Still using last gen Intel MacBook Pro
No upgrade path for my usage. VirtualBox running several (Intel) OSes. Apple Silicon has left me seeing the end of the Apple trail…
Posts by Gareth Gouldstone
136 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Apr 2007
With users mostly happy to keep older kit, Macs just ain't selling like they used to
Python swallows Java to become second-most popular programming language... according to this index
Sunday 15th November 2020 18:06 GMT
Re: Python is not turned for speed
Python is not a pure OO language. It is a general purpose scripting language based on Objects. Some general things that non-OO people might use are implemented as functions, like print() and len(). In reality, they interact with the object via methods, obj.__str__() and obj__len__(), respectively. So the object itself decides what is printed and determines its own length, if any.
Soz fanbois, Apple DIDN'T invent the smartphone after all
Chill, luvvies. The ‘unsustainable’ BBC Telly Tax stays – for now
Microsoft shareholders wave through CEO Satya Nadella's massive pay package
Hey, Apple! We can land a probe on a comet, but we can't have a 12.9in iPad 'until mid-2015'?
Is Apple incubating a Macbook, iPad bastard child?
Microsoft on the Threshold of a new name for Windows next week
fist-bumping is good for your health, says respected surveyor
What data recovery software would you suggest?
Nintendo says sorry, but there will be NO gay marriage in Tomodachi Life ... EVER
Sunday 11th May 2014 20:48 GMT
"How many people knew they were gay when they were 5 or 6?"
I knew when I was five that I was different. I didn't have a name for it until I was thirteen, by which time I had learned that it was 'wrong' to feel like I did. 48 years later I would hope that kids can see role models for how they are rather than how their parents would like them to be.
Report: Apple seeking to raise iPhone 6 price by a HUNDRED BUCKS
SCRAP the TELLY TAX? Ancient BBC Time Lords mull Beeb's future
Apple plans to waggle iNormous 4½-incher in fanbois' faces
'Leaked' iPhone 6 pics will make cool fanbois WEEP - it's a PHABLET
Speaking in Tech: When will I buy a 4K TV? When they make one that LOOKS COOL
Big goolies-grabbing black snake nips unlucky bloke's trouser snake
WTF is... NFV: All your basestations are belong to us
Monday 9th December 2013 20:41 GMT
Software as a (dis)service...
It seems that these days it is considered acceptable if things work 'most of the time', even if the service is worse than what we had before. Think digital tv dropouts, DAB car radios and VoIP reliability. They all 'work' more often than not but when there are problems it tends to be worse or more annoying than the older, dedicated hardware issues or analog interference. Ditto web-based apps vs full-fat local apps.
Hello Warsaw: Greenland ice loss will be OK 'even under extreme scenarios'
Apple, for one, welcomes its ROBOT factory OVERLORDS
A Tapestry of network complexity
Steve Jobs' death clears way for '13-inch' JUMBO iPAD HYPEGASM
The Metro experiment is dead: Time to unleash Windows Phone+
Apple's next OS X said to be targeted at 'power users'
LHC spots mesons flipping between matter and antimatter
Microsoft exec: No 'Plan B' despite mobile stumbles
Lotus 1-2-3 turns 30: Mitch Kapor on the Google before Google
Londoners can bonk their way to work without Oyster cards TODAY
Apple's iOS 6 maps STILL muddle Mildura
Tuesday 11th December 2012 09:17 GMT
Re: Big intake of breath
Unfortunately there is now an entire generation who will never have read a map and who probably have no idea where they have been nor how they got there. The nice lady (or man) said 'Turn left' and 'Turn right' and 'Destination on the left', but they have no picture in their head of where they are. Just look at the number of cars getting stuck in fords, or the lorries stuck in country lanes and you can see that people unquestioningly rely on the technology. That is not a good thing, but it does mean the technology has to work well or not at all.
iPad mini to go on sale in one month?
HP to take one more stab at consumer tablets
Nokia CEO: No shift from Windows Phone
Apple Store staircase flagged as Peeping Tom black spot
Salesforce goes titsup, causes CRM outages worldwide
Amount of meat we eat will barely affect future climate change
BBC iPlayer to require TV licence
Tuesday 1st November 2011 00:10 GMT
General taxation funding the BBC ...
... would make the BBC a state organ, subject to the political whims of the current incumbents. Come the next recession, bye bye Auntie Beeb. At least the licence fee, for all it's faults, maintains a fairly safe distance between broadcaster, state and treasury.
And without having to have an (often unannounced) advert break every 6 minutes, as is increasingly the case on commercial channels, rendering them unwatchable to anyone except demented gerbils.
I wonder how long before the advertisers get wise to the fact that PVRs mean no-one needs to watch adverts, so they pull their business, and the commercial channels all collapse.
Trojan targets Mac's built-in security defences
Don't bother with that degree, say IT pros
RM flogging or axing units in painful shake-up
Microsoft cloud evaporated by one busted file
Apple's cloudy music streamer won't stream music
Wednesday 31st August 2011 07:31 GMT
RTFM - Apple do not mention streaming
As I wrote in an earlier comment,
" This is the largest misconception about iCloud.
It is all about SYNCing, nothing to do with STREAMing. All iCloud does is ensure all your iDevices (including Macs and PCs) are transparently synchronised. This may include your music, which does not have to be uploaded to iCloud if iTunes Match has a copy of all your tracks. If not, then only those non-matched tracks are uploaded, but ONLY for the purpose of re-synching back to other devices, not for streaming.
They want you to store data and use apps locally, otherwise you would not buy high-capacity iPhones etc, and would not pay for local apps.
To summarise, iCloud keeps your local off-line world in sync; it is not about the on-line use of data or applications."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
