Posts by Mark Broadhurst

Re: Something not quite right..

Thats a different story the chap in this one is 41 years old and unnamed, your link is about a 59 year old man and no mention of a air mattress. seems odd there would be 2 explosions in one town in a few days of each other ?

Re: "...another upcoming Steve Jobs movie"

Well its not version 2 but it does end with an "S".

Re: 'could sport a gaudy "champagne gold" coloured case'

"champagne gold" runs the risk of turning "urine yellow" over time after fading.

Re: Ugh

Happy Decemberween!

Re: Content is King.

I agree but why would people who have a PS3 as a blu-ray drive buy either a Xbox 1 or PS4 ?

Re: I love W3C

Chrome has the DNT feature.

Settings... > Advanced > Tick "Send a ‘Do Not Track’ request with your browsing traffic"

Granted it could be easier to find but its there.

Leading the pack

It depends what stick you measure with to quote from one of the other two macbook air reviews:

imaginarynumber wrote :

Whilst there are no "cheap" high spec'd ultrabooks, there are ones that cost marginally less, offer similar under-the-hood performance, are lighter and have vastly superior (touch) screens.

The problem regarding compromise is that some people take the Air as the yard stick by which to measure others. Unless another device has identical characteristics at a lower price the devotees scream "compromise".

For years the devotees bragged about the weight of the Air, citing superior Apple design and the use of aluminium. Then the likes of sony start to use the lighter/stronger carbon fibre, eventually getting to the point where you have the Vaio Duo 13: In part lighter because of the carbon fibre and a smaller battery. The smaller capacity battery offers less time between charges than the Air. Now the devotees cite battery life as being the most important metric, who cares about screen resolution (until a retina version is released).

Ok lets find another machine to compare to the Air, lets take the Vaio Duo 13. It has a larger battery which lasts longer than the Air's. The downside being that the unit weighs the same amount as the Air, but it still has the better screen. "No, no, no" (they cry) "it's not as good, it costs more than the Air".

In the event that someone apes the Air' design but making it cheaper, same specs otherwise though, the devotees will accuse them of being a cheap knock off (and then point out that it doesn't run OSX but some variation on W98).

The Air is a decent machine but for the majority of people it is not the "best".

Re: "I guess what I'm saying is Thunderbolt was more a markettting failure than technological"

I think of thunderbolt as the new firewire.

Techincally superior but will be beaten by USB because of propitiatory bullshit.

Just like its grandfather.

Re: Gonna end in tears

Its in his interest as the $30m is shares will be worthless if the company goes under before he can sell them.

Re: It's always a scam

I stopped using Phone 4 F***ing U over after a sales person said I couldn't take out the contract until I heard the sales speech on insurance.

I went elsewhere.

Re: There's nothing wrong with copying

I agree but it is hypocritical when apple have sued Samsung for copying their iPad and iPhone "in order confuse customers to buy the Samsung model rather than the apple" which they won initially in the US then lost in Germany, samsung counter sued and won and then overturned the US verdict.

It reeks of hypocrisy if apple are they going to turn around and openly copy what Samsung are doing (and probably try and sue later).

Price make sense

Unfortunately since there is a running cost for the service in the form of the call centre I can understand both why the price is so high and why its per authentication.

I would be better if they split the normal 2 factor authentication via software and the more expensive with call center. However I would probably guess that the call centre would not be profitable without the additional users not using it.

Should that not be #Verydisappoint ?

Re: My watch is in the bedroom drawer

i'm sure with an iWatch you can make phone calls and look like dick tracy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dt2wrr.jpg

XBMC

Xbox Media Centre acts as a media centre extender for a PC you still need to have a TV card or what not in the pc and have it record the Xbox just plays back or lets you schedule recordings.

Well if it gets rid of a lot of the celeb perfumes like "Ke$sha's pong", its not all that bad.

It basically means that perfume will cost more. I doubt the trees will just disapear as their value will increase as they become more rare and demand rises.

While trees don't have a predictable growth pattern I would have thought that enough people would be trying to grow them that they wont be wiped out ?

RE: Maybe his stand-in...

You never know when you might need something that costs 40 Billion.

I hear black market livers can cost quite a bit.

Re: Umm...

I agree with you and apple that people should not expect apple to support unlocked or jailbroken phones (or any other type of hardware).

But disabling or spying on the user sounds like its more than a bit illegal.