I just stopped by Carnival’s website to check on our cruise, it looks like they bumped us up to a balcony suite! We’ll be cruising the Mediterranean in style now. (48 days to go!)
Many years ago, LucasArts released Force Commander, which came with some cool remixes of the original Star Wars music. They are still free for downloading on LucasArts’ site, but you have to dig around pretty hard. I’m posting copies here to make that easier:
Imperial March Leviathan Mix
Redemption at Abridon
Imperial March Rage Mix
Apple Nazis are annoying, but nothing upsets me more than uninformed Apple Nazis.
Case in point: iPhone Skins. Apple is upset that “their look” is being used to skin other PDAs and such. If they copied the images, well then that’s not okay. But if they just have the look and feel with their own imitation, there’s nothing legally wrong with that. Besides, what’s novel about using an envelope icon to represent email, or a gear to represent settings?
And WTF is up with the iPhone? It seems to me that Apple believes that, due to the success of their iPod, they own the letter ‘i’. Sorry Apple, Cisco beat you to it. Perhaps they’ll sell the name to you, though.
The part that gets me the most is right here, though (from the above article):
The issue marks a distinct change in tone for many bloggers and journalists, who just last week praised Apple for its “revolutionary” and “game-changing” phone despite being unable to conduct a proper hands-on test of the product.
Nowhere else will you see so many people making so much noise about something they know nothing about than Apple fans about new Apple products. They’re lauding the revolutionary technology and they haven’t even touched one? Holy freaking cow.