Posts by Philip Lewis 991 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2009
"should, be replaced by map-reading lessons for women."
I never cease to be amazed at how quickly women simply turn a map around to be oriented in the direction of travel. Men almost invariably just flip the map orientation in their head. It is an interesting characteristic of how men's and women's brains work quite differently to solve the same problem.
Try getting around a big sprawling city via in car GPS, say Bangkok, where a few major arteries and a bridge are suddenly closed. Navigation via the sun is the only option because it is impossible to get a clear overview on a tiny GPS screen. Meanwhile the GPS continually tries to take you 20miles in the wrong direction to cross a bridge from the side of the river you want to be on so you can cross it and come back again on the other side of the road, blah blah blah. GPS has it's uses, but I prefer maps.
Been there, done it, got the T-shirt, bought a map. Maps are big and have scale for a reason.
Oh, and try driving around Melbourne where the GPS can never figure out (a) what level you are on and (b) which lanes are going in which direction and which exit paths between them are in operation.
Being a professional in the tech industry (and I am one as well) does not make you (or I) in any way more knowledgeable on the law than a judge sitting in a Californian court. And court cases are about the legality or otherwise of the behaviour of the parties involved in the litigation.
There is some possibility that some of the commentards actually know something about technology, but it is very difficult to spot in the barrage of puerile nonsense that is written here. It is also possible that some of them might know more about smartphones than the judge. But the problem with that is, that the commentards apparently think that their knowledge is somehow unique and relevant. It's not. IT generally is an astoundingly trivial and simple subject area populated by an astounding number of simple minded people capable of pushing a set of buttons in the correct sequence with egos far bigger than their intellect can support. This forum is full of them. You, Corinne, demonstrate here that you among that group.
Exactly. There is no big deal. This article is click bait to bring out the flaming anti-Apple crowd. It has been highly successful in generating 120+ comments, most of which indicate that the commentard hadn't read the article and/or doesn't know what a trademark is, and/or why it is different to a patent or design patent.
This article may have set a new record in moronic postings by people whose intellect and/or state of mind is seriously questionable.
The register has generated their "clicks" and ad revenue for ads I have never seen nor will see has been suitably generated.
I have been inside a modern aircraft that was struck by lightning. It scares the living shit out of you. Even for someone like me with a few of million miles on the clock. There were no apparent bad results and I am here to tell the tale.
The reason we were anywhere near lightning (pilots studiously avoid it if they can), was that we were on approach to LHR.
Marketing 101:
No amount of advertising and promotion will enable a product to achieve more than momentary success. Long term success requires a good product.
I disagree with your implication that Apple is somehow being squeezed in any of their markets. Indications are that they are very, very good at retaining customers (high customer satisfaction levels and repeat purchase levels) so the while it is true that device convergence is stressing the iPod range, Apple is perfectly situated to fill this gap. The MacAir is fabulously successful (I have had one since the week they were released) because it is a solution that the market simply could not offer. Everyone and their dog is now trying to emulate that success with me2 products of varying quality. The Samsung Series 9 is a great little machine for example, but it is clearly an attempt to compete with the MacAir and is rather late to the game.
Everyone else is playing catchup, and while that is the case, Apple are in good shape.
As for the continual "there is nothing left for Apple they are doomed" and the rest of the inevitable swill that follows, well, that is an indication of lack of imagination of the writer - in this case you Mark.
Paris: Because she is provably imaginative!
Serious non-troll question for people who do not live in the US:
I live part of the time in Denmark. There isn't, and to my knowledge never has been, ANY direct advertising for Apple products here in denmark on TV at all. The advertising evident is always from dealers or carriers (for iPhones) and it is in the printed media and billboards etc.
Is denmark the only country spared Apple's TV advertising?
WTF!!! Do you really, honestlly think any of the moron Apple haters here at The Register even care what the reality of Apple is? No, I didn't think so. Your post is an elegant troll.
For those of us that have worked on the street, the stupidity tech nerds display on forums such as these is heartwarming. You see, the last idiot hasn't been born, and on the street, that can be converted in the readies.
I don't see Apple disappearing any time soon, and neither does anyone with a brain. Any company showing those numbers is more or less impervious to trivial market movements. They are not impervious to all sorts of other events though. Cook might do an Elop and destroy the company (I doubt it though), or Windows Phone might be a massive hit (I don't think so, though I am not anti WinPhone 8 in any way).
Reality check. Apples profit's are not determined by the financial markets.
Paris: Like Jonus Cord before her and Apple now ...
3GS handed off to the GF to replace her aging 2G. The only issue with the 2G was that we had to re-jailbreak it and skype desupported the older iOS versions (c*nts that they are). I use my N9 as my main phone now (one way trip since my SIM is now smaller) Anyway, it is a myth that people buy new iPhones every version, only fandroids delude themselves with this particular urban legend. And even if they did, so F*g what? People can spend their money how they please. Oh, wait, the rabid fandroids are all poor, so they just hate people who can afford the things they cannot, and by extension those things too. Sad sacks the lot of them.
Every taxi in Copenhagen (ok 90%+) is a Merc, and they are, almost without exception less than 2 years old and less than 250,000km. They are all diesels. This is because the tax system for buying cars is setup to guarantee this happens, and Mercs are the best value proposition. Thus, yesterday I rode in a brand spanking new Merc with all the bells and whistles. The car is pre-sold forward to the guy who financed it! Not a terrible system, except taxis cost an arm and a leg to use, but the cost of the car is not a parameter, they are essentially free for the tax operator.
Paris: Even she would appreciate our taxis
I don't give a fuck what they believe. I want to know what they can prove. I want to see a falsifiable theory to support their assertions. Belief is for religions, and you are free to hold yours. Science is a different game, and the "climate science" fraternity are not very good at it.
The Tasmanian aboriginals were arguably, no longer viable as a population long before the colonial power arrived on the island, if nothing else by virtue of lack genetic diversity (ca. 2000 individuals). Their apparently highly dysfunctional social order more or less guaranteed a mass exodus of the remaining females to the arms of eagerly awaiting freed convicts and other settlers who themselves were looking for appropriate partners who were very, very thin on the ground at the time. Birth rate decline amongst the indigenous along with susceptibility to western diseases and a penchant for robbing the sugar and flour larders of the settlers pretty much sealed their fate.
Lyndall Ryan was wrong, and almost anything you might think you know about the Australian Aborginal history, and the Tasmanian Aboriginal population in general, post colonialisation is almost certainly wrong.
You clearly have no idea how big the planet is either. Humans CHOOSE to live close together because it affords us, via our social systems, advantages that the more primitive societal models do not. This, despite having to deal with the attendant, often very fatal, crowd diseases that cannot flourish without, well, crowds. In any case, the earth is provably not crowded and it unlikely to be so any time soon. The question of whether humans are overextending the ability of the earth's resources to support our species is a different question.
I now return you to your regular programming in progress ...
Were you a regular, you would realise that The Register forums are full of people that stupid, in fact the intellect level evident from posts seems to have been in sharp decline for a number of years.
Mention Apple = hatred+bile+mindnummingly stupid commentary from the commentards.
Interestingly, the article mentioned several of the ancestors of the iPad, and it takes a certain sort of defective mind to fail to recognise they elegance of Apple's solution.
paris: because she has the same first initial as me, we are linked
Well, my desktop is a P4EE 3.4 reliably overclocked to 3.73 with 4GB PC3200 RAM, a Leadtek GT6800 128MB graphics card feeding a quite recent 23 inch HD screen from Acer. Some SATA-I and IDE-133 Raided disks. PCI WifFi and USB-BT. I would like USB-3 (even a degraded version) but there are very few solutions for mobos without PCI-E.
This kit does everything does everything I need to do. Win7 upgrade slowed things down a bit. I am thinking of downgrading to XP.
Using PaleMoon as the browser of choice has made browsing a lot better and I don't think about performance too often. Flash is a slug of course and the sooner it is relegated to history the better.
OK. I have a MacAir 11" for on the run, and a 3GS (no need for more).
So, I don't really see the need for more. I am not a graphics designer or gamer so the high tech components and software needed for those occupations/pastimes don't apply.
For me, I expect 10 years life from my tech and if possible at least one technological upgrade cycle.
I may get a couple of SSDs now that they are cheap as chips.
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Speaking as a Ferrari owner, I would like to suggest that your notion of "what cars are intended to do" is exceedingly limited, and in fact disproven by the very existence of my Ferrari (and all other cars that seek different design goals).
There is no doubt that the Fiesta is more practical around town as an effective, economical vehicle for personal transport than a Ferrari. However that is not the design goal for a Ferrari.
One of my acquaintances has a 3 car garage containing a Fiat 500, a Mercedes 600 V12 and an F50. These 3 cars are designed for entirely different purposes and this real life example demonstrates how limited your vision is. They are all used extensively, depending on the varying factors in play when a vehicle is needed.
I guess you're too poor to either own an iPhone or a Ferrari. Bad luck for you and good luck for me. However your petty jealousy and envy pours from your post, not unlike so many who frequent this forum.
"look very similar" is not the same as (a) essentially indistinguishable or (b) identical.
The Chinese (the head of the "copyist" franchise) auto industry is busily making cars that are both (a) and (b) and there is a not so quiet storm brewing about.
Each can have his/her own view, but there are an enormous number of elements in the original Samsung Galaxy range compared to the Apple products - for obvious reasons fewer now. The court cases serve to define exactly where the line is drawn between "similar" and a copy. For the generally clueless IT crowd it looks like the end of the world, however this sort of thing is litigated constantly. The Apple-Samsung cases are just interesting for us in IT because we live in that world. The cases are by no means unique.
I up-voted you.
I would be surprised if Samsung haven't already got their own version of Android in-house. They have Bada which is Linux, right? and they sell millions of phones with Bada. It's not a stretch to believe they will outgrow the usefulness of or need for Google in the mobile space.
As for Google's "worsening privacy rights globally", you are dead right. Their strategy is to eliminate privacy rights by breaching privacy laws on a scale so grand as to render privacy laws ineffective - and act accordingly. This, I posit, is EVIL in essence.
Gee, I thought Google was #1 in evil having recently usurped Microsoft, and that Oracle was the other bad boy on the podium. I must have missed the memo, or perhaps your just wrong?
Apple are but an upstart in the global IT evil stakes since, though a big company, they do not have any monopoly (or monopoly like power) in any of their market areas.
Google, Microsoft & Oracle all wield MASSIVE power in their market areas and it shows. Apple is a pipsqueak which has struck a very lucrative niche and is defending it against the copyists. This is nothing like the behaviour of the Group of 3 on the podium of evil, each of which has the power to derail nation states!
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