January 2012
23 posts
Here We Go Again
Stu:
John Gruber isn’t a gamer. He’s talked about it on The Talk Show. Dan Benjamin even said, “I can’t imagine you playing a video game,” to Gruber, which I thought was somewhat offensive: John Gruber doesn’t seem like the type of guy who plays video games, and Benjamin thinks Gruber is pretty swell, thus Benjamin may have a negative opinion of gamers.
In the spirit of giving you the...
"Enrich Your Experience"
The Guy I Pick on a Lot:
Google already tracks your data on all the products you use. Now those products can share information between themselves to enrich your experience and market to you better.
In what way will allowing Google to interpolate data they’ve mined from my documents, email, web searches, YouTube views and my ever-stagnant Google+ account “enrich” my...
Squashed: Dumb Metaphor Friday: "Growing the pie" →
squashed:
This metaphor only makes sense if we assume that pies behave in ways that pies doesn’t actually behave. The argument only makes sense if we pretend the economy behaves in similarly imaginary ways.
Still Fifteen Bucks →
Stu Parker:
nickheer:
Apple:
$14.99
None of the eBooks announced or released at $14.99 have been college textbooks used in education. What’s been released so far don’t even have current print equivalents (despite listing “Print Length” in iBooks Store), they’re just demos to “ooh” and “ahh” at, not actual digital versions of textbooks being used in the wild.
Correct, however you did not...
Fifteen Dollars
Stu Parker:
Apple to announce tools, platform to “digitally destroy” textbook publishing:
While speculation has so far centered on digital textbooks
The only financial recourse for a student these days is being able to buy (and sell) textbooks used, on the semi-cheap, because the textbook market is absolutely awful and completely fixed to rip as much money as possible out of college students...
“If anybody’s a fan of Pearl Jam, whatever. I guess during the grunge...”
– Greg Proops
"Think of it as a metaphor"
clientsfromhell:
After giving a client his requested site design, he made it clear he wasn’t pleased.
Me: But that’s what you asked for…
Client: Yeah, but I meant that figuratively.
Me: So you don’t want it to look like this?
Client: No, I do. Just think of the site design as a metaphor of a real website.
Me: What?
A long list of the most terrible things Rick... →
“Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
Via @vito
“Within 48 hours of starting this tumblelog, I got the following message:
say...”
– “Inspired” by Apple: Do not feed the troll
Hyp(o|er)critical
ragingthunderbolt:
↯ Nick Heer: There Is a Clear Difference nickheer:
It isn’t that advertising is bad, or that targeted advertising is wrong. The problem lies with the tracking stuff. Some are fine with it, but I am not. There is a clear difference.
Consider installing Ghostery. If you had, you’d see Marco’s site uses both Google Analytics and Mint to track visitor data....
There Is a Clear Difference
ragingthunderbolt:
nickheer:
Let’s start with two silly points:
I will ignore your quip about fanboys. It’s a stupid word with unwelcome connotations that does not promote discussion.
Those are scare quotes.
It’s still a lousy word.
(Sigh. I just can’t resist reblogging myself.)
How modest.
The parenthetical is...
It's About Audience
From ragingthunderbolt:
Ben Brooks:
Marco Arment on the use of the term ‘fanboy’ and writing opinions:
This is one reason why so many big publishers are so opinionless and seem
to like everything. Saying you don’t like something, or that any choice is
clearly the best for most people, will cause enough people to stop listening
that the precious...
“The answer is not what can we do to prevent deaths because of a lack of health...”
– Rick “Facts are Frothy” Santorum
Reactions to Reactions to Reactions →
Stu Parker:
This is why I’m not responding to you nor the other tumblr guy who tries to jab at me anymore. You guys are absolutely ridiculous, and constantly wrong.
As “the other tumblr guy”, my interest is piqued.
Translation: I’m not responding to rebuttals because you’re pointing out the inconsistencies, fallacies and incongruities of my arguments.
F.lux →
Why is this a good idea? Can anyone tell me? Do you not care about colours?
December 2011
14 posts
Stu Doesn't Understand the Concept of Death
(the real) Stu Parker:
More Responses on Siegler
Max Jacobson:
But to what extent is he poisoning impressionable minds, really? And what’s the harm? I think that’s at the heart of your project here. This isn’t life-and-death, obviously, so what are the stakes?
The easiest argument to argue is “Who cares?” and it’s tempting to just ask “Who...
Wherein Stu Compares Gruber to Homeopaths
Stu Parker:
Max Jacobson, the author of Reactions to my Reactions, brings up a few decent points about today’s angry missive “Meh”. First off, I admit I wrote it on a particularly vitriolic tear, and was even doing so as kind of an exit from this blog, ‘cause really, it’s ridiculous. I also cut between topics like a crazy person, so that should have been a clue.
Nice disclaimer.
But,...
Stu Parker Can't Google
Stu Parker:
If you haven’t been following the saga of this SOPA legislation, here’s some background on just how dreadful it is. It’s a power play from big corporate media companies — the sort of legislation that nearly everyone strenuously opposes but which might pass because the money is on the wrong side.
Nearly everyone strenuously opposes, except for Apple, of course. Apple joins...
Much Ado About Much Ado About Twitter
So he starts off all rational.
Stu Parker:
Gruber’s eighteen page missive on what is wrong with the new Twitter is kind of perplexing. It’s not that his specific complaints aren’t valid, but he wraps them up with “the way that I use Twitter is the right way, and Twitter doesn’t care about me” despite saying this:
The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character...
Seriously? →
Stu Parker:
sheetwise:
Whether it’s true or not matters less than the perception, right? So this looks like big, strong, my-best-interests-not-the-carriers-at-heart Google is caving to pressure from the Enemy.
If I’m learning anything by dipping my toes in these Apple-laden waters, it’s that the truth definitely doesn’t matter when it comes to spinning a story to best suit your interests.
...
Don't Be A Free User →
minimalmac:
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the...
gossipgrubes:
The whole world is crying, or so S would have you believe. But the only tears that Gossip Grubes sees are coming from S. Poor S, didn’t you hear? The internet never sleeps and deleting a post isn’t going to fix that no matter how much you cry.
xoxo Gossip Grubes.
Proopcast alert!
gregproops:
Crackers is the new one Recorded Live at the Comedy Bar in Toronto.
Taste the cheese.
“Sleep!”
Stu Parker Must Be Trolling
Stu Parker is a guy who has decided to create a blog specifically to complain about things on Daring Fireball that he doesn’t like. That’s cool. I don’t care one way or the other. But the lengths to which he will go to disagree with Gruber are immense. I thought he was being quite rational, even if I disagreed with aspects, until today when he tried to defend Carrier IQ.
Pick...
Try Again →
Stu Parker:
Also, this amuses me, because this is one of the things Kanopka says will contribute to Apple’s future decline, and you repeat it yourself without realizing you’re parroting him:
The iPod’s decrease in sales due in part to people already owning one
Kanopka’s precise words:
The market is saturated with Apple products. Once everyone who wants an Apple product has one, the...
Why Kanopka is Actually Wrong, But May Inevitably... →
Note: This has since been deleted by Stu Parker. I have mirrored it (see bottom).
Let’s go through this point-by-point (I’ll ignore the straw man responses):
Why won’t Apple suffer without Steve Jobs? “They just won’t, they’re Apple. It’s absurd. Who cares that they tanked before without him, this time is different.”
Apple is in a completely different situation than before....
Hilariously nitpicky blog →
johngruber:
Leonid Kanopka says “the Apple bubble is ready to burst”
Of course, instead of pointing out why Kanopka might be wrong about there being an “Apple Bubble”, Gruber just smugly shrugs it off with his “claim chowder” file. Gruber doesn’t bother going over Kanopka’s numerous thought out points….
Why acknowledge the hyperbolic, sensationalist, nonsensical and downright false...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
6 posts
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Steve →
mrgan:
On January 9, 2007, I took the day off from work to watch Steve Jobs’ keynote. I stayed off iChat, and I told the people who were likely to contact me that day to please refrain from feeding me any info on what Apple announces that morning. I waited for the video feed to become available, which…
3 tags
I Score Me
iPod shuffle will continue to be available. Maybe some colour changes. Probably double capacity. Maybe they’ll drop it since the nano has a clip and is only a little bigger. RESULT: No changes.
iPod nano might gain an OLED screen and camera. The camera prediction is based on the leaked case that was floating around on 9to5Mac a while back. The OLED screen is a pure guess, but it would be a...
2 tags
September 2011
3 posts
This supposed early October iPhone/iPod/MacBook...
About two weeks before the rumoured event is rumoured to occur (again, this is only a rumour), I’ll chuck in my predictions for things that might go down.
iPod shuffle will continue to be available. Maybe some colour changes. Probably double capacity. Maybe they’ll drop it since the nano has a clip and is only a little bigger.
iPod nano might gain an OLED screen and camera. The...
Watchadobegripes:
Photoshop: Colour picker inaccuracies
August 2011
2 posts
a nice way to write
3 tags
July 2011
1 post
