Fuck Napster. End Of Fucking Story.

alternateorg on October 4, 2000

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: everyone in the world is a sellout:

‘With its fate hanging in the balance, Napster Inc. has floated a possible solution that could end its legal battle with the Recording Industry Association of America: Turn the free service into a pay service.’
(Read the entire article here, but believe me, there’s nothing else interesting in it.)

Fuck that shit. Can I get a show of hands as to how many people are going to PAY to use Napster? The cat’s already out of the bag, and not only that, but both the cat and the bag were free of charge. Say goodbye to our beloved Napster, people. It’s too bad that Macster is carbonized, too, because Napster will be dead before OSX even comes out. Give me one reason to think otherwise, and I’ll gladly listen. But for right now, as long as the courts and the RIAA agree to this ‘pay-to-play’ bullshit, Napster is as good as dead to me. I’ll have to get that god-damned, slow-as-shit Gnutella working on my Mac.

Napster Confusion

alternateorg on October 3, 2000

If you want to know the honest-to-god truth, I’m kinda sick of covering Napster items. But this article I had to comment on….

‘…Napster is essentially a criminal organization that exists to help people steal. Now the question is, is there a legal use of Napster?’


Of course not, you buffoon. Jesus. The problem here is not with Napster being illegal, but with the copyright laws in the first place. Napster wouldn’t be illegal if it WEREN’T ILLEGAL. Get it? It shouldn’t be illegal.

This part of the story is the best: ‘Hollywood sued Sony over the VCR, a home-recording technology, alleging it would illegally cut into their profits’ Now, did you NOT know that the VCR is a home-recording technology? How stupid do you guys over at ABCNews.com think we are, anyway?

(By the way…the bolding of the section of that quote in the last paragraph was added by me…also, I specifically tried not to use the word ‘fuck’ in this post, seeing as how 7 of the last 10 posts contained some usage of it, usually more than once. As you can see, it would have fit nicely right into the ‘you buffoon’ statement above. But, I stopped myself, all for you dedicated readers.)

Fire! Fire!

alternateorg on October 1, 2000

Are you using MacOS X Public Beta yet? If not, then fucking start. And don’t give me any of that ‘But I’m on a PC’ crap. Go buy a $800 iMac and fucking install it.

But I digress. I just found a cool site: Xappeal.org. Despite the fact that it sounds a little like a porn site, it’s actually a place to get info on OSX, carbon, cocoa, and the like. I just downloaded a piece of software called ‘Fire’ that lets me use my AIM account to talk with not only other AIMers, but other IM client users as well. So I can use this carbonized software to talk to you on your ICQ client, for example, using my AIM screenname and password. It’s rad. It’s a little like Jabber, only it’s for Mac, and it works. Try it out. I dig it. The icons could use some work, though.

The Shit Keeps Piling On

alternateorg on September 29, 2000

So Apple’s stock dropped 48% in morning trading today. So who fucking cares (I actually do care) ? Sorry to reiterate what 808 wrote yesterday but this gets me fucking going. The following quotes (of course from one source) are from an AP story that I am sure is being used by every fucking so-called journalists and form of media. These fuckers wouldn’t think of coming up with their own stories, now would they?

“We saw this coming,” said Steve Fortuna, a PC hardware analyst with Merrill Lynch. “We clearly were not pushing Apple stock with our clients and were recommending Gateway and Dell.”

Maybe if there was a “PC hardware analyst with Merrill Lynch” that advised their clients to buy Apple and not Gateway and Dell the world would be a better place.

“They had no real new products, tough comparisons, and a stale upgrade cycle,” he said.

Okay, they had no real new products, tough comparisons, and a stale upgrade cycle?!?! What the fuck!!!!!

Apple recently introduced a snazzy-looking Power Mac G4 Cube – a “nice machine but too expensive,” Fortuna said. “Most consumers are looking for a $899 PC at Best Buy and not a $1799 machine.”

Yah, most non-thinking asshole consumers that want a fucking shitty product will take a $899 PC at Best Buy and whatever crock of shit you feed them.

Sorry about the word fucking- but I like that word, it has feeling.

As the Apple Fades?

alternateorg on September 28, 2000

First of all… What the fuck is afterhours trading and who thought of that crap?

For anyone who doesn’t know, Apple stock dipped almost 50% this evening in after hours trading… and of course the Media is running around publishing the general down fall of Apple crap.
The “little” stock dip this evening has caused the genius journalistic minds over at zdnet to publish crap like this.

Ok, so who thinks ZDnet is trying to buy hits using an ‘Apple has died’ story? I do. I hear that Newsweek sells twice as many issues everytime they have an Apple story or article gracing the cover… I suppose that the journalists feel they “know” better than anyone what companies are still “living” and which ones are just now “dying”. How could you live with yourself publishing utter bullshit like that??? I couldn’t.

I would buy serious loads of Apple stock tomorrow morning if I could get some money together, but as usual I can’t.


I think i’ts just another good week to be at Apple. 🙂

PS2 Ships Late

alternateorg on September 28, 2000

‘Sony Computer Entertainment America, the company’s U.S. unit, said late Wednesday that it would only be able to dole out 500,000 PS2 video game units on its Oct. 26 North American launch date, half of what the firm had expected to ship.'(read the whole article here)

Damn. I was so hoping that my plan to wait and buy a PS2 for both Playstation games and DVD playing was going to happen sooner than later. Oh well. I’m still going to wait for it…. Maybe I should just wait for the Nintento cube thing… After all, I like Zelda more than GranTurismo…

'What Would Jakob Do?' How About This…

alternateorg on September 27, 2000

Do you want a Jakob Nielson mousepad? (see image below:)

Can mine say ‘Jakob Nielson Is A Cocksucking Whore?’

This part’s even better: ‘ Suffering doubt when designing for the Web? Never fear! This mousepad provides you all the inspiration necessary for ensuring you design correctly.’

Kiss my fucking ass. ‘Design Correctly?’ Fuck you.

Graphic Designer's Aesthetic Judgment Clouded By Desire To Use New Photoshop Plug-In

alternateorg on September 27, 2000

The Onion is the best newspaper ever:

‘The aesthetic judgment of Paul Gaskill, a graphic designer working on a brochure for Valley View Apartments, was “severely clouded” by a desire to use a new Adobe Photoshop plug-in, coworkers at Blue Moon Design said Monday.’

“It happens more than you’d think around here,” Mahaffey said. “With Marty [Boyd], it was the blur features. ‘Motion blur,’ ‘gaussian blur,’ ‘radial blur’–you name it, he’d blur it. With Rebecca [Almeida], it was the Alien Skin Eye Candy effects. The temptation is always going to be there.”

‘Alarmingly, Gaskill’s journey of graphic-effects discovery may only be beginning. The wave effect, Mahaffey said, is just one of hundreds of PhotoFrame 2.0 options. With the plug-in, users can easily make an image glow, cast a shadow, and create charcoal outlines. Mahaffey said he expects to see many of these effects surface in Gaskill’s work in the near future.’

You Have a Fast Computer. Now You're Fucked.

alternateorg on September 26, 2000

According to this article, if you have a fast computer (ie, 933 Mhz or above), and you run Windows ME or maybe 98, you might experience data loss when shutting down. Apparently, the OS doesn’t have time to save the contents of the cache on the ATA100 large capacity drive before the system shuts off. I wonder if this has something to do with MSWME being the shittiest OS ever made. I dunno, though. What’s worse is that the vendor of the offending machines ‘asks not to be named.’ Great. There’s a company that cares about its customers. And Microsoft insists that it’s a hardware problem, not an OS problem. It seems like no one can take responsibility for their crappy products nowadays:

‘… not specific to any operating system but has to do with larger hard drive caches in combination with fast processors,” says Greg Sullivan, lead product manager of Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition.

Microsoft on Thursday sent patches for both Windows 98 SE and Windows Me to vendors with systems at 933 MHz and higher.

While insisting the problem was not related to any specific OS, Microsoft acknowledges systems running Windows 2000 are not affected because that OS has a different shutdown architecture.’

So.. it’s not an OS problem, but you’re fixing it with an OS patch. Riiiight. If Apple pulled this kind of stunt, they’d be burned at the stake. Microsoft does shit every fucking day.

Supreme Court Disses The DOJ

alternateorg on September 26, 2000

Today, the Supreme Court granted an MS request to have the DOJ vs MS case hit a federal appeals court before appearing in front of the Supreme Court, if at all. What does this mean? You get to deal with Microsoft in its current state for even longer. Yipty-fuckin-do.