Maybe that's because Apple did more than cobble together a rank-ass Media Center version of Windows and slap a nice TV-video card in a tower enclosure. I mean seriously, where the hell are you supposed to put M$'s media center PC that will make it suitable as a Media Center AND a workstation? They completely missed the boat. Apple will most likely do it better, smaller, cheaper, faster, and with more quality. (I'm not a Mac fanboi so much as a MS Loather...)
I think you are greatly mistaken on this one and not seeing the full MS picture. MS does not want you to put the media center pc in your family room. Put it in your home office where you normally put a PC. Then but a Linksys Media Center wireless interface or Xbox 360 for your family room. Now you have a DVR that is shared in multiple rooms and have a TV in your office without needing to add a tv or cable box. And it will probably cost the same as Apple's one device in the family room.
I cannot express myself how well M$ has pulled this off. I was a Sony fanboy (games, pcs, tvs, etc) and now I am in Microsoft's court all the way. Instead of buying a PS3 and PSP, I took my PSP back and bought 2 360's. All connected to the MCPC in my office. My bedroom, family room and office all share the same source of content and it is centrally managed. I don't think Microsoft has advertised these features enough, whenever someone is over and sees what I have done out of the box they are blown away. My 50 year old father in law just bought a 360 to hook up to his MCPC, because of this.
For sake of not getting banned from Slashdot: Down with M$.
Now on to the actual post. I think the chasing tails lights method of development and business building can be not only financially sucessful like M$ has proven, but can also be innovative. Much like drafting you are staying as close as possible to your competition and then just at the right time jumping around them. Why does M$ have to build the next market sector? And just because they don't does than mean they are not innovative?
Has M$ done this? Yes. Look at the Xbox and Xbox Live. Look at Zune. Look at the hooks into Media Center. I have bought 2 Xbox's and a Media Center PC because no one else is allowing me to do the things they are when used together. I have gotten rid of the cable boxes and tivos because M$ actually gets it. One device with unlimited turners to record TV and the 360's to view them in any room (even wirelessly) and I get to stream music, movies, etc. While by themselves none of this may seem innovative but put them together and suddenly the technolgies developed by chasing tail lights is now innovative and even kicked Sony out of my house.
Oh yeah, and my MSN Messenger Phone rocks...OK, I don't actually have that but I have seen them for sale at Best Buy and it is yet another hook in to there connected network.
If gas prices suddenly tripled, people would compensate (to some extent) by making fewer trips to the supermarket, go out to dinner less, order DVDs instead of drive to the google plex, and so on. This is not 100%. As this world moves in the direction of technologically isolating people (working with a computer instead of a person, telecommuting, DVD's delivered, etc), people will FIND a reason to go out and be around other people (regardless of cost). It is the the High Tech, High Touch principal (people NEED human interaction). So while they will buy less but drive the same or close to the same.
I have been through the SSSS line several times and everytime they have requested my ID. I have some seen some outrageous things when it comes to the security in airports but no ID is not one of them (and I would say it is the least of my concerns).
"Soghoian said fake boarding passes wouldn't be an issue if identification was required and checked to travel. The student said he has been able to get on four flights without showing ID."
I fly across country every other week and have well over 100,000 miles under my belt this year a lone and I have never once gotten through security without my ID. Wrong boarding pass, yes, but it still had my name and matched my ID. And since we have no National ID how does one make sure the the people paid $8 an hour know how to check every state and military ID and look for fakes?
OK, but this is reactionary conditioning...If being shot at in the middle of chaos, shoot back. It is about the "appropriate" reaction to a situation. Games like GTA (personally can't stand the game) rarely have what I consider to be realistic daily engagements. When was the last time you where doing a job for a mob boss and the FBI was chasing you? And if you where, then I have got some news for you, you are violent and it started before you played the game. Now if you asked if the games could desensitise you? I would agree that they can and probably do (especially as they get more realistic looking), but no more than the news media that goes out of its way to show the most horrific and graphic footage it can.
Sony is being given the Green Award from Al Gore for merging Entertainment and Heating into one household system. This will help ease the crunch on heating oil needed this winter and should help U.S. households save money on there monthly Natural Gas Heating bills as well. Way to go Sony, the PS3 really does do it all.
go to war with China (those bastages are taking all the oil we need), we need to increase population to catch up to them...It is all part of the administration's master plan for when Jeb becomes president.
50K new jobs created by Vista launching in Europe, jobs to include lawyers, judges and clerks (all involved in suing MS for not complying with EU mandates against monopolies).
Having a 4 year old daughter who loves to surf cartoon sites and play games on the computer I often wondered about this. But if you listen to the stories she makes up and tells me, her imagination is intact. Not only that, I make sure to take her out into the "Real" world to play. We Geocache (or hunt for treasure, like pirates as she says), go hiking, etc. Hell, just the other day her swingset was a boat. I was the captain and she was my first mate. We saw mermaids and whales (all in the woods of North Carolina).
As with most/. users I am a gadget/tech junkie and help encourage it in my daughter. So far it has just advanced her further in along than her peers whose parents don't allow them to play on the computer for the fear of the article. I do think parents can fall into the habit of letting the games, etc. babysit for them, but that is another discussion.
I understand there is a quality loss (although to be honest I don't notice it, not an audiophile with super high end equipment). I do wonder what the quality difference is between a CD that I burn from iTunes, Connect, or whatever and one that I buy in the store. And then once burnt isn't it essentially analog at that point, so the loss coming back from the CD would be whatever I set the file format and it compression settings to? Which I would suffer, buying the CD from the store and ripping anyway.
I guess my question is does anyone know what the actual INITAL loss is (going from the purchased digital to CD). How much do I actually use buying digital vs CD?
I am all for free stuff, but I am also all for paying people for their work (regardless of how much they actually get, that is between them, their agent and their contract). I am not sure I understand what the big deal is about all this DRM. I am have happily purchased music from iTunes and Sony Connect (in excess of 2000 songs to be specific) and all this talk of DRM is nonsense. All it has meant is that I have to burn it to CD and then rip it back, not much different from when I use to buy the physical CD. Everything I have works on my iPod, PSP, and PC.
And before everyone says, "Well you shouldn't have to burn and rerip", I do agree, but I would be burning for a backup copy anyway, not to mention to listen in the car that doesn't have the iPod adapter.
So can someone please tell me why breaking DRM is news, my CD burner and I have been doing it for years.
Slashdot Mirror
I can still pretend to be your bank to get your information, what a relief, I don't need a real job yet.
Good thing my weekly email storage dump was a Thursday thing.
I think you are greatly mistaken on this one and not seeing the full MS picture. MS does not want you to put the media center pc in your family room. Put it in your home office where you normally put a PC. Then but a Linksys Media Center wireless interface or Xbox 360 for your family room. Now you have a DVR that is shared in multiple rooms and have a TV in your office without needing to add a tv or cable box. And it will probably cost the same as Apple's one device in the family room.
I cannot express myself how well M$ has pulled this off. I was a Sony fanboy (games, pcs, tvs, etc) and now I am in Microsoft's court all the way. Instead of buying a PS3 and PSP, I took my PSP back and bought 2 360's. All connected to the MCPC in my office. My bedroom, family room and office all share the same source of content and it is centrally managed. I don't think Microsoft has advertised these features enough, whenever someone is over and sees what I have done out of the box they are blown away. My 50 year old father in law just bought a 360 to hook up to his MCPC, because of this.
For sake of not getting banned from Slashdot: Down with M$.
Now on to the actual post. I think the chasing tails lights method of development and business building can be not only financially sucessful like M$ has proven, but can also be innovative. Much like drafting you are staying as close as possible to your competition and then just at the right time jumping around them. Why does M$ have to build the next market sector? And just because they don't does than mean they are not innovative?
Has M$ done this? Yes. Look at the Xbox and Xbox Live. Look at Zune. Look at the hooks into Media Center. I have bought 2 Xbox's and a Media Center PC because no one else is allowing me to do the things they are when used together. I have gotten rid of the cable boxes and tivos because M$ actually gets it. One device with unlimited turners to record TV and the 360's to view them in any room (even wirelessly) and I get to stream music, movies, etc. While by themselves none of this may seem innovative but put them together and suddenly the technolgies developed by chasing tail lights is now innovative and even kicked Sony out of my house.
Oh yeah, and my MSN Messenger Phone rocks...OK, I don't actually have that but I have seen them for sale at Best Buy and it is yet another hook in to there connected network.
And just search Wikipedia everytime there was a question, because we all know if it is on the internet it is true and accurate. Right slashdot?
I have been through the SSSS line several times and everytime they have requested my ID. I have some seen some outrageous things when it comes to the security in airports but no ID is not one of them (and I would say it is the least of my concerns).
"Soghoian said fake boarding passes wouldn't be an issue if identification was required and checked to travel. The student said he has been able to get on four flights without showing ID."
I fly across country every other week and have well over 100,000 miles under my belt this year a lone and I have never once gotten through security without my ID. Wrong boarding pass, yes, but it still had my name and matched my ID. And since we have no National ID how does one make sure the the people paid $8 an hour know how to check every state and military ID and look for fakes?
OK, but this is reactionary conditioning...If being shot at in the middle of chaos, shoot back. It is about the "appropriate" reaction to a situation. Games like GTA (personally can't stand the game) rarely have what I consider to be realistic daily engagements. When was the last time you where doing a job for a mob boss and the FBI was chasing you? And if you where, then I have got some news for you, you are violent and it started before you played the game. Now if you asked if the games could desensitise you? I would agree that they can and probably do (especially as they get more realistic looking), but no more than the news media that goes out of its way to show the most horrific and graphic footage it can.
First post of an agile reader.
I can't believe this we are now outsourcing space travel.
pr0n and lots of it...
I make all my threats on the phone.
Sony is being given the Green Award from Al Gore for merging Entertainment and Heating into one household system. This will help ease the crunch on heating oil needed this winter and should help U.S. households save money on there monthly Natural Gas Heating bills as well. Way to go Sony, the PS3 really does do it all.
go to war with China (those bastages are taking all the oil we need), we need to increase population to catch up to them...It is all part of the administration's master plan for when Jeb becomes president.
So, I am suggesting that our next spy sat to go over China be nothing but a mirror. See what they think of that laser then.
I went to RTFA and it was gone...Well, first bug in the system, I didn't get to read it before it disappeared.
50K new jobs created by Vista launching in Europe, jobs to include lawyers, judges and clerks (all involved in suing MS for not complying with EU mandates against monopolies).
Having a 4 year old daughter who loves to surf cartoon sites and play games on the computer I often wondered about this. But if you listen to the stories she makes up and tells me, her imagination is intact. Not only that, I make sure to take her out into the "Real" world to play. We Geocache (or hunt for treasure, like pirates as she says), go hiking, etc. Hell, just the other day her swingset was a boat. I was the captain and she was my first mate. We saw mermaids and whales (all in the woods of North Carolina).
/. users I am a gadget/tech junkie and help encourage it in my daughter. So far it has just advanced her further in along than her peers whose parents don't allow them to play on the computer for the fear of the article. I do think parents can fall into the habit of letting the games, etc. babysit for them, but that is another discussion.
As with most
Let's see the Xbox 360 do that...
With this WiFi coverage I wouldn't a cell phone. I rarely travel that far from my house and would just carry my cordless IP phone with me...
Oh yeah, except this one...
Title should have read: "Mozilla Acquires Window's"
I had just started distrubting software through bitTorrent for government tracking but my ISP just killed my bandwidth...
I guess my question is does anyone know what the actual INITAL loss is (going from the purchased digital to CD). How much do I actually use buying digital vs CD?
And before everyone says, "Well you shouldn't have to burn and rerip", I do agree, but I would be burning for a backup copy anyway, not to mention to listen in the car that doesn't have the iPod adapter.
So can someone please tell me why breaking DRM is news, my CD burner and I have been doing it for years.