MacBook Pro 17"

Part media center, part workstation, the Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch has been revered over the years by a nation of professional photographers and film editors, not to mention average media folks who can't get enough of this thin-bodied cinematic wonder. When the Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Dual Graphics) and the MacBook 13-inch (Aluminum) launched with their "unibody" enclosures—in each case, a heavily promoted slab of aluminum that rids the frame of all detachable parts—a "uni-seventeen-incher" was clearly on the way. The Apple MacBook Pro 17-inch (Unibody) ($2,799 direct) is still the lightest and the prettiest media center laptop to house a maximum-resolution screen, and the changes are significant.

Read the rest here.

What can I say other than DUH!?

Dude you are getting a Dull PC

What a failure Dell is nowadays... And this company still loves Micro$oft. They deserve this downfall. This is what you get when you sleep with the M$. Enjoy it Dull, eh, sorry, I mean Dell.

Dell reported fourth quarter earnings of $351 million, or 18 cents a share, on revenue of $13.4 billion, down 16 percent from a year ago. That earnings figure (statement) included a pretax charge of $277 million, or 11 cents a share, related to restructuring. Excluding that charge, Dell would have had earnings of 29 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 28 cents a share. Dell reported earnings of $2.47 billion, or $1.25 a share, on revenue of $61.1 billion for fiscal 2009.

Read the rest of the Dull story here.

Watchmen

The film Watchmen is almost here.

The majority of the reviews have already hit the web. And the results are worrying. Before I will let you know my personal opinion I would like to let you know this:

I didn't like Lord of the Rings Return of the King. The same with 300. As a matter of fact I hated them. Awful movies in my opinion. They took the original book and graphic novel which were awesome and created awful movies. Heck even destroying the comics in the process.

I guess the same will ring true for the Watchmen. The sickening slow motion editing of Watchmen seen in the trailers have me worrying about this movie, say 50% already.

Will I go and watch the Watchmen? Sure. Will I be able to sit and watch it up until the end which runs almost 3 hours? Maybe. Will I enjoy it? To be honest the trouble is that I already did. Tens of times already in its original graphic novel form. I think Watchmen will be another example of mine of how uber "comics" can turn into crap movies. Yep. Like 300 did before it.

I wish that I will be wrong about this and somehow I will enjoy this movie. But come on. Get real. The original graphic novel vs this hollywood blockbuster? No contest. Watchmen comic ftw.

Here is hoping that it will not end up being for me another 300 or Return of the King which I still hate to this day.

As stimulating as it was to see the superhero movie enter the realm of crime fiction in "The Dark Knight," "Watchmen" enters into a realm that is both nihilistic and campy. The two make odd companions. The film, directed by Zack Snyder ("300"), will test the limits of superhero movie fans. If you're not already invested in these characters because of the original graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, nothing this movie does is likely to change that predicament.

Read the rest of the Watchmen review here.

For more you can always go rotten.

Mark my words... This movie is going to be one of the following two things:
Epic success
or
Epic failure

1.5 million (yes million) year old human footprints found

Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men's shoe.

The findings at a Northern Kenya site represent the oldest evidence of modern-human foot anatomy. They also help tell an ancestral story of humans who had fully transitioned from tree-dwellers to land walkers.

"In a sense, it's like putting flesh on the bones," said John Harris, an anthropologist with the Koobi Fora Field School of Rutgers University. "The prints are so well preserved ."

Read the rest of this intriguing story here.

Street Fighter IV

Its not the size of your joystick that matters but what you do with it!

Fighting games that remain popular today are mostly 3-D, like Soul Calibur and Virtua Fighter, but with Street Fighter IV, Capcom pulls off the ultimate straddle: The gameplay draws heavily from the classics, but the graphics are as advanced as anything else around — and neither gets in the other's way.
If you've spent time with a Street Fighter game before — and odds are excellent that you have — you'll know how to play Street Fighter IV, released this week on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. (The arcade version came out last year.)

Read the rest here.

Hack the planet

IN A room in London late last year, a group of British politicians were grilling a selection of climate scientists on geoengineering - the notion that to save the planet from climate change, we must artificially tweak its thermostat by firing fine dust into the atmosphere to deflect the sun's rays, for instance, or perhaps even by launching clouds of mirrors into space.

Surely the scientists gave such a heretical idea short shrift. After all, messing with the climate is exactly what got us into such trouble in the first place. The politicians on the committee certainly seemed to believe so. "It is not sensible, is it? It is not a serious suggestion?"

Had the question been posed a few years ago, most climate scientists would have agreed. But the mood is changing. In the face of potentially catastrophic climate change, the politicians and scientists all agreed that since cuts to carbon emissions will likely fall short we need to be exploring "Plan B". Climatologists have hit a "social tipping point" says Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia, UK.

Read the rest of the VERY interesting story here.

On an irrelevant note, hack the planet, is a quote from an old movie that I still love to watch A LOT.

Hackers ftw ;)

Micro$oft Office 14 aka M$ Office 2009

will not be released in 2009 but in 2010 and it will be called M$ Office 2010, maybe :P

Microsoft will not release its next-generation Office 14 suite in 2009, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer confirmed during a Tuesday "strategy update" Webcast. A "netbook"-like version of Windows Server is also planned.
Ballmer offered a midquarter update to Wall Street analysts, focusing primarily on the impact of the economy on the company's business. Microsoft is using RCA as a model, Ballmer said; RCA continued to invest during the Depression, then went on to dominate the television industry.

"And that's kind of the mindset that we have relative to the economic situation," Ballmer said. "You don't beat it, you manage in this environment; you don't think about it as a short term, you think of it as a reset that may take several years."

Read the rest of the boring story here.

And guess what? The Mac version may go further into 2011. But who cares? I mean, only stupid Mac people are still using that Mac M$ Office crap thing. iWork, NeoOffice, OpenOffice, etc. are better. Heck, even M$ Office 2007 under VM Windows is better than the Mac M$ Office 2008 crap.

Ice Man or just man?

PERCHED on the edge of an Antarctic ice sheet, Lewis Gordon Pugh surveys the waves. At 0 °C, water does not get much colder than the sea beneath him. Undeterred, Pugh unzips his jacket, strips down to his swimming trunks and dives in.

Most of us would start to hyperventilate uncontrollably if we dived into such cold water. Pugh doesn't even gasp in pain but instead starts swimming. In December 2005, when Pugh took this plunge (pictured above), he went on to swim a kilometre in just over 18 minutes. Many ordinary people would drown after just a few minutes in such cold water. Pugh, however, not only survived but went on to make several more long-distance swims in extremely cold water (see graph). So what makes him able to keep swimming in such extreme cold?

A study of Pugh published last month has confirmed that his response to cold water is anything but normal. Remarkably, though, while Pugh may have some innate advantages, it seems his near-superhuman ability is largely down to training - so perhaps it could be something we are all able to learn.

Read the rest here.

GarageBand makes us lonely

Apple unlocks the gates to the tech castle, rolls out the red carpet and says 'welcome' in clear language. This means that anyone can be productive, and not only that, their efforts can lead to results that sound - and look - surprisingly slick.

This is countered by charges that Apple's software is for simpletons and idiots.

It's a bit like the car analogy - when they first came out, cars were for the rich, and owners either needed to be mechanically fascinated enough to become apt or to hire a full-time mechanic. How they must have railed when first, everyman could afford a car (thanks to Henry Ford, mostly) then, worse, could drive them day to day without retaining the services of full-time mechanics.

Read the rest here.

Interesting read but if you ask me the same holds truth for every single iLife and iWork application. I still remember all the hating for iWeb when it first came out. Some crazy haters even went as far as spreading FUD of how professional web designers would lose their jobs because of it. Whatever.

Safari 4 beta

Introducing Safari 4 Beta. Take a look at the remarkable new features of the world’s fastest web browser.

What is Safari?
It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Whether on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch, Safari continuously redefines the browser, providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet.

Read more here and also download it from here (Mac and Windows), now!

Loving it. Every single feature so far. Safari 4 beta ftw!

Sony POS

muahahaha.com


Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

roflmao

Although a bit old "news" its always good for a rocky day ahead ;)

David Lynch mania

He is The Man. He is The Filmmaker. He is David Lynch. Love him or hate him but you cannot ignore him or his work.

When he speaks you listen. When he makes films, you watch. I owe him one. Sorry for that David. I will catch up. I promise!









You can find a lot more by Mr.David Lynch all over the Internet, TVs and video clubs. Go get some David Lynch mania. You know you want it.

Unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci

What may be a hitherto unknown portrait of Leonardo da Vinci in middle age shows that the Renaissance genius had piercing blue eyes, a long nose and long greying hair with a droopy moustache.

The damaged oil-on-panel portrait was discovered by Nicola Barbatelli, a medieval historian, while he was researching the archive and picture collection of an aristocratic family at Acerenza (population 3,000), an ancient village perched on a rock above the river Bradano near Potenza in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The family has asked to remain anonymous.

Here it is...



You can read the whole story here.

2009 Academy Awards Winners

Usually I don't care about oscars and such. BUT.

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight?

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Amazing. Thank God. Heath Ledger ftw.

Still, Dark Knight should win more oscars but hey, we can always hope for the next Batman film ;)

A Windows Retrospective

Did you realize you missed the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Windows? The product was officially announced on November 10, 1983. A lot has changed since then, but you have to be struck by the fact that the OS is still around.

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A lot of things have come and gone since 1983. But Windows remains. Can we put this old dog to sleep? Please?

Read the whole story here.

Where do I sign for this old dog to sleep? HELL YES! Sleep now damn it. Sleep.

It feels strange agreeing sometimes with certain Micro$oft lovers out there. Then again Dvorak could well be anyones lover :P

Computing Still Sucks

Have you seen this message: "Windows Media Receiver Service has stopped working?" I have. In fact, I see it every 10 minutes on my 11-month-old home PC. I ask because, apparently, a lot of other people have seen it, too. A Google search on the message brings up roughly 56,000 possible results. It's a well-known Vista Media Center error message that is more than just an annoyance. For me, at least, it's made it impossible for me to connect my Media Center PC to my Cat 5e-connected Xbox 360-cum-media-extender device.

I've gone so far as to open the Service Manager and find the balky service. Sure enough, it's stopped. I can restart it, but it stops again almost immediately. When I let Windows do its job and try to find a solution, it usually tells me that Windows Vista Service Pack 1 can solve my problem. Thing is, it can't: I'm already running SP1.

Read the rest here.

What can I say? OF COURSE what you are using is still hard to use. You are using Windows FFS! Damn sheep you are using the most f'ed up technology out there and then you wonder this and that. Talk about brain dead people.

Windows Mobile 6.5 part 2

As I promised here.

The talk this week at Mobile World Congress has been largely positive about Microsoft's latest iteration of its smartphone UI, Windows Mobile 6.5. Still, some of us at Engadget (well, one of us, at least), feel like the folks in Redmond missed the mark by a longshot. Instead of demonstrating its technical prowess and vast resources, Microsoft limped out a half-hearted rehash of an OS we've seen all too much of, and managed to blind most onlookers with a storm of big time partnerships and bloated PR. While their major competitors (and even some allies) in the mobile space seem bent on changing ideas about how we interact with our portable devices, the company proved once again that it's content to rest on its laurels and learn little from its mistakes.

To give you another side of the story -- a side which I think Microsoft has done an immaculate job of hiding this week -- here's ten reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 disappoints.

Read those there. What did you expect or what do you expect from Micro$oft? And trust me. Even with Windows 7 things WILL go wrong. Then again the sheep in you will tell you to like Windows 7 because it has a new skin, eh?

Apple Mafia?

Interesting title, eh? Not if you ask me but thats how it actually reads here.

Jobs' return, in 1997, has stabilized things. The company morphed from a business that seeded the Valley with talent to one that attracted it. And many who have stuck around Apple for the past decade are now wealthy enough not to have to worry about ever working again. Apple's shares have soared 903%, to $94.53, over the past decade.

Intel VS NVIDIA

WTF?

This is RIDICULOUS! I mean, come on! You must be joking, right?

NVIDIA and Intel have always had an interesting relationship, consisting of a dash of mutual respect and a whole lot of under-the-collar disdain. And with situations such as these, it's easy to understand why. NVIDIA today has come forward with a response to a recent Intel court filing in which Intel alleges that the "four-year-old chipset license agreement the companies signed does not extend to Intel’s future generation CPUs with 'integrated' memory controllers, such as Nehalem."

Read the rest here.

Could this be the reason that its taking so long for Apple to refresh their iMac, Mac mini and Mac Pro lines? If so, this is getting weird for each passing minute. Is this some stupid Intel mistake of revenging NVIDIA taking Apple as a customer? Epic failure on Intel's part and I hope they will resolve this ASAP.

>:O

In love with coffee

I think most modern people are like this. Especially in most western countries. You cannot hide this. Come out whenever you are. Whoever you are. You know you like this picture and at the same time it makes you feel weird about people around you or even worst, YOU!



In any case, here is another gem with a strong culture behind it.

le Café - Oldelaf (english subtitles)
by Boebis

Would you like another cup of coffee?

NetBooks killing Windows PCs?

According to an IDC report issued last week, worldwide PC processor unit shipments in the fourth quarter of 2008 declined –17.0% quarter over quarter and –11.4% year over year. Those tragic numbers were buoyed somewhat by sales of mini-laptop netbooks running low powered processors. Take out Intel's Atom chips that power netbooks, and processor unit shipments declined by –21.7% over the previous September quarter and –21.6% over last year's holiday quarter.

Shane Rau, IDC's director of Semiconductors in Personal Computing research, said the "decline in PC processor unit shipments in the fourth quarter was the worst sequential decline since IDC started tracking processor shipments in 1996. After hinting at a decline last September, the market fell of a cliff in October and November.''

Read the rest here.

Whatever. Its Micro$oft and its partners as well their sheep (sorry, customers) who are killing their business and money.

Once a Micro$oft fool, always a M$ fool, I guess.

Street Fighter IV El Fuerte

Some ignorant people out there tend to laugh about martial arts and have no respect for people who are following those arts. Some other ignorant people ignore the fighting video games based more or less on the previous logic.

Well, guess what? Street Fighter IV is here to teach those people new lessons and make them look even more ignorants. Take El Fuerte for example. He looks like a crap fighter. Right? Such thing could not be real. I mean a masked man in-tights spinning around and kicking ass? Thats BS, right?

WRONG!

Street Fighter IV review

Street Fighter IV is an amazing game, as Capcom seems to have reached out to the more casual fighting game fan while keeping what makes the series attractive to the hardcore fans. Add in a beautiful new art style and online play, and you have a blockbuster release that's sure to please damn near everyone.

Read the rest here.

After reading that or even before that, you can always watch a trailer below.


Street Fighter IV trailer, with full roster from Ars Technica on Vimeo.

STREET FIGHTER IV at long last for XBOX 360, PS3 and Windows. Hail to the King babe!

69 Mac OS X fast lane tips

Apple has always put the user first when it comes to designing operating systems, building environments that help you in your everyday computing life rather than making you work around their limitations.

One result of this has been that Mac OS X has grown to become a highly capable and multi-layered entity, with many tools and features hidden just below the surface, which can make your everyday Mac use quicker and easier.

Read the rest here.

I could correct some of that stuff by totally changing steps or even third party solutions but its ok anyway. Have fun.

Windows Mobile 6.5

Some dared to call this WinMo 6.5 travesty "Empire Strikes Back". That must be at least a joke, right?

How else can you call systems that are slow, bring nothing new to the scene and are a nightmare to use?

Only by Micro$oft and its partners. The Joker Mafia. Laughing your ass off near you sometime later this year.

Enjoy another Micro$oft joke.

More to come. Stay tuned.

175 million sheep

out of the whole 1+ billion of them, love the Facebook.

Congratulations sheep. Still, why took you so long? Usually you are a lot faster when it comes to eating the crap that others serve you.

Unusual photos

There can be only... 100+ of them!

Still, roflmao over that link.

Cheers.

Respect

I’m a party house I’m afraid to come outside. Although I’m filled with love I’m afraid they’ll hurt my pride. So I play the part I feel they want of me, and I pull the shade so I won’t see them seeing me.

So many hard times/ Sleepin’ on motel floors, knocking on my brothers door/ Eatin’ spam and Oreos and drinkin’ Thunderbird baby…

mp3 songs | Baby Huey MP3s

James Ramey aka Baby Huey The Living Legend who passed away almost 40 years ago. His work will live forever and ever. Legend indeed.

PS3 is going to War

GOD OF WAR ]|[ that is.

The following is in-game graphics and sound.



The above is in-game graphics and sound.

XBOX 360 what?

PS3 coupled with its ability to play Blu-Ray movies and this GOD OF WAR ]|[ masterpiece has literally nailed it. MUST BUY!

Resident Evil 5

Seems interesting but I will pass the XBOX 360 version and aim for the PS3 one. Why? Because PS3 is here to stay. You can't say that for XBOX 360. Why? Read the next post.

People vs George

Revered by some, feared and demonized by others, George Lucas is undoubtedly the most talked about and criticized filmmaker in movie history.

Why have so many STAR WARS fans turned against him to decry the release of the Special Editions and the Prequel Trilogy? Why is George Lucas the constant target of bloggers, critics and self-proclaimed devotees? And why are millions of others staunchly prepared to defend him in the face of innumerable accusations?

THE PEOPLE vs. GEORGE LUCAS aims to answer those questions, and to impartially deconstruct the cultural legacy of a man whose life, feelings and creative impulses remain largely shrouded in mystery.

Read the rest here.

I like and support George Lucas work so far, still, I can understand the rest of the people getting annoyed by his modern work. Watch the trailer below.

10 Ways M$ Stores will differ from Apple Stores

Microsoft announced plans to open retail stores, hoping to boost visibility of many of its products and its brand. The move seems to be an effort to mimic the success that Apple has had with its retail stores. The news is just too tempting not to have some fun with. So here are some yet-to-be-officially-revealed details about the Microsoft stores.

Read the rest muahahahaha.com post here.

Micro$oft's Bach on M$ Retail Stores

Q: Can you give us your thoughts on moving into retail? You guys have a lot of important partners, especially who resell products from your [Entertainment and Devices Division]...

Bach: "The way you have to put this in context is you have to think of it as just a natural evolution of what's going on in the market and it's a natural evolution of what's going on as we develop our brand.

Read the rest here.

So, M$ tries to promote their brand? To who? Don't they supposedly own 99% of the computing world? Are there any people left on this planet not knowing them? Whatever M$. Whatever.

Micro$oft's Bach on Vista, XBOX, etc.

High school students attending Microsoft's annual Minority Student Day Friday quizzed Microsoft's entertainment and devices chief about some of Microsoft's touchiest issues, including the travails of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and its Zune music player.

During his 30-minute address to 150 students at a Microsoft conference center in Redmond and an additional 1,100 gathered at Microsoft satellite offices across the United States, Robbie Bach outlined a familiar refrain about his company: Microsoft is making moves to connect consumers to information they want from wherever they are.

Most students listened attentively, sometimes whispering to each other.

But during the question-and-answer period that followed Bach's remarks, they put Bach on the defensive

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Read the rest here.

Rare octuplet births

Late last month, a team of 46 doctors and nurses in the Los Angeles suburb Bellflower pulled eight babies from the belly of a 33-year-old woman. The octuplets—the second known set to have been born in the U.S.—were nine weeks premature and were delivered in just five minutes via caesarean section.

Read the full story here.

When science messes with nature you can expect nothing but trouble for the human race.

February 14th

Bye Bye. I will not miss you.

Είναι τραγικό να μη μπορείς να περιγράψεις με συγκεκριμένο τρόπο την αιτία του θυμού σου όταν σε ρωτάνε και να αισθάνεσαι αμήχανος.

Όσο δύσκολο είναι να καταλάβεις τι αισθάνεται ένας εικοσάρης που μπαίνει στο διαδικτυακό περιβάλλον, αφού πρώτα έχει βιώσει το οικογενειακό. Της ανέχειας, της μιζέριας, της γκρίνιας, της αδιαφορίας, του σκυλάδικου, της καμίας ευκαιρίας, του υποκριτικού καθωσπρεπισμού.

Μίας κοινωνίας που τον… παίρνει απ’ το πρωί ως το βράδυ, για να του δώσει έως και εφτακόσια ευρώ, εφ’ όσον η ταρίφα αρχίζει από το τίποτα.

Μίας κοινωνίας πενηντάρηδων και βάλε που σκυλοβρίζονται, αλληλοκλέβονται, αλληλοσκοτώνονται, σαπίζουν από το πρωί για να καληνυχτίσουν αλλήλους το βράδυ και να επαναλάβουν τα ίδια μόλις χαράξει.

Read the full post here.

Go Cuba. Go Cuba. GO!

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant of the Linux computer operating system this week in the latest front of the communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony.

The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana computer conference on "technological sovereignty" and is central to the Cuban government's desire to replace the Microsoft software running most of the island's computers.

The government views the use of Microsoft systems, developed by U.S.-based Microsoft Corp, as a potential threat because it says U.S. security agencies have access to Microsoft codes.

Read the rest here.

Another one rides the Linux train of success. Where is our greek apathetic lethargic idiotic government? At Micro$oft's arms. This greek modern tragedy beats every single ancient one, no doubt.

Micro$oft's Retail Stores

Microsoft to follow Apple with its own family of retail stores

Microsoft is planning to launch a number of new Microsoft-branded retail stores, according to a company press release issued late in the day on February 12.

The press release announced the appointment of David Porter, a new Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Retail Stores. Formerly with Dreamworks Animation and Wal-mart, Porter starts his new job at Microsoft on February 16.

Read the rest here.

Whatever. This is going to be another Micro$oft failure added to their failures list along Zune, Internet Explorer, XBOX, Vista, etc.

Still, its going to be fun to watch how many billions they are going to lose over this ;)

NVIDIA Ion canon

NVIDIA at a press conference in Taiwan today provided early details of launch plans for the first systems based on its Ion platform. The company's mainboard chipset manager Drew Henry says the first system based on the architecture, which integrates the GeForce 9400M with Atom processors, will ship in spring but will be a "very small, affordable" desktop instead of a netbook or other portable. NVIDIA declines to say which company is making the system but says won't have any relation to the black, generic concept desktop used to showcase the design.

Read the rest here.

While most people claim this to go inside a Mac mini, I think we may end up seeing this inside the new Apple TV instead. Now, if only would combine Apple TV + Mac mini into a new product, it would be THE Apple product to own in 2009 and beyond!

Formula 1 Red Bull RB5

This is very very interesting.



I mean can you imagine how the races will go after this will become standard across all racing cars?

OMG.

Read about the RB5 here.

CERN restarts The Experiment in September

GENEVA (Reuters) - The giant particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions will now be restarted in September to allow time for repairs, not the summer as planned, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) said.

In a statement late on Monday, CERN said the first particle collisions would take place in October, following repairs and the installation of new safety features to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest and most complex machine ever built.

Read the rest here.

Ballmer says : Go Vista now!

But Ballmer's desire to get enterprises to switch to Vista has me wondering what's so bad about Windows XP. Is it really such an awful operating system that every company should switch?

No way.

I realize Ballmer has a vested financial interest in seeing more companies switch to Vista, but I'm a firm believer that they should stick to XP until Windows 7 is released and all the kinks are worked out. That's why I only use Vista when I must.
It's not that I hate Vista, I just think that it suffers from too many issues to justify using it. It's too resource-intensive and I don't want to buy a new computer to optimize its performance. But I can (and do) run XP on my Asus Eee PC, as well as an older machine that isn't even capable of running Vista.

Read the rest here.

Interesting read and didn't expect that from Micro$oft's own lovers. Things are changing? Nah... It just that every single paid site out there craves for page hits.

Micro$oft Commandment: You shall not go to Linux

Microsoft’s Windows was too unstable for Intel. It gave them blue screens of death and other issues. Intel then decided to port the software to GNU/Linux, so Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer immediately commissioned a lobby to stop this (shades of Wal-Mart and Dell [1, 2]). The goal was to ensure GNU/Linux is not “making further inroads.”

Read the rest here.

Yeah, I can understand the monopoly company going against a tiny zero something movement which supposedly doesn't worth according to Windows trolls out there.

Guess what? The bosses over at M$ think otherwise and boy oh boy don't they act otherwise as well...

Windows 7 sickness

Everywhere I look at the moment, it’s concentrated on the next version of Windows. But let’s get a grip people; we’ve seen pretty much all we’re going to see in the beta version, and yes, there are some exciting things in there, but nothing to get too excited about.

A colleague of mine told me something which puts this perfectly into perspective.

“People will read about Britney Spears, more than they will read about Darfur.”

Read the rest here.

Well, the only thing thats annoying about Windows 7 its that people loving it despite the fact that its actually Windows Vista SP2. Whatever.

iPhone = portable gaming heaven

Dedicated mobile platforms such as the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP still dominate the market, but the iPhone and iPod touch could soon encroach on their territory. For one thing, it's a lot easier to become a game developer for the iPhone than the DS or PSP, and more important, games on the iPhone are significantly cheaper. Apple already has 4,000 of them in the iTunes app store; all are under $10, with the majority under $5. Compare that to cartridges for the DS and PSP in the $20-to-$35 range, and you can see why the iPhone and touch are getting such gaming attention.

Read the full story here.

And this is from a company that supposedly doesn't get games at all... If only Apple would do the same for the Mac platform ;)

Micro$oft's Hypno-Toad job position

OK, so Microsoft acknowledges that open source is a competitor. Pop quiz - what’s the Redmond giant going to do about open source? It’s hard to see the company making a version of Windows available for free (that said, developing nations can pick up Windows for next to nothing). Then there’s that small but important point of money.

I’m willing to bet that this job consists of little more than coming up with reports and surveys that show how great Windows is and how much Linux sucks. Look closely enough at the job description and you’ll see it:

- Create a rational set of proof points that promote Microsoft’s comparative value
- Build a fact-based marketing plan that articulates the Windows Client value proposition to partners and customers

Read the full story here.

Micro$oft and its people are evil

Of course good and evil are relative terms depending on who you ask. For example for some people out there Superman is evil as well :P

In any case, if anyone in their right mind, REALLY believes that Micro$oft is an innocent company, keep reading.

PREVIOUSLY IN THIS Web site, we exposed the origins of Microsoft AstroTurfing and people who were responsible for that. James Plamondon was among them and he had received the blessing from the very top chiefs, including Bill Gates who supported this type of behaviour. In fact, he refers to it as a requirement in some other internal correspondence.

Today’s exhibit, Exhibit plex_2456 [PDF], contains the accompanying notes from a presentation delivered by James Plamondon and his colleague, Marshall Goldberg. These are the transcripts from a presentation they both gave. The exhibit is 66-page long and we have it as full text at the bottom.

Due to the scale of this exhibit, we wish to draw attention to particular parts of it. They explain Microsoft’s strategy which relates very well to things that we see occurring to this very date.

This is a big read. Take it easy. Don't act foolish. Its all true. These are known things all those years and thats why Micro$oft has so many court cases of being monopoly and all that.

MICRO$OFT and its people are F-CKED up.

WebKit ftw

I have been using WebKit since it first came out. Its my favorite platform while plugged on the internet. And boy oh boy, don't they make the internet a better place. Firefox and Opera people all competing with WebKit people in order to stay sharp. At long freaking last, Microsoft with Windows 7 is going to play catch up as well.

But guess what? WebKit is going to make internet once again MUCH more interesting place.

Read more here.

Example 1.
Example 2.
Example 3.

If you cannot see those, use up-to-date WebKit capable browsers and you are set.

If everything will go as planned, this is going to be AWESOME.

Google's Gmail goes up

If Google's Gmail growth rate rises to, say, 46% over 2009, it could reach approximately 43 million unique U.S. visitors by the end of the year. And if Windows Live Hotmail continues to bleed visitors at a rate of, say, 3%, it will finish the year with around 42 million unique visitors per month.

Read the rest here.

Wow! I am amazed by this. What do you know? After all sheep can wake up, in some occasions. Well, that is IF they will continue to use Gmail over the crappy Live services that is.

10 pro-Linux responses

If you’re a Linux enthusiast like me, you’ve probably tried to convert a few people over to Linux from another operating system. Even though you succeed many times, there are always a few ‘geniuses’ out there who need some real persuading to switch over to Linux.

So here are some quick and simple things about Linux you can point out to your potential convert.

Read the responses here.

You know that I am sucker for Linux and I wish for it to take over Windows in the majority of desktop and laptop computers out there. I can still wish, no? Take your Windows 7 and its variants out of my face. Begone M$ sheep.

Jennifer Figge female hero

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.

Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean -- a dream she'd had since the early 1960s, when a stormy trans-Atlantic flight got her thinking she could don a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed.

Jennifer Figge became the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds.

Read the rest here.

She is a tough father f_cker ;)

Observe and Report

Seth Rogen rocks. He is The Man. Every single movie he is in, I love it. This is his up and coming movie...



Cannot wait to watch this.

Tractors vs Greek Democracy = 0-1

I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!

I wish all the greek people would have the guts to say this and act accordingly.

Can you not see the fucking difference between our greek protesting travesties and what people experience in other countries?

Let me help you:



Now GET MAD! Greek a-holes.

Apple's continuous rally

Apple is sitting on an enormous cash position of better than $28 billion.

This is a company that hasn't made significant acquisitions, but it certainly can buy just about anything it wants to. Or buy back stock. Or offer a dividend. But here's the thing: In recessionary times, cash is always king, and Apple has a mountain of it. But the company's business is also surging. It's an incredibly powerful one-two financial punch not replicated by any other company, to this degree, that I can think of.

Last quarter's earnings report was a financial OMG moment for so many skittish Apple investors wondering what market research to believe, and whether this company had some economic elixir that made it immune to the recession that was killing everyone else.

Read the rest here.

Princess!

Today's entry is a collection shared by photographer Peter Carr, from an event in Liverpool, England last year. Said Peter: "As part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan's Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol of the city but instead we got a spider. The total cost of the event was £1.8 million and caused some complaints about how the funds could better be used. It also attracted protests from arachnophobe groups about how it would terrify some people. Despite these complaints the event drew in over 200,000 people in the few days it was on and produced something wondrous that got everyone in the region talking." All photos and captions courtesy Peter Carr, who has agreed to answer questions in the comments below.

Read the rest here.

Watch a video below.

Windows Multitouch = New oxymoron

We've spent some time with Windows 7 Beta's new touch and multitouch features this week, and came away largely disappointed. It's not that they don't work, at least on occasion, it's that they don't really provide a comprehensive or pleasurable method for using a computer. The primary enhancements to the OS that really make touch usage possible include a taller taskbar, pinch to zoom and tap-and-drag scrolling. There's a fancy new onscreen keyboard that's actually usable, and those quick-swipe gestures from Vista remain for forward, back, copy, paste, undo and redo.

It sounds like a lot, but really adds up to very little. Interactions are inconsistent from program to program, including Microsoft applications, gestures seem to work when you don't want them, and don't work when you need them, and at least 50 percent of the OS is still too small to use with touch -- making the improvements to touchability of the rest of it slightly pointless.

Read the rest here and watch the video as well... Great for laughs!

Is Canada going to Think Open?

Canada has a Request for Information (RFI) related to No-Charge Licensed Software (typically referred to as Free and Open Source Software or FOSS and also applicable to freeware). For the purpose of the RFI, No Charge Licensed Software means Licensed Software that is available at no charge for the Licensed Software and is typically made available as a free download from the Internet. No Charge Licensed Software may also have No Charge Software Support Services (NCSSS) available at no charge from the Internet.

Read the rest here.

All while our greek government spreads the rotten ECDL and Micro$oft solutions all over the place.

spit@greek politicians

Congratulations to Brazil

Userful, ThinNetworks, and Positivo today announced that they have been selected to supply 324,000 virtualized desktops to schools in all of Brazil's 5,560 municipalities.

This initiative will provide computer access to millions of children throughout Brazil. It is a historical achievement being: the world’s largest ever virtual desktop deployment; the world’s largest ever desktop Linux deployment; and a new record low-cost for PCs with the PC sharing hardware and software costing less than $50 per seat.

Read the rest of the story here.

If only more countries would go this way asap!

CIA spies ftw

Are you martial arts master?

Do you speak and write in many languages?

Do you rape people?

Then go and work for the CIA. Job position is guaranteed!

According to an affidavit signed by a State Department security investigator, in the past two years Warren allegedly drugged and then raped two Algerian women. Though the CIA won't confirm it, numerous U.S. government officials acknowledged to NEWSWEEK the revelation, first reported by ABC News correspondent Brian Ross, that Warren was serving in Algiers as CIA station chief.

Read the rest here.

roflmao @ greek TV news

I mean we are good for laughs, aren't we? They were spreading left and right that India will make a laptop which will cost ~8 euro (10 US dollars). What the fuck is wrong with the greek reporters?

First of all, that 10 dollars laptop is OLD news. Second of all, it will cost 100 dollars and not 10. Third of all, did I mention that its oooooollllldddd news?

Besides there are already alternatives out. Why wait for it anyway?

Most greek people are STILL living in the middle ages when its time for technology. Hey, but don't let people like me interrupt their great professional reporting.

We are so proud

Thanks to the lovely Pavlos and his iPhone, AppleSeed's fame travelled in the galaxy far far away... USA!

Enough of words. The picture explains everything :)

Tokyo!

I watched the trailer here the other day.



But I watched it once again in full HD from Apple here. One word: UNBELIEVABLE !

I cannot wait to watch this movie. This seems like one for the records.

2009: What a year for sci-fi

GI Joe?



Check!

Star Trek?



Check!

Combined with the rest of my posts plus tons of more movies coming this way, like say Wolverine, we are going to live in movies heaven this year ;)

I was taken by Liam Neeson

TAKEN stars Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills, an ex-government operative who has less than four days to find his kidnapped daughter, who has been taken on her first day of vacation in Paris.

Watch the trailer here.

If you live in Europe perhaps you already saw the movie. If you didn't watch this movie, please do it NOW.

Liam Neeson is surprisingly fresh in this kick ass action drama movie orgasm. HIGHLY recommended. If you don't like it you can rot in hell. Get lost.

Get Furious

How about no pants at all? New model. Old parts. Loving it!



Old story.

I feel like SpongeBob

You know... Wet square pants and all that.



That was jaw dropping even for Optimus Prime ;)