I was joking around on Twitter, sadly that 140 character limit doesn’t leave room for a lot of serious discussion, and made up a few acronym’s revolving around Apple products and or some affectionate names that are thrown around towards Apple Fanboys.

You can read my quickly written article at here at his blog, http://dlbates.com/!

The things I dislike about Apple:

1. The “buzz” that gets generated over their products.
2. The features that said products have that are made out to be innovative or never before seen.
3. The missing features that consumers ignore and never question the lack of.
4. The cost of their products.
5. The restrictiveness of their products or services.
6. The fact that any monkey can use them.

So, I’m going to break this down point by point over the next week and apply my dislikes against the newly minted Apple iPad, I hope.  I have a tendency to take my time with things, so unfortunately for anyone reading this, it could take me a month.  This is what being a “real” blogger is all about, how it started - Writing thoughts and feelings about a topic WITHOUT having to worry about a deadline, time frame or pressure from a manufacturer.

And hey, Apple?  Want to try and sway a hater?  Send me some stuff!  LOL - I’d be more than happy to review an iPad for example, but I will *never* be caught dead paying for one, sorry.  Just not for me I don’t think and will never get an opportunity to flesh one out otherwise.

So please, stay tuned and feel free to contact me on Twitter, through a Google service, Skype, MSN or Ovi at the screen name Inacurate to give me a nudge or poke me with hot irons to get moving!

• I’d like to be able to configure notification lights, sound alerts and vibrating at the account level. I want Gmail to flash Blue/White/Orange or flash four times blue. But I don’t want AIM and Yahoo to flash at all. E-mail to flash twice blue.  I want Skype to play Chat 1 and ICQ to play Chat 2.
• To be able to setup direct contact shortcuts on home screens to call, SMS, Skype them directly. So I could have three buttons on one home screen that use different methods to communicate with the same contact.
• I’d like to be able to create more home screens in a grid pattern or however I want. 2×2, 3×2, 4×3, 2×6 etc.
• I’d like to have gestures built into the OS. So swiping down, right, down(DRD) on a home screen does x.  Swiping up and down while in file manager behaves like windows directory, going back and forth for example. But I would want that swiping to be configurable by the end user.
• When looking at the task manager, it would be “cool” if the individual tasks could be interacted with on a basic level, like if they are at a Yes/No, Save/Discard prompt. Or maybe music player play&pause/mute/stop.
• Back light remains off(w/power saving on) when x happens. Say if installing an application or a prompt comes up. Would be nice if screen turned back on, signify it was waiting for input.
• Having a FIVE step delete process when using menu, why? First you have to click menu bar, then click delete, select your items, click delete and then confirm. I should be able to configure that to my liking, remove confirmation for example.
• I like not being nagged by any AP issues, connections *just work* as they should. But what if I WANT to have the web ONLY use EDGE when x network is unavailable? Or if I want Skype to only connect to Wi-Fi and not EDGE/3G at any time? S60 did this well and there were a ton of applications that also assisted.
• I miss contact specific ring tones!
• Virtual keyboard needs some loving.  I know the QWERTY is a great method, but sometimes I just don’t want to slide out the keyboard to input something quick!

That’s it.  You will notice everything is software related.  Sure, there are hardware things I wouldn’t mind seeing changed, but NONE of the hardware is a deal breaker for me. Keyboard is above acceptable, camera works, screen works, slider works!  CPU is great. RAM is above acceptable.  Nothing there prevents me from efficiently using the device or holds me back in any way.

I may amend this last as time goes on, thankfully software updates allow for that.  It’s not like I am missing a Flash, don’t have a keyboard or not enough RAM.  None of those deficiencies could be solved without me laying down a lot more money!   The only change I would even consider doing that for, would be AT&T 3G bands….but really? I have Wi-fi 95% of the day, why do I need 3G?

Sure, we can send out a number of tweets, but that could be considered spam and while it is the spamee’s responsibility to unfollow whom they believe to be spamming, that still doesn’t give a better option to have a thought out discussion with big words and complete sentences.

So who is going to do this? I came up with a few “no brainers” for starts.

• Use OAuth, duh.
• Chat creator & second person* joining the chat have “admin” rights, in which both** are required to remove a person from chat.
• Ability to record chat and Save As.. as simple text file.
• Ability to tweet / retweet acceptable messages, IE: Those under 140 characters.
• Same functionality as TweetDeck; Shortening of links, for starters; all the way to translating?
• Google Wave functionality?
• Chats get cleared, purged and emptied 24 hours after

Copy, basically, the Verizon commercial except add some additional visuals….focus on the Verizon map of the US and then overlay it across a spinning globe, showing coverage area.

Then do the same for their own coverage area in the US, then overlay it across the globe.

See who has better coverage then….am fairly certain AT&T wins that battle as GSM is a more widely adopted technology outside of the US compared to CDMA.

I tried to confirm my speculation, but unfortunately the number of hoops you have to jump through to view such a map is directly proportional to how good their coverage is in my opinion.  AT&T wasn’t all that difficult, considering GSM technology has about an 81% market share:  http://www.coveragemaps.com/gsmposter_world.htm

Finding a CDMA map however, I had no luck.  Verizon’s(Like AT&T’s) website does not offer an all in one downloaded map, the best option I could seem to find would be located here:  http://www.cdg.org/worldwide/index.asp

AT&T would of course need a disclaimer stating not all services may be available in all areas, but I think that goes without saying.  Personally, I would rather have a signal for a voice call in more places, than a 3G/Edge connection as that voice signal could be what saves my life.  Not a data connection to the internet.  At least it is a lot less likely a life savor.

• I will routinely get easily verified facts horribly wrong.
• I will without hesitation, misquote every single noteworthy person.
• I will also assume I knew what they were TRYING to say, and speak for them.
• I will also bia unbiasedly give you my opini the facts on important things.
• In that spirit, I will allow you to draw your OWN conclusions on the subject at hand, not trying to sway your thoughts.
• So long as you read what I say and agree with it as if it were carved in stone.
• If any reader of my updates gets unruly, I will without hesitation block their access to my site.*
• Unless they pay me.  Or give me cool free stuff.  Or they..wait, SFW!
• When I review items, software or games; I will of course ensure that my review is not based on the actual product, but small snippets of comments from other people and how I perceive the product should behave.  Please see the first bullet for further clarification.

So, if you are Nokia, Apple, Google, Microsoft, any PC game developer, any 360 developer or anyone with a boat load of cash you would like for me to review, please contact me!  On top of reviewing your product, for a small fee I can assure you that your product will receive a favorable** review by me and the patrons of my site will know they want to buy it!

So please contact me today!

*Individuals are deemed unruly by me and as such I reserve the right to deem anyone who disagrees with me unruly.

**Unless of course your competitor pays me more than you did to write an unfavorable review, in which case I will contact you and let you know that, giving you a chance*** to pay me MORE than they did to publish a good review.

***Your competitor will also be given a chance** to increase their fee.

Seriously people?  Does anyone agree with ACORN’s stance  here? It is doing nothing but help further promote the idea that it is OK to hide behind laws while doing something wrong, that their “reputation” is more important than the truth, that people are no longer allowed to have a voice and that you can try and get away with anything in a lawsuit!!

Regardless of how the information is collected, the only thing that should be important here is what two of ACORN employee’s were caught doing.  Now, take a step back here…I do not feel ACORN should be held 100% responsible for what went on as long as they took the appropriate steps after this went down and then put into place preventative measures to reduce the risk of this happening again.  However, nor should they be able to do what they are trying to do and hide behind the laws.

I am so sick of the entrapment BS.  If an officer of the law is hiding behind a big rock and catches a civilian speeding, does it mean they were not speeding?  HELL NO!  Why should anyone have any leg to stand on, any avenue or path to fight the charges simply because the officer was not in plain sight allowing the civilian to slow down?  That is saying “Hey it is OK if you break the law, just don’t get caught!  Have a good day!”

Take some responsibility for your actions people, if you do something wrong - Don’t point the finger elsewhere and don’t do everything in your power to get out of any punitive action taken against you.  It is a part of the growing experience, and the young kids these days really really are going to be a handful in 5-10 years.

Likewise, just because there were two bad apples, does not mean ACORN should be punished unfairly.  If they fired the offending employees and are going to do their best to ensure things like this do not happen again, they did their bit and that should be that.  Public funding shouldn’t be cut off unless ACORN was directing these people to make the decisions that were made.

Let’s show the young people in America that it is NOT right to try and cheat the law by any means necessary or to unfairly punish an entire entity for the actions of a couple members.

Common sense and responsibility!!  Maybe I will run for office and that will be my slogan.

This crisis is going to hurt me, and I feel for everyone who has lost their job during this time.  Those people, and people who are aware enough to see the true problem, need to direct their anger and disbelief at the people responsible for this current crisis.  There are a few groups on the list, all but one are talked about:  The people who live outside their means.  You were the start of this problem, with your credit cards you couldn’t pay off and loose spending habit, the $400k+ house you didn’t need.  You gave companies reason to expect sales, you gave false forecasts.  You gave this recession its start.

I want to thank you, for ten years from now I will be paying off your debts and I won’t have a say about it.  I will be unable to do anything, and I’m going to be punished because you didn’t know how to show a little restraint.  I also want to thank the companies that jumped on the credit bandwagon who helped instigate this problem by making credit so easily available and building your entire company based on sales from fake money.  I thank you, and at the same time laugh at you, for your bad judgment.

As I was driving into work this morning and was beating on the steering wheel to some song that was playing and I thought to myself “How cool would it be if I could play with a band LIVE while they were playing at some concert somewhere!!!!

Think about it - with technology the way it is, don’t you think it would be possible to take the music they are playing and stream it live to a PC or console and have the game display the notes, simplified more than likely to only display the ones that are available or to make it more “real” it could be done so that all the notes are displayed and the playable ones stand out like in current games.  Maybe the non-playable notes could be in the background or something?  A redesign of how the notes are presented to the user could be in order.

I think this idea has real potential personally.  There is no reason that I can think of why this wouldn’t be technically possible.  Latency wouldn’t be an issue.  It would be like live TV, you would just stream the audio and synch it with notes from the source.  You wouldn’t have to be “real-time” with the band.  They would be about 5-10 seconds ahead of you but you would be playing with them, so to speak.  I think it could even work for audio singing, though that may be more of an issue as there is a lot more with vocals to decode and change up than with just notes.
In terms of a pricing model, there are many ways this could be handled.  If there was one game package or service that the bands went through, that would be best.  After that, I figure you could sell “shows” or “songs” and also have the songs you are about to play as DLC songs, of course.  And of course, songs I would hope would be a part of the product when you purchase the right to sit down and play with them.

Since everyone would be networked, a service could display stats after the song was finished, give out awards and track users details like how many notes they hit, streaks, etc.  On the 360, they could get achievements for example, or their information could be viewable in their profile to see how well they did and all that information could be tracked.

Could be turned into a good service to find new music talent?  Who knows.

Man, I really want this to be a reality now, LOL…

My favorite line, also the last, and I quote:  “Critics charge that the drug’s action amounts to an abortion, and they opposed making it available over the counter.”

Next, critics are going to argue that wearing a condom amounts to abortion and that they should not be available over the counter.

I’m sorry, but until there is a heartbeat, a being that can survive on it’s own, and a conscience will - there is no life.  Until all of those conditions are met, there is as much life in the womb as there is in a single celled organism.  That is my opinion and I am sticking to it.

If you want to disagree, fine.  But there are measurable quantities that can determine when life is present.  Accept the truth, swallow your opinion and allow people to make their own choices.  Unless of course, you want to start protesting cigarettes, drugs, alcohol, vehicles, guns, blades, or anything else that can kill a person, which is taking a life.

It’s all the same.