CNet has always seemed to hate Apple... the way this article is spun confirms it, I say... As for charging for iApps, I'm sure they won't have serial numbers or anything... it's just another DMG to snag from Carracho... no serious hassle but it sucks.
I've heard they were putting a lot of work into properly Cocoaizing iPhoto for the next release, a serious upgrade. You can tell with the 10.2.3 update that it, along with iTunes, aren't really properly Cocoaized because the stoplight buttons don't look right anymore.
Just because video games are a good market means that Wing Commander and the Sims == like 1/3 of radio stations and, ohh, ABC, and a huge chunk of cable (ESPN etc) to name but a couple holdings... whatever, video game companies will never equal dominant mass media for influence or size. Until you can get opiate tabs with your GTA...
Sounds from the article that the CEO doesn't even know how to exploit women for their image... Jesus Christ, Disney was good at that and he didn't cater to the teenage male market like EA...
Business 2.0 is 0wn3d by AOL/Time Warner anyway, its in their interest to make it look like our modern media megaliths are still threatened by West Coast programmers... And yes i feel sorry for the poor losers that are going to fork over all that money to play an online game which is actively being infiltrated by fucking Intel and McDonald's advertisements.
I think it makes sense to say that EA type big releases will start to acquire a stronger gloss of professionalism because they can import Hollywood talent, (effects. art and voices) but yes even the SuperMcSimsOnline is just a video game.
Man FUCK THAT SHIT
I have iTunes!
I tell people that WMA is not to be trusted, its a closed codec that's designed to trap you in MS bullshiat, but they never listen. Mp3s forever, seriously. They work great and never give you any hassle. Who needs WMA? All your PC licence gibberish gives me an instant headache.
Well over here in the States we don't have your television tax and the whole quasi-socialized broadcast system. Over here it's much more independent, and retailers and manufacturers aren't going to piss off their customers by yanking analog TVs anytime soon. I suppose it was made illegal to sell analog TVs in UK retail some years ago??
be be bye bye boo hoo. or perhaps, that's the way the be bounces. Seriously tho, tis a pity to lose another OS. Some say this was partially Apple's fault?
our internet access just fucking sucks. There's no organized quota system to speak of, but the bandwidth just isn't there. Everyone is stuck at speeds around 4k/sec during evenings, better at off-peak. We set up Limewire to connect only to computers within the campus network, and we get lickety-split LAN speeds. It's kewl and actually lets us get what we need. IT staffers really appreciate that solution...
It's interesting that Apple released a device that doesn't use an OS they developed (unlike Newton or any computer in decades). Instead a company called "PIXO" did it for them (see article) However the Chicago font actually makes a funny sort of sense, as the founder of PIXO was one of the original developers of the all-time most-innovative personal computer technologies, the original Apple Macintosh Finder, which used "Chicago" in the menus and such. I forget his name though. It is indeed very mac-like in a retro way, which now that you mention it I really like a lot. Huzzah Apple!
I strongly suspect something other than the usual theory of CD-ripping protection is going on here (inserting checksum-foiling bits or some such). These guys switched from Wintels (a lot of Dell-wintels to be even more generic) with CD players to DVD players, controlled by different automatic Windows procedures. No mention is really made of the difference in how DVD players *under windows* play regular CDs differently anyhow.
It seems to me this is just one of those CDAutoStart things that Windows responds to in particular.
I got tipped off to this by when they mention "Track 1" never plays. I BET they didn't notice the total track count go up by one, as the Windows software talking to the DVD player parses its error-handling differently (correctly), and the result is like putting a PC hybrid CD in a Mac. In fact i strongly expect this Cactus lockout thing would not work on a Mac by default, and very very likely Linux/*nix as well. The tracks would appear as normal, though possibly not that first track, because its header DOES get lost in the scrambling, maybe.
Perhaps this is hogwash, but I've heard about Macs seeing through similar schemes before. I think that these TechTV guys sort of percolated through the truth of older reports to home users that are kinda savvy but don't like leaving their Gates Paradigm Computing, thus only the windows DVD stuff, no mention of other platforms at all.
On the other hand, if this is not unique to Windows (I wonder about Mac DVD players) then maybe that program has low-level drivers which affect how the CD drive does checksums, but DVD players do differently anyway.
Yeah, another victory for the Fair Use groups, as the people designing this have their asses backwards because they're counting on all computer users (mass 37331 pirates) to be Windows computers. OOPS...
Universal, i will scout for your discs, and as a Mac user of self-proclaimed badassary, "hack" via insertion your CD, rip, burn and mail to your well-tanned California ass.... Mwahaaha... All right enough fevered fantasies of geek revenge... back to work...
The article refers to something called a "HyperCard," although HyperCard was a trademark of Apple's well before 1991. HyperCard, in many ways, explored the possible functions of the WWW, and helped people learn to program in HyperTalk. However the article says: It required an expensive video editing system, that included a $10,000 professional video card called a HyperCard, a Macintosh and a laser disc player. Well, Hypercard and Quicktime both kick lots of ass. That is all.
The choices in advertising accepted by any service, such as Google, reflect that organization's political beliefs. I have noticed that whenever you search for drug info on Google, say LSD, cocaine, heroin, etc., you always get an ad from freevibe.com , a government-sponsored anti-drug web site.
However, recently the ad which appears for marijuana changed to NewScientist.com, a science journal which has been publishing much more balanced and thorough information on weed, some of which advocates that weed is less dangerous than alcohol. Also the top result is NORML, a legalization-advocacy group. (This is probably not due to tampering w/ the search engine, but is interesting)
I believe that The Powers That Be within Google have taken the more moderate, academic drug stance, as opposed to gov't-sponsored propaganda. Google's pretty influential, Internet-culture-wise. Food for thought.
(Offtopic, sort of, i know, but I saw a Google story and had to run with it!)
Instead of creating new tlds that are mostly duplicates of existing tlds, we should be restricting domain ownership, so no legal person can own more than one domain. That should prevent people and companies from spamming DNS, so that good names remain available.
I think not. A friend of mine, age 18, runs a e-mail based contest site (20,000+ subscribers), his dad's law office site, and a general web production company. To demand that his contest or his web production sites be relegated to a lengthy URL is plain foolish, and no one will ever agree to it. Ever. Should Microsoft combine msn.com, microsoft.com and hotmail.com into one domain? VA Linux to combine Slashdot, valinux.com, sourceforge, newsforge and AnimeFu? (or whatever, I forget who owns what) Of course not! That would be a hassle to users and admin alike. A just plain silly notion, unrealistic and noxious to everyone involved with the Internet.
Perhaps it's not a lightsaber at all but a Moodsaber®. It's green when he's around big, handsome and studly Obi-Wan, blue around the other guy that doesn't swing that way, and purple around the princess....
If that was Annakin's true nature, wouldn't the moodsaber turn purple (put on your Jerry Falwell caps everyone) around "studly Obi-Wan"?
When it comes to entertainment which I receive freely (as in beer) or even cable, there is a reasonable level of stuff I will put up with. I have no problem with the station or network logo overlaid as a semi-transparent, ghost-like image (with an alpha channel for the techies:). Lots of people tape things, and i think its fair for the broadcaster to be noted. On the other hand, the bright logos, the animations (there have been some flags etc.) are pretty intrusive.
Also a lot of news services attach logos to released footage of course. If the news organization is obscure in the U.S., for example Al-Jazeera, it is fair, in my opinion, to include a logo. Those people, (here I'm thinking of footage in Kabul) invested money and put their bums on the line to get that footage, and if their credit is a little too blaring, well, go get your own damn footage.
These days video gets passed around a lot more freely than it used to. If the people who got it for you want you to be reminded in a relatively unobtrusive fashion, that's their perogative.
Some people here complain that it's damaging the artistry. I have done some video and I know that TV video, as a format, is relatively not "solid", compared with, say, text or paintings... Every TV has different distortion properties, the corners may be cut off if it's not a Trinitron, the colors, of course, are unreliable. My point is that purity of experience in TV video is not going to happen, because of the nature of the system. These people aren't being very reasonable.
All right, I know I am being blinded by flashes of the obvious non-pun, but let me expound:
Conspiracy theorists, reeling from the news of an attempted ban on cookies, blame the secretive Adeno-Triphosphate-Lateral Commission for attempting to strange the world's supply of nutritious sugars. Danish and croissant manufacturer's associations, as well as independent bakeries throughout western Europe, have barraged Brussels with calls to reconsider what they see as unwarranted government intrusion in the pastry sector. Echoing these calls is French PM Mitterand, who stated yesterday, "The right to freely make pastries of whatever type a French citizen chooses is integral to our society. Liberty, equality and delicious treats, that is our national motto."
In a typical move, late night comedians on the Continent mocked innocent Ukraine, which is attempting to join the EU. "Hello my name is Zyrgz Yakobinksky and I am our President, of the Ukraine. What are these cukeis of which you speak? We of the Ukraine only eat rocks, raw fish, and discarded Communist literature. If you ban the cukeis in the West we would be happy to take them." A nutritional scientist with some university pointed out that neither rocks nor the works of Engels and Marx are considered edible in virtually all cultures, excepting tribesmen on the far reaches of the Indonesian archipelago.
wget http://www.msn.com returned the error page, however
wget -U "Mozilla (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0; Bill Gates eats worms)" http://www.msn.com returned the full index page. I was pretty offended when a high school's web site failed to return anything on IE for Mac or wget, but IE on PC gave the full page. In my view such a setup is discriminatory to people with disabilities, because they may have to use special browsers, and I'm disappointed to see MS doing the same thing just to assert themselves further in the browser market.
"We are unfortunately just behind schedule. We know that all of this is imperative. Within the next weeks we will be back to the most updated index." She added that the company has "crawled" the Web pages across the Internet but has not updated the index as of yet.
Umm... isn't the very core of your purpose to update listings? And you haven't updated non-commercial listings since JULY? Whoever is managing this engine has entirely lost sight of what they need to be doing. Meanwhile google does a hell of a job giving web users what they want, without tons of rather deceitful advertising and gook all over the interface. (of course Google has advertising, but it is clearly deliniated, off to the side, and does not overwhelm true results) Altavista, of course, needs to get their act together or risk collapse.
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I've heard they were putting a lot of work into properly Cocoaizing iPhoto for the next release, a serious upgrade. You can tell with the 10.2.3 update that it, along with iTunes, aren't really properly Cocoaized because the stoplight buttons don't look right anymore.
Sounds from the article that the CEO doesn't even know how to exploit women for their image... Jesus Christ, Disney was good at that and he didn't cater to the teenage male market like EA...
Business 2.0 is 0wn3d by AOL/Time Warner anyway, its in their interest to make it look like our modern media megaliths are still threatened by West Coast programmers... And yes i feel sorry for the poor losers that are going to fork over all that money to play an online game which is actively being infiltrated by fucking Intel and McDonald's advertisements.
I think it makes sense to say that EA type big releases will start to acquire a stronger gloss of professionalism because they can import Hollywood talent, (effects. art and voices) but yes even the SuperMcSimsOnline is just a video game.
Of course they will. Windows people are wankers.
Man FUCK THAT SHIT
I have iTunes!
I tell people that WMA is not to be trusted, its a closed codec that's designed to trap you in MS bullshiat, but they never listen. Mp3s forever, seriously. They work great and never give you any hassle. Who needs WMA? All your PC licence gibberish gives me an instant headache.
Well over here in the States we don't have your television tax and the whole quasi-socialized broadcast system. Over here it's much more independent, and retailers and manufacturers aren't going to piss off their customers by yanking analog TVs anytime soon. I suppose it was made illegal to sell analog TVs in UK retail some years ago??
be be bye bye boo hoo.
or perhaps, that's the way the be bounces.
Seriously tho, tis a pity to lose another OS. Some say this was partially Apple's fault?
I bet you just started work on the manual prototype.
I heard it was Sirhan Sirhan, RFK's assassin. That was a pretty weird case, and not as wrapped up in idiocy as JFK's.
Oh good! you read your Sunday morning Doonesbury! Bonus points if you know what the Boondocks' Huey said today about the 15th amendment.
Was the Lone Gunmen episode the one where they hacked the cookies? :-D
our internet access just fucking sucks. There's no organized quota system to speak of, but the bandwidth just isn't there. Everyone is stuck at speeds around 4k/sec during evenings, better at off-peak. We set up Limewire to connect only to computers within the campus network, and we get lickety-split LAN speeds. It's kewl and actually lets us get what we need. IT staffers really appreciate that solution...
What about these fucking government beams on MY HERB, man!? Tha fuck's up with that shit?
P.S. MAD Props for the marathon sig :-D
It seems to me this is just one of those CDAutoStart things that Windows responds to in particular.
I got tipped off to this by when they mention "Track 1" never plays. I BET they didn't notice the total track count go up by one, as the Windows software talking to the DVD player parses its error-handling differently (correctly), and the result is like putting a PC hybrid CD in a Mac. In fact i strongly expect this Cactus lockout thing would not work on a Mac by default, and very very likely Linux/*nix as well. The tracks would appear as normal, though possibly not that first track, because its header DOES get lost in the scrambling, maybe.
Perhaps this is hogwash, but I've heard about Macs seeing through similar schemes before. I think that these TechTV guys sort of percolated through the truth of older reports to home users that are kinda savvy but don't like leaving their Gates Paradigm Computing, thus only the windows DVD stuff, no mention of other platforms at all.
On the other hand, if this is not unique to Windows (I wonder about Mac DVD players) then maybe that program has low-level drivers which affect how the CD drive does checksums, but DVD players do differently anyway.
Yeah, another victory for the Fair Use groups, as the people designing this have their asses backwards because they're counting on all computer users (mass 37331 pirates) to be Windows computers. OOPS...
Universal, i will scout for your discs, and as a Mac user of self-proclaimed badassary, "hack" via insertion your CD, rip, burn and mail to your well-tanned California ass.... Mwahaaha... All right enough fevered fantasies of geek revenge... back to work...
That was more than a year ago, o how the time has passed... try http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net for special kernels, info and such
The launch will be in Europe and South America.
Oh, starting in Europe yet again? Quiet outlying areas of Poland, perhaps?
I will never take one of these things, as long as I live. Ever.
Next thing you know the goddamn hippies are going to demand we only set them on 'stun.' Bastards!
The article refers to something called a "HyperCard," although HyperCard was a trademark of Apple's well before 1991. HyperCard, in many ways, explored the possible functions of the WWW, and helped people learn to program in HyperTalk. However the article says: It required an expensive video editing system, that included a $10,000 professional video card called a HyperCard, a Macintosh and a laser disc player. Well, Hypercard and Quicktime both kick lots of ass. That is all.
However, recently the ad which appears for marijuana changed to NewScientist.com, a science journal which has been publishing much more balanced and thorough information on weed, some of which advocates that weed is less dangerous than alcohol. Also the top result is NORML, a legalization-advocacy group. (This is probably not due to tampering w/ the search engine, but is interesting)
I believe that The Powers That Be within Google have taken the more moderate, academic drug stance, as opposed to gov't-sponsored propaganda. Google's pretty influential, Internet-culture-wise. Food for thought.
(Offtopic, sort of, i know, but I saw a Google story and had to run with it!)
I think not. A friend of mine, age 18, runs a e-mail based contest site (20,000+ subscribers), his dad's law office site, and a general web production company. To demand that his contest or his web production sites be relegated to a lengthy URL is plain foolish, and no one will ever agree to it. Ever. Should Microsoft combine msn.com, microsoft.com and hotmail.com into one domain? VA Linux to combine Slashdot, valinux.com, sourceforge, newsforge and AnimeFu? (or whatever, I forget who owns what) Of course not! That would be a hassle to users and admin alike. A just plain silly notion, unrealistic and noxious to everyone involved with the Internet.
If that was Annakin's true nature, wouldn't the moodsaber turn purple (put on your Jerry Falwell caps everyone) around "studly Obi-Wan"?
Also a lot of news services attach logos to released footage of course. If the news organization is obscure in the U.S., for example Al-Jazeera, it is fair, in my opinion, to include a logo. Those people, (here I'm thinking of footage in Kabul) invested money and put their bums on the line to get that footage, and if their credit is a little too blaring, well, go get your own damn footage.
These days video gets passed around a lot more freely than it used to. If the people who got it for you want you to be reminded in a relatively unobtrusive fashion, that's their perogative.
Some people here complain that it's damaging the artistry. I have done some video and I know that TV video, as a format, is relatively not "solid", compared with, say, text or paintings... Every TV has different distortion properties, the corners may be cut off if it's not a Trinitron, the colors, of course, are unreliable. My point is that purity of experience in TV video is not going to happen, because of the nature of the system. These people aren't being very reasonable.
Conspiracy theorists, reeling from the news of an attempted ban on cookies, blame the secretive Adeno-Triphosphate-Lateral Commission for attempting to strange the world's supply of nutritious sugars. Danish and croissant manufacturer's associations, as well as independent bakeries throughout western Europe, have barraged Brussels with calls to reconsider what they see as unwarranted government intrusion in the pastry sector. Echoing these calls is French PM Mitterand, who stated yesterday, "The right to freely make pastries of whatever type a French citizen chooses is integral to our society. Liberty, equality and delicious treats, that is our national motto."
In a typical move, late night comedians on the Continent mocked innocent Ukraine, which is attempting to join the EU. "Hello my name is Zyrgz Yakobinksky and I am our President, of the Ukraine. What are these cukeis of which you speak? We of the Ukraine only eat rocks, raw fish, and discarded Communist literature. If you ban the cukeis in the West we would be happy to take them." A nutritional scientist with some university pointed out that neither rocks nor the works of Engels and Marx are considered edible in virtually all cultures, excepting tribesmen on the far reaches of the Indonesian archipelago.
wget -U "Mozilla (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0; Bill Gates eats worms)" http://www.msn.com returned the full index page. I was pretty offended when a high school's web site failed to return anything on IE for Mac or wget, but IE on PC gave the full page. In my view such a setup is discriminatory to people with disabilities, because they may have to use special browsers, and I'm disappointed to see MS doing the same thing just to assert themselves further in the browser market.
Umm... isn't the very core of your purpose to update listings? And you haven't updated non-commercial listings since JULY? Whoever is managing this engine has entirely lost sight of what they need to be doing. Meanwhile google does a hell of a job giving web users what they want, without tons of rather deceitful advertising and gook all over the interface. (of course Google has advertising, but it is clearly deliniated, off to the side, and does not overwhelm true results) Altavista, of course, needs to get their act together or risk collapse.
I say if the X-box is crashing this much it's pretty much DOA already.