Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Everyone should buy one!
http://bit.ly/978Qqw
http://ping.fm/udIOR
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
I am sick and tired of being free tech support for everyone. I hated being PAID tech support.
I am not a genius. I am no smarter than anybody else.
I am not a GURU.
Everyone should call the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a basic estimate just for them
to look at their computer and the time it will take for them to find out what is
going wrong before asking me to fix whatever they need fixed.
The price quote they receive SHOULD put things into perspective for them.
With the skills and knowledge I have, I should be charging more than the Geek Squad.
While working freelance for a local computer store, I was making $75/hour.
Now, instead of being paid, I get called 'guru', 'my tech guy', and other things of the like.
This comic (http://ping.fm/oXjuM)
is not funny to me because I am the tech in the comic. It is funny, no doubt.
But when it's you doing the outrageous work for pretty much nothing
it gets quite aggravating.
It is an accurate depiction of what I go through.
This pic make my point very clear.
For the record, I am in a pretty good mood. The animals aren't bugging me at all.
I don't feel 'weird' like I have over the last week or so. I finally feel normal.
The point of this paragraph is to point out that I am not typing an angry email.
On the contrary. I am quite clear headed. My statements are accurate.
Part of my disability is a lack of ability to deal with others in what some would call a normal way.
That is why I take almost 30 pills a night. It is a requirement.
Otherwise I'll flip out and possibly do something awful.
I'm lucky that nothing happened this time.
Sometimes I get really nervous and can't speak to anyone.
Other times I am just looking for someone to piss me off
just a little bit more so I can scrape their face on the curb.
Maybe this should put MY mental state into perspective for everybody else..
I would say I am sorry about my person, but I refuse to
apologize for being me. I am almost 40.
I am stuck in my ways. This will not change until the
day I die. Hopefully, that will be at least another 30+ years from now.
That's it for now.
Don
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday Night Live: Betty White - Watch the full episode now.
I guess I will say it again. Betty White rules!
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Hamster Exploitation - Crazy Shoes and Boots: If Shoes Could Kill
Incorrect source or offensive?
Submitted by: Hanabi via Submit Crazy Shoes
Life is full of tough choices.
Do you get a hamster so it can live a life of joy and happiness with its little wheel and wood chips and slurpy vertical water bottle in a cage?
Or do you get a hamster so you can put it in your shoe and give it a concussion with every step you take?
These Shoes were posted on Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 at 6:00 am
I can count to potato
Back to relaying important and funny stuff to everyone.
Experience Tron's Legacy With Space Paranoids Online - Tron: Legacy - Kotaku
Ah, how times have changed since the first Tron movie came out. Back then you'd have to pay a quarter to play Space Paranoids, and even then it wouldn't look quite as spectacular as the Flash version now available at www.spaceparanoidsonline.com. Maneuver your tank through the maze, gathering ammo to shoot down as many of those Recognizers as you can, before you die a painful death, crushed beneath their feet as your user mutters curses.
This version of Space Paranoids is the same that appeared at the mockup of Flynn's Arcade during the San Diego Comic-Con last year. Developed by 42 Entertainment for Disney, it's all part of the Tron: Legacy viral fun over at Flynn Lives.
At Last - S.P. Online [Flynn Lives - Thanks James!]
Send an email to Michael Fahey, the author of this post, at fahey@kotaku.com.
Friday, May 7, 2010
The Official Betty White Aging Timeline: Pics, Videos, Links, News
Betty White has to be one of the coolest people in the TV world. You just can't think or say anything bad about her. \M/
FCC lets movie industry selectively break your TV | Molly Rants - CNET News
How badly do you want to see new movies in your home close to the date they're released in theaters? Badly enough to let the movie industry reach through your front door and break your TV? Well, good news for you.The FCC decided today that the movie industry can remotely disable analog video outputs on your home theater equipment to prevent you from recording certain programs--namely, first-run movies available on demand before DVDs are released or while they're still in theaters.
The FCC ruled that it's "in the public interest" to give the MPAA so-called selectable output controls, and that it will help enable the "new business model" of delivering on-demand movies closer to the theatrical release date.
Previously, the FCC banned selectable output controls because of concerns that some people wouldn't be able to receive certain high-definition content (HD copy protection, built into HDMI cables, isn't available over analog connections like composite or component).
Hey, man, leave me out of it!
(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET)In 2008, the movie industry asked for a waiver on that ban that would have prevented on-demand, early-release movies from being recorded on DVRs and viewed at all on older HDTVs that lacked digital connections.
Happily, the FCC didn't give the MPAA everything it wanted, and dryly notes in its order that "the breadth of the waiver requested by MPAA exceeds the protections necessary to guard against illegal copying of content." The limited waiver it did grant says the industry can only selectively block analog inputs, a waiver can last only 90 days, and the FCC will have to review all waivers before they're granted.
The problem for consumers, of course, is that millions of HDTVs have no digital inputs, and owners of those televisions wouldn't be able to watch any of these early-release movies at all without buying all new TVs. Public Knowledge noted that some people might actually buy the on-demand movies without realizing they won't play, a charge to which the Sony essentially responded, "call the FCC if that happens." Nice.
And of course, there's the slippery slope argument that if you give the movie industry an inch, it will take a mile--granted, it already tried to take a mile and was only granted an inch, but the precedent of allowing the movie industry to literally remotely disable portions of your home entertainment equipment is seriously disturbing.
As the Consumer Electronics Association said in a statement, "we are unsure when the FCC has ever before given private entities the right to disable consumers' products in their homes. The fact that the motion picture studios want to create a new business model does not mean that functioning products should be disabled by them. The decision is not in the public interest, and harms the very consumers that the Commission is in place to protect."
And then, of course, there's the argument so very well articulated by my colleague, CNET senior editor John Falcone:
"Nobody hooks a VCR or DVD recorder to a DVD player and hits 'record.' They just rip the DVD on their PC, and upload via Bittorrent. Shutting off the composite video output solves nothing."
Sadly, the FCC noted that it felt it had to approve the limited SOC waiver because otherwise, the "service will not be offered at all." While I can appreciate that dilemma, I still wonder whether so much of the public is interested in early-release movies that they're willing to allow selective crippling of their TVs (or willing to buy new TVs just to accommodate these new release windows), and whether this is the kind of thing that simply infuriates consumers while doing little to nothing to combat wide-scale piracy.
In a statement, Bob Pisano, President and interim CEO of the MPAA said the move would give consumers "far greater access to see recent high definition movies in their homes," and would help the industry "respond to growing consumer demand" for early-release on-demand movies.
If people want these movies so badly, isn't it possible that piracy of movies in the early days of their release could be diminished simply by making them available sooner? Isn't it possible that the very existence of artificial release windows--designed to keep DVD sales humming along nicely--is contributing to piracy way more than the analog hole ever has? Over and over we've seen that if an industry makes a digital product available at a fair price, people buy it.
Given all the ways pirates have to find and distribute movies illegally (like the actual DVDs), I find it hard to believe that releasing movies on demand earlier without technology-crippling restrictions could possibly result in a measurable increase in piracy. And even if it did, I think it would be more than matched by the on-demand rental revenue the industry would reap.
Offer people more choices when it comes to buying your product, and they'll pay for the product. Give them crippled, half-hearted stabs at meeting "consumer demand" by extracting devil's bargains and imposing invasive technologies, and they'll probably keep pirating. Just a guess.
By the way, I encourage you all to read the FCC ruling in its entirety so you can savor the breathtaking boldness of what the MPAA originally asked for--including waivers so broadly defined they could "come to embrace the entire life of a movie or program" (meaning you could never record a movie, even once it had gone into permanent TBS rotation). You know, in case you had any doubts about whether they really have the interests of the consumer in mind.
Again, this fails to affect the pirates as it will only affect paying customers. Why can these people not get this through their collective heads?
Jedi A-holes
The name says it all. It might be NSFW depending on how uptight your boss is.
Find a Faster DNS Server with Namebench - How-To Geek
I ran this and sped up my connection 14%. That's pretty good. I was also able to use DNS servers that aren't run by my ISP thereby giving me a little more privacy. This is well worth checking out.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Posterous ended up not working for my needs, so.....
Here they are:
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