Imagine a year where there weren't any Oscar-worthy movies. Would they cancel the Academy Awards? No. Because at the end of the day, CES (and the Academy Awards) are mostly just marketing events. There's a lot of money floating around the CES event and not having anything really new or note-worthy isn't going to disrupt business as usual. Marketers going to market, regardless.
Lots of good answers already, but the simplest is hardly anyone outside certain industry's have any idea of color space. Try explaining how monitor color and printer color work is like trying to explain physics to a toddler. (generally speaking) It shouldn't be that hard, but somehow. most people don't get the concept until their image comes back with pink rather then red.
I stopped answering calls from unknown numbers and you know what? It's not a problem at all. If I know you, I have your number, and if I don't, leave a message and I call you back. Otherwise piss off.
Here's the thing -- when YOURE the one who has been caught lying, trying to pass the buck on to your predecessor just makes you look more like a douchebag.
RIP is a bit much, but honestly, as a developer and long time Apple user (25+), I can't remember the last time I got excited about a new macbook. In fact, I've spent the past several years wondering where to go next.... (ubuntu + dell XPS is leading the pack these days).
Don't be a condescending little prick. Ten seconds of googling shows that there are a several hundred Comcast stores around the US (look up Xfinity). I personally have spoken to Comcast reps on the phone over the past year. Your mileage may vary.
I've been using Adobe products since 1995. As their products got more and more bloated I grew disenchanted. Then they switched to a subscription model because people wouldn't upgrade their software often enough for Adobe's liking, and I got pissed. Moved to using Affinity products and haven't looked back. Now Adobe wants to be a marketing company as well? It's like you're trying to make me hate you more.
It's too bad... Adobe used to be cool software tools, now they're just tools.
You're not wrong, but you're deliberately overlooking Apple's reputation for getting the details right, which did used to mean something. You should consider what point you are making before posting and sounding like an ass.
Considering that Apple built it's reputation around "getting the details right", and were known for the high quality of their advertising, this is embarrassing on two levels. It shows that their attention to detail isn't what it used to be, and that their marketing dept. is getting sloppy. This would imply that Apple is not a hungry game changer but just another 500lb gorilla pumping out homogeneous products.
I was only worried about losing access to my local news channel (OTA is impossible for me), but after I discovered that my local news streams on their web site, I don't even need Sling. And I just dropped Comcast for a cheaper and less greasy vendor. I think this author assumes most of us want a 1:1 replacement for cable, which I'm not I would agree. There's very little I miss from cable that I don't get from Hulu or Netflix.
So Travis, you're going to go off, start another self-driving company that is technically more advanced, wait for Uber to be almost dead, and then be bought out and brought back by the original company as a hail mary? And then re-invent the smart phone, which arguably saved the company more then anything else did?
*grabs popcorn*
The theater going experience sucks and it doesn't appear to be changing in the audience's favor anytime soon. I appreciate that Nolan made a beautiful film, but I'm still not going. Lamenting about "the true movie-going experience" is forgetting that the ideal Nolan strives for was a blip in history to start with. Storytelling is a constantly changing beast with no "right" way of doing it. I don't go to see "films." I go to be told a story. The medium is only part of that experience.
WHAT? A commercial company releasing a pseudo-intellectual white paper to support a position that benefits them? I'm shocked! Besides, what is this, 1998? FUD? Really? You know the company that started the whole FUD thing just added support for Linux to their OS?
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I really only use Dropbox to share files with other people and I'm very interested in Mozilla's new file sharing service: https://send.firefox.com/
according to my web traffic reports, which says that out of 2.4 million page views, that browser came in at less then .05% of my overall traffic. Meh.
Imagine a year where there weren't any Oscar-worthy movies. Would they cancel the Academy Awards? No. Because at the end of the day, CES (and the Academy Awards) are mostly just marketing events. There's a lot of money floating around the CES event and not having anything really new or note-worthy isn't going to disrupt business as usual. Marketers going to market, regardless.
Lots of good answers already, but the simplest is hardly anyone outside certain industry's have any idea of color space. Try explaining how monitor color and printer color work is like trying to explain physics to a toddler. (generally speaking) It shouldn't be that hard, but somehow. most people don't get the concept until their image comes back with pink rather then red.
This is what happens when your product goes to shit and you need to keep making money. It's a race to the bottom.
I stopped answering calls from unknown numbers and you know what? It's not a problem at all. If I know you, I have your number, and if I don't, leave a message and I call you back. Otherwise piss off.
I might argue that having some of our brightest minds working on phones and ad platforms is a colossal waste of talent...
seeing as cig butts are little time bombs of toxins.
sounds more like a plot to kill crows with nicotine.
Here's the thing -- when YOURE the one who has been caught lying, trying to pass the buck on to your predecessor just makes you look more like a douchebag.
RIP is a bit much, but honestly, as a developer and long time Apple user (25+), I can't remember the last time I got excited about a new macbook. In fact, I've spent the past several years wondering where to go next.... (ubuntu + dell XPS is leading the pack these days).
Those who have had a drive go bad, and those who will. Why not do everything to try and preserve your drive and data?
Don't be a condescending little prick. Ten seconds of googling shows that there are a several hundred Comcast stores around the US (look up Xfinity). I personally have spoken to Comcast reps on the phone over the past year. Your mileage may vary.
Comcast are assholes.
I've been using Adobe products since 1995. As their products got more and more bloated I grew disenchanted. Then they switched to a subscription model because people wouldn't upgrade their software often enough for Adobe's liking, and I got pissed. Moved to using Affinity products and haven't looked back. Now Adobe wants to be a marketing company as well? It's like you're trying to make me hate you more. It's too bad... Adobe used to be cool software tools, now they're just tools.
You're not wrong, but you're deliberately overlooking Apple's reputation for getting the details right, which did used to mean something. You should consider what point you are making before posting and sounding like an ass.
Considering that Apple built it's reputation around "getting the details right", and were known for the high quality of their advertising, this is embarrassing on two levels. It shows that their attention to detail isn't what it used to be, and that their marketing dept. is getting sloppy. This would imply that Apple is not a hungry game changer but just another 500lb gorilla pumping out homogeneous products.
Whats up with Orville? It's like Seth couldn't get the rights to Trek and decided to do to anyway.
I was only worried about losing access to my local news channel (OTA is impossible for me), but after I discovered that my local news streams on their web site, I don't even need Sling. And I just dropped Comcast for a cheaper and less greasy vendor. I think this author assumes most of us want a 1:1 replacement for cable, which I'm not I would agree. There's very little I miss from cable that I don't get from Hulu or Netflix.
So Travis, you're going to go off, start another self-driving company that is technically more advanced, wait for Uber to be almost dead, and then be bought out and brought back by the original company as a hail mary? And then re-invent the smart phone, which arguably saved the company more then anything else did? *grabs popcorn*
The theater going experience sucks and it doesn't appear to be changing in the audience's favor anytime soon. I appreciate that Nolan made a beautiful film, but I'm still not going. Lamenting about "the true movie-going experience" is forgetting that the ideal Nolan strives for was a blip in history to start with. Storytelling is a constantly changing beast with no "right" way of doing it. I don't go to see "films." I go to be told a story. The medium is only part of that experience.
Yum, third-rate food products from what is basically a vending machine. Good luck with that.
Given how much Hollywood is struggling with ticket sales, why would stations rebroadcasting 2nd or 3rd run movies expect to not be affected?
Lady to Churchill: Sir, you are drunk!
Churchill to Lady: Madame you are ugly. And in the morning I will be sober, but you will still be ugly.
Regardless of whatever hardware is running, Windows is still a security mess compared to OS X.
WHAT? A commercial company releasing a pseudo-intellectual white paper to support a position that benefits them? I'm shocked! Besides, what is this, 1998? FUD? Really? You know the company that started the whole FUD thing just added support for Linux to their OS?