{"id":981,"date":"2005-06-08T02:44:17","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T00:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2005-07-12T19:54:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-12T10:54:14","slug":"fap-fap-fap-fap-fap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/06\/08\/fap-fap-fap-fap-fap\/","title":{"rendered":"Fap, fap, fap, fap, fap&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mind the noise in the background: still a few Apple fanboys around the world finishing themselves with WWDC keynote reruns. Man, what a mess the conference hall floor must have been.<\/p>\n<p>A few thoughts to dump on top of the 20 millions (conservative estimate) blatantly unqualified comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/news\/2005\/06\/06\/powerpcintel\/index.php\">Apple&#8217;s recent decision to stick it to IBM and go with Intel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Damn was it a near-miss: a few more months and Apple may have unwittingly found itself using a technology shared with more than 5% of the planet. What with these damn console-makers and their ugly mainstream uses for our best kept PowerPC secret.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty years after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uriah.com\/apple-qt\/1984.html\">1984<\/a>: &#8220;We have always been at war with Eurasia, Eastasia is our ally, RISC sucks, CISC rocks&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>To actually state or honestly believe in the statement that recompiling <em>any<\/em> piece of software made to run on a Big-endian RISC platform, to run on a Little-endian CISC CPU, is a matter of counting to ten and check the box, you have to either be 1) Steve Jobs 2) Currently listening to Steve Jobs and surfing high on a wave of distortion field, or: 3) a technically incompetent moron.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Every Mac developer will happily port\/recompile all their executables to follow the move. It will all go smooth and quickly&#8221;. After all, it&#8217;s only the 3rd time in less than 10 years, that Apple ask them to bend over backward for their pretty eyes.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Adobe\/Macromedia and Microsoft, in particular, cannot wait to help their biggest buddy and port their products on the next version of OS X, where they&#8217;ll be competing with Apple&#8217;s own in-house developments.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Emulation works just the same as the real thing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>That last piece of beautifully-designed <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/05\/die-apple-die\/\">overpriced piece of crap<\/a> I bought, was quite likely my last Apple hardware purchase, ever. Joy. (Oh yea, I know, the thing about &#8220;not running on non-Apple PCs&#8221;, ha ha ha, you funny people).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t mind the noise in the background: still a few Apple fanboys around the world finishing themselves with WWDC keynote reruns. Man, what a mess the conference hall floor must have been. A few thoughts to dump on top of the 20 millions (conservative estimate) blatantly unqualified comments on Apple&#8217;s recent decision to stick it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-insignificant-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}