Intel just bought McAfee. Do you know what that means?
Me either.
The investment sites think it’s a “Buffett-like” move. Others say that Intel is just trying to add a profitable business to their portfolio to increase stockholder value.
Here’s a thought:
Intel has figured out that the only place to wring any more money out of PCs is Microsoft’s absolute unwillingness to develop a secure OS. It would have to be a system as robust as OS X – where Apple doesn’t build in spyware as a product “feature.”
As long as Microsoft leaves a screen door that allows them to spy on the user, hackers will exploit it, and the AV companies will be in business.
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Steve Jobs can tear down the Jackling house.
Has anyone investigated that there might be a family of protected/endangered rodents/cockroaches living there?
Dammit. There might be some potato bugs in the basement.
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I know we’ve been discriminatory for a long time. I’m hoping America will finally adopt, or at least move toward, the same immigration laws as Mexico. Also, we should begin to treat our immigrants the same way Mexico treats theirs.
The Horny One notes that Raw Benderly is still an idiot. But he does it in a way that makes you say, “Huh. Raw Benderly is still an idiot.” And you can laugh at the same time.
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I keep reading all these pundits (and there is a largish group of them) comparing the Apple to Android in terms of virtually everything – apps, market share, ad hits, popularity, complexion, texture, compatibility with garlic and chocolate, nose, clarity, fruitiness, fullness, body, acceleration, sheen, elasticity, reflectivity, viscosity, range of motion, carbon footprint, entropy, enthalpy, solubility, heft, balance, range, accuracy, precision, toxicity and political preference.
The thing is, there are like nine versions of Android out there on fifty-three different devices.
I wanted to use the cliché “comparing apples to oranges.” It would be more accurate to compare Apples to individual grapes. Not bunches of grapes or cultivars but individual grapes. Each grape separate and distinct from every other grape in the vineyard.
Freaking stupid, that’s what. Compare the iPhone to a single manufacturer at a time to establish something. Right. Compare each manufacturer of a different OS to Apple. Then we can see who’s actually the dominant player.
That would be Apple and RIM leading the pack with nobody else able to claim anything better than a distant and hopeless third.
Shut up.
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Everybody is GOING TO introduce a tablet. Nobody has yet, but everybody will.
On the flip side of that coin is the fact that all of them will flounder until Apple introduces something better. Then they’ll be cannibalizing each others’ “cheap-ass-iPad-wannabe” market share.
Just to keep things in perspective, I’ve read several people around the innertubes bitching about iTunes being less than an ideal experience and they’re all pretty much fed up with it. Every time I read about somebody pissed off at how bad iTunes is I read the whole post/comment/article looking for a viable (read: actually exists) alternative.
I’m still waiting.
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Just because I clicked a tainted link I got this. It took a judge to determine that Snooki is annoying. Can we get LiLo, JLo, and Britney in to see that judge?
Apple didn’t announce anything huge today. They must be saving up.
AAPL went up a few bucks after languishing for a while. It doesn’t mean anything. Apple has always been a rotten stock for traders. if you like to get in and out quickly with a profit, invest in commodities.
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I just read over on the Inquirer that iAd is a dismal failure, which bodes well for iAd. The Inquirer makes Keith Olbermann look objective. The difference is, the Inquirer hates Apple specifically, while KO hates thinking in general.
I’m not going to link the post because it has already wasted enough bandwidth by merely being posted. It was written by Lawrence Latif. I’ve never read him/her/it before, and I probably won’t again.
Went to Seattle this weekend. The stated purpose: Take my mom to a Seahawks game. She’s never been to either of the two new Seattle stadia, and she’d never seen the Seahawks play live. Plus she’s a huge fan.
A few of the highlights of the weekend are:
We got to spend quality time with Jas and her fiancé.
We ate dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in Bellevue. It was a shade shy of the excellence I experienced at the San Antonio Ruth’s Chris last June, but it was still good.
We had breakfast at Lowell’s Restaurant in the Pike Place Market. Great breakfast, every time.
I bought a 30-pound king salmon, filleted and packed for transport at the Pike Place Fish Market. I picked out a fresh 30 pounder, on display, on ice. The nice young man threw it behind the counter where another nice young man filleted it and packaged it. At the thickest point, each fillet is easily three inches from the skin to the top of the perfectly pink flesh.
We had lunch at Piecora’s Pizza. Excellent pizza and a wonderful selection of draft beers.
The Seahawks won.
I met the requirements of my sworn duty as the twelfth man and was noisier than hell while the Titans had the ball.
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A few words about the salmon.
When I got it home, I laid all four fillets flesh-side up in roasting pans.
I brushed the surfaces with red wine. Then I wrapped them in aluminum foil and stored them in the refrigerator.
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This evening I prepared a small sample for dinner. I started by preheating the oven to 400ºF. I cut off a three-inch wide strip across a fillet. I laid it, skin-side-down in a baking dish, brushed it with extra virgin olive oil, then prepared it as follows:
1. Thinly slice six cloves of garlic and distribute them evenly over the top of the fillet.
2. Finely chop about two tablespoons of fresh dill weed, and spread it evenly over the filet.
3. Thinly slice one half of a large purple onion and spread the rings over the top of the fillet.
4. Slice a yellow summer squash and a medium zucchini into 3/4″ thick slices and place them around the fish in the baking dish.
5. Drizzle Extra Virgin olive oil over the whole mess.
6. Sprinkle the squash with a mix of 1/2 tsp Coriander, 1/2 tsp Allspice, 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
7. Then sprinkle some Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper over the whole mess.
Put it in the preheated oven. Allow fifteen minutes for the oven to come back up to 4o0º, then reduce the setting to 350º. Allow it to bake for another forty-five minutes.
Keep in mind, I guessed the timing and the temperature based on the thickness of the fillet. If you’re working with less than a three-inch thick fillet, you may need to adjust the cooking time down a bit.
Anyway, it came out perfect. The fish was cooked through, but still incredibly moist. The squash still had some tooth to it.
You can try this at home if you want, but I recommend going to the Pike Place Fish Market web site and ordering the fish from them. They promise they can ship overnight to anywhere in the country. They packed my fish on Saturday morning, and it was still cold in the back of the car on Sunday afternoon when I got it home. They rock.
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I did not get to an Apple store while I was in Seattle. This is the first time in a long time for such a lapse to occur. Did I mention that I got to spend quality time with Jas? That makes up for it.
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Try this on an iPad/iPhone or other modern device.
Safari is my new browser of choice. I played with Safari 5 for a few minutes, during which I rediscovered Yahoo! I suddenly like Yahoo! again. Also, the FoxNews ticker extension looks cool.
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My daughter has an iPhone 4. I don’t. It’s part of a pattern I’m beginning to notice. In a bit of a deviation from the norm, though, this time I didn’t buy it. Her fiancé bought it. Weird.
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The iPad is the tablet market.
The iPod is the music player market.
Darth Fester is apoplectic.
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Just wondering, does “Papermaster and Hurd” sound like a good name for a disco revival band?
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I wonder if you have to prove, with documentation that you need 12 cores to get one of those cool new Mac Pros? I know I deserve one, but I just can’t justify the expense.
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Microsoft is actively trying to discourage PC users from accomplishing anything more productive than rebooting and reading a BSOD. Here is what you need to know if you’re considering switching to a computer that doesn’t suck.
There are a few things I want to know about this picture.
“What the hell is going on behind her? Is that a hammock at eye level with a rainbow pillow on it?
What is up with those weird-ass shelves?
What is the red thing on the right?
Is it just me, or does that shit-eating grin say, “I have your testicles in a resealable plastic container.”
Before we get into talking about anything important, Steve Ballmer said about the iPad, “Apple are selling way more of these things than I would like.”
It has been requested by one of my brilliant readers that I analyze this sentence from a recent Microsoft press thingy.
First, we have to take the entire press conference in context: Steve Ballmer is panicky. If you watch the conference you’ll see he’s sweating like a professional wrestler in a spelling bee. In the last few years he’s had some pretty stark failures. All of the attempts to undermine Apple’s mindshare – Zune, Vista, and the entire Windows Mobile catalog – have hit the market with all the impact of a cowpie landing in a stockyard.
Second, the iPad is a product category unto itself at the moment. Microsoft can’t even figure out how to create a competitor so that it can measure up to the same standards as the Zune did when competing against the iPod.
Third, Apple has sold a swillion-skillion of the things. Apple has already sold more iPads than Microsoft has sold of any hardware.
The reason context is crucial is that Mr. Ballmer’s subject and predicate, “Apple are,” disagree. He should have said, “Apple is.” This could mean he’s becoming so afraid of Apple that he sees the company as more than one entity. If that’s true, Mr. Ballmer should seek professional help. Or, possibly, he just really isn’t very good with the English language.
The rest of the comment is pretty self explanatory. Steve Ballmer would probably like a few iPads for friends and family. Apple has sold enough to furnish one for everyone in the Metropolitan Seattle area, which is certainly more than Steve would like.
I hope that clears things up, Tim.
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Steve Jobs had two choices: Wait for a table in a busy pizzeria, or leave. He left. This is news. If he had actively addressed a symptom of jock itch while the camera was rolling it would have been the tech news equivalent of Katrina blowing through the BP spill while Tiger Woods hit a double bogey and an illegal alien got arrested in Arizona.
Anyway, The Master probably went home and called Pizza Hut.
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In other news:
Yoko Ono said, “Don’t hold your breath,” waiting for the Beatles to appear on iTunes.
I hate to break this to you, Yoko, but it doesn’t matter anymore. A few years ago, it might have made a splash. Now? It’s about as meaningful as Hannah-Barbera announcing they’re not going to introduce Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy pajamas at Wal*Mart.
Everybody who wants Beatles songs in digital form, has them.
People who haven’t discovered the Beatles will have a difficult time even starting a collection, since online is the main source for music these days.
So, the greedy turds who represent a band that broke up 40 years ago are going to ensure that their entire revenue stream is from CD reissues, and that the most efficient distribution method for their music is BitTorrent.
