tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-378457182012-02-16T18:55:05.364-08:00Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Here. Have one of mine.Rip Raggedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01689446245330943921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37845718.post-78254972613532477562008-03-19T20:21:00.000-07:002008-03-19T20:27:58.480-07:00

Hey. No. Really. I have to go. My wife thought I was going to be home two hours ago.The move isn't complete, but from this point forward, all the new posts will be over ----> HERE.It's a very nice place. They fixed it all up. The walls are soft. The nice young ladies bring me soft food. They sharpen my crayons for me and let me watch all my soaps.Oh, boy. It's time for my candy.

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I saw an article over on MacDailyNews that posed the above question. Actually, MDN didn't ask the question, but they linked to an article that did. I didn't read so far as to find out the name of the twit who actually wondered that out loud. Clown.The answer is: No. I love TidBits. They're tech analysts. They make sense without being totally slobbering fanboys, and I appreciate them respecting my

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Mondays suck.

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Um. People. What in the hell is all this snuffling about "Apple domination of the computer market?" It'll be good. It'll be bad. It won't matter. It'll suck. It'll never happen.Folks, Apple is taking over. Just relax. This won't hurt a bit. The check is in the mail. The keys are in the car. You can't judge a book by its cover. A stitch in time saves nine. Over the hills and far away. Her Majesty

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Hey! Where is everybody? I feel like Eliot Spitzer at a family reunion.I was kidding in the last post, you know. I meant skinny, expensive, fun to look at, AND useless.Is that better?...Hey, does anyone know how to hack a Sony TV? Is there something I can download? It has a USB port, so there must be a way. My stupid television won't let me use the whole screen for computer output. I didn't go to

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I've been around and about the worldwide whatchamacallit reading. Wifey-poo doesn't feel good, nothing else to do. What I've learned isn't good.All the computers in the world run Windows.All the software in the world is written for Windows. All of it. There is no software for Apple products. None.100 ± 5% of all the computer users in the world prefer Windows.The MacBook Air Jordan is the Paris

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Technologically Obsolete Antique Store Toys (TOAST).45 RPM record spindle adapterRAZRMechanical cash registerBrownie cameraPalm TreoVarious handheld devices almost (kinda) running WinCE, Symbian, and Linux.We're setting up the BlackBerry display. Come back in July.

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The stupid people are rather noisy lately. I thought it might be useful to compile a list of things they're saying so that my loyal readers can remain above the fray. If you realize that these noises only come from the informationally infirm it's easier to respond with pity. It's more fun to respond with derision, but it isn't very nice.Here is the Rip Ragged field guide to flamebaiting:"Apple

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I forgot to mention that Android is going to overtake the iPhone in the market. That's the story from Google, anyway.Android is gonna run on lots of different platforms.Android is gonna be like Google all over your phone.Android is gonna do lots of cool stuff that's even better than the iPhone.There is stuff you can do with Android that you can't do with the iPhone.Android is gonna just be wicked

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First a couple of quick hits.The world of financial analysts and other clueless people have some speculation on things Apple-ish.Cringely: Apple is holding back Blue-Ray because they're gambling that HD downloads will overtake the market. In other words, Apple is playing a high stakes game of chicken with Sony and the Studios. I don't buy it. Apple, as I recall, was on the Blue-Ray Worldwide

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I agree with Paul on last night's post. Apple isn't trying to secure individual machines. That would be nearly impossible, anyway. But I'll bet a cold bottle of Perrier they could break any unsanctioned app that gets released on the web. Individual hackers breaking individual machines won't keep Master Jobst Fimil away from the sandman....I think the "wave of rejection letters" for developers for

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Great post over at InformationWeek today by Eric Zeman. I'm beginning to love InformationWeek posts as much as humorists and comedians love Hillary Clinton's apologies – and for the same reasons.Eric holds forth that boy-oh-boy-oh-boy hackers have already unlocked iPhone 2.0 and Steve Jobs is an utter failure in his determination to lock the iPhone down and hackers 1, Steve Jobs 0 in the SDK/

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The trouble with the tech-blogoverse is that it's peopled with tech bloggers. The trouble with tech bloggers is that we tend to be very number oriented.We tend to discuss computers in gigahertz and megabytes and througput and backside RAM and and benchmarks. We who are geeks and geek wannabes think all that crap is really important. We think anyone who doesn't understand all that when making a

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Alexander Wolfe is busy getting kicked by the Macalope tonight, so I thought I'd take a cut at Mitch Wagner's vast factless void Will The SDK Be The iPhone's Achilles' Heel?First of all, the condensed version of the reply: No.Mitch says:Apple is betting its future in the smartphone market on a control-freak business model. Where other smartphone platforms let anybody build applications for them,

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I read over on TechNewsWorld (All Tech, All The Time) about the beginning of the iPhone rebirth by none other than Rob Enderle. I thought he had been so utterly discredited by now that he'd faded away forever. I thought maybe he'd found useful employment or something. Not happening. Like a Whack-a-Mole, up pops his head again.I'm guessing that the Macalope will give this the attention it deserves

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Just finished reading a few sites around the web. The Street has published a video, followed up by another video on Macworld exploring the same topic: Mac users are snobs.This is based on some goofball study that says Mac users are more likely to:Buy toilet paperUse bath soapUse laundry detergentBuy food requiring preparation at homeBuy new clothesNot shoplift at Wally WorldNot pick their noses

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You know the tune.....Clintstones. Meet the Clintstones. They’re the modern redneck family.From the town of Little Rock, they’re a smirch upon our history.Last ride with the family down the street.Sex, lies, murders, perjury, deceit.If we get the Clintstones we’ll have a taxing spending zoo time. And terror too time.We’ll have a gray cold slime.

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Lessee, since January.Apple updated the iPhone, twice.Apple introduced the MacBook Air Jordan, and isn't quite keeping enough of them in stock to satisfy demand.Apple introduced Apple TV, Take Two – which is getting rave reviews.Apple updated Leopard, making the translucent menu bar optional.Apple updated every app in iLife at least once.Aperture 2 is getting rave reviews.Apple prepped the iPhone

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This time it's Brian Caulfield running down the street naked, screaming the names of ancient deities and throwing saltwater taffy to the kiddies, in the name of Forbes. Now, to be fair, you have to have a minimum level of street cred to write for the big "F". So I don't want to just say that the man is a dork, but it does seem like they should raise the bar over there. That is if they can

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Eat less. Exercise.

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I am nodding in the general direction of MacDailyNews for this piece of information.Tech/financial analyst Peter Misek believes that the iPhone SDK will have no impact on the Blackberry. Mr. (or Ms.) Misek – in a crowded conference room – stripped down to a pair of Spiderman boxers, smeared Smuckers grape jelly on his or her chest, and jumped up and down on the conference table screaming, "I am a

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The iPhone is about to eat planet Earth. If, um, you're one of the people who bet against that – and you have any shame or sense of decency – it's time to feel really, really stupid. You don't have to admit it. After all, if you're a financial/tech analyst or a fundtard, admitting you're wrong would be a sign of weakness. Just being an ignorant sheep-like echo chamber of other peoples' stupid

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This has troubled me all day. I just have to talk to somebody about it before I simply burst. I guess that's what I get for reading four pages of hogwash from a dip wad.First a little background. I started my career in my industry during the Georgia Peanut Farmer administration. During the thirty-one years I've been doing what I do I've worked at nuclear power plants on both coasts and a number

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At the behest of faithful reader zacksback, I decided to go read the Fortune article on the troubles with Steve Jobs. Interesting part of the article to me was that this Peter Elkind fella who wrote it said it took months to write it. MONTHS. My guess is that Peter was using Vista Home Basic No Frills Hold The Pickles Hold The Lettuce on an Acer he bought at a Wally World clearance sale. He

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Master Jobst Fimil and his Padawan learner, speaking at the meeting today said,"Remember all the stuff we've already said? Yeah. That. Can I have a raise?"I can't find a complete transcript anywhere. Just snippets here and there.Ten million iPhones in 2008. No stock buy back. No dividends. Can't discuss unannounced products.The stock finally came up a bit based on: No change in anything at all.

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I just got my copy of BusinessWeak in the mail. Stephen Wildstrom reviewed the Lenovo X300. He compared it to the MacBook Air Jordan. And he notes the following:The X300 is thicker.The X300 is heavier.The X300 has a slower processor.The X300 runs an inferior operating system.The X300 is more expensive.The X300 has a DVD drive.In an almost tie of two machines whose leading feature is that they're

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For regular readers of Rip Ragged it will come as no surprise that a MacBook Air Jordan is harder to find than a baseball player without needle-tracks on his ass. Ars Technica says they only found a few backwater Apple retailers with MBAJs in stock. Duh.MBAJs are cool. Cool sells. Specs don't sell computers to non-geeks. It took almost 30 years, but computer functionality is finally becoming a

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I'm at my daughter's apartment in Spokane. I'm using her 20" iMac. For the record. This thing is sweet. She has IPA in the fridge. I don't have any Mac stuff to blather about today.I just taught Jasmine (my kid) how to make homemade blue cheese dressing.1 quart of mayo1/2 cup of sour cream1/2 cup buttermilk1/4 cup of lemon juice1 tablespoon of freshly ground black pepper1 teaspoon of salt1

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Okay, there's an interesting pair of stories out there that to me indicate we're in a lot of trouble.1. Microsoft has big plans for Sync.2. Vista sucks.In the first story, it seems that Microsoft wants to track your movements so they can sell ads for you to see and hear in your car. They're convinced that you won't mind having advertisements jammed up your ass while you're driving. They want to

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That other fellow that writes for BusinessWeak didn't give me anything to work with last night. Thank the maker, Arik was on the job today. I'm serious, boys and girls. Mr. Hesseldahl gave us a great big old, Microsoft-sponsored rant on why Master Jobst Fimil should take the company on the wild goose chase of a stock buy-back.That's the problem with giving these guys bylines. They think that

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I didn't post about William F. Buckley Jr last night. I really couldn't figure out what to write. Still can't.When I was a kid my favorite thing to do on rainy days was to sit and read the dictionary. Really. I still get a kick out of learning new words and their meanings. I don't read dictionaries for fun anymore, because the plot is thin. It's the same reason I don't read novels much.I love to

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Which of the following is Apple accused of using in violation of a patent?a. Silica-based translucent viewing hardware.b. Perforated enclosure grill for internal air-flow component cooling.c. Software that let's a cell phone match an incoming number to a name.d. Multi-colored spinning disk for indicating processor activity.On my honor, one of them has reportedly been filed.Answer at the bottom of

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Apple released iPhone 1.1.4. I, of course, downloaded it within moments after arriving at the house and I'm pissed.Now my iPhone doesn't operate the garage door or my radio controlled Sopwith Camel. It doesn't get channel 13, and I was counting on watching the PBS pledge drive on it. The police scanner function? Dead. There wasn't a single new nude picture of Elle McPherson in the update. Not one

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First, important business, then onto my opinionated rant.For the winner of last night's contest. I have to select zacksback's: Reruns of The View.Frankly, just thinking about The View makes me want to run down stairs and make sure the TV is off. I have never even seen a snippet of that show. Not even by accident, which puts it further down my "to watch" list than Katie Couric and

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The annual Hollywood Festival of Smug is tonight.Yup. The Oscars.I'm not going to watch a single second of the pomp, the pageantry, the perversion, and the poltroonish political posturing. That isn't to say that there is no chance of seeing something worthwhile at the Oscars, just that sitting through the whole show on the off chance something will interest me, doesn't interest me.You guys go

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Arik Hesseldahl and The Unnamed Sources, touring their Greatest Hit Pieces album. I considered linking the whole story. I didn't. Not worth the extra work.Without naming names of people who have said anything unofficial, Arik says that since nobody has said anything official, the iPhone SDK has slipped. He cites not one single fact to support this claim unless you count "I'm hearing from one

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Psst. Did all the dumbasses leave? Good. I figured that last post would scare off the weenies. Just between us, you have to be something of a dipwad not to be buying AAPL right now. It'll be a bargain at $150. Don't be scared. The fundtards won't start driving the price up again until early April. Right now it's like free money. Really.Just between us girls, the price will probably get close to

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Apple has issued no new information about the iPhone SDK. With that in mind, somebody started a rumor that the SDK is delayed. Sell Apple stock. Sell it right now. Today. Get your frigging broker into his office and get the stuff gone. Don't wait. This is urgent.Apple hasn't issued anything like a number about iPod sales. They aren't ordering as much NAND memory as they did for Christmas. Growth

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Erica Ogg, over on C|Net opines that downloads will kill Blu-ray. Duh. No link. I'm just too lazy.Have I not mentioned that? What the hell? It's important that Blu-ray won the format war, because it means Microsoft didn't get to advance another mess of proprietary detritus on the planet. Other than making sure the borg doesn't assimilate video, it was meaningless.I reserve the right to have my

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Just went out and saw the local high school production of Seussical the Musical. It was awesome.Awesome.Support your local amateur theater....Anyway, back to work. Reader Paul sent me a link this morning to a C|Net post that said SP1 might be held up because it was breaking things, causing problems, and generally behaving like a piece of crap. Well, that link now brings back a 404. Sooooooo.....I

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There are intelligent, competent, knowledgeable people on both sides of the Windows versus Macintosh debate. We should be more accepting of the views and opinions of the other side of the argument.It isn't reasonable for us to insist that just because our computers look better, work better, and have a lower total cost of ownership than theirs, that they are somehow better. Macs aren't perfect,

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There's a new post over on Roughly Drafted. If you came here before going there, I'll understand if you want to go read Daniel first. After all, he actually has insights and information that you might find meaningful and useful. I'm just going to be irresponsible and profane....Yeh, the evil empire is in trouble. Actually, I think they'll be okay for a few more years. Microsoft won't fade away.

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Whatever other things you think are important, whether it be terrorism, DRM on music files, wasted bandwidth, genocide and AIDS in Africa, Hillary and B.O., or just whether you have a clean pair of white socks – understand that world leaders have the situation well in hand.The United Nations has announced that 2008 is the International Year of the Potato. Seriously.Sleep tight.What a rotten time

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Flash; iPhone. Stop me if you've heard this one.Yeah, that's what I thought.Feh....Big something going on with Linkin' Park and Apple. Maybe. Big secret. Apple is expected to announce something big and major and cool and huge if the whole thing is real and not just some JZ-Apple-record-company rehash. So if this thing isn't just a piglet of someone's imagination, Apple is going to introduce

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Businessweak has a thing on Apple's supposed troubles today. Don't bother. It's a rehash.Apple's stock is down because fund managers don't know what the hell they're doing. If they did, they wouldn't need the "Lipper Average." Y'know the one you hear about all the funds beating on those inane TV ads? Hogwash. Tell me 75% of your funds beat the S&P 500. That, boys and girls, would mean - Beating

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The title of this column links to a post with the same title. Is that eponymous? I don't know. I am nodding in the general direction of MacDailyNews for this link.First, on reading the headline, my initial response was (this is a direct quote), "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA(snort)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(snort, choke, snort)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahaha(snort)ha ha hahaha. Whoooo!" Then I read the whole article,

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The Federal legislature is investigating whether there's doping in professional sports. Also they're looking into SpyGate. Did Bill Bellichik try to gain an advantage over other teams? Next they'll be looking into allegations that there is bad language in locker rooms, monosodium glutamate in Chinese food, and salt in Campbell's soup.Did Roger Clemens use steroids? Human Growth Hormone?

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So, which format are we not going to be buying our movies on? It matters? To whom? I can already download most of the movies I want to watch, play them through a computer onto a big screen TV in HD, and free up the Hard Disc space when I'm done.This isn't a repeat performance of VHS and Betamax. This is more like a comparison of competing brands of wood cookstoves. Who wins? Who gives a big rat's

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Today was a slow day on the innertubes. Not much at all going on.No new reviews of the MacBook Air Jordan.Nobody ripped Apple's stock.Nobody mentioned the iPhone in any real context. They ignored it in Barcelona. Everybody is trying to figure out which part of the iPhone to half-ass copy.The thing I notice is Apple isn't really trying to compete with the other handset makers. They just said, "

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Clif Edwards, over on a businessweak blog, did a little humor piece back on Monday about the World Mobile Conference. I'm only linking it because it was so funny.He talked about how nobody mentioned Apple, but that all these handset companies are ganging up on Apple. It seems that all the cell phone makers are introducing just scads of different phones. My count is something like twenty-two

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Dear Punditbots and Tech/Financial weenies. Here is the new style sheet for discussing any and all things related to Apple.Steve Jobs may not be mentioned without also mentioning:Black mock turtleneck.Reality distortion field.Cool.When speaking of the iPhone, it is required that you also include reference to:A hillion-jillion phones haven't been activated on approved carriers.Apple is losing

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Let's see. What kind of weird crap happened today?Weirdest thing, I agreed with Maureen Dowd. That never happens. She said that voting for Hillary is not necessary to maintain feminist credentials. I sort of figured she'd just automatically support the Hill/Bill ticket. I don't get politics, but near as I can tell, B.O. is the front-runner for the Dems.McCain thinks he's won the Republican

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Yessirree Bob, there's a new iPhone killer. It's from Sony-Ericsson. It's called the Xperia X1. Actually, I haven't read the term "iPhone killer" yet, but it's early. The article I read calls it a "shot across Apple's bow."It has all the defining characteristics of an iSomething killer:It looks just like the iPhone would look if it was poorly designed.It has a touch screen just like the iPhone

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Totally Non-Political "Support the Troops" link:Click HERE.Tell all your friends.Thanks.

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If you want to get it wrong, go over to Seeking Alpha and read a story by Daniel Agramonte saying that Apple is on an innovation treadmill. His basic premise is the same as all of them. Apple has matured. The growth is going to stop soon.He analyzes the growth numbers for the past year, plugs them into Microsoft's business model and decides Apple can't keep doing that.'Course, everybody has been

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Yahoo is going to reject Microsoft's offer. There is hope for humanity. Well, okay, it isn't that dramatic. No matter what you think of Yahoo, you have to be glad it isn't getting assimilated by the borg. Yet.Consider the whole internet reduced to a war between Microsoft and Google. Oh wait. That's about what it is now.Never mind.In other news...There is speculation that Apple may introduce a 3G

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Businessweak has an open letter to Steve Ballmer telling him that it is a really dumb idea to buy Yahoo. It's a pretty good article, particularly if you like to watch Steve Ballmer get reamed in the public square.In the article, Arik Hesseldahl says that Microsoft should ditch the Zune, the XBox, search engines, and everything except software. Yep. Especially Flight Simulator for Mac. And please

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A couple of things.One: What's a good, cheap, easy-for-a-non-geek program for building a nice design for the new place? I've looked at SandVox. I haven't downloaded it yet. I'm utterly unskilled at all but the most rudimentary HTML, so I need something that caters to "stupid," while still providing the ability to make something useable, pretty, and easy to navigate.Other business:A week or so ago

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The new URL will be posted as soon as we get some of the office furniture and the trapeze relocated to the new digs. The new place has much nicer tunnels.If anybody has a pickup truck and/or a free weekend, drop on by. I especially need help moving the cord wood.Hey! That's an antique lipstick case. Be gentle.

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Over at MacDailyNews today I started following links around the innernut. I ended up at some financial/tech/stock-investor site/blog/page. I wasn't doing research. Honest. My class finished up early. It's the last day of the work week, and I somehow managed to get through all the material 2 hours early. So I thought, gosh, I could just go home early.Then I got back to my office to find a meeting

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Thank you to all the CARS gang for showing up and breaking in the comments pages.I'll miss Moltzy's Rumors, and I'd hate to see the chemistry of that comments section destroyed. That reminded me of the early days of CompuServe and GEnie when you could actually get a largish gather of intelligent people online and actually have fun.I would have missed that if it ended again.Oops. Time for my

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Dear Macintosh Noobs,First of all, SteveJack at MacDailyNews said it succinctly, "Quit whining."If I may, and trust me, this is my blog so I may, let me expand on that for a moment.If you're a recent convert to the wonderful world of Apple, welcome. Now, please quit with the dogdamn sniveling. Here are a few things to expect:The shiny new Apple toy you just bought will be "cutting edge" for a few

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I'm supposed to be studying for a test. It's always more fun to screw around when you're supposed to be doing something else.I'd like to talk about doughnuts. I love doughnuts. We have a place in town called "Spudnuts." They use potato flour to make their confections. There are no other doughnut shops in town. Spudnuts has the local monopoly. If you show up at work around here with some other

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Apple has introduced new stuff. Whooda ever thunk it. 16 Gig iPhone, 32 Gig iPod Touch. Are you about done jumping around and screaming now? Me too. That's tiring.So last week at work I finished all the stuff I had to have done by the end of next week. That leaves me with a whole bunch of time for reading the innertubes. It wasn't really research, unless you count abject boredom as

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Welcome, TeraPost refugees. The tunnels here aren't as well developed as those at CARS, and they haven't been well explored, but feel free to snoop around. If you brought sexbots, iFlames, and iPrairiedogs, they're welcome to stay if they don't soil the hardwood floors.Thank you.On to business.I just read a guy over on some other web site. Shaw? I think that was his name. I'm going to call it

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That was unexpected. Good game. Crappy ads.The FedEx ad with the pigeons? Inane. The cgi was for shit. Reminded me of Air Force One. The Bud Light ads even sucked. Very unusual. I'd rather drink warm cat piss than Bud Light but they usually have pretty funny ads. Not today.There were several "high concept" ads. They were so bad I can't even remember what they were selling.The halftime show was

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I have a MacBook that I've inherited from my daughter. She prefers an old PowerBook G4 for its size and shape. Go figure. I want to use the MacBook has my new HECK (Home Entertainment Center Kiosk).First off, I put the iTunes music library on it. That works. Although I have to rebuild all my playlists and comments.Now I want to hook it up for video. I went to Circuit City, Best Buy, Radio Shack,

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The driver of this car has decided not to pit on the next lap.U2 is ditching their recording label.Explaining the parallel would take too long.Now I'm going over to CARS to hit Command-R.Would somebody please turn off the fan?

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Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion.*yawn*That's just great.And?Seems to me that will make about as much difference to my daily web browsing as a Shoney's-Waffle House merger would make to my weight loss program.A mediocre search engine/portal is being purchased by a company with customer service skills normally attributed to Rottweillers. This should scare Google and Apple.

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The Crazy Apple Rumors Site is going away.That sucks on many levels. The posts were fun to read and almost accidentally insightful. The commenters on that site made it even more fun.I'll miss CARS. It leaves me with a couple of questions, though.How much did they pay you?Did you tell them about me?I'm willing to deny having any sources inside Apple and pull the plug for, oh, say, a couple of

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I just had the best laugh of my day from Microsoft, via Daring Fireball. Followed a link to the Microsoft tech support page for opening the Vista box. No wonder Vista is so popular. You need instructions to get to the instructions. I don't care who you are, that's funny.On to the further lame reports of Apple's imminent demise.....The Garmin nüvifone. It's the next iPhone killer. Nobody has

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Wow. Have you been watching the presidential campaign crapstorm lately? We have three Socialists pretending to be Republicans, and two Communists pretending to be Democrats. I saw a great email today. A soldier with Chelsea saying, "I'm only afraid of three things: Osama, Obama, and Yo' Mama." Well, that would sum it up for me if we had any Republican candidates.And Ron Paul is still in the

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Listen. Trust me on this, okay. The MacBook Air Jordan is going to be teh popular. You'll be seeing them in all the popular coach and business class seats by the end of summer. Why?They're thin and light and they look bitchin'. They're Macs. Macs are the new cool computer.They'll do what most people need a computer to do. An MBAJ will check email, play iTunes movies on a biggish (for business

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Is it just me, or is the internet getting more anti-Apple lately?First, let me put this in perspective. I'm listening to Mark Knopfler and Chet Atkins. I just had a couple of IPAs. Also, we had a site closure because of snow. I just had a paid day off.Life is good.Everybody seems to be riffing on Apple. The stock price went down. Where are all those iPhones? The MacBook Air Jordan is larger than

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John C. Dvorak and the MacBook Air Jordan have appeared in the same post. You can guess what that means.He's right, you know, on a few points. His spelling, grammar, and punctuation seem to be pretty good. He used what looks like a nice readable font. He's also correct that the MBAJ is not a powerhouse übercomputer. Aside from that, though, he's pretty much full of crap.Let's liken an MBAJ to,

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Hello, corporate-computer-company CEOs. Welcome to the "How to Compete with Apple" seminar series. This is presented as a public service to try to drum up some kind of competition for my favorite company so they don't get all spoiled and complacent.Well, alrighty then. Since nobody asked, and since I have no real reason to give a big whoop, here's how to compete with Apple. Now let me preface

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Bernanke panicked. He got a big pee stain in his wool trousers and dropped the Fed rate by 0.75 percent. Instead of sparking a rally, he spooked the critters. Damn fool kids.Apple's stock price will be up again soon. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Apple's growth is just getting started. The stock might not reflect it in the near term, but if you hold on to it, you'll make money. If it

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The price of Apple's stock is big news. It went down. Yippee. If you've studied the stock market at all, you'll know that's one of two possible things it can do.I read somewhere that it's Steve Jobs' fault. I didn't actually go to the story, but I saw a link that said something about His Steveness playing games with his quarterly projections and how that was hurting stockholders. It's true. But

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Biggest quarter in Apple's history.The stock is tanking.Hey. I bought some more. Life was good. Then it went down some more after the bell.Shut up.The stock will hit $300 before the end of the year.Or it won't.In either case I don't see me selling.Anyway....The Yankees and Red Sox are playing in Glendale in a couple of weeks. It's gonna be a slow weekend in Miami. The Phoenix area won't even

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I was over reading the Macalope and Daring Fireball. Daring Fireball mentioned, and the Macalope discussed at length, a post by some guy named Barton. Gruber mostly just linked the post and snickered at the stupidity. The Macalope surgically opened a new orifice in the lower portion of Mr. Barton's torso – as only the Macalope can. Both are enjoyable reading.Mr. Barton dissed the MBAJ with all

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Been reading all manner of bullshit about the MBAJ. I think I have the synopsis right here. Lessee....it's underpowered; it doesn't have a replaceable battery; no optical drive; little tiny HD; not enough USB ports; it doesn't come in any flavors except strawberry; there's more to life than just being light and thin; and Steve Jobs is just plain greedy and awful. So, um, if you buy one you're a

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Jonathan Kay is ripping me off, here.The MBAJ is mine, dammit. I wrote that first. You'll hear from my lawyers, mister. Huh? What do you mean I don't have any lawyers? Okay, well, you'll hear from my plumber and the guy at the small engine repair shop that fixes my lawnmower every April. And Rachel – the girl who cuts my hair, too. Scared?Okay. Enough of that.Hey. Listen kids. Take tomorrow off

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MacBook Air Jordan was coined because it seems so analogous to the shoe.Nike makes great tenny-boppers. No question. They add the name "Air Jordan" to a pair, the price goes up a smidgeon, and they sell a ton of them on the coolness factor. The coolness factor doesn't make the shoes any more or less great. It's just good marketing.Apple makes great computers. If you don't agree, please leave a

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The innertubes are alive with the sound of stupid.If you go over to Forbes you can read Fake Dan Lyons blathering on about how the Zune is better in many ways to the iPod. The interface is cooler. The case comes in lots of different colors. It isn't the same old thing your grandpa has two of. Oh yeah. It's waaaaay better. That's why everybody has one. Damn. Stick to pretending to be Steve Jobs'

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Boy, did I call that or what? The punditbots and fundtards are just totally hosed. One guy I read, Henry Blodgett over on Silicon Valley Insider has it right. He said, in essence: You clowns are looking at all the wrong things if you're selling Apple. The growth machine is the Mac.He noted that the year to year growth of Macs in the September quarter was like 34%. That's huge. Answering a 'tard

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Been reading the asshat blogs. Apple did everything everybody expected. It wasn't good enough because nobody actually peed their pants. It was all predicted. So the frigging stock went down. Morons. It was all really cool stuff. Nothing to make you spit your french fries, but cool stuff. Okay, it wasn't much.I'm as much of a fanboy as anyone, but I have to say this Macworld Expo was only just

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The major record labels are selling their tracks without DRM on Amazon, while continuing to sell DRM'd tracks on the iTunes music store.Prediction:The iTunes store will sell more DRM'd tracks for $0.99 in the first calendar quarter of '08 than Amazon will sell non-DRM'd tracks in ALL of 2008. I'll bet most of a box of Cheezits and the rest of the Diet Dr. Pepper on it.Also, in 2008 somebody will

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First of all, I want to go on record that I am not in any way upset with the decision by Apple to not invite me to appear on stage with His Steveness. I relish my position as the world's leading unread, uncompensated, and irrelevant Apple fanboy; I would never cheapen that by sniveling about such an obvious, egregious, and premeditated snub.Prediction 1The live blogging will suck. There will be a

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The New Jersey Giants beat the Irvin Cowboys. The San Diego second string offense narrowly edged out the zebras in a hard fought battle.The Chargers going to New England? Whew. The Geneva Convention should be invoked. This is NOT merciful behavior toward the wounded.Green Bay in January? Outside? That's just cruel. Should be fun.I'll bet my last clean pair of white crew socks on the outcomes of

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Well, that's over with. The snowball fight in Wisconsin was won by the locals. No surprise, really. I'm a little down, though. Apparently, the equipment guy for our side didn't bring enough O.B. Ultra "Heavy Days." That can really affect the team's confidence.The New England Clam Chowders beat the Florida OS X 10.2s in a game that almost didn't look scripted.Note to the television advertising

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Early second Quarter. Brett Favre meets Patrick Kerney.

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It has come to my attention that this blog hasn't mentioned the Zune or Vista for a while. They suck. There. That takes care of that.CaliforniaIf you haven't been reading the news, I should let you know that there is a Mac thingy going on somewhere in the Oakland area next week. There are banners all around the place that say, "Something in the Air." This is an obtuse reference to the iRoll –

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That thing on Wikipedia was so lame. LAME.I'm not at liberty to give away the entire keynote address. I promised I wouldn't. But here are a few tidbits that you need to know about.The iLampIt turns on only when you want it. The moment you don't want it, the light goes out. It just knows. How does it know? You just reach up and turn that little knob, and somehow the system translates that into

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Sorry about the omission. Hey there, punditbot.That won't actually make you go blind, but at least go to a private room and shut the door.Thanks.

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I am so sick of this crap. Some noodle over at business-weak did it again today. He was talking about iTunes and movies and iPods and DRM and dragged in the tired, lame-ass babble about Apple not wanting to give up its iTunes lock-in and have to compete with other mp3 players.People, people, people.The man in the moon is not made of green cheese.Toads don't give you warts.The earth is not flat,

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Is that right?

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The old comments format should be back, now. The results of the straw poll are unanimous. Every blogger on this account didn't like the Disqus thingymabobber.Normalcy is restored.I hope.More later.

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If I was doing the MW keynote, I'd want to introduce something so cool that it made CES look like a toilet installation seminar. Wait. No. That's too easy. The campfire scene in Blazing Saddles? Nah. Still no challenge. Anyway, I'd want to introduce something earth-shaking.I'd like to announce the death of windows (Not Windows, although that would be fun, too).I want to announce the death of the

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Dang. I'm starting to actually attract new readers. I'll have to clean up my act some. No more references to JC Dumbass. From now on, I'll just refer to the whole motley crew of Windows shills as "Those assclowns." So when Dvenderlou publishes some dross about the Mac or Apple having some insurmountable problem, the author will be simply, "an assclown." As always, no links to the assclowns unless

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When Alan Mulally came to Ford, I bought shares. The man's resume is impeccable. He's the guy I would have picked to turn around a corporate behemoth like FoMoCo.Until now.Dogdammit all.What in the name of all that's good and true and right is he doing installing a Microsoft system in perfectly serviceable cars? Damn.Microsoft SYNC is going to SUCK. People are going to buy cars expecting them to

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