Reminds me of that recent Apple Music Store story: Online music sales at the Apple Music Store are plummeting (oh, and so are everybody elses, some even more than the Apple Music Store).
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"We have no problem getting the new certificates but what company name should appear in the bar?"
As small business owner faced with having to go through all sorts of shit setting up a corp to merely appear nice and trustworthy like a big company such as Enron, I'd quite happily forefeit my fancy logo in favor of your generic "Acme Online Stores message bar.
"OK, then let me re-phrase. Anybody moving an important database to an OS that has been released within the past year should be summarily shot and disemboweled."
"But hey, this came from some million dollar salaried Microsoft "Researcher", ooooowwwww."
That explains why they take a few moments to mention how well it works with Windows Media Center. No doubt the game they are playing is Halo and the wireless mouse is made by...Microsoft?
No doubt this is a last minute rush job to preempt the new iSoap that Steve Jobs was going to unveil at Macworld.
"It's microsoft who should be scared of needing to play catch up with the next Mac OS interfaces."
I can tell you right now that Bill Gates is scared of zip.....well, maybe his next electricity bill. Have you seen how many christmas lights they have on their Lake Washington pad?People travelling eastbound on the 520 bridge have to wear blinkers to get across:-) Stick it to 'em Bill!
"Much of the time it is night, and storing that much juice in batteries is impractical."
Doesn't it say in the bible somewhere that it's a sin to stay up after the sun goes down? Regardless, maybe we could get back to a more wholesome existence and put a stop to all that late night fun I hear people having outside while I'm stuck here coding until I go crosseyed.
I hope SCO doen't come after me next! I tried to install Linux on a pile of dog shit a few weeks ago and am now wondering if I didn't somehow infringed on SCO's intellectual property.
"If the music cartels start charging me for music that I haven't downloaded, ripped, or otherwise pirated, then I'm going to have to stop spending money at iTMS and my local funky CD shop, and treat that "royalty charge" as a blanket license to their entire library."
FWIW I was in a band signed to a UK indie label during the 80's which was had licensing deals with pretty much every major label around the World. Then came the 90's and slowly but surely the CD's started disappearing off Tower Records' shelves. Then came the 00's and we get our own section on iTunes.
Needless to say if I'd bought my first MP3 player in the 00's I would have gone straight to iTunes and bought my albums from there, but instead I bought my first MP3 player in the late 90's and had to resort to grabbing un-licensed MP3's of my songs from wherever I could find them, basically because I didn't have the orginal CD's (my entire record collection is just that, records, and stored back in the UK) and I couldn't find CD's in used record stores.
If the record labels had got their shit together to build their own kickass online record store, and made their own kickass players so people could listen to them, Apple wouldn't have seen an opportunity and created iTunes and the iPod.
So FUCK YOU Universal, and every other label that starts crying about lost revenue.
When I were a lad I'd have to walk two hundred miles to the nearest village with my legs tied together with barbed wire, find a rotten apple on the floor near Farmer Bob's apple cart, then take it one thousand miles over broken glass and rusty nails to grandma for her dinner.
That's what I was wondering about, all the bad code that has to stay bad to make it all work. Is there no way to write new code to emulate the bad bits so they can remove it? Or a VM to mask the vast swaths of crud?
It wouldn't make much sense to sell an audio capable Airport Express and an audio and video capable Audio Express A/V or whatever, at two differing price points.
Instead I'd expect them to replace the current version with a new version with, hopefully, the same price.
And if the video version works as well as the two Airport Express units I currently use for all my wireless networking and audio delivery needs, I'll be a happy camper:-)
I bet I could find a few places on an object doing Mach 3 that are making a whooshing sound. Place a mic inside the landing gear bays, or at various places inside the wings and you'll hear all kinds of whooshing sounds. Also place one under the pilots seat and hit record when he/she hits negative G's at the top of a vertical climb. You'll hear a whooshing sound then for sure.
I watched a few episodes of the US version of The Office, and although it did indeed pale in comparison to the original version (primarily because whatshiname with the french last name wasn't in it) it was actually pretty good.
"Aren't there mobile phones which cost hundreds of pounds to buy......."
Depends on what you're using to barter with. Hundreds of pounds of flour won't buy much in this neck of the woods, but hundreds of pounds of small carved novelty items would buy several "mobile phones" I'd wager.
Best way is not to think about how many Bushells equals a Quart Etc., instead think about having peeling yet another sticker off your food before you can eat it.
How about a ripeness sticker that flips into an alternate universe where people like stickers on their fruit as soon as it senses my mouth getting near!!
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Reminds me of that recent Apple Music Store story: Online music sales at the Apple Music Store are plummeting (oh, and so are everybody elses, some even more than the Apple Music Store).
No presents for you fuck face.
"We have no problem getting the new certificates but what company name should appear in the bar?"
As small business owner faced with having to go through all sorts of shit setting up a corp to merely appear nice and trustworthy like a big company such as Enron, I'd quite happily forefeit my fancy logo in favor of your generic "Acme Online Stores message bar.
As for Microsoft, I wish they'd just go away.
"What's the real deal here?"
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
"OK, then let me re-phrase. Anybody moving an important database to an OS that has been released within the past year should be summarily shot and disemboweled."
Why can't everybody just get along?
"But hey, this came from some million dollar salaried Microsoft "Researcher", ooooowwwww."
That explains why they take a few moments to mention how well it works with Windows Media Center. No doubt the game they are playing is Halo and the wireless mouse is made by...Microsoft?
No doubt this is a last minute rush job to preempt the new iSoap that Steve Jobs was going to unveil at Macworld.
Thanks for that. I was wondering why all the women in his strips were portrayed as being naked. I guess they were fully cloed the whole time. Doh.
I thought it was one guy asking another for a sandwich, primarily because the one standing up wasn't wearing a dress.
"It's microsoft who should be scared of needing to play catch up with the next Mac OS interfaces."
:-) Stick it to 'em Bill!
I can tell you right now that Bill Gates is scared of zip.....well, maybe his next electricity bill. Have you seen how many christmas lights they have on their Lake Washington pad?People travelling eastbound on the 520 bridge have to wear blinkers to get across
"Much of the time it is night, and storing that much juice in batteries is impractical."
Doesn't it say in the bible somewhere that it's a sin to stay up after the sun goes down? Regardless, maybe we could get back to a more wholesome existence and put a stop to all that late night fun I hear people having outside while I'm stuck here coding until I go crosseyed.
I hope SCO doen't come after me next! I tried to install Linux on a pile of dog shit a few weeks ago and am now wondering if I didn't somehow infringed on SCO's intellectual property.
"If the music cartels start charging me for music that I haven't downloaded, ripped, or otherwise pirated, then I'm going to have to stop spending money at iTMS and my local funky CD shop, and treat that "royalty charge" as a blanket license to their entire library."
FWIW I was in a band signed to a UK indie label during the 80's which was had licensing deals with pretty much every major label around the World. Then came the 90's and slowly but surely the CD's started disappearing off Tower Records' shelves. Then came the 00's and we get our own section on iTunes.
Needless to say if I'd bought my first MP3 player in the 00's I would have gone straight to iTunes and bought my albums from there, but instead I bought my first MP3 player in the late 90's and had to resort to grabbing un-licensed MP3's of my songs from wherever I could find them, basically because I didn't have the orginal CD's (my entire record collection is just that, records, and stored back in the UK) and I couldn't find CD's in used record stores.
If the record labels had got their shit together to build their own kickass online record store, and made their own kickass players so people could listen to them, Apple wouldn't have seen an opportunity and created iTunes and the iPod.
So FUCK YOU Universal, and every other label that starts crying about lost revenue.
I thought it was pink lips.....oh nevermind.
You were lucky!
When I were a lad I'd have to walk two hundred miles to the nearest village with my legs tied together with barbed wire, find a rotten apple on the floor near Farmer Bob's apple cart, then take it one thousand miles over broken glass and rusty nails to grandma for her dinner.
That's what I was wondering about, all the bad code that has to stay bad to make it all work. Is there no way to write new code to emulate the bad bits so they can remove it? Or a VM to mask the vast swaths of crud?
it sucks.
Your comment actually made me laugh out loud. Thanks :-)
It wouldn't make much sense to sell an audio capable Airport Express and an audio and video capable Audio Express A/V or whatever, at two differing price points.
:-)
Instead I'd expect them to replace the current version with a new version with, hopefully, the same price.
And if the video version works as well as the two Airport Express units I currently use for all my wireless networking and audio delivery needs, I'll be a happy camper
The "buy" messages in the ad are about as subliminal as a projected Batman logo in the skies above Gotham City.
I bet I could find a few places on an object doing Mach 3 that are making a whooshing sound. Place a mic inside the landing gear bays, or at various places inside the wings and you'll hear all kinds of whooshing sounds. Also place one under the pilots seat and hit record when he/she hits negative G's at the top of a vertical climb. You'll hear a whooshing sound then for sure.
I beg to differ.
I watched a few episodes of the US version of The Office, and although it did indeed pale in comparison to the original version (primarily because whatshiname with the french last name wasn't in it) it was actually pretty good.
The scene in Towering Inferno when the architect realizes the contractors (?) went with below spec. electrical wiring says it all.
"Aren't there mobile phones which cost hundreds of pounds to buy......."
Depends on what you're using to barter with. Hundreds of pounds of flour won't buy much in this neck of the woods, but hundreds of pounds of small carved novelty items would buy several "mobile phones" I'd wager.
Best way is not to think about how many Bushells equals a Quart Etc., instead think about having peeling yet another sticker off your food before you can eat it.
How about a ripeness sticker that flips into an alternate universe where people like stickers on their fruit as soon as it senses my mouth getting near!!
All I want to know is do I get to go to heaven if I buy a big truck and put a BushCheney sticker on it?