I was all set to upgrade to Leopard tonight, but M-Audio hasn’t updated their drivers yet. Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Is M-Audio so broke they can’t afford to join the ADC and get the developer seeds? Hell, grab a bittorrent client and your favorite tracker and ANYONE could have them. It isn’t like the announcement of Leopard’s release came as some big shock to the developer community. I don’t understand why at least SOME progress could not have been made on the drivers.
So, basically, I could update my MacBook Pro, but then my UC-33, Axiom 25 and FireWire 1814 could quite possibly be rendered useless. As I have some music I need to work on, I can’t exactly take that risk so I’ll just have the shrink wrapped Leopard box taunting me until M-Audio pulls their head out of their ass. My next gear purchase will certainly be Korg.
Also, I can’t find the totally awesome mask I was going to make my cats wear.
I’m going to go watch a movie or late-night television or something and feed the cats some treats. Then back here to record an angry evil psytrance mix.
Today, Apple got rid of the 4GB iPhone, and dropped the price of the 8GB model by $200. This comes just over two months since the product launched in the first place. That has to be a record for fastest price-drop.
Basically, now I can go to an Apple store, and purchase an 8GB iPhone for $100 less than I paid for my 4GB.
Gah!
They also announced some other stuff, including an updated iPod Shuffle in new colors (including a Product (RED) offering), a new iPod nano (affectionately dubbed by some, the “fatty”) which supports video and the WiFi iTunes store you can access from the iPhone soon and from the new iPod touch which is basically an iPhone without the phone. The disk space on all the models got moved around too. Looks like the 8GB nano comes in all the colors now, not just black, and looks like the price came down a bit.
On top of that, they announced a partnership with Starbucks which will allow Starbucks customers to instantly buy songs that are playing in Starbucks locations. Kind of neat, but I wonder what T-Mobile thinks about that. T-Mobile provides the WiFi access inside Starbucks locations, but does not carry the iPhone, which is exclusive to AT&T. So, in a round-about way, T-Mobile has a partnership with a company that does not benefit T-Mobile in the least.
I’d like to lodge a formal complaint to whomever is in charge of determining the stupidity of Web 2.0 terminology, regarding “Bacn” which some retard has decided should be the name for “Email you want - But not right now.”
Bacn is a new problem now plaguing our email inboxes. Putting it simply, Bacn is email you receive that isn’t spam… And isn’t personal mail. It’s the middle class of email. It’s notifications of a new post to your Facebook wall or a new follower on Twitter. It’s the Google alert for your name and the newsletter from your favorite company.
This is preposterous! Bacon is something I want ALL THE TIME! It is not something that should be used in reference to anything negative.
Netizens! We must unite against this flagrant insult to everyone’s favorite meat product!
THIS. SHALL. NOT. STAND!
It’s nice to know I’m not alone!
Last night, and really for the past month I’ve had a lot of reason to wonder how it is possible that T-Mobile wins customer service awards.
The Backstory:
At the beginning of July, I bought an iPhone. I ported my number out from T-Mobile (rather begrudgingly I might add. I was happy there). I still had a contract, apparently. I did not realize this at the time, as I was explicitly told otherwise. At any rate I intended to remain a customer and planned transferring my plan to a hotspot-only account so that I can hop on wi-fi networks at Starbucks. This all seemed very possible to everyone and they were going to do a sim release on my old sim card and enable my account for hotspot only.
That was just over a month ago. Last Thursday, my bank account was billed for my last month of service, and a $200 early termination fee. I immediately called and re-explained what I wanted. However at this point, my account had been inactivated, and re-activating it has proven quite difficult.
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Why are the two “minor” candidates (Dennis Kucinich & Mike Gravel) the only candidates exhibiting any testicular fortitude and common sense instead of the same old rhetoric? I use “minor” because that’s the classification the media gives them. They aren’t given the same time or respect as the others, amongst the candidates or the media, much in the way Dean got hammered for his “Iowa Scream.”
For a long time I have been an Obama fan, and I think it is wonderful that an African-American and a woman are front-runners for the presidency (and hey, it only took 200 years), but to be honest… I’m losing interest in the “mainstream” candidates. I am not a Clinton fan because of the fact that she pushed for universal healthcare and is now in their pocket, and while I admire Obama not taking lobbyist money and being a great speaker and all the other reasons people like him… I don’t think one can stand up and say “I was against the war all along” when he wasn’t even in a position to vote one way or the other and therefore can’t be held to the fire on something he said in a speech. Perhaps when actually voting, his opinion would have been different.
None of the debates sound much like debates at all until Kucinich gets a turn to speak. They sound like a bunch of old rich folks repeating themselves and stroking their own egos and occasionally each-other’s.
I want a real change. We heard nothing but good news for the last mid-term elections. We were told the Democrats were going to shake things up. They were going to bring the troops home from this unnecessary war. We’re still there. They were going to protect our privacy while ensuring our national security. They just gave the Bush administration everything it wanted with regards to wiretapping. At every chance they get, they roll over to the neocon agenda, and frankly I’m disgusted by it.
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