First off, I like Tommy Tallarico and the show Judgment Day.  I think he's pretty entertaining… like a midget clown or something!

 I don't watch that show (or ANY other show on G4) on a regular basis.  They're not GEEK enough for me.  Their perversion of the Screen Savers ended any hope I had caring about G4.  Although, I hear that Call For Help will be coming back on the air.

I do think that a lot of people have taken Tallarico's words out of context (at least the part about Morgan Webb's titty to gamer ratio).  He did say that some people were saying that, but maybe it was a tactful way to be tactless. 

According to Leo Laporte, G4 is appearently doing quite well.  I can't find any stats on how their ratings are now compared to TechTV and the merger.

What I do know is the Screen Savers, my favorite show on cable TV (Pre Battle Star Galactica), was shutdown.  I really didn't watch the other TechTV shows as religiously and I wouldn't doubt that Future Fighting Machines had low ratings. 

I hope that some other show will be able to wet my GEEK apetite by talking about hacking and mods and other cool shit like that.  Until then I'm stuck with waiting for Systm, Broken and Shadows to tease me every three months with a 5 minute speed bump.

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ITEM #1 MACINTEL

Macintosh going to Intel chip (according to the Wall Street Journal)

Leo predicts the demise of Macintosh.  Steve Job is falling on his sword

1)      All software has to be rewritten

2)      Why x86?

3)      Osborn effect.  Many Mac products will be obsolete

John C. Dvorack says this trend will last 10 years.  Dvorack: It will be the one of the biggest benefits of Macintosh (offers other very interesting insight into the move)

Patrick – Bigger Market goes to bigger MHZ Numbers.  Great if it makes a cheaper MAC but don’t believe its going to happen

Kevin – Excited about the move.  Apple engineering is excellent.  Now he can game on a Mac.  Thumbs UP.

Heron – First stage of Mac creating competition for Windows.  Thumbs down for hard ware

Roger
– With all the 3-d rendering and content creation tools Mac will be
able to retain their fan base by keeping the look and feel of the Mac
on an x86.  Thumbs up for Software Thumbs down for hardware

Is this good for Microsoft?

ITEM #2 WiMAX

Patrick Norton talked with Intel– WiMax is still  mostly hype

“WiMax is a microwave replacement for cable or DSL distribution of Broadband” at about 1Mb

Fix WiMax test will start this summer 2005, roll out will begin late 2006, and finally mobile Wireless

ITEM #3 ICANN has approved the XXX domain

The redlight district of the Internet

Really being done with .edu ..gov

Will make it easier to filter

Twit.XXX?

MOBI – cell phone content specific (format)

ITEM #4 Roger on New Games

A bit slow during the summer

Everyone waiting on the new 360 stuff

Next generation of consoles usually causes a dip

ITEM #5 More MacIntel

Roger waiting for Final Cut Pro and compositing /video shaping software

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ITEM #1 GOOGLE

  ITEM #2 David
Prager on 3G

3G system on CDMA back bone
EDVO to do Webserver

 ITEM #3 YAHOO
Music

 David Prager – Ratings up on Attack of the Show

ITEM #4 ROGER
CHANG on E3

 TWIT Console Picks
(Xbox 360 or PS3):

DVD Wars
Blu Ray in PS3
What will studios put their media content on?

 ITEM #5 QUESTION
Brendan, MD Will PS3 have iTunes (will it be a media Coverence device), will this be a
threat to Rental services such as Netflix and BlockBuster?

ITEM #6 QUESTION Carrey N.C.
Early online release of Revenge of the Sith and resulting success undercut the
MPAA position on online movies?

 ITEM #7 QUESTION Dorthy [TWIT icon designer] 10-20 year
vision of technology impacting everyday life (positive and negative)? 

Negative:
Patrick – Terminator
Roger – Mad Max
   Rich will get Richer and Poor will get Poorer

Positive:
Robert – Huge TV’s at great prices (Max Headroom?)
   Nano tech very bad or very good
Leo – Biotech will be bigger than

 ITEM #8 TWIT PLUGS

Patrick Norton
        Extremetech.com
        Extremeipod.com
        [cut the TWIT cast to 8-track and vinyl]

Leo Laporte
        Leo World Tour in Athens,
Ohio [South East     
        Ohio Macromedia
User’s Group]

 Roger Chang
        Still on GameSpot

 ITEM #9 KEVIV ROSE’s
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

Leo and Kevin Rose covered in Bear grease

 ITEM #10 THE MAN
TRYING TO KEEP US DOWN!

 ITEM #11 IT’S A
BOY! MINI YOSH

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Its just not evenly distributed yet.—William Gibson

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Is the KitKat Club a Canadian strip club?  Enquiring TWITS want to know.

Featuring: Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Patrick Norton, Robert Heron, Yoshi Herrerra

Intro.

Drinking Caffeine

How many TWIT Torrents are being downloaded?

Contribute to the TWIT.  Donation will go toward the new equipment for the next show

Roger Chang & David Prager with E3 Update on Episode 6.

Patrick Norton on Security Updates

Firefox – big updates

Itunes – has buffer overflow

Mozilla 1.4 – mozilla.org/security

Firefox has more exploits than I.E.?  What do the TWITS use? 

Xbox 360

20 Gig hard drive, 3 Powerpc processors + 500MHZ ATI processor

Xbox 360 coverage on Mtv

The TWIT comment on the future gaming systems

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ITEM # 1 – QUESTION: Aaron, Maine Hardware Hacking Resources:

Kevin’s overclocked toothbrush

Aaron asks for TWITS recommendation on Resources

 

Yoshi gives advice

Google “how to soder”

And other resources will be posted on his blog  

ITEM #2 – BATTLESTAR GALACTICA – BITorrent vs. Traditional Broadcasting

Early release of BSG online actually 

         increases fan base!

SourceForce Project – Broadcast

         Machine  (Beta)

Bittorrent to create a “Television

        Station” with your computer

        Participatoryculture.org

Motion Picture of

       Association of America

       (MPAA) Taking action against

       Bitorrents

Robert Heron on projector technology and digital delivery systems (1080P)

       Star Wars Revenge of the Sith

 

ITEM #3 – QUESTION Johnathan, NY –Who will the win in the DVD format wars?  Will the Standard unify into one?

            Remember to turn off your TV

                 before you ask questions, you

                 TWITS

            Sony vs. Toshiba (HDDVD vs. Blu

                 Ray)

            Multi format drives

ITEM #4 – Leo does best impression of BILL GATES Comments on IPOD

            MP3 player battle (Sony vs. Nokia

                vs. Apple)

            Video IPOD??!!

            Leo played volley ball with Steve

                 Job’s

            Apple and Sony flirting

ITEM #5 – QUESTIONS [TWIT Soldier] Philip, AUS – What do I encode with?

            Getting the right bit rates, right

                 resolution and quality

            Nero Divx, XVid and others

Some one needs to hack the PSP

Quicktime Pro (recommended)

ITEM #6 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Ashley, UK – What components do you recommend for building a PC for gaming and high res. Graphics editing?

            Kevin’s picks

            Yoshi’s picks

AMD Mobile

Robert Heron’s builds

Patrick gives advice on purchasing

video card for graphics editing

Magic Bullet plug-in and faster

   rendering

Awaiting the Direct X upgrade

ITEM #7 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Tristen, ILL – What kind of processor will the computers of the future use?

            Intel’s optical chip proto-type

            Leo on the Play Station 3’s Cell

            Processor, Distributed Processing

                
and next generation processing

ITEM #8 — QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Mike, Fl – What is everyone looking forward to at the E3?      

            Roger will give a report on E3 next

              week

ITEM #9 — Release of the Systm – 23^rd May Release date

ITEM #10 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Is the PSP worth buying?

            Portable gaming device that is

            highly hackableRead feeds 

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I listened to the podcast right after seeing Systm.  Systm is great but it doesn't give me the feel of being the Screen Savers.  TWIT definitely delivered.  They talked about Hitch Hiker's Guide the the Galaxy, they talked about the trailer for Serinity.  They went tech and discussed Long Horn and OS X and some old formats that didn't work.  They talked about Digg.com and boxedthoughts.com.  They even took a couple of audio emails.  I am impressed.  I will be surprised if no one picks these guys up to do another Screen Savers like show.  Unfortunately, the best candidate would be G4TV. 

You know I don't have anything bad to say about any of the tech show (Broken, Systm or TWIT).  I guess it would be like a starving man complaining about a cracker.  There is such a void on TV when it comes to actual tech.  Yet its the Information Age and our reliance on computers and the Internet continue to grow exponentially at scary proportions.  It will always amaze me that G4 did not take advantage of the existing market that was held by TechTv.  It has pushed us all completely on line to get the content we crave.  The original crew have really formed a bond with their viewers that is begining to approach Trekie level… o.k. maybe not that crazy.

p.s. thebroken kicks TWITS ASSSS!! They just need to get Leo Laporte on there.  Get Leo in some fly Pimp Gear, put a hoe on each arm and them let him school us on Mac hacking.  That would be the SHIZNIT!

And then my wife erased all the files from my DVR which I planned on downloading and keeping forever… Why… Why, honey.

I eventually got over it.  But then out of the
blue G4, fired half the original crew and hired geek gamers
and gear whores from like three other shows.  WTF.  That
asian chick is kinda tasty [some kinda of freaky asian fetish I have]

but those other pukes
make me want to turn off the TV.  Kevin Pereira has become
the face of all things unholy.  For me he represents the end of
the Screen Savers.  I know its not his fault, but someone must
suffer for this atrocity.

What followed was scandalous.  They changed the whole format of the show and nuked Screen Savers. 
Attack of the Show was born.  It was like seeing Anakin Skywalker
get sedused by the darkside.  I felt betrayed.

But now there is a New Hope.  The first Systm show is pure, unforgiving, hardcore tech.  Kevin Rose and Dan Huard host the show in a smooth, effective rythm that leaves you hungry for more. 

In there first show they talk about WarSpying, something they
covered briefly on the Screen Savers.  These geeks actually tell
you how to create a hand held WarSpying device that you plug into
your car to drive around and pick up unencrypted Video feeds from CCTVs
in peoples homes and commercial establishments.  I will admit I
thought is was Geeked OUT!  But whenever people start breaking out
the soder sucker and microchips my eyes start glazing over. 
Electronics is TOTAL magic to me.  But the message is clear.. get
CCTV, home and commercial security cameras with built in
encryption.

It was a good show.  Kevin once again shows his amazing skills
in producing quality, quality content leaning toward my one of my
favorite subjects, security.  If you are a fan of the old Screen
Savers and you're a TRUE geek you will love Systm. 

p.s. theBroken kicks Systms ASS, but I ain't one to gossip.. so you ain't heard that from me.

The reason I haven’t been able to find Cat Schwartz is because I’ve been spelling her name with a “K” Kat Schwartz. My graMARr and speling Good, it is not.

Silly me. Shes at Catschwartz.com [dead and gone]a pretty cool blog hi tech mommy. I feel so empty now that I’ve found you Catherine.

I know I should be happy but the guess I let the obsession of finding you fill me for so long that it began to comfort me. Wait… perhaps I can meet you in REAL life. Just kidding Cat, I’m not really psycho. Or am I?

Contact Cat:

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