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According to this article, Ticketmaster has acquired TicketWeb. Great. Now you expect to always pay 200% more than you should and outrageous ticket fees. Why is this sort of thing legal?

Due to some extraordinary amount of luck, we here at Alternate.org have gotten our greasy mitts on a copy of Mac OS X Developer Preview 4, and will be posting a review soon.

If you use a Windows machine with Outlook for anything remotely important, don’t even check your email for the next few days. Here’s why.

My advice? Buy a Mac.

This article is really funny.

Apparently, there are certain people who feel that they have to upgrade their Apple Color Classics to G3s. You can even pay $2500 to have an iMac put in one.

So it’s an iMac with a 10” monitor? Great. That’s just what I need.

(*Photo Courtesy Color Classic Forever*)

This ad is the funniest shit I have seen in years. The ad was placed at a price of over $13,000 in a daily German newspaper by an ad agency looking for some publicity… boy did they get it. In fact Apple is threatining lawsuits for misrepresenting them.


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Bill Gates warns of global email armegeddon if Microsoft is split in an
upcoming TIME article as described in HREF=”http://www.theregister.co.uk/000508-000011.html”>The Register.
“It’s simple, really, as Bill, or whoever knee-jerked the piece out so
swiftly, explains. The front line defense
against viruses is apparently a “continually evolving” computer operating
system that encourages large
numbers of software developers to write for it. But if Microsoft is split
into two, there would be less innovation
in the software, hence fewer developers, and ultimately less defence
against viruses. ” This illogic should be used to support the hastened
division of Microsoft; competition fosters innovation. The current spate of
worms and virii are a direct result of Microsofts arrogant abuse of their
monopoly; giving customers buggy software that they have no choice but to
buy. If our only defense against global meltdown is to rely on the good
intentions of one corporation then we really have a problem.

According to this article, Verizon is so obsessed with anyone speaking badly about them, that they registered Verizonsucks.com. And when a 2600 Magazine publisher purchased verizonreallysucks.com, Verizon sent them a nasty note, telling them that their registration of that name violates the cybersquatting law passed by Congress last year.

Only it doesn’t.

The law specifies that no one may register a domain that relates to someone’s copyright if they plan on profiting from it (i.e., buying Pepsi.com only to sell it back to them).

2600 doesn’t plan on making any money.

I’m sick of this sort of crap. Huge businesses suing small people and small companies for stupid stuff based around the internet. It seems to me that companies like Verizon and the RIAA are like small children who see other children playing with something really cool. They get really jealous, take it away from them, and then won’t let them have it back.

You remember what happened to those kids? They got beat up. Badly.

While IS ran around with heads cut off, I too wondered looking at the ‘love code’ why it is so easy to cripple entire empires… VB script? Luckily the Mac partition on the NT boxes survived while thousands of files and days of work went down the drain…interesting world- but the cost of ownership for mac owners just went down…

Basically Windows sucks and yet another “outlook/mellissa” virus has proved that today to 80% of europe and most of the US by letting some stupid fuck change its files and registry.


I for one hate fucking outlook and that piece o’ shit excuse for an OS called windows.


—pissed off administrator

According to a late post yesterday by MOSR, there is a new Apple ad over at AdCrtic.com that nobody’s ever seen before. You can see it here.

My theory is that it was produced, shown to Apple management, and scrubbed. And with good reason. To me, it seems like it’s an ad that was put together by TBWA/Chiat-Day on an off-day. It adheres not at all to the Apple advertising paradigm, and in all honesty is not a very good ad. Not to mention the slight implication that the G4 costs a lot of money, necessitating a suitcase for it all. The only redeeming factor is the subtle hint that the girl at the very end is going to steal it herself. The other negative implication being that she can’t go down to her local CompUSA and pick one up.

Damn…the big record companies have struck a blow in the MP3 battle as a judge has found MP3.com liable for “offering music online without permission.” They are working on a settlement in the form of a massive licensing deal.


That’s all right. They’ll never get Napster.