AMC grabs "Walking Dead"

With Breaking Bad and this, AMC is quickly becoming a favorite network. I should start watching Mad Men too.

marco: (via jwock, The Macalope) I like dstrelau’s OS X interpretation. Sigh.

marco:

(via jwock, The Macalope)

I like dstrelau’s OS X interpretation.

Sigh.

Windows Search, I hate you so much.

Windows Search, I hate you so much.

marco: These two remotes, by Apple (left, Apple TV) and Microsoft (right, Xbox 360), do approximately the same things with a few exceptions: The Microsoft remote uses two AA batteries that need to be replaced about every 6 months. The Apple remote uses a single CR2032 that has never needed to be replaced. The Apple remote has 6 buttons. The Microsoft remote has 46, only 15 of which are regularly used for media playback. The buttons on the Microsoft remote are backlit so you can see what they do in the dark. The Apple remote doesn’t have this feature because you never need to look at the buttons after the first minute of use. The Apple remote works from nearly any position in the room with approximate line-of-sight between itself and the front of the Apple TV. The Microsoft remote has the worst reception angle of any remote I’ve ever used (supposedly 90°, ±45°). Mine starts failing consistently at about 22° right of center at a distance of 8 feet, putting it right at the bottom of their specified total radius (~44°). It won’t even work from the right half of the couch. This is a pretty good indicator of the two companies’ design philosophies and quality goals. And this isn’t even considering the software interface that each remote is respectively controlling.

marco:

These two remotes, by Apple (left, Apple TV) and Microsoft (right, Xbox 360), do approximately the same things with a few exceptions:

  • The Microsoft remote uses two AA batteries that need to be replaced about every 6 months. The Apple remote uses a single CR2032 that has never needed to be replaced.
  • The Apple remote has 6 buttons. The Microsoft remote has 46, only 15 of which are regularly used for media playback.
  • The buttons on the Microsoft remote are backlit so you can see what they do in the dark. The Apple remote doesn’t have this feature because you never need to look at the buttons after the first minute of use.
  • The Apple remote works from nearly any position in the room with approximate line-of-sight between itself and the front of the Apple TV. The Microsoft remote has the worst reception angle of any remote I’ve ever used (supposedly 90°, ±45°). Mine starts failing consistently at about 22° right of center at a distance of 8 feet, putting it right at the bottom of their specified total radius (~44°). It won’t even work from the right half of the couch.

This is a pretty good indicator of the two companies’ design philosophies and quality goals. And this isn’t even considering the software interface that each remote is respectively controlling.

Seems a little fake, but, my God, it’s so beautiful. :)

Train surfing claims another young victim

marco:

“The group of boys said they were train surfing in memory of three friends who died doing the same thing last Friday. One boy fell off the train and died on the scene.”

(via Terry Blakey)

I… what… wow.

Sigh.

beingrandom: dobata: Wikipedia : Rob Matthews Damn, I thought it was a photoshop when I first saw it.

beingrandom:

dobata:

Wikipedia : Rob Matthews

Damn, I thought it was a photoshop when I first saw it.

"Warner Bros. is among the labels that are already using this system to prevent users from ripping the CD into the digital file form (MP3/WMA etc.) The technology is all about limiting how the computer sees the disc – this means that when inserted into the computer only the packaged player (on the CD) can play the music."
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Guys… Have we learned nothing?

Record Companies Trying to Stop Music Sharing with New CD Security

(via copyrightfail) (via beingrandom)

"In its 3.0 incarnation, Pages still lacks autosave (come on Apple, even TextEdit has had this for years!), and it still has no idea whether it wants to be a word processor or a layout program when it grows up. It also still can’t do footnotes and endnotes in the same document, so some of the annoyances that plagued previous versions haven’t gone away. But the new Pages version does have a killer new feature that makes the upgrade worth it for freelance writers around the world: a running word count at the bottom left of the document window. (2661 and counting! Too bad Ars doesn’t pay by the word.)"
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Rain check on taking that look at iWork as planned.

Ars reviews iWork ‘09: fourth time’s a charm? - Ars Technica

(via beingrandom)

Using any Office suite on Mac OS X is hell.

5 Reasons Why Terminator Salvation Sucks

Spoilers!

  1. Sony Vaio: Resistance Edition, i.e. technology far superior anything we’ve seen in the flash-forwards in the previous movies. I mean, isn’t humanity supposed to outnumbered and on the brink of extinction? Wouldn’t a military base be an easy target for Skynet? Also, 14 years have passed since the planet was nuked, but they still have helicopters, jets, high-tech equipment, ammunition, laboratories, and the equipment and skill to perform heart transplants?
  2. Common, and if that’s not enough: Common with sunglasses at night.
  3. GUIs that can be interacted with by humans at Skynet. Well, GUIs at Skynet in general.
  4. The fact that Skynet are trying to kill John Connor and Kyle Reese before they have any idea who they are and what they will do.
  5. Terminators with headbands.
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