For those who don't recall - he was the ubber-fanboy who offered in a string of emails to take the job as CEO when Steve still had the letter "i" next to it. Later Larry Ellison told him "he could have the job". After a gleeful response from Mike, they sent a follow-up email waving him off and warning him about Apple's campus security.
Playstation and XBox can be turned into jokes. Wii - IS - a joke. Difference!
The biggest anoyance is the lack of proper pronunciation. I don't have to imagine long the amount of times irk-ed Nintendo fanboys will be explaining it to non-gamers, or the people with the purse strings this holiday season.
Probably as many who scolded others on such great names like INXS, Sade, And Prince's former name / mark / doodle (whose best pronunciation was "pbbbbt" by a Denver radio station DJ who refused to play along with the stupidity).
My future console's name may not be as "different" but I won't be muttering it at my feet in mixed company either.
I'm not saying this is pure fanboy pap, (which is California passive-agressive for pre-announcing the opposite) but the summary could have read:
"Gosh Microsoft - I love your product so much, take some more money from me! It's so swell you didn't get enough from me earlier - so here's some more! No no - take it! Buy yourself something pretty! What a great bunch of guys. Sniff!"
Of course - this is exactly what the base-unit purchasers are doing anyway so it's not without precident now is it?
And as far as the headline? Yes - the last time I went out on a date with the 360, that cheap whore wouldn't even split the check. It just pretended it was a non-sentient lump of plastic and wires when the waiter came around. BITCH.
I suggest the same punishment that should be executed for sernior al-queda members - if we don't blow them up with Preditor drones first.
Slice the body into small chunks and place said-chunks into glass molds for keepsakes and paperweights. It's a great conversation piece and would defray the cost of body disposal. No muss no fuss and my papers stay on the desk where they belong.
Why should snake heads and scorpions have all the fun?
No mention of "one more thing" at the end of the presentation. The lighting was also all wrong and there wasn't a 50 foot high media screen behind him demonstrating the new land purchase. Plus he wasn't even on stage - what's up with THAT?
Finally and the rumors from ThinkSecret.com on the construction of an in-orbit death-star battlestation were off by a large margin.
Children can provide -"A"- purpose to life. Children are not -MY- purpose in life.
I'd rather start a (or several) business(es) - create jobs & wealth for others, and if I'm -very- lucky perhaps leave some art behind that a few people might find some value in. It's how you build and devote your life and apportion the time. I'm hoping to free up more time in the future so I can enjoy my game collections. But I've even put casual dating on hold until my first 50 canvases are painted. Relationships and everything else is a HUGE time (and money) suck. Once my goals are met, I'll move-on - but what other people keep harping on about "to be happy" is mere shorthand to pissing me off.
What I'm doing -now- makes me happy. Everything else is just time & energy expended before you're dead and gone. So - please - spend your time - not mine, and enjoy what you have while you have it.
Actually I thought that was hillarious. There's something about watching self-important fucks getting nuked on a public forum that brings a smile to my face.
That's why slashdot is such a great read as well come to think of it...
Yes but we all know - if they could have played video games - Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Pol-Pot would all be hardcore Grand Theft Auto and Doom players with their crazy mad skillz.
And I emphasise "crazy" and "mad".
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"But think of the children!" - To hell with that? Who do you take me for - Michael Jackson? - you pervert!? I'm not thinking about anyone's kids thank you very much - sicko!
re:"It is highly unlikely people are going to want the hassle of moving all their files and programs to the Mac. "
Unlike the hastle of moving your files and programs from one windows box to another. My own folks are upgrading PCs soon and I'm already getting migranes from the sheer expectation of all the support-time I'm going to be putting in helping them move their files and applications.
Here's one that seems to contradict your logic - KLOV members - who park their basements and garages full of games they played in their youth have an interesting age spread:
Of course if you're going to be a hardcore game collector - it helps to have an income after 30 years of age. Some of the storage costs of the warehouse-set is more than a little significant. Now that's hardcore.
Here's a massive pile right here - let's get a close-up.
If you blog about your job - you can be fired. You weren't prevented by the govt from talking about your job - but you put yourself at-risk when you did. Your blog was protected. Your job wasn't.
In other countries govts put you in prison. Immediately. Take a look back at the Danish "free press". They published some cartoons. Some people were pissed. That's called cause and effect. A lawsuit is cause and effect. A state-firing squad is Chinese justice.
Did Digg.com spring a leak? You can actually hear the dumbshit spilling over into this place. Sounds like a freight train running over a jackass who likes to split hairs.
That's a reprint of an interview done by the San Jose Mercury News over 14 days ago.
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re:"I do not have a right to take you to court, and neither does the government"
What a lovely world you live in - here's the real one.
You can be sued for anything - at anytime - for any reason - and here's the kicker - unlike the UK? If you win - the other guy doesn't have to pay your legal expenses. Which means you could be a winner - but bankrupt. Way to go winner!
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Freedom of speech isn't the same thing as freedom from consequences - reasonable or otherwise.
There's also litigation bombs potential pertaining to libel and slander. You can choose to engage in libel and slander - but don't expect a free ride. Same thing here - you can spill the beans all you want. Just don't expect not to get a friendly reminder if the target decides to take action. And trust me - no one in this country needs to justify calling a lawyer - that's sorted out later.
I particularly love it when people cite newspapers as somehow being above the legal-fray that the little boy blogger gets.
I used to work for Pulitzer Publishing - and we used to get PILES of notifications from readers, companies, sponsers, sources - you name it. Just because there was a legal office - doesn't mean that they were playing foosball in there. We got whacked upside the head all the time. Next time you look at the local paper - check around the masthead for "corrections". Those usually are the result of an editor getting a friendly rejoinder from the legal department.
In otherwords bloggers - welcome to the club - there's plenty of legal bullshit to go around not to share. Enjoy!
Naw - you fell off the apple tree. Good try though. If you were to get away from Apple jokes then you'd have to add Atari, Commodore, Sol, the Altair, IBM Microsoft and all the rest.
At the same time the origonal team leader of the LISA telescope will be snubbed and storm off to create an overdesigned and exensive telescope called NEXT - which will be coveted by high-end astronomers, but will be panned by everyone else until it's core tech is purchased by members of the MACINTOSH telescope in which case it will usher in the 10th iteration of tech design.
Thanks for the book link. I'm a maven for corporate porn (as one s.valley author Paulina Borsook coined it - she's a great speaker btw - terrible writer) and am always looking for new print. Just a quick kudos.
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Perhaps Michael Murdock would take the job...
For those who don't recall - he was the ubber-fanboy who offered in a string of emails to take the job as CEO when Steve still had the letter "i" next to it. Later Larry Ellison told him "he could have the job". After a gleeful response from Mike, they sent a follow-up email waving him off and warning him about Apple's campus security.
One of my favorite episodes!
Eegah: "I've heard enough - I'll go beat him senseless..."
Playstation and XBox can be turned into jokes. Wii - IS - a joke. Difference!
The biggest anoyance is the lack of proper pronunciation. I don't have to imagine long the amount of times irk-ed Nintendo fanboys will be explaining it to non-gamers, or the people with the purse strings this holiday season.
Probably as many who scolded others on such great names like INXS, Sade, And Prince's former name / mark / doodle (whose best pronunciation was "pbbbbt" by a Denver radio station DJ who refused to play along with the stupidity).
My future console's name may not be as "different" but I won't be muttering it at my feet in mixed company either.
The real news on that link was the microwave breast scanner.
I wonder how many minutes it takes to defrost?
Tomorrow - the PRON!
"Uncomfortable working environment" my ass - HR - you're goin' DOWN. Um - to coin a phrase.
I'm not saying this is pure fanboy pap, (which is California passive-agressive for pre-announcing the opposite) but the summary could have read:
"Gosh Microsoft - I love your product so much, take some more money from me! It's so swell you didn't get enough from me earlier - so here's some more! No no - take it! Buy yourself something pretty! What a great bunch of guys. Sniff!"
Of course - this is exactly what the base-unit purchasers are doing anyway so it's not without precident now is it?
And as far as the headline? Yes - the last time I went out on a date with the 360, that cheap whore wouldn't even split the check. It just pretended it was a non-sentient lump of plastic and wires when the waiter came around. BITCH.
I suggest the same punishment that should be executed for sernior al-queda members - if we don't blow them up with Preditor drones first.
Slice the body into small chunks and place said-chunks into glass molds for keepsakes and paperweights. It's a great conversation piece and would defray the cost of body disposal. No muss no fuss and my papers stay on the desk where they belong.
Why should snake heads and scorpions have all the fun?
Dell should just close up shop and return the money to the shareholders.
Or at least redesign their gawdawful laptops with the wrist-warmers. Jeez you can cook an egg on those things...
No mention of "one more thing" at the end of the presentation. The lighting was also all wrong and there wasn't a 50 foot high media screen behind him demonstrating the new land purchase. Plus he wasn't even on stage - what's up with THAT?
Finally and the rumors from ThinkSecret.com on the construction of an in-orbit death-star battlestation were off by a large margin.
re:"children provide purpose to life"
Children can provide -"A"- purpose to life. Children are not -MY- purpose in life.
I'd rather start a (or several) business(es) - create jobs & wealth for others, and if I'm -very- lucky perhaps leave some art behind that a few people might find some value in. It's how you build and devote your life and apportion the time. I'm hoping to free up more time in the future so I can enjoy my game collections. But I've even put casual dating on hold until my first 50 canvases are painted. Relationships and everything else is a HUGE time (and money) suck. Once my goals are met, I'll move-on - but what other people keep harping on about "to be happy" is mere shorthand to pissing me off.
What I'm doing -now- makes me happy. Everything else is just time & energy expended before you're dead and gone. So - please - spend your time - not mine, and enjoy what you have while you have it.
Thanks for your time.
Actually I thought that was hillarious. There's something about watching self-important fucks getting nuked on a public forum that brings a smile to my face.
That's why slashdot is such a great read as well come to think of it...
Yes but we all know - if they could have played video games - Hitler, Mao, Stalin and Pol-Pot would all be hardcore Grand Theft Auto and Doom players with their crazy mad skillz.
And I emphasise "crazy" and "mad".
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"But think of the children!" - To hell with that? Who do you take me for - Michael Jackson? - you pervert!? I'm not thinking about anyone's kids thank you very much - sicko!
re:"It is highly unlikely people are going to want the hassle of moving all their files and programs to the Mac. "
Unlike the hastle of moving your files and programs from one windows box to another. My own folks are upgrading PCs soon and I'm already getting migranes from the sheer expectation of all the support-time I'm going to be putting in helping them move their files and applications.
Here's one that seems to contradict your logic - KLOV members - who park their basements and garages full of games they played in their youth have an interesting age spread:
p ?Cat=0&Board=UBB9&Number=229351&page=0&fpart=all
http://forums.webmagic.com/ubbthreads/showflat.ph
Of course if you're going to be a hardcore game collector - it helps to have an income after 30 years of age. Some of the storage costs of the warehouse-set is more than a little significant. Now that's hardcore.
re:"Killing people ain't rocket science."
Unless - you know - you use a rocket to kill someone....
Thank you.
Thank you for defining what is and isn't art for all of us.
That's one hell of a burden you have there and you're shouldering it so well. From all the gang at the office, kudos!
On with the semantical bullshit show.
Here's a massive pile right here - let's get a close-up.
If you blog about your job - you can be fired. You weren't prevented by the govt from talking about your job - but you put yourself at-risk when you did. Your blog was protected. Your job wasn't.
In other countries govts put you in prison. Immediately. Take a look back at the Danish "free press". They published some cartoons. Some people were pissed. That's called cause and effect. A lawsuit is cause and effect. A state-firing squad is Chinese justice.
Did Digg.com spring a leak? You can actually hear the dumbshit spilling over into this place. Sounds like a freight train running over a jackass who likes to split hairs.
That's a reprint of an interview done by the San Jose Mercury News over 14 days ago.
re:"I do not have a right to take you to court, and neither does the government"
What a lovely world you live in - here's the real one.
You can be sued for anything - at anytime - for any reason - and here's the kicker - unlike the UK? If you win - the other guy doesn't have to pay your legal expenses. Which means you could be a winner - but bankrupt. Way to go winner!
Freedom of speech isn't the same thing as freedom from consequences - reasonable or otherwise.
There's also litigation bombs potential pertaining to libel and slander. You can choose to engage in libel and slander - but don't expect a free ride. Same thing here - you can spill the beans all you want. Just don't expect not to get a friendly reminder if the target decides to take action. And trust me - no one in this country needs to justify calling a lawyer - that's sorted out later.
I particularly love it when people cite newspapers as somehow being above the legal-fray that the little boy blogger gets.
I used to work for Pulitzer Publishing - and we used to get PILES of notifications from readers, companies, sponsers, sources - you name it. Just because there was a legal office - doesn't mean that they were playing foosball in there. We got whacked upside the head all the time. Next time you look at the local paper - check around the masthead for "corrections". Those usually are the result of an editor getting a friendly rejoinder from the legal department.
In otherwords bloggers - welcome to the club - there's plenty of legal bullshit to go around not to share. Enjoy!
Looks like some people need VOIP badly.
A guy in Malaysia got hit with a 281 trillion dollar bill:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12247590/
And believe it or not, the phone company hasn't fessed up to an error as of yet and is threatening full criminal charges for non-payment.
What's the interest on a 281 trillion dollar loan anyway? I think only the US Treasury could tabulate it.
Naw - you fell off the apple tree. Good try though. If you were to get away from Apple jokes then you'd have to add Atari, Commodore, Sol, the Altair, IBM Microsoft and all the rest.
I thought one of the selling points of the Apple III was that it had an internal clock architecture.
Didn't plenty of early CPUs not have clocks?
At the same time the origonal team leader of the LISA telescope will be snubbed and storm off to create an overdesigned and exensive telescope called NEXT - which will be coveted by high-end astronomers, but will be panned by everyone else until it's core tech is purchased by members of the MACINTOSH telescope in which case it will usher in the 10th iteration of tech design.
There! Try to keep this lame thread going NOW.
Thanks for the book link. I'm a maven for corporate porn (as one s.valley author Paulina Borsook coined it - she's a great speaker btw - terrible writer) and am always looking for new print. Just a quick kudos.