“It seems as if it’s only a matter of time before Apple Computer is renamed Apple Entertainment. The company that spent decades making cool computers is now a multimedia powerhouse. Its iPod and iTunes Music Store have reinvented — if not outright reinvigorated — the digital music industry. Now Apple is ready to strike a pose as its new iPod Photo player enters the video market with the ability to store as many as 25,000 digital pictures,’ Rick Aristotle Munarriz reports for The Motley Fool.
MacDailyNews Note: “iPod Photo player enters the video market?” Well, iPod Photo does play slideshows of stills on video monitors, at least.
Munarriz reports, “You have to hand the apple to Apple. With its iMac crowd loyal yet relegated to being a thin slice of the larger computer market, Apple has been able to come up with new ways to matter to the mainstream.”
Full article here.
hyperbole, but nice
here is my ipod photo slideshow
http://homepage.mac.com/harry17a3/PhotoAlbum6.html
Harry,
Nice and Nice (iMac G5 in the background)!
Pixar can be a division of Apple Entertainment. Maybe even Disney… Just have to lose ABC
The party looks more interesting.
Is Apple the king of entertainment or Steve Jobs? He controls Apple and Pixar.
Is Apple the king of entertainment or Steve Jobs?
Apple, it is a leaded team. Jobs is the leader, but the credits are for the team.
A title Apple doesnt need, or it will choke what we love about it. Keep setting the example. Make it harder for others to copy and keep up. Get the word out. Use a system and equipment that just works, and lets you live your life rather than dictating how you spend your time on earth. (Patches, updates, fending off hackers, adware, spyware, viruses, worms, trojans.)
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Its amazing that the Motley Fool bunch of people don’t read their own articles. How often do we hear of scathing articles about Apple and then terrific reviews of Apple from the same source??
The John Kerry link is comment spam. It should be deleted. (If you’re wondering, its an anti-Kerry ad.)
Great article from The Times [I]http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1336132,00.html[/I] on the U2 deal.
Great John Kerry piece. Everyone should take a look. Very interesting.
Tromba,
I know why you want to delete the Kerry link, it’s very embarrassing for him.
The New York Times created quite a stir on Oct. 25 when it reported that 380 tons of powerful explosives had disappeared from a storage site in Iraq. John Kerry immediately seized on the story, launching an ad that blamed President Bush and assuring Americans, �As president, I�ll bring a fresh start to protect our troops and our nation.�
But it�s difficult to understand what all the fuss is about.
After all, even though Kerry wants to blame Bush for the missing explosives, they seem to have been missing before the coalition invaded Iraq. Let�s review the timeline of the now infamous al Qaqaa weapons-storage facility:
In 1991 the International Atomic Energy Agency sealed storage bunkers that contained the high explosives HMX and RDX. They apparently remained in place until January 2003, when, shortly before the allied invasion, agency inspectors checked and resealed them.
Some time in March 2003, inspectors viewed the sealed explosives at al Qaqaa for the final time before pulling out of the country.
The site was first visited by American troops on April 3, when the 3rd Infantry Division secured it. The soldiers knew they were at a weapons facility and searched it carefully.
According to a CBS News report at the time, they �found thousands of boxes, each of which contained three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.� But no mention of tons of high explosives, which certainly would have stood out.
On April 10, 2003 — just one day after Baghdad fell, the U.S. Army�s 101st Airborne Division took charge of al Qaqaa. An NBC News crew was embedded with those soldiers. That network noted that they also found plenty of conventional explosives — but no HMX or RDX.
In fact, these explosives must have disappeared long before April. Remember, we�re talking about hundreds of tons of explosives. One couldn�t exactly smuggle them out in a shopping cart; it would require a fleet of trucks.
Reporter Lai Ling Jew was with the troops at al Qaqaa in April, and noted that roads were so crowded with military vehicles, �it would have been very difficult, I believe, for the looters to get there.�
However, others could have carted the explosives away during the weeks between the final inspection and the actual invasion. We know truckloads of equipment were shipped from Iraq to Syria during the months-long long run-up to war, a period Kerry calls the �rush to war.� Maybe these controversial explosives were on some of those trucks.
Also, let�s consider why these dangerous explosives — which we are now assured could be used against American troops — hadn�t been destroyed sometime between 1991 and 2003. The sad fact is that Saddam Hussein argued, as The New York Times put it, that Iraq �should be allowed to keep them for eventual use in mining and civilian construction,� and the United Nations agreed.
So, under the eagle eyes of the U.N., these explosives were preserved when they could have been destroyed.
Oh, and by the way: If this cache of HMX and RDX really is dangerous, that would seem to refute another piece of Kerry�s case against the president – his insistence that Bush �misled� Americans about Iraq�s weapons program.
To review: The senator who voted for the $87 billion before he voted against it now blames the president for losing explosives that were already gone when the war began. Explosives that could have been used in a program the senator also says never existed. Interesting.
As Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the IAEA, put it, �Our immediate concern is that if the explosives did fall into the wrong hands, they could be used to commit terrorist acts and some of the bombings that we�ve seen.� Well, if they made their way into terrorist hands, it happened during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. So the only way to prevent future such distributions was to invade Iraq and disarm him.
Kerry has frequently opined that Iraq was merely �a profound diversion from the war on terrorism,� rather than an important front in that war. So, using Kerry�s logic, it seems unlikely that any weapons taken before April 2003 would have ended up in the hands of terrorists. So, this whole thing is really just a tempest in a teapot.
There. I feel better. Don�t you?
It does not matter what the issue is, it is still weird to mix politics within an Apple web site.
Can’t you guys find another platform for your rantings?
dopi.. no doubt.. right wing vs. kinda right wing… ooooh so tense
“There. I feel better. Don�t you?”
No, I don’t.
Steve, please reserve your comments to Apple-related topics. I have my own opinions regarding politics & religion, but I don’t air them here. It is inappropriate do so.
I regard political ranting in a forum like this akin to unzipping one’s pants and dangling their genitalia for all to see: they are both uninvited and indecent public displays.
I, for one, don’t care about your political opinions. If you have some salient, Apple-related comments to make, then this is the place to do it.
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Longhorn BBQ at my place!
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“I regard political ranting in a forum like this akin to unzipping one’s pants and dangling their genitalia for all to see: they are both uninvited and indecent public displays.”
Fandango, I could not agree more. You rarely hear me spout off my political views on here, and not for lack of opinion. I’d generally rather not read them here. There are pleny of other places online to express politics. Not so many places online to express views on Macs, and fewer that deal with current news items.
I’m not even American but have strong views but would not express them on such an august Apple forum as this.
(But I did like the Kerry ad above which does more in 1 minute than Moore did in Fahrenheit911 in 2 hours!)
Go Apple!
Macaday.. you’re joking right.. that link is a Republican joke.. showing how much JK has waffled in the past..
I sincerely hope you don’t think that was an actual Dem Ad..
*disbelief..
To insult Moore by comparing him to these bumbling politicians is an outrage.
To answer your next question: I don’t support Bush or Kerry.. I support Bush not being re-elected BIG TIME. He has made the US very very unpopular.. (of course no american would ever admit that.. it’s obvious)
Please, lets stick to the real subject here… Howard Stern!
(only kidding, but the kerry ad was LMAO funny.)
Hard to contain the polical ferver of the upcoming election. I was at a Disney Channel chat room this morning and George Bush was there talking about them thar new Hobbit’s they found over in Microflorenesia or some dang place. He’s gonna see if they really do wear them Ring thingy’s.
I’m sure if somebody even mentioned the Red Sox, this Chat page wouldn’t get all high & mighty about this being an Apple only circle jerk room.
Plus, in about a week nobody will be interupting your precious little haven for mac lust with petty issues such as who is gonna be the leader of the frickin free world. (unless a few dangling chads get in the way again).
wow, I feel better too!