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 ·Verizon FiOS
| Wired Magazine, says it all You can bet your bottom dollar that anything that comes from the bullshit-scented pages of Wired magazine is a bucket of the world's finest dung.
Wired is a remnant of the dot-com orgasmania; where everyone used the word "HOT!" three times in a sentence and thought that anything digital would automatically take over the world.
I'm surprised it still exists; I imagine the office is filled with now aging hipsters in velvet pants wearing thick rimmed glasses scanning things with their cue cats and checking e-mail on their Netpliance i-Openers (unhacked, of course) to see the latest status on Ginger.
Warchalking maybe happens once in a while. In San Francisco, by people who still dial up to The Well. Otherwise, it's useless and another example of some cretin who thinks they've discovered TNBT(TM) (The Next Big Thing) and cries into his latte when he finds out he was dead wrong again.
I remember when I wrote a response to an article that Wired put out 2 years ago about DVHS (the Digital VCR). I remember saying that digital or not, people aren't going to want to pay $1200 for something they have to rewind and fast forward, use a big clunky tape, and had draconian copy protection when open DVD recorders were coming out and would be much cheaper.
The silk-shirt wearing corduroyed Wired "reporter" came back at me with a string of obscenities, telling me that I was "digitally dumb" and had no clue what I was talking about.. He was right, he had the inside scoop, DVHS would be "HOT" and would be a "DVD KILLER", and that was that.
Oh well. I think I'm going to go record a few shows on my $399 Panasonic DVD-R set top recorder, then go over to a friend's house and watch them over there on his $69 Apex.
Meanwhile, someone call me when some real news comes from Wired -- like when they close their doors. |
