High octane fuels reduce knock but at the expense of creating carbon build-up, which in turn causes knock.
This is completely incorrect, as are people who put regular gas in turbo cars or other high compression engines thinking "it's all gas".
To the dumb girl at the gas station: when your cute little 230 Kompressor eats a valve because you thought it was "all just gas"...well, you should paid attention to the little sticker on the gas cap (the one you see every time you gas in your car) that is printed in bold black-on-yellow type MINIMUM 91 OCTANE.
This time next year: MS "Zune" is a distant memory, and iPod/iTunes owns 85% of the online movie rental/download business, and Apple has begun to make serious inroads in the "home media center" market.
Why do you think they preannounced this piece of shit two weeks before WWDC and five months before it'll ship?
Microsoft's business as usual: Preannounce, overpromise, underdeliver. Rinse, later, repeat. Bankroll everything with Windows and Office revenue, and damn the torpedos, we'll buy ourselves as much marketshare as we can.
You know what? Some day, the music will stop in Redmond. Maybe not anytime soon - maybe not even in the next ten years - but the gravy train's wheels will fall off as more companies like Apple and Google continue to introduce truly better alternatives to the same crap Microsoft keeps shoveling.
You think the itunes interface sucks? Most people disagree. I think the WMP interface sucks - and most iTunes users agree. Microsoft couldn't design it's way out f a paper bag - but look at the elegant and simple tools that Apple and google deliver - oh, wait - this is Slashdot - if I say Pages is a better writing and layout tool than Word, then I'm just a fanboy.
But it's true - Google Earth, Sketch, etc. are all powerful by dint of their simplicity. Office is a fucking nightmare. You can't just start typing in Word - oh, no.
At some point, people will get tired of it. I have faith in that.
From this and all the other posts in the thread already, it's clear that this Zune name and product is already a joke.
I don't know about you, but if someone asks me what player to buy, I'm going to ask them if they already have one, and if they like it. Then I'll tell them to buy the newest one.
I don't see this being much of anything but "Windows Mobile Meets The X-Box as a music sales gimmick".
Perhaps we should go back to the Clinton model where Intelligence agencies and Law enforcement didn't share infomration, aka the Gorelick Wall [google.com], like it was pre-9/11.
Oh god, you're right. Everything is the fault of Clinton and his cock. Gutting the CIA, putting in people like Dusty Foggo and letting morons like Doug Feith do the "not planning" for Iraq. All far preferable to a well-intentioned move by one of the people in Clinton's justice department. Yeah.
Remember - we're talking about C+ Augustus George W. Bush here - the man who, almost five years ago sat on his ranch and dismissed out of hand a briefing that clearly stated: "Bin Ladin Determined to Attack the U.S.". A man who still hasn't caught a 6 foot-7 maniac with a kidney problem. How fucking hard could it be to find a giant dragging a fucking dialysis machine around the desert?
For fuck's sake - you wingnuts are all the same - criticize the sainted Bush, and every retort start with:"Yeah, but Clinton...."
For instance, he would like to ban stem cell research, abortion, and gay marriage because they conflict with his notion of Christian values.
Just go read The Rude Pundit regarding Bush's "Christian" values pitch at the NAACP convention yesterday. Yes, such Christian values the man has:
And then there were the usual absurd feints at religiosity, statements so self-evidently lies that somewhere up above, St. Peter gently held back Jesus's hair while he puked into the Ark of the Convenant (why not?). Said the President, "My faith tells me that we're all children of God, equally loved, equally cherished, equally entitled to the rights He grants us all." Somewhere, in a secret prison in Crazystan, Eastern Europe, a captured Afghani getting his nuts power-drilled by a CIA agent is awfully happy to hear that Bush's faith guides him in such a strong moral direction.
Let me take your troll at face value for a moment... You want to execute those responsible for initiating a program intended to protect American citizens.
I guess you believe everything the government tells you, hunh? I think it's quite remarkable you can divine intent from a statement made by people who also intended for everything to go well in Iraq, despite lack of a plan.
I am no conspiracy theorist, but given what the Nixon alumni in this administration have already proven that they are capable of, I think trusting their stated intent is a bit like trusting a bamboo pole and kit string on a deep-dea fishing trip.
I am getting sick of pure mac zealots praising Intel since WWDC announcement.
Where did I praise Intel? I'm just glad Apple is offering competitive boxes again.
I also see you pay $100 yearly to.Mac service and you claim the parent being "devotee".
I admit that.Mac isn't the best hosting/email/sotrage value in the world, but it is nicely integrated with the Mac OS, comes with some free spiffs every month, and is a tiny cost of doing business overall. I use it for it's ease of posting password-protected files for clients.
Apple does not announce professional workstation line because there is NOTHING from x86 (Intel) to have Quad G5 specs right now.
Care to back that up with anything beyond your ironclad assurance? You come off as a tad defensive in your post, and somehow neglected to post any actual, you know, facts to bck up your claims. A Folding@home score does not mean that my database sort will go any faster, or that Apple will be able to get a faster or larger allocation of chips from IBM - who are having fab troubles of their own. The switch to Intel was a smart one from a cost, performance, and availability standpoint.
I didn't say it was an old architecture, just that it is no longer competitive in the General Purpose CPU space. PowerPC is a very competitive architecture in particular market segments - but general purpose CPUs are no longer a space IBM or Freescale want to play in. Maybe you can write them a similarly-reasoned letter and get them to reconsider.
Having owned Macs going all the way back to the beginning this is the first time I have ever been faced with Apple coming out with weaker machines than they already are shipping. This whole Intel mess with Apple is enough to make me sick enough to my stomach that I am faced with the first in my life feeling of moving beyond Apple.
People like you - the PowerPC devotee - make me embarrassed to be a 20+year Mac user.
Wasn't your Quad worth the money you paid for it when you bought it? You do realize Apple has to keep revving it's product line, don't you?
Face it - Intel's latest offerings are a better than the 970FX, which is a several-year-old design. The Core 2 has longer legs than the G5 in any form.
Apple's done it's users a favor by moving to a faster, less expensive, more readily available microprocessor part. They've also done users a favor by producing an easily-portable OS and gracious backwards compatibility.
You may pine for the days when you could argue the vagaries of microarchitectures you don't understand on Slashdot, but some of us actually have work to do and look forward to faster, more productive machines - and don't mind paying a few extra dollars for Apple design and the Mac OS. We like the relative simplicity Apple has brought to the x86 platform and we'll enjoy using our faster machines while you moan about your "Four by four monster style" PowerPC.
What would you rather they did? Choose different names for different versions of the same software?
Exactly. Why could you blame a Mac user for expecting a free copy of productivity software from the MacBU if Microsoft suddenly announced that "Microsoft Office is now Free!"
Clumsy wording by the marketing department at best, and Microsoft should either follow through with free VPC for Mac users or a coupon and clarification. If people were pissed enough, they could bring consumer protection litigation in California - but I'm not sure about other states. Luckily, (for Microsoft) I don't think most Mac users heard about this.
It would be nice if someone told the nitwits at Microsoft that there is a Mac Business Unit within the very same company - and that it also sells a product called Virtual PC - BEFORE announcing that "Virtual PC is now free".
, like OS X was to OS 9, there is a significant underlyiung system change (permissiones, etc.) and also probably a less backward compatible archetecture.
I can't seriously believe that you can simultaneously understand the magnitude of the shift from the Classic Mac OS to a completely different operating system that preserves compatibility with older programs, and characterize it as a "major bug fix". Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X codebases share virtually nothing in common except for the company that owns them.
A similar comparison would be that Windows 2000 was a "major bug fix" for DOS 3.3. C'mon.
I'm not going to rewrite the whole genealogy of the Mac OS, but I suggest you do some reading about it if you're going to insist on making asinine comparisons like these - if you ever pop off with a line like that at a party (at least in Silicon Valley) educated geeks are going to laugh up their sleeves at you.
I can remember being very young and asking why they called people "Black" and "White", when they looked nothing like those colours.
I have a similar story of when I was very young, talking to a much older distant relative. this was in about 1979 or so, and I was a relatively naif under ten-year-old.
The elderly relative said something about "colored people". I asked what colors they were, and he started laughing and said something I won't repeat here - that he meant "those people".
Time to tell Sony to never build another console and colour it in a way that might be related to skin color.
Alexandra, I'm talking about the Sony ad. Not the console. Pay attention. I have no problem with devices of any color - it's how Sony presents their white device against the black device in advertising that's got everybody riled up.
Highlighting the contrast between white and black models of the same device doesn't seem to be a problem for Apple. Why did Sony's ad agency take such a direction, if not to incite controversy?
Here are the basics about the ad: it features blacks and white in conflict, in dominant/submissive behavior roles. The ad is for a portable gaming system. It features two women of different, and highlighted races fighting over some unseen goal.
Some people find public images of white/black conflict and dominance/submission of any race to another to be offensive. That's what this is about, Alexandra - not what color the stupid PSP actually is. To run the ad knowing these facts is stupid, and I have to believe that in line with it's stupid "spray paint my neighborhood because we all love more spray painted blight", the campaign was designed to create controversy - and by doing so with the black/white imagery, can legitimately be construed as racist.
But nobody says anything about the picture where the black is dominating the white. Why is that not racist? Or is racism only when the black is the one being dominated?
Because blacks dominating whites and treating them unfairly is not a problem in the world today, and with few smll scale exceptions, has never been a problem in modern civilization - certainly not nearly on the level of whites treating blacks unfairly in an institutionalized manner, notably a problem here in the U.S. and in South Africa within the past few years.
Racism in my country is borne from the class status of one race being used as power over another race, and that behavior continues today in many forms. The ad featuring a white woman dominating a black woman highlights this friction and has been interpreted as offensive to some people. Yes, it's a problem. No, pointing it out doesn't "remind" anyone that there's racism, except for an ignorant few who seem to think racism isn't a problem anymore because they can't go out and buy a slave.
I agree. If you think about racism, you'll find the ad. racist. If you don't give a damn about skin color, the ad is just the representation of PSP colors.
You're not black, are you?
Neither am I for the record, but I grew up in the American south, where (gasp!) white people gathered together still occasionally and breathily refer to blacks as ni**er, spook, spade, and lots of other extremely creative names.
During my time in Baton Rouge this year, I overheard (in racist hotspots like Outback steakhouse and a Shell gas station on the Interstate) wonderful things like "too bad so many of them got out of New Orleans - now they're stinking up Baton Rouge" and "If a hurricane hits the Baton Rouge this year, does that mean all the [blacks] will go back to New Orleans?
In light of the fact that yes, people actually still think this way, and that Son'y ads portray black and white models fighting simply because they are black and white , then I think it's justified to criticize this ad campaign, and heavily.
Hate groups and extremists like Michelle Malkin love to pretend that pointing out racism is racist in itself - because, the argument goes - "you must have racist tendencies to recognize them in others' speech or behavior".
Ask yourself how much sense that makes. Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A racist because he tried to eliminate racism against blacks? Is the Southern Poverty Law Center racist because it seeks out racists and discriminatory behavior?
Pointing out the obvious domination/submission aspects of an ad that highlights two races historically embroiled in conflict over race itself is not racist. And pointing out Sony's extremely stupid "piss everyone off with spray paint ads and white/black fighting" is elementary.
At least this post is written in English and is comprehensible. Try making sense out of the "promote my blog" Apple non-post from earlier today.
I think Slashdot is in serious need of maturity. This is not 1998 anymore, and stories like the one I cited make this place look like it's run by 14-year-olds - the PowerPoint deprived intellectual partners of those pointy-headed fools we love to hate. Immature 14-year-olds who are failing English, at that.
What a joke this place has become - the commenters are as, uh, great as always, but the stories, editing, and crap that makes it to the front page are ridiculous. I mean, yay for the redesign, but pissing in a jeweled goblet doesn't make the piss taste better.
Easy: they'll do the same thing they've done with the x-box (subsidize the music at their cost, to win market share)....
Let me put that another way. Microsoft is prepared to spend whatever it takes (up to $2-3 Billion) simply to re-buy everything ever purchased form iTunes.
Boy, that's America for you, hunh?
Damn. They must have hired some dot-com business types. More power to them!
Easy: they'll do the same thing they've done with the x-box (subsidize the music at their cost, to win market share)....
Then Microsoft is going to go out of pocket to the tune of about $2.5 Billion simply to steal iTunes marketshare?
Fuck, they MUST be worried. I'd be surprised if they've lost that much on the XBox and 360 combined. Good thing they have that excellent OS to fall back on.
Sat at work and had some music on my PC there. Excellent I'll stick it on my ipod to take home with me. Installed iTunes, plugged in my ipod and iTunes completely emptied it for me.
Yes, after you clicked the "OK" (non-default) button that said "This iPod is paired with another music Library. Do you want to erase this iPod and use this music library?"
What, now Apple is responsible for your lack of reading comprehension? And you call their model piss-poor. How about reading dialog boxes before you go clicking willy-nilly? Would that be a better model?
I saw one of the ties after he was hit, you could see where the wood pressed into the frame, however all the energy was put into the bumper and car, no damage to the rest of the truck.
Good lord. How often does your friend get rear-ended?
You may wish to remind your friend that wood is not a suspension medium, except when you are talking about big boats. While I realize that a full-sized truck may qualify for some as a "boat"....oh, whatever.
Microsoft will also allow you to download from its store any song that you've purchased from Apple, unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in.
OOOOOh? Really? I'm sure Microsoft won't care if Apple develops an iTMS plugin that strips DRM off of WMA files, then? Didn't some other company try doing this already? What was their name? Real...something.
Good grief. Microsoft promises everything Apple's been delivering for two years, and the tech press just wets themselves with feverish anticipation. Since when was Microsoft's promise good about ANYTHING other than a quarterly profit projection?
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High octane fuels reduce knock but at the expense of creating carbon build-up, which in turn causes knock.
This is completely incorrect, as are people who put regular gas in turbo cars or other high compression engines thinking "it's all gas".
To the dumb girl at the gas station: when your cute little 230 Kompressor eats a valve because you thought it was "all just gas"...well, you should paid attention to the little sticker on the gas cap (the one you see every time you gas in your car) that is printed in bold black-on-yellow type MINIMUM 91 OCTANE.
This time next year: MS "Zune" is a distant memory, and iPod/iTunes owns 85% of the online movie rental/download business, and Apple has begun to make serious inroads in the "home media center" market.
Why do you think they preannounced this piece of shit two weeks before WWDC and five months before it'll ship?
Microsoft's business as usual: Preannounce, overpromise, underdeliver. Rinse, later, repeat. Bankroll everything with Windows and Office revenue, and damn the torpedos, we'll buy ourselves as much marketshare as we can.
You know what? Some day, the music will stop in Redmond. Maybe not anytime soon - maybe not even in the next ten years - but the gravy train's wheels will fall off as more companies like Apple and Google continue to introduce truly better alternatives to the same crap Microsoft keeps shoveling.
You think the itunes interface sucks? Most people disagree. I think the WMP interface sucks - and most iTunes users agree. Microsoft couldn't design it's way out f a paper bag - but look at the elegant and simple tools that Apple and google deliver - oh, wait - this is Slashdot - if I say Pages is a better writing and layout tool than Word, then I'm just a fanboy.
But it's true - Google Earth, Sketch, etc. are all powerful by dint of their simplicity. Office is a fucking nightmare. You can't just start typing in Word - oh, no.
At some point, people will get tired of it. I have faith in that.
From this and all the other posts in the thread already, it's clear that this Zune name and product is already a joke.
I don't know about you, but if someone asks me what player to buy, I'm going to ask them if they already have one, and if they like it. Then I'll tell them to buy the newest one.
I don't see this being much of anything but "Windows Mobile Meets The X-Box as a music sales gimmick".
Creative: Zen
Microsoft: Zune
Both apparently unsuccessful rip-off of the
Mazda: Zoom-Zoom
I had a zen once.
I don't like Windows, or much else Microsoft turns out.
My last Mazda experience was forgettable.
At least in this house, they're all considered Zeros.
Perhaps we should go back to the Clinton model where Intelligence agencies and Law enforcement didn't share infomration, aka the Gorelick Wall [google.com], like it was pre-9/11.
:"Yeah, but Clinton...."
Oh god, you're right. Everything is the fault of Clinton and his cock. Gutting the CIA, putting in people like Dusty Foggo and letting morons like Doug Feith do the "not planning" for Iraq. All far preferable to a well-intentioned move by one of the people in Clinton's justice department. Yeah.
Remember - we're talking about C+ Augustus George W. Bush here - the man who, almost five years ago sat on his ranch and dismissed out of hand a briefing that clearly stated: "Bin Ladin Determined to Attack the U.S.". A man who still hasn't caught a 6 foot-7 maniac with a kidney problem. How fucking hard could it be to find a giant dragging a fucking dialysis machine around the desert?
For fuck's sake - you wingnuts are all the same - criticize the sainted Bush, and every retort start with
Just go read The Rude Pundit regarding Bush's "Christian" values pitch at the NAACP convention yesterday. Yes, such Christian values the man has:
Let me take your troll at face value for a moment... You want to execute those responsible for initiating a program intended to protect American citizens.
I guess you believe everything the government tells you, hunh? I think it's quite remarkable you can divine intent from a statement made by people who also intended for everything to go well in Iraq, despite lack of a plan.
I am no conspiracy theorist, but given what the Nixon alumni in this administration have already proven that they are capable of, I think trusting their stated intent is a bit like trusting a bamboo pole and kit string on a deep-dea fishing trip.
I am getting sick of pure mac zealots praising Intel since WWDC announcement.
.Mac service and you claim the parent being "devotee".
.Mac isn't the best hosting/email/sotrage value in the world, but it is nicely integrated with the Mac OS, comes with some free spiffs every month, and is a tiny cost of doing business overall. I use it for it's ease of posting password-protected files for clients.
Where did I praise Intel? I'm just glad Apple is offering competitive boxes again.
I also see you pay $100 yearly to
I admit that
Apple does not announce professional workstation line because there is NOTHING from x86 (Intel) to have Quad G5 specs right now.
Care to back that up with anything beyond your ironclad assurance? You come off as a tad defensive in your post, and somehow neglected to post any actual, you know, facts to bck up your claims. A Folding@home score does not mean that my database sort will go any faster, or that Apple will be able to get a faster or larger allocation of chips from IBM - who are having fab troubles of their own. The switch to Intel was a smart one from a cost, performance, and availability standpoint.
Also read some sites like http://www.power.org/about/faq/ before claiming PowerPC is old arch.
I didn't say it was an old architecture, just that it is no longer competitive in the General Purpose CPU space. PowerPC is a very competitive architecture in particular market segments - but general purpose CPUs are no longer a space IBM or Freescale want to play in. Maybe you can write them a similarly-reasoned letter and get them to reconsider.
Having owned Macs going all the way back to the beginning this is the first time I have ever been faced with Apple coming out with weaker machines than they already are shipping. This whole Intel mess with Apple is enough to make me sick enough to my stomach that I am faced with the first in my life feeling of moving beyond Apple.
People like you - the PowerPC devotee - make me embarrassed to be a 20+year Mac user.
Wasn't your Quad worth the money you paid for it when you bought it? You do realize Apple has to keep revving it's product line, don't you?
Face it - Intel's latest offerings are a better than the 970FX, which is a several-year-old design. The Core 2 has longer legs than the G5 in any form.
Apple's done it's users a favor by moving to a faster, less expensive, more readily available microprocessor part. They've also done users a favor by producing an easily-portable OS and gracious backwards compatibility.
You may pine for the days when you could argue the vagaries of microarchitectures you don't understand on Slashdot, but some of us actually have work to do and look forward to faster, more productive machines - and don't mind paying a few extra dollars for Apple design and the Mac OS. We like the relative simplicity Apple has brought to the x86 platform and we'll enjoy using our faster machines while you moan about your "Four by four monster style" PowerPC.
Go complain up a rope.
What would you rather they did? Choose different names for different versions of the same software?
Exactly. Why could you blame a Mac user for expecting a free copy of productivity software from the MacBU if Microsoft suddenly announced that "Microsoft Office is now Free!"
Clumsy wording by the marketing department at best, and Microsoft should either follow through with free VPC for Mac users or a coupon and clarification. If people were pissed enough, they could bring consumer protection litigation in California - but I'm not sure about other states. Luckily, (for Microsoft) I don't think most Mac users heard about this.
It would be nice if someone told the nitwits at Microsoft that there is a Mac Business Unit within the very same company - and that it also sells a product called Virtual PC - BEFORE announcing that "Virtual PC is now free".
Glad to see I'm not the only one who wondered why CERN was making a porn video.
, like OS X was to OS 9, there is a significant underlyiung system change (permissiones, etc.) and also probably a less backward compatible archetecture.
I can't seriously believe that you can simultaneously understand the magnitude of the shift from the Classic Mac OS to a completely different operating system that preserves compatibility with older programs, and characterize it as a "major bug fix". Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X codebases share virtually nothing in common except for the company that owns them.
A similar comparison would be that Windows 2000 was a "major bug fix" for DOS 3.3. C'mon.
I'm not going to rewrite the whole genealogy of the Mac OS, but I suggest you do some reading about it if you're going to insist on making asinine comparisons like these - if you ever pop off with a line like that at a party (at least in Silicon Valley) educated geeks are going to laugh up their sleeves at you.
I can remember being very young and asking why they called people "Black" and "White", when they looked nothing like those colours.
I have a similar story of when I was very young, talking to a much older distant relative. this was in about 1979 or so, and I was a relatively naif under ten-year-old.
The elderly relative said something about "colored people". I asked what colors they were, and he started laughing and said something I won't repeat here - that he meant "those people".
Time to tell Sony to never build another console and colour it in a way that might be related to skin color.
Alexandra, I'm talking about the Sony ad. Not the console. Pay attention. I have no problem with devices of any color - it's how Sony presents their white device against the black device in advertising that's got everybody riled up.
Highlighting the contrast between white and black models of the same device doesn't seem to be a problem for Apple. Why did Sony's ad agency take such a direction, if not to incite controversy?
Here are the basics about the ad: it features blacks and white in conflict, in dominant/submissive behavior roles. The ad is for a portable gaming system. It features two women of different, and highlighted races fighting over some unseen goal.
Some people find public images of white/black conflict and dominance/submission of any race to another to be offensive. That's what this is about, Alexandra - not what color the stupid PSP actually is. To run the ad knowing these facts is stupid, and I have to believe that in line with it's stupid "spray paint my neighborhood because we all love more spray painted blight", the campaign was designed to create controversy - and by doing so with the black/white imagery, can legitimately be construed as racist.
But nobody says anything about the picture where the black is dominating the white. Why is that not racist? Or is racism only when the black is the one being dominated?
Because blacks dominating whites and treating them unfairly is not a problem in the world today, and with few smll scale exceptions, has never been a problem in modern civilization - certainly not nearly on the level of whites treating blacks unfairly in an institutionalized manner, notably a problem here in the U.S. and in South Africa within the past few years.
Racism in my country is borne from the class status of one race being used as power over another race, and that behavior continues today in many forms. The ad featuring a white woman dominating a black woman highlights this friction and has been interpreted as offensive to some people. Yes, it's a problem. No, pointing it out doesn't "remind" anyone that there's racism, except for an ignorant few who seem to think racism isn't a problem anymore because they can't go out and buy a slave.
(Is levy the new PC word?)
No, leveé is the old French word for dike. To levy is to place an injunction against a real person for money.
I agree. If you think about racism, you'll find the ad. racist. If you don't give a damn about skin color, the ad is just the representation of PSP colors.
You're not black, are you?
Neither am I for the record, but I grew up in the American south, where (gasp!) white people gathered together still occasionally and breathily refer to blacks as ni**er, spook, spade, and lots of other extremely creative names.
During my time in Baton Rouge this year, I overheard (in racist hotspots like Outback steakhouse and a Shell gas station on the Interstate) wonderful things like "too bad so many of them got out of New Orleans - now they're stinking up Baton Rouge" and "If a hurricane hits the Baton Rouge this year, does that mean all the [blacks] will go back to New Orleans?
In light of the fact that yes, people actually still think this way, and that Son'y ads portray black and white models fighting simply because they are black and white , then I think it's justified to criticize this ad campaign, and heavily.
Hate groups and extremists like Michelle Malkin love to pretend that pointing out racism is racist in itself - because, the argument goes - "you must have racist tendencies to recognize them in others' speech or behavior".
Ask yourself how much sense that makes. Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A racist because he tried to eliminate racism against blacks? Is the Southern Poverty Law Center racist because it seeks out racists and discriminatory behavior?
Pointing out the obvious domination/submission aspects of an ad that highlights two races historically embroiled in conflict over race itself is not racist. And pointing out Sony's extremely stupid "piss everyone off with spray paint ads and white/black fighting" is elementary.
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I think Slashdot is in serious need of maturity. This is not 1998 anymore, and stories like the one I cited make this place look like it's run by 14-year-olds - the PowerPoint deprived intellectual partners of those pointy-headed fools we love to hate. Immature 14-year-olds who are failing English, at that.
What a joke this place has become - the commenters are as, uh, great as always, but the stories, editing, and crap that makes it to the front page are ridiculous. I mean, yay for the redesign, but pissing in a jeweled goblet doesn't make the piss taste better.
Easy: they'll do the same thing they've done with the x-box (subsidize the music at their cost, to win market share)....
Let me put that another way. Microsoft is prepared to spend whatever it takes (up to $2-3 Billion) simply to re-buy everything ever purchased form iTunes.
Boy, that's America for you, hunh?
Damn. They must have hired some dot-com business types. More power to them!
Easy: they'll do the same thing they've done with the x-box (subsidize the music at their cost, to win market share)....
Then Microsoft is going to go out of pocket to the tune of about $2.5 Billion simply to steal iTunes marketshare?
Fuck, they MUST be worried. I'd be surprised if they've lost that much on the XBox and 360 combined. Good thing they have that excellent OS to fall back on.
Sat at work and had some music on my PC there. Excellent I'll stick it on my ipod to take home with me. Installed iTunes, plugged in my ipod and iTunes completely emptied it for me.
Yes, after you clicked the "OK" (non-default) button that said "This iPod is paired with another music Library. Do you want to erase this iPod and use this music library?"
What, now Apple is responsible for your lack of reading comprehension? And you call their model piss-poor. How about reading dialog boxes before you go clicking willy-nilly? Would that be a better model?
I saw one of the ties after he was hit, you could see where the wood pressed into the frame, however all the energy was put into the bumper and car, no damage to the rest of the truck.
Good lord. How often does your friend get rear-ended?
You may wish to remind your friend that wood is not a suspension medium, except when you are talking about big boats. While I realize that a full-sized truck may qualify for some as a "boat"....oh, whatever.
What a horseshit article.
Microsoft will also allow you to download from its store any song that you've purchased from Apple, unlocking users from iPod's vendor lock-in.
OOOOOh? Really? I'm sure Microsoft won't care if Apple develops an iTMS plugin that strips DRM off of WMA files, then? Didn't some other company try doing this already? What was their name? Real...something.
Good grief. Microsoft promises everything Apple's been delivering for two years, and the tech press just wets themselves with feverish anticipation. Since when was Microsoft's promise good about ANYTHING other than a quarterly profit projection?