Posts by Chris 3 601 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009
Google is a Virgin Media subcontractor, which has contacted Virgin Media customers directly warning them that Google is changing its policies and the Virgin Media customer has to accept that or stop using the service. Except that the Virgin Media customer isn't and never has been subject to Google's privacy policy - so what's up with that.
It's like getting an e-mail from Cisco or Pace.
Complacent perhaps? Are you going to sit there looking smug as the Great Barrier Reef succumbs to bleaching, as the last bit of Amazonia is felled? Presumably you think the near extinction of Newfoundland cod, the passenger pigeon, the North American buffalo were all tiny glitches and the Pacific Trash Vortex is trivial.
A University - a place that teaches the full gamut of courses to the highest standard.
My solution to those "universities" that want to drop physics and chemistry because they are too expensive is that they should, of course be allowed to do so, but should also lose the university moniker. Polytechnic has a nice ring to it.
... that's your problem. You honestly believe that industrial design is unimportant. And that people who take build quality, design or fit-and-finish into account are simply dupes.
. "A keyboard that detects low-light conditions and automatically provides a keyboard backlight? ludicrous, I can buy a perfectly good head-torch for £3". You'll go on believing that people are being conned or technically stupid, irrespective of the fact that usage of Apple products is reasonably high amongst the technically clueful. You'll then become increasingly frustrated that people keep considering design important.
Meanwhile Apple will keep on coining it in, providing easy-to-use, robustly built and nicely designed bits of kit.
... that the business *was* expecting reduced subsidy and indeed had planned for it. What the industry wasn't expecting was for the old plans to be ripped up without warning. It is very difficult for any business to operate if the government arbitrarily moves the goal posts.
Apple fanbois - and indeed many others - will have a field-day downvoting comments with all the intellectual content of the average Youtube video comment. Here, have a downvote from me.
Apple was caught bang to rights here, but the reasons are weird. Either it simply thought it would ignore the law, which seems unlikely somehow once warned, or it scrambled and failed to produce a coherent Italy-based plan in time.
One of the problems, I suspect is that Applecare is global - I can buy in one country and then get Applecare anywhere else, just by quoting the serial number. So if the ruling applies to all Italy-bought items presumably their warranty will need to be extended globally for that item, or Apple can decide that the warranty extension only applies to Italy-bought items being serviced in Italy. You could see how this might get a bit knotty.
Well - ish. If you ever listen to something like the Now Show, you'll hear Mitch Ben performing song parodies that sound almost but not entirely unlike popular songs. You'll remember Pamela Stephen's not-quite version of Wuthering Heights. ISTR there were lots of songs that the Wurzels *couldn't* do (OK - bad example if I'm trying to garner support for my argument).
It kinda-sorta-works, but if the IPO wants to make parody exempt, I don't see why that is such an outrageous idea.
Despite my fanboi status, I find the UX of Apple Stores horrible. Unless you are familiar with how things work. Want to pay for something? Where do you do that? Have an appointment at the Genius bar - what do I do when I get there? go straight to the bar? Hover in the queue of people who seem to be queuing for the bar? Do I have to tell someone that I've arrived?
Other than the ability to play with kit I fund them confusing and disorientating.
Your haste to get a bit of good old fashion Dyson-bashing in, you miss the point that the situation she discusses *is* confusing for consumers as well as pointless. The fact that it may be pretty confusing for trademark as well is neither here nor there.
Do do we know where the money raised from n x $185,000 will be going, by the way?
"Well, (1) that's one of the main reasons that Wave failed, guys; "
No, Wave was designed from the very start as a federated service. It failed for many reasons, but not because it was based on a centralised system. Google's Wave server was intended to be the first of many which hosted discussions in a federated manner.
I don't consider him a journalist, I consider him a useful source. Does he construct a story from multiple sources? Does he attempt to place the information he gathers in context, by talking to others or giving those implicated the opportunity to respond pre-publication? No.
I'm not saying that all journalists do that. but those worth their salt do.
This isn't any comment on the worthiness of WikiLeak's mission, just a comment on his assertion that he is a journalist.
... so whatis it doing on there?
The daft thing is that all my customer-service dealings with Amazon over faulty goods, delivery problems etc. Have been impressive efficient and helpful.
Why on earth has Amazon got a Facebook presence? If it wants feedback and discussion it should build a forum on its site. If it wants to send out promotions it should ask its customers for permission to e-mail.
It is sufficiently capable that it should handle public interaction itself, rather than handing off to Facebook's sub-optimal pages where it has difficulty responding and coping.
Daft.
"The Cupertinian approach to music is a slash and burn approach, they sell some music, grab what they can, move on to new green fields and leave a wasteland behind them"
Sorry, but in what way exactly?
The Cupertino approach to music is surely to provide a simple, legal way for people to fill up their iDevices with music. The built a very nice music store, originally slapped on some DRM to keep the music industry happy, but with loose enough restrictions to keep the average punter happy, and charged the reasonablish sum of 30% that covered the storage, distribution and most importantly billing.
What's been burned/? Who has been slashed? Where are signs that Apple is moving on, and that they have created a wasteland?
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