Garret Says:
September 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am
Superior? You should try playing a game that supports surround sound and uses EAX technology. Can’t do that on OSX at all. Build .NET applications? Nope.
auramac Says:
September 27th, 2006 at 11:06 am
One of the reasons I don’t Need Windows- an entirely different list from the one called “Why I Much Prefer a Mac”- is that I’ve got too many interests and things going on in my life- musician, artist, tech support specialist- to have the slightest interest in playing computer games as the clock keeps ticking away. Bang!- you’re dead. At least, not really alive. Oh, I like to veg, and rest, and play- but I’m too old and too young for the gaming. But we are digressing, aren’t we?……
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
stuff
TV's PC Guy: So, to get into character as the PC, does that take some sort of method acting?
No, I’m not an actor, per se . . . . I was out there in the wilderness with PCs feeling completely frustrated, and appreciating their attempt to be nice and easy to use and constantly amazed by the fact that they were the most confusing boobs. I myself am a Mac user. I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC . . . . Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC’s efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he’s much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they’re standing in that white room is because he’s trying to help the Mac out.
From Woz's bio, on Steve Jobs: What did the two Steves do in the early days, pre-Apple Computer?
”Steve and I were into listening to Bob Dylan and his lyrics, trying to figure out who was better, Dylan or the Beatles. We both favored Dylan because the songs were about life and living and values in life and what was really important.”
No, I’m not an actor, per se . . . . I was out there in the wilderness with PCs feeling completely frustrated, and appreciating their attempt to be nice and easy to use and constantly amazed by the fact that they were the most confusing boobs. I myself am a Mac user. I bought the very first Mac, or convinced my father to buy it, in 1984. I used it through high school and college; it was the first computer I used outside of college, then I went though a brief period of exile during my corporate years as a professional literary agent, where I was forced to use a PC . . . . Mac has always gotten the design and the interface down pat. They just know it. PC’s efforts to emulate this, and its constant failing, and its self-satisfied arrogance about it being the most used platform in the world, all of that made it very easy to craft a character who, while he is a boob, and often concerned about how he comes off, at his core really feels bad for the Mac. Is really so delusional to believe he’s much cooler than the Mac. The whole reason they’re standing in that white room is because he’s trying to help the Mac out.
From Woz's bio, on Steve Jobs: What did the two Steves do in the early days, pre-Apple Computer?
”Steve and I were into listening to Bob Dylan and his lyrics, trying to figure out who was better, Dylan or the Beatles. We both favored Dylan because the songs were about life and living and values in life and what was really important.”
Friday, September 1, 2006
SNL
SNL has sucked for years, but it's always had its moments and that's why I keep coming back. So you laugh a bit, sit through a bunch of crap, then are shocked again by something actually quite good- and funny. It's also at its best when it takes on this particular administration and other idiots in Washington. Amy is great doing "Rick! Rick!" but not so great on Update- none of them appear up to that job, especially when you think of John Stewart and Colbert's stuff.
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