Posts by Philip Lewis 991 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2009
"Please, for the love of God, Apple, copy Android and make your keyboard display lower case when not in caps. Or, as this might be too shocking for iFans, make it an option."
My Nokia N9 has this. It is one of the last pieces of skeuomorphism left in iOS and I am actually surprised that it did not disappear in iOS7.
"Thermogeddon" is generally (by me) deemed to be a time series temperature graph showing runaway positive feedback - something rather like the infamous "hockey stick", which was in fact contrived to demonstrate exactly this.
It is this particular "feature" of global temperature which is the underlying thesis of the entire AGW community - the problem is that the observed data do not show this to be true in the satellite era, which is now well into its 4th decade.
.15C p.a. is slight, and an increase not inconsistent with what one would expect when observing the geological record.
What 'people' see though, is local changes in weather patterns, and being morons, they extrapolate this to the entire planet. This is what you are doing, when you imply that local changes have caused local fauna to adapt. It is also true as well where I happen to live, where the particular pollen to which I am allergic arrives earlier than it did 50 years ago. These are local events, they are not global events. It IS getting warmer, ever so slightly on average every year, and it will likely continue to do so until whatever causes ice ages happens again.
Warmer is better for life, we live in a benign climatic period in geological time.
You, and I, are so amazingly unlikely, that we should try to live and enjoy our one chance at this, and stop stressing about the universe doing what it does. Humanity didn't cause the last ice age (or end it) and it won't cause the next. Neither will it precipitate Thermogeddon.
Have you ever been to an Apple store immediately after a product release?
I doubt it very much, because had you done so, you would not have written something so clueless.
I shouldn't think that there are 10 million "hipsters" on the planet, and even if there were, it is doubtful they constituted the bulk of the buyers on the release weekend.
The whole Apple --> Hispster meme, aside from being provably wrong (how many hispsters do YOU think there are on the planet?), it is tedious.
ps: The troll does not excuse you
Jasper is preaching to the choir here at The Register. Hating Apple (a bizarre concept at best) is apparently the majority position amongst the commentards here, so he just panders to them. Rational commentary gets downvoted instantly and the site generates clicks.
The Register is on my adblock list and will remain there forever more.
There is still enough relevant news and intelligent discourse on the forums to justify my continued participation.
Downvote ---->
"I want to buy an SSD, but I'm terrified of the life span thing."
It is unlikely a personal usage pattern will exceed the life of the SSD before th electronics in the computer itself fail - in either case, you can monitor these things, it is not like it will suddenly die. You will know what will effectively be years in advance of total failure.
"The fashion for ramming everything through the most unreliable, insecure, undocumented, poorly-specified, cruft-ridden and functionally limited front end - only to present the end user with yet another gratuitously different and incomprehensible UI experience, needs to be taken out and shot."
"I wish I'd said that ..." -- Oscar WIlde.
Actually, I am pretty sure I did say that, about 15 years ago, maybe more :(
"Isn't Apple tip-toeing along the same tightrope here ... are they abusing market position and blocking out competition?"
No.
Please educate yourself on the legal framework involved and the definitions that are relevant.
Apple does not have any "abusable" market position in any legal or logical sense.
"True, the fact that Nexus 4 had NFC for years isn't really that important, but you're missing the point - it's Apple who are touting this as some great feature, so it's fair game to point out that this is a standard feature on other platforms."
ApplePay != NFC
Precisely, not only do these children not even know what a transactiojn monitor is, they have no clue why you would even need one. They are still in the sandpit building sand castles, watching them collapse and then blaming the collapse on the type of sand and move to the next sand pit.
It is as if 40-50 years of accumulated systems software knowledge was jettisoned when VB was invented!
The youf of today, our future - eeeeeeeeek!
"Different kind of querying, direct key lookup, secondary indexes, range scans etc etc"
Errr, which commercial relational DBMS doesn't have these things?
Nothing you mention is even remotely different or state of the art. You should perhaps familiarise yourself with how commercial relational database management systems work, and why they work that way. After you get a basic understanding of what is going on, you can then tackle query optimization, which is the actual "secret sauce" that makes things work.
There is a class of applications for which object store style databases are appropriate, and this case might indeed have been one. It detracts not a jot from the power of the relational model (as distinct from implementations) for solving the vast majority of data base problems.
It's not odd at all. Leftness, contrary to popular belief is not binary.
I am a goofy footer but right footed and right handed. Open jars left handed, use eating utensils left handed. There are a very large number of lefties who play sport right handed (my mum for one). The classic cricketing combination of left arm bowler and right handed batsmen is a perfect example.
"The Boer Wars (Afrikaans: Vryheidsoorloë, literally "freedom wars") were two wars fought during 1880–1881 and 1899–1902 by the British Empire ..." wiki (phwewt)
A slight math error, say "about 40 years" then.
"Wristwatches were first worn by military men towards the end of the 19th century, when the importance of synchronizing manoeuvres during war, without potentially revealing the plan to the enemy through signalling, was increasingly recognized... " wiki (phwewt)
Actually, changing straps on a wrist watch is usually a non-trival exercise. Thus it has always been.
If you look at the design and engineering involved in the method by which Apple have implemented this, seemingly for you trivial feature, what is observed is something both elegant and functional.
For me, the whole strap and mechanism thing was a classic example of how Apple have actually done their homework, understood the issues and the usability requirements, and then come up with a solution.
You have clearly failed to understand, that is your failing, not that of the Apple design team.
... until Google decides to really start exerting the control which they certainly can and they so dearly love (as a corporation). Your model of "perfection" relies upon a single company "doing no evil", something which historically, is the ludicrous assumption of those in denial.
It astounds me that the Googloids keep building their arguments based on Google being somehow naturally and intrinsically "good".
I know quite a few people who have 5Cs.
They are the sort of girl who swoons over Justin Bieber*. You get the picture.
For this demographic, the 5C is in no way an ad for the owner's lack of financial means.
Also, the white 5C is very über très cool!
* I apologise for even knowing who this is :(
I know a lot of people with Macs. Quite a few have an iPad (inc. me).
Exactly zero of them bought an iPad and then thought - "wow, this is cool I had better buy a Mac."
Your statement that iPads drive Mac sales is at best a wild, unsubstantiated guess and judging by my personal sphere of obervation, completely wrong.
Actually, I don't think so. You might better lodge your complaint with the design "gurus" at Microsoft.
I can point to 100 sites without even thinking, that have adopted the Windows8 design language and exactly none that have adopted the Apple website or for that matter the iOS design language.
My Bank for starters.
YMMV
Actually, the article does not mention vagina at all, that is something qoted from a tweet, therefore heresay and not really part of the article. I have no idea whether is is true or not, but the article makes no such claim.
So, this fact makes your assertion "Apple accept 'penis', but not 'vagina'" incorrect on the basis of the information asserted in the article.
The article is specifically about the abbreviated form of the word clitoris (clit), and one (for some people) slightly embarrassing correct word for the male appendage, penis.
The problem with people with an axe to grind, is they grind it without engaging their brains first. That's usually the dead give away.
Have a nice weekend.
AVAST told me I had to upgrade this evening. I did so.
Then it told me to reboot to complete the installation. I did so.
The splash screen that appeared after reboot clearly asked me whether I wanted to install chrome and make it the default browser. I declined by unticking the pr-ticked boxes.
The pox on Google and their hordes, and a pox on software companies that keep trying to foist chrome on me - I don't want it -geddit?
Installing Chrome appears to be the only reason for this splash, and for all I know it was the only reason that an upgrade was required - though that may be a tad too cynical, or not!
http://www.tagheuer.com/int-en/movement-by-belt-watches
TAG do produce some sparkling innovations, as the above would indicate.
Suggesting, as you do, that at USD 70,000 for the V4 "the prices top out pretty much where most of the serious watch brands start", is very possibly largely inaccurate.
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