One of my all time favorite movies growing up was Wargames. To this day it stands alone, as a movie the semi-accurately depicts what hacking was and what was involved. Our young hero David didn’t just click some keys really fast while a pseudo server graphically appeared and spun in circles while he beat his way into it. Instead they showed him spending months researching the network, it’s creator, all possibles connections. I especially loved the war dialing sequences. It was nothing less then a slice of Awesome!
So, in a further effort to destroy the happy memories of my childhood, Hollywood has decided to release this crap, and label it as a “sequel” to Wargames. It is called “Wargames : The Dead Code”. Here is the trailer.
Stephen Falken must be spinning in his grave, and probably wishes he had just let Joshua wipe us all off the planet the first time.
Ugh .. At least this is a straight to DVD experience and it won’t clutter up the theaters.
In what is most likely an effort to stifle the purchasing and unlocking of iPhones for use on other networks, Apple and at&t have announced that you will not be able to buy your iPhone online, nor will you be able to buy the phone and activate it later. Purchase and activation will take place at the same time.
While I completely understand at&t’s desire to prevent the iPhone usage on other networks, since I am sure they paid a pretty penny for the exclusivity, I have to imagine that there is a better way to go about this. Forcing a 10 - 12 minute process onto people in the store is going to make the initial buying day (July 11) a complete mad house.
I remember back to the original launch day, and even though I wasn’t buying one I went with my brother to get his and the store was mad crazy. In that particular episode, he yelled (yes, yelled) at the guy behind the counter, over the top of all the apple fan boys, that he wanted an iPhone, and then half-handed half threw his credit card to the guy who ran it and came out with the phone and the receipt. The whole process took maybe 2 minutes, and it was still crazy in that store.
Now, factor in that NO ONE will be able to buy online, and the phone is now priced so that my 14 year-old nephew can afford one, and that the purchase time has gone from 2 minutes to 15- 20 minutes, and that is assuming that at&t’s activation servers don’t take a massive dump (remember the last time … they did. ).
So, how much pandamonium can we expect when the activation server go down, and the people who have been sitting in line for as long a week or so, can’t even buy the phone since at&t can’t activate it..
I will be there just to watch the show.
Guitar Hero makers, Activision, have released a new trailer for their upcoming version of Guitar Hero on the DS. Are you kidding me?
I am not sure if I really hate this because I think it is a bad idea, or because I want to just slap the kid in the trailer, and don’t even get me started on the creepy narrator, and the sad “aging rockstar” who has clearly made some bad choices in life.
I am afraid I can not support this, and it really makes me sad, because it just feels like “sell out” material.
Just one day after [ instituting a policy ] of one [ iPhone ] sale per customer, [ AT&T ] said Thursday that it has discontinued the policy both on its Web site and in its retail stores.
Customers will now be able to buy three iPhones per person, a limit that the carrier enacted when the device first went on sale almost a year ago. Apparently AT&T has decided that they do in fact have enough inventory to leave the three phone per person limit in place.
“Our No. 1 concern is to make sure that every customer who wants an iPhone gets one,” an AT&T spokesman said. “We thought yesterday that the fairest way to do that was to limit customers to one iPhone. Then we realized that we have sufficient inventory to go back to our original policy.”
Apple iPhone’s have been running out all over in the US and UK, and apple.com is not selling them online at all anymore, stating that they are out of stock.
All of this smacks of the upcoming 3G release, and while all of this makes me hate AT&T even more then normal, I am happy to see the trail leading directly to 3G iPhones.
There is no current information on when AT&T will change it’s mind again, but we are sure it won’t take long.