Posts by Rattus Rattus

Searching google.com for apps

That's what I do. That way I also get reviews and comparisons and even links to non-market apps. Then I just scan the QR code of the one I've chosen to go straight to it's market page.

@Frumious Bandersnatch

I can't see the ISS being more than a broom cupboard in the Villa Straylight.

Whatever you say, say nothing...

...when you talk about you-know-what

For if you-know-who should hear you, you know what you'll get

They'll take you away to you-know-where for you don't know how long

So for you-know-who's sake don't let anyone hear you sing this song

It certainly isn't...

...it's an asteroid.

@ Daniel 4

"So what do you do with a Segway? From everything I've been able to tell, they look even harder to transport than a powered wheelchair."

Eh? In any decent sized car, you ought to be able to lay half a dozen of them across the back seat. You could at least put one in the front passenger seat, with it's base in the footwell. After all, a Segway is basically just a stick with wheels at one end.

@David W.

The moment you tried to claim it was a good idea to give up privacy because of potential sex offenders, your argument lost all credibility.

Yeah, Win7 is kind-of better than XP...

but for all the improvements, there has been plenty of regression too. The file browser, for example, is less flexible than it used to be in XP. It now takes multiple clicks to find out the size of a group of files, instead of just selecting them and looking at the staus bar. The right mouse button now sometimes works one way, sometimes another, depending on the phase of the moon.

The new Control Panel is a nightmare. The new network interface management crap is shit, and takes far too many clicks to do tasks that were just two or three clicks in XP. The new search function is crap, I want my old, /functional/ search back. And the "libraries" can fuck right off, I don't need my OS obscuring the location of my data, I want to know *exactly* where my files are. If the concept of directories is too scary for you, then maybe you shouldn't be using a computer in the first place.

Too many leaves taken from Apple's book, I reckon, trying to hide all the scary system plumbing away from the end user, which is exactly the opposite of what I want in an OS. At the very least, Win7 *Professional* ought to have an "expert user" mode where all the internal workings are exposed and easy to get at. [And yes, I know Linux will do that, it's why every other machine on my network runs Linux. My gaming (and therefore primary) machine, though, needs to run Windows because WINE is just not good enough yet.]

Under the hood, Win 7 might have quite a few improvements (although it's far too RAM-hungry), but the interface designer should be shot. In fact, Microsoft shouldn't let a *designer* anywhere near their next version's interface. They ought to instead ask an engineer to design it, then we might get some useful functionality instead of bells and whistles.

@CompuGuide

Ah, I sse where you've got confused there. You've mistaken Fox News for journalism.

@Dances With Sheep

Eyes like WHAT? I've never heard that phrase before, it's very... apt. Between that and your username, you're not from New Zealand are you?

@ Chris W

I think you're confusing the issue. The number of people committing any crime is not really relevant, the key figure is how many crimes have been committed. That is, after all, what governs the likelihood of someone being the victim of a crime.

If crime rates decrease through, for example, catching just a handful of the most prolific offenders, then who really cares that the number of criminals remains almost the same, as long as many fewer people become victims? Nobody, that's who. Except for the real hardcore law & order types, who can't sleep for the thought that someone, somewhere might have possibly got away with something. And really, screw them because who wants to be such a sad grey prick?

I think a scale measured in AU

would be too small to see. You'd need a scale divided into probably tens of light years.

@a33a

"Text Reflow" might be the official term, but I like "Text Jiggling" better.

OT: I tried Dolphin a long time ago, but dropped it in favour of the standard browser because I just couldn't find enough advantage in it to justify all the space it took up. I didn't really see the utility in the gestures, but now I can see their use. I'm installing it again to give it another try.

Vast amount of money?

Pocket change, compared to the arms industry. And the bank bailout could have bought a dozen of the ISS. Stupid fucking priorities. We should have tens of thousands of humans working daily in space by now.

"Otherwise, you'd just use iTunes and wires again, exactly as everyone has to today"

Not everyone, only people who use iDevices. My Android phone already syncs wirelessly, through open source tools. So does my netbook. Why pay for a future service you can already have for free by avoiding walled gardens?

@DZ-Jay

So iCloud has reinvented Dropbox then? Is Apple's next move going to be suing Dropbox, claiming Apple invented it first?

More importantly...

Who cares?

@ MS Rocks

I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear you - was that "Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge?"

Each to his own

I rather like the look of white on black with yellow and orange highlights, it looks good. iOS standard designs look too Fisher-Price for me.

I think you mean

Why do the Yanks over-stress all their Rs?

"Nothing that a couple of spare batteries and a cleaning lady with a duster cannot fix"

Unfortunately not. The deep freeze without being able to keep heaters running will have cracked and damaged important parts of Spirit's circuitry. The faithful little rover is not going anywhere ever again.