I disagree. Perhaps in the highlight reel - which is the only video I didn't watch - but in the whole 1 hour 21 minute presentation, it was pretty balanced. In fact, if you watch the whole thing, Job's responses are pretty short - while Bill tended to go on a bit longer (particularly when new products/directions came up). Both of them also handed off responses and first responses to each other.
The summary is cute. Bill's response lag seemed more in keeping with coming up with a real response to the question - although the comedic timing of said lag is obvious.
Casinos. Gamble? Then you're being watched by the latest toys in surveillance. This tech was adopted a long time ago and is now being upgraded as we speak. There's also lots of cameras in the UK and other countries putting this to good use.
One shared directory makes all the difference. Forget "computer stolen" stories - too many steps. More likely, someone drops an MP3 into a download directory or a shared directory with LimeWire - and if that preference isn't turned off (it's on by default) - instant distribution.
"FRANK WHY IS MY TUNE ALL OVER LIMEWIRE?"
"Gee I got that email you sent with that nifty tune and I dropped it into my shared music directory like always!"
Just because you don't like to hear it doesn't make it probable.
A seizure is improbable. Most cars pull to the left or right when the steering wheel is released. If he were having a fit - it would be faster. That was a straight-on hit with no lateral deviation. The family or rumor mongers most-likely don't want the liability that comes with crashing into a toll-plaza while stone drunk.
re:"What caught my interest was the number of cars rubbernecking and driving through. And then someone who actually stopped to take a look."
Yes - when confronted by a vehcile engulfed in flames my first thought is to jump into the middle of it and not keep my distance.
re:"kind of makes you wonder why someone would be going so fast through a toll gate"
They were probably drunk
re:" but even stranger, why they managed to miss the toll gate and crashed into the barrier between gates."
They were probably drunk
re:"It just doesn't make a lot of sense."
In the United States we have a substance that is served without caution to people at most drinking establishments called alcohol. It's even served when the buyer is obviously drunk already (this is frowned on legally - but often times is secondary to making profit). It impares judgement, vision, and reflexes. Just the thing to consume before getting behind the wheel. People in all countries where alcohol is served often use this lack of judgement to get in their car. Darwin ensues. As far as whether I'd want someone to see my drunk ass getting killed - yes - I would. Might help prevent another drunk idiot splattering their brainpan while "having a Budweiser". Not all of course - perhaps 2. Tops.
re:"he went on to throw out the entire Apple II line, going so far as to promote conflict between the Mac and Apple II development teams"
Not so sure about that. The 8bit market was spinning down with price wars aplenty. Long-term lessie how the players in the day did.
Atari: Dead (or - bought by the French - same thing) Commodore: Dead (now a gamebox brand in Europe - same thing) Texas Instruments: Discontinued 8bits in 83. Discontinued comptuers in 97. Tandy / Radio Shack: Went to PC compatables in the mid 80s.
Seems like anyone who didn't get out of 8bits fast, ended up dead. Gross simplification - but your argument sounds silly if you replace the phrase "Apple II line / Mac and Apple II" with "Model T" and "Model A". Way to shit on your workers FORD!
A controller that doesn't put blisters into your hands from the hard corners. Wico made an excellent series of controllers for the VCS (which were rugged as hell - not suprising since they made arcade controls after all) which were larger but far more comfortable to use. Plus you had an extra button on the top for firing as well. Classic arcade feel.
Apple rumors are pointing to an ultra-portable Macbook with flash memory instead of a hard drive and an LED backlit display that was to have an insane profile. Looks like a peek into the next generation of hardware from not just Wintels but Macs as well from a concept standpoint.
Sexy as hell, but I'd like to see specs and of course - ultra thin screens aren't my thing in the real-world. One trip through the airport and CRACK. Anyone remember the first generation of titanium Powerbooks? Yeek!
My (black - non-pro) Macbook at least gives me some confidence that if some gorrilla at the Xray machine plops something on my bin I'll have a computer that still works when it comes though the other side.
Um. What does the Bible say about the second coming - in the form of a shark?
Makes for a great Michael Bay script (particularly if you work in the lasers), but I think the Vatican is going to have problems with this.
Pope: "Your holyness - we would like a statement about predetermination and free will - AIIGH WHAT ARE YOU DOING????! NO - Stop CHEWING ON MY ARM!!! AAIIIIGH!!!!!! (*blub-blub*)"
Cardinal Lackey enters 2 minutes later: "Anyone seen the Pope? Helloooooo Pope? Uh - Pope?....AIIIGH STOP AIIIIGH Holy SHIT MY LEG AIIIIIIIGH STOP MUNCHING THAT!!!!!"
Oh hell I've been doing battle with this since people have been switching to LCDs in general. I still do design on tubes half the time and I now have to make adjustments for how people see color on LCDs which are becoming the majority. Gamma shift - color shift - you name it. I'd render something that looks great on a tube and watch it fall apart at the client's desk. All LCDs not just laptops are using 6bit from what I can tell (no I haven't seen any 8 bit screens yet) and I'm forced to compensate for it.
Not as big a deal as I'd always made compensations for screen-to-print when printed material was my cash-generator, but it's a whole new twist. The solution for me was to go LCD as much as possible (at my home studio and save the hastle of compensating. Or at least part of it. I still have to make changes for Windows color vs Mac color - but geez I don't want to get into THAT can of worms. Here's hoping Vista's color model isn't as terrible as XP (gamma gamma gamma blech).
Movie and Video people must be going nuts between tubes, hdtv tubes, DLP rear-projection, DLP projection, LCD projection (rear and otherwise), Plasma, and flat LCD. No wonder they have been putting THX calibration tests on their DVDs. Then of course there's theatre screens - jeez that stuff changes by the year.
re:"If the human eye thinks its getting shown millions of colors, it is."
Not so much. Depends on what you're looking at. If I use the gradient tool in Photoshop to create a smooth field of color - LCD screens (all LCD screens I've seen to date - including my Apple Cinema Display 22") I get banding (albiet less severe because of higher rez and better dithering) that I haven't seen since the early 90s. Now - if Apple were clever - they could translate "support for millions of colors" to tube-based external displays which the MacBook does. In fact I use mine closed (to preserve screenlife when it's not on my lap) hooked up to a tube monitor in offices that I do design work for. One client has one of my old monitors and others have piles of them that accumulated when they were replaced by LCDs.
So the big question is - if you're hot to trot on color - why aren't you lugging around a 60lb Sony Trinitron like I am?
Well hell. 2 years ago Google announced WiFi for SF. Funny thing is, I still can't find it. Does it take that long to walk to Best Buy for a wireless router?
Right - interstate highways suck. I could have built the whole system solo in a week. National Parks - who needs-em. World War II. Give me 100 men with rifles and we could have beaten the Jerrys and the Nips. Nuclear weapons - HA - my own cousin has THREE in his garage next to his GTO.
Hey swallow some assholes book - he needs the money.
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I disagree. Perhaps in the highlight reel - which is the only video I didn't watch - but in the whole 1 hour 21 minute presentation, it was pretty balanced. In fact, if you watch the whole thing, Job's responses are pretty short - while Bill tended to go on a bit longer (particularly when new products/directions came up). Both of them also handed off responses and first responses to each other.
The summary is cute. Bill's response lag seemed more in keeping with coming up with a real response to the question - although the comedic timing of said lag is obvious.
Casinos. Gamble? Then you're being watched by the latest toys in surveillance. This tech was adopted a long time ago and is now being upgraded as we speak. There's also lots of cameras in the UK and other countries putting this to good use.
One shared directory makes all the difference. Forget "computer stolen" stories - too many steps. More likely, someone drops an MP3 into a download directory or a shared directory with LimeWire - and if that preference isn't turned off (it's on by default) - instant distribution.
"FRANK WHY IS MY TUNE ALL OVER LIMEWIRE?"
"Gee I got that email you sent with that nifty tune and I dropped it into my shared music directory like always!"
Some people can wait 10 years to get a new tv. Some people will die in a week without medication.
You're a fucking moron.
re:" To say nothing of reinforcing the view of Kansans as more or less like Neanderthals"
You'd think having a dead beat-poet burried in your state would be worth something self-imagewise. You DID know this right?
Do I get couch time on Oprah?
Why wouldn't the series act as a bridge between III and IV instead of padding between II and III?
Is Darth Vader boring?
Wow - you're a paranoid guilty fuck. I didn't say get rid of alchohol. You did. Stop driving drunk fucker.
They were probably drunk.
Just because you don't like to hear it doesn't make it probable.
A seizure is improbable. Most cars pull to the left or right when the steering wheel is released. If he were having a fit - it would be faster. That was a straight-on hit with no lateral deviation. The family or rumor mongers most-likely don't want the liability that comes with crashing into a toll-plaza while stone drunk.
re:"What caught my interest was the number of cars rubbernecking and driving through. And then someone who actually stopped to take a look."
Yes - when confronted by a vehcile engulfed in flames my first thought is to jump into the middle of it and not keep my distance.
re:"kind of makes you wonder why someone would be going so fast through a toll gate"
They were probably drunk
re:" but even stranger, why they managed to miss the toll gate and crashed into the barrier between gates."
They were probably drunk
re:"It just doesn't make a lot of sense."
In the United States we have a substance that is served without caution to people at most drinking establishments called alcohol. It's even served when the buyer is obviously drunk already (this is frowned on legally - but often times is secondary to making profit). It impares judgement, vision, and reflexes. Just the thing to consume before getting behind the wheel. People in all countries where alcohol is served often use this lack of judgement to get in their car. Darwin ensues. As far as whether I'd want someone to see my drunk ass getting killed - yes - I would. Might help prevent another drunk idiot splattering their brainpan while "having a Budweiser". Not all of course - perhaps 2. Tops.
re:"he went on to throw out the entire Apple II line, going so far as to promote conflict between the Mac and Apple II development teams"
Not so sure about that. The 8bit market was spinning down with price wars aplenty. Long-term lessie how the players in the day did.
Atari: Dead (or - bought by the French - same thing)
Commodore: Dead (now a gamebox brand in Europe - same thing)
Texas Instruments: Discontinued 8bits in 83. Discontinued comptuers in 97.
Tandy / Radio Shack: Went to PC compatables in the mid 80s.
Seems like anyone who didn't get out of 8bits fast, ended up dead. Gross simplification - but your argument sounds silly if you replace the phrase "Apple II line / Mac and Apple II" with "Model T" and "Model A". Way to shit on your workers FORD!
re:" If you want to convince people, how about trying something a bit more scientific?"
Ok - I'll bite. I'm a gamer who became a scientist and I'm not violent so obviously games don't contribute to violence.
(Actually - I'm not a scientist - but wouldn't it be great this one time if I were?)
A controller that doesn't put blisters into your hands from the hard corners. Wico made an excellent series of controllers for the VCS (which were rugged as hell - not suprising since they made arcade controls after all) which were larger but far more comfortable to use. Plus you had an extra button on the top for firing as well. Classic arcade feel.
Well I don't know anyone SMART who would run for office. Except Nader perhaps - and you saw how far that got him.
Apple rumors are pointing to an ultra-portable Macbook with flash memory instead of a hard drive and an LED backlit display that was to have an insane profile. Looks like a peek into the next generation of hardware from not just Wintels but Macs as well from a concept standpoint.
Sexy as hell, but I'd like to see specs and of course - ultra thin screens aren't my thing in the real-world. One trip through the airport and CRACK. Anyone remember the first generation of titanium Powerbooks? Yeek!
My (black - non-pro) Macbook at least gives me some confidence that if some gorrilla at the Xray machine plops something on my bin I'll have a computer that still works when it comes though the other side.
SO.
Um. What does the Bible say about the second coming - in the form of a shark?
Makes for a great Michael Bay script (particularly if you work in the lasers), but I think the Vatican is going to have problems with this.
Pope: "Your holyness - we would like a statement about predetermination and free will - AIIGH WHAT ARE YOU DOING????! NO - Stop CHEWING ON MY ARM!!! AAIIIIGH!!!!!! (*blub-blub*)"
Cardinal Lackey enters 2 minutes later: "Anyone seen the Pope? Helloooooo Pope? Uh - Pope?....AIIIGH STOP AIIIIGH Holy SHIT MY LEG AIIIIIIIGH STOP MUNCHING THAT!!!!!"
Oh hell I've been doing battle with this since people have been switching to LCDs in general. I still do design on tubes half the time and I now have to make adjustments for how people see color on LCDs which are becoming the majority. Gamma shift - color shift - you name it. I'd render something that looks great on a tube and watch it fall apart at the client's desk. All LCDs not just laptops are using 6bit from what I can tell (no I haven't seen any 8 bit screens yet) and I'm forced to compensate for it.
Not as big a deal as I'd always made compensations for screen-to-print when printed material was my cash-generator, but it's a whole new twist. The solution for me was to go LCD as much as possible (at my home studio and save the hastle of compensating. Or at least part of it. I still have to make changes for Windows color vs Mac color - but geez I don't want to get into THAT can of worms. Here's hoping Vista's color model isn't as terrible as XP (gamma gamma gamma blech).
Movie and Video people must be going nuts between tubes, hdtv tubes, DLP rear-projection, DLP projection, LCD projection (rear and otherwise), Plasma, and flat LCD. No wonder they have been putting THX calibration tests on their DVDs. Then of course there's theatre screens - jeez that stuff changes by the year.
re:"If the human eye thinks its getting shown millions of colors, it is."
Not so much. Depends on what you're looking at. If I use the gradient tool in Photoshop to create a smooth field of color - LCD screens (all LCD screens I've seen to date - including my Apple Cinema Display 22") I get banding (albiet less severe because of higher rez and better dithering) that I haven't seen since the early 90s. Now - if Apple were clever - they could translate "support for millions of colors" to tube-based external displays which the MacBook does. In fact I use mine closed (to preserve screenlife when it's not on my lap) hooked up to a tube monitor in offices that I do design work for. One client has one of my old monitors and others have piles of them that accumulated when they were replaced by LCDs.
So the big question is - if you're hot to trot on color - why aren't you lugging around a 60lb Sony Trinitron like I am?
Pussy.
Well hell. 2 years ago Google announced WiFi for SF. Funny thing is, I still can't find it. Does it take that long to walk to Best Buy for a wireless router?
HA!
Right - interstate highways suck. I could have built the whole system solo in a week. National Parks - who needs-em. World War II. Give me 100 men with rifles and we could have beaten the Jerrys and the Nips. Nuclear weapons - HA - my own cousin has THREE in his garage next to his GTO.
Hey swallow some assholes book - he needs the money.
I'll give it a shot.
Photoshop isn't open source.
Gimp is.
One of these sucks balls. Can you guess which one? (Hint: one isn't on the store shelves)
I read that too. I'd love to ask the editor how much a ton of feathers weigh.
Curses - foiled by another well-worded summary!
Geez guys - even BoingBoing could find this one....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
enjoy.
How does it taste?
Refreshingly minty?