Where do I start… All sorts of companies are cutting back, cutting heads, and just generally taking it up the ass. Even, “well established” companies like Adobe, Nokia, Ericsson, Amazon.com and Sega are stocking up on Tylenol in anticipation of the free-market actually coming into effect. Now Europe is laughing at our dumb asses.
While Apple products have failed on the market many times, with the Newton handheld device as a prime example, others have picked up on Apple’s ideas and turned them into PC standards
Check out this pretty decent article on how Apple gave PC-peeps all the shit they take for granted. This is why Apple will never go away, and if they did, why the PC hardware and software makers alike would be doing heroin to fight off the pain of having to come up with their own ideas.
Okay. I know. The site’s been kinda slow lately, but I promise I will be able to post more shit when I’m working from home. Which will be this week.
So last week, my car got towed from a spot that, yes, I was not supposed to be parked in, although it was within 5 feet of a spot that I could have parked in. I bummed a ride to the towing yard, paid the fees, and angrily got my car back. But it was over.
Or so I thought.
Fast-forward to tonight (Saturday), 7:50PM. I arrived at work and sat down at my computer. One of my co-workers suggested we go see Snatch. Time: 8:00PM. We leave the building, the 3 of us, and arrive at where I had parked my car. Gone. From the spot that I am authorized to park in. Motherfucker. Called the towing company… ‘Yeah, we got it’ was the response I got. When I told him that the towing was unauthorized, and that I wouldn’t pay for my car, he replied ‘Well then you ain’t getting your car back.’ And it’s 8:00PM on a Saturday night, so there’s literally no one here who could have towed my car, right? Wrong. There’s a stupid-ass apartment/garage right in front if where our spots are, and this guy’s been known to be an asshole. So he’s going down.
So a near-useless 25mhz Quadra I had under my desk (laughably next to my G4) has met its fate in the form of launching off the building I soon will not work in. Quite the entertainment, let me tell you. The only thing better would have been if I had thrown a PC from 7 floors up.
Go see Traffic tonight (the site’s pretty good, too, if you’re in the mood for experimental, funky flash). Just do it. Only don’t see it at a theater in Littleton, CO. I wanted to tell the people next to us that they were in the wrong theater, and that ‘Dude, Where’s My Car?’ was down the hall. But I guess I should learn to expect people like that in the suburbs, now shouldn’t I?
The best (worst) line: ‘For a kid my age, it’s much easier to get drugs than it is to get alcohol.’
This has to be the most ridiculous product I have ever seen… except for, maybe, the real doll.
In an apparent prank carried out by departing Clinton administration staffers, Bush aides discovered that dozens of computer keyboards were missing the “W” key.
Heh.
<Homer> ”Press ‘Any’ key to continue? But I can’t find it! I can’t find the ‘Any’ key!’ </Homer>
I just picked up my Apple Pro optical mouse (for whatever reason) and saw that in the front curve on the bottom, right above the logo and just inside the rubber ring are the words: ‘Designed by Apple in California.’ This confuses the hell out of me. Was it put there in order to lead people away from the idea that someone ELSE designed it? And why is it specific to California? I’m just so confused… I wonder if someone knows any hardware designers over there and can ask them?
I guarantee you that Microsoft was not running Linux servers when they ran into ‘temporary problems.’
We are pleased to offer the Napster community the opportunity to easily purchase music they discover on Napster, said Napsters chief operating officer Milton Olin.
It was unclear why anyone using Napster to download music for free would gravitate toward an online retailer who actually wants money for its products.
You’re kidding, right? It’s ‘unclear?’ It’s actually quite ridiculous to expect people to start paying for music, especially from within Napster.
The first annual Weblog Awards are currently being voted on. So go vote, if your heart desires. Although I think it fair to warn you: Alternate is NOWHERE to be found, but that’s okay. I was hoping at least we’d make it next to Slashdot and Arstechnica, but no. To quote 37signals: No Awards, Please.
In an attempt to be at least somewhat democratic here at Alternate, I’ve decided to let you, the reader, decide which ‘look n feel’ (or ‘duckbucket’, as we like to call it) we’re actually going to go with for the redesign. Make your voice heard in the voting booth to the left.