Sunday, October 25, 2009

Iam not a Mac and I am a PC, here's why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nHOWWDdpLo
So I was just watching a Mac commercial, which at first I thought was funny and smart. As the commercials changed and aired more often, I noticed they weren't as classy they started bashing windows and PCs with no real reason. I have used both and a Mac is definitely not that much superior and after asking one of my friends who I think is a computer genius, he said the best thing to go with is Linux, but only if you're good with code. It all depends on what your looking for in a computer, Windows, including Vista has consistently offered a user friendly interface that people around the world have grown accustomed to. In the latest Mac commercial, Mac points out that for decades Windows hasn't been able to supply consumers with decent software, we all know that's a lie. Only recently Macs have become more main stream and that's due to the ipod, without the positive press the ipod caused for apple, people wouldn't be using macs. Also, product placement is decieving just because you see Angelina Jolie using a mac doesn't mean the whole world is using them, too, infact the rest of the world is using Windows - probably because it's more affordable and people are used to it. Macs weren't good in the past and the fact that they said they were compared to the different Windows versions is a blatant lie trying to bash Windows 7, now the "I am a PC and I am Mac" commercials are cheap and come off as apple being threatend by what I think is a decent operating system. Mac should watch out, Windows doesn't need to point Macs flaws to prove it's the better operating system.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

LIK OMG! WTF TTYL NFW LOL ROFL ROFL ROFL

English language where art thou? Hank Moody said it best when he said things, not words, like LOL and OMG...etc. are leading to the butchering of the english language. I can understand the need to abbreviate when you are texting on your phone, but when this flows into the conversations when we talk face to face that's when I have a problem. You are not paying per letter to talk to me, abbreviating won't do you any good and it only makes me think that I am talking to someone who lives and breathes texting. Now my problem extends to things like LOL, half the time when people use that "thing," for lack of a better word, I cringe a little, because I know you are not laughing out loud, it's not really adding to the conversation it's working as filler because the person had nothing better to say. So using these things don't do anything except give the person on the other side the wrong idea and at the same time, they already are a little blinded by the fact that they can't see when you're talking.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

When will everything go digital? Is that a good thing?

So most people have definitely seen Terminator (all of them) and although fictional, I sometimes wonder if they are getting at something. I can see technology taking over the world, not neccassarily in the same way but to some extent it might end up hurting us. We have seen so many takes on artificial intelligence, but would that come with artificial emotion and if so that could go very wrong. Why would someone come up with an emotionally and intelligently inhanced piece of machinary? How can we stand to benefit from giving computers emotions? I just wonder how that will work for us, especially with everything becoming digitalized. It's like we have created a standard, soon there will be no need for postal addresses unless it's a delivery of some sort of large object. Will we even need to leave our homes? I can see how that will pose as a problem, the outside world will become obselete and we will become obese because they need to experience the outside world will be unneccesary especially when you can experience it from your couch.