Yeah this is the real question. Btw, isn't Steve Ballmer the MS guy, who
prohibit specifically his children to use an iPod? I just can't find the
link to back up.
Ballmer the Microsoft CEO This is a quote from Fortune Magazine when asked if he used an iPod "No, I do not. Nor do my children.... I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
Ballmer the Microsoft CEO This is a quote from Fortune Magazine when asked if he used an iPod "No, I do not. Nor do my children.... I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
That brown one is quite possibly the ugliest thing I've ever seen. There's not a gay man on the face of the earth who'd be caught DEAD with one of those.
Thanks for the clarification. It's hard to tell when people actually make comments like that and are serious about it.
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Originally Posted by talksense101
Don't underestimate M$ (XBOX Vs. PS) just because they are late to enter a market. I personally believe Apple will retain it's lead in this segment. It is good for the consumer to have competition in the marketplace.
Nah, we're shooting them down because their implemenation looks like, well, crap. Literally.
And with the xbox, they were able to buy a couple killer game developers to give them exclusives. Halo pretty much singlehandedly saved the platfom. I don't see a way they can do that with a media player, it's not like they can buy up record companies and movie studios and make their content only released on the Zune.
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Originally Posted by melgross
But do we really know if this is from MS, and not some prankster?
Personally, I like it's features (though it's design may be questionable).
*You're always one click away from ANY menu from ANYPLACE. (A big plus that I am suprised Apple hasn't included yet.)
*Magnetic headphones to keep them from getting tangled.
*The ability for artists I like to give their entire albums (or part of) for three full days to listen and decide if I want to buy - instead of sitting at AOL Full CD Listening Party or my favorite music blog all day.
*Nice sized screen with fullscreen album art - instead of the tiled iPod ones.
*The thought that they decided NOT to copy Apple's clickwheel (and most people who reviewd it, like it). I'll have to check this one out, though, since I am all about the wheel!
*The ability to buy songs loaned to you WITHOUT opening up the Music Store. You just click a button in the jukebox and it downloads it for you.
I dunno.... you have to say that MS has done some really good things with this one. (Again... the design is questionable.) Will Apple follow? And will we call them out on it when they do?
I'm sure they've been seething for a while now. And now that it's been made public that Zune won't play "Plays for Sure", the fuming has gotten worse from those committed to selling them, and from those making compatible players.
Really? Wow.
The Zune can't play video files from Amazon's Unbox? Amazing.
I just read the wiki on Zune for kicks and I found this.
"On September 11th 2006 over 200 podcasts had "Microsoft Zune(firmware 0.9 beta)" listed as a client for subcribing and downloading. This near enough proves that the Zune will feature podcasts and hints that it is enabled with in the device through Wi-Fi ."
Podcasts on Zune?? , so god help us if Microsoft wants to try to shove its crap (literally) into the Podcast market.
Well we can all laugh and poke fun at the PooPod, but never underestimate the power of throwing money at something until it sticks. It seems to be working for the X360 so far.
Well we can all laugh and poke fun at the PooPod, but never underestimate the power of throwing money at something until it sticks. It seems to be working for the X360 so far.
Yhat's their biggest weapon, if the decide to use it.
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Oh look, I just made a poo joke!
How old are you people?
Pick's self up off the floor, dust's seff off, after ROTFLMAO after reading your post!
But to answer your question, physically 52, mentally #2!
People, keep on shoveling browNi effluent!
Yes. Actually, intellectually we're all past 100 years in brain knowledge type stuff.
Emotional intelligence and age, yeah, 2-5 years old.
MS Sells Poo-Pod, nah nah nah nah nah nah
HAH! I came up with the Microsoft PooPod. !!!!! YEEEEAAHHHHH
PooPod, PooPod, PooPod, PooPod, PooPod, PooPod, PooPod..!!! "
PooPod 1.0 aka "Zune"
Now comes with extra SWEAT from Steve Ballmer.
Are we supposed to know this guy? I've never heard of him.
I think it's pretty tragic if you know this guy. Damn, you're at 5500+ posts...!!
"come in three colors: white, black, -- and we kid you not -- brown."
PRICELESS!
Just like those new Sony Vaios...
What's up with this obession for brown all of a sudden?
Before purchasing a Zune you have to ask yourself, Do you really want a music player that Steve Ballmer uses? Scary thought.
Yeah this is the real question. Btw, isn't Steve Ballmer the MS guy, who
prohibit specifically his children to use an iPod? I just can't find the
link to back up.
Yeah this is the real question. Btw, isn't Steve Ballmer the MS guy, who
prohibit specifically his children to use an iPod? I just can't find the
link to back up.
Ballmer the Microsoft CEO This is a quote from Fortune Magazine when asked if he used an iPod "No, I do not. Nor do my children.... I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
Ballmer the Microsoft CEO This is a quote from Fortune Magazine when asked if he used an iPod "No, I do not. Nor do my children.... I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer
Er... yeah, thank you so far, this is the MS Steve, the jumper guy. I remember.
I am wondering if the brown zune is the inevitable result of some deep
nested guilt complex. Ballmer is constantly unconsciously working off is
guilt of not changing the diapers of his children. Hence he produced
an object, that reminds him of his failure as a parent, in order
to get some deeply satisfying redemption.
The zune is Ballmers secret work of a lifetime. Unfurtunately it looks like brown shi*.
That brown one is quite possibly the ugliest thing I've ever seen. There's not a gay man on the face of the earth who'd be caught DEAD with one of those.
Yuck!
omg you just came out of your closet...
lol
ahem.. *cough, cough* Sarcasm! *cough, cough*
Thanks for the clarification. It's hard to tell when people actually make comments like that and are serious about it.
Don't underestimate M$ (XBOX Vs. PS) just because they are late to enter a market. I personally believe Apple will retain it's lead in this segment. It is good for the consumer to have competition in the marketplace.
Nah, we're shooting them down because their implemenation looks like, well, crap. Literally.
And with the xbox, they were able to buy a couple killer game developers to give them exclusives. Halo pretty much singlehandedly saved the platfom. I don't see a way they can do that with a media player, it's not like they can buy up record companies and movie studios and make their content only released on the Zune.
But do we really know if this is from MS, and not some prankster?
It's on the official zune website.
*You're always one click away from ANY menu from ANYPLACE. (A big plus that I am suprised Apple hasn't included yet.)
*Magnetic headphones to keep them from getting tangled.
*The ability for artists I like to give their entire albums (or part of) for three full days to listen and decide if I want to buy - instead of sitting at AOL Full CD Listening Party or my favorite music blog all day.
*Nice sized screen with fullscreen album art - instead of the tiled iPod ones.
*The thought that they decided NOT to copy Apple's clickwheel (and most people who reviewd it, like it). I'll have to check this one out, though, since I am all about the wheel!
*The ability to buy songs loaned to you WITHOUT opening up the Music Store. You just click a button in the jukebox and it downloads it for you.
I dunno.... you have to say that MS has done some really good things with this one. (Again... the design is questionable.) Will Apple follow? And will we call them out on it when they do?
(Oh... and they are working on a phone, too.)
I'm sure they've been seething for a while now. And now that it's been made public that Zune won't play "Plays for Sure", the fuming has gotten worse from those committed to selling them, and from those making compatible players.
Really? Wow.
The Zune can't play video files from Amazon's Unbox? Amazing.
"On September 11th 2006 over 200 podcasts had "Microsoft Zune(firmware 0.9 beta)" listed as a client for subcribing and downloading. This near enough proves that the Zune will feature podcasts and hints that it is enabled with in the device through Wi-Fi ."
Podcasts on Zune?? , so god help us if Microsoft wants to try to shove its crap (literally) into the Podcast market.
Jinkies its on the Wiki
by Frank Zappa
Brown shoes don't make it
Brown Shoes don't make it
Quit school, why fake it
Brown shoes don't make it
TV dinner by the pool
Watch your brother grow a beard
Got another year of school
You're okay, he's too weird
Be a plummer
He's a bummer
He's a bummer every summer
Be a loyal plastic robot
For a world that doesn't care
That's right
Smile at every ugly
Shine on your shoes and cut your hair
Be a jerk-go to work
Be a jerk-go to work
Be a jerk-go to work
Be a jerk-go to work
Do your job, and do it right
Life's a ball
TV tonight
Do you love it
Do you hate it
There it is
The way you made it
A world of secret hungers
Perverting the men who make your laws
Every desire is hidden away
In a drawer in a desk by a Naugahyde chair
On a rug where they walk and drool
Past the girls in the office
We see in the back
Of the City Hall mind
The dream of a girl about thirteen
Off with her clothes and into a bed
Where she tickles his fancy
All night long
His wile's attending an orchid show
She squealed for a week to get him to go
But back in the bed his teen-age queen
Is rocking and rolling and acting obscene
Baby, baby. ..
Baby, baby. . .
Cimmie then cakes, uh!
If I do I'm gonna lose my...
And he loves it, he loves it
It curls up his toes
She wipes his fat neck
And it lights up his nose
But he cannot be fooled
Old City Hall Fred
She's nasty, she's nasty
She digs it in bed
That's right
Do it again, ha
And do it some more
Hey, that does it, by golly
And she's nasty for sure
Nasty nasty nasty
Nasty nasty nasty
Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty
She's a dirty young mind, corrupted
Corroded
Well she's thirteen today
And I hear she gets loaded
If she were my daughter, I'd...
What would you do, Frankie?
If she were my daughter, I'd ...
What would you do, Frankie?
Check this out
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again, oh baby
Smother that girl in chocolate syrup
And strap her on again, oh baby
She's my teen-age baby
She turns me on
I'd like to make her do a nasty
On the White House lawn
Smother my daughter in chocolate syrup
And boogie 'till the cows come home
Time to go home
Madge is on the phone
Got to meet the Gurney's and a dozen gray attorneys
TV dinner by the pool
I'm so glad I finished school
Life is such a ball
I run the world from City Hall
Well we can all laugh and poke fun at the PooPod, but never underestimate the power of throwing money at something until it sticks. It seems to be working for the X360 so far.
Yhat's their biggest weapon, if the decide to use it.
I bet you could make a killing making Zune skins to go over iPods to keep Balmer off the employees' asses.
Is this going to mean all the Microsoft employees are going to have to give up their iPods?
I bet you could make a killing making Zune skins to go over iPods to keep Balmer off the employees' asses.
Why don't you give it a try and get back to us?