Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Digital Downloads Suck

So I've got the Lady Gaga album, and it's pretty nice, but i've listened to it a lot and want to loan it to my sister.

only I can't because it's a digital download!

options:
1. Not Loan Album
2. Break Law

If you're going to charge me a similar price to an actual object, one that you had to incur costs to create and distribute, then the same capabilities should come with it. If your item is distributed and manufactured for 1/1000th of that cost (server fees), then it should cost me less since I can do less with it (legally).

PSPgo Sucks

Sony's releasing an update to their popular? playstation portable.

It doesn't play your old games, because it can't read anything currently sold in PSP format. This, considering the lack of backward compatibility, would be a nice time to take advantage of the leaps in technology over the past few years, don't you think?

Well sony doesn't. Sony's idiots. The PSPgo is everything your PSPregular is, but smaller, more expensive and less compatible. As an added bonus, you will be completely unable to loan games to a friend or re-sell them if you are done with them.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

90210 Season 2 Sucks

Rebecca Ingersoll-Rand Kirchner-Sinclair has delivered!

This is what the kids want! 1975 era depictions of virginity loss and alcohol abuse! Are you listening Gossip Girl? OC, you got canceled cos you didn't realize this!

The first half of the show is three of the four main girls strutting in slow motion eating ice cream. Then Annie, who had the only interesting conflict (and only for the last two shots of the season finale) finally shows up, looking for the dude she killed, who of course, has no name. If only all DUI's could be that way! All you get for killing a dude is some bad feelings. There's no one to answer to! Well, at least until Annie's life is going well and out of the blue dude's wife and kids show up in an amazing plot twist! I literally did not see that coming!

The show is the definition of obvious easy conflicts. No one will listen to Annie, Everyone hates her, everyone is unsure of their relationships (Silver's texting Ethan! Naomi's new man is married! Naveed wants to Fuck!), and no one listens to anyone.

90201 was never anything special, even the original. The difference is since then we've gotten some really good 'teen' shows between now and then. The bar is raised, and we've seen all of this before.

Maybe Melrose Place will shine into something nice?

Quicktime X Sucks

When I heard that quicktime pro was done, replaced by quicktime x, I was very pleased. While QT Pro is a fanastic little app, it gets progressively shitty to have to pay $25 for the exact same functionality as the previous version every time apple decides it's time to change the number on Quicktime.

The baby got thrown out with the bathwater however. Can't open image sequences, can't export image sequences. What we have here is Windows Media Player for a mac. Other than the pretty new interface (which is pretty,), there's nothing good here.

Apple even knew this, and stuck Quicktime Pro 7 in my "Utilities" folder. Next time just re-skin QT7 assholes.