Showing newest 6 of 8 posts from October 2008. Show older posts
Showing newest 6 of 8 posts from October 2008. Show older posts
Friday, October 31, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Terry Tate vs. Palin
This made my morning
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Friday, October 17, 2008
I'm NNTPNegro, and I approved this message...
Picture from Hustler's "Nailin' Pailin"
Yeah, I phoned it in with just pics. Blow me...
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Genius (updated)
***NNTPNegro EDIT*** I'm sure Pedalhead will agree, this post needed pics, so I added some. Tried to go for the general theme of just how shitty and gay the Genius feature is. ***End NNTPNegro EDIT***
The genius feature (I refuse to capitalize it unless in a heading or the beginning of a sentence.) of iTunes, is great, if you just want a random button for your library. But if what you're looking for is something to impress you with its uncanny ability (like pandora, ahem) to pick songs that are similar, you had better move on in search somewhere else, my friend: genius is just a fucking gimmick, but i do hope that they pump that ontology full of intelligence, crank, and dirty whores. just intelligence will do, but the dirty whores can always provide entertainment while the digital intelligence is in the oven.
For example, I started an awesome genius playlist off of this emo band by the name of Karate. Never have songs made me want to simultaneously be masturbated by some buxom blonde while reading a magazine catering to sad Cure boys. 'nuff said. .. Anyway, so I'm expecting at least fairly mellow shit out of this goddamn button. I can't begin to describe the monumental disappointment I felt, as Minor Threat came on. And you know what? I should be fucking happy that Minor Threat is on, except I pushed this button, that told me, it's fucking smart! Well damn you, piece of shit random button; I hope you get knifed in the park when you're about a block and a half away from your door! You piece of overblown horseshit... you're like a rich kid that hasn't yet discovered their hopeless mediocrity. So proud, your head held high. You make me want to fucking puke.
I have a suggestion, not that anybody's listening: Why don't you get truly innovative with your user interfaces. Try new shit on me, dammit! I want something that pushes the envelope, not just in the sexy plastic enclosure of whatever box you sell that I absolutely must get my hands on. I'm talking software. What NeXT was truly decent at. I mean, the dock, the way applications are structured on the mac, the spinning beach ball of death (and your mother) all argue that it's quite possible to get different ideas of how a user's interface with the computer works, into the mainstream market.
What I don't want, is a goddamn random button..... back on topic here for a sec.... I wouldn't mind a decent graphics/gaming API for one. Another thing I'd like: theming to be built into the OS itself. Take elements from teh UI builder for XCode and stick 'em into control panel somewhere and wrap some smarts around that shit. I should be able to get real fucking arbitrary with my interface right now, but I can't because Apple (one of the few who could pull it off, if they cared) won't take an idea like that seriously. I should be able, in the 21st century, to treat my machine like a granite slab, like carving some ancient fucker's visage in. That level of control should be mine. Instead, I get Spore (unplayable on the mac, by the way), a lot of metrosexual applications that all focus on telling the time or similarly doing only one thing (though usually well), and perpetually confused because I spend a lot of time in Windows and there's just no good reason to put the dismiss button on the left. Maybe if I were an Israeli it would make sense to me. Too bad the closest I'll ever get to that is if I go eat a Hebrew National hot dog. Anyway, my brain hates hearing Karate, then Bad Religion, then Feist (wait, I have something of hers??!), then Minor Threat, then back to fucking Bad Religion. Come on now, guys, earn your fucking granola!
The genius feature (I refuse to capitalize it unless in a heading or the beginning of a sentence.) of iTunes, is great, if you just want a random button for your library. But if what you're looking for is something to impress you with its uncanny ability (like pandora, ahem) to pick songs that are similar, you had better move on in search somewhere else, my friend: genius is just a fucking gimmick, but i do hope that they pump that ontology full of intelligence, crank, and dirty whores. just intelligence will do, but the dirty whores can always provide entertainment while the digital intelligence is in the oven.
For example, I started an awesome genius playlist off of this emo band by the name of Karate. Never have songs made me want to simultaneously be masturbated by some buxom blonde while reading a magazine catering to sad Cure boys. 'nuff said. .. Anyway, so I'm expecting at least fairly mellow shit out of this goddamn button. I can't begin to describe the monumental disappointment I felt, as Minor Threat came on. And you know what? I should be fucking happy that Minor Threat is on, except I pushed this button, that told me, it's fucking smart! Well damn you, piece of shit random button; I hope you get knifed in the park when you're about a block and a half away from your door! You piece of overblown horseshit... you're like a rich kid that hasn't yet discovered their hopeless mediocrity. So proud, your head held high. You make me want to fucking puke.
I have a suggestion, not that anybody's listening: Why don't you get truly innovative with your user interfaces. Try new shit on me, dammit! I want something that pushes the envelope, not just in the sexy plastic enclosure of whatever box you sell that I absolutely must get my hands on. I'm talking software. What NeXT was truly decent at. I mean, the dock, the way applications are structured on the mac, the spinning beach ball of death (and your mother) all argue that it's quite possible to get different ideas of how a user's interface with the computer works, into the mainstream market.
What I don't want, is a goddamn random button..... back on topic here for a sec.... I wouldn't mind a decent graphics/gaming API for one. Another thing I'd like: theming to be built into the OS itself. Take elements from teh UI builder for XCode and stick 'em into control panel somewhere and wrap some smarts around that shit. I should be able to get real fucking arbitrary with my interface right now, but I can't because Apple (one of the few who could pull it off, if they cared) won't take an idea like that seriously. I should be able, in the 21st century, to treat my machine like a granite slab, like carving some ancient fucker's visage in. That level of control should be mine. Instead, I get Spore (unplayable on the mac, by the way), a lot of metrosexual applications that all focus on telling the time or similarly doing only one thing (though usually well), and perpetually confused because I spend a lot of time in Windows and there's just no good reason to put the dismiss button on the left. Maybe if I were an Israeli it would make sense to me. Too bad the closest I'll ever get to that is if I go eat a Hebrew National hot dog. Anyway, my brain hates hearing Karate, then Bad Religion, then Feist (wait, I have something of hers??!), then Minor Threat, then back to fucking Bad Religion. Come on now, guys, earn your fucking granola!
