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Posts by daz disley
15 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Dec 2008
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Nvidia drops veil on game-changing might of VGX
Mobile operators mourn death of embedded 4G
Oz pedestrians fall to 'Death by iPod'
Apple as a religion: How the iPhone became divine
Tuesday 3rd August 2010 09:24 GMT 
Mac user values exist?
sure they exist ...
... the ones I find tend to be of the sort that make me want to ... scream ...
like just because its a mac means you've got professional results guaranteed in the box regardless of the complete noob status of the user
like just because the o/s its "easy to use" means the operator is somehow superior - regardless of the complete lack of experience and understanding of the discipline at-hand
like just becase there's garage-band the user is some audio-guru or somthing ... purlease
now I realise the potential for flames in reply to this, so let me justify this. Of course the above are dumb-assed points of view, and yes I also hear these from win & linux users ...
... but nowhere near as often as I do from the Jobsian brigade ...
... infact, I'd expect a knock on the door on a saturday morning - f*ck me its a fanboi with a iPad brochure : asking if I'd like to reconsider my views on the world and how much better life would be if I'd become part of the church of St Jobs. Just as with the real religious nutters, although its satisfying to destroy their arguments in seconds with even the flimsiest of logic ; they rarely have the power of reasoning to keep-up with the argument ... and inevitably choose flawed logic (and now flawed products) swallowed direct from the Cup(ertino) over any notion that they may, just possibly; be wrong ... or god forbid, spent a little too much money on their erm lifestyle computing choices ...
... so shoot me for being a cross-platform anti-zealot ...
LPG lake on Titan evaporating in scorchio -180°C heatwave
Dell customers count cost of battery back-up
Steve Jobs unveils iPhone 4
Tuesday 8th June 2010 00:35 GMT 
Environmental requirements
how Jobsian that apple *requires* the correct environment for its phone ...
"Environmental requirements
* Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F
(0° to 35° C)
* Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F
(-20° to 45° C)
* Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
* Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
"
and isn't 35° C a tad on the cool side ? I mean, wouldn't the thing just cook in my pocket on a hot (for u.k.) day ?
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