Posts by Rob McDougall 66 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Sep 2007
The BBC needs to keep a good range of distinct radio stations, not a one-size-fits-all mentality with just 5 main stations.
I've never felt the need to listen to Radio 1, but 6Music has often had a great range of programming - the "gateway drug" for me being Adam + Joe...
If anything, they should make the programming more niche - often I would tune out as more popular music was piped out, stuff I could listen to on Radio 1 (but obviously wasn't...)
This will teach me to be an early adopter... but it would seem that NVidia are now delivering on the promise of the original Unibody MacBook Pro's... I always assumed an update would come along that would allow software-based GPU switching, but no... I shall be forever doomed to logging out/in to switch cores...
I still don't fully understand the Oyster paranoia - you don't have to register it. You can buy it from a machine with 3x£1 coins and use cash to top it up...
If you can be arsed.
I guess that's where they get us.
The same reason I use Google Calendar and GMail and will probably soon have a Google phone...
Convenience.
The trouble starts when the basket I've put all my eggs into starts to sell my eggs. Or throw my eggs at buildings, if you'll allow me to push the metaphor that far...
It does ! It's a groundbreaking, iconic design but the OS is now about 3 years old...
I've not had an android phone, but every time I've played with one I've been very impressed with what they can squeeze out of the phone's CPU... I dare say the UI is a little more functional than Apple's. I was sold immediately when I saw on/off switches for WiFi, Bluetooth etc could be added to the home screen...
an excellent post there.
I am a young video professional/graduate with not very much money. I do a lot of live 3D rendering for musical shows and stuff. I used to have a 12" MBP back in the old old days, but in recent years have been doing my thang on my iMac (Nightmare to carry to gigs...)
So I bought a BlackBook. Turns out the X3100 IS a piece of crap, and I soon sold it on.
I waited for this release for aaaaaages... Now I'm sitting here with a MacBook pro and a decidedly shoddy looking bank balance.
Why? Because there is no 13" MBP. Seriously - I would've killed for a higher higher end MacBook w/ FW800... but noooo.... now I have to lug this 15" beast with me!
Not that I'm complaining (too much) - it's an excellent machine. It's just way more machine than I ever wanted!
(also, I can check out my hair in the mirror/screen)
That was a very interesting article. I've not dug about in XCode before, it's been sitting on my system a long time 'cos I use Quartz Composer for some nice 3D stuff I do with live music...
To Daniel Harris, I think you won't have to wait too long to get what you want. Apple have been developing "resolution independence" for a while now, I think it's due in Snow Leopard, so your tiny fonts should look the same (hopefully not too tiny) on any monitor! Other things like the menu bar should take up precisely the same amount of space (e.g 1cm or whatever) rather than a proportion of the screen (1% of whatever resolution)... I think?
(correct me if I'm wrong!)
Mines the one with the ruler in the pocket, and no I'm not that excited to see you...!
good grief. I currently get a £35 deal with £15 off each month, 'cos I told them I wanted an iPhone last time round. I wonder if I could keep that deal if iPhone went on Orange...
I do hate Orange though. Despite the nice deal I have at the moment. O2 just seems like a better company all round...
feckin "Wil" and his "I've got an unusual way of spelling my name like Thom Yorke" mentality...
The production values of this piece were so shoddy. Who the feck uses keynote for their graphics and then leaves the bloody mouse pointer on the screen?! let alone the fact that the gradient looks awful on such a low bit-rate flash codec.
gash. next time buy me an iPhone and a video camera and I'll sick out a better video review...
just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!
google can just "silence" this "dissident"? so if you say anything they don't like, you suddenly lose your freedom of speech on their message boards?
great. sounds a bit chinese to me...
oh, and this message has just been moderated as well (successfully, I might add - if you're reading it)
I've upgraded both my desktop and laptop Macs to intels over the last few years, and whilst the iMac's been great, the Macbook has features lacking that the 12" Powerbook used to have (like instant sleeping - battery which would last for a week, whilst asleep instead of a few hours....)
Anyway.
I guess Apple really is turning into the Evil Genius that WIRED proclaimed it to be...
What a massive waste.
OK, great so someone thought about recycling them...?
What they forget is, recycling takes up a shitload of energy too (it has a carbon footprint)
So, what's better than recycling your DVD's?
Downloading them? Could be... I'm not sure if servers take up more power than recycling plants...
Either way, I hope this crashes faster than George dubya in his DUI days...
Microsoft and Apple bring it on themselves to some degree. Everyone expects OS X to be perfect, and forget that all versions 10.0+ have been buggy till at least .2, if not .3.
Vista isn't as bad as everyone says, once you turn off all the new "features". At which point it's like Win2k, and seriously not worth the cash.
I think this fine is justified until Microsoft opens up things like Active Directory. It's not like anyone wants to rip off windows - they just want to be able to have unix and windows-based clients able to talk better with each other.
The way things stand at the moment, it takes a hell of a lot of cajoling to get a mac to log in to a Windows server-based network... *grumbles*
Sorry, I don't think the PC can really be compared to a car.
Yes, you can go to a showroom and buy one pre-built (Apple are a good example of this), but that's pretty much where the analogy ends. I guess you could say they both take you on a journey, if you wanted to be particularly philosophical...
But the world of PC's is much different to a car. A car, for one, doesn't have an operating system. You can put in new parts without installing drivers. This is one of the downfalls of the modern PC. Each component needs software to drive it.
(Wouldn't it be better to have some sort of standardised driver set, that each device adhered to? This wouldn't limit the devices, just give them all standard ways to communicate with the OS.)
Updates to a car mean buying a new car (if you want the updated version). Upgrades to software don't mean you need to go and buy a new PC, although you may need parts.
Whatever way you look at it, a car and a PC will never compare - because a car doesn't have software. There's that whole other aspect to consider with a PC.
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