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HP Could Be A Dangerous Company
You have to give marketing agencies credit where it’s due. When it comes to large, multinational conglomerates like Hewlett Packard or tobacco/food/everything processor Altria (formerly Philip Morris), they have to condense a billion different ideas into a single marque that makes sense for everyone. In essence, it’s like writing an episode of Star Trek. HP has a chance to avoid the trap of becoming a dull brand, but they haven’t seized on the opportunity. Why?
Microsoft Is Starting To Realize That No One Is Buying Windows Phones
To say Windows Phone’s effect on the mobile industry has been soft since its release a year ago would be the understatement of the decade. I was originally so crazy in love with the platform and had been for years, but Microsoft seems to work so hard to prevent it from being successful that even I’ve backed away from the possibility. First it was their weak approach to Zune, then it was a bunch of other stuff, and now I really don’t see the selling point anymore after top phone makers like Samsung, Motorola, and HTC keep making better Android phones. (And when will Sprint or Verizon be getting a Mango-generation Windows Phone? Exactly.) Well, it seems that Microsoft is finally coming to the conclusion, while retailers sit on thousands of unsold Windows Phones, that they’re doing this thing all wrong.
Deadmau5 Lost The Only PlayStation Vita Outside Sony [UPDATE: Deadmau5 Didn’t Lose It, Still A Jerk]
![Deadmau5 Lost The Only PlayStation Vita Outside Sony [UPDATE: Deadmau5 Didn’t Lose It, Still A Jerk]](/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Deadmau5660-650x365.jpg "Deadmau5 Lost The Only PlayStation Vita Outside Sony [UPDATE: Deadmau5 Didn’t Lose It, Still A Jerk]")
So naturally, when you’re a megastar electronic producer who’s into gaming (well, Minecraft anyway), chances are you’re going to get some pre-release hardware. So imagine you have that hardware, namely a PlayStation Vita, which isn’t out anywhere in the world, and then you lose it in a cab ride after one of the worst award shows ever. It all seems vaguely reminiscent of a certain debacle that happened over a year and a half ago when an Apple engineer lost a pre-release iPhone 4 in a bar. We’re sure Deadmau5 is really sorry, though…
Tweetdeck For Desktop: For When You Use Twitter Or Facebook A Lot
Before most of its users were replaced by unfeeling robots, I used to be a Twitter fiend. A few years ago, I used the Twhirl desktop app to keep track of all my tweets, @’s, and private messages, but when support dropped for it (the guy was acqhired, as TechCrunch puts it, by Seesmic), I went to Chrome extensions. When those all failed, one by one over time, I just gave up on the whole thing. If you’re a power user like me (i.e., multiple accounts) then Twitter’s own site only works so well before you’re logging in and out of profiles and it just becomes a mess. That’s why Tweetdeck exists. Their Android app is honestly the most important one on my phone, but how does its sparkling new desktop version handle when you’re at your computer most of the time? Let’s find out…
Playboy Out Of The Way, Lindsay Lohan Needs To Stop Doing Anything, Everything
Let’s get on the same page here: looking at the leaked cover for the newest edition of Playboy, I can’t help but think they could’ve done just as well just painting Lindsay to canvas, rather than starting with a real photo and working backwards through the wonder of technology. While mag cover photoshoppery (or “air brushing” as it was once known) is nothing new, and is in fact quite expected, it’s not hard to see the metaphor here. Lindsay Lohan would simply be better off as the product of our mind’s eye, a construct of her potential, rather than what she actually is.
No, Shigeru Miyamoto Is Not Retiring From Nintendo
Guys. Shigeru Miyamoto is nearly sixty years old. He’s spent more than half of his life at Nintendo, working from a lowly game designer to eventually become the creative director of the company. He’s the poster boy of the Mario-helmed company (well, boy being a loose term) and has ultimately steered its destiny, turned Nintendo into a household name. He’s not going away. He’s not retiring. He’s just working on smaller games now.
Stephen King’s “11/22/63” Review
I suppose if you’re going to write a narrative involving time travel, you should do something big with it, like save President John F. Kennedy’s life from a communist marksman on a bright Dallas day. At nearly 900 pages, there’s plenty of heft here and a lot of universe building. It’s obvious that Mr. King spent a lot of time and effort researching the five year span before Kennedy’s assassination and he’s ready to contrast it with our cleaner, internet-friendly 2011 just to show you how he still is. This review is going to have plenty of spoilers, so unless you’ve read the book, I’ll just say this: it’s well worth your time. It’s not a great book, but it’s a great adventure in a time long before many of us were born.
Why You Should(n’t) Buy A Galaxy Nexus On Verizon
Like most of the tech industry, I’d really become irritated by Verizon’s refusal to acknowledge the Galaxy Nexus’ existence in the form of a release date or a price point. It’s super cool that they decided to drop the info (well, at least someone leaked it out) a few days before it’s slated to roll out to Verizon stores, but it was a super jerk move to wait a month and a half after its unveiling and weeks after its international availability. So now that the cards are on the table, do you now rush to Verizon to buy one… or merely wait?
Half-Life 3 Is Impossible
It seems hard to believe, but it’s been eight years since Half-Life 2 descended upon the Earth, like the Combine of goodwill, and easily destroyed every shooter genre convention and made a fan of me. Let me explain: I wasn’t a huge a fan of the original Half-Life. In fact, I hated it. Where Valve excelled in their initial iteration was in bringing a non-stop sequence of scripted cutscenes into a shooter, but in real-time as you played it, rather than pre-rendered narrative ‘vestibules’ that separated you from the action at hand. We see their influence very easily in games like Modern Warfare 3 where you’re merely the needle bobbing to a vinyl’s groove, watching as an epic story unfolds before you like a parade march just for your senses. Then Half-Life 2 came out.
SkyNET’s Annihilation Of Mankind Will Descend On The Wings Of Quadrocopters
Do you know the analogy of the frog in the pot? How if a frog were to land inside a sizzling pot it would hop out immediately, but if it were to merely rest in the bowl and let the temperature rise, it would sizzle and burn away with apathy? Ladies and gentlemen, we are the frog, the pot is civilization as we know it, and the agent raising the heat? Our magnificient autonomous robots that will one day destroy us, starting humbly enough with robotic helicopters. This is what they’re learning and this is why they must be stopped.
