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WWDC 2012 Spoiler Free Video Stream [Video Online]

Hiramas said:
To those who are still happily ignorant, I recoomend the "A Song of Ice and Fire" a. k. a. "Game of Thrones" books. They are awesome. And if you have read them, try "The Sword of Truth" also good.
By now, The Witcher Books should be translated into the most languages, also.
For a laugh, get "EARTH: THE BOOK" by the Daily show guys. Genius!
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I've just started watching Game of Thrones and it's amazing, got through almost all of season 1 in a week, glad there's a whole season 2 to watch afterwards!
 
Billy Boo Bob said:
If you are subscribed to the "Apple Keynotes" podcast, then it will just "show up" when it's ready in HD, too. If you go into iTunes and use menu "Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast", paste in this URL...

Code: 
http://itstreaming.apple.com/podcasts/apple_keynotes/apple_keynotes.xml

...it will load up their podcast "channel"... At first it will start automatically downloading the most recent one (Special Event March 2012), but you can always pause that in "Downloads".

Makes for easy access to older keynotes if you want to archive them, too.

Note: this usually happens later in the day after the first streaming video shows up (as will be posted here).
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Yeah last keynote for the iPad (March i think) was posted within an hour or so of it finishing, the HD vodcast (is that word still used?) in iTunes was about 12 hours later or something. Hard to stay spoiler free for that long!
 
Hiramas said:
To those who are still happily ignorant, I recoomend the "A Song of Ice and Fire" a. k. a. "Game of Thrones" books.
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One of the best series of books I have ever read!

Now watching Ukraine v Sweden. Anyone want to have a guess as to the final score?
 
BRLawyer said:
Ignorant speculation has never been forbidden as clarified above by the admins...but if they wish to further restrict, IN ADVANCE, the kinds of discussions we can have here, I will have no qualms with it.

It's just a matter of clarity of rules, nothing else.
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The admin who set the rules deleted the post. Another admin who agreed with you reinstated it. Other then yourself and the admin, I haven't seen one support in agreement with your point of view. I'm sure 95% of us class ANYTHING related to the outcome of the keynote as a spoiler. Treat it like a summer blockbuster as mentioned below. Would you expect to click on a 'spoiler free' dark knight thread and find a blow by blow bullet point list of what people expect to happen?

The rules are very clear. You are just choosing to interpret them in a very specific way to support your point of view.

We are arguing about semantics. The sprit of spoiler free should surely be spoiler free? Not spoiler free - but everyone is entitled to post their own wish list or speculation about the outcome of the event?
 
fruitpunch.ben said:
Sword of truth books are awesome. Give yourself plenty of time to read the series before you start!
Anyone seen the TV show on the books? I think it ran for a couple seasons before it was cancelled
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Urgh, the show could have been good, if nobody would have told us that it is a show based on these books. HBO should have done it, or AMC. They do good stuff. But that version was just... bad. The books are awesome, tough.

I myself watched the first episode of GoT, then bought the book. From there on I read just as much of the book as the last episode covered. After the first Season ended, I read all the other books. Worth it! The Show is really really really good (Lord of the Rings - good), but the books are even better.
 
HandySam said:
Has anybody seen Prometheus? Was it any good?
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Yep, saw it opening day in IMAX 3D. Definitely worth seeing in IMAX for audio alone, effects were awesome, acting was decent, writing was ok. Much better than his last few films but had a vibe that they were reaching for a PG-13 rating but ended up with R anyway (i.e. slightly toned down). Very entertaining though on a whole and a fairly intense experience, tone and genre felt a little inconsistent throughout though ... I would recommend seeing it in theaters, and if you're a fan of the series, definitely.
 
CBlakeston said:
The admin who set the rules deleted the post. Another admin who agreed with you reinstated it. Other then yourself and the admin, I haven't seen one support in agreement with your point of view. I'm sure 95% of us class ANYTHING related to the outcome of the keynote as a spoiler. Treat it like a summer blockbuster as mentioned below. Would you expect to click on a 'spoiler free' dark knight thread and find a blow by blow bullet point list of what people expect to happen?

The rules are very clear. You are just choosing to interpret them in a very specific way to support your point of view.

We are arguing about semantics. The sprit of spoiler free should surely be spoiler free? Not spoiler free - but everyone is entitled to post their own wish list or speculation about the outcome of the event?
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Do you even understand what a "spoiler" means? Senseless speculation has nothing to do with it, and this is why the mod reinstated it. If you are in doubt, go check a dictionary.

But of course, if by "spoiler-free" you mean "anything-related-to-Apple-including-stupid-rumors-free", feel free to take that up with the admins and propose a clear rule about it...because what I think is gonna happen has nothing to do with prior knowledge or actual outcome of the keynote.
 
Hiramas said:
Urgh, the show could have been good, if nobody would have told us that it is a show based on these books. HBO should have done it, or AMC. They do good stuff. But that version was just... bad. The books are awesome, tough.

I myself watched the first episode of GoT, then bought the book. From there on I read just as much of the book as the last episode covered. After the first Season ended, I read all the other books. Worth it! The Show is really really really good (Lord of the Rings - good), but the books are even better.
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QFT. Both the TV series and the books are epic.
 
CBlakeston said:
The admin who set the rules deleted the post. Another admin who agreed with you reinstated it. Other then yourself and the admin, I haven't seen one support in agreement with your point of view. I'm sure 95% of us class ANYTHING related to the outcome of the keynote as a spoiler. Treat it like a summer blockbuster as mentioned below. Would you expect to click on a 'spoiler free' dark knight thread and find a blow by blow bullet point list of what people expect to happen?

The rules are very clear. You are just choosing to interpret them in a very specific way to support your point of view.

We are arguing about semantics. The sprit of spoiler free should surely be spoiler free? Not spoiler free - but everyone is entitled to post their own wish list or speculation about the outcome of the event?
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Yeah it's pretty simple, talk about other topics here. If you want to discuss apple at this point, just go anywhere else on the internet.
 
Billy Boo Bob said:
If you are subscribed to the "Apple Keynotes" podcast, then it will just "show up" when it's ready in HD, too. If you go into iTunes and use menu "Advanced -> Subscribe to Podcast", paste in this URL...

Code: 
http://itstreaming.apple.com/podcasts/apple_keynotes/apple_keynotes.xml

...it will load up their podcast "channel"... At first it will start automatically downloading the most recent one (Special Event March 2012), but you can always pause that in "Downloads".

Makes for easy access to older keynotes if you want to archive them, too.

Note: this usually happens later in the day after the first streaming video shows up (as will be posted here).
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One actually has to do "update podcast" for the newest show to be available, right?
 
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I ruined at least part of it for myself. My 'top-sites' view in Safari has a bunch of tech sites... Didn't realize the thumbnails were constantly updated.
 
For newcomers here are the rules of the thread as suggested by ARTOFWAR. Please follow them and we can all have an awesome spoiler free experience :)

Lets just go forward with these rules for the thread:
- No posting official announcements related to Apple (duh)
- No posting speculation about what Apple is announcing.
- No posting anything like "it's over now."

Let's just assume the keynote will be over in 1.5 hours and the video will be online in 3-12 hours.
 
Speculation on Spoiler-Free Threads

BRLawyer said:
Do you even understand what a "spoiler" means? Senseless speculation has nothing to do with it, and this is why the mod reinstated it. If you are in doubt, go check a dictionary.

But of course, if by "spoiler-free" you mean "anything-related-to-Apple-including-stupid-rumors-free", feel free to take that up with the admins and propose a clear rule about it...because what I think is gonna happen has nothing to do with prior knowledge or actual outcome of the keynote.
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CBLakeston is right, it happens every year. Some people can't understand why speculation (ignorant or otherwise) might be unwelcome on a thread such as this. I have no idea why the mods are approving it; to my recollection it has never been allowed, and has always been clearly against the rules. Here's why:

Never mind that people don't want anyone who's been reading MacRumors to come along and "speculate" about things that have a fair chance of being announced. Even if a man who had been stranded on a desert island for the past decade was found today and said "Apple will announce spaceships!" People on this thread wouldn't appreciate it. Because if, on the off chance, Apple did announce spaceships, it would feel less thrilling, somehow, to have already had that idea planted in our heads.

It's like if you were watching the Sixth Sense, to take an example from this thread, and someone you were watching with said, "I wonder if he's dead, too?" Yes, it's just ignorant speculation, but when it turns out to be true, the shock is gone, and part of you watched the rest of the movie with that possibility in mind.

We're here because we want to be shocked, thrilled, amazed, surprised. If any wild speculative guess happens to be right, that announcement loses some of its power for us. The people on this thread really do want to live in a sensory deprivation chamber until the keynote.

Look, I'm not saying it's right, or rational, but at least respect that people like us exist. The rules are clear enough, but maybe you're right, they should be clearer – whatever we need to do to make it so your speculation gets deleted, and your behaviour isn't repeated.
 
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