very true. Software companies benefit from piracy because users learn how to use their programs in their youth, and grow up to be paying customers and workers who depend on the program of their choice.
Hell most highschools arent educating kids the right way, so we're going to punish them when they take the initiative to learn something they're interested in?
The scary thing is the Feds expected to get what they want, without a search warrant. Instead of working under the limits of the law, they went right into action and tried to do whatever they wanted.
Quite scary that they would expect anyone to just go along with that.
Its a good question, but i think its a harsh step that needs to be taken. The people need to stand up against these idiots. If we dont use what power we have, we allow them to run away with it... and they clearly have in just about all aspects of their power.
Wikipedia should just ban all content reguarding active politicians because they cant behave themselves.
Simple. Children should be spanked.
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troll... I'll bite.
What the hell are you even talking about?:) Macs were not always "cool sleek and designed well" Macs may have been those things at various times but Macs have also been in "no man's land" for quite sometime until recently.
What i'm talking about is perceived image. What mac users have known all along, true or not... is irrelevant.
Perceived image in todays market is going to shift some of the users. That was my point.
Yes i'll CAPITALIZE my words when i feel like it. Been doing it since the early BBS days, when stressing words. Deal with it.
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I've been saying this for the past month. The Ipod has given Apple an image of value. Apple is cool.
Just say it. Apple... You think cool, sleek, well designed, pretty, elite, hip, trendy...
Now say Microsoft... You think Buggy, Bland, Unrealiable, spyware, virii, adware, trojans, security holes, ugly ui, boring, and the biggest thing is... NOTHIng HAS CHANGED.
When you think of Microsoft, you realize that nothing has really improved. Think of their media player? Media Player Classic is better. Think of IE... think of all the shitty spam like bullshit things that hook into IE wether it be toolbars, or whatever.
Think MSN DESKTOP SEARCH... and how ugly it is... how slow it is....
Microsoft has a HUGE problem on its hands. It has a piss poor image and Apple has a hot shit image right now.
Walk into an apple store and realize that they have worked really hard on image. Their UI is more fluid and faster, more inventive... Windows looks bland, kiddy. Oh uh.. Its Nintendo vs Sony all over again...
Microsoft has a very big problem.
People will be jumping ship to MAC this year and more the next year because of IPOD and the perceived value that is APPLE.
Apple provides a better product? I Dont know, but i'm guessing they probably do because thats how i perceive them now. I'm a PC user. I dont use anything apple other than my IPOD. My friends a Film editor and runs mac hardware and its pretty nice from what i can tell.
We're going to see a huge shift. The hardware is the same now, so really you're chosing between Apple and Microsoft. Say their names out loud again and tell me what words come to mind right away.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Mr Do's Castle Pacman Mrs Pacman Garou: Mark of the Wolves Kung Fu Mario Brothers (the two player original) Joust StarCraft RC ProAM Escape from Robot City Gauntlet Paperboy Any Neo Geo or CSP1/2 arcade games.
I know its supposed to be about humanatarianizmsmsms... but isnt contributing better, inovative products also being humanatarian? (how the hell do you spell that stupid word anyways?;)
Gates needs to play catch up. Windows is garbage, Microsoft has a terrible image, so bad of an image that windows users go out of their way to make XP look and function like OSX.
Microsoft is in serious trouble now that OSX has hit the PC. The hardwares the same, the OS is different.... Itunes and IPOD are the hottest product out there and Windows is assosiated with bugs, security holes, crashes and spyware...
I think people are going to think twice before buying their next windows PC and may consider mac because of teh hardware similarities.... (they can run windows also btw)
It's going to get really interesting... And if you think i'm a mac lover... you should know that i've never owned one in my life. I'm a PC guy and I can see the war on the horizon.
Jobs does deserve credit. As i said in my parent post, thankfully jobs was there to pick up Pixar when Lucas sold it.
Jobs as crazy as he is... loves art. The problem with Jobs and we know from Apple's past, hi s manaical nature to do things his way. They say he's changed somewhat, but whatever.
Jobs certainly deserves credit for keeping pixar alive, but also... staying out of the way of Pixar and letting John and his boys do their thing so gracefully.
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This is very true. John Lassetter, Ed Catmull, Eben Otsbey, Alvy Ray Smith, David DiFrancesco, Tom Duff, Malcolm Blanchard and George Lucas were Pixars real pioneers.
They're the ones who deserve credit for Pixar's success. These guys gave us the Zbuffer, Texture mapping, and so much more. Almost everything we know today... these guys had a hand in. Their artistic vision in a fledgling technical realm is also unique to them thanks to John Lassetter, and George Lucas.
You have to realize that from the start... Pixar were pioneers. It's easy to pass the name Pixar around as a company these days... "Disney buys Pixar... blah blah blah"
But Pixar deserves to be its own entity as Disney once was.
I wish Lucas had not sold Pixar... But then again i'm glad Jobs was there to buy it up. I'm glad Lassetter was able to keep Jobs from sticking his maniacal self into the Pixar day to day.
Hopefully with Jobs being a major share holder in Disney, he can keep DISNEY from screwing up Pixar. John Lassetter (a former disney animator) has a challenge on his hands... and its the same old challenge he's had for sometime now. And that is to keep the suits out of his fun world. If you seen his studio (And i have friends that work there) you will be reminded of old disney. Where artists play, create, and have fun. It's not a corperate labarynth of cubicals. It's a kindergarten, as it should be.
As a 3d animator myself... the challenge has always been about staying young and vibrant, full of ideas and having fun while keeping the suits out of your day to day because they dont understand the culture.
Today's Disney is not the old Disney. I have family members who work for Disney broadcasting in fairly high positions and its a nightmare in many respects. Disney has all but destroyed their 2d artist division that made Disney... well Disney.
Disney is a buisness... as much as you can say Pixar is a buisness... It's really not run like a buisness. Actually I should say that Pixar is run how a buisness should be run because it takes care of its employees because Pixar is its employees.
Disney doesnt look at the world this way. Disney is its companies not its employees. Disney is not its 2d animation anymore. Disney is its "brands". Look at teh falling out of Miramax (the Wiensteins) and Disney. Miramax could very well be considered a film making company that had a mission to deliver a certain quality film, unique to itself. Very much like Pixar.
Anyways... The point is: Pixar will hopefully be untouched. Jobs may be able to help continue the Pixar "island" in the corperate world. I wrote ealier on slashdot about how Jobs and Lassetter really have different mindsets and John wants to keep Pixar intact and run under his own idea of how the pixar culture should be.
I fear that Disney will take over Pixar and change it. Disney is buying Pixar because of the BRAND name that is Pixar because Disney cant compete in the 3d animation realm. Dont think for one moment, that if Disney had the chance... they would kill off the Pixar name and Pixar would become "Disney Animation"
Thats what we all fear the most. Something unique, beautiful and creative being lost in the typical corperate world of greed.
I hope John, Ed, Alvy and whoever still remains at pixar from the old founders... gets a good stake in disney as well. I fear that they do not.
He wasnt hated and locked out from the place:) But Lasetter has talked about how Steve wanted to come in and change the entire studio, and John and Steve came to an agreement that Steve would stay out of Pixars day to day and let John run the studio as John saw fit.
Steve Jobs did infact want to come in and change what Lasetter had establed. I'm not sure at which point perhaps after TS1's success... I'm not sure how Pixar was run immediately after the sale from Lucas to Jobs... but Jobs did infact want to step into a more controlling role at Pixar, and John Lassetter said no.
And if theres anything we know about Steve Jobs.... He wants control.
The fact that John Lassetter had politely asked Jobs to stay out pixars day to day work was the beginning of the end for Pixar. Jobs doesnt care about Pixar one bit. He knows they dont like him there, so they're just a cash cow for him.
Jobs wants control of everything that he is involved with. Steve was not welcome at Pixar and had no control over them. Lassetter wanted nothing to do with Job's crazy ways.
Now Jobs is willing to dump pixar for some control over disney. He still wont be welcomed at Pixar.
Oh i'm aware of that linux is used in my industry but really its not used for animators workstations. Its true that programs like Maya, XSI, and Houdini are all available for Linux, but most people still are using them on the windows side due to a larger complement of apps available such as photoshop and many other programs be it zbrush, to various utilities etc.
Linux boxes are primarily used as a render servers/slaves. Shake is still out on Linux, and yes people do use xsi and maya, especially houdini on linux but they're so few in numbers compared to the window box side of things.
Its great that linux has a handful of the major applications (even though they do lag a little behind the windows version in functionality sometimes but not by version, usually by a feature here and there)
I'm willing to try linux again, but i think the issues stiil exist in that it needs to be a little easier. I do need to try more flavors of linux but i also have work to do. A linux transition needs to be fairly seamless i think at this point. Of course not at the expense of linux's useability, or making it look like windows... but to put things in places that make sense to users, and not burying settings in txt files that arent accessable by a ui component. Also the whole install packaging thing. I know its gotten better but is it as simple as a Windows installer yet?
I really hate children. The war against adulthood has forced me to make a choice, and that is... I hate children. More importantly... I hate the parents of children who think they have any more right than the rest of us.
Ok, I dont really hate children, but you can see my frustration with this and the arguement "its for the good of the children"
People dont even use the V-chip, and those same people will lobby our government with hopes of ridding the planet of porn.
Microsoft and Apple should just build in a complete censorship layer into their OS that can be attributed to a certain user level account.
That way if your child searches breast... and finds a sweet pair of titties... its your own dam fault and not googles.
Unfortunately i cant just run linux. I need apps that are currently windows only.
Also at this point in my life... Its about doing the work, and having less time to tinker with the new. If linux had the apps i needed (it has some, but not all) I would be all for tinkering in linux again.
I ran redhat for a while on one of my pcs. I found it anoying, overly frustrating... yet worth the effort. It was for the most part enjoyable but when you hit a wall, you really hit a wall. I cant afford to do that when it comes to my work (3d animation)
I could afford to do it when i was just using that linux box for email and surfing... but i found myself running wine and hating the media players in linux...
The dependency hell was no fun and extremely difficult to deal with coming from a windows setup.exe mentality. RPM was no fun. I understand that apg-get helps with all of this... but i'm still not convinced that anything in linux is as easy as a windows install package or as easy as windows in general.
I really have had it with windows. I dont want Vista. XP is growing tired and old. The constant harrasment from spyware virii etc has become anoying...
I really just want OSX that runs on all PCs not just Mac PCs... or Linux.
Linux would be fine if it were user friendly, had itunes, quicktime, and photoshop... and other programs but... Linux is growing strong in the 3d animation field. It's gettign support from the major players in the 3d industry and has been for sometime.
I want to see the end of windows at this point. The microsoft mentality has become tiresome. I've been a pc user for a while now... from the dos/desqview days:) til today. Windows is no longer fun. Half the features in the ui are meaningless and the uI is poorly designed in general. The instability, the insecurity... ENOUGH
VISTA is not the answer to these problems... Its a continuation of these problems.
Microsoft supports spammers/spyware and virii writers. I want to run linux so badly but the apps just arent completely there yet for me, and the usability of linux is still too difficult.
dont think for a second i wouldnt jump to linux. If only they had the developer support.
Dam it guys, get it together... now is the RIGHT time to change the world.
[i]"Companies which empower countries to keep a chain around their citizens' necks shouldn't be able to plead"[/i]
Yeah, it should be just like how it is in America! The companies should dictate to the government, the needs of the people. Corperations should be in the pockets of every politician and the citizen neck would be chained by the corperation.
I think China is actually doing what our own government here in the US refuses to do... and thats keep corperations in check, for the betterment of its own people. Now you may disagree with what China feels is good for their people... But atleast China has the balls to tell corperations how to operate within their own country.
We let corperations run wild here in the US. So much that it has hurt our people beyound repair at this point.
"It's basically a business decision for Microsoft. Like any other company, we have business priorities. Our focus really is in delivering the best experience to Windows customers."
Yeah right... like they've been doing such a great job at it with windows media player on the PC for the last 10 years.
Infact they've done such a great job of it, most people use Itunes, winamp or media player classic these days.
Way to go Microsoft. You suck again. Shitty Vista, Shitty Media player... Shitty UI, Shitty Security... yet constant press releases about how they're focusing on improving everything... What really has improved since MS has said this before in the past 10 years?
Apple is beating the shit out of Microsoft. The real motives behind this move is the MUSIC STORE that MS just announced. MS wants to shift the focus away from Apple and towards PCs running WINDOWS, and not PCs running OSX.
MS is hanging on a thread here boys. Vista is looking duller by the moment and APPLE keeps getting cooler. Hell they even stole our hardware.
The reality is that in the coming year, there wont be a difference between a MAC and a PC hardware. The real difference will be the os.
Apple is playing for keeps this time. Windows is bleeding and Apple is cool. Fear the fickle public who love their 46 million Ipod's sold this year. They be running a PC today... but by next year, they may be running a MAC.
Microsoft knows this and if they get really desperate, they'll pull the plug on office for mac.
MS taking on Itunes is a huge mistake. No one trusts MS anyway, they dont have a cool artsy image. MS is a big cold IBM clone.
I'm a long time PC user, not a mac user at all... But as an Ipod owner... you can clearly see the trend taking shape.
MS has some serious problems heading their way. Microsoft has an image problem. Nothing about Microsoft inspires quality, coolness, attractiveness, reliability or fairness.
Microsoft has become as cold and as dull as IBM once was.
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Lets do the math...
120 footballs + 10 cheerleaders = Sticky Balls.
The NFL can party like no other.
very true. Software companies benefit from piracy because users learn how to use their programs in their youth, and grow up to be paying customers and workers who depend on the program of their choice.
Hell most highschools arent educating kids the right way, so we're going to punish them when they take the initiative to learn something they're interested in?
The scary thing is the Feds expected to get what they want, without a search warrant. Instead of working under the limits of the law, they went right into action and tried to do whatever they wanted.
Quite scary that they would expect anyone to just go along with that.
Its a good question, but i think its a harsh step that needs to be taken. The people need to stand up against these idiots. If we dont use what power we have, we allow them to run away with it... and they clearly have in just about all aspects of their power.
Napster is dead, its been dead since it Metallica destroyed it :) It's not a left over cancer that no one wants to touch.
Google's screwing up, if they think its a good idea to infect the google name with the cancer that is Napster.
Yahoo's desktop search is better than googles.
Yahoo Desktop Widgets is great fun.
Google shouldnt spread itself so thin, and start a real unified movement.
Blow up congress.
Wikipedia should just ban all content reguarding active politicians because they cant behave themselves.
Simple. Children should be spanked.
troll... I'll bite.
:) Macs were not always "cool sleek and designed well" Macs may have been those things at various times but Macs have also been in "no man's land" for quite sometime until recently.
What the hell are you even talking about?
What i'm talking about is perceived image. What mac users have known all along, true or not... is irrelevant.
Perceived image in todays market is going to shift some of the users. That was my point.
Yes i'll CAPITALIZE my words when i feel like it. Been doing it since the early BBS days, when stressing words. Deal with it.
I've been saying this for the past month. The Ipod has given Apple an image of value. Apple is cool.
Just say it. Apple... You think cool, sleek, well designed, pretty, elite, hip, trendy...
Now say Microsoft... You think Buggy, Bland, Unrealiable, spyware, virii, adware, trojans, security holes, ugly ui, boring, and the biggest thing is... NOTHIng HAS CHANGED.
When you think of Microsoft, you realize that nothing has really improved. Think of their media player? Media Player Classic is better. Think of IE... think of all the shitty spam like bullshit things that hook into IE wether it be toolbars, or whatever.
Think MSN DESKTOP SEARCH... and how ugly it is... how slow it is....
Microsoft has a HUGE problem on its hands. It has a piss poor image and Apple has a hot shit image right now.
Walk into an apple store and realize that they have worked really hard on image. Their UI is more fluid and faster, more inventive... Windows looks bland, kiddy. Oh uh.. Its Nintendo vs Sony all over again...
Microsoft has a very big problem.
People will be jumping ship to MAC this year and more the next year because of IPOD and the perceived value that is APPLE.
Apple provides a better product? I Dont know, but i'm guessing they probably do because thats how i perceive them now. I'm a PC user. I dont use anything apple other than my IPOD. My friends a Film editor and runs mac hardware and its pretty nice from what i can tell.
We're going to see a huge shift. The hardware is the same now, so really you're chosing between Apple and Microsoft. Say their names out loud again and tell me what words come to mind right away.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike
:)
Mr Do's Castle
Pacman
Mrs Pacman
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Kung Fu
Mario Brothers (the two player original)
Joust
StarCraft
RC ProAM
Escape from Robot City
Gauntlet
Paperboy
Any Neo Geo or CSP1/2 arcade games.
Mame rules so much. Thank you world for Mame
I know its supposed to be about humanatarianizmsmsms... but isnt contributing better, inovative products also being humanatarian? (how the hell do you spell that stupid word anyways? ;)
Gates needs to play catch up. Windows is garbage, Microsoft has a terrible image, so bad of an image that windows users go out of their way to make XP look and function like OSX.
Microsoft is in serious trouble now that OSX has hit the PC. The hardwares the same, the OS is different.... Itunes and IPOD are the hottest product out there and Windows is assosiated with bugs, security holes, crashes and spyware...
I think people are going to think twice before buying their next windows PC and may consider mac because of teh hardware similarities.... (they can run windows also btw)
It's going to get really interesting... And if you think i'm a mac lover... you should know that i've never owned one in my life. I'm a PC guy and I can see the war on the horizon.
Jobs does deserve credit. As i said in my parent post, thankfully jobs was there to pick up Pixar when Lucas sold it.
Jobs as crazy as he is... loves art. The problem with Jobs and we know from Apple's past, hi s manaical nature to do things his way. They say he's changed somewhat, but whatever.
Jobs certainly deserves credit for keeping pixar alive, but also... staying out of the way of Pixar and letting John and his boys do their thing so gracefully.
This is very true. John Lassetter, Ed Catmull, Eben Otsbey, Alvy Ray Smith, David DiFrancesco, Tom Duff, Malcolm Blanchard and George Lucas were Pixars real pioneers.
They're the ones who deserve credit for Pixar's success. These guys gave us the Zbuffer, Texture mapping, and so much more. Almost everything we know today... these guys had a hand in. Their artistic vision in a fledgling technical realm is also unique to them thanks to John Lassetter, and George Lucas.
You have to realize that from the start... Pixar were pioneers. It's easy to pass the name Pixar around as a company these days... "Disney buys Pixar... blah blah blah"
But Pixar deserves to be its own entity as Disney once was.
I wish Lucas had not sold Pixar... But then again i'm glad Jobs was there to buy it up. I'm glad Lassetter was able to keep Jobs from sticking his maniacal self into the Pixar day to day.
Hopefully with Jobs being a major share holder in Disney, he can keep DISNEY from screwing up Pixar. John Lassetter (a former disney animator) has a challenge on his hands... and its the same old challenge he's had for sometime now. And that is to keep the suits out of his fun world. If you seen his studio (And i have friends that work there) you will be reminded of old disney. Where artists play, create, and have fun. It's not a corperate labarynth of cubicals. It's a kindergarten, as it should be.
As a 3d animator myself... the challenge has always been about staying young and vibrant, full of ideas and having fun while keeping the suits out of your day to day because they dont understand the culture.
Today's Disney is not the old Disney. I have family members who work for Disney broadcasting in fairly high positions and its a nightmare in many respects. Disney has all but destroyed their 2d artist division that made Disney... well Disney.
Disney is a buisness... as much as you can say Pixar is a buisness... It's really not run like a buisness. Actually I should say that Pixar is run how a buisness should be run because it takes care of its employees because Pixar is its employees.
Disney doesnt look at the world this way. Disney is its companies not its employees. Disney is not its 2d animation anymore. Disney is its "brands". Look at teh falling out of Miramax (the Wiensteins) and Disney. Miramax could very well be considered a film making company that had a mission to deliver a certain quality film, unique to itself. Very much like Pixar.
Anyways... The point is: Pixar will hopefully be untouched. Jobs may be able to help continue the Pixar "island" in the corperate world. I wrote ealier on slashdot about how Jobs and Lassetter really have different mindsets and John wants to keep Pixar intact and run under his own idea of how the pixar culture should be.
I fear that Disney will take over Pixar and change it. Disney is buying Pixar because of the BRAND name that is Pixar because Disney cant compete in the 3d animation realm. Dont think for one moment, that if Disney had the chance... they would kill off the Pixar name and Pixar would become "Disney Animation"
Thats what we all fear the most. Something unique, beautiful and creative being lost in the typical corperate world of greed.
I hope John, Ed, Alvy and whoever still remains at pixar from the old founders... gets a good stake in disney as well. I fear that they do not.
This is how the corperate world treats Pioneers.
Pixar at one point converted all their software to run on Apple computers by command of Jobs. Jobs then used it for PR
They didnt stick with the apple computers btw. Jobs forced it on them at the time.
He wasnt hated and locked out from the place :) But Lasetter has talked about how Steve wanted to come in and change the entire studio, and John and Steve came to an agreement that Steve would stay out of Pixars day to day and let John run the studio as John saw fit.
Steve Jobs did infact want to come in and change what Lasetter had establed. I'm not sure at which point perhaps after TS1's success... I'm not sure how Pixar was run immediately after the sale from Lucas to Jobs... but Jobs did infact want to step into a more controlling role at Pixar, and John Lassetter said no.
And if theres anything we know about Steve Jobs.... He wants control.
The fact that John Lassetter had politely asked Jobs to stay out pixars day to day work was the beginning of the end for Pixar. Jobs doesnt care about Pixar one bit. He knows they dont like him there, so they're just a cash cow for him.
Jobs wants control of everything that he is involved with. Steve was not welcome at Pixar and had no control over them. Lassetter wanted nothing to do with Job's crazy ways.
Now Jobs is willing to dump pixar for some control over disney. He still wont be welcomed at Pixar.
Oh i'm aware of that linux is used in my industry but really its not used for animators workstations. Its true that programs like Maya, XSI, and Houdini are all available for Linux, but most people still are using them on the windows side due to a larger complement of apps available such as photoshop and many other programs be it zbrush, to various utilities etc.
Linux boxes are primarily used as a render servers/slaves. Shake is still out on Linux, and yes people do use xsi and maya, especially houdini on linux but they're so few in numbers compared to the window box side of things.
Its great that linux has a handful of the major applications (even though they do lag a little behind the windows version in functionality sometimes but not by version, usually by a feature here and there)
I'm willing to try linux again, but i think the issues stiil exist in that it needs to be a little easier. I do need to try more flavors of linux but i also have work to do. A linux transition needs to be fairly seamless i think at this point. Of course not at the expense of linux's useability, or making it look like windows... but to put things in places that make sense to users, and not burying settings in txt files that arent accessable by a ui component. Also the whole install packaging thing. I know its gotten better but is it as simple as a Windows installer yet?
I totally agree. I could careless if a child saw a tit. I saw my share as a kid. I heard my share of "bad" language....
Really its just apart of growing up. We learn about the world around us at some point, governments/angry mother organizations wishes be dammed.
I really hate children. The war against adulthood has forced me to make a choice, and that is... I hate children. More importantly... I hate the parents of children who think they have any more right than the rest of us.
Ok, I dont really hate children, but you can see my frustration with this and the arguement "its for the good of the children"
People dont even use the V-chip, and those same people will lobby our government with hopes of ridding the planet of porn.
Microsoft and Apple should just build in a complete censorship layer into their OS that can be attributed to a certain user level account.
That way if your child searches breast... and finds a sweet pair of titties... its your own dam fault and not googles.
Unfortunately i cant just run linux. I need apps that are currently windows only.
Also at this point in my life... Its about doing the work, and having less time to tinker with the new. If linux had the apps i needed (it has some, but not all) I would be all for tinkering in linux again.
I ran redhat for a while on one of my pcs. I found it anoying, overly frustrating... yet worth the effort. It was for the most part enjoyable but when you hit a wall, you really hit a wall. I cant afford to do that when it comes to my work (3d animation)
I could afford to do it when i was just using that linux box for email and surfing... but i found myself running wine and hating the media players in linux...
The dependency hell was no fun and extremely difficult to deal with coming from a windows setup.exe mentality. RPM was no fun. I understand that apg-get helps with all of this... but i'm still not convinced that anything in linux is as easy as a windows install package or as easy as windows in general.
I really have had it with windows. I dont want Vista. XP is growing tired and old. The constant harrasment from spyware virii etc has become anoying...
:) til today. Windows is no longer fun. Half the features in the ui are meaningless and the uI is poorly designed in general. The instability, the insecurity... ENOUGH
I really just want OSX that runs on all PCs not just Mac PCs... or Linux.
Linux would be fine if it were user friendly, had itunes, quicktime, and photoshop... and other programs but... Linux is growing strong in the 3d animation field. It's gettign support from the major players in the 3d industry and has been for sometime.
I want to see the end of windows at this point. The microsoft mentality has become tiresome. I've been a pc user for a while now... from the dos/desqview days
VISTA is not the answer to these problems... Its a continuation of these problems.
Microsoft supports spammers/spyware and virii writers. I want to run linux so badly but the apps just arent completely there yet for me, and the usability of linux is still too difficult.
dont think for a second i wouldnt jump to linux. If only they had the developer support.
Dam it guys, get it together... now is the RIGHT time to change the world.
[i]"Companies which empower countries to keep a chain around their citizens' necks shouldn't be able to plead"[/i]
Yeah, it should be just like how it is in America! The companies should dictate to the government, the needs of the people. Corperations should be in the pockets of every politician and the citizen neck would be chained by the corperation.
I think China is actually doing what our own government here in the US refuses to do... and thats keep corperations in check, for the betterment of its own people. Now you may disagree with what China feels is good for their people... But atleast China has the balls to tell corperations how to operate within their own country.
We let corperations run wild here in the US. So much that it has hurt our people beyound repair at this point.
"It's basically a business decision for Microsoft. Like any other company, we have business priorities. Our focus really is in delivering the best experience to Windows customers."
Yeah right... like they've been doing such a great job at it with windows media player on the PC for the last 10 years.
Infact they've done such a great job of it, most people use Itunes, winamp or media player classic these days.
Way to go Microsoft. You suck again. Shitty Vista, Shitty Media player... Shitty UI, Shitty Security... yet constant press releases about how they're focusing on improving everything... What really has improved since MS has said this before in the past 10 years?
Apple is beating the shit out of Microsoft. The real motives behind this move is the MUSIC STORE that MS just announced. MS wants to shift the focus away from Apple and towards PCs running WINDOWS, and not PCs running OSX.
MS is hanging on a thread here boys. Vista is looking duller by the moment and APPLE keeps getting cooler. Hell they even stole our hardware.
The reality is that in the coming year, there wont be a difference between a MAC and a PC hardware. The real difference will be the os.
Apple is playing for keeps this time. Windows is bleeding and Apple is cool. Fear the fickle public who love their 46 million Ipod's sold this year. They be running a PC today... but by next year, they may be running a MAC.
Microsoft knows this and if they get really desperate, they'll pull the plug on office for mac.
MS taking on Itunes is a huge mistake. No one trusts MS anyway, they dont have a cool artsy image. MS is a big cold IBM clone.
I'm a long time PC user, not a mac user at all... But as an Ipod owner... you can clearly see the trend taking shape.
MS has some serious problems heading their way. Microsoft has an image problem. Nothing about Microsoft inspires quality, coolness, attractiveness, reliability or fairness.
Microsoft has become as cold and as dull as IBM once was.
The Palestinian terrorist (Black September) did infact use guns, and not walkie talkies.
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F'n Speilberg, leave your movies alone! ET phone home.
GHOSTBUSTERS!!!
When theres something strange
In your neighborhood...
Who you gonna call...
Ghostbusters!!!
I knew there was a reason god created the IPOD. So i could listen to Ray Parker Jr's masterpeice.
Nice to see that the PC version is coming in the future but is Apple gaining ground or what? Dam them Ipods :)