There is no new information anywhere about a Dell Phone. There’s some old speculation that it will be called the MePhone. Y’know of all the stupid things Dell might call a phone, that doesn’t sound that far-fetched. It has that I-want-to-play-too-but-I-don’t-have-a-single-creative-cell-in-my-body feeling that goes with a logo shaped like a floppy being inserted into a PC-Jr. A sure sign that you have nothing new to offer is a logo that silhouettes the state of technology during the Carter administration.
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Steve Jobs hasn’t reported to his office for a few days and Apple is still in business. This strikes some people in the business community as incongruous if not outright surreal. That’s because people in the business community who graduated last in their classes are still allowed freedom of the press. There is no entry exam for blogging, kiddies. Seriously. Do you think Jim Cramer has to submit to random drug testing? Do you think there’s a periodic requal exam needed to write for CBS Marketwatch?
Yeah. Sure.
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Today there was no new malware reported anywhere on the innertubes. There are two reasons for this:
For the Mac and Linux, there was no new malware.
For Windows, new malware isn’t news.
Duh.
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My standing “iPhone Killer” news search term has produced an empty well for a while. Even the least talented of tech/finance writers understand they have overused it to the point of absurdity. It’s like repeating a word over and over and over until you begin to wonder how that particular sound ever meant anything.
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A lot of my fellow fanboys are pissed off that Steve Ballmer said we’re paying an extra $500 for our Macs just because of the logo.
Don’t get pissed.
Statistically, I’ve read that the average Mac user is better educated, has a bigger income, and is a little older than the average Windows user. I don’t know how Linux users factor into that, but I’ll bet a half-eaten crab frittata that most kids who can run Linux would not stoop to Vista.
Being pissed at Ballmer validates his goofiness in the eyes of the Apple-bashers.
He’s just wrong, that’s all.
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I have just scoured the innertubes for the meaning of “Adamo.” For those of you “in the know,” the Adamo is the Dell shot across the bow of the MacBook Air Jordan. If you cut a rectangle out of 3/4″ plywood, sand it and finish it with some silver Krylon, you can build your own Adamo. The board won’t weigh as much, and is slightly more likely to handle Vista Super Ultra Premium Professional with Whipped Cream, Shaved Chocolate, Chopped Pecans, and a Big Fat Maraschino Cherry on Top.
Anyway “adamo” is from the ancient Chakobsa hunting language, derived from the Bhotani Jib. Literally it means “expensive and apparently advanced device.” The connotation is generally that it is a device that looks more advanced than it is. Like, say, an underpowered piece of shit computer with cheap-ass batteries, last year’s processors, and third-tier video priced higher than a genuine advance of the state of the art.
Of course, I doubt Dell did that much research. They just thought “Adamo” sounded cool. And it probably does if you don’t get out of the trailer park often.
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And now, The Queen of Soul –
Yeah, baby.
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Next time you talk to Ballmer – and as soon as you’re done laughing – please tell him that Mac #7 is now up and running for over a week.
It cost me $615 with shipping and before rebates. Eventually, my net cost will be $585. When Steve finds me something that can run Windows for $85, I’ll start listening to his blather and pretending it’s relevant.
If he can point me to something that does – with Windows – everything this Mac does for less money, I’ll PAY him $85.
This Mac has physically disappeared into my home theater set up because it’s six and a half inches square and completely silent. It hasn’t vanished completely, though – Everything ever displayed on my TV now goes through it.
With a little bit of programmed help from a Logitech Harmony remote, I’m now watching movies on demand (with Dolby Digital Surround sound and DVD quality) from Netflix in addition to complete DVR functionality with both digital broadcast and satellite TV.
Scarface is on right now.
And – when I’m done typing here – I’ll be back to work building a new web app and using that same movie-playing Mac – simultaneously – as a fully POSIX compliant test and development web server that mirrors my production servers online, running MySQL with Apache and PHP. (That makes it a business expense.)
What’re Dell and Microsoft offering again?
Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention that Scarface, like everything else Oliver Stone has ever done, is over-rated.
Sweet St. Darwin of the Galapgos, this movie is slow! No wonder it’s nearly three hours long. About two hours of it so far have been monuments to the egos of Stone and DePalma.
Seriously, blimps with personal messages at critical points in your life? Where were those when Stone and DePalma were foisting this mess on us? Surely the blimps were running, “Don’t embarrass yourself this way!”)
I’ve never seen it before tonight but always wanted to. I still haven’t seen it because I can’t pay attention to this snooze-fest. I can’t tell you how much I hate this movie.
Everything of value in this movie I’ve already quoted because I heard other people doing it for years. (“Say hello..” and “First you get the money…”)
A couple lines don’t make a classic movie.
This 170 minute movie should be five minutes and a Google search. If you haven’t seen it, watch the important parts on youtube. Everything’s there. It’ll take about five minutes.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled fanboi rants.
Somebody told me once that you never want to owe money to someone who cried at the end of Scarface.