Re:Summary: Creative says "Waaaaaaaah"
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Apple Sues Creative
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Why is it over? Maybe I'm not up to date on Creative's financial situation, but for me their mp3 players are cheaper and as good or better than their Apple counterparts. I have a Zen Touch and am a little annoyed that it doesn't mount as a generic USB drive, but other Creative players do and that's my fault for not researching first.
I'd like to get a MuVo at some point. Mounts as a generic drive, FM receiver (and recorder, get 'em while the RIAA is unaware!), etc. I have no intention on buying an iPod anything. They're good products, but expensive, overhyped, and apparently "think different" means "buy an iPod like everyone else." Meh, whatever.
Sure, everyone loves Apple and will defend them vehemently when they get sued over a patent, yet we all like to forget when they've done the same. To me they're just another corporation trying to make a buck.
And once it starts playing, it is 4 hours long and there's a 90% chance that at the end it turns out it wasn't the correct movie and you have to come back and do more "theater runs" until the right one plays. Of course if you don't have time for all of this, they don't care:p
No, the entire industry as well as the Digital Display Working Group, of which Apple is not a part, calls it (their design) Dual-link DVI. It is used any monitor with a resolution above 1920x1200 and I think it's been available on nVidia and ATI cards for a few generations.
No, Apple does not invent as much stuff as you'd like to think.
Great, instructions for ad-boxes, pop-ups, and spinners (I stopped reading the article before I got to what spinners were, but I'm sure they're obnoxious). This is almost as bad as the fact that Macromedia has a forum on their site dedicated to creating ads. Some people just give humans a bad name.
Next week: Your first phishing page with php and dhtml in just minutes!
Hipsters: Apple is cool now, and people who want the cool computer to match their iPod and the rest of their home-decor buy iMacs.
These are the ones that annoy me. They sit in Starbucks using their MacBook Pro to post in their blog on MySpace about how they drove to [some snobby clothes store I don't know the name of] in their Jetta or Scion xb (god those things are ugly) to buy a new black turtle neck to match their black rimmed glasses, carefully-combed-to-look-uncombed hair, and soul patch.
I have no problem with any of these individual things (other than that damn Scion), but for some reason this combination is either entertaining or annoying as hell, depending on how my day is going.
I think XP does this already. Unless I disable them with TweakUI, I keep getting pop-up ads in the form of 'speech bubbles' about how there are unused icons on my desktop or there are updates ready for my computer. I don't know what product they're trying to sell, but I'm not interested in "one or more wireless networks" being detected.
Some organizations may not be able to pay the salaries that highly qualified IT people are looking for. This particularly happens with such places as school districts, which is unfortunate because school district networks usually have more malicious users than traditional corporate networks. School districts are also often forced to use Exchange/AD setups by less knowledgeable school boards. Not that this combination is unworkable, it just sometimes requires more babysitting and trouble spotting than more inherently secure infrastructures.
Whether the submitter is working for a school district or not, it does not help to berate his/her IT team. Perhaps they work for a non-profit organization working towards the greater good with a need for IT but without a budget to support it. Don't get me wrong, you make a valid point, but not a helpful one. Their spam filter situation can be changed, so let's focus on that.
Dell's logo appears on the back of every flat panel display, and each keyboard shot.
It's not that hard to imagine an orginization that needs to purchase large quantities of computers to buy Dells. In fact, it's fairly normal. Maybe the Dell products are placed because Dell paid for it or supplied the equipment, but it's also possible that they are just trying to recreate a true-to-life environment. That means buy what usually would be found, not what is the best choice.
Jack Bauer sleeps with a gun under his pillow, but he could kill you with the pillow.
Pfft, Chuck Norris would only need the pillow case.
I have the feeling that AOL or NetZero or whoever has pre-installed software on the computer is paying Gateway money per unit for the 'advertising.' If the software was on a DVD that everyone will just ignore, the cost of the computer may be more.
Where I work we purchase about 500 Dells every year, and the first thing we do is image them with our software. These computers all come with XP pre-installed. We could get them without XP, but there would be no price difference (we did ask). It's easier for Dell to just push them all through with XP than to worry about what gets what.
On a slightly related note, the USPS pays EXTRA to get vehicles without air conditioning and radios. I guess this improves gas mileage.
Nintendo executive: "What do we call this Nintendo?"
French employee (I don't know why he's in Japan either) that interpreted the question wrong: "Nintendo, oui."
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Why is it over? Maybe I'm not up to date on Creative's financial situation, but for me their mp3 players are cheaper and as good or better than their Apple counterparts. I have a Zen Touch and am a little annoyed that it doesn't mount as a generic USB drive, but other Creative players do and that's my fault for not researching first.
I'd like to get a MuVo at some point. Mounts as a generic drive, FM receiver (and recorder, get 'em while the RIAA is unaware!), etc. I have no intention on buying an iPod anything. They're good products, but expensive, overhyped, and apparently "think different" means "buy an iPod like everyone else." Meh, whatever.
Sure, everyone loves Apple and will defend them vehemently when they get sued over a patent, yet we all like to forget when they've done the same. To me they're just another corporation trying to make a buck.
...is right here. You'd think that would have turned up in a Google search, sheesh.
And once it starts playing, it is 4 hours long and there's a 90% chance that at the end it turns out it wasn't the correct movie and you have to come back and do more "theater runs" until the right one plays. Of course if you don't have time for all of this, they don't care :p
I think Bill Roper did the footman/boat voices.
I'd rather be sailing.
We Mac users call it Dual Link DVI
No, the entire industry as well as the Digital Display Working Group, of which Apple is not a part, calls it (their design) Dual-link DVI. It is used any monitor with a resolution above 1920x1200 and I think it's been available on nVidia and ATI cards for a few generations.
No, Apple does not invent as much stuff as you'd like to think.
Great, instructions for ad-boxes, pop-ups, and spinners (I stopped reading the article before I got to what spinners were, but I'm sure they're obnoxious). This is almost as bad as the fact that Macromedia has a forum on their site dedicated to creating ads. Some people just give humans a bad name.
Next week: Your first phishing page with php and dhtml in just minutes!
Hipsters: Apple is cool now, and people who want the cool computer to match their iPod and the rest of their home-decor buy iMacs.
These are the ones that annoy me. They sit in Starbucks using their MacBook Pro to post in their blog on MySpace about how they drove to [some snobby clothes store I don't know the name of] in their Jetta or Scion xb (god those things are ugly) to buy a new black turtle neck to match their black rimmed glasses, carefully-combed-to-look-uncombed hair, and soul patch.
I have no problem with any of these individual things (other than that damn Scion), but for some reason this combination is either entertaining or annoying as hell, depending on how my day is going.
...by making annoying ads pop up periodically...
I think XP does this already. Unless I disable them with TweakUI, I keep getting pop-up ads in the form of 'speech bubbles' about how there are unused icons on my desktop or there are updates ready for my computer. I don't know what product they're trying to sell, but I'm not interested in "one or more wireless networks" being detected.
What kind of computer can run Windows but not Linux?
Yep, misread the title as such. Damn hippies.
Some organizations may not be able to pay the salaries that highly qualified IT people are looking for. This particularly happens with such places as school districts, which is unfortunate because school district networks usually have more malicious users than traditional corporate networks. School districts are also often forced to use Exchange/AD setups by less knowledgeable school boards. Not that this combination is unworkable, it just sometimes requires more babysitting and trouble spotting than more inherently secure infrastructures.
Whether the submitter is working for a school district or not, it does not help to berate his/her IT team. Perhaps they work for a non-profit organization working towards the greater good with a need for IT but without a budget to support it. Don't get me wrong, you make a valid point, but not a helpful one. Their spam filter situation can be changed, so let's focus on that.
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Dell's logo appears on the back of every flat panel display, and each keyboard shot.
It's not that hard to imagine an orginization that needs to purchase large quantities of computers to buy Dells. In fact, it's fairly normal. Maybe the Dell products are placed because Dell paid for it or supplied the equipment, but it's also possible that they are just trying to recreate a true-to-life environment. That means buy what usually would be found, not what is the best choice.
Jack Bauer sleeps with a gun under his pillow, but he could kill you with the pillow.
Pfft, Chuck Norris would only need the pillow case.
The link is in the article. Also, it doesn't work.
I have the feeling that AOL or NetZero or whoever has pre-installed software on the computer is paying Gateway money per unit for the 'advertising.' If the software was on a DVD that everyone will just ignore, the cost of the computer may be more.
Where I work we purchase about 500 Dells every year, and the first thing we do is image them with our software. These computers all come with XP pre-installed. We could get them without XP, but there would be no price difference (we did ask). It's easier for Dell to just push them all through with XP than to worry about what gets what.
On a slightly related note, the USPS pays EXTRA to get vehicles without air conditioning and radios. I guess this improves gas mileage.
If it idna Scottish, it's CRAP!
Nintendo executive: "What do we call this Nintendo?"
French employee (I don't know why he's in Japan either) that interpreted the question wrong: "Nintendo, oui."
Or is it just missing an 'f'?