Articles in category “rant”

23 February 2010

I'm German, and I hate beer

I'm German and I hate beer. So every time when I go out with friends and everyone, yes everyone is ordering a pitcher of Nama1 (生ビール), I always have to pass. Then usually people ask me either whether I don’t feel well, or whether I don’t drink any alcohol at…  Read on »
15 June 2009

Netbook, Shmetbook—Apple was right

There have been rumours about an Apple netbook for a long time now, and I was sure they would not offer one, considering what the current state of affairs of netbooks was. Netbook definition An economical laptop computer Or being more sarcastic:…  Read on »
1 February 2008

GNOME improvements: catch-up with the Mac

I was hoping someone would even build their own hardware device to interface with Linux, doing totally crazy things to try out what the next generation user interface could be. But the community is so much into either making Windows clones (godFSM forbid!) or…  Read on »
23 November 2007

Has Adobes proprietary lock-down started?

Worse, I noticed a few very alarming developements going on, when using the application for about two days. Let me note here that I’m not a Flash programmer, so I won’t be able to appreciate any improvements on action script etc. I’m merely…  Read on »
21 September 2007

Ist der Markt monopolisiert…

CS2 = CS2 ≠ CS2 Ich frage mich mittlerweile ob Adobe wirklich Software verkaufen will, oder nicht. Wenn ich Adobes Komplett-Müsli-Packung Creative Suite 2 (für ungeduldige auch CS 2 genannt) kaufe, werde ich mit Binärperlen wie Photoshop, Illustrator…  Read on »