Wal-Mart Idiots Stop Selling gPC

See here. Complete idiots. Yeah, they’ll continue selling it online, but they pulled it from the stores. Idiots. Idiots. Idiots. Did I mention they are idiots?

My rant about the GodPhone

So my counterpart mentioned that he’s just killed everyone with his “cool” new GodPhone SDK. I’m here to prove him wrong.

#1: It’s the distribution, stupid

Hey Steve. Some of us hate iTunes. Like we think it’s the second worst thing in the galaxy (the worst is the MacBook Air, a terrorist weapon). Maybe some of us would prefer using another program. Just maybe? And then there’s the fact that we can only distribute our apps through iTunes. Isn’t that like censorship? It’s like saying you can only create stuff on Linux using CNR. DUDE! I mean, they know it’s going to be such a failure that they’re going to PAY developers to build stuff.

UPDATE: I should clarify this.  You can only DISTRIUBTE your stuff through iTunes. You can download through something built into the iPhone. Some read my article as saying otherwise.

#2: Do you really think you can beat Blackberry???

OK, I hate RIM. But they say the enemy of your enemy is your best friend (though sometimes that doesn’t always apply. Case in point: Microsoft). Dude, Blackberry has such a big market share that there’s no chance that the iPhone will make it into the enterprise. Besides, the iPhone’s only asset is the “cool” factor (which isn’t really so cool anyway). And not only that, they want to throw a CAMERA on it! Security, anyone?

Speaking of security, that’s another thing. Maybe a company doesn’t WANT iTunes on their corporate machines. You know, security and all that?

Oh, and typical Apple wants to include censorship. At any time, the company that owns the iPhone can delete all the emails on it.

#3: You’re trying to put games on an enterprise device?

At first, I thought it was an enterprise device. And that’s great for Apple. But I somehow don’t think that the first thing a company wants their employees doing is playing Spore. Just a hunch. Maybe. Possibly. But I’ve got good hunches.

Oh, and who’d want to play games on something that small?

#4: Android’s coming…

…and it can do all the enterprise stuff, use apps WITHOUT iTunes, and is based on Linux. Oh, and you can play Quake on it.

Airport security officials think MacBook Air was a terrorist weapon. It isn’t?

See here. But then they gave it back! It’s like finding an Iranian nuke and giving it back to Iran!!!

The Federation released IE 8 Beta 1. No one cares because all the beta testers are using Linux. Bonus: I take it apart piece by piece

See here. Here are some of the “new and exciting features”:

• Activities. Uh yeah, we could do that in Firefox back when extensions were introduced. Is it just me, or is Microsoft copying Firefox? I want my lawyer!
• Web Slices. Isn’t that… kinda like Live Bookmarks?
• Favorites Bar. Oh my gosh, it got updated! And… nothing changed?
• Automatic Crash Recovery. Wow, it’s not like IE’s playing catchup. Not like Firefox has had this since 2.0 or anything.
• Improved Phishing Filtering. Does this mean it’ll block Microsoft.com now?

Apple Co-Founder sees even more light, praises the OLPC

See here. Between this and him attacking Apple’s products, anything can happen. Will we see Woz using Linux next???

Apple Co-Founder sees the light, attacks iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV

See here. So Woz finally found the light. Here’s some nice quotes:

“To tell you the truth I was really disappointed when the iPhone was introduced … half the phones in the AT&T store at the time were 3G phones,” Mr Wozniak said during a press conference following his keynote speech at the Broadband and Beyond Conference this morning.

Wozniak agreed with those criticisms [of the Air], saying: “I don’t think it’s going to be a hit.” He said he liked to burn a lot of DVDs for friends and watched movies on planes, and so needed the ability to swap batteries mid-flight.

Wozniak said he believed Apple TV - with its on-demand access to movies and TV shows without the need for a computer - was “a really good indicator of where the future is”.

But he criticised the 24-hour time limit given to users who rent shows via the device and said the quality of YouTube videos played on it was poor.

I TAKE APART NDISWrapper over the GPL

See here. Here’s my amazing quote:

“Ndiswrapper itself is *not* compatible with the GPL. Trying to claim that ndiswrapper somehow itself is GPL’d even though it then loads modules that aren’t is stupid and pointless. Clearly it just re-exports those GPLONLY functions to code that is *not* GPL’d.”