Wabewalker (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} wabewalker) wrote,@ 2008-01-15 18:30:00 |
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| Entry tags: | #spinnwebe, technology |
#spinnwebe Goes to MacWorld ’08
#spinnwebe Goes to MacWorld ’08
Robot roll call:
- Kyol
- hah
- wabewalkr
- Hi
- wabewalkr
- Was thinking noone would show.
- Kyol
- why YES it's a STEVENOTE
- bob
- hey wabe, good to see ya
- wabewalkr
- You people had me worried.
- bob
- actually it's really rude of steve to have the keynote today. the magazine's getting boned by deadlines and i've got a meeting at 1 central.
- bob
- probably a short status meeting kinda deal but puhLEEZ it's my christmas
On the physiological effects of the keynote:
- wabewalkr
- Boners for all.
- *** bob has changed the topic on channel #spinnwebe to <wabewalkr> Boners for all.
On Time Capsule:
- Kyol
- Saweet. Time capsule
- wabewalkr
- Wait -- wireless backups?
- Kyol
- FINALLY
- wabewalkr
- Wasn't that supposed to be part of Time Machine? Wireless backups to Airport Express + USB HD?
- bob
- oh good! a terabyte of data at 802.11g speeds!
On iPhone speculation:
- bob
- wonder how many of those iphones went straight to ebay
- bob
- and are still there
- wabewalkr
- Heh. $1200 for a $300 phone. It's a deal!
On Web2.0’s insidious infiltration of keynote coverage:
- bob
- looks like the ilounge 30-second autorefresh starts over every time i leave and then return to the page
- wabewalkr
- They're triggering a refresh on blur. How Web2.0-ish.
- bob
- what's blur, besides how fast my right hand is moving at the moment?
- wabewalkr
- window loses focus
- wabewalkr
- sorry, had to do some web 2.0 crap and it's rotting in the back of my brain.
- bob
- heheh, right this very minute i'm editing our march cover article, about how realtors can leverage web 2.0
- wabewalkr
- "Leave it out, and your users will love you."
- bob
- yeah, one of the sentences in the intro:
- bob
- "The tech world has dubbed tools like blogs and social network sites like Facebook as Web 2.0, enabling Web users to connect with one another rather than view content passively."
- bob
- so we can expect technical accuracy of oh, say, just about 0
- wabewalkr
- I stopped reading when I hit "Facebook," sorry.
- bob
- no, you did the right thing
On the cost of upgrading:
- wabewalkr
- Free update to phone.
- wabewalkr
- And coincidentally, free bricking to those foolish enough to unlock.
- bob
- wow, $20 for that upgrade
- wabewalkr
- Whu?
- wabewalkr
- Maps?
- wabewalkr
- Maps on a device that really shouldn't leave your house except to go to Starbucks?
- wabewalkr
- Unless Apple's launching a WiFi satellete...
- wabewalkr
- <sarcasm>Yeah, that's so worth $20</sarcasm>
On iTMS movie rentals:
- wabewalkr
- Rentals!
- Kyol
- yeah sure whatevers
- bob
- no fapping there for me either
- wabewalkr
- Don't want movie rentals?
- bob
- i don't even have a video store account, let alone netflix
- wabewalkr
- Well, not if they're 24-hour limited.
- wabewalkr
- What are the damn terms? If I have to give up my left nut to see "Spiderman 3" I might not be interested.
- Kyol
- I already have movie rentals, except they're free and permanent and DRM free, it's called UUCP.
- wabewalkr
- UUCP?
- wabewalkr
- Over FidoNet?
- Kyol
- er NNTP
On techno-Ludditism:
- wabewalkr
- And I thought bob was the Luddite.
- Kyol
- I'm still working at a dialup ISP, I think I carry the techno-Luddite crown.
On the immortal question:
- wabewalkr
- iPod Touch or iPhone?
- bob
- touch, i have a sidekick for a smartphone
- bob
- the touch will be my tablet for catching up on porn
On terms of service and thinking about baseball:
- wabewalkr
- Fuck you, Steve. 48 hours, yes; 24, no.
- wabewalkr
- I like to watch my movies over multiple days.
- Kyol
- More than 15 minutes at a shot and I'm spent
- wabewalkr
- Try ginseng for that, Kyol.
On bandwidth:
- bob
- i hope all this rental movie traffic doesn't slow down my torrents
On bandwidth, redux:
- Kyol
- apple tv mk deuce
- bob
- done a little closer to right, anyway
- wabewalkr
- Death of the mini, more like.
- bob
- there ya go, kyol, HD rentals add a buck
- wabewalkr
- Heh, HD rentals over dialup.
On social networks and closet cases:
- bob
- OMG spyware!
- bob
- "Can preview movies from the interface, and see what other users who have rented that movie have rented"
- wabewalkr
- Damnit, Steve, don't get on the Web2.0 bandwagon!
- Kyol
- "get on"?
- wabewalkr
- If you offer a Facebook plugin, I'm coming over to Moscone with a bat.
- Kyol
- have you SEEN itunes?
- wabewalkr
- Sigh, yes.
- wabewalkr
- I've also used Amazon's recommendation service.
- wabewalkr
- National Coming Out day has passed, otherwise I would be ready to admit I'm in the social networking closet.
On wealth through negligence, or making money the AOL way:
- bob
- they oughtta let me rent songs for a quarter
- wabewalkr
- For 24 hours?
- bob
- yeah, why not
- bob
- they've got the infrastructure, it's a coupla hours of coding for an intern
- bob
- call it "apple party" or something, if you don't own some music and want to play it, put it in a playlist, we'll charge you a quarter each
- wabewalkr
- Ah, smart.
- wabewalkr
- People will forget it's rented, end up with a $2500 bill at the end of the month.
On the inevitable approach of the alien CEO:
- bob
- sigh, now the third-party ceos parade out to see how jobs' cock tastes
- bob
- BATHROOM BREAK
On privateering:
- bob
- only pirates want to own optical media readers
- wabewalkr
- I thought they want to own optical media writers?
On website stability, and more baseball thoughts:
- wabewalkr
- Engadget can't stop using the word "excited."
- bob
- oh yeah baby
- wabewalkr
- They got too excited... "Please refresh this page in a few minutes."
On the MacBook Air:
- wabewalkr
- OK, and so...
- wabewalkr
- Same screen dimensions as the regular MacBook...
- Kyol
- Yeah, it's an aluminum macbook, just real thin.
- Kyol
- whoop-tee-doo
- bob
- not a touchscreen, just a big touchpad
- wabewalkr
- "How did we fit it all in there? Answer: we didn't. It's really a dumb terminal that connects to your Mac at home. So you have to buy two!"
- bob
- "Your choice of green or amber!"
- Kyol
- Huh, it's actually not horribly specced, either.
- Kyol
- "Because this fucker is going to break. A lot.
- wabewalkr
- Fits in an envelope, for easy shipping!
- wabewalkr
- "Do not fold, spindle or mutilate."
- bob
- it won't be safe to just carry a manila envelope on the street anymore
- wabewalkr
- On the other hand, the MacBook Air doubles as a large shuriken. Hack up bad guys with ease and style.
- bob
- and a ramp so you can do stunts with your sweet hot wheels collection!
On the loss of legacy copper:
- wabewalkr
- No FireWire. Dealbreaker.
- bob
- apple's trying to kill firewire i think
- wabewalkr
- Yeah, I suspect so.
- Kyol
- I wonder if they've figure out how to do the whole mac transfer thing over usb somehow.
- bob
- which sucks what with it being fast and reliable unlike usb
- Kyol
- That shit is THE number onf reason I'll slobber apple knob as long as I live.
- wabewalkr
- Actually, I think they'll kill USB next.
- wabewalkr
- Steve spurts for wireless.
- wabewalkr
- There's your answer, Kyol: MBA uses WiFi for transfer.
- wabewalkr
- No Firewire, no USB.
- bob
- yeah it has usb
- wabewalkr
- No, I meant no USB transfer.
- bob
- sure! copy stuff from one mac onto your usb drive, then bring it over to the air
- wabewalkr
- Sneakernet 2.0
On Remote Disk:
- bob
- ooooh, you can see what CDs and DVDs people have mounted around you
- Kyol
- porn porn porn porn office 2007 porn
On beautiful things that you heathens refuse to buy:
- wabewalkr
- I'm calling "Cube" right now. Who's with me?
- wabewalkr
- Beautiful, droolworthy, but ultimately a sales flop.
- bob
- maybe
- Kyol
- eh, the laptop market is actually viable, though.
- bob
- maybe they learned from their mistakes and next macbook air is good, though
- wabewalkr
- Can't see it... what does it bring to the table that the current MB and MBP don't?
- Kyol
- x-treme portability for the mini PC crowd.
- Kyol
- only $1800!
- Kyol
- versus the $350 eee hrm
- wabewalkr
- Still, it doesn't "fit" into the lineup, unless they're going to introduce the iMac Air as "one more thing."
On greener Apples:
- Kyol
- Oh it's a GREEN laptop I see
- bob
- Environmental highlights: fully aluminum case (good for recycling), first fully mercury and lead free display, circuit boards are BFR free, retail packaging are 56% less volume than MacBook.
- wabewalkr
- That's because it's shipped in a manila envelope.
- wabewalkr
- And Gladys from accounting hand-writes the address label, because she took caligraphy at night school.
- wabewalkr
- "Next, the gMac, as in 'green.' The case is 100% cornstarch."
The final analysis:
- Kyol
- they're doing highlights of 2008 SO FAR I dunno steve
- bob
- is it time for... one more thing?
- wabewalkr
- Yep, boners on standby.
- bob
- shit, i got excited for a second when i saw "steve jobs retaking stage" on macrumorslive, then it turned out the refresh munged the scroll
- bob
- nope, not if the music's starting
- Kyol
- RANDY NEWMAN
- Kyol
- short people.. doot dootle dee doot
- bob
- maybe they'll announce manila envelope 2.0 that randy newman can fit into
- wabewalkr
- Thin people... got no one to love.
- wabewalkr
- I give this keynote a 4. Nice beat, but you couldn't dance to it.
- bob
- heh, ilounge: "10:36 Continued political/economic diatribe, how media is focusing on the companies but not the poeple who are being hurt."
- bob
- ars technica isn't where i expect to see "rofl"
- wabewalkr
- They just reported on "Tight ass"
- wabewalkr
- Oh well, might as well ooze off to work.
