...but any good gel pen will do. Gel pens have been a FANTASTIC development in pen technology in the past, what, 10 years? Beautiful dark lines from a cheap pen, and you don't have to press hard like a ballpoint, so your hand doesn't cramp up (at least, not from writing). What exactly IS gel ink and why haven't we heard more about it? Gel ink is a bigger change in an everyday instrument than triple-bladed razors are.
Not only that, but it wasn't the first time he'd seen it - the article misrepresents the quote. Jobs and Bezos had both seen the device months before - this was just their reaction to the latest design changes, not the device overall. Strange that the publisher's own website so badly misrepresents this conversation - but I just finished reading the book, so I'm tellin' ya.
Actually, Jobs LOVED it and begged to be involved in the project. The "it sucks" quote came after he had been familiar with the device for months, and was referring specifically to the aesthetic design of the latest version that the team was working on, not the Segway in general.
The trailer might be simplistic (and also suck), but the comics aren't. The trailer, in the way of most, gives us no info about the comic and almost none about the movie. If they want simplistic movies then they're making more work for themelves by starting with an Alan Moore story.
I understand your point, but don't say that comic books are "simplistic 'good vs. evil,'" because most of the good ones really aren't. Even X-men wasn't about good vs evil, and the original League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics are more complicated and subtle than most popular novels.
Absolutely wonderful comics that look like they've been made into a horrible movie.. or at the very least, they have no idea how to market it and have just thrown the movie into the same "preview-making machine" that makes all previews look the same. "LXG?" We don't need stupid "T2"-style tage for every single movie, do we? What's wrong with occasionally using the NAME? But the marketing people think everything new has to look like everything else for people to like it... The comics are funny, clever, and inventive... there must be a market for that too.
I agree that they're overpriced (at least for now), but I live in Manchester, NH, where Segway is headquartered and we see people using them every day - all Segway employees, but still, it seems like a great way to get around town. Also, rode one last year and it was neat as all hell.
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An article here rounding up the state of scifi TV today... I think the theme song killed it.
...but any good gel pen will do. Gel pens have been a FANTASTIC development in pen technology in the past, what, 10 years? Beautiful dark lines from a cheap pen, and you don't have to press hard like a ballpoint, so your hand doesn't cramp up (at least, not from writing). What exactly IS gel ink and why haven't we heard more about it? Gel ink is a bigger change in an everyday instrument than triple-bladed razors are.
Not only that, but it wasn't the first time he'd seen it - the article misrepresents the quote. Jobs and Bezos had both seen the device months before - this was just their reaction to the latest design changes, not the device overall. Strange that the publisher's own website so badly misrepresents this conversation - but I just finished reading the book, so I'm tellin' ya.
Actually, Jobs LOVED it and begged to be involved in the project. The "it sucks" quote came after he had been familiar with the device for months, and was referring specifically to the aesthetic design of the latest version that the team was working on, not the Segway in general.
The trailer might be simplistic (and also suck), but the comics aren't. The trailer, in the way of most, gives us no info about the comic and almost none about the movie. If they want simplistic movies then they're making more work for themelves by starting with an Alan Moore story.
I understand your point, but don't say that comic books are "simplistic 'good vs. evil,'" because most of the good ones really aren't. Even X-men wasn't about good vs evil, and the original League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics are more complicated and subtle than most popular novels.
Absolutely wonderful comics that look like they've been made into a horrible movie.. or at the very least, they have no idea how to market it and have just thrown the movie into the same "preview-making machine" that makes all previews look the same. "LXG?" We don't need stupid "T2"-style tage for every single movie, do we? What's wrong with occasionally using the NAME? But the marketing people think everything new has to look like everything else for people to like it... The comics are funny, clever, and inventive... there must be a market for that too.
I agree that they're overpriced (at least for now), but I live in Manchester, NH, where Segway is headquartered and we see people using them every day - all Segway employees, but still, it seems like a great way to get around town. Also, rode one last year and it was neat as all hell.