Episode 26: Google ‘Censorship’, E3 Bans and a Sparkle Flash

1/30/2006 2:04:40 PM

Host: Kristin Hatcher
This week on the show Kristin, Derek and Brad discuss Google becoming part of the Great Firewall of China by caving to the Chinese government's censorship demands, E3 bans scantily-clad booth babes, the legalities (and ethical issues) of selling pre-loaded iPods/video iPods on eBay for massive profits, and guess what country spams the most? U.S.A! U.S.A!

Brad goes into great detail about Microsoft "Sparkle" and how it's certainly not a "Macromedia Flash killer" as well as a good roundtable discussion about training in the workplace; is it the company's responsibility or the employee's? Disney buys Pixar for a gazillion-jillion dollars and two crappy TV networks merge to create, well, a "doubly craptastic" network. Also, we field a call from Nicholas in Canada who asks whether the PowerUser.TV panel believes certain new Vista features are directly influenced by or being added to address Mac OS X features.

Brad immortalizes the Disney-Pixar purchase in an impromptu song, Derek unveils the theme song to his new show and Kristin (the silverback gorilla) lets pirates have it with a right stern verbal lashing! Download it now for an hour of entertaining tech news!
Important Links:
iPods sold on eBay with music, who has the rights?
Is Microsoft's Sparkle a Flash killer?
Training - A Company or a Worker's Responsibility?

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11 Comments

Segments : Episode 26: Brad’s musical Interlude

Sraf

1/30/2006 3:06:54 PM

Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam; or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

ThorpeUK

1/31/2006 7:27:02 AM

What ever happened to that video show you was going to make? It'll be easy to do now you are all together.

brab_alan

1/31/2006 12:23:11 PM

OK, OK, I'll stop spamming you guys

but I must say I did not get the "I surrender" joke. Is this a reference to a movie or something?

As you seem to talk a bit about sex and France, how about something relating the two: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/ (you probably have seen it, but just in case...)

One last thing: according to what you said on the show, Sparkle seems to be Interface Builder for Windows. Is this the case?

Thanks for a good show, and for having weird looks from people in the street when I started to laugh hearing Brad's song

angelblue01

2/2/2006 9:20:36 PM

Google stood up to the real "silver back gorilla", Bush. (Bushman was gorilla in a Chicago zoo in the 1960s)

Didn't Kristen go to E3?

angelblue01

2/2/2006 9:30:41 PM

OK, OK, I'll stop spamming you guys but I must say I did not get the "I surrender" joke. Is this a reference to a movie or something?

This is a refernce to the supposed tendancy of France to surrender during war (forgetting Napoleon) a big joke in the US.

angelblue01

2/2/2006 9:40:31 PM

Flash is used to create confusing Web interfaces. Sparkle could do that for the desktop.

Corris

2/3/2006 6:42:33 AM

brad has such a wonderful singing voice

and now that hes shown that talent i think that you derek and kristen should start joining in
possibly create a band for you three, "The Powerusers"

think of the possiblities

brab_alan

2/5/2006 2:36:34 PM

Ah, thanks Angelblue for the explanation. It's interesting that even though I've lived for almost 3 years in the US, I never heard this. But I guess that people would not tell me about this. But we did not surrender to the claim of the presence of WMD in Iraq, unlike some media/political institutions

Frogboy

2/5/2006 11:30:15 PM

Brab_Alan, you know we love you.

brab_alan

2/6/2006 2:08:17 AM

Thanks, Frogboy.I'm eagerly waiting for the next show.

RAKH1

2/8/2006 4:02:42 AM

Hi guys,

Great show - been listening to it for ages from "over-the-pond" here in the UK. One thing though - the last two shows have been not so good on the audio front. This week's show especially, it had Kristin *shouting*, Derek quietly mumbling and Brad *whispering". Any chance of some compression or level equalisation?

Love the show guys - keep up the outstanding work and don't stop with the French surrender-monkeys jokes - LMAO!!!

Rich

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