Okay, people, settle down. This is just getting way out of hand. Someone ACTUALLY purchased a PS2 for $5100. Yes, that’s $4700 over the MSRP. It’s just a new game console. This is crazy. I don’t even want to be around this Christmas. I could see this kind of hysteria if it, like, cured AIDS or Cancer or something. But a gaming system? That’s just retarded.
Note: If you use Netscape on either platform, the images below probably seem to be on top of eachother. This is due to a lack of proper CSS implementation in Netscape. This will be fixed soon, however don’t hold your breath. The images aren’t that important, anyway.
What’s that, you say? You say Macster’s been out for a long time, and it works well? That might be true, however the official Napster client for Mac is now downloadable, and it was co-developed by the Blackhole Media guys that do Macster. I’ve read some people bitching about that fact that it’s not carbonized, but whatever. If you use OSX, use Macster. But the actual Napster clients seems to work better (although it did crash once). Downloads are snappier, and file searches seem to run quicker.
Hey… I’ve got a great idea… let’s get a whole bunch of geeks together, and put them on a shirt. People who post on techsites need their own t-shirts, too, I guess. Jesus. What the fuck is this shit? Like I need a fucking shirt to let people know that I post on a fucking website. Fuck. And with Bill Gates in the background, too. How stupid is that? Gladiators, HA. Whatever. Billy boy is the one with all the money, not you guys. As far as I can tell, he’s won already.
// image removed because Netscape CSS sucks.. the cars I’m talking about are the Pontiac Aztek and Hyundai Santa Fe //
What the hell were these people thinking? Did they have a contest to see who could make the mot butt-fucking ugly SUVs in the world? I mean, the Excursion isn’t pretty, but these two things make it look like a fucking Rolls-Royce. Jesus. If you or anyone you know buys either one of these damn things, let me know so I can punch you in the fucking face. Fuck.
The Panoram PV290 DSK is compatible with nearly all computing platforms including Apple Mac OS, HP, SGI, Sun and Windows/NT.
Wow. I can’t even imagine what Quake looks like on this thing. Jesus.
Just a little bit of a rant here: I’ve installed OSX Public Beta on a couple of machines. The longest it’s ever taken? About 12 minutes (on a PowerBook G3 400). The shortest it’s ever taken? About 8 minutes (on a G4 450). I’m installing Windows 2000 Professional Edition (like there’s any other…) on VirtualPC on that same Powerbook, and it’s taken over an hour and a half. I understand that VPC is to blame for SOME of this, but jesus. Even Setup says that it will take between 45 minutes to an hour. Fuck that shit. Damn. I don’t care if OSX does flop. I’m never switching to Windows. I’ll use my G4 and OS9 forever if I have to.
From CNN:
Palm announced a new web-gadget: the Audrey. It looks an awful lot like a toilet bowl with an 8″ screen. Will you buy one? Not me. I already have an iMac, I don’t need something LESS powerful, with a tiny monitor to do FEWER things, for only a couple hundred bucks cheaper (they’re $499-$599, depending on the color… I don’t understand, either).
I guess what I think about when I see another one of these things really isn’t whether they’ll sell (they won’t), but how much of a bitch it would be if these damn things became commonplace, at least from a development standpoint. We have enough problems with 4 major browsers (well, 2 MS browsers, if you believe some people) to code for, let alone potentially millions of these things. All of them happen to run their own bastardized versions of god-knows-what, adhering to HTML standards I don’t think, and they don’t even really have video cards, at least not good ones. I’ve viewed my personal design site on an iOpener, and it took FOREVER to load, and looked like shit.
At least they might reduce the amount of shitty Flash out there.
HA. Right.
Sun announced today that its earnings were about 30 cents a share, exceeding the 26 cent forecast, so everybody’s happy about that. Apple’s earnings were exactly the same, and yet everybody is clamoring to explain that it’s the end of the world. So because analysts THOUGHT Apple was going to do better, and THEY were wrong, Apple’s stock gets devalued by everyone? WTF? Can someone explain that to me? I just don’t get it.
Then again, maybe it’s Tai’s fault. :>
From MSNBC:
From the day the IBM PC was released in 1981, analysts have been predicting Apples death. When Microsoft released Windows, and again when they got it to work in version 3.1, analysts predicted Apples demise. When it was bleeding red ink in the mid-90s the obituaries were written.
Nice. Not only is there a light at the end of this relatively small tunnel, there might not even be a tunnel at all.
