Downloading music over the air? Have you even seen itunes? You can't download music more than once even though it's flagged on your account as purchased! I bet there's some executive at Apple that thinks that bandwidth is something you have to pay for by the bit. Contrast that with Steam, where you can download your 10GB of games overnight as often as you want.
Hm? Well on the subject of plans, I can't believe so many people have fallen for that.. the whole business model is that you pay for a certain amount of service every month, and then the company profits when you don't use all of it. They charge ridiculous amounts if you go over to make you so afraid of going over that you leave the company with half your plan in profit at the end of the month. Service should be prepaid, or at least a reasonable flat rate for whatever you do use and a $0 bill in a month that you don't use their network.
But without workipping them how can you justify being locked into AT&T for two years while literally _the rest of the entire world_ does nothing of the sort? And paying $600 off the bat for mediocre hardware that's so locked down you can't even change the battery, or install programs not paying a billon dollars to Apple for signing, without feeling like a criminal from all the DMCA filth spewed by Apple?
OK so for the 2nd one.. the carriers would have laughed rightly, since some phone manufacturer is being just ridiculous trying to make demands to the carriers. Why should they listen? Apple can't just demand things or else they refuse to relase their product; how dumb is that?
You mean people shuffling in like sheep because they have the Apple earmuffs crammed so deep into their ears and their sleek silvery designer blindfolds pulled so tight..
(This came out a lot like flamebait, but please people read the parent and then understand my raged)
What, you're defending carrier exclusivity? All those things are terrible ideas and have no place in a phone for crying out loud. Expanding itunes to the iphone? What? Anyway that should be done through apple, and the carrier would make no difference.. if the iphone can connect to a web site then it can run a little itunes app that connects to apple servers, REGARDLESS of carrier.
And remember, contrary to the article's assertion, since owning an iPhone isn't mandatory, and we presumably have free will, no one is "forced" to do anything.
Durrr have you forgotten the people who want iphones and don't want AT&T? That's what this whole hullabaloo is about.
Apple's "pleasant experience end to end" is wrong and it can't realistically expect to control things all the way to the user. It's an absolutely godawful idea on their macs- making software that's written to run on any x86 platform and then locking it down to only run on one set of hardware? Same with phones- if apple wants to make a phone that's fine but what is it doing controlling carriers? Why does the designer of the phone have any say at all as to who can service it? That makes no. sense. at. all. Apple shouldn't worry about people confusing crappy service with crappy hardware- anyone with half a brain can tell that the maker of a phone has nothing to do with the huge phone bill.. but I guess people with at least half a brain isn't Apple's target audience, is it?
Did you even think before you just started pounding keys? WHY does the NFL has the right to charge extra just because more people are watching it on one screen? If you started charging admission that would probably be a problem, but that's not at issue.
I'm very put off by the selective-sudo nonsense that's supposedly going to be pervasive in Hardy. That can't possibly be supported by the processor without some super-weird extra abstraction that will just slow things down.
Yeah that's a giant paragraph of solid BS. You are stupid to run untrusted code, and the golden days of spywareless Netscape Navigator don't excuse people's click-Accept-happy fingers today. Mods marked my comment above troll but it's true- you simply don't have vista compatibility problems anymore if you have any idea whatsoever what you're doing.. and that's the SAME that is true for installing malware. Your point about "people who have a life besides computers" is legitimate, but doesn't apply to the slashdot crowd. Mods, set this right.
What's the deal with people having vista compatibility problems? It's like malware, and any computer problems at all- everyone else gets it but if you do things right and don't break stuff, you'll never have problems. Ever thought "HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO GET SPYWARE?" well--- same thing for vista problems. Just don't go into it expecting an 8 year old operating system - XP - and you'll be fine.
Well you should have. I bought orange box and had it fully downloaded the week before the release. At the tick of the second hand past midnight, the game instantly unlocked and I played ep2 all night.
You can buy games specifically for someone else, and with the Orange Box valve let you gift your HL2 and/or HL2E1 if you already owned it, but there's no way to transfer games. I think that's literally the only restriction you have on what you can do with the games... they even let you copy your games to discs if you really want a hard copy!
Playing time does correspond somewhat to sales though.. it's the ultimate word-of-mouth when your roommate or friend plays CS every day and bugs you to play with him
Do you still think Portal's price is unfair when it's part of Orange Box? Counter-Strike: Source and TF2 are both worth a full $50 but they've always retailed at $20 and $30. Episode 2 is worth eh $20. So portal's free per valve's pricing, and TF2 is disounted the entire price of portal for what I would pay for it!
Because valve is so ridiculously awesome.. they give away their whole SDK package for making Source games, which has given us tens of thousands of maps and some crazy fun mods like Insurgency and SourceForts. Now they're giving away the tools to not only produce the games, but also deliver them yourself without getting your profits sucked dry by a useless publisher. If you can still pirate games from a company as awesome as Valve, div by zero universe panic
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Downloading music over the air? Have you even seen itunes? You can't download music more than once even though it's flagged on your account as purchased! I bet there's some executive at Apple that thinks that bandwidth is something you have to pay for by the bit. Contrast that with Steam, where you can download your 10GB of games overnight as often as you want.
Hm? Well on the subject of plans, I can't believe so many people have fallen for that.. the whole business model is that you pay for a certain amount of service every month, and then the company profits when you don't use all of it. They charge ridiculous amounts if you go over to make you so afraid of going over that you leave the company with half your plan in profit at the end of the month. Service should be prepaid, or at least a reasonable flat rate for whatever you do use and a $0 bill in a month that you don't use their network.
But without workipping them how can you justify being locked into AT&T for two years while literally _the rest of the entire world_ does nothing of the sort? And paying $600 off the bat for mediocre hardware that's so locked down you can't even change the battery, or install programs not paying a billon dollars to Apple for signing, without feeling like a criminal from all the DMCA filth spewed by Apple?
OK so for the 2nd one.. the carriers would have laughed rightly, since some phone manufacturer is being just ridiculous trying to make demands to the carriers. Why should they listen? Apple can't just demand things or else they refuse to relase their product; how dumb is that?
You mean people shuffling in like sheep because they have the Apple earmuffs crammed so deep into their ears and their sleek silvery designer blindfolds pulled so tight..
Well, how far is the american economy from india outsourcing tech support to us?
..to space :)
India gets permission to use our moon landing sets in the American desert far from prying eyes :)
Did you even think before you just started pounding keys? WHY does the NFL has the right to charge extra just because more people are watching it on one screen? If you started charging admission that would probably be a problem, but that's not at issue.
I'm very put off by the selective-sudo nonsense that's supposedly going to be pervasive in Hardy. That can't possibly be supported by the processor without some super-weird extra abstraction that will just slow things down.
Yeah that's a giant paragraph of solid BS. You are stupid to run untrusted code, and the golden days of spywareless Netscape Navigator don't excuse people's click-Accept-happy fingers today. Mods marked my comment above troll but it's true- you simply don't have vista compatibility problems anymore if you have any idea whatsoever what you're doing.. and that's the SAME that is true for installing malware. Your point about "people who have a life besides computers" is legitimate, but doesn't apply to the slashdot crowd. Mods, set this right.
..meanwhile the old beige box in the back of a grimy bar in south korea has a fiber optic modem with a direct line to the isp
And how exactly was that off topic.
Try to beat the pitch drop experiment compiling openoffice on a 5 watt draw.
What's the deal with people having vista compatibility problems? It's like malware, and any computer problems at all- everyone else gets it but if you do things right and don't break stuff, you'll never have problems. Ever thought "HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO GET SPYWARE?" well--- same thing for vista problems. Just don't go into it expecting an 8 year old operating system - XP - and you'll be fine.
This definitely isn't going to work- see Streisand effect.
Butterflies use lasers!?!? -_-
The point is that the difference between 3 and 3.3 is security patches.. there's no reason not to upgrade
Well you should have. I bought orange box and had it fully downloaded the week before the release. At the tick of the second hand past midnight, the game instantly unlocked and I played ep2 all night.
You can buy games specifically for someone else, and with the Orange Box valve let you gift your HL2 and/or HL2E1 if you already owned it, but there's no way to transfer games. I think that's literally the only restriction you have on what you can do with the games... they even let you copy your games to discs if you really want a hard copy!
Playing time does correspond somewhat to sales though.. it's the ultimate word-of-mouth when your roommate or friend plays CS every day and bugs you to play with him
But who plays HL2 for more than 20 or 30 hours total, ever? That's how much TF2 many people play in a WEEK, and how much CS players play in a day.
Do you still think Portal's price is unfair when it's part of Orange Box? Counter-Strike: Source and TF2 are both worth a full $50 but they've always retailed at $20 and $30. Episode 2 is worth eh $20. So portal's free per valve's pricing, and TF2 is disounted the entire price of portal for what I would pay for it!
Because valve is so ridiculously awesome.. they give away their whole SDK package for making Source games, which has given us tens of thousands of maps and some crazy fun mods like Insurgency and SourceForts. Now they're giving away the tools to not only produce the games, but also deliver them yourself without getting your profits sucked dry by a useless publisher. If you can still pirate games from a company as awesome as Valve, div by zero universe panic