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28/10/2009

Z.T. 豆瓣关于Whatever Works的影评

http://www.douban.com/review/2112667/

看的我吓丝丝的,按照现在的趋势再过10到20年我也要变愤渣了…

那要如何来识别一个潜在的“愤渣”呢?
  第一、潜在愤渣必然声称伊喜欢贝多芬和舒伯特。这里要注意两点:是“声称”还有是“和”。伊是不是真的喜欢不重要,伊只要作过此种坚定的表示就足够了。是否讨厌肖邦和莫扎特是因人而异的,但喜欢贝多芬和舒伯特必须缺一不可。贝多芬中又以喜欢五号和九号的居多(喜欢七号的一般是小资或者文青),舒伯特则必然是“鳟鱼”和“死亡与少女”(个人强烈推荐)
  第二、潜在的愤渣一般不看电视节目,甚至家里没有电视机,并且强烈bs喜爱看电视节目的人。即使他们有电视机也不会是很好的设置,往往只用来看古早的文艺片——注意必须是“文艺片”,或者discovery和“国家地理”,而且后两者通常会一边看一边做笔记一边号称他们在欺骗观众。
  第三、潜在的愤渣通常爱看哲学类书籍,但对经院哲学不怎么感兴趣,甚至强烈bs之。伊拉一定都读过以下这几本书:《资本论》《查拉斯图拉如是说》《纯粹理性批判》和《存在与虚无》(近期的可能还会喜欢《结构与符号》之类的)。伊拉对宗教有一定的了解,但必然是坚定的无神论者,bs所有虔诚的信徒,觉得这是智商低的体现,并且希望“帮助”他们摆脱迷信。
  第四、潜在的愤渣喜欢发表“阴谋论”和“性本恶论”。厌恶一切的社交活动,尤其是有着装code的舞会。不喜欢参加户外运动,尤其是有对抗性的团体运动。而且伊拉往往讨厌古典主义和印象主义的画作。同理也讨厌流行音乐,尤其是电子舞曲。伊拉会喜欢蒙克的《呐喊》,重摇滚,还有某些经典的电影配乐。

27/10/2009

The Master List of New Windows 7 Shortcuts

[饼干按]这个还是满有用的,原帖见http://lifehacker.com/5390086/the-master-list-of-new-windows-7-shortcuts,已经617个digg了。

Windows 7 adds loads of great shortcuts for switching between apps, moving windows around your screen, moving them to another monitor altogether, and much more. Here's a quick-reference master list of the best new Windows 7 shortcuts.

We're nuts for keyboard shortcuts here at Lifehacker, and Windows 7 brings a handful of great new ones to add to your muscle memory. It's also got a few handy mouse-based shortcuts you'd do well to add to your repertoire. So let's get shortcuttin'.

Window Management Shortcuts

One of the best changes in Windows 7 is the ability to "snap" windows to the side of the screen, maximize them by dragging to the top of the screen, or even move them to another monitor with a shortcut key. Check out the video for a demonstration of how some of the keys work.

The full list of keyboard shortcuts includes:

  • Win+Home: Clear all but the active window.
  • Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop.
  • Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window.
  • Shift+Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window vertically.
  • Win+Down arrow: Minimize the window/Restore the window if it's maximized.
  • Win+Left/Right arrows: Dock the window to each side of the monitor.
  • Shift+Win+Left/Right arrows: Move the window to the monitor on the left or right.

You can also interact with windows by dragging them with the mouse:

  • Drag window to the top: Maximize
  • Drag window left/right: Dock the window to fill half of the screen.
  • Shake window back/forth: Minimize everything but the current window.
  • Double-Click Top Window Border (edge): Maximize window vertically.

Taskbar Shortcuts

In Windows 7, using the Windows key along with the numbers 1-9 will let you interact with the applications pinned to the taskbar in those positions – for example, the Windows key + 4 combination would launch Outlook in this example, or Win+Alt+4 can be used to get quick access to the Outlook Jump List from the keyboard.

You can use any of these shortcut combinations to launch the applications in their respective position on the taskbar, or more:

  • Win+number (1-9): Starts the application pinned to the taskbar in that position, or switches to that program.
  • Shift+Win+number (1-9): Starts a new instance of the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
  • Ctrl+Win+number (1-9): Cycles through open windows for the application pinned to the taskbar in that position.
  • Alt+Win+number (1-9): Opens the Jump List for the application pinned to the taskbar.
  • Win+T: Focus and scroll through items on the taskbar.
  • Win+B: Focuses the System Tray icons

In addition, you can interact with the taskbar using your mouse and a modifier key:
  • Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program or quickly open another instance of a program.
  • Ctrl+Shift+Click on a taskbar button: Open a program as an administrator.
  • Shift+Right-click on a taskbar button: Show the window menu for the program (like XP does).
  • Shift+Right-click on a grouped taskbar button: Show the window menu for the group.
  • Ctrl+Click on a grouped taskbar button: Cycle through the windows of the group.
More Useful Hotkeys You Should Know

The new hotkey goodness didn't stop with the taskbar and moving windows around—one of the best new hotkeys in Windows 7 is the fact that you can create a new folder with a hotkey. Just open up any Windows Explorer window, hit the Ctrl+Shift+N shortcut key sequence, and you'll be rewarded with a shiny "New Folder" ready for you to rename.

Here's a few more interesting hotkeys for you:

  • Ctrl+Shift+N: Creates a new folder in Windows Explorer.
  • Alt+Up: Goes up a folder level in Windows Explorer.
  • Alt+P: Toggles the preview pane in Windows Explorer.
  • Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds Copy as Path, which copies the path of a file to the clipboard.
  • Shift+Right-Click on a file: Adds extra hidden items to the Send To menu.
  • Shift+Right-Click on a folder: Adds Command Prompt Here, which lets you easily open a command prompt in that folder.
  • Win+P: Adjust presentation settings for your display.
  • Win+(+/-): Zoom in/out.
  • Win+G: Cycle between the Windows Gadgets on your screen.

Windows 7 definitely makes it a lot easier to interact with your PC from your keyboard—so what are your favorite shortcuts, and how do they save you time? Share your experience in the comments.

26/10/2009

Sucker

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And I have 2 cores.

16/10/2009

心酸的经历:上海人真的过不下去了…(转)

注:以下文字来自于上海热线,请勿跨省跨海追杀。

我妈最近身体不好,我买了三个猕猴桃,是国产那种,10元三个,工薪家庭,这么贵的水果平时舍不得买的。结果妈妈还放了一个在我包里,没告诉我。

早上乘8号线耀华路上去的(世博会主要施工区,天天看到那红色的中国馆,为毛我一点也不感兴趣),车费5元(单程),人都被挤得双脚腾空,
眼冒金星。

到了公司打开包时,看到猕猴桃早已挤得稀巴烂了,真的当时眼泪立马落下了,觉得生活太不容易了。

我父母就是当年的支青,最好的年华留在了边疆,当年是双顶才回了上海,还好在上海退了休,能拿一千多的退休工资。他们的好多战友,拿着外地几百元的退休费在上海生活的才叫苦,连生病都不敢去医院。

真不知道楼上些厚颜无耻的,叫着全国人民支援上海,支个什么啊?

身边同学个个是房奴,就这样还被羡慕,毕竟已居有定所了。苦的是那些还在寻觅着的,市中心随便三四百万的房价,拿个几千的工资何年才能买房?

网友评论:

生活在上海太痛苦了,北京开奥运,公交车4毛,地铁2 块钱随便乘。上海开世博会,出租车涨10%,地铁3块只能
乘3站。公交车2块钱起步。上海私车牌照3万5+,真的不是人过的,到底给上海人带来什么?

我们要开那个世博会干吗?天天和灰尘为伍,天天堵塞在路上,这种日子还怎么过???

绝对的,物价越来越贵,像我这种刚进社会的更没法活啊,我来回车费就要12元~~~更别说要打车回家了!!

含泪顶~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~打不起车,坐不起地铁,以后大家走路吧!~~~~~~~~~~~~特恨新闻里被采访的几个白领们,一脸天真烂漫的说:涨价,对我们没有任何影响啊!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~考!娘的!

还是觉得以前10块起步,2块1公里方便明了。讨厌零碎的车钱。上海越来越像香港了。当年我在香港的时候还嘲笑人家的房价十万一平米,现在呢?迟早的事……

消费水平跟着国际走,工资水平与国际渐行渐远,现在坐一站路就要20多分钟,以前44路这条线很快的~~

上海到底怎么你们了?日子不给咱们好过,脸色也不给咱们好看。这个出租车12块我还稍微可以接受,每公里单价数我绝对接受不了 大家都11路吧~~~又环保又健康。

我们这儿收得到上海几个电视台,我看上海生活时尚频道成天教人搭配衣服,带人逛街吃饭买东西,还有个介绍各种饭店餐厅的节目,人均消费动辄几百的,总感觉是不是太过了。我还在想上海人民怎么这么有钱呢。

请大家看看上海人过的都是什么日子吧。真是太苦了。上海越来越像富人的竞技场,一点不适合人类居住。

我好伤心。。涨价有没有问过我们市民的意见啊? 为啥就上海出租车涨价啊?还涨这么多。国际油价不是跌了吗? 房价涨。自来水涨,出租车涨,地铁这么贵,这个价格是怎么定出来的啊。请市政府给我们市民一个交代。

25/9/2009

杂记

国庆加中秋,公司发了200块过节费,很英明的没有发月饼,越来越进步了。

早饭的量是两只芭比菜馒头,今天买了仨,撑了。

洗澡的东西早几天用完了,这两天洗澡都是光冲,好像还没臭,得记着早点买。

20/9/2009

我是不是老了?

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反正我刚才听到周华健的时候恍惚觉得自己回到了十几年前

这都可以?

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出自我的笔记本,前两天才安装的JRE,今天升级的时候受精了。。。

10/9/2009

万能的淘宝啊

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25/8/2009

枫桥夜泊

月落乌啼霜满天,江枫渔火对愁眠。 
姑苏城外寒山寺,夜半钟声到客船。 
在我的想象中,应该是起着夜雾的晚上,白烟飘在水上,山上的庙里响起了钟声(因为叫寒山寺,肯定是在一座叫做寒的山上),一艘乌篷船靠在山脚下。
(从小长在港口边,于是每次听到汽笛我都会想到这样的场景。两分钟前听到船上的汽笛,竟然又想到这首诗。才意识到自己很久没有在深夜听到这样的汽笛声了。)
P.S.今天某人说,挖坑无非是为了将来被挖坟或者自挖坟,个么,就多多挖坑吧。
24/8/2009

黑猫警长

在看黑猫警长第一季(那个时候好像还不讲季哦),发现这部片子还真是血腥啊。才第一集,计有死在枪下的老鼠若干只,被警棍打死的老鼠,被黑猫白猫赤手空拳打死的,被白猫警察摩托车压死的,当然最残忍的是一只老鼠被跟踪子弹打掉一只耳朵,鲜血淋漓(是为一只耳)。

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原来我小时候就爱看这么血腥的动画,啧啧。怪不得呢。。。

14/8/2009

iPhone

So far my feeling is complicated. The phone is a great internet device but it’s doing terrible when it comes to phone.

Pro:

- Great internet experience on the go. Though I don’t really need it that much besides when I sit on the toilet.

- Finger friendly UI, which is not important as it sounds because once you got all the settings down, most day-to-day task doesn’t require a lot of strokes on any decent phone.

- The overall email experience is good. Not as easy/convenient as a WinMo but it’s okay.

- Calendar works. Function is limited but it’s enough for me.

Con:

- Signal is bad. Where I can do phone call w/o problem with my htc or nokia, I can’t even send an SMS with the phone.

- Signal/EDGE is not stable. Lost network from time to time when I do heavy browsing. And it kind of kills the browse-while-sit-on-toilet scenario.

- I keep on losing SMS (both in and out). First your read them, a second later they are gone, like magic. This might be a bug. Disclaimer: I upgrade the iphone to 3.0.1 and then activate/unlock it with Redsn0w.

- Contacts syncing over Exchange is terrible. I have to remove everything on the phone and sync it from outlook through iTunes and it works.

- No keyboard means no easy search through the contacts. Those who have a WinMo know what I’m talking about.

9/8/2009

新家要买的东西

冰格,冰桶,被子,简易衣橱或者衣架,浴帘和挂架,亚梭111,dell 2409,黑方。

5/8/2009

Image du Jour.

 

我承认我低级趣味,我低俗,恶俗。

4/8/2009

搬家了

六点多就醒了,起床,刷牙,洗澡,刮胡子,又拿电动的修了修。

开始理东西,不是很多,上下跑了四趟,其中两趟是为了席子,毯子,枕头,棉被这些床上大件,一趟运衣服,一趟运杂物。书么,每次下去就把背包塞满,就可以了。

不过还是持续的忘记东西,拖鞋,棉拖鞋,桌子上的笔,花露水,etc.

这会差不多全搞定了。只有我的zune/zune dock还在响,我的笔记本,读书器,手机,还有路由器。当然,再加一瓶水。背包在身边,等清洁公司的人来到,我就可以打包走人了。

所以,其实,我的生活只需要三样东西,音乐,读书,和网络。

好了,打扫卫生的人到了,我也该走了。

click.

2/8/2009

Image du Jour.

我说过我不发的,不过这两天看的flash都太强了,就发几个吧。

 

Super Baozi vs Sushi man from sun haipeng on Vimeo.

 

关于第二个,网上回复是”再一次验证了微软的ICP部门全都是XX的伟大真理……”

31/7/2009

Best way to prevent hangover is to stay drunk.

前几天受人启发,把自己加到了自己的msn messenger列表里,同时把自己拖到了favorite组,这样就可以每天开着msn messnger欣赏自己了。

不过奇怪的是,自己写的文章却无法在http://home.live.com/whatsnew.aspx里面显示出来,不知道是不是个bug呢?

又,加了twitter到space的web activity里面,同时开始慢慢的试着用twitter,才意识到GFW有多么的讨厌,每次在家灵感爆发都发现没有办法更新。

学游泳

最近在学游泳。

以前的历史么,小学的时候套着救生圈在爸爸的带领下泡过若干次水,之后因为家庭的一些变化,也不再有机会游泳。毕业工作后,也曾有同事去学游泳而至于学会了的,我却一直未动。说起来,我对游泳没什么怨念吧,虽然觉得在沉船时会是个优势,但是比较现在以飞机为主,着海面的时候会不会游泳生存几率还是差不多的。游泳又不同于开车,后者加上对这个城市的道路熟悉度,退职了可以去开出租。还没听所黄浦江上有驼人泅渡的呢。

去年开始,彤彤同学组织大家游泳,我于是也就跟着去了一次,可惜之后机缘不对,整个08年夏季居然也只游了一次而已。转眼09年,我这次终于下定决心,开始经常的在大家的带领下学习起来。

说起学习呢,彤彤是我唯一的老师。还记得他08年第一次带我去,让我从浮水开始,然后是手部和腿部动作教了个大概。貌似也不算太难的动作(比军训时的正步要求要低多了),只是因为在水下看不到自己的动作所以很难标准化而只能慢慢体会。而09年第一次下水,我居然还记得一年前的要领,只是这次不再有人教我(彤彤毕竟也不是我的专职老师)。我于是一个人在深浅水区的交界处,来来回回的重复着手部动作和腿部动作。对,手部动作和腿部动作始终是分立的进行着,因为合并在一起的进行对我这样小脑并不发达的人来说还是挺难的。我一遍遍的或用手或用腿的在泳池里来回着,终于慢慢的掌握了唤气的动作,能中途不停的从泳池一边游到另外一边。而同时对水的恐惧也越来越小,在水中漂浮着也越来越放松。

下一步呢,当然先打算学会手腿并用,然后是踩水,同时也要进一步锻炼换气的姿势。这些都学会之后,就能去深水区啦。

P.S. 写完才突然发觉自己写了一篇很无趣的BLOG,大概除了唤起自己的记忆外,别的人都会觉得像白蜡一样无味吧。然后space不光是写给别人看的,也是写给自己看的,所以,还是决定贴上。

21/7/2009

陶渊明《责子》

白发被两鬓,肌肤不复实。

虽有五男儿,总不好纸笔。

阿舒已二八,懒惰故无匹。

阿宣行志学,而不爱文术。

雍端年十三,不识六与七。

通子垂九龄,但觅梨与栗。

天运苟如此,且进杯中物。

17/7/2009

看个片子也不容易

下了个悬崖上的金鱼公主,VLC能找到字幕,但是无法正常显示中文。media player classic干脆找不到字幕(我的经验是MPC能找到字幕的话是能正常显示的)。最后还是windows media player能正常播放。

 

Windows 7 RC英文版,VLC 1.0, k-lite。480p的dvd-rip,avi。有人知道怎末搞定VLC/MPC么?

15/7/2009

莫高窟第259窟 北壁下层 坐佛 北魏

第259窟坐佛 塑造于北魏,位于该窟内北壁下层龛由里向外数第三龛内,眼睛和左腿已略有破损。坐佛高0.92米,波发高髻,脸面浑圆,耳大垂肩,挺胸收腹,体态端庄,比例适度,双腿盘起,结跏趺坐在长方形须弥座上,双手在腹前重叠作禅定印。深红色袈裟覆体,在膝盖前呈三莲瓣状自然下垂,阴刻衣纹流畅自如疏密有致,紧贴躯体,给人以薄纱透体之感,即运用画史上所谓“曹衣出水”之法。此像结构严整,脸面和胸部,精刻细作,使之显得细腻滋润,富有血肉感;特别那弯眉下微睁下视的双眼,约略隆起的鼻翼,嘴角微翘和深深陷进的两个小窝,弯如半月形的双唇,都现出一种发自灵魂深处的会心的微笑。此佛充分地体现出我国传统艺术中,以形写神、有主有次、形神兼备的特点,是敦煌彩塑中的上乘之作。

 

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9/7/2009

Z.T. Let's all take a deep breath and get some perspective

FSJ is always hilarious.

http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html

对于墙这边的观众:

 


So everyone is worked up about this new browser operating system from Google. Drudge apparently has gone off his meds again and calls it a "death blow" to the Borg. No spinning red light, but still, pretty over the top. I guess it's supposedly going to destroy us too -- like we're some kind of collateral damage. Man oh man. Where to begin?
First of all, nobody seems to appreciate how goddamn hard it is to make an operating system. You don't just wake up one day and fall out of bed and make one. Not even the smarty pants kiddies at Google can do that. These things take years. Decades, even. Ours started out 20 years ago, at NeXT. You could say it goes back to 1977, with the BSD guys. Heck, you could even say it goes back to 1969 with Dennis Thompson and Lionel Ritchie. Even Windows is -- what? Twenty years old? Something like that. For that matter, look at Linux. Correct me if I'm wrong -- and I'm sure you fucking freetards will find something to correct -- but I think Linus Tordalv started working on Linux back in 1991 when he was a high school student in his native Denmark. That's nearly twenty years ago, and the shit still doesn't run right. Point is, whatever Google might release in the second half of next year, it will just be a starting point. It won't come close to what we've got.
Point two: Who in their right mind thinks the world needs yet another desktop operating system? The hacks who are foaming at the mouth about this big threat to Microsoft are the very same halfwits who a couple years back were declaring that the desktop OS was dead, Windows Vista would be the last one ever made, Apple shouldn't bother making any more versions of OS X, blah blah. Now they're saying nope, the world does need more operating systems, especially ones like this that are designed to work extra super specially well on computers that are hooked up to the Internet. Whatever that means.
Point three: They're aiming this OS (or as we call it, "POS") at netbooks, at least at first, and in case you hadn't noticed, the netbook market is fucking tiny and will remain so forever. According to IDC, there were 11 million netbooks sold last year, and by 2013 that figure will hit 39 million. The market for PCs and laptops will be 10 times that size -- literally -- at 400 million units. Smartphones will be over 300 million units. So, um, you guys at Google want to have a dog fight with Microsoft to get a few points of that market? Go have fun. Seriously. Knock yourself out. Frankly, if the entire netbook market caught fire, I wouldn't piss on it to put it out. But that's just me.
Point four: You also may not have noticed, but nobody uses Chrome. I mean think about it. Do you know anyone who uses Chrome? Really? And you know why nobody uses Chrome? Because Chrome is shit. Just utter, utter shit. I mean they've got all these big brains at Google and you'd think they could make a decent fucking browser. Jesus, the freetards at Mozilla can do it. But not Google. Nope. They gave it their big best effort and what did they come up with? Chrome. It's a joke. I mean, literally, we laugh about it, except when Eric is around. But as soon as he leaves the room we all go "Chrome!" and just burst out laughing. Our guys on the Safari team even had special toilet paper made up with a Chrome logo on every sheet. That's how bad it is. Trying to make an OS out of Chrome is like saying you're going to turn a Pontiac Aztek into a stretch limousine. I suppose it could be done, but why?
Point five: What the fuck is going on inside Google? How much more out of control and undisciplined can this place get? How many new goddamn operating systems are they going to create? They've already got Android, and nobody wants it. Now they're going to make yet another operating system, this time out of a browser that nobody wants. What's next? A Gmail-based operating system? A YouTube-based operating system? Honestly, Google, is there anyone in charge over there? Is there anyone who knows how to criticize anything in that fucked up little Montessori preschool of yours? I mean I guess it's nice that you all get to spend 20 percent of your time dreaming up useless shit, and I guess you have to use the Montessori method and tell everyone that whatever little piece of shit they've created is just so wonderful and perfect and beautiful -- but really, as I've told Eric before, that doesn't mean you have to release everything these bozos dream up. There's a word for this. It's called "no." Have you heard of it? I mean, fine, let them fuck around with stuff. Engineers like to tinker. So let them tinker. Then when they bring you whatever it is they've made, first you say you're too busy to meet with them. Then you say you've changed your mind and you will meet with them after all. Then you wait until they're all in the conference room with everything set up, and you send Katie down to tell them that you're going to be a little bit late. You make them wait an hour. Then two hours. Then, at six in the afternoon, you send Katie down to tell them that you've changed your mind again and now you can't make it. Then, finally, you set up another appointment and this time you do meet with them -- but before they can even speak you just look at whatever it is they've made and you say, I'm sorry, that's a piece of shit, and you walk out. Trust me, engineers love this. They're all masochists. That's why they became engineers in the first place.
Point six: It's going to be free. So what's the point? I mean I understand the idea of a loss leader. We don't charge for iTunes. You'll notice, however, that we do charge money for music and hardware. But how does this concept apply to Chrome OS? Somehow if you put out a new operating system you'll get more people using the Internet and then you'll be able to sell more of those shitty little ads? Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but I don't see how a free OS or a free browser helps Google. To put it another way, have you ever met anyone who said they'd really like to try out that Interwebs thing, but they're just put off by the low-quality operating systems and browsers that are available at this time, so they're sitting it out for now? Or like maybe they're on the Internet now but they would just be soooo inclined to spend soooo much more time on the Web, and they'd be soooo much more likely to actually click on the ads, if the OS and browser made it somehow less onerous to, um, type in a URL and go to a page? Nah, the only point in Google giving away a free browser and OS is somehow to fuck up Microsoft. (And/or to do some sneaky shit that helps Google screw users a little bit more efficiently. See Point 8 below.) But on the anti-Microsoft angle, take it from someone who has spent the past 10 years selling a superior operating system and getting only 4 percent market share -- as obsessions go, battling the Borg is waaay overrated. If you ask me, Google is getting a little nutty about the Borg and it's starting to show. They're starting to look like the new Scott McNealy. Remember him? Ran a company called Sun, which had a great little business going until McNealy became obsessed with Gates and started doing things like paying millions of dollars to buy StarOffice so he could get into that booming free software business.
Point seven: The only people who are pushing for this are the hardware OEMs and ODMs and they're only doing it so they can get a bargaining chip on the Borg. They don't want to use Chrome, or Android, or Linux. They want Windows. They just don't want to pay for it. Whatever Microsoft wants to charge for Windows 7, the hardware guys want to pay less. Hang the threat of yet another OS over Ballmer's shiny head and maybe he'll bring down his prices. That, anyway, is the thinking. Happened already in netbooks when they first came out with Linux on the Anus EEEEEPC -- that rang some bells up in Redmond, believe me. So maybe there is some benefit to Google in forcing Microsoft to lower its prices. Maybe by doing that they choke off a little bit of Redmond's oxygen supply, and that makes it a little harder for Microsoft to encroach on Google's search advertising business. Google is pissed about Bing, and the Yahoo stuff. So they splatter back some machine-gun fire at Microsoft's cash cow, the OS business. Fair enough. As DeNiro said, They send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue. That's the Chicago way. But if that's your big goal in life, the chance to maybe put a stick in Microsoft's spokes -- well, we've come a long way from the days of Sergey and Larry with stars in their eyes, wanting to make the world a better place. If that's really what gets these guys up in the morning, well, friends, I will pray for your soul. Here at Apple we have better things to do. Like creating new devices that nobody else has ever created before, and restoring a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives. Or inventing whole new multi-billion-dollar markets that didn't exist before. You'd rather just ape the Borg. Well, whatever. Godspeed to you, Google.
Point eight: People are starting to realize that Google is not their friend, and that all this "free stuff" from Google is not about a) philanthropy, or b) keeping Microsoft honest, but really about c) helping Google gain even more control over what you do on the Internet. See a nice piece by John Paczkowski here for an example. You know how we call IBM the Original Borg, or OB? Google is the NB. Really, Google, in case you hadn't noticed, a lot of people are kind of not really liking you guys right now. Even the freetards are starting to turn on you.
So, to reiterate, everything's fine, and there's nothing to worry about. It's nice that Google wants to make more operating systems, and we at Apple don't feel threatened by this, or betrayed by our own board member Eric Schmidt, just as we didn't feel betrayed or threatened by the Android smartphone platform. We welcome competition and think it's just great that Google wants to contribute to advancing the state of the art of personal computing. As Sarah Palin would say, the engineers at Google are ambitionistic about wanting to progress the world, and gosh, ya know what? That's darn good for everyone.
Or, as I just told Eric on the phone a few moments ago: Dear friend, I realize you think I'm weak right now, and maybe a little bit vulnerable, and you may also still be a little bit peeved because even though you're on the board at Apple I didn't tell you about the surgery I was having and instead led you to believe that I had moved to Tennessee because I needed to negotiate some country-western deals for iTunes. Okay. Fair enough. And I know you think you got a lifetime free pass on fucking me over after you and Al Gore bailed me out of that jam with the SEC investigation of the options backdating a couple years back. But, dear friend, enough is enough. You really need to think about what you're doing and who it hurts. Seriously. I mean it. Do some thinking. Meanwhile, for the time being, I've instructed Apple security to revoke your pass at Infinite Loop, and I would really, really, really appreciate it if you would just not call me or come around here anymore. Because if you do, well, I'm just so upset about all this that I might just -- well, honestly, Eric, I'm afraid I couldn't be responsible for what I might do. I will hurt you, Eric. I'm sorry, but I will. Are you feeling me? Because that's how it is. Seriously, bitch. It's over between us. Namaste.

Posted by Steve at 10:37 AM

 

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