Geek Banter

Apple vs. Google TVs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:36:00 +0000

I agree. I took one look at that picture of Jobs and my first thought was, "Watch out for crazy Steve!"

As for the picture, Steve Jobs can't help that he got old. Someday you & I will look the same

I don't care how old I get, I'm not wearing turtlenecks.

Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:22:00 +0000

Slashdot Apple Story | Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans

If another device gains traction, it will be due to the fact that it is good
at doing the things that Apple refuses to do. Being able to ignore Steve's
vision is a great feature for a lot of people.

Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Slashdot Idle Story | Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths

as my toddler would say, that's fucked up!

AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:09:00 +0000

Slashdot Mobile Story | AMD Hates Laptop Stickers As Much As You Do

"us mac users have never had this problem."

Try to remove that huge apple that says "I overpay my hardware" with WD40...

Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:52:00 +0000

Slashdot Idle Story | Stats Show iPhone Owners Get More Sex

I use my Palm.

World of Warcraft economy is quite elastic!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:57:00 +0000

Man alive, the World of Warcraft economy is quite elastic!

I put your comment through my text-to-speech program and I couldn’t hear any sarcasm. I can see why Mark was confused.

Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:49:00 +0000

Slashdot Idle Story | Study Says Your Personality Doesn't Change After 1st Grade

I've been waiting for somebody to answer the age-old question:

Were you born an a-hole or did you work on it your whole life?

Frustration and Unhappiness In the Games Industry

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:59:00 +0000

Slashdot Games Story | Frustration and Unhappiness In the Games Industry

"....I spent some time with my brother in Sweden, he moved over there during a student exchange program. He liked it so much he stayed. Why does he like it so much? Well he works for Sony Ericsson as a programmer/engineer and to say they have a different work philosophy is an understatement.

To list some of the perks:
On day 1, out of university, he gets 6 weeks vacation, with the ability
to bank another 2. He has 8+2 weeks now.
Overtime, period....law...no such thing as "Salary employee".
You are payed extra to carry a blackberry
By law a person has to be no farther that 10 meters from a natural light
source...even in a skyrise. They have a whole classes in architecture
schools on this.
Free medicare
Free gym
Free bereavement time no questions asked
6 months PATERNITY leave
free daycare services
Managers and executives that fail employee review are often pushed into
no managerial roles.

Sony-Ericsson is considered a slave driving company in Sweden. Google
may have won "Best Employer" in the US, but they would be considered
McDonald's level in Scandinavia and a lot of the western european
countries."

Well yes that sounds nice but doesn't he miss the free market???

Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:12:00 +0000

Slashdot Games Story | Blizzard Backs Down On Real Names For Forums

There are some real jerks on the highway, in line at the grocery store, and at your workplace. These are the same people who post GNAA trolls and goatse links.

I've never been standing on line at a grocery store and had someone tap me on the shoulder and then scream FAGGOT and show me a picture of an overextended asshole when I turn around. You might want to think about shopping somewhere else..

The Hell Known As Internet Screening Services

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:06:00 +0000

Slashdot Technology Story | The Hell Known As Internet Screening Services

The problem is that most 20 year old kids don't really know how sensitive they are to things like this until they're repeatedly exposed to them, by which point much of the damage has already been done. Luckily for me, I was exposed to the Internet and all of the nastiness on it when I was only 13, and I've managed to get by with no ill effects at all except for the occasional extended blackout followed by a dead hooker in my bed. Some more sensitive people might really lose their minds, though.

The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:38:00 +0000

Slashdot News Story | The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon

That is almost as bad as setting my Hunter's Feign Death hotkey in Warcraft to Alt-F4...and not testing it until the 4th boss fight in Black Temple.

Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:39:00 +0000

Slashdot Story | Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore

"Tanks are a very important component to group play. I like to think of Microsoft as that big guy in the heavy armor who takes all the hits and soaks up all the damage, because it doesn't mean much to him anyways. I also think of Apple as the DPS, and if they keep critting too much with all their successful products, they'll eventually pull Aggro and end up getting all the criticism Microsoft recieves. And I think of *nix as a good healer, silently standing far away from everyone, keeping everything running nominally with their superior networking capabilities and low resource requirements. See? You can relate anything to World of Warcraft. I dare you to come up with something I can't."

Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:29:00 +0000

Slashdot Technology Story | Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter

The last thing I need is more noise. That's why I don't use twitter. Besides, 160 characters doesn't exactly lend itself to worthwhile discourse.

Haha, yet your comment is only 145 characters! Noise you say? Yeah, you have no need for that...

Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:23:00 +0000

Man, have you ever sucked a dick for caffeine?

I don't think that's where coffee comes from...

Slashdot Apple Story | Flash Is Not a Right

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 May 2010 13:39:00 +0000

Slashdot Apple Story | Flash Is Not a Right

The manufacturer of your microwave isn't actively going out of its way to block flash. You can legally sell flash for the microwave oven; software installation is a chore but the playing field is level for everyone. You don't sign an EULA when you buy your microwave.

Flash in your microwave? No problem
1. Get a piece of copper wire about 7.5" long
2. solder the ends together and form the wire in the shape of the loop
3. put wire loop in microwave
4. microwave on high as long as desired

What Will the Browser Look Like In Five Years?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:32:00 +0000

Slashdot Technology Story | What Will the Browser Look Like In Five Years?

I already wear sunglasses to browse the web, on account of all the flash and poor color choices.

Although this is an improvement over the 90s. Back then I wore a welding mask.

What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:09:00 +0000

Slashdot Comments | What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?

I had a similar realization once. The way I explain it:

Antivirus == Washing your hands
Software Patches == Regular doctor visits

On the other hand:

Shady porn sites == Cheep hookers
Clicking random links == Sharing needles

Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:14:00 +0000

Slashdot Mobile Story | Jobs Says No Tethering iPad To iPhone

Linux "just works" unless you have unsupported hardware.

So it works unless it doesn't. Who woulda thought it! Behold the miracle of open source!

The real difference is that with Linux it can be tricky to tell if any particular bit of hardware is supported.

With Apple it's obvious - if it's supported, it costs twice as much.

I've always been a PC at heart.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:49:00 +0000

Slashdot Comments | Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset

I've always been a PC at heart.

Not like the rest, the others. Everyone around me. I was at odds with my society and knew it early since birth. Unlike them, I did not "Think Different!"--the mantra of the Macs around me, the phrase on all the billboards in the city that served as a reminder to its citizenry. Sameness pervaded the essence of my being and no amount of self-conditioning I did could change that. Eventually, I gave up and isolated myself emotionally from society.

I gaze at the faces going by, the white earphones contrasting their black turtlenecks, connecting their ears to their pockets, their blank faces engrossed in hip Indie rock music and various garage bands. I envied them for their perfection against my flaws and my compulsive nature to expand, to burden my life with troubles instead of remaining, like them, simple and easy to deal with. The grandest of virtues, simplicity... the philosophy by our loyal benefactor Steve Jobs, who descended from the heavens, creating the Earth, the iron, the wind and the rain. Steve Jobs, who defined the parameters of existence, the one who set about the patterns of reality, the constants, the variables. He who made gravity, electromagnetic energy, and shaped atomic structures and brought forth motion. From these things, he crafted the elements, processed them, refined them, and from these things engineered Apple products through the purity of his mind. Each Apple product was individually crafted by his own hands with the programming code used to run each device having being compiled in his brain and uploaded to each device telepathically, breathing life and perfection into each and every unit.

Except, it seems, for me, for I was not among the many. I was a PC. They were Macs. I've always been a cold, stiff person. I got by, disguising myself by keeping my non-Ipod music player safely out of sight, which I use because of my depraved nature demanding more functionality than the simple and easy-to-use Ipods have to offer.. In the safety of my own home, behind locked doors, I ran a Forbidden, a contraband computer from more depraved, earlier days that was not given the love and blessing of being birthed by Steve Jobs. I dual booted, out of the great sin of curiosity-- curiosity, a shameful value of a PC, as curiosity has no place where simplicity matters most--using two of the great unutterable blasphemies-- something called "Windows Vista" and something else called "Linux." Although, as I mentioned before, although my tendency to be a PC and towards conformity has always been inherent to me, I was truly transformed when I found these old things in a hidden cache of computer parts predating The Purging. Perhaps the greatest sin of all, the single evil that, if discovered, would damn me forever, was the fact that my mouse had more than one button.

As I walk among the Macs on the streets, passing the Starbuckses as I went along, I wondered how it all came to this. I glanced at The Holy Marks on the foreheads as the people wandered down the streets, the Bitten Apple tattooed on all our of us at birth, and wondered if, perhaps, there could be something more to life. But again, this was a PC's thought, and not, like everyone elses', a Mac's. We were to hold ourselves to the philosophy of Steve Jobs--so as his products were designed for idiots, so too were we to be idiots. But I was not a Mac--I was not an idiot. I was simply too complicated to be a worthwhile person.

Nature called. I found a nearby public iPoo--squeaky clean and sparkly white, things weren't all bad--and let myself go, expelling the waste that had accumulated inside me. After relieving myself and committing the overly-complicated and thus illegal act of wiping my ass (I did not flush as iPoos, designed to be idiot-proof, did not flush) I left and once again wandered the streets aimlessly, hoping to find some meaning in a world where I simply did not belong, a world where if my true nature was discovered, I would be endlessly persecuted by smug, self-righteous sons of bitches.

Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:21:00 +0000

Slashdot Comments | Apple's "iPad" Out In the Open

It's not meant for work.

It's a social signifier, meant for being seen pretending to read the Infinite Jest ebook in an overpriced caffeine boutique.

It's
how a certain segment of the population can identify one another
without having to expose their tattoos of improperly-used Chinese
characters.

Think of the iPad as the tech version of eyebrow jewelery.

Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:37:00 +0000

Slashdot Comments | Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate
Yes, the headline should read - Google rips off Dick.

8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:42:00 +0000

Slashdot Comments | 8% of Your DNA Comes From a Virus
8% of my Windows code comes from Viruses.

Google's Nexus One Phone Launches

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:55:00 +0000

Slashdot Comments | Google's Nexus One Phone Launches
For now Android is a toy while the iphone is well ahead as a tool to get work done

A toy that lets us develop our own datacenter management tools and deploy them to our employees without having to suck Apple's App Store dick.

Community Mods are calling out 402 - MW2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:47:00 +0000

Even the Community Mods are calling out 402 (Official Forums) - Page 2 - Steam Users' Forums
That 402 guy should be sodomised by a whole platoon of marines, till he pee's oil...

How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:21:00 +0000

Slashdot - How Does the New Google DNS Perform? (and Why?)

If, for example, the telephone company's accounting system goes down for a few seconds then they lose hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year. At a hundred thousand dollars a second, your telephone company makes $3,155,692,600,000 a year from time-metered services?