I'm a Slashdot nerd and I haven't heard any compelling reasons why I should upgrade to a HD DVD or Blu-Ray.Hell, I've barely heard any mention of them outside of Slashdot.
I would imagine Joe Average has barely even heard of them. That could be part of the reason behind the slow sales.
You right on the target except it's not part of the reason. It IS the only reason. Look, the majority of consumers are not going to toss out their $79 DVD player in favor of a $400 one to play a disc that looks just like the ones they're used to.
There will always be the early adopters and techie types that live for this stuff, but until Wal-Mart carries a $79 Blu-ray or HD-DVD, neither format will be going anywhere. It happened with the LCD and plasma screens, it'll happen with the DVD players.
In September of last year, I began to receive a ton of backscatter. It's then I realized one of my domains had been used by a pump & dumper. All of it p&d spam, all of it with the message contained in an image.
May the bastids burn in hell. Can we call the Securities and Exchange Commission and find out the name of every buyer of this stuff?
Conservative parties everywhere are all the same: hypocrites. They're in favor of cutting regulations where they stand in the way of big business, but are just as happy to introduce new regulations when industry lobbyists say it will help big business. When the conservatives are in power, the corporations gain more influence over our lives... and they're anything but subject to the democratic process.
What you say is partially correct, but the fact is they are not true conservatives. They are politicians, and whether they be US, Canadian or some flavor of Islam, they are all corrupt once they are away from the people that put them in power. True conservatives want to preserve a business' right to a profit, but at the same time keep government intervention out of the lives of citizens. Although you may not see it actually happen, that's the true idealogy, not the bastardized version in power today.
Medical security doesn't mean much when you only have yourself to take care of, but it means the world when three other lives depend on you.
Amen brother. And, to the poster that says "vote in liberals to work on healthcare..." - didn't that already go down in flames with the Clintons? And if liberals work on it, who's going to pay for it?
I'm glad Wal-Mart's doing this, too many people refuse to buy them, if Wal-Mart does what they always do (cheap) then their plan should work and power consumption should drop.
((Why do I see myself losing Karma here...?))
No loss of karma from me. I'm glad they're doing it too. The unions are doing their best to portray Wal-Mart as this big evil biz, but if 100,000,000 homes change just three bulbs in the house, that's the equivalent of removing 3,000,000 cars. And that means less oil being purchased from countries that would like to see us dead.
Vinyl is far from dead, I actually prefer them over cds. Aside from the superior sound quality, most people enjoy the large cover art, posters, etc that come with vinyl versions of albums.
Words like that make this old dinosaur of the 60s and 70s feel real good.
After the nuclear holocaust, when we emerge from the caves, Morse code will be a necessary skill. So will knowledge of MS-DOS, hand cranking a Model T, using a buggy whip and reading an analog clock.
The FCC is being very short-sighted.
Apparently, so is Slashdot. In an attempt to be humourous, I couldn't post a series of Morse words. It kept rejecting the posting with the reason "Please use fewer junk characters." Huh.
The market will decide things in the end. Either the companies change and continue to meet customer demand, or they won't, and they'll fade away. My money is on smart people staying fresh and changing based on their past history.
I have to agree with you, the market makes the decision. The best part of this issue is that it might make it possible for an alternative to Windoze viable if it's supported by the big guys like Symantec and McAfee.
Some might argue the alternative is the Mac and they'd be correct to a point. My definition of an alternative would be an OS that runs all of the apps that Windoze can now run, including MS products, though I'm not sure why anyone would necessarily want them if other products were available.
Competition is the best thing for the computing world, and MS has stifled all competition in the OS arena.
(incidentally, is it just me or does anyone else find the Mac guy condescending, arrogant and bloody annoying?)
I do too. Maybe not condescending, but definitely annoying. I'd like OSX on an a non-Mac machine too. But, Steve Jobs decided that his OS was just not going to be sullied in a box he didn't produce and charge a premium for. The market share of Macs compared to PCs is still around 7%, and that's fine. But to compare your product to the overwhelming dominant product and then claim you're better - - that's a real stretch. By the way, I own both, like my Mac and my PC. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. And, sitting next to each other on the desk, they haven't tried to kill each other yet.
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Bam, in one fell swoop you elimated a whole logistics nightmare, forgetting for the moment that tapes are more expensive to produce and stock (size/weight) and how is the consumer rewarded, DVD is more expensive then VHS.
This is not a new business model by any stretch. The banking industry embraced the ATM for two reasons: ATMs brought in more cash than they dispensed, and one ATM serves hundreds of transactions each day. The human teller, who wants vacations, sick time, etc, might serve 50 people all day. Yet, fees continue to go up at most US banks. And, even the convenience of a withdrawal from an ATM costs you.
It's just another industry picking up the same concept.
Now nevermind the thousands of inuendos and puns that statement may suggest. The fact is that no one wants to pay any amount of money per month on some site that lets you download content, if the content is going to stop working when you quit paying that site money.
I don't know about that. I've owned a number of cars from Detroit, Tokyo and at least one unknown country and when I finished paying for them, they stopped working.
When one of these toys gets destroyed by a child, who pays for the repairs or replacements? Or, is it decided that the kid only gets one at the $100 price?
See, having kids of my own and having a wife that's a teacher has taught me that kids don't take care of their things. Maybe in countries where the kids have little in the way of material goods, they will do better, but in the US, I suspect more than a few of these will be out for curbside collection within a few months of the initial distribution.
This is what I so love about some lesser slashdotters - high brow discussion of the issues of the day. As most with most moonbats, the facts are never allowed to get in the way. Instead, like the spoiled child, you resort to using four letter words, because you're intellectual capacity can't handle anything more and you're too lazy to find out what the facts are, instead just repeating what you read on some moonbat web site.
Fact is, most Iranians hate the Mullahs and their so-called president. They would like to see them go and they definitely don't want war.
I believed the President of the US because so did Saddaam's generals, so did Bill Clinton and so did the New York Times. You apparently have access to a computer and the internet; look it up if you can handle that, and if you still want to believe Bush lied, well, you have my pity for having to be educated in the public schools of this country.
If those of you who feel you must call me bad names don't have the intelligence to study and learn about an issue, then please, post your comments at Yahooligans.
The original issue was about first amendment rights and the moonbats have dragged it in a different direction. So, this will be my last post on this subject.
Oh the indignation....those vaunted guardians of liberty, the American press, might actually have to face criminal consequences for releasing classified documents.
Get off your moonbat perches and wake TFU. Classified documents are made so as part of the overall protection of this country. I don't want to see abuses of that privilege, but to scream that classified documents should be released to the world is just plain lunacy.
Bet those of you so outraged by the attempted subversion of the 1st amendment right by the left wing media would have no problem suppressing my right to keep and bear arms, as spelled out in the 2nd amendment.
Repeat after me:
I'm a Moonbat
I'm a Moonbat
I'm a Moonbat
If you really believe that, let's see you put your money where your mouth is. Go vacation on Iraq or Iran.
Where would you like your head shipped?
Slashdot Mirror
I think the penis can be very funny as long as it's someone else's being laughed at......
C'mon, we're geeks here: "Hello world" is what belongs on the sign
A bumper sticker was seen around New England for years and it was simple and to the point: "Ayuh - - Been to Maine"
You right on the target except it's not part of the reason. It IS the only reason. Look, the majority of consumers are not going to toss out their $79 DVD player in favor of a $400 one to play a disc that looks just like the ones they're used to.
There will always be the early adopters and techie types that live for this stuff, but until Wal-Mart carries a $79 Blu-ray or HD-DVD, neither format will be going anywhere. It happened with the LCD and plasma screens, it'll happen with the DVD players.
That's just to run the video subsystem
In September of last year, I began to receive a ton of backscatter. It's then I realized one of my domains had been used by a pump & dumper. All of it p&d spam, all of it with the message contained in an image. May the bastids burn in hell. Can we call the Securities and Exchange Commission and find out the name of every buyer of this stuff?
What you say is partially correct, but the fact is they are not true conservatives. They are politicians, and whether they be US, Canadian or some flavor of Islam, they are all corrupt once they are away from the people that put them in power. True conservatives want to preserve a business' right to a profit, but at the same time keep government intervention out of the lives of citizens. Although you may not see it actually happen, that's the true idealogy, not the bastardized version in power today.
Amen brother. And, to the poster that says "vote in liberals to work on healthcare..." - didn't that already go down in flames with the Clintons? And if liberals work on it, who's going to pay for it?
No loss of karma from me. I'm glad they're doing it too. The unions are doing their best to portray Wal-Mart as this big evil biz, but if 100,000,000 homes change just three bulbs in the house, that's the equivalent of removing 3,000,000 cars. And that means less oil being purchased from countries that would like to see us dead.
Is this too difficult to understand for some?
Words like that make this old dinosaur of the 60s and 70s feel real good.
After the nuclear holocaust, when we emerge from the caves, Morse code will be a necessary skill. So will knowledge of MS-DOS, hand cranking a Model T, using a buggy whip and reading an analog clock. The FCC is being very short-sighted.
Apparently, so is Slashdot. In an attempt to be humourous, I couldn't post a series of Morse words. It kept rejecting the posting with the reason "Please use fewer junk characters." Huh.
Damn nerds, what do they know.
Is there any more frightening sentence? Ronald Reagan understood this.
I have to agree with you, the market makes the decision. The best part of this issue is that it might make it possible for an alternative to Windoze viable if it's supported by the big guys like Symantec and McAfee.
Some might argue the alternative is the Mac and they'd be correct to a point. My definition of an alternative would be an OS that runs all of the apps that Windoze can now run, including MS products, though I'm not sure why anyone would necessarily want them if other products were available.
Competition is the best thing for the computing world, and MS has stifled all competition in the OS arena.
I don't know, but I am buying a T-shirt from your link.
I do too. Maybe not condescending, but definitely annoying.
I'd like OSX on an a non-Mac machine too. But, Steve Jobs decided that his OS was just not going to be sullied in a box he didn't produce and charge a premium for.
The market share of Macs compared to PCs is still around 7%, and that's fine. But to compare your product to the overwhelming dominant product and then claim you're better - - that's a real stretch.
By the way, I own both, like my Mac and my PC. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. And, sitting next to each other on the desk, they haven't tried to kill each other yet.
It's very hard to see the rest of the world when your tinfoil hat slips down over your eyes.
this doesn't affect my new transporter. They were on sale a few weeks ago at Sears and it just got installed over the weekend.
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This is not a new business model by any stretch. The banking industry embraced the ATM for two reasons: ATMs brought in more cash than they dispensed, and one ATM serves hundreds of transactions each day. The human teller, who wants vacations, sick time, etc, might serve 50 people all day. Yet, fees continue to go up at most US banks. And, even the convenience of a withdrawal from an ATM costs you.
It's just another industry picking up the same concept.
I don't know about that. I've owned a number of cars from Detroit, Tokyo and at least one unknown country and when I finished paying for them, they stopped working.
Was that from Tigerdirect.com? Did your rebate actually arrive?
When one of these toys gets destroyed by a child, who pays for the repairs or replacements? Or, is it decided that the kid only gets one at the $100 price?
See, having kids of my own and having a wife that's a teacher has taught me that kids don't take care of their things. Maybe in countries where the kids have little in the way of material goods, they will do better, but in the US, I suspect more than a few of these will be out for curbside collection within a few months of the initial distribution.
This is what I so love about some lesser slashdotters - high brow discussion of the issues of the day. As most with most moonbats, the facts are never allowed to get in the way. Instead, like the spoiled child, you resort to using four letter words, because you're intellectual capacity can't handle anything more and you're too lazy to find out what the facts are, instead just repeating what you read on some moonbat web site.
Fact is, most Iranians hate the Mullahs and their so-called president. They would like to see them go and they definitely don't want war.
I believed the President of the US because so did Saddaam's generals, so did Bill Clinton and so did the New York Times. You apparently have access to a computer and the internet; look it up if you can handle that, and if you still want to believe Bush lied, well, you have my pity for having to be educated in the public schools of this country.
If those of you who feel you must call me bad names don't have the intelligence to study and learn about an issue, then please, post your comments at Yahooligans.
The original issue was about first amendment rights and the moonbats have dragged it in a different direction. So, this will be my last post on this subject.
Oh the indignation....those vaunted guardians of liberty, the American press, might actually have to face criminal consequences for releasing classified documents.
Get off your moonbat perches and wake TFU. Classified documents are made so as part of the overall protection of this country. I don't want to see abuses of that privilege, but to scream that classified documents should be released to the world is just plain lunacy.
Bet those of you so outraged by the attempted subversion of the 1st amendment right by the left wing media would have no problem suppressing my right to keep and bear arms, as spelled out in the 2nd amendment.
Repeat after me: I'm a Moonbat I'm a Moonbat I'm a Moonbat If you really believe that, let's see you put your money where your mouth is. Go vacation on Iraq or Iran. Where would you like your head shipped?