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I just saw this on MacNN and I'm surprised no one's picked up on it. From the Toronto Sun.
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If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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Yup. Beatles + iPod. They'll be a new Special Edition iPod, of course.
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Off-topic indeed; why didn't you create a new thread for this?
I think tv could end up in a similar league to iPod Hi-Fi. A concept that, at this point at least, has rather limited appeal and a far too high price tag at that. With 1080p and $199, it could appeal to those with very high-end TVs; right now the very people most likely to buy it get a crippled (720p) and overpriced ($299) product. Lack of Gigabit Ethernet is just as ridiculous as it is on the new AirPort Extreme; why bother equipping all (!) Intel Macs with Gigabit Ethernet if the satellite devices don't support it? It's just cheap; this kind of upgrade probably wouldn't even cost Apple a dollar. iPhone is a completely different thing. It's far too early to do much judging. The point of Steve's presentation was not to give details and specs and what's under the hood. It was to wow the audience about the interface. There's a lot of speculation going on about the actual OS (John Gruber has a decent summary on the matter, though I don't necessarily agree with his assessment that it has a BSD subsystem as well), about minor spec points (GPS, vibration alarm, …), and, of course, about availability and possible restrictions third-party development. That's all nice and worth talking about, but this thiing won't even be out until June(!), and only in Europe about half a year after that, presumably with slightly better hardware already. Then, in Asia, in 2008: yet more time for Apple to bump the specs. You know, if you look at the first-generation iPod, it had lots of limitations. It didn't even work with Windows. It didn't have a Dock connector. The wheel was mechanical. No color, no photos, videos, not even contacts and calendars, I believe. It was very, very barebones compared to what we have today, and yet it cost far more. iPhone will evolve, and quickly so. There's no doubt it will be a huge seller and a hugely compelling package within a few years' time. Right now, it's just for early adopters. Now, as for tv, I'm not so sure it will evolve much at all. Apple tends not to upgrade these pieces of hardware enough. Perhaps this one will be an exception, but I don't think so. The mistake Apple keeps on making in this regard is to under-spec and over-price, then to figure "nobody's buying this stuff anyway, let's not bother with it any more". |
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I like the Beatles, but they were before my time so I don't have a lot of their stuff. I can totally see myself impulse buying an album or 2. I've only got the blue "greatest hits" CD compilation, actually. I know I'm missing the big stuff, but I never think to look for them when I'm at the CD store. Flash it in my face when I go to the iTS and I might remember I wanted to buy some. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Amsterdam
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Heck, this pic looks very, very exciting! Fantastic work!
BTW, I saw an interview with Steve Martin and his son, where they said that it *would* be great if the Beatles catalog *would* be re-*mixed* in a way that it would fit more with today's ways of listening to music, i.e. headphones and, to a lesser degree, P.A. systems. Beatles songs don't sound very well on an iPod since the stereo image is so unnatural on a headphone (f.i. drums on one side, lead vocals on the other). I hope they have made those new mixes already, but I can hardly imagine that they did it so fast (or started so early). After all, changing the stereo image is not just a matter of re-mastering. |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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What's that? What did I do wrong? I'll fix it when I can. I'm not 100% hip to the grammar/usage jive, I realize...all the detailed rules and such. I do okay for only a sixth grade education.
EDIT: I just learned about them. (hell, did I even write that sentence correctly? Should I have made each lyric line a sentence? "It's wonderful to be here. It's certainly a thrill." Something like that? Are exceptions made for short lines or stanza/poem-based things, and they flow they have? I don't know, I'm asking. This is all slightly interesting (but mostly confusing) to me... But screw all that...do you know how LONG it took me to silhouette those bastards? Also, since I'm getting massive rep points/comments from this, I made a few variations (different colors): Pink Purple Teal If you've got Photoshop, open the file and then open the Hue/Saturation dialog (Command + U) and adjust the Hue slider to your liking (Saturation as well, if you want). The black silhouettes and white type/crossing marker remain black and white, and only the background color changes. A nifty way to make a bunch to hurt your eyes. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the layered file to fix the grammar boo-boo right now. I'll do that this evening. Proceed at your own risk... Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2007-01-18 at 09:33. |
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He's saying you should separate the two statements with a period or a semicolon, not a comma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice has other suggestions to correct it. |
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