Back when Star Wars first came out, Starlog magazine spent an entire issue devoted to Stars Wars. They mentioned somewhere that Charles Lippincott was writing a book called "The Making of Star Wars", inspired by "The Making of Star Trek" book, but it never appeared.
I'm really glad to see that some of this material is finally seeing the light of day.
Hey, the concentration camp guards had products that worked, too. I guess you'd have no argument against making six figures on their coattails, either. (Yeah, yeah, I know. Goodwin's Law.)
I'm sure there's a good reason for it defaulting to XHTML compliance, and I'm just as sure it has nothing to do with adherence to standards. Check this article on XHTML note the IE 7 doesn't even render XHTML properly, and ask yourself why they're outputting XHTML by default. It smacks of vendor lock-in to me.
The fact remains Microsoft has great products Name one. Seriously. Name a product from Microsoft that doesn't have a better competitor in the marketplace, in terms of a cost/benefit analysis. Microsoft is always the most expensive, least reliable solution.
"Bill Gates has no vision. He's never had vision. He has business acumen, but never any vision." That doesn't sound quite right. How about: "Bill Gates has no vision. He's never had vision. He has a complete lack of morals and ethics, but never any vision."
That explains why their presentations SUCK compared to Jobs'. He spends a lot of time on his keynotes, and it shows. And sorry, but "They have larger issues on their minds?" What the hell is larger than making a major presentation for a major product launch, for the company they're in charge of? How much their options have sucked in the last five years?
Pity Gates and Ballmer didn't go on those courses. The slides I've seen behind them at recent presentations have been some of the most awful in living memory. Take a look at the slides on this page for some examples of what I'm talking about. I guess the bosses get an exemption. Pity.
I remember that era of the LCBO too. I think there was a store in Ottawa that used that system up until the early 1980's. Ontario is remarkably puritan. There used to be a law that you couldn't carry your glass of beer around in bars. You had to sit at a table or the bar, and if you wanted to move, the barman or waitress had to move your drink for you.
I actually got completely addicted to Luxor on the Mac. Luxor 2 is also available for the Mac, so I'm avoiding it until I know the time-sucking qualities of the game won't interfere with other interests. Luxor is a pretty unique game, combining aspects of an old-style shooter with a puzzle element kind of like Bejeweled.
No, Windows is an attempt to run on a huge range of hardware. It doesn't always work. For every person who says, "I get a blue screen", or "my laptop doesn't wake from sleep", there's someone else who says, "You must be lying, I've never had that problem." The truth is, they're both right. Windows is inconsistent. Ridiculously so. That's why it sucks. You don't know what you're getting from one install to the next.
But the PS3 advantage (if they can establish a price point and sell enough of the damn things) is that the Blu-Ray drive is standard. That means that the larger capacity can be used for game data. No matter what optional drives Microsoft ships for the 360, game designers will always be hobbled by the constraint of the DVD as the lowest common denominator. If the PS3 survives its games will end up looking a lot more impressive than 360 games of the same vintage.
Yeah, right. I once worked for the AECB (Atomic Energy Control Board), and I could tell you some real horror stories about the Canadian nuclear energy program, but they'd bust me under the Official Secrets Act.
I have the time to listen to a 1.5 hour mp3. I just don't have the stomach to listen the an hour and a half of Gates' nasally, whiney voice. Seriously. I can barely stand to listen to the man for 30 seconds. God have pity on his underlings. (Or his wife. )
Or thank us, actually. You should notice at the end of each episode that "Doctor Who" was produced in co-operation with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). In spite of this the CBC aired the second season months later than the BBC or Sci Fi, and took a six week break over Christmas. And they still haven't aired the Christmas special "The Runaway Bride" (even though I gather we haven't missed much.)
No word of "The Sarah Jane Adventures", either, with is a pity, because I think Elizabeth Sladen is still really hot!
Oh, and "Torchwood"? The CBC co-produced that, too. Check then end credits. But no word if it will ever air in Canada. I've googled the CBC website; the word 'Torchwoood' does not appear anywhere on the site.
So, Canadians, your tax dollars have been financing shows you can't see. Americans who can watch it on Sci Fi, you're welcome.
And QuickTime. Apple developed the video playback software, containers, codecs, the whole shootin' match. Microsoft stole great chunks of the code, and later got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. That's part of the reason for the contra-deals between Apple and Microsoft in the 1990's.
What makes me think the next piece of legislation this idiot will write will mandate that pi be defined as exactly 3, since 3.14159... is too difficult?
Here's a hint: use any editor that edits and saves as RTF. Save your resumé, then change the file extension from.RTF to.DOC. MS Word will open it transparently. I've been doing this for years.
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I hope you appreciate the irony of that statement.
Back when Star Wars first came out, Starlog magazine spent an entire issue devoted to Stars Wars. They mentioned somewhere that Charles Lippincott was writing a book called "The Making of Star Wars", inspired by "The Making of Star Trek" book, but it never appeared.
I'm really glad to see that some of this material is finally seeing the light of day.
Hey, the concentration camp guards had products that worked, too. I guess you'd have no argument against making six figures on their coattails, either.
(Yeah, yeah, I know. Goodwin's Law.)
I'm sure there's a good reason for it defaulting to XHTML compliance, and I'm just as sure it has nothing to do with adherence to standards. Check this article on XHTML note the IE 7 doesn't even render XHTML properly, and ask yourself why they're outputting XHTML by default. It smacks of vendor lock-in to me.
The fact remains Microsoft has great products
Name one. Seriously. Name a product from Microsoft that doesn't have a better competitor in the marketplace, in terms of a cost/benefit analysis. Microsoft is always the most expensive, least reliable solution.
I guess I'm the only one who was reminded of Tom Swift and his Diving Seacopter. (Although this one doesn't seem the be submersible.)
Is this the same Jason Reindorp who said, "Mr. Jobs's call for unrestricted music sales was "irresponsible, or at the very least naïve," (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/technology/07mu sic.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=82b92ed0fed4782b& ex=1176004800)?
This is just Microsoft spin at its quickest.
(Although he did also say, ""the stars were already aligning" to loosen the restrictions." (Ibid). Nothing like CYA.
Macports.http://www.macports.org/
Then: sudo port install subversion +tools
"Bill Gates has no vision. He's never had vision. He has business acumen, but never any vision."
That doesn't sound quite right. How about:
"Bill Gates has no vision. He's never had vision. He has a complete lack of morals and ethics, but never any vision."
That explains why their presentations SUCK compared to Jobs'. He spends a lot of time on his keynotes, and it shows.
And sorry, but "They have larger issues on their minds?" What the hell is larger than making a major presentation for a major product launch, for the company they're in charge of? How much their options have sucked in the last five years?
Pity Gates and Ballmer didn't go on those courses. The slides I've seen behind them at recent presentations have been some of the most awful in living memory. Take a look at the slides on this page for some examples of what I'm talking about.
I guess the bosses get an exemption. Pity.
Yes, and Apple has an API, and encourages developers to write Spotlight plugins for their apps.
I remember that era of the LCBO too. I think there was a store in Ottawa that used that system up until the early 1980's. Ontario is remarkably puritan. There used to be a law that you couldn't carry your glass of beer around in bars. You had to sit at a table or the bar, and if you wanted to move, the barman or waitress had to move your drink for you.
I actually got completely addicted to Luxor on the Mac. Luxor 2 is also available for the Mac, so I'm avoiding it until I know the time-sucking qualities of the game won't interfere with other interests.
Luxor is a pretty unique game, combining aspects of an old-style shooter with a puzzle element kind of like Bejeweled.
Unfortunately for your argument, it's the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission link, so it may well be within their jurisdiction.
In Ontario, in the 80's, it was The Brewers' Retail. :-P
You're probably too young to remember.
*shrug* I'll take 'nice' over 'open' any day. And I hope you're not referring to Windows as 'open'.
No, Windows is an attempt to run on a huge range of hardware. It doesn't always work. For every person who says, "I get a blue screen", or "my laptop doesn't wake from sleep", there's someone else who says, "You must be lying, I've never had that problem." The truth is, they're both right. Windows is inconsistent. Ridiculously so. That's why it sucks. You don't know what you're getting from one install to the next.
But the PS3 advantage (if they can establish a price point and sell enough of the damn things) is that the Blu-Ray drive is standard. That means that the larger capacity can be used for game data. No matter what optional drives Microsoft ships for the 360, game designers will always be hobbled by the constraint of the DVD as the lowest common denominator.
If the PS3 survives its games will end up looking a lot more impressive than 360 games of the same vintage.
Yeah, right. I once worked for the AECB (Atomic Energy Control Board), and I could tell you some real horror stories about the Canadian nuclear energy program, but they'd bust me under the Official Secrets Act.
I have the time to listen to a 1.5 hour mp3. I just don't have the stomach to listen the an hour and a half of Gates' nasally, whiney voice.
Seriously.
I can barely stand to listen to the man for 30 seconds. God have pity on his underlings. (Or his wife. )
Or thank us, actually. You should notice at the end of each episode that "Doctor Who" was produced in co-operation with the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). In spite of this the CBC aired the second season months later than the BBC or Sci Fi, and took a six week break over Christmas. And they still haven't aired the Christmas special "The Runaway Bride" (even though I gather we haven't missed much.)
No word of "The Sarah Jane Adventures", either, with is a pity, because I think Elizabeth Sladen is still really hot!
Oh, and "Torchwood"? The CBC co-produced that, too. Check then end credits. But no word if it will ever air in Canada. I've googled the CBC website; the word 'Torchwoood' does not appear anywhere on the site.
So, Canadians, your tax dollars have been financing shows you can't see. Americans who can watch it on Sci Fi, you're welcome.
And QuickTime. Apple developed the video playback software, containers, codecs, the whole shootin' match. Microsoft stole great chunks of the code, and later got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. That's part of the reason for the contra-deals between Apple and Microsoft in the 1990's.
What makes me think the next piece of legislation this idiot will write will mandate that pi be defined as exactly 3, since 3.14159... is too difficult?
Here's a hint: use any editor that edits and saves as RTF. Save your resumé, then change the file extension from .RTF to .DOC. MS Word will open it transparently. I've been doing this for years.