Or ‘Actors speaking the movie title in the movie’. Lots of great movies are mashed up in this video.
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Is Windows 7 A Real Step Forward?
Robert Cringely in his way analysis of the Windows 7 price has a nostalgic moment :
When Windows 95 was introduced (I was there, shooting Triumph of the Nerds), part of the Bill Gates and Jay Leno performance that day was upgrading a 486/66 machine from Windows 3.1 to Win95. It took about half an hour. With more modern processors, memory, disk drives, and a new OS touted as being lean and mean, why should Windows 7 take significantly longer than that to upgrade?
It shouldn’t, unless speed-of-upgrading wasn’t on the feature list to begin with.
Should Banks Continue Their Massive Bonus Structure?
Maybe banks should consider the words of Carl Icahn, who recently resigned as a Yahoo! Board Member, when deciding whether they should continue their bonus structure for investors:
Several years ago, I bought a big chunk of ‘distressed’ debt in a major company and landed on the creditors committee when it filed for Chapter 11. Shortly thereafter, the bankers who were hired by senior management told me that I would have to pay retention bonuses to keep its top managers from leaving.
The company, they warned, would crumble if these star managers left. Nine had already threatened to march out the door if they didn’t get substantial bonuses. I told them I was fed up with retention bonuses. Where was the line waiting to hire these “star” managers who were responsible for bankrupting the company in the first place?
… To make a long story short, we eventually replaced these allegedly irreplaceable managers and restructured the company. The net result? We saved $500 million in costs over two years and the company is in much better shape today than is has been in years.
What is great advice for AIG and the US bail-out, certainly also works for the still struggling UK economy. Luckily we online already see a turnaround. Hopefully it won’t take two years for the UK gouvernment to realize. Two years, just as long as it took them to see the crunch arrive and realized it had already hit them in the face. Politics.
They Shoot Stars
They Shoot Stars, an essay about the American porn industry and the impact of the online, download culture on the industry.
Three years ago, Powers shot four to five movies a week. Nowadays, he’s lucky if he shoots two a week. Like many other businessmen, he’s been forced to cut corners. Ergo, the “life support system for a penis” of yesteryear has been replaced by the lower maintenance RoboCock.
“We got rid of the male talent!” Powers crows, triumphant. He enumerates the benefits of working with an animatronic phallus on one hand. “They don’t complain as much. They’re always hard. You don’t have to feed them.” Of course, the 21st century woodsman does have one drawback. “They’ve always got bolts falling off,” Powers admits with a shrug
But there is also literature in the essay. Read more
Stop Promoting Apple. Funniest Description Ever Why.
I admit it: I’m a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can’t control it. It’s Apple. I don’t like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one.
Seriously, stop it. I don’t care if Mac stuff is better. I don’t care if Mac stuff is cool. I don’t care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I’m not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you’ve got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There’s a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER.
Charlie Brooker for The Guardian in what is probably the best description why someone does not like Apple products or their users. Funnily enough I spend quite some time earlier today to explain to an author I worked with how NOT to introduce your hate for certain products.
Mac fanboys like to parrot Apple’s claims that Macs are more secure than PCs. This should come as a nice kick in the balls to those smug bastards.
One is a funny intro, the other one is totally offensive an does not promote the credibility of said author.
