Sure, to eject floppies you had to throw them in the trashcan, but it's always better than having to actually push the button yourself;)
This is one of the parts I hate the most about the Macintosh--the fact that the floppy and CD drive eject mechanisms are completely under the operating system's control. I have had a Mac crash on me several times with a floppy or CD-ROM disk still in the drive, and it's no small task having to wrestle with the computer in order to get the disk out before the computer starts up again and tries to boot from it. Give me a plain beige box with clearly-labeled eject buttons any day. Plus, I have always found the metaphor of putting your disk, which contains data you want to keep, in the Trash Can, which contains data you want to get rid of, in order to eject it to be a little... iffy.
So... um, they expect us to spend $8 to watch what is basically a 2-hour commercial? And this is preferable to TV... how?
"Not only is MGM spending $30 million in advertising, according to Variety, the movie studio enlisted more than 20 marketing partners who are reportedly contributing at least $100 million in promotional support for the franchise."
Heck, even Iceland shelled out a wad of cash to get its country in the movie. They seem to have almost broken even on just product placement alone. Even if the movie bombs in the box office they'll still make a profit! Perhaps in the future we might see movies paid entirely by advertising, and maybe they'll show them for free... like, I don't know, TV?
--RiverCityRandom (who dreams of the day movies were flowing art, not shouting billboards)
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Sure, to eject floppies you had to throw them in the trashcan, but it's always better than having to actually push the button yourself ;)
This is one of the parts I hate the most about the Macintosh--the fact that the floppy and CD drive eject mechanisms are completely under the operating system's control. I have had a Mac crash on me several times with a floppy or CD-ROM disk still in the drive, and it's no small task having to wrestle with the computer in order to get the disk out before the computer starts up again and tries to boot from it. Give me a plain beige box with clearly-labeled eject buttons any day. Plus, I have always found the metaphor of putting your disk, which contains data you want to keep, in the Trash Can, which contains data you want to get rid of, in order to eject it to be a little... iffy.
So... um, they expect us to spend $8 to watch what is basically a 2-hour commercial? And this is preferable to TV... how?
Heck, even Iceland shelled out a wad of cash to get its country in the movie. They seem to have almost broken even on just product placement alone. Even if the movie bombs in the box office they'll still make a profit! Perhaps in the future we might see movies paid entirely by advertising, and maybe they'll show them for free... like, I don't know, TV?
--RiverCityRandom (who dreams of the day movies were flowing art, not shouting billboards)