Oh, right, it's just an incredible coincidence that this comet gets bright the very same week that the iPhone is introduced.
Jealous losers like Cisco and God just want to try and be cool like Apple.
Nobody ever even heard of this comet before just a few months ago. Maybe if they'd actually innovated and made a better comet then people would have heard of it before it's totally obsolete.
Just ask anyone which they've heard of: "the iPhone" or "McNaught's Comet." Hah, I'll bet you probably have a tough time even finding McNaught's Comet.
Snarky comment aside, people inside Apple (there are some folks who work there other than SJ) have been slaving on this for a long time. Looks like they've done really nice work. Bet they're glad they can finally talk about it! I mean, working on black DOD stuff one expects that, but it's kind of funny not to be able to talk...about a phone!
And most of all, I look forward to tech rumors about something other than Apple's new phone.
I can't find any indication in the tech specs or in the keynote coverage whether the battery can be replaced. (Spec sheet just talks about the battery eventually wearing out.)
How many cycles before one has to replace the entire phone?
Even though the election won't close until at least the end of the month, the Supreme Court has ordained 5-4 that the winner is "Why Al Gore Is Wrong - The Triumphs Of Faith-Based Science."
Future episodes will cover:
The real age of the Grand Canyon
Intelligent Design
The impossibility of heavier-than-air flight
The fundamental flaw in Gallileo's arguments
The unquestionable accuracy of US voting machines
Why you need to upgrade to Windows Vista
The iPod: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Well, I didn't quite club one, but I do have pictures of me laughingly pretending that's what I was doing. I suspect I'm going to regret that.
The real story was that I met the inventor at a public exhibition of the seals, and before he was introduced to the audience I saw a couple of the seals with a large wooden mallet lying next to them. My first thought was "Oh dear God, no. Tell me he's not going to...."
Of course, bad taste and poor judgement (entirely on my part) took over from there.:-)
The inventor was very good-natured about the whole thing, and seems to be quite a nice guy.
If I ever run for President, I guess I'm dead meat. ( Though if I ever run for President of Canadia, this and an endorsement from Don Cherry and I'm in! )
Is people who, having watched a movie (copied or otherwise), realize "OMG, these people make nothing but crap."
(cue obligatory Cheech and Chong sketch: "Does it look like an MPAA movie???")
It's like famous adman Jerry Della Femina always said - the fastest way to kill a bad product is good advertising.
Think of copying as "good advertising."
Arrr, matey! Turn me crank or walk me plank!
Revealing quote from Iger about animation
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Disney Buys Pixar
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During the last (Q4) Disney earnings conference call, Bob Iger early on made the following statement:
"animation is, and will remain, at the heart and soul of Disney"
Note that animation is at the heart and soul. Which means that something else is the heart and soul of Disney.
This isn't surprising news, but it was surprising to hear it so forthrightly stated.
(His admission was perhaps inadvertent, and he didn't elaborate on just what is the heart and soul of Disney. Of course, something like "the heart and soul of Disney will always be...Walt's frozen carcass" isn't very kid-friendly or marketable. "Mommy, Mommy, I'm hot! At Space Mountain will you buy me a Walt-sicle?")
"I didn't say she was crazy, I said she was fucking Goofy!" - Mickey Mouse
"a big biased blog and a few editors who pick stories at random without checking them."
That's a pretty accurate description of most traditional media as well.
The stories follow a somewhat more stylized form (like Kabuki in theater), and there's less use of the first person, but beyond that it really is a lot of "people I know said this, and then I went somewhere, and some other people said that they saw someone do something."
The stories get chosen to keep the advertisers happy and corporate profits up, which means keeping the consumers interested but generally docile, with nothing that rocks the collective boat too much (otherwise the consumers stop consuming).
Traditional media is all blog - the blogs of corporate entities.
(I'm amused by how the Wall Street Journal is just a corporate version of LiveJournal or GroupHug - "I heard X really, really, really likes/wants to acquire Y" and "OMG, B is breaking up with C for D - B says the sex/forward looking 12 month earnings are soooo good!!!")
Try searching for "DSM-IV" and "301.7" - explains just about everything, doesn't it?
To me, a name like PriceGrabber implies a focus on the needs of the shopper (saving money), rather than on their true goal of the needs of the seller (maximizing expenditures).
"WalletGrabber" would probably spook the herd, though.
Eventually we'll just be traded as consumers futures on the CME.
"10,000 auto buyers with >750 credit rating for January delivery"
Perhaps they're CNN political talk show junkies? Working on the next big thing in American political discourse?
(Cue James Earl Jones:)
"Fed up with being lied to by the self-serving members of the political establishment? Insulted by the bullshit arguments they expect you believe? Ready to convince the Beltway Boys that the cost-benefit analysis is always negative when you fuck with democracy?
You can bet Robert Novak will be spilling his guts about outing undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame...when he's caught in your CrossFire!"
Slashdot Mirror
"Mommmm! There are two particles in the front yard...and they look like they're quantum entangled."
Oh, right, it's just an incredible coincidence that this comet gets bright the very same week that the iPhone is introduced.
Jealous losers like Cisco and God just want to try and be cool like Apple.
Nobody ever even heard of this comet before just a few months ago. Maybe if they'd actually innovated and made a better comet then people would have heard of it before it's totally obsolete.
Just ask anyone which they've heard of: "the iPhone" or "McNaught's Comet." Hah, I'll bet you probably have a tough time even finding McNaught's Comet.
Better luck next comet, losers!
One word: iGore.
:-)
They only invited him to join the Board for reference data.
Gives a whole new meaning to "think Gore will run in 2008?" And this time "The Kiss" will be more lifelike.
dated yesterday. :-)
Snarky comment aside, people inside Apple (there are some folks who work there other than SJ) have been slaving on this for a long time. Looks like they've done really nice work. Bet they're glad they can finally talk about it! I mean, working on black DOD stuff one expects that, but it's kind of funny not to be able to talk...about a phone!
And most of all, I look forward to tech rumors about something other than Apple's new phone.
I can't find any indication in the tech specs or in the keynote coverage whether the battery can be replaced. (Spec sheet just talks about the battery eventually wearing out.)
How many cycles before one has to replace the entire phone?
Sounds like a trip to the library is in order before I submit my resume!
Thanks for the info!
Future episodes will cover:
"Nobody expects the White House Inquisition!"
Future missions will offer the microbes teeny, tiny microbe-sized blankets.
This whole thing is really like "War Of The Worlds" in reverse, isn't it? We do to others exactly what we fear and claim they're trying to do to us.
Projection and shadow work on a national scale...which brings us back to the beginning of this little subthread.
"Now playing at the Marsiplex 25: Earth Attacks!"
Well, at least we can learn from this sad lesson in our future missions to other sandy, desolate places. Right?
Right?
Lenny at NASA: "I used to have a little friend, but he don't move no more."
And I really thought this was going to be Steve Guttenberg's year, too.
Has anyone ever seen a good analysis of the long-term eco-effects of disposing of all those batteries when the electric cars start to get recycled?
And the name's "Nostra-du-mahss."
What is this "government credibility" of which you speak?
and biting the bull's balls to hold on.
Though I don't follow the PBR all that closely - that move might be the "ball-peein' hummer" of which you speak.
What kind of person drives a vehicle named after a blowjob?
Well, I didn't quite club one, but I do have pictures of me laughingly pretending that's what I was doing. I suspect I'm going to regret that.
:-)
The real story was that I met the inventor at a public exhibition of the seals, and before he was introduced to the audience I saw a couple of the seals with a large wooden mallet lying next to them. My first thought was "Oh dear God, no. Tell me he's not going to...."
Of course, bad taste and poor judgement (entirely on my part) took over from there.
The inventor was very good-natured about the whole thing, and seems to be quite a nice guy.
If I ever run for President, I guess I'm dead meat. ( Though if I ever run for President of Canadia, this and an endorsement from Don Cherry and I'm in! )
Funny! But that last line should read "And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until music is dead."
The Bush Administration emissions could power the entire planet!
(And who knew Al Gore had such incredible ecological foresight in not contesting the 2000 election?)
Umm, the politicians are taking it to the bank and we're all getting fucked in the ass.
:-(
Who are the morons again?
Oh, just to make it relevant to TFA, in social interactions I highly prefer that my ass remain homeomorphic to the 3-sphere.
Is people who, having watched a movie (copied or otherwise), realize "OMG, these people make nothing but crap."
(cue obligatory Cheech and Chong sketch: "Does it look like an MPAA movie???")
It's like famous adman Jerry Della Femina always said - the fastest way to kill a bad product is good advertising.
Think of copying as "good advertising."
Arrr, matey! Turn me crank or walk me plank!
During the last (Q4) Disney earnings conference call, Bob Iger early on made the following statement:
"animation is, and will remain, at the heart and soul of Disney"
Note that animation is at the heart and soul. Which means that something else is the heart and soul of Disney.
This isn't surprising news, but it was surprising to hear it so forthrightly stated.
(His admission was perhaps inadvertent, and he didn't elaborate on just what is the heart and soul of Disney. Of course, something like "the heart and soul of Disney will always be...Walt's frozen carcass" isn't very kid-friendly or marketable. "Mommy, Mommy, I'm hot! At Space Mountain will you buy me a Walt-sicle?")
"I didn't say she was crazy, I said she was fucking Goofy!" - Mickey Mouse
Easy enough - the symbol's AAPL. :-)
A lot of closed-head trauma in the past couple of weeks, though.
Try searching for "DSM-IV" and "301.7" - explains just about everything, doesn't it?
Building a fusion reactor is not like making trainers in a sweatshop.
:-> :->
What graduate school did you go to?
Though I always wondered why my committee had me making all those shoes. "Plasma Jordans" my ass.
Try searching for "DSM-IV" and "301.7" - explains just about everything, doesn't it?
"a big biased blog and a few editors who pick stories at random without checking them."
That's a pretty accurate description of most traditional media as well.
The stories follow a somewhat more stylized form (like Kabuki in theater), and there's less use of the first person, but beyond that it really is a lot of "people I know said this, and then I went somewhere, and some other people said that they saw someone do something."
The stories get chosen to keep the advertisers happy and corporate profits up, which means keeping the consumers interested but generally docile, with nothing that rocks the collective boat too much (otherwise the consumers stop consuming).
Traditional media is all blog - the blogs of corporate entities.
(I'm amused by how the Wall Street Journal is just a corporate version of LiveJournal or GroupHug - "I heard X really, really, really likes/wants to acquire Y" and "OMG, B is breaking up with C for D - B says the sex/forward looking 12 month earnings are soooo good!!!")
Try searching for "DSM-IV" and "301.7" - explains just about everything, doesn't it?
We'll know things have turned around when instead of "Janet Jackson" the top searches include "25th Amendment" and "impeachment."
To me, a name like PriceGrabber implies a focus on the needs of the shopper (saving money), rather than on their true goal of the needs of the seller (maximizing expenditures).
"WalletGrabber" would probably spook the herd, though.
Eventually we'll just be traded as consumers futures on the CME.
"10,000 auto buyers with >750 credit rating for January delivery"
Perhaps they're CNN political talk show junkies? Working on the next big thing in American political discourse?
(Cue James Earl Jones:)
"Fed up with being lied to by the self-serving members of the political establishment? Insulted by the bullshit arguments they expect you believe? Ready to convince the Beltway Boys that the cost-benefit analysis is always negative when you fuck with democracy?
You can bet Robert Novak will be spilling his guts about outing undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame...when he's caught in your CrossFire!"