Posts by CmdrX3

Reminds me of Jim Bowen on Bullseye

......and here's what you could have had... now f**k off!!!

Is it just me?

I swear that the Part Time Scientists one in the picture looks like the love child of Number "Johnny" Five and a wheeled car jack. I do however wish all the participants the best of luck.

I think as far as the Mac Pro is concerned I don't know if I'd call them fanbois. For the most most part they will be used in a professional environment and usually an environment (i.e publishing) where the Mac is generally the standard. That's not to say some fb's won't buy one, I'm sure they will... just so they can say they have one as if it's some sort of elite prize.

Oh f*** this

Can't we just do an Airplane and let the country get in a line to punch the smug twat in the head.

Not me

I would drop them like a stack of ***, which I also intend on doing with Sky when the contract is up in April. BBC F1 coverage is crap now and I'm f***** if I'd pay voluntarily just to see Top Gear and Dr Who for a year. I really only got Sky HD in to watch the F1 and quite frankly it wasn't worth the years lock in. Besides I think with their new HD plan, they will probably drop the legacy HD package. So all in all subscription TV in general sucks b****.

What do they expect. When retailers are constantly getting caught out shafting their customers with fake "sales", etc. I don't even mind paying a few quid extra for the convenience of getting things at a local retailers and having the item straight away. But when I'm getting charged £50 for a photographers bag at the local Jessops which is selling for £30 on Amazon then I know I'm being asked to bend over and take one for the team.

No time... Seriously?

"over half said they hadn't made the switch because of a lack of budget, 39 per cent said they didn't have the time and 31 per cent said they didn't have the resources"

Lack of budget or not having the resources fair enough, but didn't have the time is a bit of a lame excuse considering they've had years.

To be fair to Apple

I do think Bromwich is taking the piss and a few liberties with them, actually in much the same way as Apple is taking the piss and a few liberties with the carriers...... in pretty much the same way as the carriers are taking the piss and a few liberties with us, their customers. Karma often has a funny way of catching up.

A couple of historical viewpoints

Myspace - Bought for $580m sold for $35m

Bebo - Sold by founders for $850m bought back five years later by founders for $1m

I get the feeling there may be some emptier pockets in the next few years. I really don't get it, some of these investors seem to be blindly chasing the dream of the next big tech site payout much like a gambler is always chasing his losses.

....and shit like this is why we can't have nice things.

We're in this together...

Roughly translated as "We've got ourselves a patsy guys, we're good to go".

Another report from the usual suspects

An unnamed source, someone familiar with the situation, a source close to apple.... at least deep throat actually DID know what the fuck was going on unlike most of these unnamed muppets.

I doubt this will be much of a surprise to anyone

They've been sinking investors money into this company for years with nothing to show for it. I fail to see how they can value a company a company at $10 billion which consistently loses money year after year and only has earnings of $316 million which would be fine if they didn't spend $418 million making it. I know they have a lot of users, but user value is not worth $10 billion unless they are actually creating value and profit, which in this case they aren't. I get the feeling the IPO is more of an escape route for the current investors.

Blackberry

The Keystone Cops of the mobile world.

How can the gold iPhones sell like hotcakes

There was barely any out there to start with. Plenty of space grey and some silver but no gold.

It always staggers me

How these guys even come up with this stuff. I suppose if I'd ever moved on from the obligatory two basic PRINT and GOTO lines of code that remained the extent of my (and probably many others) foray into coding, I might have a better comprehension. Still we all have our talents I suppose.. I can make a mean bowl of cornflakes with only three main ingredients.

Some demand although

... how much I don't know. I went in today as my son wanted one. The O2 I went to didn't receive a single 5S and told me the 5C were selling like hotcake, and they had sold 70 of them but they still have some in stock.. no thank you. I popped over the aisle to the Three store. They received 10 5S phones and still had two of them left of which I took one. They had plenty of 5C's and couldn't get them budged out the door. I told her the O2 store had sold 70 which she didn't believe. She said their demand for either phone hadn't been that great, which I would tend to believe, considering they had only sold eight since yesterday's release and they had a large "2 iPhone 5S signs left" outside the shop, which is in one of Belfast most popular and busy shopping centres.

What about me

I've got a City & Guilds in Desktop Publishing, surely that's more than enough.... When do I start ;-)

What a world where the value of your day is down to whether or not you get a software update in a timely fashion. Stick that bimbo in the middle of a struggling African village and she might see what the worst day ever is really like.

I think Apple missed the point

People wanted a cheap plastic phone, not an expensive plastic phone that looked cheap.

Will this mean an end for the trusty Hackintosh.

Oh joy the Messiah returneth..... again!!!

Just as he drifts back into obscurity, we now have to listen to him prattling on and preening his feathers again now for the next 15 years. Maybe they could make it a one way trip for him.... accidentally open the the airlock perhaps, we can only hope.

I think I'll give the culture show a miss, apart from having to endure Brian Cox's endless droning monotone voice for god knows how long, it sounds decidedly like some artsy fartsy nonsense they stick on the graveyard slot on BBC2 as time filler.

No thanks

After my daughters experience with Google Play I will be giving them no more money. By the way, for anyone purchasing from Google Play, please be aware that should you need to return it under warranty, they will charge you for another tablet before they will even accept it back again, no exceptions. Fine if you can afford it, if you can't then don't try Asus either, Asus say it's not their problem it needs to be returned to Google Play. So you will be stuck with a faulty device until you can come up with the money first. So for me, I would've looked at the device before, now it's once bitten twice shy, and not something I would even consider no matter how good it is.

It looks relatively easy to insert into the headphone socket, however it doesn't look quite as easy to remove. I'm a nail biter and sometimes have trouble opening a tin of coke without a penny so I'd hate to see how I get on with this unless they use some kind of lip or pull ring on it.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

Welcome to the world of the gift voucher purchaser, suck it up. How many gamblers do you see walk back into the bookies demanding their money back after their horse loses.

And in 2018 when Apple make one

All the prediction nuts can say we told you so!