* Posts by James

5 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Dec 2007

Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting

James
Gates Halo

Another article by an apple brown noser

Oh it's so terrible. Why do you nasty people want to criticise M$ in such an unfair manner. Windoze Fistme is such a fantastic (and radicle) product I can't fathorm why anyone would want to detract from it's wonderful undocumented features. Without windoze Fistme the whole industry would be rudderless and without direction. M$ lead the way in creating ubercool products, you should be all be very grateful. For so many to disagree so strongly you must all be Apple brown nosers. I mean why be so beastly and mean about such a little bug, sorry, deliberate feature. I hope you all have something really really horrible happen to you like a bug that makes booting you Mac take 874658364 million years.

Oh hold on, why am I being so uptight about this, last thing I want to do is throw a hissy fit like the average Apple fanboy/fangirl. Lets try again.

Right on the money guv. If something basic like file copying is buggered then there is something very wrong. No point trying to defend it M$ are being very very crap and should do something about it. A year is far too long so there's no point defending that either. Ignoring the problem is indefensible so there's no point.....

Wow, this being objective and realistic is so liberating. It's definitely much better than being uptight and blinkered. Maybe more people should try this (particularly iTwits).

This rant has been inspired by the average article about Apple problems which results in a million 'stop Apple bashing. Microsoft lackey' comments. It's nice to be free to speak your mind.

Apple keeps critical security fixes to itself

James
Paris Hilton

@ Kanhef

Kanhef. Did you miss the bit where I said I had ALREADY ticked the relevant box??? Aplle just decided to ignore it as they want to give me a free copy of iTunes

James
Jobs Halo

Now everything makes sense!!!!

A few days ago my apple software updater popped up out of the blue and was most helpful in suggesting there were updates I might want to avail myself of. It would seem that I can get a shiny new version of quick time which comes with a wonderful piece of iPhone interface software called 'iBollocks'.

The thing that really surprised me about all of this was the fact that when I went hunting for the PFO checkbox to make sure I was never bothered again it was already ticked!!! ?

<rant on>

Either Apple really really really want me to by an iPhone and start using iTunes or they do regard this as an important update. So much so that they disregarded any settings in their own software that approximate to "do not ever ever ever check to see if Apple have any newer crap to install on my box, i'd rather die than have more of your malware".

<rant off>

Smut vid outfit sues PornoTube

James
Happy

Bit of a U turn

I'm pretty sure I read some article (on a techy site, honest) on the self same subject where some geeza from Vivid said they didn't mind P2P etc.. as it was good advertising. Bit of a U turn if my memory is not faulty. Hold on.....

...."Our take on it is a little more like independent bands think," Asher continued. "Until these sites get shut down, we'd rather there be Vivid content on there. Let people get a taste for our movies. For us, it's good advertising. With adult, remember we're putting out a new movie every four days, so what you pirate today will be out of date four days from now."

.....aaaaahhhh, now it all makes sense. The advertising budget just ran out.

Europe too cynical for iPhone

James
Dead Vulture

Dear Dumb

As one person pointed out SMS,MMS etc.. are all methods of communication you can rely on to be accessible from most phones

MMS probably goes back as far as the first phone with a colour screen so it's a very very safe bet (if not guaranteed) for sending pictures etc...

Email support is patchy and consequently rarely used. So yeah, Apple have dropped the ball if half decent support is not there for "established standards".

That aside, your questioning why someone would want to use "send to many" highlights how ridiculous you argument is. I send texts very infrequently but at least twice a year I “send to many”. Christmas and New year. The function makes sense and serves a purpose, even if it's used infrequently. If I sent a Christmas email only my corporate mates with their crackberries and the odd apple fanboi might pick it up.

So, if I might be bold enough to make an adjustment to one of your statements... ...I suggest you stick your head back in so no-one else has to smell your shite.

I guess I should also make a comment specific to the iPhone. statistics are well covered so I won't go there.

Played with one for a few minutes. Got bored. Looks nice but there's a limit to how excited I can about gimmicky apps. There's definitely a limit to how much I would pay for a phone with a fixed battery so I know I will never own one.