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693 posts • joined Thursday 17th May 2007 09:59 GMT

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Frank Bough

Re: made me laugh

It's cheaper to upgrade to Lion than to piss money up Kaspersky's fucking wall. Mac security products are total shit. I'll never install one again.

Frank Bough
Unhappy

No-one sensible has listened to Woz...

For about 20 years now, surely?

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WTF?

IMO

Of course everyone should be tutored in the basics of coding - in the full knowledge that 99% won't pursue it or care. At the very least, it will give them a little bit of insight into and respect for people who are skilled programmers. A proper, broad-based education should provide students with introductions into a wide variety of stimulating learning experiences, logic, information theory and programming are certainly among them.

Frank Bough

Re: I had a marvellous on-line argument the other week

No, the answer is simpler - Apple forces you as much as it can to use only h264 encoded video, and this is very efficiently decoded in hardware. This is one of the reasons they're so anti-Flash, they can't control the battery load.

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FAIL

You know...

...that a USB lead comes free with the iPad, don't you?

You massive spaz.

Frank Bough

Re: 2048 x 1536

We don't care what you think because we've seen and used high res screens for years. The one in the current iPad is fabulous, and obviously different/better to it's predecessor. Real world experience counts for a hell of a lot more than your made-up stats. Why not pop down to the shops and have a look at one so you can then fuck off back to whatever shithole you live in with a clue?

Where's the 'fuck off' icon?

Frank Bough

Re: Wang N Staines

He was responding to Wang N Staines you fucktard.

Frank Bough

Re: August!

The price usually does not change, so you get a more advanced and capable product for the same amount of money. Moores fucking law, it's been around for a while now...

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Facepalm

Re: a tablet without it is not worth having

Perhaps he looked at one of the previous models and decided not to buy it, just as I did. You know, kind of a try before you buy? Maybe he also, like me, had an iPhone 4 with an amazingly sharp little screen and thought to himself, why would I buy a 10 inch phone that can't be used as a phone and that has a screen barely better than the one in my existing phone? Apple will probably include a higher res screen in their next iPad update, I think I'll reassess my purchasing decision when they do.

Pretty simple, and logical, thought process.

Frank Bough

Re: Blame your tools. not your ipad

I can't believe you don't know this already (owing to the 80 gazillion iOS devices that now seem to be out in the wild), but iOS handles PDF quite beautifully. I can't imagine why you wouldn't be using PDF for your iOS app unless you've come up with a BETTER idea. Shit developers plague all platforms, unfortunately...

Frank Bough

Re: £329 ... seems pretty darn competitive

What does that even mean.?

Frank Bough

In your terms...

...what exactly does 'douchebag' mean?

Frank Bough
WTF?

Several Things...

1. Rasterised typography? WTF?

2. It's not an iPad 3. It's an update. Everyone but you seems to know this.

3. Improved graphics ARE an improvement. However, no-one is forcing you to upgrade your Apple product every time Apple issues an updated or redesigned model. If you genuinely believe you are required to do this then you need counselling.

Apple has updated last year's iPad 2 with a new screen type which offers higher resolution. That's an improvement. They've also improved the performance of their SoCs GPU. That's an improvement.

Only the mentally ill could find these facts a cause for writing an article like yours.

Frank Bough

Layman?

I thought he was another holier than thou Linux user?

Frank Bough

Tosser

that about covers it.

Frank Bough
FAIL

Re: Oh the humanity!

MacOS AV software is an even more pathetic scam than Windows AV is.

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WTF?

Re: Oh the humanity!

Find a Mac with a virus in less than 24 hours and I'll buy you a drink.

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FAIL

Re: Oh my....

You're living in a dreamworld. I've been a Mac user since 1989. Total viruses, trojans so far? 0.

I'm sure you can spin that the wrong way if you try REALLY hard.

Frank Bough

Re: Most unfortunate if true.

You mean both of them?

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WTF?

Was that really

the whole article?

Posted in Grid Lens
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WTF?

Wow

what a bunch of miserable wankers we have posting comments today. It costs as much as a fucking Snickers bar, what's not to like?

Frank Bough
FAIL

Are you Mental?

Compared to the current Intel 'i' CPU family, PowerPCs were monster power hogs. the very reason Apple dropped PowerPC was because of Intel's accelerating performance-per-watt advantage. Maybe we'll see a similar migration to ARM is the medium term for the same reason.

Frank Bough
WTF?

this may shock you, but...

...mobile telephones use radio to communicate with their basestations.

Frank Bough

Or...

...you could just give them your cast-off iPhone/iPod Touch. My 4 year old LOVES her 3GS...

Frank Bough

Yes

YOU should.

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FAIL

Newsflash

If you're not spending money, no-one cares what you don't want.

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Facepalm

We all love Woz but...

...what he knows about phones can just about be crammed onto the back of an envelope.

Frank Bough
Meh

Nuclear reactors...

...tend to be encased in EXTREMELY heavy containment vessels with lots of dense shielding. Not idel for flight - though I'm sure a nuclear powered airship could be attempted...
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Unhappy

Nice...

...and completely ludicrous. Paying the CEO this much moolah is exactly what will kill Apple. I think it's important to recognise that Apple are probably only going to go down from here, so money spent on exec packages is just money being stolen away from shareholders.
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FAIL

Utter Horseshit

Kodak was and continues to be at the absolute forefront of digital imaging technology. If Kodak made a mistake with DI, it was by investing TOO MUCH in digital R&D rather than in product. Inkjet printing it exactly the kind of business Kodak should be in - it was their dye-sub printers that made digital printing a reality in the first place.

Honestly, Bayer pattern CFA, Cineon, dye-sub printer, DPX, Spirit the list of Kodak innovations goes on and on and on.

An idiotic srticle written by someone who knows nothing about DI.

Frank Bough
WTF?

Is it possible

that you are entirely unaware of Sony's PlayTV?

Frank Bough

You're right

the latest big thing in the world of camera optics is the 'nano-crystal' AR coating.

see here: http://imaging.nikon.com/history/scenes/20/index.htm

might be too fragile for use in PV arrays, though

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Facepalm

Yes

Of course they do, that's the whole point.

Frank Bough
WTF?

Erm...

Your "house runs out of leccy"?

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FAIL

Eh?

My daily commute in and out of London is 52 miles - much of that is in bloody traffic jams will kill MPG in my petrol car but which affects EV efficiency hardly at all. If I put a Leaf on charge every evening as I parked it in my drive, I can't see any problem with using it as a replacement commuter vehicle.

Frank Bough
WTF?

I've had enough of this. EVERY review I read of a limited range EV centres on the same boneheaded idea "let' see if we can use this range limited car to travel long distances". No-one, literally NO-ONE will buy a 100mile range car if they need to travel more than 100 miles. I don't know if you're treating your audience as if they were stupid or are simply too stupid yourselves to understand the fundamentals of EVs. In addition to this, you didn't even have the home charger installed - even though THAT"S THE WHOLE EFFING POINT OF AN EV. I give up, I really do.

Frank Bough

Sorry

But no CRT could really address 2560x1920 pixels - just a load of blur and moiré. A common 2560x1600 LCD, on the other hand...

Frank Bough

You

Fail it

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FAIL

Read your history

Apple PAID Xerox for what they took away. It was a legit deal, not a rip-off.

Frank Bough

Useless!

I'm guessing that most people don't choose the cheapest or priciest plans. I found Voda offered the BEST plan for me. O2 not including data is borderline fraud.

Frank Bough
Thumb Up

Brilliant Game

runs PERFECTLY under emulation on the iPhone.

Frank Bough
WTF?

If the sky above ALMA is devoid of water vapour...

...why are there clouds in the sky in your pics?

Frank Bough
FAIL

Fix required.

"Without external access, users of these online services must go through Apple's own software, which is tied to its own hardware – the iPhone and iPad."

The sense of this is incorrect, it should be written thus:

"Without external access, users of these online services must go through Apple's own software, to which is tied its own hardware – the iPhone and iPad."

iTunes and the iTMS were never tied to the iPod, rather it's the other way round. Anyone using MacOS or Windows can use iTunes and the iTMS.

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FAIL

And...

"1) The problem is most people are ignorant."

...you demonstrate this beautifully.

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FAIL

Horseshit.

There'll be a new iPhone model in 12 months time, ready for any LTE networks that still won't have been built.

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FAIL

FireWire OR USB?

...embarrassingly bad. Not fit to plug into an Apple PC.

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Facepalm

RIP

THE Steve

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The number 1 reason, of course...

...is that it doesn't actually exist.

Nice one, El Reg, completely fucked it up this time.

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FAIL

yeah but...

...he's not thinking that, you are.

iPhones are simply excellent - by far the best machine on the market today. Whatever improvements are wrought today, it'll only get better.

Frank Bough
FAIL

Like I've always said...

NEVER trust a database

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