I have less tolerance for bullshit (with very few, very talented exceptions), than I do for condescending prattle from self-righteous asshats. As for my impending explosion, get over yourself. While I tend towards being rather passionate, you didn’t have all that much of an affect on me. I use strong language as a matter of course and don’t generally hesitate to berate fucking assholes.

That said, your brand of bullshit is one that I particularly despise – whether you actually meant what you said then or really are just an incompetent ass who was pretending to be a fucking prick.

Read up on Poe’s Law and stop drinking so much damn coke

Just to be crystal clear, I would rather beat my head against a brick wall than use anything apple. I have one windows machine because Jet audio sucks sweaty, disease infested donkey balls in wine and produces the best sound of any media player I have ever used – but that dual boots ubuntu and will likely become a dedicated HTPC. If I could figure out how to run windows virtually I would, but I don’t have the time right now.

Point being, you can shove your self-righteous bullshit up your ass. While I absolutely loathe apple and everything they make – every application they will sell you for a small fortune, I loathe self-righteous asshats who want to condescend people they don’t even know, because they happen to use something you don’t like or approve of.

You should also – you know, learn how to fucking read.

Fucking prat.

Greg –

There is no way in hell I would trust my house to Winapple. At the point I can actually get – or hopefully build a house, I am going to be all about as much smart everything as possible. I want to walk up to my front door and have it recognize me and let me in (though also have a manual key for just in case). I want my music to follow me through the house. I want to turn on my oven from wherever I happen to be, so dinner will be ready when I get home.

I am not going to trust all that and much more to proprietary bullshit.

QFT, ’cause he speaks it.

But you have to do it yourself, unless you get it past the Apple Approvals Board (and have paid $99 a year along with having an Apple Desktop too…).

If you’re *happy* with the control you cede to Apple, then fine, no worries. Just don’t call it freedom, m’kay?

DuWayne: It might be a good idea, but again, note how it will be implemented. Probably. Apple has an idea, and it’s a good ideal, and they and most of their users all believe the ideal is met.

But I promise you that there will be messages to re-agree to the EULA every week or less on your mouse, you won’t notice the message popping up, you’ll click on some button that you never thought woudl be there, and some mission-critical task will be interfered with or ruined because of apple’s denialism that the ideal is not met until its met.

I am able to afford my own home I will probably use LinuxMCE interacting with my phone to control all sorts of shit

Good choice, and again, my point. Use Windows, your house will crash. Use Apple, there will be annoying limitations that you’ll be told are good for you.

Now get off my lawn!!!

While I will mostly just control the media for the boys directly from my desktop, on the odd occasions when I actually have time to watch something I will be rather pleased with the setup. But even when the boys are watching stuff while I work I will probably use the remote as I will basically be running the tee vee with a virtual desktop keyed to the remote.

I definitely think you’re being more than a little silly with your concerns. Considering the amount of shit you can do with a smart phone or wireless internet tablet, interfaced with your smarthouse your concerns have mostly come to fruition already (sans the elimination of keyboards). When I am able to afford my own home I will probably use LinuxMCE interacting with my phone to control all sorts of shit – whether I am home or several hundreds of miles away. It is even likely that I will regularly connect to my home server for basic interweb surfing and the like.

And when I do, I will visualize you shaking your cane at me and muttering curses under your breath. AHAAHAHAHAHAAHAH!1!!!!!