Collins’ Onovia

I’m sitting here watching Fox News and they are talking about GTA4. They are again pointing the finger at Rockstar and retail stores. They want to make sure that there’s no hidden content like the “Hot Coffee” mini game mod that there was in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and that the game isn’t sold to minors.

Let me say that most kids under 17 don’t have money trees. The money comes from the parents. If a parent gives their kid $50 to go buy a video game, they need to be more aware of what they are buying. It’s so damn annoying to hear that yet another parent is suing because their already fucked up kid happened to play a violent game and then shoots people up. I’ve played violent video games my entire life, along with all my friends. And here we all are, many years later. None of us are violent killers, drug addicts, or car thieves.

My whole point here is that there is no one to blame but the parent and child. Anyone that carries out the actions in a fictional game needs to imitate Mario, and smash their head into a brick.

I read an article on the PC World website about how Mozilla’s CEO has his panties all up in a bunch about the fact that Apple pushed their Safari web browser via Apple Software Updater. I have Apple’s annoying automatic updates disabled. However, after I was done reading the PC World article, I enabled the automatic updates to see if this was a “Stealth” install, as the article claims.

After a few minutes, the updater showed up with an iTunes + Quicktime update, and a Safari update. Hrmm. Not to stealth if you ask me. Now, I’m not really sure what Mozilla is afraid of here. I highly doubt that Safari will impact the Mozilla browser market share. Some claim that because the update was pre-selected, it’s “ethically wrong“. My response would be if people weren’t so fucking click happy all the time, then this wouldn’t be a problem. Click Click Click, oh by the way, you just gave me your car. I mean, come on people. READ shit before you click.

After reading all this fuss, I had to check out Safari. (BTW, if there was no crying foul, I wouldn’t have even know about Safari for Windows, thanks!) I’ve used Safari on my friends Mac, but not extensively. I’m actually writing this post in Safari. I’ve played around on all the websites I normally visit, and I have yet to run into one problem. I liked the easy to understand interface, and that the options show me only what I need to see. I also don’t like the fact that its sucking up 202MB of memory with just 4 tabs opened. Even Firefox isn’t that bad. I’ll stick with Firefox myself.

End result: No damage done to Firefox, Safari gets a test run by a bunch of people that never had the opportunity, and everyone remains a click happy, pantie bunching, complainer!

Apparently some money hungry lawyer has filed suit against Microsoft for “breach of contract” for their service outage over the holiday season. This sounded like yet another frivolous lawsuit to me, so I checked it out.

Now, I know that any service provided online comes with one of those nifty contracts called an EULA (End User License Agreement). I went and had a look at Microsoft’s Xbox EULA. Sure enough, right there in section 16, it states:

16. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY
We provide the Service “as-is,” “with all faults” and “as available.” The Microsoft Parties give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort and non-infringement.

In that section, there’s an opening. It states “You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change.” I did some searching online for consumer rights in Texas, and found little information. I really doubt that there is anything that overrides this service agreement.

Anything that relies on electronic equipment is destined to fail at one point or another. Allegedly, Microsoft should have foreseen into the future that in the time of year that we should be celebrating the holidays with our families and friends, we are glued to the television with our Xboxes, PS3’s, and Wii’s.