It occurs to me that this is probably a fairly common practice among companies of a certain size, to get a better handle on the sort of press they're getting. HP's just the one unlucky enough to have gotten caught this time.
M*A*S*H* stopped being a well made show and started turning into a whining preach-fest as soon as Alan Alda got more creative control. Also, Maclean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers leaving didn't help much either, although given they decided to leave on their own, there's nothing the studio could've done about that.
Given that no DRM I've yet heard of has been able to stand up against a bunch of people willing to crack it, does anyone think the Zune might gain a cult following if someone should manage to disable the 3-day/3-play limit on the songs? Or even the DRM wrapper that adds DRM to the songs that don't have it? Because a DRM-less Zune actually sounds like a good idea. Hackers, get to it!
If that's a click wheel on the front then it'll do fine. The main reason that so many people seem to prefer iPods is that wheel interface. That said, the brown is UGLY.
It was at one time and local governments have banned it in some places. As for the "freedom of speech" bit in the US constitution, that's what's commonly known as window dressing. It's there to pretty up the document, and make it a bit more palatable, that's all. The sad thing is that sometimes I think I'm only half joking....
The suburbs are by far the worst place to raise a child, in my humble opinion. Most Californian suburbs, for example, tend to be cookie cutter copies of each other with relatively little to do. When my parents decided to move us out of San Francisco when I was ten or so, it was a culture shock to say the least. We moved to a place some 25-30 miles (Lafayette) to the east which was a world apart. Whereas in San Francisco, I could easily find a form of entertainment, be it in the neighborhood or going to the beach, downtown, etc...in the burbs there was little to do outside of organized sports and television (and in my teen years sex drugs and stupid tricks like car surfing). The several years I spent there til getting my driver's license were hell, although I took the local transit system back to SF or places like Berkeley as I got older. So as much as cities have their own share of problems, they have tradeoffs. The number of drugged-out, suicidal, stupid teens I saw in the suburbs is testament to what can happen when you introduce people into a (culturally) homogenous eniviroment with little to do and no way of leaving (until recieving a driver's license). This may be anecdotal, but having met a great many other people that were at one time or another in the same situation, I doubt I'm unique.
Given the absence of MS, I'm not sure what sort of operating systems market you'd have, although I'm inclined to believe you'd end up with a number of competitors attempting to carve out their own niches, much as Unix vendors in the 80s did. Whether or not you'd have universal or at least widely-used file formats depends in part on who'd be in the OS "scrum". As to whether a more diverse market would eventually produce a clearly dominant player able to leverage that dominance into a near-monopoly, I can't say. It seems to me that the interaction of business and politics in the United States is such that eventually someone would start lobbying state or federal governments, get contracts to get their foot in the door as it were, and expand from there. On the other hand, you might end up with a situation like that of the telcos today, but instead of a regional monopoly, you'd have one company dominating server OSs, another workstations, a third embedded, with a tacit agreement not to step on each others toes in their respective feifdoms.
I'm hoping it finally explains just how Batman came to be...obviously this would have more to do with genetics, but I'd really love to see them explain a half-bat/half-man running around a poorly disguised version of 1970s NYC....it's a costume you say? -looks crestfallen-
I see this fad burning out in the next few years as teens move on to something else, or grow out of it. Now when the investing companies can get a larger adult user base, they'll have a chance at a long term business.
Original? In Hollywood?! How dare you sir! We here in Hollywood pride ourselves on having managed to milk the same old tired story concepts for nigh on a century now, and you come in here trying to dictate policy?! People love the old stories, so why not give the suckers...errr, public what they want? They don't want continuity or depth, they want Ashton Kutcher as a young Captain Kirk (posting every day on his MySpace blog and using his Motorola-brand communicator to set up a date with some hot green chick)! They want reality shows, and the old favorites with cool new effects and techno music soundtracks! They want snakes on a motherfuckin' plane, and as God is my witness, we here in Hollywood intend to deliver!!! So if you're looking to criticize, Mister Wannabe-Spielberg, do it somewhere else...we're impervious to good taste and aesthetics! Impervious I say!
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I obviously meant wireless transfer. Duh.
It occurs to me that this is probably a fairly common practice among companies of a certain size, to get a better handle on the sort of press they're getting. HP's just the one unlucky enough to have gotten caught this time.
M*A*S*H* stopped being a well made show and started turning into a whining preach-fest as soon as Alan Alda got more creative control. Also, Maclean Stevenson and Wayne Rogers leaving didn't help much either, although given they decided to leave on their own, there's nothing the studio could've done about that.
Given that no DRM I've yet heard of has been able to stand up against a bunch of people willing to crack it, does anyone think the Zune might gain a cult following if someone should manage to disable the 3-day/3-play limit on the songs? Or even the DRM wrapper that adds DRM to the songs that don't have it? Because a DRM-less Zune actually sounds like a good idea. Hackers, get to it!
If that's a click wheel on the front then it'll do fine. The main reason that so many people seem to prefer iPods is that wheel interface. That said, the brown is UGLY.
Anyone who truly believes any corporate slogan is a fool.
It was at one time and local governments have banned it in some places. As for the "freedom of speech" bit in the US constitution, that's what's commonly known as window dressing. It's there to pretty up the document, and make it a bit more palatable, that's all. The sad thing is that sometimes I think I'm only half joking....
The suburbs are by far the worst place to raise a child, in my humble opinion. Most Californian suburbs, for example, tend to be cookie cutter copies of each other with relatively little to do. When my parents decided to move us out of San Francisco when I was ten or so, it was a culture shock to say the least. We moved to a place some 25-30 miles (Lafayette) to the east which was a world apart. Whereas in San Francisco, I could easily find a form of entertainment, be it in the neighborhood or going to the beach, downtown, etc...in the burbs there was little to do outside of organized sports and television (and in my teen years sex drugs and stupid tricks like car surfing). The several years I spent there til getting my driver's license were hell, although I took the local transit system back to SF or places like Berkeley as I got older. So as much as cities have their own share of problems, they have tradeoffs. The number of drugged-out, suicidal, stupid teens I saw in the suburbs is testament to what can happen when you introduce people into a (culturally) homogenous eniviroment with little to do and no way of leaving (until recieving a driver's license). This may be anecdotal, but having met a great many other people that were at one time or another in the same situation, I doubt I'm unique.
Given the absence of MS, I'm not sure what sort of operating systems market you'd have, although I'm inclined to believe you'd end up with a number of competitors attempting to carve out their own niches, much as Unix vendors in the 80s did. Whether or not you'd have universal or at least widely-used file formats depends in part on who'd be in the OS "scrum". As to whether a more diverse market would eventually produce a clearly dominant player able to leverage that dominance into a near-monopoly, I can't say. It seems to me that the interaction of business and politics in the United States is such that eventually someone would start lobbying state or federal governments, get contracts to get their foot in the door as it were, and expand from there. On the other hand, you might end up with a situation like that of the telcos today, but instead of a regional monopoly, you'd have one company dominating server OSs, another workstations, a third embedded, with a tacit agreement not to step on each others toes in their respective feifdoms.
On a mostly unrelated note, who would win in a fight between Superman and Doctor Who?
The old badass Darth Vader or Vader Lite aka Hayden Christensen?
And apparently my attempt at humor is sub-par...need to work on the delivery...or maybe just have some coffee.
I'm hoping it finally explains just how Batman came to be...obviously this would have more to do with genetics, but I'd really love to see them explain a half-bat/half-man running around a poorly disguised version of 1970s NYC. ...it's a costume you say? -looks crestfallen-
I see this fad burning out in the next few years as teens move on to something else, or grow out of it. Now when the investing companies can get a larger adult user base, they'll have a chance at a long term business.
Army, Navy,USMC and Air Force vs President Bush aka "Commander Cuckoo Bananas"
Original? In Hollywood?! How dare you sir! We here in Hollywood pride ourselves on having managed to milk the same old tired story concepts for nigh on a century now, and you come in here trying to dictate policy?! People love the old stories, so why not give the suckers...errr, public what they want? They don't want continuity or depth, they want Ashton Kutcher as a young Captain Kirk (posting every day on his MySpace blog and using his Motorola-brand communicator to set up a date with some hot green chick)! They want reality shows, and the old favorites with cool new effects and techno music soundtracks! They want snakes on a motherfuckin' plane, and as God is my witness, we here in Hollywood intend to deliver!!! So if you're looking to criticize, Mister Wannabe-Spielberg, do it somewhere else...we're impervious to good taste and aesthetics! Impervious I say!