Posts by Duff-e

  • RIP Dennis Hopper

    RIP

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  • Ironman - The Movie trailer

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    So I haven't seen the movie or watched the trailer but...holy shit is that supposed to be Flushing Meadows park? If so that is fucking awesome. Do they give an explanation in the movie why it looks like that? Was there a scene there or something?

    That's like 10 minutes from my house Except it looks more like this:

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    I guess in the future they finally tore down those space elevator things.

  • Empty Times + Good Times

    I'm gonna be an insensitive asshole and suggest the bomb (based on the NYTimes description) wasn't worthy of Times Square.

    Years of NYC high terror alert porn and "what if" scenarios and the best they can do is a couple drums of gas and some fertilizer on a side street. I guess you can't expect much when your terrorist is based in Connecticut.

    The patrols of soldiers with mp5's and m4's around grand central are cool though.

    edit: congrats

  • What have you purchased recently?

    Luckily it's just an ant problem, not roaches. Well...ants and those orange mother fuckers with a thousand legs. We had roaches when I was a kid at a different apartment and after they sprayed around it seemed to take care of it.

    Maybe if you live in a big old house it's more of a problem but we were on the 3rd floor.

  • Valve Teases Upcoming Half-Life Release for Mac

    New media developers are the worst :ssj:

    Possibly even worse than them are people in new media who don't have any practical skills. "Guys we need something explosive, something that's going to change the game, shift that paradigm you know? It's gotta have the brand quality of facebook, innovation of twitter but promote social mobility like chatroulette. But more important than any of that it needs a great name. Something that sounds like a noise a 3 year old child would make or a play on an already existing word like FROOGLE or CUIL. Three months from now our product is going to be the verb on everyone's tongue. 'LOOK WHAT SCOTT JUST NEWPRODUCT'D!' IS WHAT THEY'LL SAY."

    I was going to stop after one sentence but it was too easy and fun I couldn't help it :\

  • Valve Teases Upcoming Half-Life Release for Mac

    Quote from Rick_D

    Great article on a blog I saw the other day. Why apple succeeded with the iPhone and such. It does a few things very well, and fuck all to the rest. So phones that did everything just ended up being too complicated, even though they could do much more.

    I have owned the Blackberry 7280, Palm Treo 300 and the original iPhone. I consider myself a power user, I had every application and mod available for my Blackberry and Palm but the iPhone blew them both away. Why? Forget the novelty of the touchscreen. Ignore the appstore, because when I owned the iPhone it didn't exist. Three things that instantly come into my head are 1. The browser was usable - After using smart phones for 6 years with crippled browsers, this was huge. 2. Visual Voicemail - Something everyone thought of at least once was integrated into the OS perfectly. 3. I could play music on it and the interface wasn't a joke.

    At the time the iPhone was more a toy but then again all phones except for Blackberries and the Treo were toys then. At my last job I had to get a Blackberry Bold (which I still use today) because the company had unlimited minutes on Verizon and I needed to be able to connect to enterprise email on Exchange. In the past couple years a lot has changed and being in IT I've seen first hand the iPhone become a valid corporate phone. I love the new HTC phones and android. I jailbroke my iPhone, something I probably wouldn't do with the appstore today, so I understand the opensource sentiment. If I had a reason to spend $500 on a new phone I would probably buy one of these. Unfortunately this doesn't change the fact that apple put their dick out on the line and made the form factor associated with smart phones today the standard.

    Quote from Rick_D

    The same principle applies to a Mac, they can't do as much as a PC (this isn't debatable, right?), but they simplify things and make certain that the few things they do do, they do well (wonderful English there, my teachers would be so proud) (alternatively: *huh huh, he said doodoo*).

    To keep it short, yes, that absolutely is debatable. I've worked with fashion design and video/audio firms and they exclusively use Apple hardware and software. Final Cut Pro? Industry standard and mac only. At 7/9 sound studios ProTools was on OSX. Keep in mind that Apple also makes http://%7boption%7d. I've worked on many of them and they're really fantastic, especially in tandem with Mac client computers. Also, in NYC, as with other major US cities, you can walk about 15 blocks in any direction and take care of Mac issues instead of having to wait 2 weeks turn around for your HP or Alienware.

    Quote from Rick_D

    If you want to use a Mac then go crazy, I have often thought about getting one myself but I can't really see the point, I'd rather get a laptop running windows (so all my stuff was compatible) or wait for the Google netbook.

    You can install Windows on any Intel mac.

    Quote from Rick_D

    I wonder though, does the simple matter of owning a Mac somehow bestow upon you a sense of superiority, or is it an attitude of persecution when all you see is flame-wars? Macs and iPhones have become fashion symbols whether you like it or not, did you really buy one because you wanted something simple, or did you buy it because of the social connotations?

    For some Mac/iPhone is undoubtedly a fashion statement but do you know who those people are? Those are the people who start pointless flame wars with PC users about what's better. They're as right in their opinions as the people who discredit the significant influence of Apple in the computer world. I'm not going to make fun of someone with an HP or MacBook because I realize that it's just a computer and a computer is a tool. Looking at someones computer can you really stereotype their reason for owning it? What about the guy using a Mac because he works in publishing and needs to be able to use Quark, which his company has been using for the past 8 years and is the format all their files are in? How about the kid with a EEEPC who needed a cheap solution to take notes in his college class? They're just devices for accomplishing necessary tasks. Discriminating against, of all things, a brand is just what advertisers want you to do. They want you to associate their product with Right and Wrong. It says more about you than it does about the people you're insulting.

    Do I think it's silly that there are 15 year olds who use a $3000 Macbook Pro for browsing Facebook? Of course. Is it equally silly to have a $5000 gaming laptop so you can play Crysis on max settings 3 times a year when you're on vacation. Yup. Conclusion? There are a lot of stupid/silly people in the world who spend their money in very inefficient ways, creating jobs for people like us who use more scrutiny in our purchases.

  • Valve Teases Upcoming Half-Life Release for Mac

    A lot of the random Mac shit talking is antagonistic for no reason. If you don't care then don't care but why shit on a thread on a small forum between people who are interested in the topic? Especially when you're dropping gems like "fuck macs" and then calling out people for their choices.

    What excites me most about Steam on Mac is that young kids who live in Mac households now have a whole new platform open to them. Fuck both sides of stupid Mac/PC bullshit.