This action from Microsoft is proof positive that they are taking notice of the recent accomplishments of Linux and are trying to counter them with strides of their own in areas that are not their specialty.
Either that, or Bill Gates got tired of having Steve Jobs call him at one o'clock in the morning and gloating, "Nyahh nyahh, our supercomputer makes headlines around the world, where's yours?";-)
Moore's closer to the truth and Disney is -- if Disney is so gun-shy about politics, how come they don't blanche at having ABC (a Disney subsidiary) carry Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly all day long?
IMHO, The fact that these are marketed and skewed towards a younger audience is mainly because, as a culture, the US isn't ready to accept animated ANYTHING as a serious medium for carying adult themes.
For other studios, maybe. But all the bigwigs at Pixar -- including John Lasseter and Steve Jobs -- have repeatedly said that they deliberately aim to produce movies that the entire family can go see together. They will explore adult themes and complex issues, sure, but their stuff is "skewed towards a younger audience" is because they want to. Bravo!
I think Pixar has the technological and animation skills to do realistic humans if they want to. I think they deliberately avoid realistic humans to keep the cartoonish style -- instead of having an audience trying to figure out if the CGI humans "look right" or not, the audience can simply accept that the humans are animated, and get into the movie itself.
Frankly Finding Nemo seemed so vapidly childish to me that I could be bothered to see it.
Your opinion is worthless, then, since you have no factual basis for your mistaken conclusion. Calling Finding Nemo "vapidly childish" is like calling Saving Private Ryan a "slapstick comedy."
Yes, I am ignoring a few web sites which posted a tiny amount of evidence which has subsequently proven to be wrong. But that is dwarfed by the overwhelming evidence being ignored by a majority of the American people.
You can thank Fox News and conservative talk radio for propagating this nonsense. The nation's collective IQ is lowered 20 points just by their continued existence.
You know the Bush-huggin' righties must be desperate for "proof" that Iraq had WMDs when all they have for references are nutball web sites and vague sentences buried in 300-page reports.
Let's not kid ourselves; if there was real, concrete proof that Saddam Hussein had WMDs and planned to use them against the United States, George W. Bush would have a press conference inside of an hour to trumpet their discovery, and he'd be flogging it in every other sentence on the campaign trail. The fact that Bush-Cheney 2004 is making so much noise about John Kerry's medals instead is an implicit admission that the Iraq WMD stuff was all bullshit.
No kidding. Ever since I got addicted to the near-total silence of my fanless G3 iMac, I can't even stand to have any noisy peripherals nearby to shatter the tranquility. When I went shopping for an external Firewire hard drive, I couldn't use one of the fan-based drives for more than ten minutes because of the noise. I end up looking specifically for a fanless enclosure and the quietest drive I could find just to have something I could tolerate.
Like the Mac itself, once you tried silent computing, you won't go back.
The Pepsi dedemption logo/button is not on a web page, it's on the screen you see when you download, install, and run the iTunes program.
Of course, the instructions on the Pepsi bottles specifically say, "Go to iTunes.com and download iTunes to your PC or Mac," which ought to have given you a hint right there...
End of February? You were lucky -- I was working in Anaheim since January 2004, and we didn't see any yellow iTunes caps until the third week of March, which was right before the promotion ended.
I'm still getting yellow caps now; it's a good thing Apple is still letting me redeem them (at least through tomorrow), because I've already cashed in 7 or 8, and could reap a few more between now and the end of work tomorrow.
Anyone else getting a flashback to when Microsoft was running Mac-to-Windows "switcher" stories, which turned out to be bogus pieces written by flacks in their PR department?
I believe Cantwell is also one of the financial backers for Air America Radio, so it's not surprising that AAR and Real have a "strategic partnership" (or whatever the corporate buzzword is this week). Doesn't seem any different than any other corporate partnerships, though if AAR is getting their webcasting software for free, that'd be a problem, I'd think.
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Can't you *understand* why the US is so hated??? Are you really that blind???
Anyone who calls a critic of George W. Bush a "defender of Saddam" is, inherently, an idiot to begin with.
This action from Microsoft is proof positive that they are taking notice of the recent accomplishments of Linux and are trying to counter them with strides of their own in areas that are not their specialty.
Either that, or Bill Gates got tired of having Steve Jobs call him at one o'clock in the morning and gloating, "Nyahh nyahh, our supercomputer makes headlines around the world, where's yours?" ;-)
Punching bag he may be, but he comes off as more intelligent than Hannity.
Big deal, that just shows how far off the deep end Hannity is.
Moore's closer to the truth and Disney is -- if Disney is so gun-shy about politics, how come they don't blanche at having ABC (a Disney subsidiary) carry Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly all day long?
IMHO, The fact that these are marketed and skewed towards a younger audience is mainly because, as a culture, the US isn't ready to accept animated ANYTHING as a serious medium for carying adult themes.
For other studios, maybe. But all the bigwigs at Pixar -- including John Lasseter and Steve Jobs -- have repeatedly said that they deliberately aim to produce movies that the entire family can go see together. They will explore adult themes and complex issues, sure, but their stuff is "skewed towards a younger audience" is because they want to. Bravo!
I think Pixar has the technological and animation skills to do realistic humans if they want to. I think they deliberately avoid realistic humans to keep the cartoonish style -- instead of having an audience trying to figure out if the CGI humans "look right" or not, the audience can simply accept that the humans are animated, and get into the movie itself.
Frankly Finding Nemo seemed so vapidly childish to me that I could be bothered to see it.
Your opinion is worthless, then, since you have no factual basis for your mistaken conclusion. Calling Finding Nemo "vapidly childish" is like calling Saving Private Ryan a "slapstick comedy."
If Office for Mac didn't adhere to Apple's UI guidelines, Mac owners would be sufficiently pissed off to avoid buying the product.
Windows users, on the other hand, are so used to craptacular interfaces that one more from Apple wouldn't make a difference.
Mac users can get ToySight for use with their iSight cameras (or any other Firewire camera).
Yes, I am ignoring a few web sites which posted a tiny amount of evidence which has subsequently proven to be wrong. But that is dwarfed by the overwhelming evidence being ignored by a majority of the American people.
You can thank Fox News and conservative talk radio for propagating this nonsense. The nation's collective IQ is lowered 20 points just by their continued existence.
I heard they wanted to release America's Air National Guard: Missing Inaction, but Karl Rove nixed the idea.
You know the Bush-huggin' righties must be desperate for "proof" that Iraq had WMDs when all they have for references are nutball web sites and vague sentences buried in 300-page reports.
Let's not kid ourselves; if there was real, concrete proof that Saddam Hussein had WMDs and planned to use them against the United States, George W. Bush would have a press conference inside of an hour to trumpet their discovery, and he'd be flogging it in every other sentence on the campaign trail. The fact that Bush-Cheney 2004 is making so much noise about John Kerry's medals instead is an implicit admission that the Iraq WMD stuff was all bullshit.
No kidding. Ever since I got addicted to the near-total silence of my fanless G3 iMac, I can't even stand to have any noisy peripherals nearby to shatter the tranquility. When I went shopping for an external Firewire hard drive, I couldn't use one of the fan-based drives for more than ten minutes because of the noise. I end up looking specifically for a fanless enclosure and the quietest drive I could find just to have something I could tolerate.
Like the Mac itself, once you tried silent computing, you won't go back.
The Pepsi dedemption logo/button is not on a web page, it's on the screen you see when you download, install, and run the iTunes program. Of course, the instructions on the Pepsi bottles specifically say, "Go to iTunes.com and download iTunes to your PC or Mac," which ought to have given you a hint right there...
If Apple doesn't want people to hack iTunes, they need to provide a way of playing the files on operating systems other than Windows and Mac OS.
Uh, yeah. And if Ford doesn't want people to steal Explorers, they need to provide a way of distributing cars to people who don't have any.
What planet are you from?
End of February? You were lucky -- I was working in Anaheim since January 2004, and we didn't see any yellow iTunes caps until the third week of March, which was right before the promotion ended.
I'm still getting yellow caps now; it's a good thing Apple is still letting me redeem them (at least through tomorrow), because I've already cashed in 7 or 8, and could reap a few more between now and the end of work tomorrow.
I thought you might have some intelligent reasons. You don't provide any facts.
He's a "Flaming Conservative." They never do.
Actually, I think Apple deauthorizes all of your computers, and then you have to reauthorize the ones you still use. But the end result is the same.
But, what's to stop me from burning a playlist once, then using Nero/etc. to make multiple copies of the CD?
Nothing. This is just a bandaid to stop amateur-hour piracy, to make the RIAA more willing to play with Apple.
Seems pretty stupid to me.
We are talking about the RIAA here...
The iPod (and iTunes) already supports WAV format.
iPhoto 4.0 is infamous for major suckage.
I haven't tried iPhoto 4.0 (or better), but I hear it's a major improvement. Too bad it costs me $50 to upgrade.
Anyone else getting a flashback to when Microsoft was running Mac-to-Windows "switcher" stories, which turned out to be bogus pieces written by flacks in their PR department?
$5 says this "blog" is another such flake.
So...... because the CEO of Diebold said it publically, that means he won't do it?
What the heck is wrong with paper ballots that are actually auditable?
They make it harder for Katherine Harris to steal the election! *D&R*
I believe Cantwell is also one of the financial backers for Air America Radio, so it's not surprising that AAR and Real have a "strategic partnership" (or whatever the corporate buzzword is this week). Doesn't seem any different than any other corporate partnerships, though if AAR is getting their webcasting software for free, that'd be a problem, I'd think.
(Listening to Air America Radio right now)