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Krusty · Jun 27, 2004, 10:04 PM

The captions of Apple's Tiger banners at WWDC http://www.macminute.com/2004/06/27/tigerbanners -- hilarious

"Redmond, start your photocopiers"
"Redmond, we have a problem"
"Introducing Longhorn"

wataru · Jun 27, 2004, 10:09 PM

Topic: Apple gets nasty with M$

Cue the porn music

Krusty · Jun 27, 2004, 10:15 PM

oops ... lounge thread already here

Originally posted by wataru:
Cue the porn music

word is SJ will be presenting in his usual black turtle neck -- and nothing else

MacGorilla · Jun 27, 2004, 11:05 PM

Awesome!

(The banners. not Steve going half naked).

MindFad · Jun 27, 2004, 11:48 PM

Shame they're keeping that ugly brushed X, but those ads are hilarious. Introducing Longhorn? Wonder what that means in terms of comparable features to Longhorn. Vectorized GUI perhaps?

I seriously love those ads. That's awesome. I wonder if Steve came up with that. If not, I'm sure he got a kick out of them.

Rev-O · Jun 28, 2004, 12:11 AM

So, is the keynote going to showcase a FCP featurette of a Siberian Tiger mauling a Longhorn Bull? Would be priceless, in a PETA-outraging sort of way...

Video of bull... voice over "introducing longhorn..."
Bull munching of grass placidly. Craps.
Tiger pounces from off camera onto bull, mauls it. Grabs bull by neck, drags it off camera.
Voice over: "And introducing OS X 10.4... Tiger."

Just a thought.

MindFad · Jun 28, 2004, 12:20 AM

That would be awesome!

iluvmypowerbook · Jun 28, 2004, 12:31 AM

Originally posted by Rev-O:
So, is the keynote going to showcase a FCP featurette of a Siberian Tiger mauling a Longhorn Bull? Would be priceless, in a PETA-outraging sort of way...

Video of bull... voice over "introducing longhorn..."
Bull munching of grass placidly. Craps.
Tiger pounces from off camera onto bull, mauls it. Grabs bull by neck, drags it off camera.
Voice over: "And introducing OS X 10.4... Tiger."

Just a thought.

Better yet....

Video of bull....voice iver "introducing longhorn...."
Bull munches grass placidly. Craps.
Camera pans to crap....
Caption under crap "The biggest piece of ..... "

xe0 · Jun 28, 2004, 07:09 AM

Yer I just came across them in irc.
I had a good chuckle when I saw them

My fav is :

Introducing Longhorn

sambeau · Jun 28, 2004, 07:25 AM

Originally posted by Krusty:
oops ... lounge thread already here

word is SJ will be presenting in his usual black turtle neck -- and nothing else

Turtle Neck? Surely Steve is circumcised?
On second thoughts..
lets not go there..

vertex · Jun 28, 2004, 07:30 AM

Another thing that has me wondwering about the Longhorn jokes. This might be another hint of Apple slowing down development of OS X, and thus Tiger wil be the version of OS X that takes on Longhorn. Apple already said they are slowing it down, and with Tiger due probably very late this year, or even next, that leaves around a year and a bit before Longhorn is out. So 10.5 probably won't see the light of day til around mid-2006.

timmerk · Jun 28, 2004, 09:25 AM

Anyone have a mirror? The picts have been removed.

milhous · Jun 28, 2004, 11:44 AM

i still think one of the most hilarious moments was when jobs made the initial comparison between panther and longhorn. you see a clip of a vicious panther walking through the jungle with jungle music ready to devour it's prey. then you got that silly longhorn with that slow old-fashioned music as it's chewing cud. i hope they do something like that again--i'd love it!

Thinine · Jun 28, 2004, 12:02 PM

I got two of the banners on my site. Check the gallery and I'll have updates later in the day.

nforcer · Jun 28, 2004, 05:00 PM

"Jobs also commented on a recent encounter with Bill Gates, where Gates said he felt Microsoft's relationship with Apple is better than ever"

And that's why they have all these "Redmond: you can't touch this" banners everywhere