Apple Screws It Up Again!

No surpride really. Don't misunderstand me. Anyone who knows me knows I'm a Mac head and have been since I got my first Mac Classic. I still own it and I have an iPod though I'd never ever buy a song from that crippled ass iStore, but that's another rany. Todays rant starts with an imagined conversation.

Steve: Dudes, we need to release the Pro, it's got Xeons in it!
Dude 1: ZOMG!11
Steve: Exactly!
Dude 2: But uh we decided to go with nVidia this time for graphics since you know, ATi like sucks and all.
Steve: What's the hold up?
Dude 1: Yeah, grab the crappiest thing they make and slap it in!
Steve: Par for the course! Let's have some i-Love!
Dude 2: Yeah but they only make like rockin' 7 series cards really now and none of them look like crap.
Steve: You call them up and tell them I want a crap ass card ASAP or I unleash the death ray.
Dude 1: Hells yeah! And tell em to call it the GeFForce4!
Dude 2: That's already taken.
All: Silence...
Dude 1: How about GeForce 7300, that'll sound great but everyone with a brain will immediately recognize its crap!
Steve: Brilliant. Then we can charge them an ass load and put 4 of the suckers in a single tower. Maybe they'll think that rocks!
All: Brilliant!

And once again my friends Apple suckers peiople into buying great computers that will make them jump up and down for joy and saddles them with a video card that I wouldn't let my mom use in her Dell. I can't wait for the support tickets.

Mac Pro Arrived! Pics Included - Mac Forums: "My Mac Pro just arrived at my door.
Specs: 2x 2.6, 1 gb ram, 7300gt, 250gb seagate HD"

And the plot thickens...

MMORPG.COM - Your Headquarters for Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games!: "Simutronics announced today its first licensee for its new HeroEngine, a complete integrated platform for development of massively multiplayer online (MMO) roleplaying games (RPGs)."

I don't know what this is going to be but ever since the studio started I've been salivating. Damion and Richard are probably my two all time heroes in the field with the entire BioWare team being on my golden list of "Does shit right". I always thought a Star Wars MMO was going to be my home for etermity and maybe if they...nah, it'll probably be a new IP. But we can all dream can't we?

Bigfoot!

I'm not sure what's funnier, naming your company after a mythological beast when clearly everyone is skeptical of your outrageous furniture salesman pitch or is it admitting that your Finance and Marketing people were "bugged" about why no one had done this before or is it charging $279 dollars for the thing!

While I havent' seen any devs who are "super excited" about this thing I have seen several who take about 30 seconds to giggle at it. Oli at least thinks there is some potential and he's a pretty smart fellow. After reading the article I get the distinct feeling that hackers are gonna like some of the features. maybe game devs should be interested after all.

gD Hardware.com - Interview with Bigfoot Networks

Jocularity! Jocularity!

If you can sit through this without laughing you must be dead. Thanks Rafter for the morning laughs. On an unrelated note, 1.24 looks amazing and should be ready fro some open testing very soon! Enjoy..er well, maybe that's too strong for whatever this is, good cause though.

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