A bunch of World War 2 veterans, you know the ones that stopped a bunch of countries from being fucked up by Germans & the Japanese and whatnot a few years ago? put on a free concert last year and sang some war songs. Now they are being told by some collection society that they must pay royalties for singing the songs in public.
Ahh! god-damn some of you nerds make me angry. It seems you can’t visit a blog about technology or design without having your corneas assaulted with a barrage of list posts telling you what the author thinks are the “25 greatest tools for [insert common IT role here]” or “50 Cool Images You Won’t Believe Aren’t Photoshopped”, where has the originality gone, did China steal it? You wish.
Mostly everyone in Australia and even worldwide know who Senator Stephen Conroy is and what he is about. He is the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy for Australia and his ultimate goal is to turn Australia into China by implementing something similar to China’s “Great Internet Firewall” filtering access to websites he and the Government thinks contain objectional content.
Since the rise of 3D movies, movie producers and Hollywood executives have been doing exceedingly well in the profits department (Avatar has made like 2.6 billion, that is a lot of cash), but the renewed interest in movies and substantially higher profits isn’t enough for them. The price of seeing a 3D movie is going to be going up by 10% and 2D movies 4% (as if the movies weren’t already expensive enough).
Ah, the sound of a completed torrent download, what could be better? I love piracy. Downloading software, music and movies off the Internet for free with next to no repercussions gives me a warm feeling inside. Before you go ranting on about how it’s wrong, shut your mouth, you pirate shit all of the time, don’t pretend that you’ve all of a sudden stopped pirating because you feel bad and believe it’s wrong.
Not so long ago Michael “Arrogant” Arrington of TechCrunch was touting an idea of a tablet PC that didn’t look that bad in the early stages of development and everything seemed promising. He called it the CrunchPad, how cute. Long story short Fusion Garage decided to release the device themselves and after much uncertainty it is finally being shipped (haha, fuck you Arrington).
It seems the 3D movie and everything else 3D craze that swept the 50′s has made a re-emergence. And this time thanks to technology and one movie director obsessed with beating Star Wars in terms of success, 3D is everywhere.
Microsoft recently revealed that it’s Windows Phone 7 will not support copy & paste, so of course a tonne of nerds on the Internet began to cry at the very mention of those words and the comments on numerous sites grew mostly all saying the same thing, “Omg! Did Microsoft not learn from Apple?” Who honestly even uses copy and paste on their phone anyway?
Call up every major dictionary publication and tell them to append the entry for the word ‘Failure’ we’ve got a new definition to add, iPad. The iPad is an attempt by Apple to fool people obsessed with its products that it is a new product, but really it is only an iPhone or iPod Touch with a bigger screen.