Tommy Tallarico, co-host of G4TechTV's “Judgment Day,” recently came to the defense of his parent channel, saying that the station is “on the way up,” and that its detractors should thank the channel, “for saving any bit of [TechTV] at all.” He also commented on XPlay's Morgan Webb, saying some see her as a “only eye candy.”
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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Robert’s 1080P High Definition
ITEM #1 Patrick Going for Darwin Award
Patrick blows his power supply
http://badcaps.net – badcapacitors in mother boards
ITEM #2 Leo’s Tablet PC
Leo hooked on the 1024 X 768 Tablet PC [Pentium M]
T Series from IBM
TWIT’s experience with lap tops
ITEM #3 $15 DSL for 1 year?
One of Leo’s sponsors
What ever happened to Verio? Bought by a Japanese company
Cable Modem vs. DSL
ITEM #4 SYSTM BREAKS A NUKES A SERVER
Prolexic, anti DDOSservice, cache content to assist with bandwidthissues
60,000 downloads on bittorrents (approx. 6 Terabytes of datadownloaded)
800+ People in IRC
Kevinrose.com goes to Typepad
Who (from TechTV) is still at G4?
ITEM #5 Trailer for Batman Begins
Kick ass models of the car for Batman
Highly anticipated movie
ITEM #6 Hacker Blackmail
Encrypt companies’ files and force them to pay $200 to dodecrypt
Phishing and Spam
Viagra blinding people
Bill Gates invested in Cialis
ITEM #7 Bittorrents
Systm will continue on Bittorrents
Azureus kicksass
Trackers make it easier for the MPAA to find the Bittorent
2600’s legal battles overDCSS links
IPhantomfull anonymity by filtering all traffic (works like a proxy)
ITEM #8 YOSHI on SFX
Will run Special FX
TWIT action figures? What’s up, Jinx?
Yoshi with Kung Fu grip
ITEM #9 LONGHORN ANNOUNCEMENTS
Taken out file system and other features
No more “my” (i.e. My Computer, My Network)
Will release in 2007
Robert Heron on ROLLER COASTER TYCOON
ITEM #10 PENTIUM D (dual core)
Pentium D moving to desktop
AMDX2 Dual core 64 (chip is great on the benchmark tests)
End of the line for Intel?
Veritech
Lenovo (ChineseGovernment) take over of IBM Personal Computer Division
ITEM #11 MPAA trying to catch pirates
10 surveillance camera on the streets of L.A. to catch DVDpirates
Hi jacking surveillance cameras? What would the FCC say?
Review of Star Wars Episode III
ITEM #12 Canada Call for Help
Kevin Rose presented his surveillance camera spy device
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TWIT Blogs
Intro.
Kevin lost in Canada
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
Roger Chang’s adventures setting up the GameSpot booth at
E3
Xbox 360 infomercial
Nintendo announced the Nintendo “
Revolution”
Console hype
Xbox 360 (3 3.2GHz + 500MHz ATI) vs. PS3 (Cell Processor
3GHz)
Xbox release this fall
PSP Sales
TWIT Console Picks
(Xbox 360 or PS3):
Robert Heron PS3
Yoshi Xbox
Roger Xbox (MicroSoft Media extender)
Patrick PS3
Leo Xbox
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?
Would have to use storage.
What storage will PS3
use?
Microsoft’s Strangle hold on online Distribution
ITEM #6 QUESTION Carrey N.C.
Early online release of Revenge of the Sith and resulting success undercut the
MPAA position on online movies?
Star Wars 50mil in first Week!!
Discussion of fans and quality of DVDs
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
Leaving G4 to head up small production company and
conquer
IPTV
Kevin’s start on the Screen Savers
Connection with
Alex Albrecht
What happened the day they laid off Alex, Yosh and
Robert?
Why was the Screen Savers name changed to Attack
of the Show?
What do Leo & Kevin think about Attack of the
Show, Kevin
Pereira and the G4 crew?
http://thebroken.org
http://systm.orgLeo and Kevin Rose covered in Bear grease
ITEM #10 THE MAN
TRYING TO KEEP US DOWN!
All the TWITs have hands in the IPTV
Man never understood tech
Remember Napster
ITEM #11 IT’S A
BOY! MINI YOSH
The future is here.
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.
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Intro.
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How many TWIT Torrents are being downloaded?
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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 – 23rd May Release date
ITEM #10 – QUESTION [TWIT Soldier] Is the PSP worth buying?
Portable gaming device that is
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