It works, oddly enough, for the same reason why the microchannel didn't: Availability.
Actually, it works for other reasons that are related to why MCA failed. MCA didn't get taken up because, as you say, it was expensive, but also because there was popular incumbent - ISA. Switching to MCA meant ditching your investment.
When the iPod arrived, the incumbent music format was mp3. The iPod plays mp3s fine, of course. Apple also introduced iTMS, to sell songs, which worked on the iPod. You wouldn't really go to iTMS unless you had an iPod, so it all worked out. You didn't lose your existing investment in mp3s (for varying definitions of investment).
What is the real problem though, which brings us back to the story, is that I'm sure many people who use iTMS don't realise that they are, with Apple's current policy and existing laws, locked into Apple hardware for ever. If you want to play your purchased music on a portable device, you have to buy an Apple iPod. End of story. Music is a long-term purchase/investment - many people are still listening to music they bought 20 years ago. So, in 20 years' time, you'll have to be listening to it on an Apple iPod if you bought from iTMS.
It's as if CDs had become popular, but only Sony made CD players, and nobody else was allowed to make them. So if you wanted to listen to a CD in your car, it would have to be on a Sony CD player. If you wanted to listen to your music on the train, then you would have to buy a Sony Discman. (iTMS doesn't seem so great now, does it?)
I'm sure if you point this out to most people who use iTMS they might look a bit crestfallen. Which is why I think the particular aspect of this law under discussion is a good thing. Apple are trying to lock people in to their hardware/products for a timescale of decades, and in regards to a product to which many people have strong emotional attachments (i.e. music). This seems worse than any lock-in Microsoft have attempted:-)
Of course, it's up to the consumer whether they buy into iTMS without thinking about the consequences. That's why I own an iPod but just use it to play mp3s. I don't buy music from iTMS, or any music with DRM. I long ago decided to choose mp3 to rip to, because I knew you'd always be able to play it. I have a Windows media PC in my living room, which I can play music/video on. But can I play music from iTMS on it? No. Wow, great. Sign me up for that.
(This applies to any music with DRM, of course, not just iTMS tracks.)
It's a pain to reboot from a CD and plug in the hard drive every time you want to back up your system though, and then unplug it once you're done. Makes unattended scheduled backups tricky.
It's important to remember that there was an original Killzone for the PS2, and that it kinda sucked.
It's also intsructive to note that the Killzone screenshots etc looked awesome. A few rational people queried how such graphics would actually move, given it was a PS2 game, but they were largely ignored. Then again, screenshots always look better when you render them at 4x actual game resolution, if you know what I mean.
This is one game series here, and a pretty niche one at that.
Given the Halo franchise has sold 13+ million copies (as of about 18 months ago) and Halo 2 did $125 million of business on launch day, I'm not sure you can credibly call it a 'niche' game.
Who here as a pile of audio CDs they bought in the 90s that are degraded beyond use?
Not me. As a test, I just went to get one of the earliest CDs I bought - I probably got it in about 1988 (so that's nearly 20 years old). Stuck it in my media PC, and I'm listening to it now. It's fine.
I can't remember having an audio CD that wouldn't play or that is 'degraded beyond use', except for one particular one that had problems from new, which seemed to be a pressing problem as two other people with the same CD reported similar problems. Any other problems have been the fault of a failing player (which seem much less reliable than the CDs - not surprisingly).
And yes, I have a lot of CDs, and used to play them a lot (before I ripped them all to mp3).
I'm surprised you claim CDs are so unreliable - they're generally believed to be pretty reliable (at least, factory pressed audio CDs, anyway). Of course, if you leave them out, playing side down on your desk for weeks, they're not going to do too well. But similarly I don't pull tape out of the cartridge and leave it lying around.
It takes effort to determine what my maximum should be. I don't want to waste time evaluating this carefully and precisely unless there is a decent chance that work will pay off with me winning the auction.
So what you're saying is, someone who takes the time to snipe is willing to put in more time than you, so they win the auction.
Also, NFS support in Vista is only in Enterprise and Ultimate, which most people will not have. SMB and NFS both work on OSX, and that platform supports more networking than Vista will. The same is true of BSD and Linux. Vista just supports more MS proprietary network protocols and features. Many of those are supported under BSD/Linux/OSX by installing the right software.
Bub, WHO CARES about NFS? The majority of all Windows user will not use it. The majority of all Windows users will never plug their PC into an NFS network. NFS is nearly irrelevant. It really should be only in the Enterprise and Ultimate products.
Or even the super duper User Interface, it will only be a DirectX-10 install and a Service Patch to add the UI functions.
Possibly, possibly not. They had to change the display driver model to allow interruptible GPU usage, virtualised VRAM, etc - see here for more details.
This may or may not be a change they could roll out to everyone's XP installation without major grief. I'm guessing it's actually a major pain to do it.
And a patch to add the 'UI functions' would mean updating every bit of UI in the Windows base system - Control Panel, etc. to use the Aero style. I don't think it's as small a change as you imply.
You may not like Vista's Explorer, then, since it's being made to look like OS X Tiger's Finder, complete with shortcuts like "Documents" and "Music" running down the left.
XP's explorer has had a 'My Documents' link on the left, along with various other location links, and links for common tasks like 'Make a new folder', 'Share this folder' etc., since launch (i.e. over 4 years ago).
So basically they've added a link to the music folder too, and this means it's being made to look like the Tiger Finder?
Redmond, you may start your photocopiers!
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That code, the driver as you call it, is part of the filesystem.
I call semantics shenanigans. Filesystem either means the layout of the disk, or the layout + code (or behaviour) that is used for the format.
I mean, I expect the FAT16 code has been updated now and then in DOS/Windows, so which driver are we talking about anyway? Come to that, is it really a 'driver' that needs to be modified, etc. The point remains that MS (or anyone else, come to that) could provide Spotlight style indexing of a FAT16 disk without changing the format/layout of the disk at all. So the features the OP listed in HFS+ that allowed Apple to do Spotlight indexing (so they claim; others dispute) are actually irrelevant.
Seriously, what's up with the summary? It explains what Inkscape is, so you don't have to go and find out, tells you what's happened, gives you information about the new features, has useful links for stuff that is relevant and that you might be interested in as a result.
I read about this in the papers today, and they gave more detail on the girl's accident. If I remember correctly, she was found lying on her back with the phone clutched in her severely burned hand. She lost hearing in the ear she was using the phone with (more details here). They were trying to highlight the danger of touching metal objects in a storm, because it causes severe burns and worse when you are struck by lightning. Most people wouldn't consider holding a phone or iPod in a storm to be dangerous, but they say that if you get struck by lightning, it can make the effects much worse.
doesn't their explanation also work for when your cell phone is in your pocket?
Well, in that it wouldn't be touching your skin, not as much, no. Although on the link I gave above, there is this:
Paul Taylor, a scientist at the Met Office said it could also be dangerous to carry a mobile in your pocket during a storm.
"It is well known within the thunderstorm detection community that wearing or carrying metallic objects can increase the likelihood of injury.
"It certainly adds to the intensity of the skin damage and the article certainly amplifies that here.
"I would treat a mobile phone as yet another piece of metal that people tend to carry on their persons like coins and rings"
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You forgot:
(E) Cowboy Neal
Rookie mistake. We'll let it pass this time.
I am here to tell you that this is a goddamn lie. Those people are fucking liars.
Actually, it works for other reasons that are related to why MCA failed. MCA didn't get taken up because, as you say, it was expensive, but also because there was popular incumbent - ISA. Switching to MCA meant ditching your investment.
When the iPod arrived, the incumbent music format was mp3. The iPod plays mp3s fine, of course. Apple also introduced iTMS, to sell songs, which worked on the iPod. You wouldn't really go to iTMS unless you had an iPod, so it all worked out. You didn't lose your existing investment in mp3s (for varying definitions of investment).
What is the real problem though, which brings us back to the story, is that I'm sure many people who use iTMS don't realise that they are, with Apple's current policy and existing laws, locked into Apple hardware for ever. If you want to play your purchased music on a portable device, you have to buy an Apple iPod. End of story. Music is a long-term purchase/investment - many people are still listening to music they bought 20 years ago. So, in 20 years' time, you'll have to be listening to it on an Apple iPod if you bought from iTMS.
It's as if CDs had become popular, but only Sony made CD players, and nobody else was allowed to make them. So if you wanted to listen to a CD in your car, it would have to be on a Sony CD player. If you wanted to listen to your music on the train, then you would have to buy a Sony Discman. (iTMS doesn't seem so great now, does it?)
I'm sure if you point this out to most people who use iTMS they might look a bit crestfallen. Which is why I think the particular aspect of this law under discussion is a good thing. Apple are trying to lock people in to their hardware/products for a timescale of decades, and in regards to a product to which many people have strong emotional attachments (i.e. music). This seems worse than any lock-in Microsoft have attempted :-)
Of course, it's up to the consumer whether they buy into iTMS without thinking about the consequences. That's why I own an iPod but just use it to play mp3s. I don't buy music from iTMS, or any music with DRM. I long ago decided to choose mp3 to rip to, because I knew you'd always be able to play it. I have a Windows media PC in my living room, which I can play music/video on. But can I play music from iTMS on it? No. Wow, great. Sign me up for that.
(This applies to any music with DRM, of course, not just iTMS tracks.)
It's a pain to reboot from a CD and plug in the hard drive every time you want to back up your system though, and then unplug it once you're done. Makes unattended scheduled backups tricky.
It's also intsructive to note that the Killzone screenshots etc looked awesome. A few rational people queried how such graphics would actually move, given it was a PS2 game, but they were largely ignored. Then again, screenshots always look better when you render them at 4x actual game resolution, if you know what I mean.
Given the Halo franchise has sold 13+ million copies (as of about 18 months ago) and Halo 2 did $125 million of business on launch day, I'm not sure you can credibly call it a 'niche' game.
While I agree with you to an extent (but there are plenty of people who will screw up when left alone), it did remind me of this:
Four stages of acceptance of a theory:
-- J.B.S. Haldane, Journal of Genetics
In other words, if someone is asleep at the wheel, it doesn't matter how good your map reading skills are.
No.
Surely you mean: "That's a gun. Hands up!"
Sheesh. Rookie mistake.
Comment of the YEAR! :-)
That depends. Have you been sent 11,000 documents, each with a different font embedded? "By accident"?
Not me. As a test, I just went to get one of the earliest CDs I bought - I probably got it in about 1988 (so that's nearly 20 years old). Stuck it in my media PC, and I'm listening to it now. It's fine.
I can't remember having an audio CD that wouldn't play or that is 'degraded beyond use', except for one particular one that had problems from new, which seemed to be a pressing problem as two other people with the same CD reported similar problems. Any other problems have been the fault of a failing player (which seem much less reliable than the CDs - not surprisingly).
And yes, I have a lot of CDs, and used to play them a lot (before I ripped them all to mp3).
I'm surprised you claim CDs are so unreliable - they're generally believed to be pretty reliable (at least, factory pressed audio CDs, anyway). Of course, if you leave them out, playing side down on your desk for weeks, they're not going to do too well. But similarly I don't pull tape out of the cartridge and leave it lying around.
So what you're saying is, someone who takes the time to snipe is willing to put in more time than you, so they win the auction.
Sounds fair to me.
Don't tell me - he once wrote an entire database using only zeros?
Bub, WHO CARES about NFS? The majority of all Windows user will not use it. The majority of all Windows users will never plug their PC into an NFS network. NFS is nearly irrelevant. It really should be only in the Enterprise and Ultimate products.
For example?
Possibly, possibly not. They had to change the display driver model to allow interruptible GPU usage, virtualised VRAM, etc - see here for more details.
This may or may not be a change they could roll out to everyone's XP installation without major grief. I'm guessing it's actually a major pain to do it.
And a patch to add the 'UI functions' would mean updating every bit of UI in the Windows base system - Control Panel, etc. to use the Aero style. I don't think it's as small a change as you imply.
XP's explorer has had a 'My Documents' link on the left, along with various other location links, and links for common tasks like 'Make a new folder', 'Share this folder' etc., since launch (i.e. over 4 years ago).
So basically they've added a link to the music folder too, and this means it's being made to look like the Tiger Finder?
Redmond, you may start your photocopiers!
I call semantics shenanigans. Filesystem either means the layout of the disk, or the layout + code (or behaviour) that is used for the format.
I mean, I expect the FAT16 code has been updated now and then in DOS/Windows, so which driver are we talking about anyway? Come to that, is it really a 'driver' that needs to be modified, etc. The point remains that MS (or anyone else, come to that) could provide Spotlight style indexing of a FAT16 disk without changing the format/layout of the disk at all. So the features the OP listed in HFS+ that allowed Apple to do Spotlight indexing (so they claim; others dispute) are actually irrelevant.
Seriously, what's up with the summary? It explains what Inkscape is, so you don't have to go and find out, tells you what's happened, gives you information about the new features, has useful links for stuff that is relevant and that you might be interested in as a result.
This is not what I'm used to on slashdot.
Where are the editors?!
Well, in that it wouldn't be touching your skin, not as much, no. Although on the link I gave above, there is this:
It can mean 'over', as you say, which is also the meaning that the GP referred to - i.e. being in charge of geeks.
Sort of like a Geek Uberleutnant, if that helps.
"Nonsensical statement involving plankton?"
"Check."