Posts by Lord Elpuss

Re: anti-Apple (fanboi) sentiment

” You must know a very weird subset of humanity.“

Name, show or point me to one single human who doesn’t like or dislike ANYTHING.

”And "liking something" does not mean you are a "fan" of it (the other way around, yes); and being a "fan" does not meany you are a "fanbois" (the other way around, yes).“

Fan noun to admire, be enthusiastic or think positively.

Again. Point me to ANY human being who has EVER lived, who has never admired, been enthusiastic or thought positively about something.

” The world and "defining aspects of Humanity" (whatever the heck those are) are not all just binary, black and white; there are shades of grey in between and, gosh, also colours.“

Well done. You just defined the spectrum of ‘like’ and ‘dislike’.

” Got a bible verse to back that up, if you are going to start invoking God in this absurdity?“

Do you believe the bible is the correct or absolute reference here? Dear oh dear. This is a scientific site; do better.

” * note: you can also just be a superfan, you don't have to take the obnoxious path and be a fanbois once you have gone beyond the level of just a normal fan.“

Correct, and well done again. Now go and tell the author of the article; he seems to disagree with you.

Re: anti-Apple (fanboi) sentiment

”Retro Apple tat”

“In more positive news about valuable items,“

If the author was any more bitter, they’d be pissing lemon juice.

Re: anti-Apple (fanboi) sentiment

"Especially the ones that do it by inventing slights that they can rail against."

Exactly my point. Let me refer you to Evidence Exhibit A: This article.

Re: anti-Apple (fanboi) sentiment

"> because hiding inside every anti-fanboi of company A is a fanboi of company B.

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Everybody is a fan of something. Everybody. Literally every single human being on the planet. It's not an assumption, it's an absolute literal God-given fact. Because dividing the world up into things we like and things we don't like is a defining aspect of Humanity.

Don't be a dick. It doesn't suit you.

Re: anti-Apple (fanboi) sentiment

Why aim anything at fanbois? First of all it's an assumption, second of all it's none of anybody else's business what people choose to like or not like.

Besides, anti-fanbois are also pretty annoying. And usually hypocritical, because hiding inside every anti-fanboi of company A is a fanboi of company B.

Re: What is it with people collecting modern. plastic shoes, anyway?

"It's a financial exploitation of poor emotional understanding."

Unlikely. These were most likely bought as a commercial proposition by an investor. They'll be resold in 10 years for $150,000.

Re: Poor design in my opinion

"Disagree - care to share any double blind A/B testing that shows this?"

Sure - here's one on speaker cable. Definite difference between cheap (crap) and 'proper', and basically no difference once you get into the 'proper' territory. Which is what I said.

The difference is in the shielding. It comes down to:

No shielding vs some shielding, noticeable.

Some shielding but not properly wound vs 'proper' shielding, noticeable by a trained ear, but not by normal mortals

'Decent' proper shielding vs 'Unbelievably expensive' proper shielding, no difference at all.

Re: Poor design in my opinion

For analogue, there is a noticeable difference between a $10 interconnect and a $100 interconnect (or SCART). There is a tiny bit of difference (to audiophile/videophile ears and eyes; 99% of us couldn't tell them apart) between a $100 interconnect and a $1000 interconnect. There's no difference at all between a $1000 interconnect and a $10,000 (or higher) interconnect, apart from bragging rights.

For digital, as long as the cable is mechanically sound there is no difference at all between a $10 HDMI, a $100 HDMI and a $10,000 HDMI. Same goes for optical. The 0s and 1s get from one end to the other just fine. The problem with (very) cheap cables is that they tend to BE less mechanically sound; but you don't need to spend much more money to avoid this.

"Why does it matter if JBG was American ? Isnt he a human being first ? Second q why are there so few articles about non Americans and when there are their country is almost never mentioned ?

Racism and America it never ends."

This is an article about the death of a great man, and you are a reprehensible little troll. Go pedal your irrelevant racebait claptrap elsewhere.

Re: Unique keys

” My sons first names excede 30 chars in length.“

First nameS. That’s different to a first NAME.

Re: Unique keys

” For asking that a system has the decency to be able to store their given name??“

50 characters. FIFTY. Times two. That’s a 99.999th percentile outlier, and it’s unreasonable to expect systems to be designed for it.

(Just to put it into context, this is what a 50 character first name looks like:

Shivabrahamabalaramasubramaniankrishnansubramanian

Aside from designing for it, I question if this would EVER actually occur in nature. I suspect there might be a bit of embellishment going on in the original story.

”Had he not, would you have not respected that too?“

Respected, yes. Used? No. It’s beyond the bounds of reasonableness to expect others to memorise and use a name like that in everyday situations.

Re: Proof if needed

Dammit. Snorted my beer reading that.

Re: Unique keys

Fore- and surnames longer than 50 characters but refuses to use a shortened version? The person is both being an asshole AND has way too much free time. People with those kind of names ALWAYS have a shortened name for general use.

(Longest name of a person I ever worked with was an Indian chap with two 15-letter forenames and a 15-letter surname. Called himself by the first 4 letters of his first name.)

Re: Interesting design

"I don`t think less Lift is a good idea in airplanes...."

Less lift isn't a problem in and of itself. It can be compensated for by less weight or more speed, depending on the required design parameters.

Re: Oh my.

I notice your posts are being liked by all your friends.

Re: Oh my.

Maybe you should stop trying to dictate to others how they should run their lives. Your way isn't their way. Mind your own business, and stop being such an arrogant nagging little busybody.

Re: A complaint about complaints

Lenovo Thinkpad Z13 just has this certain Macbook Air about it... World's largest laptop vendor releases whizzy x86 - but we could do with a better Windows rescue party

Title says it's about the ThinkPad Z13 and Windows, not about Linux. If you want to write about Linux, put it in the damn title. Or even in the subtitle. I have zero interest in Linux, so if it was mentioned I'd have skipped it and not wasted my time reading about somebody else's inability to use a product as designed.

Re: Cool.

Meanwhile at the NASA engineering meeting:

Senior Mission Coordinator: "So, how many hops do you think the heli can realistically make?"

Copter design team: "Oh, 50 or so?"

Communications Director: "Right, divide that by 10. Put the word out that we're only expecting to do 5 hops or so."

Press: "NASA OVERACHIEVES BY FACTOR OF 10"

Funding for next mission assured. Beer o'clock, team.

Yes I get the paperwork angle. The reasons I believe it's a scam (or more accurately, extortion) are:

1. I have no contract with DHL, and did not engage their services.

2. I am given no option to choose another party to handle my imports.

3. In my particular case, the vendor has already done the import paperwork at point of origin; DHL simply duplicate this (or 'verify' it, in their words)

3. I am not afforded the opportunity to submit my own paperwork.

4. The charges are out of all proportion to the "actual" cost of 'filling in paperwork', which in reality involves no actual paper and is fully automated in most cases.

It may well be that after consideration of the above I "choose" to pay the €7 or so to get it all handled for convenience' sake, but the point is then it would be my CHOICE. As it currently stands, I have no realistic choice other than reject the package and in all likelihood lose my money.

Very true...

Nobody said it was the same. The original statement was "I have NEVER heard of any legitimate transaction where you are hoping to get an investment from someone else, but where YOU have to pay first to facilitate the transaction." - upfront package handling fees are an example of where you have to pay first to facilitate the transaction. These become a scam (in my view) when they: A. Charge you to tell you there's no charge, and B. hold your package to ransom knowing full well that returning it is a practical impossibility.

Yeah I get the technical difference, but it’s hard not to see what DHL are doing as ‘legalised’ advance-fee fraud. Especially as they essentially impose charges for telling you there are no charges.

” Also can I ask, because maybe it's an American thing, but I have NEVER heard of any legitimate transaction where you are hoping to get an investment from someone else, but where YOU have to pay first to facilitate the transaction.“

If you’re in the EU and receiving a package from outside the EU, it’s pretty common to have to pay processing costs before you receive your product. This itself is a scam as companies like DHL will often extort a ‘handling fee’ before telling you that no import duties are due, and the only thing you need to pay is their handling fee.

Of course non-payment means you don’t get your package, and if it gets returned to whichever Chinese online tat bazaar you bought it from, good luck ever getting a refund either.

Re: "I am very smart"

” Same as when you see someone's online handle containing words as "king", "lord", "master" or the like, you can safely ignore anything they write as chances are it will be utter drivel.“

Ouch.

I will go out on a limb and tempt fate by saying there is zero chance that I would be caught by any of the tech scams going at the moment.

The same can’t necessarily be said for genuinely new scams using a previously unknown vector. Luckily those don’t come along too often.

On a semi related note, I got an email last year from my credit card company saying there had been a data breach, my records were exposed and as we really are very very sorry, here’s 2 years credit monitoring. Note; monitoring, not protection.

Last week I received an email from Experian saying yes my details had been spotted on the dark web, but I’d need to pay their consultants if I wanted any action taken as the ‘subscription’ didn’t cover that.

The line between ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ scams seems to be getting more and more blurred.

Re: If they want to be consistent..

25 minutes in and only 5 thumbs down; standards are slipping. Come on Fandroids, get voting!!

Re: If they want to be consistent..

Doesn't do that on Apple. I have mine set to Specific Contacts, and Specific Photos/Videos. It's a bit of a pain to manually 'manage' which photos it has access to whenever I want to send something, but at least I'm happy it's not just rifling through willy-nilly.

Maybe time to ditch Android and buy a real phone.

Re: Well that was unfortunate.

"In the UK and most of the EU you can be fired for any reason other than the various protected characteristics, as long as they pay the statutory minimum payout when doing so. It is pretty much a US-only thing to be unable to fire someone without cause."

Did you intentionally get this the wrong way round?

Re: A very peculiar practice.

What in the Sam Hill are you on about.