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The 6 Million Dollar Cat
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Techreport.com
Friday, November 27th, 2009
won
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techreport reinforces my belief that the internet is made out of kittens and pure magic. I got some new gear on sale and will have a new rig built by next week. Best of all? Thanks to my old system still being current and some other piece of luck, i’ll actually end up with a brand new computer and cash in my pocket – all thanks to randomly winning this free motherboard. Go Tech Report!
New use for old treadmill
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
An open letter to Microsoft
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Dear Microsoft,
Buy this company. Buy it now. Buy it for a beelyon dollars if you have to. Give a free copy to all Windows 7 installs, downloadable over Windows Update. Sit back, watch Apple cry in the corner.
Then the real strategy begins. Put the same thing on Xbox. Start a 3d widget/app store – this part is especially important – really get on the ones with virtual stock displays so you can watch bar graphs rise and fall in real-time 3d, or for server admins to have little morphing 3d representations of the health of their networks chilling in the corner where they can keep an eye on things. Wedge it into the business atmosphere as being able to provide representational situational data for their applications/monitoring systems.
Allow this program to be further advanced and support dynamic lighting, particle effects, etc. Sky’s the limit, the desktop is now a physics toy. You will drive the sales of touch screen devices, the manufacturers will be *blanking* your *blanks* in gratitude (I have no idea what corporations do for each other? Sending their flowers?).
Think of the commercials. It will be glorious. “Yeah. Mac – OS it’s pretty. It’s shiny. But can it do this?” *high speed montage of icons flying, blowing up when they hit the recycle bin in a shower of sparks, etc etc* (Get some music by Air or Kraftwerk) “I’m a PC” *cut to a shot of mac boy crying in the shower trying to scrub himself clean.*
Dear CNET: Yer dum
Monday, September 7th, 2009
Dateline CNET: Apple offers sleek cachet for clunkers
Imagine consumers en masse dumping their old PC clunkers for a svelte MacBook Air running the sleek, new Snow Leopard operating system. An implausible Orwellian vision but probably not that far removed from Apple’s marketing aspirations.
In short, walk into any Apple Store in any tony neighborhood and the message is: relieve yourself of those old bulky PCs and flip phones and we’ll give you smaller, more stylish computing with the Apple cachet.
Which is a nice thought. Except that “give” part. There is no “give.” There is only “buy.” For a lot of money. If that’s your thing, great. But I’m not going to pay twice as much for the same shitty Dell hardware in a sleek package the price of the rebate you’d be getting in the automotive “Cash for Clunkers” deal. Apple is not going to take your PC and give you a Mac. CNET is imagining a scenario where you throw out your PC and just go buy a Mac. That may save you a bit of software frustration, well, after the getting-to-know-you period where you figure out Apple’s computing metaphor, since you’re used to the PC world. Then the shitty Dell-quality hardware inside those sleek packages will break, and you’ll be sending your Mac back to be refurbished. Then it will break again, rinse, repeat. Well, if you physically use the computer connections alot. If you just sit it there and compute with it you’ll experience less failure. Take a mac laptop on the road, the software will never fail but your firewire port may, and if you’re a performing musician who uses that firewire port…. well, you own a second Mac so this problem won’t stop your road trip.
In summation: Just because you’ve bought a Mercedes or Porche doesn’t mean you’re any less likely to run into another car or off the road.