Because we all know that Linux has had trouble making inroads to the desktops of average end-users. This should really help out a lot in that department. Credibility for Linux! Whoo ya. Few more stories like this and it's bedtime for OSX and Vista - you watch!
This from the company that spoke loud and clear "all you little music fans are thieves - THIEVES!" when they rolled over and cut MCA-Univsersal a cut on the sale of every Zune.
Oh! Now customers don't want DRM! Think they'll recind the profit-sharing deal?
This is why Arizona doesn't participate in this stupidity.
Extra daylight in the FRIGGING DESERT is NOT helpful. People don't come out until after 7pm even in normal time. Want the cafes and outdoor busineses to stay closed until 1030pm, or do you want them to waste more water with those evaporative coolers (garden misters) trying to keep the locals from passing out outdoors? Until nightfall they're all sucking every last watt out of their homes barricaded inside on air-conditioned life-support! Cool evenings save energy. The sooner it arrives the better, and less energy and water is used as a result. And don't get me started on heat islands!
It's not 59-90f degrees everywhere in the USA ya know.
Agreed re: Blade Runner. I liked the movie actually but barfed when I heard that advertising tag-line on a radio spot. Blade Runner showcased a fully-realized world that I couldn't imagine. A war-torn UK isn't that much of a strech if you've seen riot footage from the late 70s/early 80s of GB or Northern Ireland. Ok it had floating TVs - but otherwise looked like a normal day in Belfast 1981.
But on-topic (HA moderators! Gotcha! Offtopic me now biotches!) I remember when my circa 1999 Samsung DVD player barfed all over the Matrix (the first multi-layer DVD?) when it came out. I returned it and got an RCA DVD player until I gifted it to someone when I got the PS2 (yes I use the PS2 as my primary DVD player). Hopefully people won't do the same thing - return their machine - with the Xbox360 add-on. Otherwise the number of available chairs in Redmond will drop through the floor, door, window, associate VP's, nearby parked cars, lakefront property, old ladies in crosswalks, girl scouts, small dogs with the name "snookems"....
Haven't seen this in the postive column, but aside from other players that can do AAC (PSP and PS3 which would be nice for Sonyphiles) unshackled locked iTunes is a biggie. I'm at 3 mac-clients now and won't have to worry about additional client-swapping and other rigermoral (like limitiation on how often I can do this etc) as I upgrade to new macs in the future as more of the library migrates (if Apple's Press Release is on target with their library hopes). People with an obscene number of iTunes clients should be quite happy with this development.
I haven't even checked into how AppleTV fits into all this - is it regarded as another client?
Well, Sony's marketing is due to Chiat-Day always pushing the terminally weird. The 1984 ad for Apple didn't show the product, hell - the first infiniti commercials just showed rocks and waterfalls. Blame it on the LA offices of TBWA Chiat-Day (just noticed they closed their SF offices - wiki's wrong on that - so is google maps, omnicom did re-open the office under a different name however).
And you don't have to have worked their to know what they're about - but it helps (St. Louis office - closed in 1998 or thereabouts - I left in 1996).
Sounds like the country of "What" as described by S. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
Russion ain't no country I ever heard of - THEY speak ENGLISH in Russion? ENLGISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT - Then you KNOW what I'm SAYING DESCRIBE WHAT MARSELLUS WALLACE LOOKS LIKE!
So - in effect what the summary (and yes I glanced ad the convoluted link) is that an OS that is available in 7 different versions would have a complex discount scheme.
And Microsoft is suprised that people aren't jumping into this? Hell, it makes shopping for HDTVs simple in comparrision.
A movie? Hell why not an Imax film. That way his non-blinking closeup image can be blown up 110 feet high. That should give the kids real nightmare fuel.
(oh an I loved the Scrabble episode too - BLARG! Second fave - Austrian Arrow (with a german accent) "We call ourselves arrows, because they fly though the air - like our planes")
Actually, stone isn't a bad idea but metal is even better. There's been talk of image-based data and examples from India that provide massive amounts per square inch. Combined with compression, how much data could one etch into bare gold or titanium and then read back with a laser? I'd also think layers of depth would also be a net-gain. Granted that's what multilayer DVDs are now - but if you removed the plastics and ink substrates that are prone to fadeing over time, hmm!
I thought 70s paranoia was about overpopulation and Charlton Heston screaming about Soylent Green being made of PEEEEOOPLEEEEEEEE at the top of his lungs.
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Because we all know that Linux has had trouble making inroads to the desktops of average end-users. This should really help out a lot in that department. Credibility for Linux! Whoo ya. Few more stories like this and it's bedtime for OSX and Vista - you watch!
This from the company that spoke loud and clear "all you little music fans are thieves - THIEVES!" when they rolled over and cut MCA-Univsersal a cut on the sale of every Zune.
Oh! Now customers don't want DRM! Think they'll recind the profit-sharing deal?
Uhhhhhhh - nope.
I know. it sounds like a "bad divorce" bar-joke. You know the one - "2006 Porshe for sale $100.00".
re:"Better yet, the game features the visuals of the Gamecube version"
That's great. Any news on when the "advanced graphics" of the Wii will mean we get a game with Wii-level visuals?
Or was that bullshit from Nintendo and it's always been a reduced size GameCube all along?
This is why Arizona doesn't participate in this stupidity.
Extra daylight in the FRIGGING DESERT is NOT helpful. People don't come out until after 7pm even in normal time. Want the cafes and outdoor busineses to stay closed until 1030pm, or do you want them to waste more water with those evaporative coolers (garden misters) trying to keep the locals from passing out outdoors? Until nightfall they're all sucking every last watt out of their homes barricaded inside on air-conditioned life-support! Cool evenings save energy. The sooner it arrives the better, and less energy and water is used as a result. And don't get me started on heat islands!
It's not 59-90f degrees everywhere in the USA ya know.
Agreed re: Blade Runner. I liked the movie actually but barfed when I heard that advertising tag-line on a radio spot. Blade Runner showcased a fully-realized world that I couldn't imagine. A war-torn UK isn't that much of a strech if you've seen riot footage from the late 70s/early 80s of GB or Northern Ireland. Ok it had floating TVs - but otherwise looked like a normal day in Belfast 1981.
But on-topic (HA moderators! Gotcha! Offtopic me now biotches!) I remember when my circa 1999 Samsung DVD player barfed all over the Matrix (the first multi-layer DVD?) when it came out. I returned it and got an RCA DVD player until I gifted it to someone when I got the PS2 (yes I use the PS2 as my primary DVD player). Hopefully people won't do the same thing - return their machine - with the Xbox360 add-on. Otherwise the number of available chairs in Redmond will drop through the floor, door, window, associate VP's, nearby parked cars, lakefront property, old ladies in crosswalks, girl scouts, small dogs with the name "snookems"....
*OOF*
Haven't seen this in the postive column, but aside from other players that can do AAC (PSP and PS3 which would be nice for Sonyphiles) unshackled locked iTunes is a biggie. I'm at 3 mac-clients now and won't have to worry about additional client-swapping and other rigermoral (like limitiation on how often I can do this etc) as I upgrade to new macs in the future as more of the library migrates (if Apple's Press Release is on target with their library hopes). People with an obscene number of iTunes clients should be quite happy with this development.
I haven't even checked into how AppleTV fits into all this - is it regarded as another client?
Be glad it's on a Sunday when weekend postings are low.
April fools 2007? PWNED!
Well, Sony's marketing is due to Chiat-Day always pushing the terminally weird. The 1984 ad for Apple didn't show the product, hell - the first infiniti commercials just showed rocks and waterfalls. Blame it on the LA offices of TBWA Chiat-Day (just noticed they closed their SF offices - wiki's wrong on that - so is google maps, omnicom did re-open the office under a different name however).
And you don't have to have worked their to know what they're about - but it helps (St. Louis office - closed in 1998 or thereabouts - I left in 1996).
Sounds like the country of "What" as described by S. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.
Russion ain't no country I ever heard of - THEY speak ENGLISH in Russion?
ENLGISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT - Then you KNOW what I'm SAYING
DESCRIBE WHAT MARSELLUS WALLACE LOOKS LIKE!
That sound wooshing by your scalp was the joke.
Yes. I think with some duct-tape you could pretty much make any phone as multi-feature as that AND look stylish.
Hey - anyone want to see my phone-microwave oven?
Getting? The Razr was 500 in-plan 800 outside of plan, in 2004. That's a bit higher than the PS3 troll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razr
Puff piece article. Great - X number of bozos "settled". How many did they successfully collect from? I still see OJ Simpson playing golf.
Civil cases look great - until you try to collect. And if the students are as poor as you say - well - good luck with that.
So - in effect what the summary (and yes I glanced ad the convoluted link) is that an OS that is available in 7 different versions would have a complex discount scheme.
And Microsoft is suprised that people aren't jumping into this? Hell, it makes shopping for HDTVs simple in comparrision.
A movie? Hell why not an Imax film. That way his non-blinking closeup image can be blown up 110 feet high. That should give the kids real nightmare fuel.
(oh an I loved the Scrabble episode too - BLARG! Second fave - Austrian Arrow (with a german accent) "We call ourselves arrows, because they fly though the air - like our planes")
Then you have a problem.
Yeah - what he said - Geek Girl Hot Goood! Sexism Baaad! Still want more hot girl geeks - they gooooood!
Fire BAAAAD!
No no no - it's all Apple's fault. Apple also did a smear campaign against "The Amazing Randi". Damn Apple!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfMsZwr8rc
Of course I wrote the above muse before checking google. Here's the theory in practice. Elegant as hell I might add:
http://www.norsam.com/hdrosetta.htm
Actually, stone isn't a bad idea but metal is even better. There's been talk of image-based data and examples from India that provide massive amounts per square inch. Combined with compression, how much data could one etch into bare gold or titanium and then read back with a laser? I'd also think layers of depth would also be a net-gain. Granted that's what multilayer DVDs are now - but if you removed the plastics and ink substrates that are prone to fadeing over time, hmm!
I thought 70s paranoia was about overpopulation and Charlton Heston screaming about Soylent Green being made of PEEEEOOPLEEEEEEEE at the top of his lungs.
re ash - well, at least it'll cool things down a bit from all the global warming.
I miss the 80s paranoia chatter about Nuclear Winter. Carl Sagan was more interesting than Al Gore anyway. I wonder who would win in a fight?
Offtopic? "Fuck you for helping" must be the rule around here. Hope your dog dies asshole.
Since no one else has (amazingly) pointed this out yet - will we see HAN SHOOT FIRST??
My work here is done.