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11/27/09
Seth MacFarlane today: HURP DURP I LIEK MONEY
11/27/09
But those are pretty meh. Like they are not even trying. Maybe watching all of them at once didn't contribute too...
The spinning mac disk was funny though.
11/27/09
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@mangochutney: Or it could be that there never was any "Family Guy Windows 7 episode" to begin with.
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11/27/09
There never was a Windows 7 Family Guy episode planned, conceived, or in any way shape or form executed.
There were these ads which ran as they were supposed to and a live action show which MS just pulled out of sponsoring at the last second.
Nothing got killed, nothing was faked, the whole thing went as planned (with the exception of MS pulling their sponsorship).
11/27/09
I doubt Microsoft went through that much trouble to pull a dumb PR stunt like that. Those actually look like real episodes.
Microsoft most likely didn't intend to pull these from the beginning.
11/27/09
Those are real episodes. In order they are:
Ocean's Three and a Half
Road to the Multiverse
Lois Kills Stewie
Tales of a Third Grade Nothing.
They re-dubbed them with windows 7 parts to cross promote both windows 7 and Family Guy (see how it says what time Family Guy comes on at?). They were used exclusively as leads to actual windows 7 commercials and as far as I know only appeared during other similar shows.
They are not part of some "Windows 7-centric" episode of Family Guy. There is no Windows 7-centric episode of Family Guy. No one who bothered to read past a blog title ever thought there was. There was a live action sketch show called "Seth and Alex" which was originally sponsored by MS but they pulled their sponsorship. The show went on and aired.
There is nothing for MS to "pull" in the first place.
11/27/09
While PCs have long been able to act as DVRs, for a scheduled event, if you're already doing something on your PC, you're going to drop frames capturing, and it will effectively make your PC unusable while recording. It would also fill up your hard disks very fast.
I just subscribe to a satellite provider that has the option of PVR receivers - that way I can record what I want when I want, even on 2 channels at once now, for no extra fee, and skip commercials instantly, pause and rewind live TV, etc... all the usual features.
...but as I watch less and less TV, I find the occasional Bittorrent download isn't exactly squashing my net connection either. It's often neccesary anyway as the networks love to play shell games with their broadcast slots.
11/27/09
He replied "I still love Vista, baby".
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On the other hand, those would make fairly amusing stand-alone ads. A nice change from the nauseatingly sterile advertising that we're all used to.
11/27/09
I don't think the special would have in any way shape or form resembled these.
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Can't speak for you though.
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I swore this was a post about Windows 7 Family Guy commercials and not how I might or might not speak in the real world.
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Does that even make sense? Shouldn't it be "The dead"? or am I imagining things?
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Yeah, thats all it was and all it ever was. Nothing was "killed", MS just pulled out from sponsoring it. I guess they were even doing their Win 7 bits when on stage 'cause they didn't get the memo.
11/27/09
The industry is moving from time-shifting to on-demand: being able to effectively circumvent what time a specific show aired by recording it has been replaced by not caring at all what the original show time was, since you can just get it on-demand. TiVo should have got itself into the on-demand business while its profits were high - imagine if Hulu was originally created by TiVo or if TiVo had made a deal to somehow get (over the TV line or the internet line) on-demand for it's service, i.e. "missed the show AND forgot to record? We still got it for you!"
But TiVo decided that the industry wasn't going to fundamentally change with the Internet so they decided to just refine their product - and now they're suffering for it.
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11/26/09
I've always considered picking up an older Series 2 Tivo and trying to 'emulate' the service like the Australians and Canadians did before the 'official' release of Tivo. It's hard to find the scripts and emulators they used to use (since they kept it all password protected and made you verify that you were an official citizen - after all, an American with the software just has the intent to steal service), but from what I've seen, a few simple Google searches gets the goods ;)
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11/25/09
But, working on both everyday, I greatly prefer Windows 7. I work twice as fast on it than OSX.
Finally I feel like I'm using a windows operating system that was built this decade... and it only took the whole decade to make!
11/25/09
Still like OS X better, and Windows 7 is still Windows when it comes down to it, but there's some neat stuff in 7 and it's great that people are upgrading. You don't have to be happy with XP anymore.
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#tips
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#tips
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