Sony was afraid of what the music industry would have done to them if Minidisc had grown. As well as the fact that Sony was a player in said music biz. The first MP3 player vendors were small renegade outfits. We had to settle with lossy inconvenient cassettes for a long time. And the music biz lashed out at those regularly.
The gushing over at apple.slashdot.org was spilling over. This is an overflow article on hardware.slashdot.org.
The, ummm, whatever it is they're gushing, was reaching dangerous levels. So an article purportedly about hardware was spun up for containment purposes.
Let's all try to show some compassion. It's been a hard week to be an iDevice fetishist.
I could name dozens of consumer electronics manufacturers whose packaging is just as adequate as Apple's. Now, I don't fetishize that kind of stuff so I'm not a packaging connoisseur. But for pete's sake, it's packaging. Not something to gush all over yourself about.
I guess if you rent a tux to do unboxing videos on YouTube it would matter more. But that's not something the rest of us really care about.
It's a cultural event. Like a Grateful Dead concert. Except the music is U2 so it sucks. And when you get to the front of the line you have to buy Apple stuff. Bummer, stay away from the green blotter.
You're using the word 'powerful' to describe an Apple Laptop, aren't you. As in 'powerfully overpriced.' Or 'powerful' in the sense that Limburgher Cheese has a powerful smell. Right?
Because power in computing is defined by what the user does with the hardware using software, not what some marketing price point dictates. And a powerful laptop ten years ago is still powerful today, thus a $300 laptop from WalMart is powerful in the right hands. A $1600 Mac Book Pro in the hands of the typical user is no more powerful than a $200 chromebook. But it looks shiney.
The Chinese 'Paypal' has a lot of work to even earn the level of trust that Paypal has managed to earn.
Why would anybody sane keep money in a Paypal Account. You siphon it out immediately through a checking account that you also keep very little money in. Yes, clueless people get ripped off by Paypal. That doesn't mean everyone does.
I know when I first started I didn't have a good grasp on the work involved. I was deathly afraid of mobs, so when I encountered my first skeleton spawned, I quarried my way down to it so the sunlight would disable it. I still have that world save, with the humongous quarry hole.
MUCH more work than I initially thought it would be.
With (some) other devices you can even swap out SD cards with even more music on them. Some mobile devices can even be fitted into a case with little pockets for extra SD cards. The case for my 10" Android tablet has them.
So I can have different cards, like one with classical, another with electronics, and one with TV episodes on it. Cloud? Shit, is it gonna rain?
Simply put, you don't pirate music that's already been spammed to you. That would be like pirating "wares" copies of the AOL disk. Or even like downloading a "wares" copy of MacAfee Trial Edition. I didn't see any good seeds of that on Pirate Bay.
I have an old tube-era rackmount Tek oscilloscope. It isn't one of the 'sexy' 547s but I like having it.
I also have a first generation IBM Power deskside system. No video card, just a serial console cable. It has the Power 1 chipset on one of the NuBus cards. I was able to install a fresh copy of AIX on it using the serial console and an external cdrom drive. It's just an ugly beige case on the outside but by now it's pretty close to unique.
The dude with a 1959 Corvette could sell it to a scrap yard (or donate it to Goodwill) and just watch videos of people driving, washing, and doing oil changes on 1959 Corvettes.
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We carry some significant percentage of all human information in our pockets.
Sony was afraid of what the music industry would have done to them if Minidisc had grown. As well as the fact that Sony was a player in said music biz. The first MP3 player vendors were small renegade outfits. We had to settle with lossy inconvenient cassettes for a long time. And the music biz lashed out at those regularly.
Oh for petes sake. I meant that ALL the manufacturers use adequate packaging.
Quit comparing Apple to a five star restaurant. Apple product sells at Walmart. Apple is Buick quality in a Chevy world, at most.
The whole comedy industry would be upstaged and then bankrupted by a Biden presidency.
Hipsters are, uh... waitaminute.. no, it's right.
Hipsters are decades away from needing hip replacements.
The gushing over at apple.slashdot.org was spilling over. This is an overflow article on hardware.slashdot.org.
The, ummm, whatever it is they're gushing, was reaching dangerous levels. So an article purportedly about hardware was spun up for containment purposes.
Let's all try to show some compassion. It's been a hard week to be an iDevice fetishist.
I could name dozens of consumer electronics manufacturers whose packaging is just as adequate as Apple's. Now, I don't fetishize that kind of stuff so I'm not a packaging connoisseur. But for pete's sake, it's packaging. Not something to gush all over yourself about.
I guess if you rent a tux to do unboxing videos on YouTube it would matter more. But that's not something the rest of us really care about.
It's a cultural event. Like a Grateful Dead concert. Except the music is U2 so it sucks. And when you get to the front of the line you have to buy Apple stuff. Bummer, stay away from the green blotter.
You're using the word 'powerful' to describe an Apple Laptop, aren't you. As in 'powerfully overpriced.' Or 'powerful' in the sense that Limburgher Cheese has a powerful smell. Right?
Because power in computing is defined by what the user does with the hardware using software, not what some marketing price point dictates. And a powerful laptop ten years ago is still powerful today, thus a $300 laptop from WalMart is powerful in the right hands. A $1600 Mac Book Pro in the hands of the typical user is no more powerful than a $200 chromebook. But it looks shiney.
Bingo! You just described the iOS market. Where I work, only the bosses and people with gray hair use iPhones.
Well, tut tut then. Don't get your monocle all bent out of shape.
The Chinese 'Paypal' has a lot of work to even earn the level of trust that Paypal has managed to earn.
Why would anybody sane keep money in a Paypal Account. You siphon it out immediately through a checking account that you also keep very little money in. Yes, clueless people get ripped off by Paypal. That doesn't mean everyone does.
The problem is, we can't afford the World War this time that was what helped America get out from under Roosevelt's boondoogle statism.
"Sweet Home, Alibaba. Where the rivers run red."
Well, maybe fuse based PROMs with dies the size of a 12" record album jacket.
I know when I first started I didn't have a good grasp on the work involved. I was deathly afraid of mobs, so when I encountered my first skeleton spawned, I quarried my way down to it so the sunlight would disable it. I still have that world save, with the humongous quarry hole.
MUCH more work than I initially thought it would be.
Modem7. On CP/M.
I shot a bunch of bears in GW2 last night. None of them dropped anything worth a damn, though.
It makes sense. If I was listening to a track collection of, say, some Fugazi, Sham 69, and RATM and a U2 track snuck into the shuffle I'd be pissed.
With (some) other devices you can even swap out SD cards with even more music on them. Some mobile devices can even be fitted into a case with little pockets for extra SD cards. The case for my 10" Android tablet has them.
So I can have different cards, like one with classical, another with electronics, and one with TV episodes on it. Cloud? Shit, is it gonna rain?
Since Jobs made part of the money to start Apple selling blueboxes, this just makes sense.
Simply put, you don't pirate music that's already been spammed to you. That would be like pirating "wares" copies of the AOL disk. Or even like downloading a "wares" copy of MacAfee Trial Edition. I didn't see any good seeds of that on Pirate Bay.
I have an old tube-era rackmount Tek oscilloscope. It isn't one of the 'sexy' 547s but I like having it.
I also have a first generation IBM Power deskside system. No video card, just a serial console cable. It has the Power 1 chipset on one of the NuBus cards. I was able to install a fresh copy of AIX on it using the serial console and an external cdrom drive. It's just an ugly beige case on the outside but by now it's pretty close to unique.
The dealers aren't scared. They're annoyed by some fanboyism. With fanboys who write summaries saying the dealers are scared, no less.
There's no reason to get carried away with feelings of self-importance. Though it helps keep things stirred up.
The dude with a 1959 Corvette could sell it to a scrap yard (or donate it to Goodwill) and just watch videos of people driving, washing, and doing oil changes on 1959 Corvettes.