We’re looking for nice imagery of a “Tiger” gnawing, chewing, swallowing, mauling, or otherwise disemboweling a “Longhorn” steer (for obvious reasons). Photos, illustrations, whatever – hey, you Mac guys and gals are supposed to be “creative” and “artistic,” so how ’bout sending us something we can use to illustrate future Mac OS X vs. Windows Longhorn articles?*
It’ll take awhile before such articles will appear – it seems Microsoft isn’t quite ready 
, so we have plenty of time. Longhorn is due “sometime in 2006, maybe,” while Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is due in “the first half of 2005.” With the image illustrating this article, we have a pretty weak starting point – someone’s got to have better.
What do you win? Nothing less than your very own photo or image credit in a very small font under the image every single time we use it! How can you beat that? So, let the entries flood forth (include the image(s) and the exact name you’d like us to use in your credit online) and we’ll share them in a future article. Email the image and your name to . Thanks in advance.
* By submitting an image to http://www.MacDailyNews.com, you hereby grant MacDailyNews permission and rights to store, display, and use the image, its thumbnails, and your name as the artist, indefinitely on any of MacDailyNews’ web sites and in any of MacDailyNews’ advertising or promotional or merchandise materials. Photographs will be accepted only from the original photographer unless the imagery is public domain and free for anyone to use. Artists retain ownership of all copyrights. Photographs or images that violate the laws of copyright will be disqualified. Taunting Microsoft is strongly encouraged.
Tigger?
here’s a good image: a longhorn over a spit bbq, sauce dripping off, with mashed potatoes and a side of cole slaw. mmmmm, yumm!!!
As a couple posters mentioned, by the time Longhorn ships, Microsoft will have stripped so many features just to get it out the door that we might as well start calling it Shoehorn. That being said, why not just have a picture of a tiger holding two hamburger buns with a puzzled expression: “Where’s the beef?”
jneal, what’s for desert?
You want the most appropriate cat-themed name for the next iteration of OS X? Are you kidding me? It’s got to be “Macavity” (“The Mystery Cat”). Sorry, I had to say it.
I spent a few hours doodling. This is NOT a submission, just a thought. Download image at…
http://homepage.mac.com/gmadigan/FileSharing19.html
…besides, the detail and lack of contrast would not make for a good icon. In addition, if Steve wants it, I can’t have it legally locked up with MDN.
Aryugaetu,
As always, I’m thrilled by the beautiful images in your gallery. Were they created with Bryce?
Puddy Tat
Undoubtedly, Microsoft hopes that Longhonr will be a cash cow. It pribably will, given that most consumers are sheep.
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Lucky Tiger! We’d all like to sink a fang or two into Microsoft.
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RePlay, I’m from Texas, and in Texas a bbq like that we’d have bannana pudding for desert. By the way, in Texas, the only Longhorns we like go to UT.
pretty crappy tasting i guess
sorry
Viridian, thank you!
Yes I use Bryce as the central tool, but my art often starts and ends elsewhere. Bryce is very quick and fast in terms of producing lights and reflections, as well as a general “atmosphere” feel giving some of the art a real look.
The “Tiger-Longhorn” pic was pure 2D utilizing mostly Photoshop CS’s basic functions. I have tried getting a position as a graphic artist but I found my true love of computer graphics late in life and I do not have the resumé nor the right letters after my name for my applications to be taken seriously, regardless of the quality of my portfolio, and the speed with which I can produce those results. C’est la vie!
Moooooo…
Bar-B-Q at One Guy form Finland’s house.
In reference to the earlier statement about Ice Age, the movie, Diego also said “I don’t eat junk food”!!!
So to think that Tiger would even stoop to such a diet would almost imply desperation or starvation!
I vote to have a cartoon of a Tiger approaching an emaciated Longhorn that has been starved (featureless and unnurtured) and turning it’s nose up at it in disgust. Having more respect for itself, and just letting nature take it’s course with the doomed animal, it moves on to find better prey.
Look a the keynote where they announced Tiger. When Phil was demo-ing the capabilities of core video he had a shot of a tiger opening up into a shot of a Lion. That would seem to be a big hint that the next thing after Tiger will be a Lion.
how about a photo of the tiger chewing on Sigfried or was it Roy? Oh, been there, done that.
Water buffalo is their natural prey, will that do? It’s like a longhorn on steroids.
The only possible name after Tiger would be Sabre-Tooth, or Sabre for short – which could introduce a whole new naming paradigm:
Sabre
Cutlass
Rapier
Sword
I think using ‘Lion’ would be a mistake. Lions are golden, and a golden age always precedes a collapse. It’s not ‘hungry’ enough.
“My vote would be for “Cheetah”….”
OS X 10.5 SaberTooth
There is something about the image of a Smilodon sinking those huge razor sharp canines into a cow….hehe.
*shrugs* I think its a forgone conclusion that MS isn’t going to stick with Longhorn for the name. I mean Whistler was the name for NT5 before they called it Windows XP. They will probably think up some marketing gimmick for it like Windows AT for Advanced Technology or some such crap.
Phil Schiller, previewing Tiger in Steve Jobs keynote (WWDC), hinted that Tiger will be followed by LION: He demonstrated the capabilities of Core Graphics by “morphing” a tiger into a lion.
How about the Mac OS “X” crossing out a longhorn skull (one that’s always in a western desert scene)? Better yet, how about the above as an Easter Egg?? Have the skull be a subtle watermark behind the X in the “About this Mac” info box.
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Anyway, isn’t it ironic that the one who REALLY gnawed, chewed, swallowed, mauled, and otherwise disemboweled Longhorn was… Microsoft?!?! Longhorn lost its own way and collapsed under its own weight; MS did it all to itself.
Should have a BSE (mad cow) reference… unsteady on feet and sickly… dunno how to do that short of an animated GIF…
Deb: What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
Deb: What’s a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite: It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger mixed… bred for its skills in magic
not to be confused with a tigon…
Also nice might be for MDN staff to select perhaps 6 finalists and allow users to vote on them… if some way to avoid ballot-box stuffing can be found. One vote per IP address maybe…. but that’s far from perfect. Vote by email, one per address? flawed too; I have effectively an infinite number of email addresses under a domain I admin.
Just a thought; probably not feasible. But it’d be interesting if MDN posted several finalists, if only to let us see some of the other great entries.
u mac F%$ks or so HATE-FULL of microsoft it’s funny…Instead of supporing Apple you all should swich to LINUX.