OMG.
New MacBook Pro line
Upgraded MacBook Air line
Snow Leopard
New iPhone 3GS
The final Safari 4 version
Along, with the silent (again) MacBook White upgrade the other day, the new Apple laptops are kicking ass but taking no names.
Watch the keynote here.
Sorry Micro$oft, Nokia, Palm, et al people but here is a video clip by MC Hammer for you and your fans:
Cheers.
Monday, June 08, 2009
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Opera 10 beta
Opera 10 beta at long last its here.
It was like a year ago where I was telling you in a video that I like Opera but its UI has a lot to be desired. Well, guess what?
Love this new UI. At long last it looks like a Mac application, short of ;)
Anyway, give Opera 10 beta a try. You may love it!
It was like a year ago where I was telling you in a video that I like Opera but its UI has a lot to be desired. Well, guess what?
Love this new UI. At long last it looks like a Mac application, short of ;)
Anyway, give Opera 10 beta a try. You may love it!
Star Wars
This is how the Star Wars EPIC SAGA could continue into the theaters. Do you hear me Mr. George Lucas? This is how you MUST continue your EPIC SAGA of Star Wars.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Goodbye General Motors (and Opel)
It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive. Oh -- and that wouldn't start falling apart after two years. GM stubbornly fought environmental and safety regulations. Its executives arrogantly ignored the "inferior" Japanese and German cars, cars which would become the gold standard for automobile buyers. And it was hell-bent on punishing its unionized workforce, lopping off thousands of workers for no good reason other than to "improve" the short-term bottom line of the corporation. Beginning in the 1980s, when GM was posting record profits, it moved countless jobs to Mexico and elsewhere, thus destroying the lives of tens of thousands of hard-working Americans. The glaring stupidity of this policy was that, when they eliminated the income of so many middle class families, who did they think was going to be able to afford to buy their cars? History will record this blunder in the same way it now writes about the French building the Maginot Line or how the Romans cluelessly poisoned their own water system with lethal lead in its pipes.
Read the rest here by the amazing Michael Moore.
Also, read the news about GM here and Opel here.
Monday, June 01, 2009
The Empire strikes back?
Whatever. I really can't stand people that push anything Micro$oft related nowadays. Bing this. Zune HD that. Windows Se7en blah-blah.
Can't people REALLY see what M$ is doing? Cheap thrills. Cheap theatrics. Cheap anything. Except their products prices and offerings. Can't anyone else see that? But now, I will let Windows Se7en Starter Edition speak for itself.
You sheep make me sick. Please roll over and die. Or get a new "haircut".
Can't people REALLY see what M$ is doing? Cheap thrills. Cheap theatrics. Cheap anything. Except their products prices and offerings. Can't anyone else see that? But now, I will let Windows Se7en Starter Edition speak for itself.
You sheep make me sick. Please roll over and die. Or get a new "haircut".
Bad news for Apple and IBM
Sigh.
I just wish that Commodore would still be around to kick asses and take no names. Nah... Not going to happen. People and companies are no longer demanding high quality products with heart and soul built-in. Windows monopoly clearly shows how pathetic and lame we, the human race, truly is.
Amiga 500 ftw... For Life!
I just wish that Commodore would still be around to kick asses and take no names. Nah... Not going to happen. People and companies are no longer demanding high quality products with heart and soul built-in. Windows monopoly clearly shows how pathetic and lame we, the human race, truly is.
Amiga 500 ftw... For Life!
It's better with Windows
NOT!
Read the rest here.
Not that I had any respect for ASUS or Micro$oft in the first place but I know that you love them both such sheep that you are. Begone pests.
Microsoft and ASUS in May 2009 launched a website to promote Windows on the ASUS EeePC. Traditionally, ASUS has installed their own customized Linux distribution on these machines. ASUS didn’t do a very good job with that distribution, and thus customers believed the machines didn’t work very well. Some of them installed Windows on these machines, adding nearly one third of the purchase price on top of what the hardware costs. Windows did not run very well either.
Then Microsoft entered negotiations with manufacturers of netbooks like the ASUS EeePC. They demanded that netbooks shall never exceed a certain amount of power. They must remain slow little things, and if manufacturers agree, they would be able to buy Windows licenses from Microsoft at lower prices. Needless to say, manufacturers shifted and are now shipping (a butchered version?) of Windows XP on these machines. It was all a great big tactical move for manufacturers to force Microsoft to lower the price on Windows XP licenses — or that is my opinion. They were never interested in doing a good job with Linux.
Now Microsoft and ASUS launched a very misleading website that basically says that the software ASUS themselves shipped with the EeePC is crap, and that people should install Windows on their netbooks. This is very sleazy.
Read the rest here.
Not that I had any respect for ASUS or Micro$oft in the first place but I know that you love them both such sheep that you are. Begone pests.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
David Lynch Interview Project
The Man Himself. Mr. David Lynch!
Read and watch the video here as well as visit the official site of the project here.
Unbelievable! David Lynch once again raises the bar, of life.
On June 1, legendary movie-maker David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire) will present Interview Project, a 121-part documentary series featuring 3-5 minute portraits of a ordinary (and sometimes extraordinary) Americans from all over the country.
Commissioned by Lynch, and compiled by a team of filmmakers who criss-crossed the states gathering dozens of personal histories, the series -- to be premiered every three days throughout the year until next June -- is available only at interviewproject.davidlynch.com, but you'll find an exclusive first look at the very Lynchian project -- introduced by the man himself at Hollywood Insider!
Read and watch the video here as well as visit the official site of the project here.
Unbelievable! David Lynch once again raises the bar, of life.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Microsoft's OS Boogie
So I'm discussing column topics with my Cranky Geeks cohort, Sebastian "Did-you-know-I-was-taught-guitar-by-Joe-Satriani?" Rupley. He tells me something that doesn't surprise me in the least: "Anything written about Windows 7 right now sends readership numbers through the roof!"
It's always been like that: Readers are generally interested in nothing but the latest operating system from Microsoft. This is especially true during the period of rave reviews that precedes the actual shipment of the real product. I suppose I could install Win7 RC1 and write a useless review talking about how fast it is when you have 20GB of main memory and the OS and ten apps are all in RAM. But so what? It's a "candidate," not the final product. It is, by definition, zombie code that people are supposed to find fault with, not praise.
These public betas are publicity stunts that really accomplish very little. Has anyone noticed the similarities to what happened with Windows Vista?
Read the rest here.
I mean wtf? Dvorak nailed it once again. We are living in very strange times indeed.
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