The Cupertino Vault has opened - been reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels lately, have you?
On the subject of Terra Nova, I might miss this weekend's episode due to family commitments - but then again, I will get the DVD set eventually, and like they said of several new series in the 90s "the first five or six episodes have to be remakes of the pilot episode so the new viewers joining in won't get confused" (to paraphrase a writer or producer, probably J Michale Stracynski on why he didn't do exactly that... ;)
Not only that, but still reading news about Will Smith starring in an adaptation of the Foundation trilogy. Either audiences aren't going to dig a multi-generational film with the same actors playing their descendents, or they're going to try to re-write it so everything happens to the same people.
Ugh. I just thought of one "method": Replace Seldon's hologram emitter with a cryo-pod, allowing Smith to save the Foundation every time his egg timer goes off...
*shudder* Well if the movie flops, at least it'll save future generations from further "adaptations" - although, I do think that Asimov's short stories about the two troubleshooters, who get called in to sort out why a robot is not functioning as expected, would make a great basis for a television series
Would you believe it if I said that the library of basic building blocks for programming Mac OS X and iPhone apps, developed since the time of NeXT, is called… Foundation? Yup.
I've always not liked that company's mobile phones. I work for a Telco that didn't get to sell the original iPhone and I was happy because it was 4 years out of date when it launched. Another Telco happily took that market share though.
I still think that iPhones are hype, "facetime" was already done 8years ago (on 3g) but apple seem to make old innovations new.
However, Steve Jobs did more than make people pay over the odds. He made them behold something that they held in their hands and loved.
Apple does do the after-purchase booster stuff well (I can't recall what the actual marketing term is called, where you re-enforce a buying decision as positive).
I liked some of the apps I was shown, but it was just too expensive for me, and my carrier of choice didn't offer it (though I could have jailbroken one to work with the network).
I've also become something of an HTC fan. I like their phones thus far and they seem to run Android better than a lot of their contemporary handsets, but it all comes down to using what works and/or what can survive one's pocket.
Actually, from what I understand this is on par with Apple's releases. They didn't release the iPhone 4 immediately when the iPhone 3 was ready for an upgrade right away, they came out with the iPhone 3S. So this is normal.
I would also like to point out Jobs helped to launch Pixar, too. So blame him for your fascination with Eve, Wall-e and that poor, poor, poor, Burn-e.
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I could watch a whole two hours of cruel fate playing with Burn-e. I kind of feel awful about that, but he's just so darn cute when he's being tortured by circumstance.
I'm guessing he's what a server at Google must feel like most of the time.
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On the subject of Terra Nova, I might miss this weekend's episode due to family commitments - but then again, I will get the DVD set eventually, and like they said of several new series in the 90s "the first five or six episodes have to be remakes of the pilot episode so the new viewers joining in won't get confused" (to paraphrase a writer or producer, probably J Michale Stracynski on why he didn't do exactly that... ;)
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Ugh. I just thought of one "method": Replace Seldon's hologram emitter with a cryo-pod, allowing Smith to save the Foundation every time his egg timer goes off...
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"Nothing.. unless you're wearing a black turtleneck."
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And no, that wasn't a death joke, at least, not yet (too soon).
Come to think of it, I can't believe Apple doesn't sell its own line of black turtlenecks, jeans, shoes, and glasses. They'd make yet another fortune.
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I still think that iPhones are hype, "facetime" was already done 8years ago (on 3g) but apple seem to make old innovations new.
However, Steve Jobs did more than make people pay over the odds. He made them behold something that they held in their hands and loved.
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I liked some of the apps I was shown, but it was just too expensive for me, and my carrier of choice didn't offer it (though I could have jailbroken one to work with the network).
I've also become something of an HTC fan. I like their phones thus far and they seem to run Android better than a lot of their contemporary handsets, but it all comes down to using what works and/or what can survive one's pocket.
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I would also like to point out Jobs helped to launch Pixar, too. So blame him for your fascination with Eve, Wall-e and that poor, poor, poor, Burn-e.
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I'm guessing he's what a server at Google must feel like most of the time.
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