Posts by jaffa99

Lol

Weeks, NASA can't plan a meeting in weeks. That was the giveaway.

OMFG

What, so EVIL Google will be able to show me ads that are relevant rather than random? That's terrible.

Get a grip snowflakes, unless you're a pervert, kiddy-fiddler, terrorist or criminal you have nothing to be afraid of.

I don't care

I have an Android phone with a USB-C connector, but I have wireless chargers in my office and at home, so I rarely use a cable. I've never had an Apple product of any kind, I really don't care what they do.

I don't care

I'm using dark mode and I don't want it to switch back and forth, that would just be annoying, I also stop the sat-nav in my car switching, it's on night time mode all the time.

Hardly

They'll be about a billion dollars in the red this year, add that to the $13 billion of losses over the past 17 years and it's clear Tesla are far from profit.

Selfish

Here we go again, there's lots of space but the astronomers want it all to themselves.

Leaked emails - because tweets have to be true.

Musk isn't banned from tweeting, he's only banned from tweeting lies - thanks to his SEC fraud case settlement.

If this production news was true he could have tweeted it - but he didn't.

Seems like Musk needed a new route for dishonest communication, hence the recent *leaked* emails.

The work I did at home last night was done again this morning when I got to the office. I just love it when I have to do something again because someone else screwed up.

Who gets the $5billion?

Who gets the $5billion?

I'm always curious when businesses or banks are fined these huge sums, who's getting the money because I never seem to get my share.

Apple repairs

"Basically it means Apple owns your device, not you, and could conceivably disable it remotely if they detect unauthorized repairs going on."

I think that's a bit paranoid. More likely it's a mechanism that ensures the machine has not been tampered with. I wouldn't be surprised if this could be enabled on machines sold to some business or government to allow them to verify the integrity of the hardware in their machines as part of an overall digital security effort.

"risk-free"

Plenty of caveats in their terms that make it definitely not "risk-free"

Wow

It sounds amazing, where can I get one ?

Astonishing

Apple products are so second-rate, every single one of them, it's astonishing what can be sold to idiots through slick marketing. They should be congratulated.

Honestly, 8 years late with OLED, 6 years late with wireless charging, 4 years late with fast charging, no expandable storage in phones, most expensive devices, most delicate devices, buggiest mobile OS, most dongles, fewest ports, proprietary connectors, no touchscreens on laptops, useless siri, the watch, those earpods, the $300 speaker. There's not a single Apple product that has any merit at all and there hasn't been for years.

Bacteria are not space aliens

They're at it again, 'boffins' pretending that bacteria is the same as 'space aliens'. They're not, no-one cares if an asteroid, or mars, or one of Jupiters moons has some bacteria on it, even less so if it's long dead bacteria. No-one ever wrote a Sci-fi film where the humans leave earth in a huge ship, spending decades in 'stasis' to reach another solar system and find some microbes.

'Boffins' stop pretending that your life's work and all the funding are worthwhile because you found 3 billion year old fossils that are evidence of some prehistoric bacterial life. Unless it has a weapon or at least is more intelligent than my dog I don't want to know.

Who's cashing in ?

"Apple has been facing a parade of class-action lawsuits in recent months as lawyers look to cash in on the throttling controversy"

How dare those lawyers try to cash in on Apple's attempts to cash in. Disgusting.

sht cmputrs

Irrelevant outside China

I guess if you don't like it you shouldn't use it, but Android without Google will just be a useless OS with no market share and poor functionality. I imagine the same people post on Windows PC stories suggesting people adopt Linux on their PC's - a sure way to make a PC almost useless.

Frankly I see these 'we're being tracked' stories all the time and it comes down to the same thing, basement dwelling, tin-foil-hat wearing nobodys imagining their lives are of interest to others. But you're not that interesting (nor am I) the idea that anyone is looking at you as an individual is a fantasy and frankly it's pathetic.

I still think most people dripping about the issue are worried about their habits being recorded because they're illegal.

Eggism, Adolf Hitler would be proud.

"when the original iPod launched in 2001 the state of the art for music lovers who wanted variety on the run was a portable CD player and a wallet in which to store lots of discs"

That's Apple fan drivel, in 2001 portable CD players were still common but many portable MP3 players existed before the ipod, all the ipod brought to the market was slick advertising and white headphones.

Nonsense

Yes, to make the devices smaller & lighter, improving aesthetics while also withstanding knocks and general handling they're glued together. Why is this a problem? What are you going to replace? The CPU and RAM will be soldered to the board anyway to meet the cost/packaging criteria. The story is idiotic because there are plenty of options for people who want to be able to dismantle and 'upgrade' their laptop, but it'll be bigger, uglier & heavier than this one. It's like buying a sports car and complaining that it's not as roomy or economical as your old mini-van.

Stop dripping nerds, this is the future, it's disposable.

Items move on web pages just as I'm clicking too often for it to be unintentional, I often end up clicking an ad.

"Steven, who asked us not to use his surname" - but let you use his picture - lol.

banks can't touch iphone nfc without harming Apple's profits.

Oh and regarding Apple security, there are plenty of celebrities out there with pictures of their snatches on the internet thanks to icloud, while their banks are keeping their money perfectly safe.

Thin & flat isn't better

"Huawei has managed to chop the thickness down from 10.1 to 7.3 mm, making it much easier to manipulate."

The Nexus 6 (like other Motorola phones) has a curved back, while it might be 10.1 mm thick in the centre it's much thinner at the edges, the result is a device that's much more comfortable to hold than a thin flat phone.