April 2009
148 posts
'Save Chuck' latest in campaigns to rescue... →
It is a god damn shame that we have so much crap that gets renewed year after year, and so many countless dumbass reality shows that have NO trouble getting greenlit, yet shows like Chuck, Dollhouse and Sarah Connor Chronicles are actually struggling for survival.
Chuck is one hell of a show. It is interesting, it is funny and extremely entertaining. I love this show. To be honest, my only...
Slashdot | Konami Cuts and Runs From Iraq War Game →
I don’t see what the hell is the problem. Little boys have played soldier for thousands of years. My generation played soldier with toy rifles and other assorted toys, plus of course the little plastic Army Men that we set up in very realistic battlefields in our backyards. This generation is doing the exact same, only with video games. And they get an added benefit: their version is so...
Pearls before swine
morgajel: http://digg.com/politics/GOP_Stripped_900M_In_Pandemic_Preparedness_From_Stimulus
morgajel: ironic that they cut the pork and got swine flu
GM to shed 21,000 U.S. factory jobs, Pontiac →
Now we are talking. Not about the firings and killing Pontiac, everyone knew layoffs were coming. What is important is that for the first time it looks like the UAW is finally going to be offered one hell of an incentive to play nice and help GM get out of this mess: $10 billion in stock.
Sure, that stock is worthless unless the company survives, but it gives the UAW real power if they can get...
2 tags
UAW agrees to concessions with Chrysler →
A “tentative” deal four days before their drop dead date? Who the fuck do they think they are kidding? “Tentative” doesn’t mean shit, for all we know the UAW is sitting tight on a better deal. Or trying to figure out who are they taking down with them when the whole thing comes crashing down.
“There’s a little box on Amazon that reads ‘Tell the publisher I’d like to read...”
– Is a Book Still a Book on Kindle? - NYTimes.com
Am I the only one that read that and ran straight for Amazon to click on the damn checkbox?
Watch DOLLHOUSE Week 4/27-5/1 →
FOX basically doomed both Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse to fail by dumping them on the Friday Night Death Slot. Both shows are very good but ratings are nowhere close to stellar, so they are both in danger. Dollhouse Week is a grassroots effort to get people to watch the show LEGALLY online, over this week. If you like Sci Fi, you have no excuse to at least watch the pilot, which is...
Slashdot | What Did You Do First With Linux? →
Not taking into account the “learning” installs from 1993-94 or so, I clearly remember that my employer wanted to get rid of about 400 old desktops in 1997 and decided to raffle them between the employees and donating to charity whatever was left. Those things ran horribly on Windows 95, but they were pretty decent on SuSe or Redhat, I can’t remember which.
Why AT&T Wants to Keep the iPhone Away From... →
Well, duh, of course they want to keep the iPhone to themselves. Have you noticed that AT&T NEVER advertises the iPhone? The only iPhone ads you ever see are Apple ads (I imagine that AT&T has to pay for part of the costs of making these ads, but they are clearly branded as Apple).
The customers just trickle in.
On top of that, Verizon had a chance and they blew it, so it is going to...
High school senior aces ACT, SAT and PSAT →
Congratulations, you just proved that you are very good at something that is not going to help you for jack shit for as long as you are in college. No tests in college are like these tests, so basically all that you are proving is that you are really good at taking tests, not at learning.
Good for you.
Ford losses less than expected →
OK, I am confused here. How the fuck can you tell me that you are ON TRACK TO MEET FINANCIAL TARGETS, when you lost 75 cents a share and a year ago you were reporting 20 cents a share profit?
“Hey guys, we are dead in the water, but that’s OK because that’s exactly how we planned it. We are right on track.”
So we now have:
Chrysler on death watch.
GM on amputation...
I can explain
The SDK for the canooter valve API in the dev server was not only corrupted, but there were typos in the examples so I had to Google for examples. For some idiotic reason, every single web site has the exact same sample code, copied from the SDK WITH TYPOS STILL. Because of this I had to rewrite the access points to the Jefferies tube module and that took time. And yes, all of that needs to be...
What car would you most like to drive and why?
FERRARI 250 GTO and 275 GTB
Ferrari 250 GTO, 1962-1964. I don’t know why, it just has driven me crazy since I was a kid.
Powered by Plinky
So Long, GeoCities: We Forgot You Still Existed →
Microbe-powered 'fart' machine stores energy →
Farts.
Report: U.S. preparing Chrysler bankruptcy →
The plot thickens: now we have the feds ready to have Chrysler liquidated, but FIAT is not only playing hard to get, but also in talks with Opel which is owned by GM. Lovely.
At this pace if I ever want to own a Fiat 500 I’ll have to move back to Germany, assuming they sell them there. If Opel goes down that spells trouble for my former neighborhood in Kaiserslautern, where the Opel plant...
The True Cost of Amazon's New Kindle -... →
Here’s what I had to say about this at Mahalo Answers:
One more time people keep focusing on the $359 as if Amazon is getting all that mobile broadband for FREE. What I don’t like is that iSuppli has been doing this kind of breakdown for iPods for ages, but they missed the mark this time by ignoring the 3G connectivity issue. Let’s try this: 1. The MSRP for an Amazon Kindle is...
Time Warner Cable Pouts - Infers that since... →
I don’t think these people understand that after the bitchslap comes more bitchslapping. They already made a nuisance out of themselves by trying to impose these idiotic caps. Now, immediately after getting punched in the face, the start implying that their customers are going to be punished by not receiving the DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade.
Since when the hell it makes sense to bully your customers...
Users Need A Decent Alternative To Video Piracy -... →
Yeah, but they don’t hesitate to pay lawyers to push paper for them.
Readings show Four Corners marker off by 2.5 miles... →
Oopsie. Not only is that going to screw up tourism, but what about taxing? Will this 2.5 shift affect county/state lines and force taxes to be moved around? Or is this just a flat desert spot in the middle of nowhere and the error only means moving the marker?
“You have three people telling project engineers what to do, and nobody’s...”
– Yahoo to cut 5% of workforce - Apr. 21, 2009
It is sad that this kind of leadership was brought into the company so late. I especially like how she finds bloated management offensive.
Is the Future of Electric Cars in China? →
It depends.
Will the Chinese come up with their own plugin electric from scratch? No.
Will the Chinese be able to build a gazillion plugin electrics based on somebody else’s design? You damn right they can. And so can India.
Both China and India can crank those out cheaply, especially since they don’t have to pass US safety and emission standards. And they’ll sell a ton of...
Obama proposes $100 billion U.S. loan for IMF →
I got an even better idea: why don’t we make a list of every asshole country that took turns sticking knives in our backs in the past 10 years, then we tell them that they can go fuck themselves and are NOT elegible for any foreign aid package that is funded by us?
Why not? It’s our god damn money, it is funded with our taxes, so why should we be loaning money to countries that...
O'Reilly Media releases over 160 books for the... →
Mastering Regular Expressions is not yet on that list, but Mastering Perl is.
Click here to tell O’Reilly that you want Mastering Regular Expressions released for the Kindle.
Bailouts: Chrysler Financial Accused Of Turning... →
Repeat after me: Fix It Again, Tony.
Susan Boyle YouTube Video: 100 Million Hits and... →
Let’s hope that even if she doesn’t see a penny from THAT windfall, that she can cash out on her 15 minutes properly.
Microsoft to open source: Please don't compete on... →
Why would anyone connected to open source do one damn thing to make things easier for Microsoft? This is even funnier because Microsoft has used price as their main argument to fight off Apple.
Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs →
So now I have to worry about Flash crashing my TV too? Not only no, but HELL NO.
Amazon Kindle's Blog: Middle Earth Has Arrived →
So there you have it, J.R.R. Tolkien is now available on Kindle.
Madonna falls from her high horse →
I don’t get it. If I was rich and I liked to ride horses, I would make sure to have people around to keep the rifraff away so my horse doesn’t get startled. But that’s just me.
“The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation...”
– News from The Associated Press
Stay Classy!
