Apple just held this event (covered at Engadget). As someone who doesn’t drink Apple’s Kool-Aid, here’s my take.
Genius this and Genius that. Genius is a recommendation engine. Which makes it more of a marketing tool than Apple might admit. Genius mixes are like Pandora, last.fm or Slacker, except it only plays [...]
For years Apple Computer users have enjoyed a sense of security and invulnerability to malware and viruses that has not been had by PC users for the greater part of a decade. In fact, Apple as a company is so comfortable with this position that much of their marketing focuses on it (e.g. the [...]
Draconian Rights Management…I think this is a more appropriate definition these days. DRM is the scourge of any computer enthusiast who expects to be able to do what he wants with his data when he wants to.
IT Enthusiasts commonly butt heads with DRM in the realms of music, movies and video games. Spore, [...]
Allow me to make one distinction before I launch into this: I like the snow. But I hate the cold. I’d also like to note that my complaints are directed toward the lower peninsula of Michigan; if the U.P. knows how to do one thing well, it’s handle the snow.
So we’ve been [...]
When it comes to outputting HD content from a PC to an HDTV, it can actually take a surprising amount of horsepower to decode and display such a large amount of data (1080p amounts to 124.416 megapixels per second of raw data). This can bring an aging media center to its knees rather quickly.
ATI [...]
High-Definition video content is the wave of the future, right? The clarity offered by these new technologies simply blows standard definition TV out of the water.
So what’s wrong with HD? Why, I’m glad you asked!
#1) Closed Standards
If it wasn’t such a closed standard, the market might be more accepting. The level of [...]
What sort of things piss me off in this world? Here’s a short list I made a while back….
People who don’t use their turn signals. Really, they’re there for a reason.
Anything prefixed by ‘i’. iPod, iTunes, iGeneralCrappyElectronics,
iI. Get over it. How about i_YourMom? Fill in the blank.
And speaking of iPods, must [...]
Remember those contests where you bought a pop and under the cap could be a prize? Or you check the inside of your cereal box and you might be a winner? These contests have almost completely disappeared, lately. Instead, companies are giving you random strings of characters and telling you to log [...]
I originally wrote this about this time in 2006. And it’s still perfectly relevant today.
It’s kind of amazing me right now. Simply put, if students put half as much effort into things like presidential elections and protecting their privacy legislatively as they put into protesting facebook, we might actually have a say in where [...]
I hate it when people use the word ‘Literally’ wrong. You can’t use it with metaphors and similes, people. That’s exactly the opposite of how it works, damnit!
I hate it when smokers flick their cigarette butts out the window of their cars. As a non-smoker, I tolerate smoky bars and having to walk past people who smell like ashtrays. I even grit my teeth as I watch people slowly kill themselves, knowing that down the road their health care costs [...]
I’m bringing my rants back, and incorporating them into my web site (which then updates to facebook). I’ll be adding some of my classic ones in over time. On to the rant!
Girls Who Get Engaged and then Post Pictures of Their Ring on Facebook
Okay, that?s nice and all that you got engaged. And [...]
I’m at it again, peoples. I’ve been saving this one up.
What’s the deal with camera phones? They take a perfectly decent phone and strap a nigh-useless camera to it. Whoop-de-fuckin’-do. You can now take a picture the size of a postage stamp. Its resolution is measured in mP…millipixels. The color quality [...]
Hold onto your panties–it’s time for another rant.
I’ve about had it with the illegal immigrants who keep demanding for rights they aren’t entitled to, and the liberal douchebags who keep backing them up. ILLEGAL immigrants. Have those people forgotten what the definition of ‘illegal’ is?
In America, it’s an act that is done [...]
Has anyone taken the time lately to look at who we iconify as a society? In other words, who among us reaps the benefits of fame and fortune, and who of them deserves it?
Some people are famous for having money. Some have money for being famous. Others come by both at once. [...]
It’s kind of amazing me right now. Simply put, if students put half as much effort into things like presidential elections and protecting their privacy legislatively as they put into protesting facebook, we might actually have a say in where this country is headed. Of course, I think that direction would still suck, but that’s [...]