when I do touch it, I feel it. sure, this isn't any guarantee my touch has been correctly recognised but the exact same thing can be said for 'physical' keyboards where the feedback contains no information about which letter key was pressed (f/j aside) or how that press was interpreted by software. so let's not start getting all teary eyed and nostalgic:
"back in my day we had REAL keys. you could type 500 words a minute all day long without the slightest ache AND we didn't need no newfangled software to help us..."
"Had an iPhone for a 8 months ... The problem with the keyboard is ... [it] leads me to pressing much harder than I need to, which leads to sore thumbs after more than just a few text messages."
let me get this straight, you claim the problem with the iPhone is that 8 months was insufficient time for you to learn to stop pressing so hard that it causes you physical pain!?
I don't think Apple is to blame for you having less capacity for learning than a pet.
reductio: I have the same problem with silent desktop keyboards. there's no sound to let me know when to stop pressing so by the end of the day I'm just pounding my bloody fists through the table just to hear the click of my shattered bones rattling about.
>For science I rather find the more we understand, the more we realize we don't understand.
that's a terrible way of phrasing it.
try: the more clearer our picture of the universe becomes, the more we appreciate how much more clear it can still yet become.
>500+ years ago scientists thought the earth was flat.
500+ is a bit ambiguous. but what's more surprising is that there are religious people TODAY who still believe:
-the world was created fully-formed a few thousand years ago
-God injects souls into cells when a sperm and egg meet
-priests can turn wine into blood and bread into flesh
-God will listen to your thoughts and act on them if he likes you enough
-God hates it when people with the same genitalia love each other
-the weather is a messaging service by which God reveals his displeasure with human society
-babies just aren't good enough until they've had parts of their body chopped off
-babies just aren't good enough until they've been baptised
-women just aren't good enough
-there are some animals that are more holy than others and (must/must not) be killed
-the testimony of ancient texts, complete with known mistranslations and forgeries, is more valuable than the consensus of modern experts
-murder, violence and threats are acceptable responses to someone who doesn't share your beliefs
-human beings using medicine to heal each other is against God's will
etc. etc.
it's two and a half hours and barely a minute wasted. you have not seen it.
sorry, I thought we were talking morals, not legalese.
Apple is operating under the fair assumption that copyright laws WILL be enforced. if their business model is now to be circumvented, they should be given a chance to respond, i.e. by raising the price of their OS when sold on its own.
if you don't care about morality then we're having two different debates so never mind.
>Apple's choice of business model is its problem, not ours!
[warning]bad car analogy ahead[/warning]
lol, you're the kind of guy who would make the first payment on a new car, then take off never to be seen again screaming 'see you later fuckers! I gave you some money and you gave me a car, it's a problem with your business model not mine!"
>dictate use of legitimately purchased materials.
it's not legitimately purchased any more.
you must have bypassed the entire point that Apple sells its OS MUCH cheaper than MS does because Apple is being subsidised by hardware costs that are required to run Mac OS.
if you aren't paying Apple for the hardware, you should pay full price for the OS.
Think about how people accept that an 'unlocked phone' should cost more than one that is contract-assisted. So an 'unlocked' Mac OS should cost more than one bundled with a Mac computer. Simple. So pay up the extra money, or shut up.
indeed, if it's about 'making a statement' rather than a money issue, I'm sure the OP would be delighted to donate the appropriate extra money to Apple.
what does the most expensive version of Windows OS sell for these days? you can just make a donation of about that much, fair?
... when someone asked:
"Did you correct for how the varying standards of each country's anti-piracy measures affected the numbers?"
"That correction... was redundant"
>being obnoxious about his belief
you mean, exercising his rights not to participate in religious activity?
he received death threats.
you're anecdotal evidence for ubiquitous respect for non-believers is no less irrelevant simply because its first hand.
some military types have no respect even for the constitution or their own rules of conduct ( http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/08/atheist.soldier/index.html ), so what makes you think they'll listen to congress when it comes to spending money on luxuries for themselves?