Posts by William Donelson
78 posts • joined Wednesday 28th February 2007 16:26 GMT
I love Apple products and design, but they are CROOKS
I love Apple products and design, but they are CROOKS, along with most other large corporations and super-rich asshats.
As long as the rich can steal from the American people, especially with tax breaks invested in our competitors oveseas, things will get worse and worse.
Stop the rot now.
The reality? How much storage do you really need?
Not counting OS, etc, how much personal storage do you really need? How many songs and videos do you really keep?
Personally, with Netflix etc online now, there is ever-declining need to actually save movies. Not to mention I can listen to songs again and again, but watching the same movies over and over is a drag. Perhaps 1 TB is more than enough?
I have an Apple Fusion drive (128 GB SSD plus 1TB disk) and it's about half full, mostly movies. The 128 GB SSD is mostly operating system, applications and work files - I don't bother to keep movies etc there.
Posted in Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Re: That's a pretty nice
I hate how Android takes up screen space to put "home" button and two others, and nothing else.
Posted in Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Skateboard requires 2 hands to operate
As a tablet, it's fine. As a phone, it's terrible. When I am out shopping, biking, or otherwise need to use a phone, I usually only have one hand free.
I will never own a phone which requires 2 hands to operate. Tablet, yes. Phone, no.
NOT glow in the dark - you need UV. NOT DARK.
Stupid headline AGAIN.
Self-selecting surveys.. why bother?
How many of these people actually own those devices? How many for longer than a month? Self-selecting surveys are worthless, really.
Austerity Kills Demand
Austerity kills demand. Without demand, no company will invest.
Tories and Republicans are addicted to the rich.
Austerity only benefits the top 2-5% of society.
Never vote Tory or Republican.
Faux News
Faux News' average viewer age is 65 and rising. Guess why!
Good riddance.
BE CAREFUL. Someday it WILL happen to you...
BE CAREFUL. We have a good friend who's daughter was crippled by a man who ran into the back of her at a (red) traffic light while talking on his cellphone.
Android's problems
1) there are 25-50 versions out there, terrible for App makers (me). I make one iOS version and it always runs on all iPads and iPhones.
2) The number of detected mobile malware attacks continues to skyrocket. McAfee counts over 36,000 mobile malware threats—almost entirely targeting the Android OS [in 4th quarter 2012]. - PC World
3) Google Chrome has just been updated, and is still crap at HTML5 and does not offer a full-screen mode.
I hope Google gets it act together and stops allowing so many, many different incompatible versions of Android. They only hurt the brand.
Re: wtf ?
I have an iPhone and a brand new Nexus 7 with the new Chrome. Chrome is crap. Viewport tiny on 1280 x 800 screen, tabs permanently in place, URL bar too, no full screen mode.
I use Dolphin on the Nexus - 10x better than Chrome.
Don't let this happen to iOS devices...
The number of detected mobile malware attacks continues to skyrocket. McAfee counts over 36,000 mobile malware threats—almost entirely targeting the Android OS.
Perhaps matter itself is a fractal; the deeper you go, the more you find.
Hydrogen is a scam by oil companies to retain centralized control of energy
Hydrogen is a low energy-density fuel, hard to store safely.
Hydrogen is far more powerful greenhouse gas (if it leaks, and it will) than CO2.
Was there a country bias in the thefts? .. Say, Iran or China?
Was there a country bias in the thefts? .. Say, Iran or China?
This could lead to actual imprisonment and deaths...
Re: @Steven Roper
No one ever considers the extraordinary resale value of Macs.
I sold an 8 year old Mac on eBay for $550, half the cost of a new MacMini.
Re: Give it time
No on ever considers "resale value" of Apple kit. I just sold an 8 year old PowerPC Mac for $400... Not bad!
Try that with an 8 year old PC.
Windows pain pain pain
Windows is such a total pain, people are just finally feeling like they own Windows 7, somewhat. Moving to Windows 8 is like asking people who haven't slept in 40 hours to wake up and get out of bed and into another bed which is only slightly better.
Feck Off, they will say.
Underfunded USPTO
The primary problem is funding. The USPTO does only a tiny fraction of searching for prior art when reviewing software patents. And god forbid they trust the applicants.
Several Apple patents are clearly shown to be prior art in videos from the 1970s Architecture Machine Group under Nicholas Negroponte, yet the USPTO appears to have ignored these. For example: page flipping as part of my Master's Thesis; The Spatial Data Management System (SDMS) 1978
Many other examples of current software patents can be seen to have appeared in the 1970s at MIT and other universities and research groups.
The USPTO gets pressed over and over by rich companies to award patents, and they "let the courts decide" with the results we see today.
The system is broken.
Specs: Does it penetrate walls? Useful range?
Could someone tell me:
Specs: Does it penetrate walls? Useful range?
Google's Evil ?
When did Google actually become Evil? .. and it surely is now.
Charts: Mb/s or MB/s ?
I assume Mb/s is Mega bytes per second?
Google: Repeating the mistakes of Microsoft
Amazing that in the 21st century, the amazing Google is still repeating the broken security philosophy of Microsoft.
Open hooks are disease vectors.
How many of these harebrained ideas will it take to really sour their users?
Each one of these ideas is fundamentally abusive and dishonest.
Why not just say: We are going to charge each of you $1 per year for Facebook.
That's a billion, good enough you wankers.
Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China,
Headline wrong, again.
Republicans are about Campaign Cash from Big Business and the Rich
Want to know why Republicans do what they do?
Republicans are about Campaign Cash from Big Business and the Rich.
Period.
Steve Jobs' position would have been...
Steve Jobs' position would have been to never release such a crappy Apple Maps in the first place. Sure, he would still hate Google now, etc etc, but he never would allow the Apple name to appear on the iOS6 maps.
As I understand it, Apple felt they had to have a turn-by-turn navigator, and Google has point-blank refused to provide this. Apple felt boxed in, rightly so. But the decision to move ahead with iOS6 maps was based on arrogance, not clear-thinking.
I worked with the Nokia maps people closely for over 4 years, and I can tell you, maps are very, VERY hard to do well. Google are head-and-shoulders above all the rest, but Nokia is pretty good after 10 years of work (some done prior to the acquisition of the mapping division)
From Google's perspective, they want the end-user info they will get from a mapping app; Apple wants the same, or at least to deny it to Google.
We will see if Google's new map app includes turn-by-turn... If not, then we could wait for 3-4-5 years for Apple to catch up... and then where will Google be?
Crap. Flash that is...
As much as 50% of all crashes in browser are caused by Flash. it's a complete mess, poll-driven and terrible authoring.
Kill it off fast.
MIT pre-Media Lab, World of Windows, late 1970s, prior art
Check out:
MIT pre-Media Lab, World of Windows, late 1970s, prior art
Long before these guys "invented it"
Data Protection violation?
What gives Sky the right to change your emails ? To change the Reply address?
Isn't this a breach of legislation?
USA corrupt contractors versus UK corrupt contractors
The ONLY reason the US cares is because some lobbyist for some US military manufacturer is trying to screw up the UK military business.
Posted in Bloody code!
Clean, clear and well-documented = The Answer
As long as your code is clean, clear and well-documented (both inline documentation, as well as clear overall documentation), then it matters not how many return-points you use.
I like my code to be clear to someone looking at it for the first time, without 20 levels of indentation and brackets, etc.
Good, linear, carefully thought-out code means that you don't screw whichever poor bastard has to come along when you get hit by a bus!
Cheers!
Camera: Crappy over-compression still ?
Has anyone tested to see if the camera STILL over-compresses image?
Originally, you took a 5 MP picture = 15 MBytes or so, and Nokia steps on it hard: Resulting image size: 800 Kbytes, or about 20:1 compression.
Might as well use a 2 MP camera instead.
I don't have one, but...
I think the best use of these jammers would be to switch one on just long enough to stop the arsehole's current call, and watch him swear, and look at the "Good signal" indicator...
THEN when he reconnects, jam him again just long enough to get a reaction, but again switch off the jammer before he looks at the signal strength indicator...
And so on, and again, and again, until he has a fit and tosses the phone out altogether!
NOT too expensive...
just under-powered.
Once it has 3G, GPS and more memory, it'll sell just fine at that price.
Jeez, if an HMRC truck driver is drunk and runs over someone...
...is that Alistair Darling's fault.
Let's see ANY of you do a better job.
Get real.
And you wonder...
And you wonder why Religion is making a comeback...
A (religious) fool and his/her money are soon parted
Jeez! (so to speak)
There's cash to be made from religious nuts!
Although, it looks like SANTA CLAUS to me: button nose, big moustache, white pointy beard, but with a shirt collar and fat necktie.
I suppose you could claim that anything is the Virgin Mary and someone, somehwere would believe you! For Cash !
Posted in Technology is root of all evil, says IMF
Enabling technologies misused
Technology is and ACCELERATOR and MULTIPLIER of Human Behaviour and Aspirations.
If 1% of your population have bad or anti-social aspirations, then technology MULTIPLIES that !
History is rife with examples of enabling technologies being misused.
For example:
Handguns and small arms. The world is MUCH more dangerous now that these technologies are in widespread use. 14 year-olds in Africa with assault weapons? No wonder many place in Africa are so unstable.
Cellphones: Now used in controlling IEDs and to coordinate anti-social behaviour and terrorism.
Nuclear chemicals: too horrible to consider.
It's like that old saying, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people."
-- YES, it's just that guns make it So Much Easier !
WIthout education and social tolerance, society breaks down. And technology speeds that process up, for good or evil.
This is not helpful, but...
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IMPEACH CHENEY and his stooge, BUSH. Convict them and Send them to prison!
Stop this <fill in US gov department> lunacy.
Posted in Apple iPod Classic
By "Classic", they mean "Old and Slow"
Just how Really Bad are the new Classics?
Here is my list so far -
/- VERY Slow menu switching response (up to SIX seconds)
/- Display of clock rather than song info when "Now Playing"
/- Inability to use existing LEGAL 3rd party dock products (including Apple-advertised)
/- Audio skipping during operation of menus
/- Slow connection to Mac/PC
/- Inability to disable "split-screen" menus
/- Lagging / Unresponsive click-wheel
/- Camera Connector not working
/- Inability to use EQ settings without skipping / distortion
( I will be buying a 5.5G model rather than this premature abomination )
Posted in Apple lobs $100 credit at iPhone buyers
You said: "Much to our surprise..."
Keep in mind, these are Americans, NOT British sheep who buy what they are told and then whimper silently when screwed.
Americans complain and sue at the drop of a hat.
Brits take their punishment and just buy what they're told, usually at near-double what Americans pay.
What's up with that, then?
Posted in NBC to Apple: 'You're fired!'
See it on TV for free, and use (TiVo, Sky+, PVR) to skip the commercials
Why pay?
I have paid $1.99 for some shows to see them before release here in the UK, but at $1.99 per show (about £1), it's a nice convenience.
At $4.99, FORGET IT !!!
Great, another scumbag worthless patent supported by a cartel
see title
Posted in Republicans hammer Brit artist's Bush
Actually...
To be even more accurate, the picture should have been composed of Dead Bodies from Iraq, New Orleans, etc.
Posted in Republicans hammer Brit artist's Bush
The look of a hard-nosed Zealot
Downturned lips, compressed and constipated...
Somewhat vacant look in the eyes...
Hard-facets of the face indicating closed-mindedness...
Superior view, i.e. he's above you in the picture, indicating self-righteousness.
Only thing wrong: Should have a Swastika on his forehead !
Otherwise, a PERFECT picture!
IMPEACH CHENEY and his stooge, BUSH. Send them to prison for life.
Anything that's boiled down to numbers is vulnerable
There is no such thing as security in anything that is boiled down to numbers.
Shareholders: Remove those directors responsible...
...then prosecute them and send them to prison.
