You are aware that...
...Windows 7 on a 'Pad' is tremendously big and may take forever to start-up and load programs like MS Office, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Unreal. You might get 3 hours battery... if you're lucky.
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Posts by Player_16
321 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jan 2007
Ballmer: Windows Mobile lost a 'whole generation'
Waterfall Niagara speakers
Apple in the workplace
Dutch send submarine to fight Somali pirates
Jobs' solo Flashturbation lent unlikely second hand
Fans fall in to await iPhone 4 arrival
Video calling impresses Brits, if it's Apple video calling
Wednesday 23rd June 2010 20:11 GMT
'technically illiterate...'
That's a lot of writing about your 'past' self. Why? You forgot that back then, the phone you bought was a bit of a wank; there weren't too many at first but soon a tidal wave. Now to make sense to what I mean; how many 'different' brand of phones did Nokia, SonyEricsson, HTC, NEC, LG, Motorola, etc. make and sold and how many of those had front-facing cameras? :-/
Now, How many brands of phones will Apple make and how many of those will have front-facing cameras?
Answer: 2
'So now video calling is some kind of damned breakthrough. JesusPhone.' (Fixed)
Sorry that I left such an 'unpleasant taste in your mouth'.
Windows 7 Backup gets users' backs up
Wednesday 23rd June 2010 08:55 GMT
How could Microsoft possibly fail so badly? Well...
Because they copy and think they can do better. You'd think such a large business that deals in/with business would have a business solution. It sounds like MS took a personal program (Home edition - average 150G) and stuck it in a business program (Premium) -duh! That blows that 150G out of the water...
'Will this be used for Home or a Business - YES or NO ?' (Typical MS speak - How stupid)
Also with OS X, you get to pick-&-choose what to back up. The first day (or new) back-up always takes long, after that, piece-o-cake.
Australian firewall wobbles under pressure from all sides
Tuesday 22nd June 2010 08:34 GMT
WHAT!!! Open DNS?!!
Oh come on!! Not that! That's too easy! Too cheap! It's the Gov's responsibility to monitor what goes in and out of the homes of Australians; not the parents! Those foolish thoughts should NEVER be posted or made public! That's exactly WHY we need an Australian firewall to eliminate such blatant negativity!
Getting women's phone numbers a matter of mood music
AT&T iPad 'hacker' arrested for 'drugs possession'
Apple adds 'make the web go away' button to Safari 5
Apple's HTML5 'standards' hype debunked
Microsoft pulls plug on search bribery machine
Ballmer says Windows will shame iPad
Friday 4th June 2010 08:27 GMT 
'Hammering the truck-car analogy...'
"Our cars will get bigger and sleeker and faster and better(?)... but they're still cars." ...In the US, they're called SUV's; Australia, Toorak Tractors. But he does have a point and he can't be too far from the truth. XP, Vista, W7, WP7.
Balmer, all you gonna see is the tail-lights of OS X, Andriod, WebOS, from your sleek SUV... pulling a 'Flashy' boat.
Queuing for an iPad? Why?
Music biz pot calls Apple black
'Draw Mohammed' call prompts Pakistan Facebook ban
iPad to become inflight fatcat fun-slab
Adobe declares 'LOVE' for Apple
Secret forum reveals Oz firewall backroom dealing
Apple iPad
Jobs: One million iPads sold
Tuesday 4th May 2010 19:36 GMT
The Apple fanboy below.
Let's take each line apart:
'Deliberately missing my point...' Not deliberately, just informing you about your blinkers.
'...WAY overpriced; you can get a laptop for less...' And why should one buy a vanilla laptop that was NOT designed but slapped together in less than a minute using child labour and sold on the cheap, then will have to baby it to 'just work'? I have a life that says: 'Pick up iPad; push button/slider; tap stock (or what eva app); done'... and have a response that's in my face in around 10 seconds: magic.
'If it was £200...' I see you'll be trolling eBay for a 2nd-hand one; good luck with that.
'Pretending I don't see that there is a market...' By your previous post, we're just informing you about the popularity of the iPad... and your blinkers.
'No amount of common sense will stop some people throwing away hundreds of pounds on a logo. That's all they'll be doing by buying this overpriced toy.' Well now that you're done, please let the person behind you have a go at the library computer.
Microsoft's Courier tablet dies before it lives
Friday 30th April 2010 07:49 GMT 
The end.
And now, the end is here
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and ev'ry highway(?)
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way
...
Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall
and did it my way
Jobsian Vendetta - Flash stabbed by Mac the Knife
Scammers plunder gullible iPad owners' backdoors
Wednesday 28th April 2010 00:13 GMT
Yes, Really.
'OSX machines are cracked constantly at hacker meets and compilations'... when a security analyst spends several days of research to write a program(bug) to link onto HIS site to exploit on the day. It took him less than 2 minutes on his Macbook to log in and pull up HIS site.
There must be some 300,000 various 'virus' writers in the world with several formed every day. That's enough to fill 3 large stadiums. So in unison, they will ALL say: 'The only reason there aren't many exploits out there is because there's less of an install base, thus less of a target and not worth the trouble.' That is a cop-out.
While Apple waves a red flag as an invite to signal 'here is your chance'. If someone boasted and bragged in front of me and said how great they were, I would try my best in any way, by any reasonable means and (300,000) resources to bring that person down a peg or two.
'The only reason there aren't more OSX viruses is user base.' Cop-out!
Microsoft's 'record' quarter can't match Apple
Nazi soldiers pose for Red Army calendar
Adobe clutches chance to bury Steve Jobs 'hog' insult
Apple in shock public attack on Adobe
Friday 23rd April 2010 12:57 GMT
Too easy...
Simple. MS says (with stickers of Trust): Our software will run on your machine like it says on the label. The OEM's and corporates: (with stickers of Trust): MS software (and apps certified by MS) will run on our machines like it says on the label: GUARANTEED!
Apple: Our software (and apps certified by Apple) will ONLY run on our machines: GUARANTEED! But, if you make OUR software (apps) run anywhere else, or if you make other software (apps) that was NOT certified by Apple run on OUR machines, that's your business: we don't care to know.
'iPhone 4G' loser outed
Adobe to sue Apple 'within weeks,' says report
Monday 19th April 2010 08:32 GMT
Re: Deliberate conflation.
OK. Apple does have 100% on the App market -the Apple App market. You cannot go out and buy apps from someplace else -unless jail-broken. Apple Apps runs on ONE platform so it cannot be a m-o-n-o-p-o-l-y on the interweb. If the App store disappeared tomorrow, the interweb will keep going without a blink. Adobe makes plug-ins for the interweb market -12 y.o. plug-in's. Adobe controls THAT market with their plug-in's. Adobe could be considered a monopoly but only if you're ball-&-chained to running that plug-in in which case, you are not. If Adobe's plug-in's malfunctioned tomorrow, the interweb will keep going without a blink (minus the ads, games, some web programs and YouTube and video pr0n). Adobe freely admits it gives the responsibility of Flash upkeep to the platform (Linux, Apple, MS, Android, etc). If it does not run correctly, it's the platforms fault - that's stupid.
"...if Adobe refuse to code for MacOS because they think Jobs is a prick, it is *not* monopoly abuse..."
Adobe has to code (plug-in) for Apple for Adobe is freely displaying their products on the web (Flash) to be freely accessed by all. It is up to (your example) Apple to grant or deny the tools needed for access: Apple denied. If Adobe actually refused the plug-in outright over the MacOS for those personal reasons, THAT would be monopoly(?) abuse because Adobe's plug-in would work on those other platforms but Apple's and Adobe would be breaking the laws of fair-trade.
"…but if Jobs decides to block Creative Suite because he has a bad haemorrhoid day, it certainly IS."
No! Creative Suite is a program not a interweb-only program. He does not have to permit that program on his platform but he would be interfering in the livelihood of others that use the program on a regular bases on HIS product. So he better have a real good reason for doing so otherwise it would be anti-competitive behaviour NOT monopoly abuse due to the interweb does not depend on Apple products.
Steve Jobs bans all apps from iPhone (or thereabouts)
Saturday 17th April 2010 03:44 GMT
Finally! Someone understands.
This is nothing more than a written standard for a single product: NOT a single product written for many causing the many to prop it up (Flash).
"Even if you develop for the desktop flavours of OS X you have to be prepared to update your apps in line with changes to APIs or your application(s) can easily fail to run properly on later OS X releases. Apple are a lot less fussed about backwards compatibility than the likes of MS and the FSF."
This is why SJ jumped up-and-down about 12 y.o. Flash. Adobe freely admits it gives the responsibility of Flash upkeep to the platform (Linux, Apple, MS, Android, etc). If it does not run correctly, it's the platforms fault. So here, if Apple changes something in iPhone x, and your App does something strange, YOU fix it; not Apple.
"3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs ... The following non-public APIs are included in your application: u_charType ucol_close ucol_getAttribute ucol_getLocaleByType ucol_open ucol_setAttribute ucol_strcoll".
This chunk of 'quoted info' (freely available on the web) was sent to 'developer.appcelerator.com' from Apple, due to an iPhone App that was rejected about a month ago. This indicates Apple had already set the wheels in motion and it's just been discovered and revised for the iPad.
KIN'ell, Microsoft! Is that a breasticle I see before me?
Apple bans Pulitzer Prize political cartoons from iPhone
iPhone 4.0 SDK bars un-Jobsian code translation
Windows mobile Trojan poses as war game
Apple rumored to put beefy iPad on diet
Booby-trapping PDF files: A new how-to
Greenpeace fears clouds will turn earth brown
Apple uncloaks deep details of its 11 iPad apps
Steve Jobs and governator tout transplant reform
Monday 22nd March 2010 16:33 GMT
Tell you what...
Here in Australia, it is brow-beaten into your head that IF you decide to travel to the states, make damn sure you have full cover travel insurance. Here, you can get private health insurance for the convenience of not having to wait. but for small routine episodes, just walk in, get examined, maybe x-rayed, walk out. No drama. Canada is pretty much the same way. It's what many of you in the states call 'socialised medicine'. The states do have the best healthcare system in the world -privately owned. And to think our previous government was slowly trying to erode the health care system to make it like the states. Duh.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
