Posts by CeeJay 31 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2008
Day 1. Steam locomotive.
Day 2. Jet engine.
Day 3. Soundtrack from a pr0n.
Day 4. Stuka dive bomber.
Day 5. The sound of my missus grinding her teeth in her sleep.
Day 6. The sound of chalk on a blackboard, coupled with someone breaking up bits of polystyrene.
And just to finish the week off on a high note;
Day 7. Chronic wet flatulence interspersed with the occasional sob and/or groan.
I wouldn't normally side with the insurance companies, but I would hope both.
I'm more worried by Stef's very valid point: Owner gets into a light fender-bender on the road. Like most pilots, (s)he's not qualified to certify airworthiness other than the walkaround and pre-flight, but decides it doesn't look too bad.
Takeoff, dangerous out-of-trim condition, and FLONK straight into a school for bunnies.
You'd hope most people would be more sensible than that, but all the evidence is to the contrary.
I have no axe to grind about iPhone, but my 6210 (which is right here on my desk) has taken a brief dip in an immersion header tank. And my K800i once got the full "seaside funfair" experience by spending an hour or so in my washing machine. Neither appear worse for the experience.
Admittedly they're much simpler devices than the iPhone, so I guess Apple gets a pat on the head for its apparent robustness in the face of moistness. But it's not unique.
Mmm. /Moistness/.
"ROFL imagine if it was run on Windows - airliners would be falling out of the sky in flames! LOL!!!!1"
"Well if it was Open Source, they would have to spend four weeks searching for dependencies before they could get OpenPlaneLandSafely v.021 running properly"
"They should have bought a Mac. That way they could connect an AirPort to it..."
Me either. And I've never been in a situation where it would be tempting or necessary. So who *are* these people who are making Google millions of dollars?
Oh by the way, @ the article's author: I think you have your X axis and Y axis the wrong way around. The horizontal axis, X, appears to be showing position, not impressions. It's hard to tell because the thing is so small it's nearly illegible.
Since this needs no testing, we can lay off all our dev and OAT people and save a fortune on their salaries! Thanks Microsoft - innovative as usual.
Oh and by the way; "Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack". "MDOP"? Seriously? You mean like Hansen?
"Mmm-DOP, doo-wah-doo-mop, dooba-dooba-dooba, MDOP, doo-wah-doo" etc. Splendid.
"If Microsoft released a version of Windows with a built in timebomb that required you to buy a new version at a cost of around $180 in approximately 3 to 5 years, people would scream bloody murder. "
You're right - they would. And they'd be justified. But the comparison you've made is invalid.
The life of the battery isn't something that Apple have deliberately hobbled in some way, (well, we'll see once the machines are a couple of years old...), but it is a physical limitation.
The thing that people seem to be getting upset about is that to change the thing, you have to take your machine to some asshat with a vacant expression in a black rollneck sweater. The implication is that this is going to be pricey.
But look at that - it's apparently cheaper than buying a user-replacable Dell battery. And as our esteemed author points out, by the time these units need replacing they'll be out of warranty anyway, third party OEMs will be making replacements, and the world will keep turning.
The only problem I can see is if these (Apple) batteries don't live up to their promised specifications. THEN the consumer will have grounds for a complaint.
( Just for the record, the only Apple product I own is a Quadra 650. )
There is no way that it's taking 15 minutes for these machines to start up.
I used to support a call centre environment, where the users were similarly monitored for timekeeping and penalised if they weren't taking calls when they should be. But they were let off if there was a technology fault (they had to back this up with an incident reference).
These people would deliberately lock their accounts out and raise a call for it, thereby buying themselves a few extra minutes first thing in the morning, or when they came back off break.
To resolve the password lockouts, we installed fingerprint readers. This worked for a few weeks, until the users realised that if you smear a little coffee or hand cream on the reader, it stops working. So they would log a call and sit back until and engineer came along with a cloth.
So forgive me if I am a little cynical about this lawsuit - it doesn't add up. And my experience of the users brings Hanlon's Razor swinging into action...
...that every time some organisation loses confidential data, the first thing they do is put a talking head in front of the camera who says;
"We take the issue of data security extremely seriously."
Well no - clearly you don't. Otherwise you wouldn't be standing there mouthing platitudes.
...that picture is illegal in the UK."
I understood (perhaps wrongly) that was only the case if the image was produced for sexual gratification. Since The Register is a benign entity incapable of sustaining an erection, it is not breaking the law.
If you're busily tugging away at it like there's no tomorrow until you pass out, then you probably are breaking the law.
But how does the government prove that?
Telescreens^W CCTV in the home FTW!
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