I could mod the parent up, but I'll just give a hollaback and toss out some more old "old school" suggestions:
Almost any two dozen tracks from Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog titles, particularly "Chemical Plant Zone".
Starfox for the Super Nintendo, particularly the "Corneria" and end credits tracks.
Ninjawarriors for the Super Nintendo.
Klax for the Atari Lynx. Getting music that good out of a portable at the time was mind-blowing.
Lemmings. Admit it, half the reason you played that game was to listen to the tunes...
While it's nice to see EA put their stuff for sale online, what I'm dying to see are Japanese game studios putting their soundtracks on iTunes for international distribution. I'm tired of paying 3x cover price for import CDs...
I agree -- the idea that Steve Jobs would sell Pixar just to cash out and let it slide into mediocrity is as plausible as George W. Bush admitting on national TV that he simply does whatever the voices in his head tell him to do.
Jobs is not CEO of Pixar and Apple for the money or the fame; he's already got that by the truckload. He does what he does because he wants to be reknown as a guy who makes a dent in the universe, who brings style and quality to the masses. Pixar is too closely tied to Jobs for him to just toss it aside; if Pixar gets sold and turns into a factory for Disney cheapquels, that reflects poorly on Steve.
I can see Steve selling Pixar to Disney, but only if there are iron-clad guarantees that Pixar's quality and processes won't be compromised -- e.g., Pixar does the same stuff they're doing now, but as a wholly-owned tamper-proof subsidiary of the Mouse House. But that's not the same thing as what folks are speculating (More related rambling here).
"Finally, another thing that nobody has mentioned is video in the car. If you have kids you know that a DVD player is not the best solution in the world. Not only do you have to mess with disks, but many children's disks are only about 20 minutes long and looping that over and over again on a long drive will make you want to murder Thomas, Percy, Gordan, and even Edward. What if instead you could put all your kids' shows on an iPod and hook that up to the screen in the car instead? Parents across the nation will go nuts for this and will download content just to keep themselves sane by avoiding repetition."
You obviously have never had to deal with young children in a car for an extended period of time. Let me tell you firsthand: On those long trips, it doesn't matter if you've dragged your entire CD collection and every DVD in the Disney/Dreamworks/Nickeoldeon/Hit! Entertainment library -- the kids are going to latch on to one thing and want to replay it for hours on end. The rest of the stuff ends up wasting space, whether it's in your glove box or on your iPod.
And before you think of outwitting the kids by bringing only that one disc on your trip and leaving everything else behind, that's when they outfox you by demanding something you didn't bring along...
This Apple fanboi is completely convinced that Steve Jobs thinks the ROKR is a POS, and is only going along with it to get his foot in the door of music phones. Steve Jobs' ego would not allow something as ugly and hampered as the ROKR to come out with Apple's brand on it -- hell, even the ads for the phone mention Motorola and Cingular more than Apple or iTunes. This is deliberate.
It's no surprise that Apple's event last week was all about the iPod nano, with the ROKR relegated to an obligatory sidebar. The only reason for calling the ROKR an "Apple phone" is because of the cache Apple has with iTunes.
Given all the crazy stuff we've gotten in the last five years, an uncharismatic brainiac or a wind-surfing vet beats a charismatic airhead any day of the week.
What else do you expect from Gary Groth, professional-grade comics asshole and all-around hypocrite? The guy's philosophy is that anything he isn't associated with sucks, because if it didn't suck, he'd be associated with it.
"I assume that the apple marketing people, then, are miserable about the iPod."
I don't think Apple's marketing people are like marketing people at other companies. The lack of a laundry list of specs for their hardware ads should tip you off to that.
Nah, Hillary can't be at the bottom -- you need room for the real scumbags, like the ones who'd lie about Iraqi WMDs to start a war and kill 1800 soldiers, maim another 20,000, and obliterate 50,000+ Iraqis in the process.
While Hillary's campaign against Rockstar is stupid, at least it's a harmless stupidity that doesn't get people killed.
I started using Drupal about a month ago to totally revamp my site. It's still under construction, but the bulk of the work has been adding my existing content more than anything else. I wrote a few PHP modules to add some functions I wanted that didn't already exist, and tweaked some of the existing modules to my taste, but there was nothing there a decent coder would find troublesome.
It's a bit confusing to learn at first, especially wrapping my head around how the taxonomy system works. But aside from that, it's been totally effortless, and I'd recommend it for folks who want a CMS that's more than just a WordPress-style blogging tool.
It's obvious you haven't read "The Little Engine That Could," or you'd realize that the locomotive in question is really a she.
No, it doesn't make sense to me either, but I didn't write the story. Then again, the start of the story talks about how the kids in the village will love eating their fresh spinach, so it's not exactly rooted in reality...
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I could mod the parent up, but I'll just give a hollaback and toss out some more old "old school" suggestions:
While it's nice to see EA put their stuff for sale online, what I'm dying to see are Japanese game studios putting their soundtracks on iTunes for international distribution. I'm tired of paying 3x cover price for import CDs...
I agree -- the idea that Steve Jobs would sell Pixar just to cash out and let it slide into mediocrity is as plausible as George W. Bush admitting on national TV that he simply does whatever the voices in his head tell him to do.
Jobs is not CEO of Pixar and Apple for the money or the fame; he's already got that by the truckload. He does what he does because he wants to be reknown as a guy who makes a dent in the universe, who brings style and quality to the masses. Pixar is too closely tied to Jobs for him to just toss it aside; if Pixar gets sold and turns into a factory for Disney cheapquels, that reflects poorly on Steve.
I can see Steve selling Pixar to Disney, but only if there are iron-clad guarantees that Pixar's quality and processes won't be compromised -- e.g., Pixar does the same stuff they're doing now, but as a wholly-owned tamper-proof subsidiary of the Mouse House. But that's not the same thing as what folks are speculating (More related rambling here).
"While all governments and organizations have a level of corruption, the U.N. has to be one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet."
Have you even looked at the downpour of scandals in Washington DC these days? Those guys make the UN look like saints by comparison.
"Finally, another thing that nobody has mentioned is video in the car. If you have kids you know that a DVD player is not the best solution in the world. Not only do you have to mess with disks, but many children's disks are only about 20 minutes long and looping that over and over again on a long drive will make you want to murder Thomas, Percy, Gordan, and even Edward. What if instead you could put all your kids' shows on an iPod and hook that up to the screen in the car instead? Parents across the nation will go nuts for this and will download content just to keep themselves sane by avoiding repetition."
You obviously have never had to deal with young children in a car for an extended period of time. Let me tell you firsthand: On those long trips, it doesn't matter if you've dragged your entire CD collection and every DVD in the Disney/Dreamworks/Nickeoldeon/Hit! Entertainment library -- the kids are going to latch on to one thing and want to replay it for hours on end. The rest of the stuff ends up wasting space, whether it's in your glove box or on your iPod.
And before you think of outwitting the kids by bringing only that one disc on your trip and leaving everything else behind, that's when they outfox you by demanding something you didn't bring along...
How many hits does the iTunes Music Store get in a day?
Hell, how many does it get in an hour?
Good luck walking away from that, Mr. Nash...
Do you trust the UN to actually handle specific information on the Internet via their multicultralism moral compass?
No, but I don't trust the US to handle specific information on the Internet via their puritanical moral compass, either.
This Apple fanboi is completely convinced that Steve Jobs thinks the ROKR is a POS, and is only going along with it to get his foot in the door of music phones. Steve Jobs' ego would not allow something as ugly and hampered as the ROKR to come out with Apple's brand on it -- hell, even the ads for the phone mention Motorola and Cingular more than Apple or iTunes. This is deliberate.
It's no surprise that Apple's event last week was all about the iPod nano, with the ROKR relegated to an obligatory sidebar. The only reason for calling the ROKR an "Apple phone" is because of the cache Apple has with iTunes.
Given all the crazy stuff we've gotten in the last five years, an uncharismatic brainiac or a wind-surfing vet beats a charismatic airhead any day of the week.
give me a reason to buy this thing because it's soooo coool!!
It attracts chicks.
"[The Rio Carbon's] got the right attitude, and the right hardware. Apple could learn a thing or two from this media player."
-- Maximum PC
What, like how to suck?
"Until you get something from some PHB who just had to use some obscure feature that you can't import."
;-)
PHBs don't care about features, just razzle-dazzle and eye-candy. On that front, Keynote spanks PowerPoint like a revenge-driven bionic hamster.
What else do you expect from Gary Groth, professional-grade comics asshole and all-around hypocrite? The guy's philosophy is that anything he isn't associated with sucks, because if it didn't suck, he'd be associated with it.
"I assume that the apple marketing people, then, are miserable about the iPod."
I don't think Apple's marketing people are like marketing people at other companies. The lack of a laundry list of specs for their hardware ads should tip you off to that.
Nah, Hillary can't be at the bottom -- you need room for the real scumbags, like the ones who'd lie about Iraqi WMDs to start a war and kill 1800 soldiers, maim another 20,000, and obliterate 50,000+ Iraqis in the process.
While Hillary's campaign against Rockstar is stupid, at least it's a harmless stupidity that doesn't get people killed.
I've got Expose mapped to my mouse's scroll wheel-click, and it's trivially easy for me to invoke it in the middle of a drag operation.
There's a Drupal module for wiki functionality here: http://drupal.org/project/wiki
I started using Drupal about a month ago to totally revamp my site. It's still under construction, but the bulk of the work has been adding my existing content more than anything else. I wrote a few PHP modules to add some functions I wanted that didn't already exist, and tweaked some of the existing modules to my taste, but there was nothing there a decent coder would find troublesome.
It's a bit confusing to learn at first, especially wrapping my head around how the taxonomy system works. But aside from that, it's been totally effortless, and I'd recommend it for folks who want a CMS that's more than just a WordPress-style blogging tool.
Actually, I thought that meant the Mac was so user-friendly, even a right-wing dittohead could use it. :-)
It's obvious you haven't read "The Little Engine That Could," or you'd realize that the locomotive in question is really a she.
No, it doesn't make sense to me either, but I didn't write the story. Then again, the start of the story talks about how the kids in the village will love eating their fresh spinach, so it's not exactly rooted in reality...
Today's "Atari" is Infogrames with a new name.
The original, honest-to-ghod Nolan Bushnell/Jack Tramiel Atari died years ago.
(XBox) 360 > (Playstation) 3
Apple, same source for everything else they get... ;-)
...I've got a 450MHz G3 iMac that's still running. Give me an excuse to upgrade already, dammit! ;-)
Is there any truth that this project was initiated on the success of Project: Paul Thurrott?
Is there anything more pathetic than a geek on Slashdot soliciting a bot for a blowjob...
...than having the bot agree...
...and having the geek post the results?
;-)