Obligatory Upgraded to WordPress 2.5 Post

March 31st, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Everything seems to work. Yippie!

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I Win

March 30th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Inspired by bynkii​.com who comes in at a pal­try 16%. If there is any­thing that I excel at it’s pro­fan­ity, motherfuckers.

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Instant Gratification v.s. Rich Experience

March 27th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

There was a post on The Apple Blog today that got me think­ing. While I dis­agree with the con­clu­sions that the author draws, I don’t think that this is a case of the usual blo­go­ratti mag­i­cal think­ing. Rather, I think that there is some fun­da­men­tal mis­sun­der­stand­ing of the cur­rent mar­ket in video enter­tain­ment. The author puts forth the premise that iTunes, as well as stream­ing video ser­vices such as Netflix-streaming, and Amazon Unbox have a “glar­ing gap” com­pared with DVD/Blue-Ray when it comes to “addi­tional con­tent,” where by addi­tional con­tent we’re refer­ing to things such as alter­nate end­ings, deleted scenes, etc. My take on this is that there isn’t a “gap” between iTunes et al and DVD/Blue-Ray; rather, iTunes et al and DVD/Blue-Ray are actu­ally serv­ing seper­ate needs.

VHS v.s. DVD, a Historical Perspective

Admittedly, this isn’t a direct anal­ogy, but I think that it helps to illus­trate my point. Odd as it may sound now, when DVD was first intro­duced there were pun­dits who claimed that it would fail to top­ple VHS as a force in the mar­ket. One of the rea­sons pro­vided was that VHS was a read/write media; and peo­ple would

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Translation Services

March 24th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Just a quick trans­la­tion from CEO-speak to English of the recent com­ments from the CEO’s of Mozilla and eMu­sic (I’m not link­ing, google them yourselves).

Motherfucker! Why didn’t we think of this first.
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Today’s Whiny MacMeme Is…

March 21st, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

…Apple is a bad “Windows cit­i­zen” because they “sneak­ily” “forced” Safari 3.1 on unsus­pect­ing Windows iTunes users. Apparently some of the whiny twats in the blo­gok­lein­bot­tle are up in arms that Apple offered up Safari 3.1 for Windows in the Software Update tool that gets installed with iTunes/QuickTime on Windows. My take: here’s a douche to wash the sand out of your achy achy vaginas.

First of all, while I admit that it was odd of Apple to offer up the Safari update to peo­ple who hadn’t pre­vi­ously installed it, they hardly “forced” it onto any­one. Software Update allows one to skip updates. And the argu­ment that “any­one who just selects the defaults will be “forced” into installing Safari merely rein­forces the time hon­ored per­cep­tion that Windows users are, in fact, mouth breath­ing morons.

Second, bitch­ing that any­one is a “bad” Windows cit­i­zen is the rhetor­i­cal equiv­a­lent of argu­ing that one turd in a sea of shit is par­tic­u­larly stinky. Microsoft is a bad Windows cit­i­zen. And I’ll tell you, hav­ing Safari mag­i­cally appear on my com­puter pales in com­par­i­son to the times I’ve come back from lunch to find that all my work has been killed by a

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And Today’s Jackass Blogger Is…

March 19th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Ashutosh Chaturvedi! Ashu serves up one hell of a two-fer on his blog. In fact, his blog has a whop­ping 2 posts, and they’re both mind bog­glingly retarded. Taking the lesser of two fuck-ups first, we have this gem. Ashu is upset that Tuesday’s Leopard Security update broke ssh. Quote:

One would think that Apple had tested out the secu­rity update before releas­ing it to the pub­lic… but appar­ently not.

He even man­ages to link to the whiny entitle-twats on the Apple dis­cus­sion forums bitch­ing about it. Only prob­lem is, it’s not an Apple error. In fact, it’s Rogue Amoeba’s fuckup, as evi­denced in the very fuck­ing thread he links too. Now, true, the actual cause wasn’t deter­mined until after Ashu posted his lit­tle drop­pings; but then again, when did a MacMac blog­ger ever take the fuck­ing time to trou­bleshoot an error before unleas­ing the flood­gates of whin­ing on Apple.But really, that is just the warm up for the real, aneurysm induc­ing what-the-fuck that Ashu man­aged to spill forth yes­ter­day. See, appar­ently Ashu was actu­ally let into the iPhone Developer pro­gram. That’s right, the

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And on the Lighter Side of Media Criticism.

March 14th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Hahahha, fuck me this is a good one. Via Crooks and Liars: CNN Admits It Should Have Vetted Guest Expert Better. Apparently the “guest expert” dis­cussing the Spitzer sit­u­a­tion was a for­mer U.S. Attorney who lost his job after, “being accused of bit­ing a top­less dancer on the arm dur­ing a visit to an adult club after los­ing a big drug case.” No, CNN; I’m fairly cer­tain that you picked the absolute best pos­si­ble guest expert.

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Here We Go.

March 14th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Strap in cats and catettes, this is going to be a bumpy ride. Apparently Apple has made their first round picks for the iPhone devel­oper pro­gram. Note, this only applies to devel­op­ers receiv­ing the cer­tifi­cates that they need to install and test their soft­ware on phys­i­cal iPhones. Anyone read­ing more into the deci­sions (such as who will even­tu­ally be let into the iPhone AppStore) is full of more bull­shit than a con­sti­pated Angus.

Against all odds, and seri­ously here I’m fuck­ing shocked, the first story on this to hit my feed-reader was from iLounge with this gob-smackingly non–hyper­bolic story. I mean, what the deuce iLounge; what sort of chumps are you, post­ing the actual email con­tents and not wildly spec­u­lat­ing? Are you try­ing to put me out of the bitch-slapping busi­ness? For con­trast, here is the head­line from TUAW “iPhone devel­oper rejec­tion let­ter mass mail­ing” Rejection you say! Well fuck Apple, I can’t believe that they would be so cruel. El jeffe must be cack­ling with joy at the thought of all those dis­ap­pointed devel­op­ers. Or, wait, let’s see that the actual fuck­ing “rejec­tion” let­ter (which iLounge was

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Note to Social Media Retards, the World Doesn’t Revolve Around You.

March 13th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

One could argue that I pick on the kids at The Apple Blog. But, gosh darn it, they make it so easy. Case in point. Today one of the crew over there posed the ques­tion, “Should Apple have had a big­ger pres­ence at SXSW?” To which I will be glad to pro­vide an answer. No. Here’s the bru­tal real­ity kid­dos. “Social Media” is a gnat on the wind­shield of every other per­son on the planet. Seriously, walk into a bar any­where in the world, pick a ran­dom stranger and ask, “So, what did you think of Scoble’s lat­est blog post.” I guaran-fucking-tee that the answer will be, “Who the fuck is ‘Scoble’?” fol­lowed by, “Who let you out of your par­ents’ base­ment.” I know, it sucks, but it’s the truth. You are truly insignif­i­cant, and you’ll prob­a­bly die cold and alone in a pool of your own urine. Life is a bitch, best to kill your­selves now. Cheers!

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Ryan Block: Tool

March 6th, 2008, by The Angry Drunk

Today Apple held an event to lay­out the roadmap for enter­prise sup­port and the SDK. I’ll leave the analy­sis of the event to my bet­ters, mainly because a) I don’t own an iPhone, b) I’m not a devel­oper and c) the morons in charge of “Enterprise IT” where I’m at would first ask if that was a ship cap­tained by a chap named Kirk, then ask if you could help them with the hand they have stuck in a honey jar.

Instead I’m going to focus on Ryan Block of Engadget, because he is a fuck­ing tool. Let’s just lay this one out here, since I’m sure the rest of the blo­gotesser­act will be all over this soon enough. Ryan was actu­ally dimwit­ted enough to ask, dur­ing the Q&A fol­low­ing the announce­ment, if a SIM unlock­ing appli­ca­tion would be some­thing that Apple would allow.

Yeah, just let that one sink in a bit. Ryan, we get it, I’ve lis­tened to your crappy pod­cast. You’re none to fond of Apple. You don’t like iPods. And you’re firmly in the cat­e­gory of fuck­tards that think that, just because you think that a fea­ture is neato-keen, well then by-cracky the manufacturer

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