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Holiday Gift Guide: Hackintoshable Dell Mini 10v {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 25th 2009 2:20PM As pointed out already, Breach of Contract (one you don't even *sign* no less) is not illegal. It is a civil matter.
Additionally you should probably stop parroting Apple if you don't know what the words mean; "Due to worm which only affects iPhones with the security software disabled" is not accurate. There is no "disabled security software" involved with this 'worm' (which it isn't) whatsoever. It is the specific installation of a specific application that enables this.
Note too that prior to this, every single known security exploit ever successfully used against an iPhone has been on "locked down" phones with factory software.
If you are going to engage in apologetics and wag your finger, do try to be more informed in the future.
-K
Large Hadron Collider reboots, makes first protonic bang! {Engadget}
Nov 24th 2009 4:01PM @ttsgeb We should never, ever be afraid to learn, to know, or to confirm what we do not know.
It is the essential reason why we are here.
And Pie. To discover the nature of how the natural world works...and pie.
Smoking kills... your Mac {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 21st 2009 4:09PM Ignorant fool:
Tar isn't some magic component added to cigarettes, you anti-tobbaco "racist".
Tar is a byproduct of pyrolysis. It is produced by burning any organic material.
Look. Smoking is bad for you, no doubt...over a protracted period of time. However, this notion that breathing a whiff of smoke will shorten your life by a day or a myriad of other junk science notions that have been used to essentially make ONE QUARTER of America citizens some sort of pariah while unfairly taxing them to support OTHER PEOPLE is a bit much.
For Apple to claim the machine was a "biohazard" would need them to back it up with FACTUAL DATA that indicated this. They could say it was "yuckky", or "stinky", or "we are a bunch of holier-than-thou California hippies asswipes that would rather have people living in their own piss in the streets than to cut down some trees for housing...but we care too much about human health to touch your computer"...but to label it a 'biohazard' is just plain nonsense.
And no. I do not smoke. But more than that, I do not tolerate stupid statements about smoking from anyone...especially since smoking is the New Racism.
Some of the same rhetoric used about and against smokers has been used repeatedly to oppress other minority groups too...and with about as much evidence. It is so bad that some people use if or not people smoke AT HOME as a condition not to hire...
Sorry. It just really irritates me to no end...especially when some stoner says something stupid like "weed doesn't have tar". Where the hell do you think the tar comes from? Smoke, you idiot.
Jobs to dev on app name change: "Not that big of a deal." {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 20th 2009 2:18PM No...I think he works for the Obama Administration.
-K
First footage of Netflix on PS3 {Joystiq}
Nov 6th 2009 1:29PM I got this in this morning.
I can confirm it supports and plays back 720p.
At first I thought it did not as the first title I tried seemed to "hang" (Leverage TV Series) however another title I tried did in fact play and does so @ 720p
-K
Andy Ihnatko on Verizon Droid "iDon't" ads: baloney (mostly) {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 5th 2009 10:18AM Erm. That was a *horrible* rebuttal article. His basic take was "these claims are all true but I don't care"...c'mon :)
Adobe engages Apple in passive aggressive warfare with iPhone's Flash message {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2009 7:03AM @NohOne:
Very well-written and well reasoned...and it would have stayed that way until your imagined coup de grace:
The QuickTime container format is an open standard, has been for years, and is the container format for the mpeg 4 video specification. Either that, you don't know what "proprietary" means, because "MOV" is just as proprietary as engadget, windows, McDonald's fries and just about everything else. It is owned by someone :)
If you mean non-interoperable, well, note what I said before.
Nintendo officially announces large-screen DSi LL, hits Japan Nov. 21 {Joystiq}
Oct 31st 2009 7:45AM What the DSi LL demonstrates, in a nutshell, is that Nintendo's business is customer and market-driven, whereas, Sony (PSPGo we are sooo looking at you) seems to begrudgingly acquiesce to customer demands.
Sony seems to plan its strategy around forum and blog anticipation...but doesn't actually look at what is being bought and sold and by whom. The corporate culture there is similar to Apple's with regard to dictating what you want and need.
Sometimes it works. When it doesn't, they are VERY monolithic and slow to respond...to their detriment.
-K
Review: DJ Hero {Joystiq}
Oct 31st 2009 6:49AM I think the word all of you "DJs" (except the one) is looking for is "turntablism"...which is a wholly different style and class than (merely) beatmatching
There are some that posit that beatmatching lacks a level of showmanship...and only at the very advanced levels, such as key mixing, is really mowadays that much of a skill with the advent of so much software and hardware assistance.
That is to say, a kid with a bit of coin and 3 weeks of summertime constant practice and a sense of rhythm can put together a playlist that can be beat mixed fairly convincingly...but turntablism requires a level of manual dexterity and hand eye coordination.
Most of the "DJs" that I hear fobbing it off as dated are highly incapable of actually doing it in the first place :)
-K
Review: DJ Hero {Joystiq}
Oct 31st 2009 6:35AM I don't understand the "it costs too much" argument.
The game costs the same as any other game for ps3 or xbox360: $60.
The controller costs the same as any other Red Octane controller: $60.
*shrug*
-K
I heart my Apple TV, but as for 3.0 ... {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 30th 2009 9:42PM So much for the "hardware/software" notion :)
Once you deconstruct it and then essentially install a different front end, hooks and extensions...I think it is a stretch to still refer to it as Apple TV as it clearly isn't the "hardware and software" product that Apple developed and delivered :)
-K
Survey says, yes, teens and tweens still want video games this holiday {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 4:47AM I feel the same way, really. My oldest son, who is a teenager has, of course as he's gotten older, seen an R-Rated flick or two (some of the most thought-provoking films ever made are R-rated) and has played his share of FPS and such (I personally don't care for them...I call them "stress factories, lol) but my younger children...not so much.
There is a "knee-jerk" reaction it seems from "both sides" of the issue and a lot of adult gamers, you know in that 18-24 up to 30 demographic, seem to forget that there is a generation *between themselves* and the Boomers that aren't nearly as idiotic and irrational bout games and gaming.
Those would be our PARENTS.
You know, the ones that gleefully bought us all the stuff you guys consider "retro" when you are being polite. They are the ones oddly enough with the crazy talk simply because they remember the stuff they bought us wasn't as graphic.
They remember incorrectly, of course, but there is no talking to your folks sometimes. You know what I'm sayin' :)
We simply need to wait for a few more of them to die off to get a set of talking heads that know what they are talking about :)
Relax.
-K
Survey says, yes, teens and tweens still want video games this holiday {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 12:21AM Some of these replies kind of disturb me, simply because I am a parent and a gamer too...with kids in elementary, middle and high school.
There seems to be this idiotic notion that everything that is appropriate for adults is appropriate for kids *when talking about game to gamers* simply because some gamers without children seem to think the mere discussion of this will somehow take "their" games away.
Honestly, I have LESS of a problem with the replies than I do with the initial notion floated in the piece in the first place.
But I suppose this is what happens when you have neither editors editing nor somewhat reasonable adults doing the writing in the first place.
The whole last paragraph was completely pandering to you guys...you know that, right?
:)
-K
New Gay Tony in-game anime is all too familiar {Joystiq}
Oct 27th 2009 7:21AM One thought about the odd political bent this took:
It is interesting to note that historically, Liberals and
Ultra-Liberals have a disconcerting tendency to suppress speech the
dissents...and usually, oddly enough, claiming a moral high ground
that justifies the suppression of opposing ideas and quashing of
other freedoms based on some sort of intellectual superiority...when
in fact it could be said that it is intellectually corrupt to do so.
Just something to think about, considering the way this comment
thread has run...
-K
Rock Band out for $9.99 on the iPhone... but fails to thrill {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 20th 2009 12:30AM If you are a fan of Rock Band....get this. You will enjoy it. Without question.
Because unlike other "rhythm games" on the iPhone...this one actually looks, feels and sounds like, well, effin' Rock Band.
Comparing it to TTR is like...
No.
And I have content in TTR :) It isn't the same thing, the same feel or the same polish. Rock Band "feels" like a console game.
And at $10 and 50¢/song for track packs...it is Rock Band, bargain-style.
-K
Apple relents: in-app purchase for free apps allows demo-to-paid {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 16th 2009 5:58AM Apple does not in any way whatsoever review apps "one line of code at a time" and I have no idea where you would get such a notion.
-K
Tim Schafer dishes out Brutal Legend strategies (not in real time) {Joystiq}
Oct 15th 2009 8:24PM I would say it is "RTS-esque"...as opposed to "RTS-y". It is very, very light...but I do suppose for the "Arrr! GROK KIIILLLL" types doing 3 things at once might be a bit overwhelming ;)
-K
Tim Schafer dishes out Brutal Legend strategies (not in real time) {Joystiq}
Oct 15th 2009 8:20PM @The Dark Wayne:
You have NO IDEA how "uncool" you made yourself right there...so I'm gonna help you out, just this once, so you NEVER do that again:
Sam Raimi. Bruce Campbell. Army of Darkness.
You're Welcome.
-K
Daytona USA returns to arcades in high-def as 'Sega Racing Classic' {Joystiq}
Oct 15th 2009 8:09PM A 15 year-old child on an Internet comment? No thanks.
Activision wisely promotes DJ Hero with Daft Punk {Joystiq}
Oct 15th 2009 5:56PM Spencer: Exactly.
The "problem" with DJ Hero, from a purely technical standpoint is that it sort of mixes styles, so for say a purist 1200's-style DJ (and leave us face it, in this day and age, most of them that are performance dj's are using Serato, Traktor or Torq on the backend) it is a "perversion" of sorts, but for folks that basically do "live production" style mixing it isn't *nearly* as far as a leap...but for them, scratching is a very small part of what they do, but what is "classically" associated with a performance DJ.
I personally think it achieves a pretty good balance, tho if you aren't a fan of scratching, it might be a bit much. It is meant to be a game and not a "DJ Simulator" but my previous point still stands and DJs that actually touch the thing will reluctantly agree: it is a LOT more realistic than pressing 5 colored buttons to "simulate" chords.
-K
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