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Wired is "Tired"

My iBook works just as well today as it did 2 years ago thanks.

Obviously Wired has an agenda when it comes to the iPod. They must really love their Dell DJs.

Wired is Tired INDEED!

So what ever Wired says is "Tired" must be too cool for school.

Or da bomb.

AKA Apple.

Is tar and feathering and running Wired editors out of town on a rail illegal?

Wired???? Tired????? I don't think so. Maybe Wired Magazine is tired.
I love my iPod as I commute to work on the train every morning. Also it stops guys with their stupid chat-up lines. But had to get rid of those white ear-buds as that was a great opening for people to talk to me about my iPod.

Sara - from your comment on not wanting people to talk to you I would guess you are from the east coast.

You'd be tired too if you were everywhere....

It's actually hard to explain to my PC using freinds just how great my iBook is....Correction, my over 2 1/2 year olds iBook. Thanks to Apple's software upgrades, it is more functional now then when I bought it. When I finally wear this one out (I'm starting to think it might not be possible) I'll be getting a new "tired" iBook straight away.

"Wired?"

what's that?

Insular
No, Sara is not from the east coast, Sara is pretty and your comments are not.

so... Sara...

What are you doing after the train ride ??



Wired may have been "cool" back in the day... but I gotta question their revelevancy today..

Wired - wireless. Hmmm. I think the term wired is so 90's.

Wireless is today's term.


Magic word - bed.

Where's Sara!!

They must be talking about *my* iBook. I just had to replace the logic board for the second time in 2 years. First time free under the logic board replacement program, 2nd time I had to pay for it because it didn't have the required symptoms. I hope this logic board lasts longer than the last one (less than 1 year).

If the iPod is so tired how come they sold 4 million this past quarter?
If it's so tired how come Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, and others are adding special ports to there cars. How many Dell DJ's work with these cars?
Answer: NONE!
Wired doesn't have a clue.

Wired is Fired! As in, I declined to renew my subscription as I no longer felt any excitement or pleasure when I discovered an issue in my mailbox.

Wired is Wierd

Ipod, Ipod, Ipod - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Wired sucks. They used to be a good magazine, presenting a fresh, unconventional look at Silicon Valley and its products. However, in the past couple of years, it has morphed into nothing more than a rag full of advertising and stupid stories which seem to be intended to generate subscriptions/sales rather than provide any useful information whatsoever. Their editors certainly seem to have decided that bashing anything that's popular is good for generating sales of their own tired magazine.

Stick it up their arse.

Sara is a prostitute. Quit joking around Sara and admit it.

Wired used to be a cool magazine with lots of good articles, especially geeky ones. Over time, they got way too commercial and changed the article pages into additional advertising space. If you grab an old edition (say 10 years ago) and compare it to today's edition, you'll notice a decrease in magazine thickness with an increase in fashion advertising.
Since when did techies give a crap about fashion... they don't! The magazine has been usurped by fashionistas who think technology is there to satisfy their personal tastes.
As far as the iPod comments, Wired has never been much of an Apple fan since Apple doesn't advertise too much.

Nice take, MDN. I wonder why the magic word is limited to school-kid English and never includes words like succinct? Oh, I know ... heh heh ... but why not add an educational element to it?

Wired is just ticked off that Apple is still very much alive and kicking.

i sell ipods all day and they are featureless overpriced crap....

what with their useless batteries and $100 battery replacements, why would even bother buying one?

I-crap morelike

Paul, more than 10 million people would bother buying one. You should know that since you "sell ipods all day". And mostly everyone who doesn't have one, wants one, except of course, you and all your other Apple-loathing friends.

Go play with whatever featureless, ugly rubbish you own and leave all us iPod owners to enjoy what is the world's best audio player. I'd like to see you rebut that comment: we have much evidence to prove our case.

I've always disliked Apple because of their hardware/software monopoly. I like to build it or replace it myself, as Sara knows. But there is no denying that the iPod wins just through sheer ubiquitousness. I LOVE the new Zen Mini, it's better than the Mini (IMO), but will you be able to find any accessories 2 years from now? I doubt it. After 2 weeks of agonizing and researching I am now the proud owner of a 4thG 20gig and have no regrets.
Just because an irrelevant and obsolete rag like wired says something doesn't make it so.

Wired now officially blows. I won't even start on that P.O.S. Dell Dj.

Wired sucks.

It blows, too.

When it was started by Negroponte of the MIT Media lab, it was hip, futuristic, edgy, interesting, and unique.

But Negroponte left it to talentless would-be-oh-so-chic assholes whose goal is to prove to dad that they're a "success", and Wired has deteriorated into nothing but an advertising mode living on it's former reputation.

Wired isn't "tired", it's dead.

Offbeat articles about nerds, McLuhan, semiotics, and hackers have been replaced with interviews with the editors' friends about their pointless opinions. The cover will likely show the (necessarily) unsmiling face of an unremarkable artist or musician, and inside you'll always find reviews of whatever CDs the editors listen to in their cars.

I learned about memes, burning man, and ADD from the wired of 15 years ago. Now you learn things like their monthly stock market "recommendations". Presumably to keep the SEC away, they note in the fine print that these are not objective, and that the editors stand to make money if you buy these stocks.

Forget the stocks; the question is: why buy this magazine?

Nothing in it makes you go "WOW" anymore. What articles they have about computers are now no more insightful than the "tech trends Tuesday" page of your local paper. The best it gets now is X-box, playstation, and Asimo the robot.

Gone are the investigative pieces, replaced with articles about ho-hum dot-com businesses trolling for investment capital... the very kind of thing they mocked in their iconoclastic days when the writers were intense, driven, and only owned one pair of pants. Now, every other page is a glossy ad for expensive cars, expensive clothes, and expensive perfume.

I hope Wired goes under, in the Nietzschian sense.

-- faye