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Opinion Archive
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October 2008
Once you go Mac, you never go back -
June 2008
About that 2-megapixel camera and iChat in iPhone 3G… -
April 2008
Wall Street is missing important aspects of Apple’s story -
April 2008
Samsung’s ‘Instinct’ is obviously to make Apple iPhone knockoffs
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iPodNN
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- 1. Womanizer - Britney Spears
- 2. Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna) - T.I.
- 3. So What - P!nk
- 4. Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
- 5. Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne
- 6. Whatever You Like - T.I.
- 7. Love Lockdown - Kanye West
- 8. Keeps Gettin' Better - Christina Aguilera
- 9. Gotta Be Somebody - Nickelback
- 10. Love Story - Taylor Swift
iTunes Top 10 Albums
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- 2. Appeal to Reason - Rise Against
- 3. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis
- 4. Death Magnetic - Metallica
- 5. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Deluxe Edition] - Various Artists
- 6. Year of the Gentleman (Bonus Track Version) - Ne-Yo
- 7. The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 - Bob Dylan
- 8. Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart - Rachael Yamagata
- 9. Viva la Vida - Coldplay
- 10. Jennifer Hudson (Bonus Track Version) - Jennifer Hudson
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iPod Hacks
U know what's scary, if U calculate this 3.2ghz whatever new Toshiba laptop with 'XP media' bla bla on it, taking 7 MINUTES 2 boot, & then divide into that my crap 400Mhz AMD Socket 7 test bed thingy, well that would take 8X as long 2 do the same stuff, therefore = 7X8 = 56 MINUTES 2 load - instead of 7 SECONDS 4 my Win95 blend. So the hard fact is, it's not really 7X faster - what I am running - it is actually 56X60 (3,360) / 7X faster - or 480X the speed of 'new & improved' Winblow$ XP media bla bla! Do the math - 7 seconds 2 boot my 400mhz, vs 7 minutes 2 boot the 'new improved XP' on a 3.2 GHZ! (3,200mhz) system. What's more, I got the bord with 7 fancy cards on it, & tripple monitors (so it has 2 initiate those). Yea' I also sell cylindrical speakers that R superior 2 box speakers in a lot of ways - interesting how I thought a box was kind of required, but a tube can B used & is stronger (can't flex) & better in many ways!
Live & learn. If N E 1 out here would like 2 help the world by sharing my advices into a new sort of software 'compatability layer' 4 the Exokernel Power PC core (Sony PS3 types) PLEASE contact me. I have learned a lot of neat tricks! This 480X thing is not a joke - do the math. I guess that's Y I have not felt the need 2 upgrade my CPU! HAHA - of course, customers R so brainwashed they GIVE ME their 400mhz & even faster stuff FREE. I then give those PCs as freebie 'media centers' (after I reconfigure the software/OS on them 4 speed) with the speakers I sell - works out I guess
I'm deffinitely checking out those PS3 regardless- 3X the speed of Nividia's fastest card (by their own admission) & costs LESS 4 the whole machine than just the card alone! wow - can't lose.
Yea' OK I forgot there R bios differences that account 4 much of it - oh well, it's still faster. So, I correct my self, but I'm still sharing something useful here. Dump your 'upgrade slavery' routine. Older is sometimes better. There is a fallacy called 'appeal 2 novelty' - like these days the TV says rap is 'music', & breeding with monkeys is 'progressive'. It is not. It's destructive 2 civilization. & no 'opression' has little 2 do with it. The Abos in Australia has 75,000 years without us bugging them - what did they do? Boomerangs? haha & our own people - corporate types - poisoning the water with fluoride, bla bla - there R people who love progress, & there R people who love 'zero sum' models - only think they can get ahead by screwing others. It's not the case. Join me in helping make a better OS - a "NON"-OS - a 'shell' that lets U run N E software from Mac 2 Winblows 2 whatever. It's a big project, but somebody needs 2 start a group serious about it - not stuck in this 'linux emulator compatability layer' thing, but instead in an 'exokernel' type thing - where hardware resources R fully modularized. bla bla


Oh haha - my main test system is a 400MHz AMD crapola CPU - & the mobo supposedly only supports drives up 2 8 gigs or something. I use a special custom blend of Maxblast stuff 2 run the huge drives as well! :D No can't run scandisk within winblows (something about the bit depth on drives over 36GB or something), but can do it in DOS - oh, which is native in 95 by the way - not XP - it uses an EMULATOR - in other words, half-assed junk that doesn't run a lot of games properly. Microsoft's game is 2 collude with hardware sellers 2 make everything run like molasses - but add pointless 'window dressings' like transparency (which they stole from linux shell replacements by the way). I mean come on - 7 minutes 2 boot a new 3ghz Toshiba Laptom? U R effin' kidding me! 7 seconds 2 boot my 95 blend LOL!!! Wooo 'progress'
) Reminds me how they stick computers in cars 2 make them generate more service problems - or didn't U know cars R designed 2 break becuase they want about 30% of their profit from repair? They even DESTROY the electric cars they were mandated 2 produce by law (after they paid off the politicians 2 change the law). Most people are scum - pure parasites. Be they crooks in an alley, or in a suit & tie heading up some big corporation - their goal is wealth & power, NOT progress. THey only promote progress when it suits profit, etc. Scientists (some of them) R the real movers behind progress - Tesla, stuff like that. Asside from making PCs relatively easy 2 use, Bill Gates has contributed NOTHING. In fact, the world would B much better off with an entirely different model - like Amiga I hear is super-fast - but not good marketing I guess. U know, my other gripe is programs that have 'virtual knobs' in them? What good is a friggin 'knob' when I am using a mouse?!?! GIVE ME SLIDERS OR GIVE ME DEATH!
) Just kidding! Like I always say, most people R idiots - writing 'knobs' into programs, or forcing 'consumers' 2 use COMMAND LINE 'codes' 2 operate something (1 of several reasons Linux is useless 2 consumer market).