C'mon, Apple. Call it the WiiPhone. Or the XPhone360. Or the ApplePhone With Jay Leno. There's lawyers starving on the East Coast who desperately need the work, and having to settle for 5 series insetad of 7 series.
You seriously have to wonder what were they thinking when they named it the iPhone without an agreement in place.
Maybe they figured negotiations were well underway, and that the CEO of a company as big as Cisco could avoid having his poor wittle feelings hurt and acting like a jilted bride?
Not to be a Jobs fanboy, but the MacWorld keynote had a specific time and date, and the negotiations for iPhone moniker were not completed. End of story. So continue negotiations. No need to go into the magical dark elf world of lawyerdom where logic is tortured and common sense outlawed. It's just a fricken word.
Isn't Apple's DRM pretty moderate and easily broken? If that's the worst we face now, can that not be considered good progress? Does *everything* have to be spun negative in the media these days? I swear we could wake up tomorrow and magically have a fully functioning and peaceful democracy in Iraq, and somehow the media would present it as a terrible tragedy.
I bought an X360 initially for Oblivion, and wound up also buying my first FPS (Prey) in many years, but I'm still a big RPG/platformer head. The outlook for RPGs on the X360 is really quite good. More than a few of us RPG fans would like to see the FF series go cross platform. If Blue Dragon, with its FF based pedigree, does well on the X360, Square-Enix will have to factor that in. From what I have read Blue Dragon has single handedly sold a hefty number of X360s in *Japan*.
they've done a nice job on the X360. The online stuff is trouble free and the games have been good. I'm *still* mucking about with Oblivion. It's nice to finally have downloadable content for consoles.
Is that because everybody you know works at the same place you do?
No. I'm active in a couple IEEE organizations. That's where the topic comes up sometimes.
You can't really have a quality camera phone. Not with dinky little lenses. The best CMOS sensor in the world is crippled when coupled with an itty bitty lens.
Or do you work for one of those moronic places that lets you bring USB storage devices in, but not cameras?
Actually, they just banned thumb drives and the like after a couple years of treating them like floppies. I can VPN into work with my 15 Mbps FiOS line, though, so it's not real important. I backup my work to my home server that way.
I (and just about everyone I know) cannot bring a phone to work with a camera in it. The camera renders it useless to me. Camera phones are for teens and kiddies. We adults have digital SLR Canons and Nikons.
Imagine the diprod who cut you off yesterday, or the numbnut who almost hit you last week. Now imagine them flying overhead in a ton or so of metal contraption. No thanks.
I love sending a file to print at work, and AFTER I return with the printout, XP pops up a balloon saying "File was sent to printer." Gee, thanks, Windows!:-\
And I never understand the hate for the Finder. I spend 99% of my time in other applications actually doing things.
It's more like buying a new "upgraded" guitar, and in order to hit any flats or sharps, you have to open a small panel on the back and hold down a button. Oh, and replacing a broken string may lead to complete inoperability.
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A ball lightning gun!
It still all strikes me as a massive loss of perspective. I guess I just can't grok lawyerthink. Perhaps if I sustain a brutal head injury some day.
OK. Steve? It's just a word. There. Happy?
C'mon, Apple. Call it the WiiPhone. Or the XPhone360. Or the ApplePhone With Jay Leno. There's lawyers starving on the East Coast who desperately need the work, and having to settle for 5 series insetad of 7 series.
You seriously have to wonder what were they thinking when they named it the iPhone without an agreement in place.
Maybe they figured negotiations were well underway, and that the CEO of a company as big as Cisco could avoid having his poor wittle feelings hurt and acting like a jilted bride?
Not to be a Jobs fanboy, but the MacWorld keynote had a specific time and date, and the negotiations for iPhone moniker were not completed. End of story. So continue negotiations. No need to go into the magical dark elf world of lawyerdom where logic is tortured and common sense outlawed. It's just a fricken word.
Isn't Apple's DRM pretty moderate and easily broken? If that's the worst we face now, can that not be considered good progress? Does *everything* have to be spun negative in the media these days? I swear we could wake up tomorrow and magically have a fully functioning and peaceful democracy in Iraq, and somehow the media would present it as a terrible tragedy.
Is that what the kids are calling hookers these days? ;-)
I bought an X360 initially for Oblivion, and wound up also buying my first FPS (Prey) in many years, but I'm still a big RPG/platformer head. The outlook for RPGs on the X360 is really quite good. More than a few of us RPG fans would like to see the FF series go cross platform. If Blue Dragon, with its FF based pedigree, does well on the X360, Square-Enix will have to factor that in. From what I have read Blue Dragon has single handedly sold a hefty number of X360s in *Japan*.
they've done a nice job on the X360. The online stuff is trouble free and the games have been good. I'm *still* mucking about with Oblivion. It's nice to finally have downloadable content for consoles.
I am *SO* going to hoax the hell out of them. :)
It's just the way of the world. :)
Pompous? Well, this *is* Slashdot. I figure, when in Rome... :)
Actually, I was going for snarky, but missed the mark.
Is that because everybody you know works at the same place you do?
No. I'm active in a couple IEEE organizations. That's where the topic comes up sometimes.
You can't really have a quality camera phone. Not with dinky little lenses. The best CMOS sensor in the world is crippled when coupled with an itty bitty lens.
Or do you work for one of those moronic places that lets you bring USB storage devices in, but not cameras?
Actually, they just banned thumb drives and the like after a couple years of treating them like floppies. I can VPN into work with my 15 Mbps FiOS line, though, so it's not real important. I backup my work to my home server that way.
I could jam an icepick though the lens, but it's not allowed. Period.
Aw, shucks, you can get that for $500.
I (and just about everyone I know) cannot bring a phone to work with a camera in it. The camera renders it useless to me. Camera phones are for teens and kiddies. We adults have digital SLR Canons and Nikons.
Aside from finding a Hispanic hermaphrodite
And you'd think the folks at Wired would know about that section of craigslist.
Imagine the diprod who cut you off yesterday, or the numbnut who almost hit you last week. Now imagine them flying overhead in a ton or so of metal contraption. No thanks.
Is it too hard to put a microscope on one of these landers? The rovers has a close up camera.
I love sending a file to print at work, and AFTER I return with the printout, XP pops up a balloon saying "File was sent to printer." Gee, thanks, Windows! :-\
And I never understand the hate for the Finder. I spend 99% of my time in other applications actually doing things.
Put warning labels on the lawyers.
So where's a YouTube link?
This is a horrible analogy: the last time I checked, turning a key didn't do something as devestating as, say, deleting your car.
Well, outside of organized crime, anyway.
Tends to delete the user as well.
It's more like buying a new "upgraded" guitar, and in order to hit any flats or sharps, you have to open a small panel on the back and hold down a button. Oh, and replacing a broken string may lead to complete inoperability.