Journal Surlyboi's Journal: I'm comin' outta the booth! 5
It's pretty damn rare that I'm moved to break out the laptop and add coments to the old blog while I'm on the subway, but this needs to be recorded and ranted upon... Since when was leetspeak (also known as Trospek, for you Mythers) fairgame for mainstream marketing? I mean, really? It's bad enough when the proficient practitioners of the bastard language use it. (Yes, I'm one of 'em) but to have some marketing hack suddenly start throwing crap out like 4 HR TH@ H8S 2 STND STL, (an actual L'Oreal ad, I shit you not) that's when I draw the frickin' line. This shit is not ok, people! Keep it online where it (barely) belongs! The last thing I need is some 50+ year old coming at me with "I pwnz j00 n00b lolol!!!"
And while we're on the subject of marketing bullshit, let me bring up Intel's latest pile. Centrino. Ok, now I'm all for them making less power-intensive, potentially non-nuclear processors (Yes, the P4 can double as a fusion reactor) for laptops. More power to 'em. But to say that they're innovating is specious, at best. Transmeta and hell even the Apple/IBM/Motorola group had 'em beat in that department long ago. (Please keep the, "but Apple sucks, Intel rules" rah-rah shit to a minimum, please. It's old and tired) What's worse is the whole "Wireless world" claim they've got going about how it makes 802.11b sooo much easier to work with. I'm calling shenanigans on this crap. You dinks are jumping on the wireless bandwagon like Dell and all the other PC makers before you. It was bullsit when they claimed it two years ago and it's even more bullshit when you claim it now. To claim that you're trailblazing is pretty silly when you 're crusing in your SUV down a four-lane expressway.
Man, they really need a "rant" icon...
not leetspeak (Score:2)
Re:not leetspeak (Score:2)
pretty much the same though? Then again, all the
mobile phone speak I'm used to is of the Japanese
variety, so perhaps I'm a tad out of the loop...
Re:not leetspeak (Score:2)
Re:not leetspeak (Score:2)
messages across in as few keystrokes as possible
too. Especially among the quakehead set where
gloating with too many words could get you fragged
while you stood still and typed.
Maybe I need to do a research paper on it or something... =)
Re:not leetspeak (Score:2)
But leetspeak as it is used by script kiddies and slashdot trolls does not reduce the number of keystrokes. The goal, as I see it, is to make interpretation of the text more dificult for the "outsider"