An inspection of the All Nippon Airways 787 that made an emergency landing in western Japan found that electrolytes, a flammable battery fluid, had leaked from the plane's main lithium-ion battery.
Everyone seems to be commenting on how this is bad for Netflix, but I'm kind of wondering how the Starz brass thinks leaving anywhere between $250-$300 million on the table is a good idea, or who they're going to receive better offers from. The content is OK, but I somehow doubt their stuff is as premium as they like to think it is...
So sick of hearing Flash haters point to "annoying" ads as a major reason Flash won't be missed. Because one thing is certain: advertisers sure won't do equally annoying ads using (the loose collection of technologies currently referred to as) HTML5. No sir.
Be careful what you wish for, folks. There may not be a blocker for it.
As of Flash Player 9.0.115 (if memory serves regarding the version number) you can use a standard MP4 video file encoded as H.264 instead of FLV. Not sure if that addresses your IP/GPL concerns, but you're not tied to FLV and VP6 if you target recent player versions.
Recent surveys indicate Microsoft's overall regard by college and university students has dropped over 40 points in relation to other, similar businesses since last year. Meanwhile, Apple was ranked #1 as having the most desirable image.
If those numbers are correct, that's really astonishing considering Apple doesn't do any of that Web 2.0 social media stuff. No blogging, no pre-release hyping of products, no pandering to the MySpace generation, nothing. If that sort of transparency and outreach were truly important to college and university students, one would expect those numbers to be reversed.
But in this case, Apple has "rock star" status, and that's enough. They're also not Microsoft, which apparently helps too.
1) Just enough exposition to make you care about the characters
2) Once the action starts, it doesn't let up - I think only Aliens (22 years ago) had me at that level of intensity for a full hour
3) Leaves you guessing - not everything needs to be explained or wrapped up in 90 minutes, and consequently, you're left not knowing anything more than the characters do
4) Outstanding effects (invisible or otherwise) that don't get in the way of the story
5) Finally, a scary flick that isn't torture porn!
All in all, a great (if fairly mindless) monster movie. What the 1998 version of Godzilla should have been.
Can we please stop assigning the "killer" label to abso-freaking-lutely EVERYTHING? iPod killer, Flash killer, Aperture killer, ad nauseam. Have any of these so-called "killers" actually killed the product they were supposedly released to kill?
I guess the word "competitor" doesn't make for sensational copy.
At Macworld in January, MS committed to building a Mac version of Office for another five years. Was this information known then? Will it change anything? Remains to be seen, but the MacBU is profitable and as long as that's the case, there doesn't seem to be any reason (other than spite) to kill Office on the Mac.
Well, I wouldn't expect 100% - IANAHWG (hardware geek), but I believe Rosetta will only emulate a G3 processor, so apps that require a G4 or G5 won't run. It may not be a stretch to say that 100% of programs that will run on a G3 will work under Rosetta, though.
...but as long as I'm running Mac OS X, with some assurances from Apple as to hardware quality standards, then I don't really care who makes and sells me the box. I owned one of those PowerComputing rigs back in the day, and it was a damn fine computer. Sure, current Apple kit is purty and all, but I don't notice my G5 much from its perch under the desk.
That said, I'd be surprised if Steve would ever allow Michael (or anyone else) to produce and sell Macs. But stranger things have happened, even in the last two weeks.
Great modeler from some former LightWave devs. There's a free, unrestricted, "production evaluation" version available for Mac OS X and Windows. Have at it.
If you own Body of Evidence, Lambada, or Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (just to name a few), you would need to acknowledge that 1) you not only own the film in question but 2) think enough of it to want a pristine copy (or $7.10).
Is the remedy really worth your last shred of dignity?
Rats! Now that means all the money and power that went into the secret plans for constructing two cool-looking space shuttles and recruiting oil drillers to plant a nuke in an approaching asteroid will have to be scrapped in favor of something else. Damn you, scientists!
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Let's not overlook the similar research done by Tufnel, St. Hubbins, Smalls, and Shrimpton, proving the relationship between bottom size and insanity.
...but damn, I do love seeing that old-school Silicon Graphics logo/. uses for the increasingly rare SGI post. Whatever mojo SGI had left was certainly gone after they went with that Comic Sans-looking text logo...
The requisite IANAL applies, but doesn't the first amendment only apply to the government? Yes, corporations are filled with greedy scumbags, but can't they technically do all the "muzzling" they want under applicable law? Doesn't mean it's right, but it is what it is.
Please don't flame - I'd like to be corrected if I am mistaken.
...and this might be somewhat OT, but since the advent of popup-blocking browsers I've more or less retrained my brain to ignore all advertising and just focus in on the content, so I don't even notice 99.9% of ads. Unless advertisers go to a more intrusive format (like the ad that loads before the front page of The Onion), I'm not likely to notice whatever new stuff they have up their sleeve.
It's like the old adage says - you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Or, as my college roommate postulated, you can present me with the material, but you can't make me care. Or can you? That's the challenge for advertisers, I suppose.
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But it's what plants crave.
Everyone seems to be commenting on how this is bad for Netflix, but I'm kind of wondering how the Starz brass thinks leaving anywhere between $250-$300 million on the table is a good idea, or who they're going to receive better offers from. The content is OK, but I somehow doubt their stuff is as premium as they like to think it is...
So sick of hearing Flash haters point to "annoying" ads as a major reason Flash won't be missed. Because one thing is certain: advertisers sure won't do equally annoying ads using (the loose collection of technologies currently referred to as) HTML5. No sir.
Be careful what you wish for, folks. There may not be a blocker for it.
Who says they didn't reach out to Microsoft?
Could just as easily be that since MS has a competing technology, helping Adobe out wouldn't be in Microsoft's best interest.
Fact is, neither one of us knows for sure what happened.
As of Flash Player 9.0.115 (if memory serves regarding the version number) you can use a standard MP4 video file encoded as H.264 instead of FLV. Not sure if that addresses your IP/GPL concerns, but you're not tied to FLV and VP6 if you target recent player versions.
The original press release is here.
If those numbers are correct, that's really astonishing considering Apple doesn't do any of that Web 2.0 social media stuff. No blogging, no pre-release hyping of products, no pandering to the MySpace generation, nothing. If that sort of transparency and outreach were truly important to college and university students, one would expect those numbers to be reversed.
But in this case, Apple has "rock star" status, and that's enough. They're also not Microsoft, which apparently helps too.
1) Just enough exposition to make you care about the characters
2) Once the action starts, it doesn't let up - I think only Aliens (22 years ago) had me at that level of intensity for a full hour
3) Leaves you guessing - not everything needs to be explained or wrapped up in 90 minutes, and consequently, you're left not knowing anything more than the characters do
4) Outstanding effects (invisible or otherwise) that don't get in the way of the story
5) Finally, a scary flick that isn't torture porn!
All in all, a great (if fairly mindless) monster movie. What the 1998 version of Godzilla should have been.
Can we please stop assigning the "killer" label to abso-freaking-lutely EVERYTHING? iPod killer, Flash killer, Aperture killer, ad nauseam. Have any of these so-called "killers" actually killed the product they were supposedly released to kill?
I guess the word "competitor" doesn't make for sensational copy.
At Macworld in January, MS committed to building a Mac version of Office for another five years. Was this information known then? Will it change anything? Remains to be seen, but the MacBU is profitable and as long as that's the case, there doesn't seem to be any reason (other than spite) to kill Office on the Mac.
Well, I wouldn't expect 100% - IANAHWG (hardware geek), but I believe Rosetta will only emulate a G3 processor, so apps that require a G4 or G5 won't run. It may not be a stretch to say that 100% of programs that will run on a G3 will work under Rosetta, though.
That phrase could also be used to sum up what SCO seems to be doing to try and spin this their way.
That said, I'd be surprised if Steve would ever allow Michael (or anyone else) to produce and sell Macs. But stranger things have happened, even in the last two weeks.
Great modeler from some former LightWave devs. There's a free, unrestricted, "production evaluation" version available for Mac OS X and Windows. Have at it.
This hint at MacOSXHints may help.
Is the remedy really worth your last shred of dignity?
Rats! Now that means all the money and power that went into the secret plans for constructing two cool-looking space shuttles and recruiting oil drillers to plant a nuke in an approaching asteroid will have to be scrapped in favor of something else. Damn you, scientists!
Let's not overlook the similar research done by Tufnel, St. Hubbins, Smalls, and Shrimpton, proving the relationship between bottom size and insanity.
...but damn, I do love seeing that old-school Silicon Graphics logo /. uses for the increasingly rare SGI post. Whatever mojo SGI had left was certainly gone after they went with that Comic Sans-looking text logo...
"Congress shall make no law..."
The requisite IANAL applies, but doesn't the first amendment only apply to the government? Yes, corporations are filled with greedy scumbags, but can't they technically do all the "muzzling" they want under applicable law? Doesn't mean it's right, but it is what it is.
Please don't flame - I'd like to be corrected if I am mistaken.
It's like the old adage says - you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Or, as my college roommate postulated, you can present me with the material, but you can't make me care. Or can you? That's the challenge for advertisers, I suppose.
I guess his swimsuit supermodel girlfriend was unavailable to help that day...
There may be others...
Either you're in the southern hemisphere, or the guy who left his iMac got a copy of Panther pretty early...
As Chris Berman says, that's why they play the games.