Posted 10/18/2009 at 11:15:55pm

OK, so rather than this terrible hassle of upgrading ("What do you mean I have to put a disc in the drive?!") I should buy a new computer because it's the easier thing to do? OK fine, I'll bite. So instead of buying a smokin' Core i7 Win7 PC for $1200, I should buy an iMac with a core 2 duo (how quaint!) for the same price? Um, sorry Apple, that chip is what I'm upgrading FROM, not TO.

And for everyone trying to be polite by saying "I use Macs and they're good too" ... I am a power user and have to use Macs at least twice a week for work. I find OS X to be tedious, cumbersome and unconfigurable. To the point where the lack of any sort of user and interface customization is infuriating. And that Dock is so inferior to the Start menu. I have what, maybe 250 programs installed in All Programs -- and btw Apple, they're in alphabetical order. I couldn't imagine having to use the Dock to sift through that many programs (assuming of course that 250 applications actually exist for OS X). Even the little things, like in order to resize windows you must use the resize box in the lower-right corner?! Really? It is 2009 right? Maybe under the hood OS X is lean, but I could've guessed that ... because it doesn't let me DO anything.

I just don't get it. :|

Posted 08/15/2009 at 06:43:32pm

Lol. Sorry, it was rather late when I wrote that. Just trying to lighten the mood. ;) The "my OS is better than your OS" talk was getting a little nasty so I figured I'd try to make a wacky analogy for why I'd want to hang on to something that's outmoded and static. In case you haven't figured it out yet, I eagerly await Win 7!

Posted 08/15/2009 at 03:51:29am

I just loved the A-Team! I mean it was a TV show that had everything! The wacky guy, the handsome guy, the burly black guy, and the witty old guy who loved it when it all came together. It was the epitome of what a TV show should be; the perfect blend of action, comedy, drama, suspense and, yes, even romance! And it was for the whole family! No fancy-pants CGI, no over-paid actors, just the best TV entertainment one could ever ask for! If that wasn't good enough television for ya, a few years later they even added that sassy girl who would join them for a few episodes! And Michael Ironside sometimes too! And soooo many people still tell me this, so I knooow I'm not alone here.

I mean I just don't see how anyone would grow tired of the same greatness year after year. Especially when you simply do not need anything else. I mean, why mess with perfection?!

Now where'd I put that nasty letter to NBC? Anyone have a stamp? You remember stamps, right? They're simply the best darn way to send a letter... ever! But I digress. A-Team forever, baby!

Posted 05/26/2009 at 03:38:57pm

My point stands. This thread is not about memory leaks, but about Apple's lie campaign. Apple's advertising would have you believe that Macs never crash and Windows *always* does. I have experience to the contrary. And it must be because I am a Vista fanboy? I am now running Vista for seven days continuously without a restart... not to be spiteful, not because I am out to prove something, but it simply *is*. However editing video, working in Photoshop and playing DX10 games is "underpowered" and not a true test of Vista as an OS? Can someone suggest something that would be a test then?

Network registry hack? Never heard of it. MS exec memo? Didn't know about it. Restart Vista? Haven't for seven days.

Posted 05/20/2009 at 02:23:01pm

Let's take Yet Another Outright False Mac Ad (YAOFMA) point by point. There should be a few Macs lined up on the Mac side as well.

"Small screens, beat it." Buh-bye 13-inch MacBook and Air.

"Slow PCs, go." See ya Mac mini, and Air, I thought I told you to leave already?

"No viruses or headaches or crashes." This fallacious argument still? I use Macs one day a week and have seen more of the "pinwheel of death" than I care to. Meanwhile, back in my evil MS lair, Vista 64 has been running continuously -- the likes of video editing and compression software, Photoshop and even Call of Duty -- for the past 3 days and 5 hours (and counting, according to my trusty sidebar gadget), without the need for a restart.

What's left on the Mac side is a starting price point of $1500 and a huge "Welcome to the New Computer Monopoly" banner. "Affordable PCs anyone?" Take your shoes off and stay a while.

Posted 05/20/2009 at 01:24:54pm

Although no one seems to be specifying the platform on which they're playing, may I be the among the first to offer that playing Mirror's Edge on a PC with the FPS-superior mouse and keyboard combo led to none of the frustration that seems to plague the gamepadders. Sure, there were a few head-scratcher moments and some repetition to get things right, but really nothing out of the ordinary for checkpoint based games. Was the PC version more forgiving? Or was it the extra level of control offered by the mouse/keyboard? Just as I don't understand how to play racing games with WASD, I really don't understand playing FPSes with a gamepad. Try the PC version when you get a chance, you may be surprised. :)