Posts by Dana W

Re: Maybe @Chris Wareham

I drink Twinings and I'm an American. Is that acceptable enough? If its good enough for the queen after all, or so the warrant says.

I can't vouch for the rest of us "foreigners" but its not 1960, you can get real tea here now. Though you won't get it in a restaurant. Even in coffee houses that have had theoretically good tea, I have had VERY terse discussions with the help about the difference between hot and boiling water.

Most restaurants end up having Lipton's or worse. Usually steeped in a glass of (sort of) hot water. And it tastes like hot water poured through a new broom. A lot of people I've known say they don't like tea, I have had to make it for them to change their opinion, because most of them have never HAD decent tea.

I used to work a night shift job and drank Twinings Irish Breakfast to keep me going all night, and when my co-workers wound come in in the morning I'd be brewing it and they would exclaim, "That smells great! What is that?" And I'd have to explain that it was tea, and they would be shocked. Again because to far too many of the people here, sadly, tea is either Lipton's in luke warm water, or a bag of various herbs containing no actual tea usually consumed by their new agey girlfriend in college.

I wish they still made Twinnings Queen Mary.........

Re: Don't swim in the Kool-aid

Its called numbers, no matter what they had to do to get them. Sales are UP, not down. The "Apple is dying" crowd are the cultists.

I bought an iPad mini because I WANT a smaller tablet. Apparently a lot of people did as well, its selling great. Hardly part of the "Apple is dying" conspiracy.

Five thumbs down for liking Apple! And off with your head! The Android police have spoken!

Re: Idiot tax is right.

You are confusing OSX and iOS. Macs are not locked down. IOS devices are locked down.

Re: Air Power

Only by comparison.

Re: I have a new favourite phrase nowadays...

@auburnman I do know a great deal about them, I don't mind getting asked to help people with them as once they know how to work them I never get bothered again. Nobody calls me in six months because they installed malware on an iPhone or a virus on a Mac. If all the clueless bought them I'd never get bothered to fix things again.

Re: Ouch

The chines court ALWAYS finds against foreigners.

I wonder how may companies they will rob before said companies start looking for more honest places to do business.

Re: No SD card slot, no removable battery

You called it. If they want to get my next phone purchase instead of Apple, you just called the two features they would need. Its a pity really.

Re: @AC

The mirror apps are not malware though, just dumb. Different thing entirely.

Re: iOS security creaking at the seams.

Goggle Maps has a bad tendency to tell me to turn just AFTER intersections. It annoying that way, but I like how I can pause it and push the map ahead, unlike Apple maps. I tend to switch back and forth mostly based on which one I'm annoyed with less at any given time.