Apple has redrawn the poo emoji
So, these emoji things are not standardised in terms of appearance? Is this like a font change? How many different representations of poo are there?
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<p>Well, not exactly, it is animated, so not a font as such, more like an animated image ... \u1F4A9 is the unicode symbol, representation depends on the font your browser uses ...</p>
Sorry, I initially copy-pasted the unicode character, however, I got the dreadded:
The post contains some characters we can’t support.
@TRT
You started it. You posted a video. I have no choice but to retaliate with the nuclear option. Not entirely suitable for work.
Cake?
While Emoji are controlled and ratified by Unicode the actual interpretation is down to the individual vendor. There is a great 99% Invisible podcast about how emoji get proposed and accepted. Worth a listen: http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/person-lotus-position/
The graphic implementation of unicode emoji is up to vendors. Thankfully Google, in Oreo, has abandoned its weird 'smudged thumb print' style of emoji in favour of those that resemble every other vendor's (IRC, forums, WhatsApp, iOS to name but a few) since the days of acid house.
Going by the Bristol Stool Chart...
A nurser here once asked me what it was about Scottish people like me that made us examples for the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). I asked her what was it about people like her from the "West Country" that made them subjects for the BSS...
Len Goddard, if my memory serves me right they had the respective "olfactory emitter" sone years ago in desktop products. Problem was that the emission of stink wasn't striktly limited to when a poo icon was displayed on screen. For those affected it was rather constant. And not very popular either.
There are many representations of poo. There are even many animated representations of poo (or representations of animated poo, if you prefer).
Here's the description of one. See if you can figure out what it is (answer at end).
Imagine a dog laying a dog egg. A rather round one. Impressed by this, the dog decides to lay a second egg on top of the first. This second egg is given a slight sculpting on top, by artistically crimping it off using the anal sphincter. The double dog-egg works wonders and starts dancing around.
Yes, it's EDF's "Zingy" mascot.
How many representations? I count 12...
"...So, these emoji things are not standardised in terms of appearance?"
Not at all. The Unicode consortium provides charts with example glyphs at
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Each chart contains boilerplate that says, among other things :
"The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts."
Been getting regular updates of the public beta iOS, at shorter and shorter intervals. More could change between now and ... tomorrow... so no-one knows whether this is the one which will inhabit the new phone.
AND teasers found in the code do not necessarily mean the feature will ever happen.
I’ll wait for the real thing, thanks, the more important item being when the phone will go on sale!!
X? Putting X in the name?
Why are publicity depts so useless and lazy with product names these days? X sounded futuristic in 1975, kids toys have X on them 'cos kids are a bit dopey, not bloody expensive gadgets for grown adults. Canon's flagship camera the 1DX, latest incarnation...the 1DX Mk II! *clap* *clap* *clap*, special kind of genius at work there in the naming dept!
wow calm down,
its the ten year anniversary of the iPhone, 'X' is ten in Roman numerals & they've used X before as in OS X, as in the tenth incarnation of Mac OS. This phone is their celebration edition, hence iPhone X.
Its sad that it needs to be explained to someone on a tech site.
Granted that X is Roman numeral for 10 and anniversary, right. Apple is STILL late to the "X implies high-tech" party. Be honest, if you see anything named "Product X" these days, you sneer a little. If you're an Apple fan you might suddenly decide to give them a special pass, but it's still an old, tired naming convention and shrieking "tenth anniversary!!!" won't change that.
They could have done better.
@Lost all faith...
Be honest, if you see anything named "Product X" these days, you sneer a little.
Well, United Launch Alliance for sure and possibly Blue Origin too -
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/07/spacex_x37b_spy_plane_launch
Smiley: Elon Musk
I could get an interesting, roadworthy car for that. I suppose this an Apple product we're talking about, but still, a thousand quid for a copy of the Galaxy S8,...
The only potential thing that might be innovative is that there's reason to suspect that Apple's wireless charging solution will be a touch better than Qi, in that it won't be anywhere near as position sensitive as Qi pads are. OTOH, to get a sufficiently large charging zone, the charging pad is likely to be significantly bigger than a Qi pad, perhaps the size of an A4 sheet of paper. So I'm guessing a charging cradle for most users, with the option availability of the larger charging pad that you'd probably put on the underside of a desk. But that's all speculation on my part.
It probably won't be a complete Samsung copy.
(1) It won't blow up,
(2) It'll be supported for more than 5 minutes, and
(3) It won't spaff your data over anyone who breathes hard at it (or send it back to the mothership).
While I'm on the subject I reckon if we all chip in a penny or two we can buy old Orlowski an iPhone that he can beat into pulp, thereby releasing some of his obviously pent up rage at all things Apple. Apple are a very rich, far from perfect facelesss corporation, and yet every time I read one of Orlowsi's snarkfests it immediately turns me into a rabid Apple defender just to redress the balance.
Pisses me off.
It's not really a copy of an S8 - the Galaxy doesn't have the screen either side of the camera, if you're thinking purely aesthetically. It's also not got the S8's Bixby button, but will have two cameras on the rear instead of one. Also differences in fingerprint sensor.
So we're back to "they copied me, waaah, it's a rectangle with rounded corners and a screen on it". There's far closer clones to the iPhone X such as most Huawei devices. Essentially (ha! there's another one....) unless you go out of your way to deliberately look different - perhaps by making a round phone, then it's going to look enough like something else for people to notice.
Also, you pay too much for cars. Last cheap roadworthy car I bought cost less than a Moto E.
It's probably closer to a Samsung S8 than the Samsung devices were to the iPhones Apple were suing Samsung over.
It's all very well having a bit of a ribbing over copying but Apple were the only ones who took a competitor to court due to Design Patent 504,889", which consists of a one-sentence claim about the ornamental design of an electronic device, accompanied by nine figures depicting a thin rectangular cuboid with rounded corners
What a biased and twisted view
"So we're back to "they copied me, waaah, it's a rectangle with rounded corners and a screen on it". There's far closer clones to the iPhone X such as most Huawei devices"
How the hell can existing devices be copies of something that has not even been launched. Almost every feature on this expensive candy bar has been on other manufactures phones for years.
Just who is copying who, or to be more precise, who is just following the trend set by more dynamic companies?
Me thinks Apple are doing a lot of following here.