Posts by Andy Mac

Apple copying Microsoft?

Well, they skipped the 9

Not Required

Australia seems perfectly capable of voting in right-wing morons without the help of Cambridge Analytica.

Jony Ads

I've always maintained that every Apple advert should be a black and white Jony Ive masturbating in slow-motion to the strains of Cavalleria Rusticana.

Sad face

The only time I use my phone for music is sitting at work for 8 hours.

So the only way I can listen to music is if I let the battery run down while I'm doing it? Unless I pay a fortune for wireless headphones I don't want, only for them to run down too?

I assume some hideous frankenconnector with power and headphones will become available for "a price" but still more money for bespoke crap.

I can imagine the future:

"The amazing iPhone 8 is by far the lightest and thinnest and most beautiful iPhone we've ever made. Just plug the battery into the lightning port..."

The really sad thing is that it won't harm sales, thus encouraging everyone to do it.

What makes a Pro?

Isn't a small iPad Pro just an iPad?

Sympathy

The other day my 4 y/o son came to me in distress, telling me he'd seen a spider. Kerping it light and jovial, I asked him to show me where it was.

Fucking Shelob was on the wall. Even my Queenslander wife thought it was bloody huge. I may be a pommy arachnophobe but I doubt many normal people could happily let that thing wander freely around.

A full combo of Mortein, Thong and Dyson was required to subdue it.

$60,000 to copy and paste a png?

I could have done it for half the price!

I notice they haven't stumped up the other $60,000 to change their domain name...

"Die Techie Scum"... followed by a hashtag?

Patience...

After promising to deliver the NBN sooner (at the cost of nobbling it), patience is the one thing he will not be getting from me.

Tis true

I bought my wife an iPad last month and I was surprised that she had downloaded the iApps, knowing that they cost $10 (AUS), but we checked they were free for her. I'd still have to pay though.

Still a pain to code for

It's great that MS have created a highly standards-compliant browser, but if it's only available to the users of the latest one or two versions of Windows us devs will still have to waste time coding for all those users who are quite happy with their copy of XP thankyouverymuch.

On a tiny positive note...

...there are worse people to have in charge than Kathleen Kennedy.

But overall, sad face.

Sent my wife an iMessage. She didn't get it. iMessage? Turned off. Stays off.

"On the conference call, Lane said that Whitman was prepared to handle a large hardware operation because, as the CEO of eBay, she was required to purchase large amounts of hardware."

I buy a lot of food. It doesn't mean I'm qualified to run a farm.

Words fail me...

So Accenture bagged another e-Health project? I guess they have a lot of talent lying around after losing the NHS NPfIT contract.

And they wonder why government projects fail.

How will HTML 5 "win" exactly?

I'm still confused as to why HTML 5 is being touted as a panacea for Flash just because it has a video tag. Flash was, and is, used for all sorts of things, especially websites that allegedly look cool but are difficult and frustrating to use.

Unless, that is, we're still referring to HTML 5 as that gelatinous blob/amorphous mass of technologies that might include CSS 3 animations (we don't really know). Then I can see if having a fighting chance.

On an anecdotal note, I wanted to book a table at a restaurant while on the move on Monday. Went to the website on my iPhone and I couldn't even extract a phone number on my flashless device.

Flash is going to be around for a long time to come whether we like it or not.

Train journeys are going to be fun

While I can see this kind of technological prediction actually coming true, I see public spaces full of embarrassed people murmuring into these little microphones.

Already we have these automated phone systems that demand you say "yes" or "no" instead of just pressing a button. They always make me feel a little foolish using them in front of other people.

I think there will be social consequences to this sort of tech, as we're seeing already with complaints about people on phones or MP3 players.

Duke who?

There are going to be kids playing this game who weren't even born when it was announced.

This explains everything

I was wondering why the HTML 5 spec has taken 13 years to get this far. It's because they've been too busy designing the logo and writing vapid marketing bollocks.

It's too early for a Sunday

I just wasted a whole minute of my life wondering what a "daddy defect" was, why Facebook had them, and why Google was kindly helping to map them out.