I'm so happy someone finaly made fun of this

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Sun May 14, 2006 3:16 pm

That is so beautiful, Claude. It's just... so beautiful.

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Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Sun May 14, 2006 6:13 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:
Jim North wrote:
The Neko wrote:I didn't find the comic amusing or insightful.
CAD in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen.
Now, now, it can be insightful as far as the author's delusions are concerned. Remember when all the geeks crowned him KING OF THE GEEKS because he stood up to those big, bad corporations or something?

Well, yes, of course, on his on little world, everything he says is sent down to the masses on the wings of angels and shakes the very firmament with it's profoundness. The problem is, of course, that I live here on Earth.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:08 am

KittyKatBlack wrote:I know Apple tries really hard to be 'different' but seriously. I'm not going to design a car and go, "Seatbelts? Airbags? Feh, everyone has those. Let's make it so you have to start the car... by licking the steering wheel! THAT WOULD BE SO RAD!"

That would be so rad. This would be the only Apple product I'd ever buy. The ilick.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:32 am

blackaby wrote:
KittyKatBlack wrote:I know Apple tries really hard to be 'different' but seriously. I'm not going to design a car and go, "Seatbelts? Airbags? Feh, everyone has those. Let's make it so you have to start the car... by licking the steering wheel! THAT WOULD BE SO RAD!"
That would be so rad. This would be the only Apple product I'd ever buy. The ilick.

What about when it gets hot out and your steering wheel is 170 degrees? Is a burnt tounge for 4 days worth starting your car? When you own an Apple product, these are the questions you must ask yourself...

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:47 am

Yeah, but you can be in an elite club that doesn't ever have their cars stolen.

Tellurider · Post by **Tellurider** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:03 am

KittyKatBlack wrote:
blackaby wrote:
KittyKatBlack wrote:I know Apple tries really hard to be 'different' but seriously. I'm not going to design a car and go, "Seatbelts? Airbags? Feh, everyone has those. Let's make it so you have to start the car... by licking the steering wheel! THAT WOULD BE SO RAD!"
That would be so rad. This would be the only Apple product I'd ever buy. The ilick.
What about when it gets hot out and your steering wheel is 170 degrees? Is a burnt tounge for 4 days worth starting your car? When you own an Apple product, these are the questions you must ask yourself...

If the steering wheel is 170 degrees, I'm not putting my hands on it to drive *anyway*

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:47 am

Ha! My car's steering wheel is 360 degrees. I so totally pwn j00 all!

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Mon May 15, 2006 4:06 am

KittyKatBlack wrote:
blackaby wrote:
KittyKatBlack wrote:I know Apple tries really hard to be 'different' but seriously. I'm not going to design a car and go, "Seatbelts? Airbags? Feh, everyone has those. Let's make it so you have to start the car... by licking the steering wheel! THAT WOULD BE SO RAD!"
That would be so rad. This would be the only Apple product I'd ever buy. The ilick.
What about when it gets hot out and your steering wheel is 170 degrees? Is a burnt tounge for 4 days worth starting your car? When you own an Apple product, these are the questions you must ask yourself...

Of course it will be, because it's so shiny and white and pretty and has an apple logo on it!

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Mon May 15, 2006 5:01 am

prettydragoon wrote:Ha! My car's steering wheel is 360 degrees. I so totally pwn j00 all!

::gives prettydragoon a standing ovation:: that was beautiful.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:52 am

Hah! Microsoft isn't the only one who has to fix flaws!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1962198,00.asp

Not actually pointing fingers... figured the OS X users out there might want to read about an update you'll want to run.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:26 am

Yeah, I got that update the other day. There's an automatic thing that tells me when software updates become available.

The quicktime one took for-hella-ever to download though.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:34 pm

I actually liked the commercials. If nothing else, it proved that SOMEBODY in marketing SOMEWHERE has more than three brain cells to rub together. Yeah, they're attack-ish and snarky, but they make me giggle. They're better than the incomprehenseable car ads involving butterflies or long drives through mountanous country somehow devoid of high-rises, pleasure houses or Starbucks, or Burger King's...king...thing (STALKER!!!!!!!). Or Sonic's annoying "Two Dudes in a Car, filmed by sucky car cam" intersperced with "Lame Husband and Wife in Car filmed by sucky car cam". Or (do you get the feeling I could go on all day?)

Modern day TV SUCKS, with very few exceptions. When it's intelligant and earns a giggle or two, I like it.

CW

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:05 pm

Best ad (series) on Swedish television (in my opinion, of course) is the ICA ads.

Every week it's a new episode, it's a gooddamn soap! (But they aren't taking themselves very seriously, recently they've been spoofing CSI and similar shows for humerous effect to try to identify the perpetrator who left the meat out or something like that.)

The regular cast of characters have been running an exchange, out of the starting four only two remain, and the other characters have been replaced once or twice respectively. It's been... (what? A year? Two?) of drama and intrigue (and slapstick humor) in the ICA store, this weeks special offers presented while a new day unfolds in the store.

EDIT: http://www.ica.se/FrontServlet?s=ica&state=reklamfilmer
A couple of (old) examples. Most are in Swedish, I'm willing to translate a few. There's a couple of parodies that should be recogniseable to non-Swedes in there, as well as a few that might work without understanding the language or culture.[/i]

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:11 pm

It seems like the best things on TV are never given a fair chance nowadays. Like Family Guy (SO glad that was given a second chance, though!) and Kelsey Grammers "The Sketch Show"

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:34 pm

legostargalactica wrote:
prettydragoon wrote:Ha! My car's steering wheel is 360 degrees. I so totally pwn j00 all!
::gives prettydragoon a standing ovation:: that was beautiful.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Mon May 15, 2006 11:17 pm

Thank you! I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:09 am

And now to be fair, a huge list of very cool OSX applications:

http://www.designerror.com/ntshit/coolosxapps.htm

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:33 am

Does anybody else see the irony in a comic named CONTROL-ALT-DELETE making fun of Macs? I mean, honestly, why do you think those keystrokes are so ubiquitously well-known in the PC world?

(Yeah, I've tried keeping my yap shut in this thread, but I couldn't help it...)

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue May 16, 2006 6:58 am

cortland wrote:Does anybody else see the irony in a comic named CONTROL-ALT-DELETE making fun of Macs? I mean, honestly, why do you think those keystrokes are so ubiquitously well-known in the PC world?

(Yeah, I've tried keeping my yap shut in this thread, but I couldn't help it...)

Actually for a very good reason - originally computers did not have a warm boot feature - they had an on/off switch, and that was it. A cold boot meant the average user would flick the power off and on. We know not to do that now. But back then, your average user was so clueless they did not. They didn't think "complex piece of powered electronics" they thought, "lamp".

A warm boot would save the hardware wear and tear that would inevitably occur. It was also much faster than a cold boot. Computers progressed to Windows before they commonly got a reset option. And windows could catch ctrl-alt-del and ask if you were sure you wanted to do this.

The option was cemented in the minds of a generation of computer users, and manufacturers. So, it's stuck ever since, even though ctrl-alt-del often does nothing anymore, it's still required to log into windows systems that are in a domain.

As far as why ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-del and alt-del had no functionality at that time, and ctrl-alt-del was not a keystroke one is likely to accidentally make.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue May 16, 2006 7:03 am

Actually Cort, that's poetic.

But Rkolter, Cort has a point, I'm sure that when most of people reffer to ctrl-alt-del, they are thinking of emergency reset, not of warm boot thingamajing.