Posts by arlomedia

If the people in this ad are any indication, then it's pretty sad how little the average computer buyer understands about the products they're comparing. "Dude, these are expensive. They're pretty, though. Let's go look at some...

Quote: Originally Posted by kpluck What it comes down to is choices. Apple has made design decisions with their products and have given very few options to meet various needs. Meanwhile, their competitors continue to sell a lot of...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2 cents If you are techie and you want this or that, fine. Run what you like but save your non-techie friends from the horror that is windows. The windows experience is dehumanizing for the average computer...

Quote: Originally Posted by bdkennedy1 I'm worried that Cover Flow is the beginning of unnecessary feature bloat. Did people really ask for that? I don't use Cover Flow in any of the other applications where it appears, but I think...

Quote: Originally Posted by palegolas The thing most people I know think about when they start iDVD is the following: - So, how do I get rid of all these embarrassing menus and just make a plain dvd with my movie? Yes! And does it...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Pirates won't pay. Period. DRM has nothing to do with it. Well, I'd say there are three groups of people out there: 1) People who will pay for the music they use, even if they have easy ways to...

Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Then why are they still selling CDs? Any encryption on a download is irrelevant if someone can just buy the CD and redistribute its contents. Most musicians grew up on CDs, or LPs, and still see...

Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj I don't expect the public to pay for my "art" (fixing computers) if the market won't. I don't think macologist was saying that the public should pay for musicians' art. I think he was...

I'm a skeptic about advertising, and since I don't watch TV, I avoid a lot of it. I never even saw this TV ad. But long before the iPhone 3G came out, I somehow had it planted in my head that it was "twice as fast." Not sure...

Quote: Originally Posted by dangermouse I think you need to be careful with that! Recent Parallels and Fusion allow shared folders, maybe even by default. This exposes your mac home folder to Windows and its viruses. If Windows got a...