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Apple hasn’t impressed me lately
I have a new iMac Core Duo, two iPods (one a shuffle), lots of free time to play with new toys, and yet I don’t want to. In fact, I just want to get Sogudi and some other programs working and for the iPod to start having better playlist creation tools, like Party Shuffle and resume from what iTunes was playing.
Lately, I’ve cared more about finding the coolest beer and a girlfriend than how much RAM I have (512) even though I can buy a bigger stick (I wish I could do that...in bed---an upgrade is an upgrade).
Lately, I’ve been less and less interested in reading on the computer because my school wants me to read as a full-time job.
Lately, I’ve not found anything new but I’ve still taken advantage of the amazing show Front Row puts on even though it is laggy otherwise. Nothing new doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with what is (except Rosetta’s sluggishness 
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As of late, things have been more about finding a compelling reason to do anything I don’t agree with. It’s always hard to do what you think is not ideal. I search and search within myself and hundreds of people I talk to for the reason why I’m here, in Stony Brook, yet my heart is elsewhere but in the end it’s simple.
When you have to think too hard you’re just doing that for practice. W = UH. See “FaceBook”.
The simple thing is that when you argue a lot about something it’s already wrong. Cut off the bottom 10% of ideas that suck, but still work on those that have potential. In concrete terms, quit (school) if it gives you any trouble and you can make an alternative you are more attracted to.
Quit school.
It’s so tempting. I care less and less about it but I dislike the idea of myself as not achieving my potential. It’s interesting how I learn in sociology class how society is largely fake and un-optimized yet I have to participate in its institution to get status. Status is a joke that noone who has it wouldn’t find funny. It’s power but you can get it from anywhere.
Status is yours to create without school or whatever it is you are bored of. If not status, create some fun like I had this night. Just some new people and poker and whatever. Make your own with another Geek.
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I think his statements are about his priorities changing versus the quality of Apple’s products. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Screw status. It doesn’t make you happy. It’s wonderfully free to just stop caring what anyone else has and to just focus on what your own goals are in life and what makes you happy.
School is necessary if your goals benefit from the degree and education.
But if you find happiness being a lumberjack, you don’t need a degree.
| Feb. 09, 2006 | ||
| 11:57 am |
First of all, yes I’m more dissatisfied with life as I adjust my priorities than Apple. Apple used to cheer me up because I love new shiny technology innovation.
The other upgrade you mentioned is not at all necessary here. :p
My goals require women believe SogniX be the most attractive man on earth and keep providing us server space because he’s too distracted from doing service packs I mean having overheated sex.
Thanks Mac Fan. Do you or I want to become a lumberjack? Personally, I would become a programmer if I felt I could be the best. My goals require me to know I’m better than most if not all people. School gives me the practicing ground for my mind and nothing more. I haven’t become a player overnight (so I could sell my body) nor have I become a A+ sociology professor. In the end, I’ll come in with a curious, often dissatisfied temperament who wants to change things and graduate with a degree saying I can speak a foreign academic language that I’ll one day change. You guys?
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| Feb. 09, 2006 | |
| moreApple | 2:56 pm |
I have two boys—3 and 5. My goal in life revolves around them because they give me more happiness than anything. The love for your own children is amazing. It’s like TiVo—you can’t ever explain it to anyone without kids so that they can understand it. They have to experience it for themselves to grasp the greatness of it. And yes, I rolled my eyes too when I was single and would hear that crap from someone. 
My goal in life is to get my kids to adulthood safely and to do whatever I can to help them become what they want to become.
When life gets me down I say to myself, “It could be worse—I could have been born in Calcutta.”
| Feb. 09, 2006 | ||
| 3:20 pm |
LOL
Some of that happens, so you’re not too far off, Bryan. 
I’m actually jealouse of Mac Fan, I’ve been wanting a kid for a while. Almost did, and for about 24 hours I was very happy. D’oh!
| Feb. 09, 2006 | |
| SogniX | 4:39 pm |
Apple hasn’t impressed me either :
http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/1791024 90?cid=rssfeed_pl_ptp
The original user who discovered the problem does have one suggestion, though: “Convince yourself that Front Row is stupid, pointless, and unnecessary eye-candy and never, ever use it.”
Apple hasn’t impressed me either :
http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/1791024 90?cid=rssfeed_pl_ptp
The original user who discovered the problem does have one suggestion, though: “Convince yourself that Front Row is stupid, pointless, and unnecessary eye-candy and never, ever use it.�
Seems a bit off-topic to me, except maybe for the entry’s original title. It also has nothing to do with why Bryan isn’t impressed with Apple anymore: because he wants more than just a parade of shiny toys to play with.
Small (understandable, since they’re SWITCHING ARCHITECTURES) graphic glitches in SOME of their machines have nothing to do with what Bryan’s talking about.
| Feb. 09, 2006 | |
| Arden | 10:01 pm |
What Arden said,
and Informer - it’s a graphics driver problem on the custom 20” iMacs only, not a hardware problem. Issue is already being fixed by applying later build of 10.4.4. And can be worked around by changing color depth to thousands.
Show me a REAL problem…
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| Feb. 09, 2006 | |
| SogniX | 10:33 pm |
Bryan, welcome to adulthood. Shiny toys will always be fun, but you’ve come to the point of realizing they aren’t going to provide happiness if you don’t already have it. Having people in your life you genuinely care about and working at a career that makes you happy are the important things.
But keep in mind that college can be an important part of that. It’s a great opportunity to meet lots of people and figure out what it is that you want to do, and then achieve it. It’s obviously not essential for everyone, but it can be a big part of it. Besides, improving your education and expanding your horizons are never bad ideas just in general.
| Feb. 10, 2006 | |
| shempzilla | 9:52 am |
Cool. Since 21 i have been an official major but I am not even sure what do with my major (Sociology). I do feel more adult now! Yet still child.
Child
Adult
Parent
We are all three according to my advisor. Balance. Toys appeal to child inside. Sex to that too. Adult creates his own reality. Parent is the rules.
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| Feb. 10, 2006 | |
| moreApple | 12:54 pm |
My version of that would be:
Child loves to play.
Adult knows about consequences.
Parent nurtures others.
I don’t think everyone has all three, BTW. Many do. Some don’t.
| Feb. 10, 2006 | ||
| 1:06 pm |
I feel like I’ve been stuck at 17 for the past 5 years. I am now 22.
I took a silly quiz some time back and it came back with this:
“You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.” I’d say that’s about accurate.
Here’s the quiz, y0: http://blogthings.com/whatagequiz/
| Nick | Feb. 10, 2006 | |
| 4:18 pm |
I want something beyond bliss. I want meaning. Bliss by itself gets me nowhere.
| Nick | Feb. 13, 2006 | |
| 1:59 am |
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Bryan, you might be unimpressed and don’t care because you don’t need such a computer or such upgrades. It sounds you got it - to have it. Nothing else. Which would bore me too.
I got an Intel Core Duo iMac too, and I am very happy with it… mostly because I can do my work in a better, faster, and bigger environment than anything I had before.
And I’m much looking forward to upgrading the RAM to remove the top-end barriers and give my applications more speed and power.
The other upgrade you mentioned is not at all necessary here. :p