I thought the target demographic for '95 was current 3.1 users at home and NT was the operating system designed for companies, and hence its advertising was targeted towards 35+ males. Then again maybe Start Me Up didn't work for me because I think Jagger is a dick.
I do. I really do. I think the manic panning and the obsessive zooming and the nausea-inducing cuts are all meant to contribute to the desired look and feel, regardless of how bad it is, but I think the microwave clock time and boom mic appearance (didn't see it myslf and I am NOT going to keep watching it until I see it) are accidental.
Nope. Nothing could demonstrate the difference between Apple and Microsoft more clearly than music. Steve Jobs has final say on what music is going to be used in the campaigns and he always manages to pick a new band on the upswing, or at the very least pick a song that no-one has heard of, but is instantly loved. Bill Gates okayed the Strolling Bones' 1981 song to release his 1995 software in what can only be described as a desperate attempt to look cool.
As someone who works in a multimedia department that co-ordinates AV purchases for a government institution (or at least tries to), my advice is to work with your AV guys on this one. Get a comprehensive solution that works for everyone. Otherwise you'll have a situation where you, the keen individual, will have a working solution that only you can use. Others will want one and either do something themselves (badly) or pressure the AV guys into implementing something too fast, too soon. Then whatever you have done will not work with what they have done.
I see keen individuals all the time. Work with the people whose job it is to get this working.
And what the guy said about waiting 12 - 18 months is spot on. Remember how many touchscreen phones there were and how good they were before the iPhone came along? Exactly. The landscape is about to change and adopting new tech now will be expensive. Wait.
we've decided to migrate everything to some giant, well-liked third party with a reputation for excellence,
Does Google actually have a reputation for excellence? Apart from their search engine and maybe Google Maps, is anything they make "excellent"? Does anything excel; is anything groundbreaking and complete in utility and quality?
I remember when a lot of their releases stayed in extended-Beta, which is code for "it's free, it's out there so use it at your own peril".
I find a lot of their stuff nifty, and I think they head in interesting new directions, but they seem to be always short of excellence. Personally I think that they have gained years worth of kudos - and, by extension, a reputation for excellence - by creating a great search engine (not to mention the big plus of not being Microsoft) and are spending it.
Given that I could see a bit of a CMOS wobble in both the Nano and iPhone footage (first clips), I don't think Apple is quite ready to take on Canon, Nikon et al. The sound was great in the nano, though. Love to have one.
Build a prison in the bottom of an abandoned mining pit and a single rifleman at the top of the access ramp will be sufficient to thwart any escape attempt
And what happens when he goes to pee?
Also, may I recommend the movie Ghosts of the Civil Dead. Australian prison flick starring (amongst others) Nick Cave.
As a pedestrian, I treat zebra crossings as a request to cars to stop and let me cross. I always wait until I am certain they have seen me. Those white lines on the road offer very little in the way of crash protection, though they will highlight the red nicely.
the golden passport to ticket exemption is the military ID. I've seen it used many times. According to rumors, this works better for enlisted personnel than for officers. I know a guy who was a sergeant in the army. He was often pulled over, but NEVER ticketed.
Nah, membership of a masonic lodge. My in-laws are all masons in a large-ish Queensland country town, and the discreet square-and-compass (I call it "hammer and sickle" to bug them...) stickers on the cars have helped get them out of speeding fines and parking tickets. Not always, but enough to let you know that's the way things are.
Ditto. It's not as if anyone has asked for ISP-level internet filtering, and we haven't even had some huge scandal (real or manufactured) creating outrage (real or manufactured) resulting in the masses demanding protection from teh ebil interwebs. I just don't understand where this is coming from.
If I was a conspiracy nut (I'm not, honest...) it's as if The Master Puppeteers have realised that an idea like this from the Libs would be shot down by people objecting to moralising conservatives intruding in our lives, but when it comes from the ALP, people are sort of confused...
I did try it. #1 and #2 on Bing were articles on "Why is Mac so expensive".
The #1 hit on Bing, a techradar.com article, turned up #9 on Google.
FWIW, Mac OS 10.5, Safari 4 browser. Maybe Bing is customising results...
I worked in a research lab next to a bunch that did malaria vaccine work. They ran human trials occasionally and were always on the lookout for vict--- errr, volunteers. In this country, you can't pay people for taking part so they were offering book vouchers. Seriously. And it would have taken place on the weekend. My weekend not at work.
I politely declined.
Mod parent up. Some people seem to think we are at the zenith of our knowledge RIGHT NOW. That's as exasperatingly dumb as teenagers who know it all.
Religious dude: OK, we'll accept that vaccines, microsurgery, antibiotics, CPUs, radios, V8 cars, tall buildings, modern farming, genetic engineering, lunar landings and quantum mechanics are all the products of science and engineering and really don't require an interventionist god, but can you explain the behaviour of that weird quark? No? Ergo, god exists. And he'll smite your ass:-) .
I nearly bought that argument when someone on/. talked about things like carpentry and how halving is easy, so that's why we have quarters, eighths etc. I bought it until the day I saw something that measured as 3/64ths. That's just dumb, and while it is a product of halving, it's such a niggly little number that it demonstrates that the engineers need more accuracy in numbers, not futzing around with 64ths.
Australia went all metric in 1974. It's not that hard. Even though the ghost of imperial can be seen in some places, it's not mentioned anymore except in old phrases. No-one has a need for it. The one thing imperial still has going for it is conveniently named units - foot, inch, yard, mile, pound, stone, ounce. The common names for everyday measures are single syllable. "Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" sounds better than its metric equivalent.
There's a gradient of spousal acceptance, from the flat out "NO, it's a dumb idea" to "OK, we'll try it but I don't want to be inconvenienced by your 'experiment' " to "Yep, works for me".
You might not know where your plan lies on that gradient until you put into action so while SAF is very important, sometimes you just have to convince them to have a go before you can determine if it's a long term winner.
IME, wives want stuff that works. They'll tolerate our crazy ideas as long as it doesn't interfere with keeping the kids clean and putting food on the table reliably. My wife loves the AV setup I have through the house and can use it but has said that when I die, she'll have to sell the lot because she has no idea how it all goes together.
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hehehe a canvas roof. Love it.
I thought the target demographic for '95 was current 3.1 users at home and NT was the operating system designed for companies, and hence its advertising was targeted towards 35+ males. Then again maybe Start Me Up didn't work for me because I think Jagger is a dick.
I do. I really do. I think the manic panning and the obsessive zooming and the nausea-inducing cuts are all meant to contribute to the desired look and feel, regardless of how bad it is, but I think the microwave clock time and boom mic appearance (didn't see it myslf and I am NOT going to keep watching it until I see it) are accidental.
Viral marketing isn't actually supposed to make you sick.
Nope. Nothing could demonstrate the difference between Apple and Microsoft more clearly than music. Steve Jobs has final say on what music is going to be used in the campaigns and he always manages to pick a new band on the upswing, or at the very least pick a song that no-one has heard of, but is instantly loved. Bill Gates okayed the Strolling Bones' 1981 song to release his 1995 software in what can only be described as a desperate attempt to look cool.
As someone who works in a multimedia department that co-ordinates AV purchases for a government institution (or at least tries to), my advice is to work with your AV guys on this one. Get a comprehensive solution that works for everyone. Otherwise you'll have a situation where you, the keen individual, will have a working solution that only you can use. Others will want one and either do something themselves (badly) or pressure the AV guys into implementing something too fast, too soon. Then whatever you have done will not work with what they have done.
I see keen individuals all the time. Work with the people whose job it is to get this working.
And what the guy said about waiting 12 - 18 months is spot on. Remember how many touchscreen phones there were and how good they were before the iPhone came along? Exactly. The landscape is about to change and adopting new tech now will be expensive. Wait.
Balance that with modern light alloys and I'm not so sure.
we've decided to migrate everything to some giant, well-liked third party with a reputation for excellence,
Does Google actually have a reputation for excellence? Apart from their search engine and maybe Google Maps, is anything they make "excellent"? Does anything excel; is anything groundbreaking and complete in utility and quality? I remember when a lot of their releases stayed in extended-Beta, which is code for "it's free, it's out there so use it at your own peril". I find a lot of their stuff nifty, and I think they head in interesting new directions, but they seem to be always short of excellence. Personally I think that they have gained years worth of kudos - and, by extension, a reputation for excellence - by creating a great search engine (not to mention the big plus of not being Microsoft) and are spending it.
Given that I could see a bit of a CMOS wobble in both the Nano and iPhone footage (first clips), I don't think Apple is quite ready to take on Canon, Nikon et al. The sound was great in the nano, though. Love to have one.
I know BD, SM, even CBT. But what's this "1080 Pee" you speak of?
If I want to find out about an Apple product, I'll go to apple.com. If I want to find out about a Microsoft product, I go to Wikipedia.
Build a prison in the bottom of an abandoned mining pit and a single rifleman at the top of the access ramp will be sufficient to thwart any escape attempt
And what happens when he goes to pee?
Also, may I recommend the movie Ghosts of the Civil Dead. Australian prison flick starring (amongst others) Nick Cave.
As a pedestrian, I treat zebra crossings as a request to cars to stop and let me cross. I always wait until I am certain they have seen me. Those white lines on the road offer very little in the way of crash protection, though they will highlight the red nicely.
Bullshit. I've been using iTunes since before Apple owned it and I have never seen a message remotely like this. WMP, sure. iTunes, nope.
the golden passport to ticket exemption is the military ID. I've seen it used many times. According to rumors, this works better for enlisted personnel than for officers. I know a guy who was a sergeant in the army. He was often pulled over, but NEVER ticketed.
Nah, membership of a masonic lodge. My in-laws are all masons in a large-ish Queensland country town, and the discreet square-and-compass (I call it "hammer and sickle" to bug them...) stickers on the cars have helped get them out of speeding fines and parking tickets. Not always, but enough to let you know that's the way things are.
"No, but asserting that a lady is a "skanky ho" (also, "psychotic") is illegal, if untrue."
No, actually, it isn't.
Ooooh, internet legal fight! Now I want a clean fair fight and no quoting from Wikipedia.
Ditto. It's not as if anyone has asked for ISP-level internet filtering, and we haven't even had some huge scandal (real or manufactured) creating outrage (real or manufactured) resulting in the masses demanding protection from teh ebil interwebs. I just don't understand where this is coming from. If I was a conspiracy nut (I'm not, honest...) it's as if The Master Puppeteers have realised that an idea like this from the Libs would be shot down by people objecting to moralising conservatives intruding in our lives, but when it comes from the ALP, people are sort of confused...
I have to agree. While Cohen on TV had some good moments, Borat and Bruno seem to be deeply into "cruel" territory.
I did try it. #1 and #2 on Bing were articles on "Why is Mac so expensive". The #1 hit on Bing, a techradar.com article, turned up #9 on Google. FWIW, Mac OS 10.5, Safari 4 browser. Maybe Bing is customising results...
I worked in a research lab next to a bunch that did malaria vaccine work. They ran human trials occasionally and were always on the lookout for vict--- errr, volunteers. In this country, you can't pay people for taking part so they were offering book vouchers. Seriously. And it would have taken place on the weekend. My weekend not at work. I politely declined.
Mod parent up. Some people seem to think we are at the zenith of our knowledge RIGHT NOW. That's as exasperatingly dumb as teenagers who know it all.
:-) .
Religious dude: OK, we'll accept that vaccines, microsurgery, antibiotics, CPUs, radios, V8 cars, tall buildings, modern farming, genetic engineering, lunar landings and quantum mechanics are all the products of science and engineering and really don't require an interventionist god, but can you explain the behaviour of that weird quark? No? Ergo, god exists. And he'll smite your ass
Normal dude: FFS. Chk-chk boom.
Aren't you forgetting that what you want is every bit as important as what she wants?
You're not married, are you?
I nearly bought that argument when someone on /. talked about things like carpentry and how halving is easy, so that's why we have quarters, eighths etc. I bought it until the day I saw something that measured as 3/64ths. That's just dumb, and while it is a product of halving, it's such a niggly little number that it demonstrates that the engineers need more accuracy in numbers, not futzing around with 64ths.
Australia went all metric in 1974. It's not that hard. Even though the ghost of imperial can be seen in some places, it's not mentioned anymore except in old phrases. No-one has a need for it. The one thing imperial still has going for it is conveniently named units - foot, inch, yard, mile, pound, stone, ounce. The common names for everyday measures are single syllable. "Give him an inch and he'll take a mile" sounds better than its metric equivalent.
Don't worry, Microsoft are releasing shit all the time. I'm sure some of it is Ballmer's.
There's a gradient of spousal acceptance, from the flat out "NO, it's a dumb idea" to "OK, we'll try it but I don't want to be inconvenienced by your 'experiment' " to "Yep, works for me".
You might not know where your plan lies on that gradient until you put into action so while SAF is very important, sometimes you just have to convince them to have a go before you can determine if it's a long term winner.
IME, wives want stuff that works. They'll tolerate our crazy ideas as long as it doesn't interfere with keeping the kids clean and putting food on the table reliably. My wife loves the AV setup I have through the house and can use it but has said that when I die, she'll have to sell the lot because she has no idea how it all goes together.