Posted on 05/07/2008 6:57:34 PM PDT by HAL9000
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If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn’t buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on.A future update of the software for Microsoft’s portable media player may well include a feature that will block unauthorized copies of copyrighted videos from being played on it.
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microsoft’s great at marketing
and protecting their property rights,
but not so hot at building ‘puter software.
Yeah, they really suck.
Despite the fact that virtually nothing you do on a computer today would be cost effective (if it were even possible), without DOS and then Windows.
Yeah. Gosh, people can be so stupid.
I’ve yet to see a Zune in the wild.
You forget - without Apple, there would have been no reason for IBM to make the PC OR hire Bill Gates’ ripoff firm to make a copy of QDOS.
right. and there was no holocaust, too.
I’ve seen one. The owner was sitting there looking so forlorn... in a room full of iPod users.
He’s since gotten an iPhone and the Zune is gathering dust in the back of his car.
Um, remember? Apple II? 1979?
I see them all over the place, but then again I own and look for them when I am out and about.
If it were free, I might get one, if it had this feature.
This will sell like a car with a 70 mph governor.
Unless of course Congress helps with a mandate, then all media players will have this feature.
I dont see what the big piss is about the zune, I own one and have since buried my old ipod in the backyard. It has far superior sound, no DRM on purchased songs(unless you have the zune pass, but then again I get unlimited downloads), I can actually listen to the radio if I wish, the image quality on the screen beats any iPod except the touch, which is more of a PDA imo than a mp3 player anyways.
Typing this reply on a Powermac G5. Apple ain’t all they’re cracked up to be.
In order to use the Airport Extreme I have to take the frickin side off of this beast, despite the fact that Apple bragged on the packaging that the antenna is unnecessary.
My crappy dell laptop 1 foot away gets excellent reception on the same router just two rooms away.
Yeah, I know there’s an external antenna for it, another 30 bucks on top of the 85 I already paid for the Airport card. A bit ridiculous just to get the dern thing to work doncha think.
I really, really, really, don’t give any credence to the Mac braggarts anymore, this one experience has shown me all I need to know about Mac “superiority”.
Oooh, wow, you’re complaining about a 4 year old computer.
Now that said, please explain why five out of the six Dell Inspirons my client got from Dell last year can’t see a wireless network from 3 feet away?
blarney, that sounds like a convenient fact if I ever seen it.
I will tell you this if you are the IT for that company then you need to be fired if you cant fix a wifi issue.
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I am IT for the company.... and not even Dell can fix it. We’ve sent those five back for repair, even had Dell people on site after we complained and got our warranties upgraded for free.
Those Inspirons with Dell 1390 Wireless units just will not connect. Everything else in the building will. iPhones, iPod Touches, the VP’s daughter’s little Acer laptop, even those weird HP wireless printer servers which never worked all that well when they were first introduced - all of them work.
But these 1390-equipped Dells... will. not. connect. reliably.
I have two Homebuilt XP machines that are 5 years old, they’ve both been running constant with no reboot for over a year, and they have no problems with this ((enter extreme sarcasm zone)) “new fangled” WiFi router connections.
If age is the problem, then Apple REALLY screwed the dude I got this thing from.
I was really looking forward to having one of these machines, now I know they’re over-hyped. No doubt.
Damn, you’ve got a good eye.
Mr. Gates? Is that you?
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