I think this concept of phones as a status symbol is bunk. Or maybe its where I live and the circle I run with. I don't show my phone to people and I'm the only one who uses it. How is it a status symbol if no one cares, including me? I buy a cell phone based on what I want it to do, features that I like. I think the plans are too expensive frankly but they're all about the same and I want nationwide coverage so I swallow it and move on. Its irking that everything that is above the entry level is automatically tagged as a status symbol.
What do the anti-ebook crowd hope to accomplish? I don't think paper books are EVER going away so I'm not sure the crusade is merited. If you don't like ebooks, don't buy them. I prefer them for novels where there isn't going to be charts and graphs that need to be studied. And I don't think libraries are going away either. If there are fewer of them, that's not the end of the world. People can travel relatively small distances with ease. It will still be more convenient than 60 years ago when people had to "go to the city for the day". I think ebooks and laptop vs. tablet are the two most annoying and useless debates going on in technology. The people that use the new technology usually love it and the people who hate it aren't changing any minds.
This is why people drink corporate coffee and imbibe corporate jam. Corporate products are all about the masses, what they want, with as little controversy and variation as possible. This can be very good as it allows people to focus on other things
Indie Jam, OTOH, is often about creating a tension. This is good as it differentiates the bussiness from corporate, as well as provide places for people o go who don't want corporate.
What irritates me is when an indie place complains that hey are being overrun by corporate overlords when differentiation becomes dogma and hey no longer serve a profitable purpose. We have enough churches leeching off he public good will, we don't need coffe shops. What is also irritating is corporate shops pretending to be indie shops. Powell's comes to mind, as does Whole Foods, though they are becoming more honest.
This is a great comment. Sometimes indie = irrelevant. Then they bitch. I equate it to the company/corporate version of my liberal arts major friends who bitch about not making enough money. You pick your poison...
I personally know about 30 people that have automatic scripts on their MythTV boxes that automatically upload TV shows the second they are done recording and the commercials have been flagged and removed. So there has to be 40X more than who I know unless I am highly connected at the center of internet piracy.... Yarrrr!
Hey feds! Give me $1,000,000 USD tax free and I'll give up all the goods you need on these horrible evil people that are destroying humanity as we know it!
Yes I have a price. Everyone does.
What kind of circles do you run in where you know 30 people who do that? I don't know 30 people who know what MythTV is...
I have the Sony reader. Cost justification is only part of the equation. But I do like that Sony gave away 100 free public domain titles with the reader. Sure I could find them on the web and read them for free already, but if I wanted a "take it with me" version I would have probably shelled out $4.99 for a paperback. Of course, if you don't read the classics, its moot, but I felt like I got a good $100-$200 worth of free books if I consider my own valuation of them (I might value the Poe collection at $10 but another book at $1). Top it all of with the fact that I'm still saving on a per title basis and the Sony reader is cheaper than the Kindle and I feel pretty good about the purchase.
Because there are royalties for all the technologies that go into each format. MS will get money for iHD for every HD-DVD sold. If BD wins, they won't.
I believe the guy that originally called BS on the lack of original prints and interpositives was Robert Harris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Harris When he made his statement originally it was pretty big news on home theater forums/movie forums because he basically called GL to the carpet. He stated something to the effect that if GL would give him permission and someone would pay for it, he had enough PERSONALLY known sources to do the restoration.
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Turnstyles aren't allowed by the fire marshal in my city. We're building a new HQ and they fire marshal said we cannot use them.
For anyone else who missed the end of the Celebrity Apprentice because of the speech, Hope got fired.
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Except one of the DOJ requirements for the deal MAY be selling off part of the spectrum.
I think this concept of phones as a status symbol is bunk. Or maybe its where I live and the circle I run with. I don't show my phone to people and I'm the only one who uses it. How is it a status symbol if no one cares, including me? I buy a cell phone based on what I want it to do, features that I like. I think the plans are too expensive frankly but they're all about the same and I want nationwide coverage so I swallow it and move on. Its irking that everything that is above the entry level is automatically tagged as a status symbol.
What do the anti-ebook crowd hope to accomplish? I don't think paper books are EVER going away so I'm not sure the crusade is merited. If you don't like ebooks, don't buy them. I prefer them for novels where there isn't going to be charts and graphs that need to be studied. And I don't think libraries are going away either. If there are fewer of them, that's not the end of the world. People can travel relatively small distances with ease. It will still be more convenient than 60 years ago when people had to "go to the city for the day". I think ebooks and laptop vs. tablet are the two most annoying and useless debates going on in technology. The people that use the new technology usually love it and the people who hate it aren't changing any minds.
This is why people drink corporate coffee and imbibe corporate jam. Corporate products are all about the masses, what they want, with as little controversy and variation as possible. This can be very good as it allows people to focus on other things
Indie Jam, OTOH, is often about creating a tension. This is good as it differentiates the bussiness from corporate, as well as provide places for people o go who don't want corporate.
What irritates me is when an indie place complains that hey are being overrun by corporate overlords when differentiation becomes dogma and hey no longer serve a profitable purpose. We have enough churches leeching off he public good will, we don't need coffe shops. What is also irritating is corporate shops pretending to be indie shops. Powell's comes to mind, as does Whole Foods, though they are becoming more honest.
This is a great comment. Sometimes indie = irrelevant. Then they bitch. I equate it to the company/corporate version of my liberal arts major friends who bitch about not making enough money. You pick your poison...
I personally know about 30 people that have automatic scripts on their MythTV boxes that automatically upload TV shows the second they are done recording and the commercials have been flagged and removed. So there has to be 40X more than who I know unless I am highly connected at the center of internet piracy.... Yarrrr!
Hey feds! Give me $1,000,000 USD tax free and I'll give up all the goods you need on these horrible evil people that are destroying humanity as we know it!
Yes I have a price. Everyone does.
What kind of circles do you run in where you know 30 people who do that? I don't know 30 people who know what MythTV is...
There's a company called Mobiclear working on exactly that, but they're so small (and poorly managed) right now that they'll probably go bankrupt.
I have the Sony reader. Cost justification is only part of the equation. But I do like that Sony gave away 100 free public domain titles with the reader. Sure I could find them on the web and read them for free already, but if I wanted a "take it with me" version I would have probably shelled out $4.99 for a paperback. Of course, if you don't read the classics, its moot, but I felt like I got a good $100-$200 worth of free books if I consider my own valuation of them (I might value the Poe collection at $10 but another book at $1). Top it all of with the fact that I'm still saving on a per title basis and the Sony reader is cheaper than the Kindle and I feel pretty good about the purchase.
Well, you can afford petrol when you're not living on top of each other and your housing isn't 50% of your gross income. [shrug] different strokes.
The GP probably just lives in the midwest like me. Its people paying $500k for a 790sq/ft home who are living in a fantasy IMO.
Because there are royalties for all the technologies that go into each format. MS will get money for iHD for every HD-DVD sold. If BD wins, they won't.
I believe the guy that originally called BS on the lack of original prints and interpositives was Robert Harris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Harris When he made his statement originally it was pretty big news on home theater forums/movie forums because he basically called GL to the carpet. He stated something to the effect that if GL would give him permission and someone would pay for it, he had enough PERSONALLY known sources to do the restoration.