>> ^jdbates:
I hate microsoft because of snake oil salesmen like him, They are the roman empire of the business world, the romans didnt innovate, they incorporated other culures ideas. For him to dis the iphone like that shows his lack of vision, which I feel accurately represents their company.


Agreed. Let's go down the list.

Apple's GUI (courtesy of Xerox) and OS/2 begat Windows

Playstation begat X-Box

Wordstar/Word Perfect begat Word

Lotus 1-2-3 begat Excel

iPod begat Zune

Google search begat Live Search and now Bing

Mac OSX begat Vista

Sun Javascript begat MS Javashit

Netscape Navigator begat Internet Explorer

Prodigy and AOL begat MSN

iTunes begat MSN Music

Apple Stores begat Microsoft Stores

Now, I'm not going to try to claim that no other company has derivative products in their lineup because that would be silly. After all, Apple didn't invent the mp3 player, that would be Diamond Multimedia. However, what I will say is that Microsoft has a vast preponderance of derivative products.

What did Microsoft ever actually innovate? Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and that fuckin' Search Assistant Dog.

Great interview!

I really enjoyed the placement of the video for Pas Encore. It gave the interview a multimedia feel.

I think in the future more video referances positioned appropriately throughout the interview would be a great way to add depth for the reader. Maybe in a case like Pomplamoose it's possible to get some original video clips to add to the interview. 15 seconds of Jack pointing out his Theremin in the corner or Nataly saying 'Hello' to Videosifters in French would really make this interview stand out and underscore the nature of this website.

>> ^dag:


Don't forget radiation-hardening and extreme temperature operation. It costs much more to make electronics function as intended outside 0-70C and in the presence of ionizing radiation.

Doc_M, you should check out the NASA TV channel if you haven't. They're pretty proactive at letting the public know what's going on.

the woman
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00108/pg-48-adlington-ash_108307s.jpg

This man (disturbing image) was also attacked and the chimp knew the way to really hurt him was to tear off his genitals.

Bachelors in Information Studies and Multimedia. Working on my Masters in Digital Design.

The repeated use of the same clip reminds me of multimedia extravaganzas in the 90s.

>> ^thepinky:
>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^thepinky:
Why do people seem to think that those with southern U.S. accents are all rednecks? It annoys me.
This, This, This, and This. And throw in These for good measure.
I hope that you are explaining to me why people erroneously associate the southern accent with rednecks instead of justifying the attitude with pictures of the Blue Collar Comedy club and King of the Hill.



Nope, just giving examples as to why most of the world sees the south as a bunch of rednecks. Most of the exposure they get to it (Through accents, t.v. shows, etc.) involve the protagonists of sorts being redneck idiots with southern accents.

You could say that Canada is a winter wonderland filled with polar bears and dog sleds if you believed most of the exposure we get from certain t.v. shows and movies.

>> ^Shepppard:
>> ^thepinky:

Why do people seem to think that those with southern U.S. accents are all rednecks? It annoys me.

This, This, This, and This. And throw in These for good measure.

I hope that you are explaining to me why people erroneously associate the southern accent with rednecks instead of justifying the attitude with pictures of the Blue Collar Comedy club and King of the Hill.

Shpydir: Are you saying that the accent is affected? My uncle has a very thick Texan accent and owns his own law practice, runs a retirement home, and plans weddings in his spare time. He does not wish to identify himself as a ignoramus. He grew up in an area where he picked up an accent. I know many intelligent and well-spoken people that have southern accents. That doesn't mean that they are self-selected or stupid. I don't understand that attitude at all. It's blatant, ignorant stereotyping, but somehow our community of high-minded sifters engage in it every time they see a video featuring people with southern accents. Go figure. It's not a huge crime, but it's mildly annoying to me.

>> ^thepinky:
Why do people seem to think that those with southern U.S. accents are all rednecks? It annoys me.


This, This, This, and This. And throw in These for good measure.

From Wired...

In the latest example of finding media innovation where you’d least expect it, CBS is embedding a video player in a print ad in Entertainment Weekly that will serve up a buffet of its fall TV lineup.

The CBS foray into a print-digital alliance plays full-motion video at a crisp resolution. The ad, dubbed by CBS and partner Pepsi Max “the first-ever VIP (video-in-print) promotion,” works like one of those audio greeting cards. Opening the page activates the player, which is a quarter-inch–thick screen seen through a cutaway between two pages concealing the larger circuit board underneath.

The audio quality is equally good (extremely poor video shot by this reporter notwithstanding), but beware: There are no volume controls, and in a quiet environment, it’s quite loud. This is surely a intentional design feature, aimed at getting the attention of people nearby.

Unlike the wholly unsatisfying debut of the e-ink cover in Esquire magazine last year, this works.

The video-enhancement will appear in the September issue of Entertainment Weekly, but only in what sounds like a relatively small subset of the circulation: The promo itself will be in every copy, but the video portion only in some subscriptions delivered to New York and Los Angeles. It was released Tuesday to media outlets.

Upon getting to the ad, there is a 5-second delay before anything happens — there is enough on the page to probably hold the unassuming reader’s attention for that long, if nothing else the eerie stare from Neil Patrick Harris — and then a 5-second still promo before the promo for the player’s developer, Americhip.

Next up is a pre-roll featuring a bespoke setup by three characters from the network’s hit Big Bang Theory sitcom. ”I weep for civilization,” opines Emmy-nominated Jim Parsons (Sheldon Cooper) at the end of the clip, scripted to reveal that the über nerd was tricked into appearing in an ad in Entertainment Weekly rather than “the current edition of Physics Today.”

As impressive as this step is, the true marriage of print and digital multimedia still seems quite far off, and eons away from the streaming updates in the newspapers of Minority Report fame.

Still, it is boldish, baby steps like this that bring about dramatic shifts in media. That said, the logical extreme of the current wave of tech innovation heads more toward digital reproduction of a print experience, as the Kindle DX aspires to do for newspapers, rather than to ultrathin hardware pasted to paper.

In a more-limited context, is there much of a future for this branch?

It’s an expensive undertaking, but it does seem well suited for milestone events like a new TV season or as part of a marketing blitz for a certain genre of movie — think a Watchman trailer in Entertainment Weekly.

Part of the lure of this technology as an advertising mechanism is that it adds a “medium is the message” value and thus reaps free publicity from stories like this. But when the novelty wears off, and without serendipitous newsstand sales — which Entertainment Weekly will not benefit from this time around — there’s not nearly as much upside.

And therein lies the dilemma of even bothering to extend the digital experience into a bits medium: In the end, how many people will actually see this rather than just hear about it?

The song isn't Korean, nor is the text, but the artist is. From his YouTube channel:

"H.J.Freaks means a project for making music, performance, and multimedia producing which lead by South Korean bassist whose name is Hyunmo Kim who 'hopes to be the world's greatest stupid idiot bass player'."

http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00159/pg-20-burning-house_159862s.jpg

Very cool image of the volcano and story.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1397.html

haha wow I didn't remember BOB until now...what a useless piece of "multimedia" pizazz that was. This video was pretty cool despite the fact that I loath Comic sans