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It changes the "More Info URL" field in your settings, so people clicking on your "home page" go to StalkDaily.

It's not so much Google fanbois, but Lintards, who live in CandyFairyUnicornLand. The real world, where phone companies are businesses with high expenses, is a strange and foreign land to Lintards, and they don't much like it. Well, the feeling's mutual.

Blogged a reply, since I turned out to have more than a couple points to make in Twitter:

http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/read.php?topic=Mac&id...

I'm from Moscow, ID (mud in spring, hellishly hot in summer, on fire in autumn, and - most importantly - arctic wasteland in winter), where the Jamaican bobsled team trained. They were on something, but it wasn't performance-enhancing.

Bolt, OTOH, seems to be keeping his head clear, and I would expect from that that he's just working hard.

Sadly, your Guinness link is broken...

iPhones are for people with jobs, who don't mind paying money for goods and services.

Christopher Coulter's comment is exhibit A in "Dinosaur Thinking". Take a good look, that's how to make sure your career dead-ends and you become obsolete. He'll be doing the equivalent of flipping burgers in a few years, wondering what happened.

Yeah, the old fogies ("old" regardless of age) aren't going to get this stuff. But software that works over the 'Net (and is still, hopefully, useful even when disconnected, though that should become increasingly uncommon), that's how the smart people work NOW.

Non-technical people use what their technical relatives set up for them. They didn't do a careful analysis of MS Word vs. competitors or simpler tools, they used what a nephew set up once, and will change when the nephew reformats their computer or switches them to Mac. If they're given networked tools, at least they don't have to make regular backups and won't be sending 3MB photos and documents through email, just links.

It's the dinosaurs, people who had a hard time learning "computers" the first time and are by damn not going to learn anything new, who'll drag their heels until they're replaced. 20 years ago, when jobs lasted more than a couple years, that would've been a problem, a real drag on the economy. Now, they're just going to be replaced with current technical people.

You want the power of social networking? My last 3 jobs have come from LinkedIn, and I'm constantly getting new offers from it. The traditional job search is obsolete. You ARE your network of previous jobs, and that's now visible.

I haven't had time to play with Acrobat yet, but Google Apps is the common "desktop"/file store/application suite for everyone at the last couple jobs, and for several other projects I'm doing.

The Lenovo X300 is fat and industrial ugly. More importantly, it's half the CPU speed and costs $1500 more than a MacBook Air, $2000 more than a MacBook. Apple won't sell you a machine as crippled as the X300, because it wouldn't be of any use.

So there's no screenshots, and the Mac-accessible videos only show people talking about it.

"I don't care, I'm still free, you can't take Google Sky from me."

That's an extremely insulting comparison. Rats are much cleaner and nicer animals than anyone at NBC or Microsoft, and far less likely to carry diseases.

Waiting in lines, whether for an iPhone or a Star Wars movie or whatever, is for people who are doing a publicity stunt (i.e., podcasters and such), or people who don't have jobs.

All the sane, employed people just wait until the next day.

You know, Robert, you wouldn't have those weird application interactions if you were using a Mac. Skype is a pretty crappy and flaky app, but it doesn't have any problems with other apps on Mac OS X. A proper OS doesn't let apps interfere with each other.

As for Mesh, OS integration might help its adoption on the Windows side, but will never help on the Mac side, where we already have .Mac, and it works great for the few things anyone uses it for.

The lack of .Mac for Windows is a little frustrating on the rare occasions that I have to touch Windows: I go to a Windows box, log into mac.com, go to my iDisk, grab my bookmarks (auto-synced every day) from Library/Application Support/Bookmarks, and import them into Safari for Windows. Worst of all, Windows doesn't have Applescript (and I'm not stupid enough to write VB), so I can't script this task like I could on a Mac.

.Mac for Windows would help, but Mesh for Mac would be more trouble than the current process.

There are much larger examples than just syncing bookmarks, of course, but that's a good "Hello, World" application. If Mesh isn't usable for that, it won't be of use for anything larger.

Robert: That's not accurate. MS *says* that Mesh will work on Macs in a couple months.

Translated to English from MS-PR-speak, they may release a half-working version in Q3 or Q4 2008, maybe 2009. It will never have parity or full compatibility with the Windows version.

Silverlight, Entourage, MSIE for Mac, etc. all show how this really works. Office for Mac is a totally separate product from Windows Office, and isn't fully compatible even now.

Believing anything MS PR says is a great way to ruin your business.

There's more reason to not use it than "I Hate Microsoft"; those of us who hold Microsoft in contempt do so for a *REASON*. It's not religious, it's a simple question of self-preservation.

Mesh doesn't work on Linux or Mac or BSD. It's of zero value to most geeks, who are the only ones who would ever use such a service. Even when/if they make a half-broken port to the Mac, that doesn't solve putting it on a server (no, Windows is not a suitable server) to produce bigger services. Meanwhile, there are other, better solutions available NOW that are cross-platform. That makes it dead on arrival.

Second, there's Microsoft's history. They introduce these services not to compete, but to poison the well for others. Every single time they've done anything with the 'Net, it's been to follow and destroy competition; they dumped MSIE to kill cross-platform Netscape, then let it rot for 6 years because the 'Net is the enemy of their desktop empire. MSN was going to be their Yahoo-killer. Total failure; at some point it'll be turned off. MSN Search was going to be their Google-killer; it's one of the worst search services ever made. MSN Music was going to kill iTunes; they just turned off the DRM servers, and have shafted everyone who bought music from them. Hailstorm, Live.com, Sidewalk, there's an endless stream of disasters from MS.

So now they have another thing to make Sharepoint obsolete, because Google Apps and AWS and Yahoo Pipes have scared them. Why would anyone be dumb enough to tie themselves to this? It'll just get killed as soon as the marketing team moves on to attacking another company.

It's the same story as Silverfish, er, Silverlight. Flash ate their lunch, and AJAX in browsers is reaching rich application level. They can see their death in this, so they release a mediocre copy. But nobody's stupid enough to use Silverlight. Even MS's own people can't find outside developers willing to waste their time learning it.

Those who do not study history are doomed to repeatedly buy stupid technologies from Microsoft. Only a fool ties himself to a MS technology.

You're a bigot. That's a big turn-off for me on a date, so you wouldn't be making it to the dessert round, let alone to a second date.

Your psychological damage from a prior relationship has nothing to do with gaming or anyone else; you're obviously still angry at your previous guy, and taking it out on everyone else.

Video #6 isn't a train wreck, Robert, it's your best work. It's the only one where you really show PASSION. Where you had done the hands-on, had real experience, and then just LET THE WORLD KNOW how bad the Kindle is. To hell with good manners, saying that the Kindle's designer needs a good ass-beating and firing is important.

When you try to be a "serious", "professional" "journalist", you have such a flat affect, it's impossible to tell what you're feeling. When you get pissed off (were you also drunk in that video? If so, drink more!), you're great.

It's better to be great than to be nice.

Hey, maybe you've heard of a new technology that came out in the early 20th Century: mass-market paperbacks.

They're small, light, cheap, and can be held and page-turned with one hand. And despite that, they have 600+ dpi typography.