Posts by JaitcH

The common link between Lemon purchasers and Jobs ...

is that the legions of purchasers and Jobs believe the same lie, or illusion, that is expressed when a religious organisation attributes an unlikely or impossible occurrence as being a 'miracle'.

When Jobs said "We haven't figured out a way around the laws of physics yet" it illustrated just how delusional he is as most other people accept the laws of physics proscribe the definitive point beyond which no human endeavour will prevail.

Next Jobs will be turning water into wine!

Blackpad is so Canadian ...

less flamboyant than America but simply gets the job done.

And even endorsed by an American president who refused to release his 'Death Grip' on it!

You can't beat C.A.S.H.

I move in countries where Cash is King and I have no concerns in leaving digital trails as I go about my business.

Mind you Mastercard and Visa are trying to change this about without too much success.

Few transactions are 'private' these days with card acceptors retaining card numbers and PINs; the governmental authorities use them for unknown reasons and the world's data vacuum, the U.S. Government, sucks up everything EXCEPT cash transactions.

Travel Agents, after being given authorisation cards, can have charges reversed 4 months later, as can other merchants.

I might be involved in high tech industry but you can't beat CASH!

Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau had a phrase

he used on striking postal workers which the French network operator could say to Jobs: "Manger la merde!".

Although dead, Trudeau looks wiser with every passing year.

And, prsy tell me Sheriff, are Scotsmen ...

who wear a kilt the "proper" way also guilty of "publicly exposing their persons in a shameless and indecent manner"?

Sounds like Scotland has become a Nanny state.

F is for Facebook ...

and Fools.

The amount of personal information people put put in Facebook about themselves AND OTHERS boggles the mind. This information id a treasure trove for skip tracers, police and potential employers.

Such people can be described as fools.

I'm running out of fingers and toes ...

on which to count the defects in Lemon 4.

Time for another sermon, Jobs. I guess Apple has skipped all quality control and testing now AND they have two cell base stations in their backyard (guarantees 5-bar reception).

All it takes are three ferrite toroids

Ontario, Canada has switched to these interactive meters.

Toroids placed around each feed, including the neutral, should happily isolate your meter. Some systems are using a Wimax system, bit shielding will defeat these weak signals.

The upside is they will have to keep on employing meter readers!

and offering coffee and croissants to girls ...

Funny way to sell things, discriminating against the males unless is inferring woman are less technical and won't notice Lemon 4 doesn't work properly,

It might even be a matter of anatomy ... women have small hands and won't 'bridge the gap'.

A flaw in Safari? No way ...

it was an undocumented feature.

As it wasn't officially released Apple didn't choose to discuss it.

I;ve got something like this already ...

It's made by Bamboo, < http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/index.php >.

BTW, gray is a terrible colour, Jobs, shows the dirt so quickly; so you better market some Magic Cleaner. You can't copyright it. you are too late.

I've taken pictures all over the world and was never, ever ...

challenged except in London by some brain-dead Wanna-be-a-Plod (community) types. After I responded in Chinese they tried shouting louder and again I answered in Chinese.

They then mumbled to each other and wandered away.

Why doesn't the chief plod just tell them 'leave photographers alone'?

Simple: Program in family groups

As men who are unknown to females shouldn't try to make contact they could have female RIM users have a list of approved contacts with all others blocked until a male member of a woman's family has read any messages and approved them for forwarding.

Similarly, female RIM users would be permitted interaction between each other, without blocking unless a male relative objected.

Men, naturally, would have no restrictions on their use of their RIMs.

This would promote equality, Arab style, and not disturb the status quo.

Other features could include compass roses, driven by GPS, pointing to Mecca and alarms to signal when to get the mats out.

Why does it take Apple a day to ...

update it's web site when others can do it in seconds?

Jobs bad month continues ....

Faced with Lemon 4 challenges, then the US Copyright rules against his walled garden and now people are targeting his gravy train things are not so hunky dory as they were.

There is little Jobs can do to coerce App developers not to jump ship since he is dependent on their ingenuity and hard work rather than vice versa, a position that Job's is not accustomed to assuming.

Of course we, the consuming public, will benefit with all this choice and the ability to compare Apps based on OS platforms.

At least the donkey survived ....

unlike all those old nags they ship across the Channel from the UK and Eire.

Her heart might be in the right place but it makes some Google her image which today shatters memories of that huge image that adorned newspapers way, way back in the '60's. Now: < http://stupidcelebrities.net/wp-content/524.jpg >, then: < http://3oneseven.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/brigitte-bardot7.jpg >.

Does this mean the British buyer is more astute?

Americans, seemingly demonstrating they care more about style than the function have continued to buy Version 4 telephones notwithstanding there about 11 known defects with the product.

The figures you include in your piece suggest that the British smart-phone buyer is more concerned with function, inasmuch as Version 4 has defects and RIM fewer 'flashy' features, than style. In other words value for money.

Maybe the different philosophies behind Android and Apple - open and closed - is finally being recognised by the non-technical purchaser and they are voting with their wallets.

It will be interesting to see the sales figures in other countries in August.

2010 July will go down in history

as not being good for Jobs mental equilibrium.

This is GOOD!

Now we will have to start saving all our bottle caps again

They will start pull tab and bottle top collections all over the country to scrape enough money to buy another toy for the cash strapped military.

How many caps will that be Coke and Pepsi?

They tax Apple Lemon's?

Apple Leon 4's shouldn't be subject to duty as they don't work (properly).

P.S. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is an international forum where American trade advantages are advanced and GM food is propagated throughout the world.

We will find out the ratio of dummies by country

One outcome of Apple selling this electronic Lemon is that we will get a determination of how many dummies actually buy this defective product having been made aware of the numerous problems.

The other hassle Apple will face is that the EU has a different take on selling duff stuff than does the U.S.A.

Getting kind of crowded out there

Maybe the trouble with Apple 4's not working is that so many government bodies, together with illicit private ones, are tapping rhe communications.

You have GCHQ, the US NSA (who monitor almost every cell network in the world [remember they were caught in Greece?]), BT, SOCA and who knows how many others.

GCHQ could look after all this police activity - they are most likely checking porn for steganography anyway - and the NSA most likely are covering them anyway.

Customs/immigration should suffice for the borders - there is no need for the police there. Now the Army is being pulled out of Afghanistan they could replace the Plods touting machine guns at airports.

The only problem is all these unemployed would be on the dole and the savings would be less than envisaged

I'm really surprised to hear that Australia ...

is even worse than the nanny states of Europe. Where is the 'Crocodile Dundee' spirit of independence Australia was famous for. The government is making them sound like a bunch of pussy cats.

Can't blame apathetic Oz voters as they HAVE to vote. Why do all these bloody politicians think they actually have a corner on wisdom? Who are they supposed to be 'serving'; why is it necessary to have so many secrets?

Little wonder Cryptome and Wikipedia bother the faceless government workers so much and little wonder we need them so much.

I took the Australian banned list and ran it through a Vietnamese broadband link and could access almost every banned link. Guess this confirms that the oppression of the West can be worse than authoritarian countries.

Motorola doesn't need lessons from Apple

Motorola doesn't need lessons from some upstart like Apple. Motorola has been a communications pioneer, along with other companies, way before Jobs even was a wet dream in his parents eyes.

Consider: starting in 1928, Motorola has a record of innovation in communications. Over the some 80-plus year history it pioneered mobile communications in the 1930s in the U.S.A. It's equipment was used in the moon trips starting in 1969. Motorola also made the first commercial handheld cellular phone in 1983.

So up yours, Jobs.

On the other side of the Pond we should remember Plessey, Marconi, Pye and the other technology pioneers.

Remember, Jobs, the Chinese say point a finger at something and three point back at you, which means the rouble is with Jobs and not the others.

The bottom line remains Version 4 is a technical failure, by Job's own admission, whose primary function of voice communications is less effective than it's competitors irrespective of any display.

Motorola has more equipment in public safety use, so professional users have voted with their cheque books.

British weather almost guarantees ...

this thing won't be circling the skies over the UK.

And what happens if cloudy weather occurs just after sun up when the batteries are low after flying all night?

The best cell phone they sell is the iphone

F22 running Android < http://www.solomobi.com/category.asp?lx=news >.

Their Old Man phone is interesting, too.

Web site is hosted in the US by Ecommerce - within reach of Jobs,

"wouldn't for a minute suggest you take your iPhone 4..."

Great idea, just make sure you use a variant of your name and address or get a different family member to buy the object p say it's for a gift.

Dishonest? Maybe, but far less so than selling phones that don't work.

There's an App for that ...

TRUECRIPT!

More technology equates to more vulnerability

Multi-channel centrally controlled communication systems are vulnerable to jamming.

Canadian provinces are really, really big - Ontario, if folded at the US border, will hit Florida - and our provincial Plods rely on repeaters connected to central control through satellite links in the remoter parts.

Unfortunately, for Plod, the satellite terminal/car radio link is susceptible to jamming and when Plod can't communicate with their base, they tend to let people they stop to carry on their way, making the exercise somewhat futile. (Canada has a Constitution and a Bill of Rights which gives us many rights Blighty doesn't have!)

Never buy s 'first' product from anyone

It's unwise to buy the first model of any product as the next version will get rid of the bugs. If Apple didn't get it right even after the fourth version, who knows what awaits discovery in this version one of Acers first go around at cracking this nut?

This Acer handphone isn't even in the same class as an HTC model on the same price range.

I have bought Acer laptops and their warranty/support is pitiful (their country head office is within 2 kilometres of my residence) and they have gave undertakings which they have yet honour.Think very carefully before buying Acer especially this time around. Note the sad double-tap zoom feature.

What about upgrades and what other features have been omitted?

The Jobs guy IS crazy

What happens when a Apple computer is in a LAN environment without InterNet?

Because of the risks associated with InterNet access, companies often have a 'firewall' that is actually an 'air gap' - not actually connected to the InterNet. What will happen to an advertisement controlled OS if it can't connect to Job's ad server.

If, on the other hand, the OS can work without InterNet, and not show adverts, it means you can simply block Job's URLs and not be troubled with this crap.

Another 'out to lunch' technophile MP

The guy hasn't a clue. There are so many methods of paying money anonymously, still, both from within the UK and elsewhere.

The US thinks it has international money transmission under control, which is illusional; sure they have made it a pain but I can personally attest that big money is travelling worldwide, and I'm not discussing crime-related (drugs, etc).

Besides, requiring ID is pointless for people using payments systems can get false ID with ease. Just another Labour MP burdening the books with dumb laws.

Don't complain too loudly

Western companies use China as their cheap workshop with lax standards and to achieve production and quality goals they frequently ship goods, machines, etc. with Intellectual Property attributes.

So some of the blame lies in in the West. For example Apple products are manufactured in China, in fact they wouldn't have economic production without China, and this requires that Apple supply plans and test procedures to Foxconn.

Some Western companies inspect these subcontractors but they don't realise that Western technology is frequently used to make 'knock offs' often in late evening/overnight shifts. I have witnessed this in several factories in GuangXi Province in south-western China.

The Kettle calling the Pot black

Those Apple lawyers are dumb.

The only connection between the two is one product id shite, whilst the other helps dispose of it.

This should really boost iPood sales!

It appears the Labour Government was either ...

incompetent or sleeping with IT contractors.

If you review all the 'database' syndrome that seemed to plague the Labour thought process. project after project were abject failures.

GIGO (garbage in, gospel out) rules.

The Nexus 1 was a success in ....

demonstrating the Android system was a strong OS candidate.

It broke the handset mould as it's subsequent adoption by numerous manufacturers for use in a wide range of applications has proved. Google didn't need a Nexus 2 as HTC had run with the ball implementing features than options that would not be on the market today, without it.

Even Apple devotees have benefited as Jobs has had to extract his digit and expedite his feature/option schedule.