Never mind spammers, what about all the folks in Europe and then the East Coast of the US who now have a higher rating than me here on the West Coast!
This story was posted at 5:04AM, when I was fast asleep in bed and unable to act on this important news!
It's not the fact that Microsoft is releasing a "new" product that bums me out.
Neither does the fact that it used to work on a Mac but now it doesn't (yet another smiley face for the side of Microsoft's Killing Machine).
What gets my goat (sorry Eric and Erik) is having to endure ten, twenty, a hundred years or more of ads pushing this product down my throat in magazines, on TV, GoodYear blimps Etc until they have defeated Adobe to the point where there's not one single sale of Photoshop anywhere on the planet!
Or maybe Microsoft, Packard Bell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Toshiba, Gateway, Fujitsu, Acerv, NEC, Unisys, Fujitsu, AMD, Siemens, Sony, Alienware, eMachines, Chicony, WinBook, Zida, Twinhead, Tulip, Hitachi, Midwest Micro Etc. Etc. Etc. could rename the PC the Pod and then Microsoft could call it iPod.
The worse part is that wouldn't even surprise me if that happened.
How about the next Star Trek movie all takes place in Kirk's mind!!
It could pick up from when he fell onto the rocks but didn't actually die, more of went off into another dimension.
He could visit people in a similar way that the astrononaut from 2001 visited him Mom in 2010 Etc Etc.
Hell, why couldn't they just make the original cast in CG and do a rip roaring old school space adventure with new space aliens with awesome space ships. Planets being blown up and entire species extinguished.
"We'll see how many good celebrity guests will deal with him when he has much less reach"
I had the opportunity to listen to a lot more of the show this morning, thanks to my increasingly busy schedule, and they were talking about how nice it is not to have guests on by default, like Regis Etc. has to have, and just talk amongst themselves. And I agree. I love hearing them all bullshit around all morning.
"he's really going to have to step up his game."
WTF are you on? He opens his mouth and it's Howard Stern. There's nothing else he has to do!
"Howard is really getting sick of broadcasting, and if Sirius doesn't tank before Howard gets on, I really cant see him finishing his 5 year contract."
Since when is Howard Stern getting sick of broadcasting? I listened to him just this morning and he sounded like he was having a great time getting the shit tickled out of him by Juliette Lewis!
On a related note, I saw some of the little XM radio recievers at Fred Meyer the other day and those things were tiny. I don't see much difficulty squishing extra technology into a slightly larger iPod.
Isn't there a way for George Lucas, as creator of Star Wars, to legally close the saga and make sure it doesn't just turn into some galactic Nightmare On Elm Street?
As much as I'd love to see what happens after the big party up in the trees, at some point there has to be closure and I think the way it all ends is just fine as it is.
When will Microsoft come up with an original naming convention?
Are they destined to rip off the names of competing products for the rest of eternity?
Sony currently have a product which is currently at version 2. They either release a new product called 3 or drop the numbering convention completely, so they release the Playstation 3.
Along comes Microsoft with a product that doesn't rely on a numerical versioning system, the Xbox, and what do they come up with next - Xbox 3 (with a 60 added on to make it seem like even more than 3).
The same thing happened with Apple, they had OS 7, 8, 9, and the instead of 10 they went with X.
What does Microsoft do?
Windows 95, 98, 2000 and then - erm - X (with a P added to make it even more than X).
When I lived in the UK I didn't know one single person (apart from my parents - which doesn't count) who paid the license fee!
The BBC even had vans with detection gear that would prowl the streets like Daleks looking for people like me and my friends who were watching Monty Python for free!
"I remember that MS had a fix for this (for laptops etc)... Which just made Windows wait a duration (~30s)..."
This turned into the "my computer isn't doing what I want it to do, which is turn the F off" at which point the consumer simply reached down and yanked the power cord.
"Rip your own CD's? You can rip a CD to your hard disk with iTunes, as you can with any number of applications. How is the ripping of CD's applicable to the conversation at hand?"
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Putting the letter "N" on the label is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.
Msfts lawyers must have been laughing their heads off when this "punishment" was handed down.
I heard they are working on a birthday reminder app - this "numbers" racket could be it!!!!
Never mind spammers, what about all the folks in Europe and then the East Coast of the US who now have a higher rating than me here on the West Coast! This story was posted at 5:04AM, when I was fast asleep in bed and unable to act on this important news!
...yet didn't even try it out!!!!
It's not the fact that Microsoft is releasing a "new" product that bums me out.
Neither does the fact that it used to work on a Mac but now it doesn't (yet another smiley face for the side of Microsoft's Killing Machine).
What gets my goat (sorry Eric and Erik) is having to endure ten, twenty, a hundred years or more of ads pushing this product down my throat in magazines, on TV, GoodYear blimps Etc until they have defeated Adobe to the point where there's not one single sale of Photoshop anywhere on the planet!
I started installing it but there was waaaay too much hard disk activity for waaaay too long for my liking, so I cancelled the install.
I actually started getting nervous after a few seconds for some reason. That's a first for me while installing a Microsoft product - beta or not.
I think I've just about had it with Microsoft quite frankly, it's like some omnipresent all-powerful mugger.
I'm on a Mac and I didn't click the link, so the numbers are off again!
Could be worse - it could be renamed iComputer.
Or maybe Microsoft, Packard Bell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Dell Computer, Toshiba, Gateway, Fujitsu, Acerv, NEC, Unisys, Fujitsu, AMD, Siemens, Sony, Alienware, eMachines, Chicony, WinBook, Zida, Twinhead, Tulip, Hitachi, Midwest Micro Etc. Etc. Etc. could rename the PC the Pod and then Microsoft could call it iPod.
The worse part is that wouldn't even surprise me if that happened.
How about the next Star Trek movie all takes place in Kirk's mind!!
It could pick up from when he fell onto the rocks but didn't actually die, more of went off into another dimension.
He could visit people in a similar way that the astrononaut from 2001 visited him Mom in 2010 Etc Etc.
Hell, why couldn't they just make the original cast in CG and do a rip roaring old school space adventure with new space aliens with awesome space ships. Planets being blown up and entire species extinguished.
That would be great fun!
Damm, I thought I had it, but halfway through I realized it was Debbie Does Dallas instead!
"We'll see how many good celebrity guests will deal with him when he has much less reach"
I had the opportunity to listen to a lot more of the show this morning, thanks to my increasingly busy schedule, and they were talking about how nice it is not to have guests on by default, like Regis Etc. has to have, and just talk amongst themselves. And I agree. I love hearing them all bullshit around all morning.
"he's really going to have to step up his game."
WTF are you on? He opens his mouth and it's Howard Stern. There's nothing else he has to do!
"Howard is really getting sick of broadcasting, and if Sirius doesn't tank before Howard gets on, I really cant see him finishing his 5 year contract."
Since when is Howard Stern getting sick of broadcasting? I listened to him just this morning and he sounded like he was having a great time getting the shit tickled out of him by Juliette Lewis!
On a related note, I saw some of the little XM radio recievers at Fred Meyer the other day and those things were tiny. I don't see much difficulty squishing extra technology into a slightly larger iPod.
Isn't there a way for George Lucas, as creator of Star Wars, to legally close the saga and make sure it doesn't just turn into some galactic Nightmare On Elm Street?
As much as I'd love to see what happens after the big party up in the trees, at some point there has to be closure and I think the way it all ends is just fine as it is.
This movie is one I would not be happy seeing at anything less than full res.
:-)
It's beatiful and I loved it
When will Microsoft come up with an original naming convention?
Are they destined to rip off the names of competing products for the rest of eternity?
Sony currently have a product which is currently at version 2. They either release a new product called 3 or drop the numbering convention completely, so they release the Playstation 3.
Along comes Microsoft with a product that doesn't rely on a numerical versioning system, the Xbox, and what do they come up with next - Xbox 3 (with a 60 added on to make it seem like even more than 3).
The same thing happened with Apple, they had OS 7, 8, 9, and the instead of 10 they went with X.
What does Microsoft do?
Windows 95, 98, 2000 and then - erm - X (with a P added to make it even more than X).
What's next?
I hope they get this Tiger business sorted out soon.
I was at an Esso gas station the other day and everyone was trying to force a copy of Apple's Tiger installer disk into their gas tanks.
"Everyone with a TV pays the same license fee"
When I lived in the UK I didn't know one single person (apart from my parents - which doesn't count) who paid the license fee!
The BBC even had vans with detection gear that would prowl the streets like Daleks looking for people like me and my friends who were watching Monty Python for free!
"I remember that MS had a fix for this (for laptops etc)... Which just made Windows wait a duration (~30s)..."
This turned into the "my computer isn't doing what I want it to do, which is turn the F off" at which point the consumer simply reached down and yanked the power cord.
Try writing a routine for this routine!
"Rip your own CD's? You can rip a CD to your hard disk with iTunes, as you can with any number of applications. How is the ripping of CD's applicable to the conversation at hand?"
What's a CD again?
"Shouldn't that be "Return of the Jedi 2"?"
You are so correct, other Sir.
Return of the Jedi 2
Rubberband, popband, fourpieceband - what's the problem?
"Please say he'll do Return of the Jedi too."
He'll do Return of the Jedi too
Anything else while I'm here sir, or will that be all?
"I really don't know how they've gotten away with QuickTime, iTunes and the iPod though."
I think not having The Beatles available on the iTunes music store could be classed as not getting away with it!
It reminds me of the .com boom when everyone was kicking themselves for not buying everywordunderthesun.com when it was all there for the taking.
Now we'll have people kicking themselves for not buying every hill in town.
"You couldn't go back in time and shoot Hilter"
Don't you mean Mr Hilter?