Let’s face it, Apple has become Microsoft. It may used to work, but the bigger it gets, the more features it includes, the more it’ll become like Microsoft. Just like Firefox who had to tone down their latest version of the browser because the previous one was bloated with to many features and to much coding.
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The iPhone suffers from the same. My little brick of silver goodness suffers from slowdowns and downright LAG in local functions, I’m not talking about networking here, just clunky software ever since I upgraded. I almost rammed my finger right through the phone because I had to tap the same button 5 or 6 times before the damn iPhone woke up and replied to the input.
And what a surprise I had when I setup my Exchange account that all my previous calendars and contacts were deleted and well this IS NORMAL for the process. Lucky me I back everything up.
All these fuck-ups don’t spell IT JUST WORKS, it spells JUST ANOTHER SOFTWARE.
Travelling the way I do, I take a lot of transports, like planes, buses and taxis and I’ve had weird experiences, some scary unnerving ones also.
When the movie on the plane cuts out and you hear the pilot yelp out in a semi panicked on the plane “Everyone buckle up now it’s gonna get bumpy” and boy did it ever, glasses were flying, someone who wasn’t buckled in was ejected from her seat, arms were flying all over the place and it was the bumpiest ride I’ve ever been on but I knew it was ok. It was just turbulence, very strong turbulence, but nothing I felt worried about, I even let out a few woohoos when the plane did the roller-coaster moves.
Then there was the taxi ride in Laredo, Texas, this border town that’s eerie, creepy and ghostly. I get into the cab and the makers of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre couldn’t have come up with a creepier setting. The old Mexican man with a straw hat, missing teeth, that doesn’t speak English. There are 20 wooden crucifixes hanging from the car ceiling and over 12 virgin-marys on the dashboard and other gangly things. As we drove to the hotel lost in the middle of nowhere I couldn’t help but think I was heading to some basement to meet with Leatherface. But I knew I was letting stereotypes get the best of me.
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But today I got afraid.
I took a cab in somewhere-Chicago to get back home after a pit-stop at BestBuy. I get into the cab and everything is just wacky. All the signals are there.
The cab is spotlessly clean
The cabby is listening to classical music
The cabby is wearing classical professorial glasses
The cabby speaks a very educated English
The cabby has good teeth and clean hair
Needless to say everything was to perfect but what are you gonna do when things are perfect? Run away? Right? Of course not. The drive goes well and then about half there he starts rambling and muttering how he was a professor at Northwestern and they kicked him out for fallacious reasons and that he doesn’t believe in the subjective and then he started getting a little agitated. His eyes were getting fidgety and his voice less and less discernable from the gibberings of a drunk. He seemed to have loss sight of reality for a moment.
“Oh there’s my turn, turn here”
That was enough to distract him back to reality long enough to drop me off. So I could get the fuck away from that freak. I was glad for that bullet-proof glass between him and me and yet he still freaked me out. A real loony. I think I prefer the ones who ramble about bad government and how the brothers can’t get a break in America.
I was reading the article over at Fagstein’s ever addictive and sometimes infuriating blog (that’s another story) on the opening of Apple’s new Mac Store in Montreal.
And I have to say something here and bear with me please.
You Mac freaks make Star Trek conventioneers look fucking respectable and sane.
Mooooooooo
Yeah that’s right I said it, I went there. Look at yourselves gushing over a fucking computer store likes it’s a fucking religion. You freaks are the end of the consumer line. You are the marketer’s wet fucking dream, the drone that clamours at the opening of a STORE, a STORE… it’s just a goddamn STORE.
Apple products aren’t so great; you’re just so sold on the brand you can’t let go like the preachings of a prophet. As long as it has an “i” in front if it you’ll buy it.
The MacBooks overheat… but it’s not so bad, just take out the battery. That’s insane troll logic but you don’t see a problem with the fact that the macbook is a laptop or notebook whatever the fuck you want to call it and that the battery is supposed to be in there, not removed.
The iPhone. I LOVE MY iPHONE. I really do. I think as a phone it’s 5 years ahead of other phones (with the iPod) but as a PDA, let’s face it it’s a piece of shit – yes I’ve come to my senses. No copy-paste, a shitty 2 Megapixel camera, no video function, it’s locked up so tight, you have to pay twice to get a ringtone. You can’t remove the battery or the memory. And what’s this shit about not downloading my stuff from my iPhone onto another computer? I have an American contract and I think it’s expensive, the Canadian ones are huge rip-offs and the drones will all get one anyway, because it’s iPhone and nothing else matters.
iTunes. What the fuck is that? That is the lame-assiest piece of shit media library manager I have ever had the displeasure of working with. I am willing to pay for a licence for a good software to do just that because I have a huge music collection and I’ve done so in the past with. iTunes is so bad it can’t even find album covers for million-unit selling metal bands like Tool. It can’t properly rescan folders if you’ve played with your files with another file manager; you have to recreate the library completely. Now I’m sorry to say that Microsoft’s Media Player can outrun iTunes on all facets of media management and makes everything easier because of its flexibility. Who knew that a Microsoft product would be more flexible than an Apple one?
Your mindshare has been bought and sold cheap by a big company that makes you believe it’s all nice and cuddly and loves you like bunnies, but it’s just another share-owned corporation trying to get your money into their accounts and they created a media-culture shift to do it and you all fell for it like cows to the slaughter.
Well I was reading DominicArpin.ca – Le Patrouilleur du Net and the guy has videos of tornadoes touching down in Montreal or rather in Saint Lawrence River. Still think Global warming is a myth? Those things were HUGE, not beginnings of little twisters that end in 3 seconds, but huge big ass mofos.
According to Environment Canada they were 25 and 50 meters in diameter and 600 meters high. Take that Oklahoma – Just kidding.
Here are the videos where you can hear folks, not accustomed to the destructive power of tornadoes, speak in glorious awe of the beauty of the twisters. I’m sad to report Longueuil remains undamaged and is still on the map.
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