Posts by Antidisestablishmentarianist

Cold Souls

Vaguely similar to the 2009 movie Cold Souls with Paul Giamatti?

SF Housing Problem

My theory:

Working-class people priced out of the SF housing market? Need a way to give the tech industry a kick in the nuts, rather than just protesting about Google Buses? Cut lots of cables.

Tabloid

I used to watch the BBC news as I felt it was a proper news channel. But clearly that wasn't working for them, and in my eyes they seem to be now verging on as much sensationalism as your average tabloid, just to get their numbers up. So I stopped watching. I blame Ron Burgandy and the introduction of 24 hour news.

Strangely I now think that The Daily Show is the only proper news show out there.

Correlation

"Around the same time, Google Maps in Russia decided to begin logging Crimea as part of Russia."

and

"He has also expressed a distrust as of late for American technology. Even before slamming the CIA's supposed control of the internet, Putin's administration dumped Apple's hardware over security concerns, and opted instead for Korean firm Samsung's products."

Samsung -> Google = Google Maps: Crimea as part of Russian

Apple = Apple Maps: Crimea as part of Ukraine

It all makes sense now....

Fake stitching

Why? Not just Samsung here, but loads of things everywhere? Why why why?

Well it's a start

Yay for getting rid of those horrid tabs with the swoopy trailing edge - the calling card of wonderful java apps the world over

But is that enough...

... to cover the lawyers fees?

Screw wanting to work for Apple, I want to work for their law firm!

G's

What are the G forces people will be exposed to on 'take off'? And will the little speed ups result in the pulsing sensation so effortlessly achieved by Singaporean taxi drivers who are unable to maintain constant speed? Bluuueergh.

Hmm

I remember seeing someone on the tube trying to 'bump' their phone and tablet. Lets just say it didn't work in several minutes I could bare watching. Embarrassing. I wonder if he ever got....

"the comment is that we are not commenting. We don't comment on government contracts and we're not commenting on this."

Surely commenting that you're not commenting is still commenting? Comments anyone?

HD

As long as it lifts the limit of 16/44 present on all Apple streaming devices or protocols then I'm all for it. Oh and sends things fully uncompressed (or doesn't recompress all ready compressed) music. Yes, there are some of us that think hi res music has a future, and that we're not all destined to listen to music through the tinny speaker of our smartphone for eternity.

For those of you about to unleash the usual tirade of blind testing nonsense, forget about it. I'm deaf.

FUD

I wonder what percentage of all military boasting etc is just FUD designed to bankrupt your opponents in their effort to counter the perceived threat..

Much needed

Was in NYK recently and yes, the 3G is a steaming pile. If thats all people know, no wonder they think it's the phones that are the problem rather than the network.

A variation

Of 'will it blend'?

Phablet

Apple should beat Samsung et al to the punch and make it a phone. I mean that's the next logical step for the 'droid makers isn't it? When size is one of the few differentiators they have? I'm waiting till they hit the 'sensible' limits and start concentrating on make high end _small_ smartphones. You know, phones for people with normal sized hands - not those of people descended from German blacksmiths and/or with small willy syndrome and/or fatties and/or a combo of all the above.

I'm here in Asia and just laugh at the wobbly insecure attempts at using their phablets one handed. One overreach with the thumb and that baby is off balance and kissing the concrete.

Awesome

That is all

Why do all these 7" tabs look like fat chubbers? I guess you fingers don't get smaller along with the size, so the bezels stay the same. Maybe that's it. Or maybe there is more space to spread out the leccy stuff in the big ones, so they can be thinner. Or perhaps they are the same thinness but as they're bigger 'seem' thinner.

I don't know, but they all just look chunky to me. Won't have it.

So will this one stop crashing?

I've been hoping they'd fix that rather annoying habit, well, forever.

The one where it crashes, then refuses to start, then you come back later and it's working again is bizarre, and somehow I'm sadly used to it.

Go on Apple

Make it fully bezel-less. LG I think got 3 out of 4 edges. Go for the four. Do it.

Awkward