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Steve Jobs is Big Brother
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the members of the Party are convinced all the restrictions are for their own good, and all their thinking processes are convoluted, just like Apple fanboys accept the restrictions, wait and pay for each new feature passively, etc. Their perception of reality is distorted.
They look down on those who are not members of the Party (Apple fanboys tend to believe they are part of an elite), yet the proles are actually more free!
Apple’s communication is also quite similar to the Party, in the way that it is incoherent (“there is no iPhone 4 antenna issue, but we will provide a free fix for it”) yet completely accepted.
Production is always higher, just like every Apple announcement is a revolution, and every new product was a success. The latter reminds me of the historical blindness: fanboys erase Apple’s previous failures (technical and commercial) from their minds, and we’ve always been at war with Eastasia.
Steve Jobs once said “Freedom from porn”, which will remind of “Freedom is slavery”.
Steve Jobs is viewed as an immortal genius by fanboys; Big Brother is the immortal leader of the Party. Without Steve Jobs, there is no Apple; there is no Party without Big Brother. There is a very strong cult of personality, and you know what it usually leads to.
Poker is pure luck
Whenever I say that poker is pure luck, poker fans usually get quite mad1 about it, but can’t even start a proper explanation on how it isn’t. That’s the only stuff I found after quite some effort searching the web:
- You don’t understand poker
- “Skilled” players win over “unskilled” players or randomized players
- The same players come at the top of tournaments
I couldn’t find anyone explaining what the “skill” was exactly. Weird, uh?
My responses to these sorry-ass explanations:
- It is a very simple game after you remove all the vocabulary cruft and other useless talk. That’s why idiots like it: it’s simple yet they it makes them feel intelligent.
- These kind of studies are cited as scientific evidence that poker is not pure luck. Unsurprisingly, poker fans don’t understand much how science works. Some players are better at estimating odds, i.e. luck. A random player does not consider the odds. “Skilled” players are either stupid (they consider odds but they are not aware of it) or very intelligent but evil (they exploit the stupidity of others). A “perfect” human (or… a robot) could always have the exact odds at hand, and chose a safe strategy to win on the long run.
- That’s actually the most used argument. That’s just because all the others are idiots, who get influenced and don’t know it’s just a game of odds.
The sad fact is, anyone can write a bot to play online poker and win not much, but regularly. That’s why online poker sites try to block bots, by using closed-source clients and closed protocols, and monitoring how many tables someone is trying to play at once.
Even if you consider estimating odds is a skill, it’s just a fucking boring skill. I’d rather play FarmVille.
- and I really enjoy that [↩]
Mac owners have to be sent to extermination camps
A bit I encountered that infuriated me:
Created w/ Audacity @ 16bit/44.1kHz.
Ripped using an Ortofon 2m Blue Cartridge mounted on a Music Hall MMF 2.2 with Acrylic Platter and Pro-Ject Speed Box. Sent through a Marantz PM5003 Integrated Amp w/ the units Pre-amp into the line in port on my MacBook Pro.
We see that very expensive and high-quality equipment is used to send everything to an absolutely crappy laptop sound card. It’s like eating caviar in a plate of vomit. What the fuck? And a good sound card would cost less than ten percent of all this stuff. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
But what is the most significant with this mac faggot is the use of my. Like all macfags, he uses my like my iPhone that I love so much I stuff it in my ass every day, my “unibody” MacBook Pro, my shiny iPad that is shiny, etc.
Ripped using an Ortofon 2m Blue Cartridge mounted on a Music Hall MMF 2.2 with Acrylic Platter and Ø Pro-Ject Speed Box. Sent through a Marantz PM5003 Integrated Amp w/ the units Pre-amp into the line in port on my MacBook Pro.
KILL ALL MACFAGS.
13 year olds have to ruin everything
Today, I discovered crabcore.
It’s extremely bad, and so fucking gay. Shitty stupid moves (looks like the retarded child of nu-metal and tecktonik). Auto-Tune. AUTO-TUNE?! AUTO-TUNE in my post-hardcore? Clearly, Hitler has to raise from the dead and burn every last one of these bands.
They’re tagged post-hardcore on Last.fm, and that alone made me die a little inside.
To sum up, it’s the nu-metal of post-hardcore. Hence the title.
Slumdog Millionaire, worst movie of 2008
This movie is both incoherent and improbable. And it’s not just overrated, it’s one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
It constantly switches between Hindi and English without any logic. The subtitles are hard to read and at a weird position. There is even scatological humor.
Racist, western-centered
It very insulting towards India and Indians – just read all the angry Indians leaving comments on IMDB. The best (or worst) part is when the American tourists leave $100 to Jamal after they realize he robbed them. “Here is a piece of real America.”
The Millionaire Game
A lot of questions wouldn’t be asked on the Indian show but more likely on the American show.
The host is very rude; the audience seems to like that. Oh well, I guess Indians are just assholes.
The hosts seems to own the show and if the player answers wrong he loses all. This is not the case in the real game. Oh and… the game isn’t broadcast live.
While he did know the answers to some questions, he answers at least one out of pure luck. What was the point of that? And how stupid is the “it is written” line!
The Police
First we have to believe the police will actually do something because someone is suspected of cheating at a TV game. Then they torture the guy (yeah, it’s India, all Indians are retarded pigs, remember) and ask him the questions after the torture, not before. And then they start believing him right away.
But it’s a fairytale!
The real fairytale is that two ugly, homeless and poor Indian boys grow up without any disease or skin problem, and learn how to read and speak fluent English. One of them actually ends up with a legal, paying job (not a great one, but still a something any homeless would dream of). Getting a job and staying alive is the fairytale, but it just magically happens without explanation.
The girl is a whore
She refuses to go with him the first time, and she explicitly states that’s because they have nowhere to go, no money, etc. Well, he has a job. Why couldn’t she go? No, in fact she prefers the wealthy pig. But when Jamal is going to become a millionaire… she escapes (oh and she magically learns how to drive). Yes, the girl is a gold digger. What a love story. Also, why Salim does not escape but instead choses to die in a bath of money?
The only good part was the first one, with the (underpaid) child actors. Please, do not pay to watch this movie.
Boot time: Windows vs. Linux
I often read that Windows boots faster than Linux.
Although I don’t have the impression it’s true on my only dual-boot computer (this laptop even starts Apache+MySQL on Linux, and it’s XP, not the slower Vista), the fact is that when Windows displays the desktop, the boot isn’t finished at all. It will be completely unusable for minutes while when you see the Linux (or BSD, etc., pardon me for the shortcut) desktop, it will be completely read in seconds.
In short, Microsoft is lying to your face when they show you the Windows desktop. Well, wouldn’t be the first time; it’s like when they display 4GB (or more) of RAM but only use up to 3.5.
As I don’t boot Windows often, it’s more likely to be ten minutes than five, because the anti-virus and Windows have to run updates. I’m not kidding when I say ten minutes. I don’t understand how it can be so bad. And I don’t have any of the vendor-installed crap; it’s a custom Windows install with only the vital stuff.
Hibernating works really bad on both Windows and Linux; sleeping is OK on both. And well, Linux is more reactive after a wakeup than Windows, and again I can’t understand why.
However sleeping drains a lot of battery and you need to reboot your Windows often anyway to fix security holes. With Linux you don’t need to reboot most of the time, and there are way less critical fixes. Windows even forces you to reboot (you have like 30 seconds to click No, and screw you if you’re away).