"zPhone? Zune Phone? No, no, no...." written by Enknot on estrip.org

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02/16/10 05:39 - 27ºF - ID#51023

zPhone? Zune Phone? No, no, no....

(hey estrip, how's about a little healthy nay saying? I can't resist. This phone looks really nice, but I've been to the brain washing sessions the MS dudes throw and I imagine it went down like this. Ok, um well..., here goes.)

SOMEWHERE IN SEATTLE

...We'll call it Windows Mobile Series Seven. That'll make sense. It'll be awesome, it'll have all the stuff other phones have had for years and um... uh, XBOX live, yeah that's it.

But sir what if the people who buy this phone don't have xbox live?

Well they're stupid that's what

::yeah, yeah, yeah's all around. People are stupid, yeah ::

Um, sir, what about the people who bought the last three versions of windows mobile with the hopes to get xbox live on their mobile device? Are we gonna just abandon those people like the Apple people do?

:: chuckles all around {yeah, the apple people are jerks} more chuckles ::

Um, yeah.

:: total silence {that's a good idea. yeah sometimes you have to do it} shurgs and murmers ::

Well who's gonna wanna buy this phone sir?

Everybody, just watch the video...

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01/28/10 11:47 - 18ºF - ID#50922

Key Change, Same Tune...

After (e:Matthew)'s comment I rethought this whole thing and I'm going to officially clarify my position here.

Most of the people on this site are not the target audience for this device. This device is the personification of what makes apple great. It's a computer for people who don't want a computer, and don't want to be left behind by being a person without one. This thing toasterizes computers for everyone completely (there's no moving parts!).

But i'm not reneging my position. For a person like me this is a really lame device because i have everything that this device is in something else, so I was correct in calling it what I did, lame. An iPod G4 to a an iPod G3 user is cool, but a iPod to a new iPod user is life changing. I thought about what my mom's next computer should be and my dial mysteriously stopped here.

I can either get my mom a new PC that will cause crazy issues all day long and confuse and upset her and my phone will ring like clockwork every 3 moths when it needs reformatting, or spend an extra $500 bucks and never get a call again. In fact this is even better than a macbook or mac desktop because it'll save her from all the other confusing mumbo jumbo of having a computer that she never uses any friggin way. Her Internet bill will drop to $30 a month (that's 1/2 what Adelphia's charging people) and she'll never call me up to tell anything besides family dish.

This thing has a chance, and as much as I hate to admit it this time and (e:Jim) is prolly right.

i'm not an apple fan boy. I use their stuff when I love it, and when I love it I love it so hard it breaks my heart not to have it. As soon as a (e:Matthew)'s sister or (e:Enknot)'s mom gets one; LOVE. Pure nasty sloppy wet flicking noise making wake the neighbors PDA style love.

Now if they could only set it up so that you never need to use your computer to use it it'll be a show stopper. On top of it all the reason why they're putting out this uber lame version is because their easing you into the more complicated yet still quite simple version of the device that will take you past the last mile and compete with Google head on. In fact this device is the only thing that I can see that might have a chance right now.

When it has front and back camera and blue tooth (if it doesn't already) for head set you won't need the phone company to be a phone company anymore. Hell, Apple wan't going to take Google on first or without an army of stubborn paying customers behind them.

Yeah my mom's due for a new compy soon, and depending on how things go in the next few months if I have anything to do with getting her one, it'll be one of these things. (If only so I can bash it first hand *snort*)

Funny how close they were. I guess the newton finally lives.

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01/27/10 03:50 - ID#50917

iPad

lame. discuss.

enknot writes at 08:46:17 02/18/10 - Comment #54954: You know Jim that is the one thing about this phone that I have hope for. Its the first time MS is going to rewrite their os from the bottom to the top. Since the war for the next platform will be waged on handsets itll make this next bout very interesting instead of the forgone conclusion we all thought it was...

jim writes at 10:39:50 01/28/10 - Comment #54669: typos. jesus.

jim writes at 10:37:51 01/28/10 - Comment #54668: won -> own, was -> has, etc, lots of types :(

jim writes at 10:25:56 01/28/10 - Comment #54667: People complaining about how the $399 iPod was going to fail and was lame in 2001: :::link:::

"This was supposed to be a big deal?"

The thing to think about when looking at new Apple products isn't the tech list, but the relationship between the device and the user. I wasn't joking about cuddling before, this is like a tangible physical re-do of the laptop.

There have been tablets for years, but fully embracing a physical interaction model vs pen input will mean that people will be stroking this sucker while lying on the couch, and clutching it to their chests walking down hallways. People who own won will love it, and they'll share that enthusiasm with others.

And think how the iPhone was influenced Android and WinMo 7 (well, getting there)... if you hate the closed aspect of the iPad then there will be iPad-a-likes out using Android within a year, so basically the iPad will benefit the whole ecosystem by re-writting expectations.

vincent writes at 10:07:47 01/28/10 - Comment #54666: What I am getting a chuckle out of if the fact that Apple must have never done even one focus group concerning the name. From a marketing standpoint how can you really sell a prestigious product when the first image that most [immature] Americans get from the name is the connotation to a maxiPAD! Did they think through possibly that the product may be linked to "that time of the month?" :::link:::

matthew writes at 08:26:43 01/28/10 - Comment #54664: I think it's great. I agree with (e:Jim). It's like a Internet machine you can't crash. It's perfect for peole, like my sister, who only own a laptop beacause they want to use the Internet. Plus it has all the glory of the touch screen, which seems to be the direction most computers are going in. I'd buy stock in this.

joshua writes at 12:16:13 01/28/10 - Comment #54663: This smells of vanity purchase.

lilho writes at 10:15:55 01/27/10 - Comment #54661: i don't know or care what this things is, but i am so excited to see you tony!!!!!!!!!!!!! st. patty's day 2010!!!!!!!!

fing writes at 10:10:45 01/27/10 - Comment #54660: I have to admit I thought this was going to be much more exciting. Everything was pretty much known ahead of time to some point. The one thing that struck me is that the iPad processor is made by Apple! Not sure if this is better but it sure sounds like they really want to control how this performs. Yeah they can work closely with Intel but this chip can run fast and long. Besides that I think this is a pretty decent product. It might take a while to catch on but for me having one around when you are watching tv or cooking dinner might be nice. I usually have my laptop with me listening to podcasts or looking up recipes etc. This device might fit the bill for that. There is no way this is going to be a work device for anybody. You can pretty much rule out healthcare for now. I think that $499 is a very competitive device. Perhaps this might be subsidized by a 3G carrier when they finally pick one. Does anyone know if you have to buy apps for both the iphone and the ipad if you have both or only have to purchase them once?

jim writes at 09:01:10 01/27/10 - Comment #54656: I've been putting off buying a kindle since they came out a year or two ago, waiting to see what this is like.

So I've got to ask is paying $200 more for an iPad then I would for a kindle worth it? I'm not sure of the answer to that yet :)

zobar writes at 08:41:49 01/27/10 - Comment #54655: I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get it. [I was also unimpressed when the iPod & Apple TV came out.] No doubt it'll enable some pretty cool technologies, but I'm more interested in the platform improvements that will trickle down to the iPhone. A lot of the stuff that's excusable on a mobile phone platform doesn't make sense on a tablet. Who wants a netbook OS with no multitasking? Who would pay for a hardware web browser that can't access all the SWF & FLV content on the web? What about running non-sanctioned apps? These types of things can't last very long on the iPad, but once they start allowing them on the iPad, it'll make less sense to prevent them on the iPhone.

- Z

jim writes at 08:06:58 01/27/10 - Comment #54652: Also, in 3 years the price of an iPhone went from $599 to $99. When you've got the 2nd or 3rd rev of this that costs as littleas an iPod touch does today, the value becomes more compelling.

jim writes at 06:31:44 01/27/10 - Comment #54649: People love tech they can cuddle with, and it does 95% of what probably 50% of computer users do outside of work.

It's $500 vs ~$280 for a Kindle and can do more then show books, so really the price is cheaper then I would've guessed (not that I'm saying it's inexpensive).

I think it'll do well. But we'll see :)

jenks writes at 05:29:57 01/27/10 - Comment #54646: yeah... I haven't checked out the details yet, and I am always a huge apple fanboy... but in this case... I don't get it.

It does less than my macbook, but is huge compared to my iphone... and costs $800?

Why would I want this thing?

Who WILL want this thing?

Lame.

Is it just a glorified kindle? (which is another machine I don't want/need/understand the appeal of)

mrmike writes at 04:34:26 01/27/10 - Comment #54644: It should make ibooks cheaper on ebay though

mrmike writes at 04:29:16 01/27/10 - Comment #54643: Me, neither. The phone is enough of a relationship for the moment.

jason writes at 03:56:31 01/27/10 - Comment #54641: I'm not going to be buying an iPad.

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Category: conjecture

01/26/10 05:17 - 28ºF - ID#50914

HAWT PEEPS

OK New category. Conjecture. It's where I drop some deep dark secret of my thinking that is probably just wrong to say out loud, but I can do what I want since I've prefaced it with a clause like "oh, I know you may be offended by this, but it's just conjecture so lighten up, I don't really think this way or at least not all the time, but whatever..." I digress let's get going,

I have a theory.

It's that extremely attractive people typically attract the most shallow of individuals, while their deeper more aptly suited suitors lurk in dark corners waiting to for a chance they'll never take, and everyone looses.

The marginally attractive people get to date the most since they're not so fugly that they don't have confidence and/or folks won't revile touching them.

And the supa homely get to have really weird sex everytime they have sex, cause really why would someone have sex with the fugly person unless they wanted to do something crazy that no one else would do.

I think that super hawt people are sometimes not as sweet as we imagine they are in our heads. Sweet ass, no shake. Huge member, no endurance. Nice face, bad breath. Happens. No one ever thinks of it when they see this kinda stuff:

HAWT

but she really needs a mint.

Worse, since hawt people are soo hawt, they're typically kinda dull. They've never had to try. Everything kidna falls into their lap. Which is where the dumb blond things comes from. Makes sense though. Why bother knowing anthing else if everything you want can be aquired by being ...you. Leaves those smart hawt people out in the cold.

Lastly, interesting hawt people have a love hate relationship with their hawtness. Only brazen idots and other dumb hawt people ever wanna be with them. It's sad, but often true. I'm guilty. I can't approach a supa hawt lady seriously. Supa smart ones scare me off too, but I want them. i want them all.

Ok, ok ok ok ok I'm ranting. I'm gonna stop now. Tell me what you think. Ever pass on a hawt person that you had a chance with? Ever get ignored by a timid person cause your milkshake brought too many boys to the yard? Ooh, better yet. Do this and report. Go "jokingly" ask a person who's too hawt for you out and see what happens. I'll do it to and report back, this could be fun.

fing writes at 10:30:26 01/27/10 - Comment #54662: Tony I think you are mostly correct. I think you have put this in some logical order. The thing I don't understand is your use of HAWT. Why would you take a 3 letter word and replace it with a 4 letter word. That would be like saying I am getting me some SECK tonight instead of just saying SEX? Does that make any sense? Although SECK is a real word I think you know what I mean. In this day and age shortening up words into acronyms or just making a word shorter is all the rage. Maybe using HT instead of HOT might be a good start :) I am also offended that you think I have no endurance!!

metalpeter writes at 08:08:55 01/27/10 - Comment #54653: What your saying makes a lot of sense. The thing is I would never go up to Megan Fox cause I know I wouldn't have a chance. The part where things get tricky is that when one person approaches another (not just a random meeting like you see a girl reading the sports and you ask her did the sabres win or she sees band on your shirt and wants to know where you got it or something like that) it is based on you finding something about them hot. But you still at some point need to think you are on the same level or at least close.

I think where things can get tricky again is that often times someone will let someone who is hot get away with more stuff in a relationship and sexually not saying that is a bad thing. Well again cause when you go out you are with the Hawt babe and when you are doing a 68 and she all ways owes you one you don't care cause you are eating hawt girl pussy.

But see this just leads to more problems because often people who are hot do get things because of it. Then that leads to people thinking that since you are hot you didn't work it. Best sports example is Tom Brady, a lot of people think he is a pretty boy and didn't work for any of his Success I think that might be why so many people think Manning is better but who knows?.....

If you are one of those hard workers who is hot it must piss you off if people think you get over on just your looks.

I will ad this as a final note I'm sure megan fox could get me to do some stuff that sexually I don't like, but I would try them for her. I bet Terra Patrick or maybe a couple other porn stars or Jessica Alba would get me to do stuff that I hate even more......

james writes at 11:22:32 01/27/10 - Comment #54640: Um. I'm like, super hot, and I am totally superfacial. I mean. Have you seen my face? It is totally super.

But I am not shallow. I, like, donate to charities for important things. Like, dolphins and junk.

jason writes at 10:19:37 01/27/10 - Comment #54639: Yes, extremely attractive people typically attract the most shallow of individuals. Usually it works out for them, because they're also typically shallow. Not in every case....but if you don't have to develop a personality or a conscience why do it? That's hard work.

The ones who are beautiful and have a head on their shoulders are very rare, but they need to connect with someone intellectually. If you're interesting yourself you have more of a chance than with the empty heads.

lilho writes at 12:26:44 01/27/10 - Comment #54632: ok wait, i think your theory is mostly but not all true, and depends on what kind of "hot" person they are and what area they live in and who they hang with.... but your theory is mostly true i think, true and sad....

lilho writes at 11:59:29 01/26/10 - Comment #54631: not all hot people are boring. some actually are super cool. but they are never single...

vincent writes at 09:44:01 01/26/10 - Comment #54629: Yea, I think you're on to something.

iriesara writes at 07:31:23 01/26/10 - Comment #54626: Not that I'm skinny now. Just wanted to qualify.

iriesara writes at 07:01:50 01/26/10 - Comment #54624: I concur. I've been on both sides. I've been fat & I've been skinny. I've been pretty & presentable as well as fuggo & homely. All in all I find it's much easier to be average. Too much vanity involved in vanity. Plus, as a skinny girl, I hate when girls look at you like your an asshole, and guys like you're a bitch. You just want to say, no, I'm actually a nice, interesting (I think) and somewhat intelligent person, not whatever you think I am by looking at me. And vice-versa.
It's all about the disarming-ness of approachability.

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12/29/09 10:11 - 8ºF - ID#50683

The Best Christmas Evar I

Ok,

I haven't posted in a long while. I know.

I've fallen victim to the instant gratification of Facebook like so many others (there I said it), but there's things that I wouldn't want to post there that I think are better suited here (like anything longer than 140 characters).

Quick update. Meg and I are getting along well(ish). We really don't have that many gripes between us and life is returning to something that we both might consider normal. She's in school for nursing and doing well at it, which makes me happy (as pigs in poop). It wasn't easy getting here but it was worth it and you get gems like Halloween 2009.

Mya's dad and step mom came down and we all went trick or treating.

Here's a video of us while we waited for everyone.

Halloween 2009

So the title. Here's a short video of the Fern on christmas morning. I have to get a bigger data card for my phone. The video isn't terrible as you can tell from halloween, but this vid cuts short of a lot of really cuuuuute things, sorry and sorry I've been gone for so long.

I didn't think she'd get through the box...but she did.
.

(E:strip) exclusive rousing finale

::Download Flash Video::

Kay that was kinda lame as an exclusive, but now that I know that those work I'll do more of them.

I have many more updates impending, but I'll get back to work for now. Maybe I'll see you at new year since the party's on. Otherwise, it's nice to be back.

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11/05/09 12:28 - 42ºF - ID#50223

GPhone

So this is my first mobile post on my new HTC Hero, and I have to say, after a little bit of getting used to its prolly the best phone i have ever had.

The processor is a tad slow and it really can't stand much more than a few hour of constant useage before dieing, but all in all, its perdy solid.

This will be brief. I'm on a bathroom break so I don't have too much time but I will shoot up a shot from the phone so yall can see whaat kinda pics it takes. I even got a nice from (e:Matthew) on a shot I took with this ol' thing (that was exciting).

some old junk

rusty old crap

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07/21/09 01:36 - 68ºF - ID#49345

Windows Azure: MS Cloud Computing

The MS opponent to Googles' ....Google. It is a platform that will allow you to develop and publish apps in a MS run data center.

I'll be updating this one too. Jim/Paul, I uploaded/emailed the vid 2 youtube, band as soon as I can see it I'll post it.

Sensitive data you should publish, you can't publish this stuff any place besides windows servers.
anyone can publish here, so crap software will make it in with a Windows Azure back end adding credulity to what evers on here.
example:

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07/21/09 09:24 - 67ºF - ID#49341

Microsoft New Tech Talk: Damen College

I'm at the MS nerd talk where they try to sell developers and sys admins on new MS soft. Heres some pics vids n highlights. I'm gonna try to keep this post updated througout the day, so if your into it stay posted.

Power point slides
Search feature "cost benfit" for moving to Vista/7
Multipul monitors in remote desktop
Printer drivers abandoned by printer manufactures.
- early ms software news
Early adoptor program email: dstolts@microsoft.com, "add to momentum" i subject, but you must provide feedback to participate
I got a relese candidate for Windows 7 should be good till Ocotber 22nd
NEW FEATURES: Direct Access = built in vpn, always connected when you can use protocols other than http. Gimps the new built in security when using 3rd party apps like GoTo My PC, etc...
Still 5 - 7 SKUs with different feature sets, price ranges still a ?
App locker - allows you to limit what apps can run on your system. Hash based has some quirks.
NEW FEATURE: Security Sheild - Any features that make changes to the system have a sheild next to them which throws an authentication dialog which flushes the keyboard and suspends all other apps.

Panarama of the first class

buncha old dudes

Answering the question: "Since 7 ships with IE8 how can I support 3rd party web soft that only runs in IE6"

The new Ruh?

-- this blog written by a windows mobile phone

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06/09/09 11:55 - 57ºF - ID#48879

Creepy

8:41 pm

I'm at SPoT elmwood right now and I wanna talk to someone cause Vic Lazar has to go to band practice, and you don't.

So. I've been without the company of a woman for quite a while now. Relationships end before you stop seeing each other. There's the hospice period, but let's move past this obscenity.

Um, I have guilt at some level for the urges that I know I must satisfy, but really I know I'm only human, so I try to put the ill feeling out of my mind. That's how I deal with everything difficult that I must endure. I put it out of my mind. It's served me at times and other times it really fucked me.

ANECDOTE --

I was 21ish 2nd or 3rd year in college and I met this girl who looked like Wendy of the famous fast food chain Wendy's. She was amazing. Bizarre. Unpredictable. Adorable. Celibate. Damn near straight edge. If you knew me at the time you'd know who much of a match we were.

She got into the Disney program and went to Florida. My band would suffer if I went so I stayed home. I felt like she took a pice of my life with her and it hurt so bad i just put her out of my mind. She'd come back eventually right? I wouldn't have to miss her at all if I were busy with other stuff till then.

I didn't call. I didn't write... not even on her birthday. OK, even then I must have realized how much of an ass-hole move that was, but what is forgiveness if not something with which you can forgive?. Even though I gave her a laptop to stay in touch with her.

Her friends were not impressed with me. When she called to break up with me I was totally unprepared. It eviscerated me. I was ruined.

I put it out of my mind. it passed.

-_-_-_-_

So I'm putting the guilt out of my mind. I'm putting the frustration out of my mind so I can function. I know that right now I am creepy. I do things that are impulsively inspired, and entirely outside of my control. I start behaving like that woman on the elevator at the C&V. She was so sickly sweet and invasive. Wearing a lab coat. Carrying test tubes. Persistent. Relentless. Her piercing eyes. Her wet constant mouth shaping those words. The questions she'd ask without trepidation.... ::shiver::

I did something crazy last night. There needs to be an account of this. it was a fantastic display of debauchery and bravery...ok alcohol. Big assed drink night at the Cathode is always the beginning of a journey you're not prepared for. It was fun. I'm glad it's over. I wish I could remember her name. Then I could find it in my phone and call her... it's in there. Mocking me.

This weekend will be awesome. I get the bb's and we're going to the art festival after nap time each day for as long as we can stand it. Her affection and love always distracts me from what ever ails me. I hope we see you out. I'll be the really happy tall one, she'll be the really curious short one.

Love you guys.
All my heart.
Tony.