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#1 2006-10-20 1:18 am
- D'Eyncourt
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Billboard for MS Zune
HEY, Microsoft! How about music the way I want it to be?
(yeah, yeah, iPod does have FairPlay, but at least it isn't as restrictive as Microsoft's plans for the Zune).
BOYCOTT SONY
"In fact, the polygraph looks for spikes in blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and perspiration. In other words, you can’t tell a lie from the sex act."--Robert L. Park, What's New for January 15, 2010
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#2 2006-10-20 7:46 am
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
I don't know how the marketing geniuses at micorsoft do it.
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#3 2006-10-20 8:12 am
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Reminds me of "Suddenly everything sucks".
Can we turn this into a photoshop contest?
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#4 2006-10-20 9:05 am
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
pardon my photoshop skills, or rather lack thereof. It's the thought that counts, right. 
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#5 2006-10-20 9:19 am
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#6 2006-10-20 10:23 am
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. - Henri Poincaré
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#7 2006-10-20 10:23 am
Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Why is there a Clear Channel logo above this billboard? Is there some alliance that I am unaware of?
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#8 2006-10-20 10:46 am
Re: Billboard for MS Zune
volk wrote:
Why is there a Clear Channel logo above this billboard? Is there some alliance that I am unaware of?
They own the billboard 
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#9 2006-10-20 11:04 am
Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Yeah. They're in the same business as Lamar and all the rest.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#10 2006-10-20 12:24 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
DevoDoc wrote:
Hehe, nice.
tF
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#11 2006-10-20 12:58 pm
Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Donkey Butter wrote:
pardon my photoshop skills, or rather lack thereof. It's the thought that counts, right.
http://show.imagehosting.us/show/169030 … 690308.jpg
My favorite so far.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
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#12 2006-10-20 1:16 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
I love all the advertising for my birthday…
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#13 2006-10-20 1:58 pm
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I really want Apple to launch a brand new iPod something to comepletely steal ALL attention from M$.
Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
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#15 2006-10-20 2:11 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
z00n sox!
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#16 2006-10-20 2:24 pm
- tomfoolery
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
I wish I was tito.
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#17 2006-10-20 2:59 pm
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White on black? Red/orange instead of blue? Zune trying to be the opposite of iPod? O RLY?
"Overall, the results are pretty clear: Mac users might not actually be smarter than PC users, but they certainly use better English and a larger vocabulary to express more complex thinking."
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#18 2006-10-20 6:24 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Can't you guys tell that the photo in the original post is already (poorly) photochopped? I am guessing that it used to say "Music the way it want to be played or something. It looks like there used to be a "P" or a "B" there, in any case.
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#19 2006-10-20 6:53 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Czachorski wrote:
Can't you guys tell that the photo in the original post is already (poorly) photochopped? I am guessing that it used to say "Music the way it want to be played or something. It looks like there used to be a "P" or a "B" there, in any case.
if it was photoshopped then I guess this one is as well.
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#20 2006-10-20 7:05 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Czachorski wrote:
Can't you guys tell that the photo in the original post is already (poorly) photochopped? I am guessing that it used to say "Music the way it want to be played or something. It looks like there used to be a "P" or a "B" there, in any case.
Eh? That's funny.
What you are noting is the poor job that the billboard guys did in putting up the sign.
Aside from shrinking the original and cutting stuff out from the extraneous margin, the JPG is otherwise unaltered.
BOYCOTT SONY
"In fact, the polygraph looks for spikes in blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and perspiration. In other words, you can’t tell a lie from the sex act."--Robert L. Park, What's New for January 15, 2010
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#21 2006-10-20 7:35 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Donkey Butter wrote:
Czachorski wrote:
Can't you guys tell that the photo in the original post is already (poorly) photochopped? I am guessing that it used to say "Music the way it want to be played or something. It looks like there used to be a "P" or a "B" there, in any case.
if it was photoshopped then I guess this one is as well.
http://static.flickr.com/121/268177979_db5cc63497.jpg
Whoops. 
I guess that goes to the quality job of the billboard worker.
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#22 2006-10-20 7:45 pm
#23 2006-10-20 7:50 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
NAG wins.
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#24 2006-10-20 9:09 pm
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"I personally think that with the budget they've planned, Halo [the movie] will be a failure. I think Halo will not make the money back in the end."
-Uwe Boll (made the films: Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Bloodrayne, Far Cry, Postal)
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#25 2006-10-20 10:18 pm
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Re: Billboard for MS Zune
Anyone been to the website? comingzune.com
jesus that thing is a POS. I can't believe this is the *master plan* to unthrown the iPod.
I think a high school deca class could wipe the floor with MS's marketing group.
Lets face it, the hardware ... isn't all that great... a few neat features but nothing earth shattering.
The software - we already know what to expect, more of the same - PlaysForSh*t(tm)
The marketing - ? I can't say I'm impressed yet.
These guys are already done... they just don't know it.
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