Author: Portfolioso


Never Try to Reason with an Apple Fanboy


I love busting Dan’s balls about Apple. He will defend them to the grave. I tend to side with Google over Apple and make that well known. Anyway, here’s our text convo right after Jobs’ iOS 4/ iPhone 4 keynote. This is why I have no life in the summer. Instead of going to the beach every day, I end up in iPhone vs Android arguments. The iPhone 4 looks good, I will not deny that. BUT – AT&T sucks and doesn’t make calls and many of these features have been out already on other phones.

Never reason with an Apple Fanboy

To be dead honest, it is a nice piece of hardware. The screen looks amazing/ has the highest res out of all smartphones and it does 720p video. Plus, its front camera is ahead of most Android devices (except that HTC 4G one, which isn’t as good). Hell they even added a flash (never Adobe Flash). What is pretty useless is how Jobs claims the screen is so amazing that it’s better than a human eye can detect. Well, then if I can’t see it do any better, who cares.

PS – Don’t mind the ghetto pictures of my Droid screen. You need to root it in order to use the screenshot apps. I’m not that risky. Also, to be brutally honest, I don’t like the Droid Incredible. HTC has some pair of balls on them ruining the stock Android GUI with its SenseUI crap (that’s another blog rant).


It’s About Time They Did This in NYC


You know what annoys me? Tourists clogging up my city and getting in my way. People like to stand in the middle of the sidewalk with blank stares and gaping mouths while looking up at buildings and taking 4,321 pictures or people who are walking turtle speed staring into a map. I have places to go and things to do – you’re in my way.

So this is a few weeks old, this news – I saw it on the internets somewhere. Being in NY yesterday, people who were slow annoyed me, so I thought I’d put this up. But it’s brilliant – divide the sidewalk into people who stand around and walk slowly, and real people who have somewhere to go. Anyone ignoring this should be ticketed, or even tased (is that even a word? tased? Tasered? Whatever, you get the point.)


Verizon’s 3G Network Can Suck It Sometimes


I’ve had enough of Verizon’s 3G network. Verizon is full of shit when they advertise all about their 97% 3G coverage bull. Yes, they may have coverage but here are my issues with their 3G:

Problem 1: It’s slow as balls. If you’re in a good signal area, expect 1.5MBPS max download. That’s good enough for simple webpages, but half of the time, it averages around 500-600kbps, especially when the signal is weaker.

Problem 2: Even when I am standing with my phone right up a cell tower’s ass, I tend to lose 3G for no reason. You don’t understand how pissed off I get when I see a tower in sight and my internet is going 100kbps because it’s on 1X. WHY? My theory is that the tower is overloaded with voice and data and it’s just like “fuck your 3G, I don’t have the bandwidth so I’m dropping you to 1X. Well stop. It happens way too frequently.

Its a fuckin waste of $30/month when half of the time my internet is balls (and under Murphy’s Law, the 3G shits out when I need it most.)

PS – This post was written from my Droid on the strongest of islands… I haven’t had solid 3G since I got here and have been off 3G for the entire length it took me to type this post. By the way, you don’t understand how much of a pain in the ass it was to type this. The Droid’s physical and touch keyboards are two pieces of shit.

PS again – AT&T may have faster 3G but at least I can make phone calls on Verizon it’s kind of the point of a cell PHONE. And f you AT&T for getting rid kf unlimited data plans.


Another Reason Apple Sucks


Hey assholes at Apple – stop forcing us to use Safari to view your html5 pages. Okay, Firefox 3.6 may not be all there yet on html5 (just wait for Firefox 4), but Chrome uses Webkit and should have no trouble at all displaying the pages. No one wants to use Safari on a Windows machine.

See this is why Steve Jobs is a hypocrite. He wants to support open web standards, but then throws out demos that only work in Safari. Well guess what. Chrome is open also, and it’s html5 compliant so cut the shit. So much for the open web…

You suck Apple. Safari isn't the only html5 enabled browser out there

P.S – If you’re still using IE, please park your car on the nearest set of train tracks and wait.


FarmVille Devs – Learn English


If you don't notice the blatant grammatical error in the above image, kill yourself.

Dear people at Zynga who make FarmVille. It is a popular game. There are over 80 million users. The least you can do is fucking write in proper English. “Alex found a sad llama on their farm.” Really? I must have missed it, but since when did Alex become plural? Stupid morons.