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Despite these connexions, the Ninth differs in that the greatest weight is thrown on to the last movement. There are other, closer connexions between Nos 8 and 9, notably thematically and rhythmically, which are sometimes combined. Another important point concerns the tonal basis of No 9. In choosing E flat major as the 'home' key, which (without going into too great a detail) it would have been difficult for Shostakovich to avoid in this context, E flat is the relative major of C minor, the pervasive tonality of the 'suicidal' Eighth, and half-way between the Seventh's F sharp and the Eighth's C minor. What is unusual in the Ninth is Shostakovich's almost psychotic avoidance of C minor in the first four movements. It is as though the E flat of his third wife's quartet has removed the suicidal tendency implicit in the tonal relationship between the relative keys of E flat major and C minor, until in the finale he confronts the problem head-on.
The quartet opens with a thematic exposition over a long-held octave-pedal E flat on viola and cello, second violin oscillating scalically through a diminished fifth (initially C and G flat, later G and D flat). Within the first five bars of the work, Shostakovich causes us to glimpse a vast harmonic panorama against which the musico-dramatic events will be played out. The basis for such an observation is not crystal-clear; there is a misty (not mysterious) atmosphere to the music, as the first violin's initial theme plants A within an E flat context (another diminished fifth). Clearly, for those with ears to hear, we may have a long way to go.
But nowhere in this music—indeed, as it is probably true to claim in his entire output—is Shostakovich either uncertain in his aims, or unable to take sympathetic listeners with him. If the 'personal' background to this quartet remains a private matter, a message in code, the music throughout makes profound sense as music. Thus the tonal implications of the opening bars, to say nothing of the profoundly symphonic development of the tiny motifs which make up the thematic and intervallic material of the score, are carried through with relentless and unexpectedly original logic. Here is a truly great composer at work.
Over a deep but seemingly troubled octave E flat planted in the bass, the first subject group of ideas and fragments is stated by the first violin beginning on the dominant B flat, and characterised by a rising third in moderate dactylic rhythm (as a ghostly reminiscence of the second subject in Symphony No 5's first movement) that falls a fourth to A natural. Although the pull is to E flat, the A natural (as a diminished fifth) at once literally brings a note of tension, destabilising the home tonality and leading to the second subject (initiated by, as it turns out, an important falling third) which is given to the cello in B minor. A rhythmic insertion of 3/2 against 4/4 (not unusual in Shostakovich's work, but here as a subtle nudge) adds another factor which is to assume far greater importance in the quartet. The first-subject material is recalled, but the A natural—long-held, quietly, by the viola—now leads without a break and seemingly without a change of pulse to the second movement, a more lyrical scene in F sharp minor (of which, of course, the A is the third) and wholly in 3/2.
Despite the appearance of a theme on first violin, in which all twelve notes are heard, the movement is more concerned with exploring melodically the interval of a minor third (F sharp being tonally a minor third from E flat), later falling, and now leading at once to the third movement, also based upon F sharp, but more obsessed with the dominant, C sharp. This movement introduces the first genuinely fast music in the work. Without going into greater detail with regard to the tonal basis of this pivotal movement, suffice to say it later revolves around D minor and E minor (as the dominant of A), before climbing back to F sharp, the C sharp transformed into D flat. This now falls like a slow ostinato to C (it is, in fact, a transformation of the second violin's oscillation at the beginning of the work), and it almost seems as though in this fourth movement C minor has arrived. In some ways it has, momentarily, but is always sidestepped by an E flat minor idea, slow and deep in the bass. There are exposed solo recitative-like passages for both violins and viola—pizzicato especially—and later the first violin, over a harmonic blur of superimposed adjacent fifths, which falls to B flat and A, whereupon the finale suddenly bursts upon us. This magnificent movement—almost String Quartet No 9a—plays for about two-fifths of the entire piece, and sees a powerful battle for the final establishment of the home key, through a redevelopment of the quartet's entire material, fused by a dramaturgic-like vividness of expression which astonishes us by its intensity and range. This includes a seemingly new folk-like theme in 2/4 against the underlying hectic 3/4, an eruptive restatement of the first violin's recitative on the cello, and a breathtaking fugal (!) restatement of the movement's opening material with the pull of C minor against E flat defeated in the turbulent and exhausting final bars. With this work, Shostakovich's genius is restated afresh.
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1. Bow Bow Bow: Pretty bows, ankle straps and navy. Oh Christian you've done it again.
2. Pensee: Hooray for Grazia Yellow! THE colour of the season, not that we're biased. And the lady-like Pensee style is right on trend too.
3. Artemis: Hot pink is one of our colours to watch for the season. This Artemis bag will transition any wintery wardrobe pieces right into Spring.
4. Alta Dentelle: This is a naughty knee-high number with more pretty hot pink.
5. LOVE: The lady-like Love shoes...nothing says I Love You quite like a pair of these!
6. Le Modele Neuron: Leaving the best 'til last, Le Modele Neuron is our ideal "Everyday" shoe. There is nothing in our wardrobe that this wouldn't look PERFECT with.

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Even though it's sunny and blissful (some of the time, at least) outside, we fash types like to never live in the moment, preferring instead to constantly thrust towards the future. Thus we are admiring the A/W campaigns though it's not even August and this is our favourite crop of the day . . .
We all remember Marion Cotillard's spellbinding performance in the mini film for Lady Dior (seedy underground cabaret club and some seriously intense wheelchair lovin' meted out to Sir Ian McKellen). Now the Christian Dior stills are out, shot by Mikael Jansson, and although extremely beautiful, sadly for us, they lack a ridiculously implausible location that we can wax lyrical about. So instead we say. Aaah. Very nice.
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One, Holy Paladin buffs themselves with Righteous Fury and the tanks get substantial one-on-one threat if possible because the blood beasts need to do little-to-nothing in terms of damage in order to keep that Blood Power down. The small aggro from the RF Holy Paladin will pull the beasts enough to attract it and give your range some time to change targets, snare and whatnot.
Paladins should Hand of Protection a Caster DPS when possible during a blood boil because it removes said debuff without fail. That's 8 BP prevented.
Damage prevention should be key so get the Paladin to learn to Sacred Shield people to reduce damage ticks.
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Well the upstart Tholians were infringing on Kling territory, so the Klingon high command sent out a force commanded by the able bodied Kreller. Kreller was aboard his standard C7 with the accompanying ships of a DWL and a F5 ( commanded by his mother-inlaw). There was the known fact of his blatant hatred of his F5 commander within the Klingon command but as all good soldiers he followed orders.
The Tholians upstart was Orgyockbo commanding a well rounded fleet of a DN, CC, CW. All disruptor armed as they shun the inferior photon weapon by their "supposed" allies the Federation. Orgyockbo has no respect for the filthy Federation even though the Tholian commanders are currently in trade agreements with them.
The Klingons and Tholians spied each other in open space and immediately Red ALERT from both commanders was announced. There was to be no cowardice from either fleet, no quarter was given. Honor was at stake for both commanders
The first battle pass was at range 15 and the Captains fired everything. the Klingon captain targeted the CC and shield 6 strength was down 75% after some reinforcement from the volleys of the ships. The F5 commander should have been shot due to her poor fire. Commander Kreller would catch hell from his Klingon wife if he chastised her so he uttered some curses and proceeded to plan his next turn. Orgyockbo hearing fearful stories of Klingon women warriors wanted to destroy the F5's commander immediately so he targeted all weapons on Broom Hilda (Tholian's name for her). After some fine targeting he was able to reduce the number 1 shield to 0% and do some paltry internals.
The second battle pass commenced with the Klingon's being slightly cautious and moving at speed 8 and the Tholians were speed 16 or 16+1 throughout the turn. The Tholians still somewhat afraid of Broom Hilda kept the range open in the 9-15 bracket. Kreller most likely would have had the F5 turn off but since his mother in law was the captain he thought there may be no better time to get rid of her and instructed her to commence with the battle pass continuing forward. Orgyockbo seeing the prime opportunity to rid himself of a fearsome nemesis in the F5 commander he ordered a full alphas strike on the F5 at range 9 and turned off thinking Kreller would exact revenge for the death of his mother in law. After some manuvering and several turns / side slips Orgyockbo was able to get his fleet turned around preparing for a 3rd battle pass. The entire time the Tholian's were trying to reposition their ships the Klingon's were scraping the paint off of the CC. I think by this time due to faulty shields from the factory 1 or 2 damage leaked though(We will be exacting revenge on the factory owner). The end of the turn saw the F5 crippled and limping along and the CC's shield 5 and 6 decimated (I believe the 5 shield had 3 boxes and the 6 shield had 10 boxes left). The turn ended at approximately 10 hexes separating the 2 forces with the Tholians heading in a southernly direction and the Klingons bracing for the imminent attack run heading NW.
The decisive turn. The turn starts and the Orgyockbo is signaled by his CC commander and told the shields can't take another hit like the last one. So the Orgyockbo calls for ramming speed and tells the engineeers on all the ships he needs more power and performs an HET towards the Klingon. The engineers call up "I'm giving it all she's got captain" and the turn commences. Both sides speed 16 with a 16 +1 in there on an impulse or 2. Orgyockbo still wanted to keep a decent speed due to the damn drones which had been pestering his ships throughout the battle. Even with web snares Orgyockbo had to do some fancy flying to snare them properly. After a fierce battle cry on impulse 1 or 2 the fleets were in striking distance at range 4. There was some thought from the Tholians as they still had Broom Hilda alive so some small phaser fire and disruptor fire was placed through the front shield. All other fire was targeted on the D5. The F5 was a beautiful explosion and the D5 sustained heavy damage(crippled). the Tholian commander braced for the Kling retalitory shot thinking it would be on the CC was quite surprised when the beams in HIS ship started falling down around him. Broom Hilda fired a parting shot but it was Kreller who is the one now to be feared. Kreller opened up at range 4 and did 55 points of damage to MY ship and scraped the pristine paint inside and out. I was able to whether the initial damage after reinforcement and the shields taking the brunt of the fire. Minor damage throughout all decks. As I gazed out the front viewing screen I saw the D5's disruptors charging up in OL'd mode. the fear started to slide down to my 3 stomachs (Tholians are strange creatures). As I saw this I screamed into the com EVASIVE maneuvers but my helmsmen's froze and we braced for the damage. the Klingon D5 weapon's officer must have had a head full of some strong Klingon drink the night before as the disruptor shots went wide with some phaser fire going in through the down shield. The phaser fire was quite deadly stripping off several weapons and denting up more of the inside paint job(Large amounts of internals but not crippled)
The rest of the turn left us with running from each other as we were out of weapons and courage at this point in time. I believe Kreller had accomplished his goal though by disposing of Broom Hilda with no one the wiser.
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I had a fun time playing Fred and learning the SFB client a bit more thoroughly. If Fred had not whiffed the OL disruptor shot or if 2 of 4 would have hit my DN would have been crippled and the game would definitely commenced. As it was I got lucky.
Once again thank you for the game and showing me a bit more about the client.
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What is the addon you use to report interrupts in party chat? I've got IEinterruptannounce loaded, but I'm having trouble getting it to report any interrupts but my own.
I actually don't use one. However, I believe several guild members are using afflicted, as well as possibly other class-specific mods.
I've recently watched your Yogg-Saron strategy video on YouTube, and wanted to ask you, what add-on do you use to enlarge your DoTs and debuffs on your target and also shows how long till it runs out? I really would like to know ASAP! (I'm a DK and this would help tremendously!)
The image link doesn't work, could you repost a new one with labels on your UI?
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How did you put that white line that shaped like a rectangle?
And, to the best of my knowledge, each person has to have the interrupt addon installed for their interrupts to be reported in party chat.
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So, which torpedo mode do you prefer?
I feel that, for the first shot, if you suppose you will not lose your torp mounts, firing them in torpedo mode is better. As you said, it gives something to think for your opponent.
But when ships are closing, I would avoid this mode as you can lose your weapons during the shooting phase and thus lose the oportunity to fire them.
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Edited for comment: Forgot this was for Starmada, so can't say for sure it still applies --
If a torpedo is loaded and the launcher is hit (not actually the launcher but the breech) --- you still have a short period to launch the torpedo (cant fast load as that mechanism is destroyed) ---
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In starmada, there is no such rule. Contrary to other weapons, plasmas can be shot via two very different ways.
Either as a direct-shot weapon, akin to a photon torpedo, during the shooting phase, either as a seeker (aka-drone like) shooter, ie during the same phase when the drone raks are fired. Using the latter method, the plasma is materialized on the board (in the same way as in SFB/FC) and moved toward its target.
But, AFAIK, if a plasme mount is destroyed during the shooting phase, you can't wait to shoot it as seeker. Either your ship hasn't already shoot so it can fire it as a direct-fire weapon one last time, either it has already shot and the plasma is lost for good.
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So, which torpedo mode do you prefer?
I feel that, for the first shot, if you suppose you will not lose your torp mounts, firing them in torpedo mode is better. As you said, it gives something to think for your opponent.
But when ships are closing, I would avoid this mode as you can lose your weapons during the shooting phase and thus lose the oportunity to fire them.
Unless I've completely misread the rules, there is only rarely a case where launching in torpedo mode is the best answer.
When to fire in Torpedo Mode
Jeff Johnson
USS Virginia (yep, I've relocated)
Unlike SFB, the plasma bolt is far more likely to hit and do significant damage than the plasma torpedo. This leads to just a few cases where it is the correct decision to fire plasma in torpedo mode:
a) When you are outside of maximum bolt range *and* you can cloak. (If you fire torps just out of bolt range while closing, you'll risk being hit by enemy heavy weapons while your own are recharging on the next turn.)
b) When your target has a down shield and firing in torpedo mode will give you a chance to put the plasma through it. (Also, as seeking weapons are resolved before direct-fire weapons, you can choose to target a shield facing that will make subsequent phaser fire more likely to penetrate. If you have ships closing to point blank range where their phasers each get three shots, this can be especially effective.)
c) When you have a significant advantage in the game and don't wish to squander it by gambling everything on a very small number of plasma bolt die rolls. At close range, the plasma torpedos will give you the chance to roll a *large* number of to-hit rolls each with a 50-50 chance of scoring an impact.
d) Large ships with shield ratings greater than three can be very difficult to damage. Against these targets, the larger number of die rolls in torpedo mode can also help, but even better... the torpedo hits are completely resolved one flight at a time. This means that any shield damage will take effect between plasma impacts-- significantly increasing the chance of subsequent hits causing damage.
Note however that, due to the cloaking device, the Gorns will probably never be firing in torpedo mode when fighting against Romulans.
[PS... this can be combined with my previous plasma tactic for an double sized term paper. Haven't seen the latest issue, yet, but I doubt it got printed.]
Here's my old term paper from the discus board just so they're together:
Jeff Johnson, USS *VIRGINIA*
In the first place, plasma bolts are more accurate than plasma torpedoes. At short range they hit on 2 or better. At medium range, they hit on a 3 or better. These odds are better than that of a torpedo hit even if it can hit within a single turn! Granted, the torpedo will roll a number of dice equal to its size minus the amount of phaser damage it has taken. But the increased impact and damage scores of plasma bolts mean that they get multiple chances to get past shields for each hit... and extra damage rolls for those that do penetrate. A plasma-R can potentially do 9 points of damage this way-- compared to a maximum of 8 if it is fired as a torpedo instead.
Plasma torpedoes can be run out and whittled down, but weapons that are destroyed by plasma bolts won't be pestering you during the time it would have taken a torpedo to travel. At the same time, the Range Based ROF trait on phaser-1's means they'll get to fire three times against any plasma torpedoes with in five hexes while the Anti-fighter trait on phaser-3's means that those weapons will ignore the -1 ACC penalty for targeting plasma torpedo "fighter squadrons."
Their improved chances of hitting and their respectable impact and damage values make plasma bolts a much better option under Starmada than they were in Star Fleet Battles. The poor to-hit rolls for plasma torpedoes make them much less of the sure thing that they used to be. Finally, the massive amount of firepower that phasers can bring to bear on incoming seeking weapons mean that the direct fire bolting option will almost always be the correct choice for plasma races.
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IMHO the incredible accuracy of the plasma bolt in Starmada really unbalances the game. I would rate it with the carronade value at least. This weapon out shoots both disrupters and photons. Very nasty.
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Not that it isn't brilliantly good for what it is, but I just don't think of it as being what we think of as bacon. First off, many times it's not eaten cooked at all.
Same way when I want cheese for my burger, I'm not thinking brie generally. Not that brie can't be awesome too. It's just not "cheese" in an American way or taste or texture.
I think of these cured ham products more like ham or salami.
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What kind of fallacy is that? Appeal to Ignorance?
What kind of fallacy is that? Appeal to Ignorance?
Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT
I think its validity is situationally based on the risk/reward assessment.
1. We like or dislike doing something based on our experience doing it (premise)
2. To know you dislike something you must have done it (1)
3. You have not done X (premise)
4. You do not know if you like or dislike X (2 and 3)
i dont know if its any kind of logical fallacy. if anything its an epistemological controversy.
I think the issue arrises with the definition of "like." I define "like" as "right" in this context. With this, what kind of fallacy is it?
Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT
huh? you mean "you dont know something is right if you havent done it"?
right as in correct or moral?
It's completely correct
Moral, ethical.
what a stupid question
how can you like/dislike something without trying something? you can dislike/like the concept of an experience without trying it, you can't dislike/like the experience without EXPERIENCING it
you guys are retarded
Well, I open my eyes and I see things. I've seen spirits moving through the walls. I've seen a vortex coming through the wall. I've seen amorphous little balls of light bouncing all around in the front yard through the window. I've seen giant bugs on the floor. I was in a hotel room in Amarillo, Texas, and all I remember is standing on the bed and seeing the whole wall in front of me filled with lights that were [makes popping sound] popping like popcorn out of the wall. Then I'll wake up and I go "Wow, I was standing on my bed and staring at this wall."
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Yes the statement is for idiots but defining like as right what would the fallacy be?
Argument from Fallacy
If the original statement was "I haven't tried it, I do not like it."
This may also be a case of Begging the Question, mainly of by that logic, should I try this? On the same not there also may be a bit of Circling Reasoning here, as the person presenting this is assuming that you should try it
False dilemma and Single Cause, there may be other outside reasons why one does not try it
This is a Loaded Question.
Your an absolutely wonderful man, any girl that is yours is lucky and I know that from personal experience. ~KMT
that is a stupid question because the mind is capable to extrapolate. it's as if i asked:
"how could you not "like" having sex with under aged children if you never tried it?"
for most, the concept is disgusting and can agree that it is morally wrong.
*morally wrong= decrease of happiness, health, well-being and the proliferation of unnecessary pain and suffering.
*this is what i see as morally wrong and is the definition i use.
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You realize that this is primarily used in benign scenarios such as:
How do you know you wouldn't like an banana-graham cracker sandwich dipped in milk if you've never tried one?
I am a firm believer in don't knock it 'till you try it.
Just do it.
I guess you can reject something on a theoretical basis without empirical testing.
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Jobs, Apple out of Macworld Expo
Let the speculation begin! Apple today announced that not only will this January's Macworld Expo be the company's last appearance at the annual gathering of Mac faithful, but also that the keynote address - traditionally Steve Jobs's star turn - will be given by Apple's senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller. …
Curiouser and curiouser
It'll be curious to see how this development plays out next year. The trade shows themselves I would imagine are quite the burden on even the most well heeled of companies, so that's not as much of a surprise. If it turns out that Jobs doesn't take center stage next year that will indeed add a ton more fuel to the rumors that he is stepping down from his primary role in Apple.
As the saying goes, "may you live in interesting times". Times are indeed interesting for Apple right now. With this development and the potential repercussions of it I would say times are doubly interesting for the house that Woz and Jobs built.
IDG is a Waste of Money
When you pay all the IDG and convention center union fees, you are out a LOT of money with no real return on investment.
It's not like the old days when buyers would go to MacWorld to look at product. Now they can go into any Apple store and see all the products first hand.
Apple should have pulled out sooner.
Macworld timing
Let's face it, the timing of Macworld for a company that is getting more and more consumer electronics focused is terrible. Thousands of people, and those who look to them for advice, hold off to see what will be announced, which means they're holding off buying on the run up to Christmas.
Apple clearly see the expectation that they will make big announcements at Macworld (and the resulting stock dip when they don't) is tying them to a schedule they don't want and costing them money.
We can assume there will be more media invite events at Infinite Loop for Apple to announce new products on a schedule that suits them, costs them less and generates just as much attention.
when will people catch on...?
that Apple are doing them up the bottom??
'we are not attending a show about us - because 1) stupid (sheep) people will *still* buy our products 2) we want to see how stupid our customers are'
paris - cos even she is not *that* stupid
People still attend COMDEX and E3? Really?
Stepping down or no
Jobs has to make moves of some sort to avert the personality cult that causes such market stupidity every time he farts, though I doubt we'll hear a proper succession plan, as that would involve commenting on future CEOs.
Much more fun in the next couple of weeks is going to be the rumour-mongering about whether or not Schiller getting the gig means the Mac mini update is a go or not. Let alone the launch of the mythical xMac
The Blonde Ambition
Actually, Schiller did keynote a MacWorld Expo on his own, and it wasn't bad at all: it resulted in a gentler nicer one.
History Repeating Itself?
After a brief surge in popularity with sales looking reasonable, Jobs stepping down will see the gradual demise of Apple until it is teetering on bankruptcy again. Catering to the fashionable is a volatile market as they are very fickle and as soon as your products are no longer seen as the 'in' thing, watch your sales tank.
@ACoward "when will people catch on"
I look after six Macs in a small publishing house. I have done so for about twelve years. In that time we have NEVER missed a deadline or schedule, NEVER had to outsource and NEVER had to call in an "IT professional". We have NEVER had a computer fail. We have had to replace the occasional on-board battery and have sometimes fitted extra RAM.
Stupid (sheep) people?
Yep, that's us!
Would the world be worse without Jobs at Apple?
I'm not sure it would. I assume that products would remain of equal quality and adverts would remain of equal smugness. If it meant a refostering of the relationship between Apple and the press as a result of the end of the Steve keynotes then that could only possibly be a good thing.
@AC, good effort with the trolling, but this is The Reg so I'm sure a more fruitful opportunity to insinuate that anybody you don't agree with is stupid will occur later in the day.
@when will people catch on...?
You're so right!
If I go out and buy a Sony laptop from PC World the evil Apple software called Windows is supplied with the laptop even if I don't want to run it.
errrr hold on it's Microsoft who are shafting everyone, supplying Windows with a laptop even if you don't want it!!!!!!
People buy Apple products because they are worth buying. OK they are priced on the steep side, but let me show you Example A: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/17/koy_music_phones/ whats No.1?
Example B: http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/bestbuys/phones/mobile-phones
I could go on, but you are not smart enough to understand. I am not a Mac fanboi (i don't use anything apple simply because i don't feel the need to) but i recognise great tech when i see it, an Apple's current range is generally made up of great tech.
@Stuart Gibson
Staurt has it dead right.
The withdrawal from Macworld is about timing and control.
The abscence of Steve Job - well thats anyone's guess but it's totally up to him!
We really don't know exactly how much the current product line up is down to him, and how much is down to the team, of which he is just one part. These are interesting times and it will be good to watch and see what pans out in the next year or so.
all this hate...
Macs are Macs, windows is windows, and linux is linux. all have pro's and cons.
use the best tool for the job i say.
hell even the old miggy gets a turn of the crank now and again.
still, there is no denying that Jobs has turned that company around into a viable contender :)
Time to pass on the baton
What I see happening is that Jobs is slowly but decidedly de-emphasizing his presence. His very visible leadership was necessary to get / keep the boat afloat. This is no more necessary; it's no more Jobs selling a single product (i.e. bondi-blue iMac).
On a side-note, why is Jobs the only one considered capable / worthy / etc for announcing a new product? Of course, he is a master showman, but at the end it's the product that has to sell. I see lots of ads for the iPhone, and even there, the Apple logo appears only discreetly.
Personally, if Steve Jobs vacates the show scene, I'll be disappointed. This is because, as Urs points out, he is a 'master showman'. His manner of presentation is excellent. Who knows, perhaps Phil Schiller may be an excellent presenter ... we'll see. What Jobs has done for Apple behind the scenes I don't know but as a front-man for the company he has been without parallel and I hope his brush with cancer is just that.
Say what you like about Jobsy and presentation, he's no Steve Ballmer (thank heavens!).
ipods and broomsticks
Well what if that simpsons episode comes true... and really everyone is moving to their undersea fortress... What about a new product launch with Jobs as the 'Hal 9000' inside the mini... perhaps it will be called the iJobs... (whoops no fan to blow or suck).
Actually Apple's have good marketing image; and manage to make software / hardware which matches that image and stay stable. Since Image is what sells to many of the fashion conscious these days; it will make them a good buck or two. Despite what governments / corporations try to do; some people do still like to be different and make such statements.
As to the various industry fairs... who goes to them? I used to go to an image processing fair in the UK (late 90's) and most of it was people networking and making contacts... with people they already knew. Perhaps there needs to be an online Web2.0 version of a trade fair... an extension to LinkedIn or Xing which adds fields for products you are using... and then once a week 'your contact x is now using product y'. Oh wait... that could be marketing 3.0. Especially if they make it company / product sponsored.
I can see where Apple's coming from with this
as it stands, twice a year (Macworld and WWDC) the Apple rumourmill goes into bugfuck crazy meltdown, setting unrealistic expectations of new kit which only dumps on the share price when it doesn't turn up. By removing at least one of the fixed points, Apple gets to release new product when it wants to in a less formal setting and, hopefully, a more finished state, pretty much as every other company does. About the only losers will be the circlejerking clickthrough rumourmongers and the analysts who seemingly smoke crack while they play buzzword bingo in an effort to yank the chains of those same rumourmongers, while the more mature news sources can run pretty much the articles they normally do after the event anyway.
You've had no failures of 6 computers in 12 years?
Macs vs PCs
I used PCs and Windows for many many years at home, I still do in work, and I use Macs at home. I don't play games (anymore), so don't throw that at me, I do use my Macbook Pro for photographic work, coding work (using java, a happy mysql server, a happy apache server) and general arsing around on t'internets. For photos, OSX (+Aperture+CS3) over WIndows. For coding, just as easy as WIndows, if anything the mysql server needs less fiddling and interaction to keep it working. For the rest, the Mac is much better. Windows makes a habit of annoying the hell out of you because it's written badly. Simple. I don't love Apple, they make stuff, that's it, and I'm less than impressed with their support of their Pro Apps, but they are not Microsoft. Microsoft write bad code and give awful support, I'm proud to not have a single application written by them running on my home computer (and have microsoft.com marked as 'blocked' in NoScript), and still fight the battles with their nonsense ever day in the office.
Oh the humanity...
I'm no Apple fanboi - I use Windows and Linux at home and I bought a Mac for my wife. I have an iPod Touch that I bought as a present to myself, and a Blackberry. I don't covet the iPhone.
Right, that's all the tech baggage out of the way. On to my point.
So far everyone's talking about what Steve's departure would mean to Apple. But no one's mentioned that he's unlikely to give up that position lightly. So if he is going, it's probably because he's very ill. Perhaps even terminally.
Right now I'm not thinking so much about the next gadget, or whether MacWorld will be the same without Apple's presence. I'm thinking about a fellow human being who's facing a challenge that's eclipsing many aspects of life as he's known it. That's something all of us will have to deal with eventually and I sympathise with his plight.
Get well soon, Steve.
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[quote] You've had no failures of 6 computers in 12 years?
I believe it. Apple pro hardware is friggin' bulletproof. I have a perfectly functioning B&W G3 of 1999 vintage. Apple's attempted cheapass stuff *koff* Performa 4-series *koff* was appalling, and that's why they excised that market from their line.
I've been using Macintoshes since 1984. I have no plan to stop.... and open source Unix software is what I use most of the time, so it's not that I don't know the alternatives. I'm a former graphic designer and prepress journeyman now studying to be a civil engineer.
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