Posts by snarf 16 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2010
"You know what's most pathetic? The fact that I, a 45 year old bloke, gets the reference. It's Friday evening, time for a few swift ones in the pub on the way home."
Your nickname on this forum is FuzzyWuzzys. Nobody expects you to have grown up. ;)
By Lewis Page • Get more from this author
Climate shocker: Carry on as we are until 2050, planet will be FINE
Greenland ice SIMPLY WOULD NOT MELT in baking +8°C era 120k years ago
Climate watch: 2012 figures confirm global warming still stalled
Global warming still stalled since 1998, WMO Doha figures show
New science upsets calculations on sea level rise, climate change
Climate NON-change: No increase in droughts since 1950, say boffins
Steady Antarctic ice growth 'limits confidence in climate predictions'
Swedish boffins: An ICE AGE is coming, only CO2 can save us
Ice sheets may stabilise for centuries, regardless of warming
New science: SEAS WILL RISE due to CO2 ... but not for centuries
Salt marshes will suck CO2 from air faster and faster as seas rise
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Axe to grind, much?
It sounds like you have to touch a particular point on the opposite hand while that point is jumping around every time you move your head or that hand, and while the touching hand is blocking the beam.
I would hope that it would be a little more sophisticated than that. I'd imagine the software will be able to recognise and track your hand as it moves relative to the camera.
"Having a well-stocked app store is widely perceived as being essential for the success of any mobile platform. Apple, by far the leader in this category, boasts some 775,000 apps in its iOS App Store, and the Google Play store has nearly as many."
How can Apple be "by far" the leader in this category, if Google Play has "nearly as many" apps?
Some people agree with you, but the majority of the (growing) readership doesn't.
What on earth are you talking about? How do you know that the majority of the readership doesn't agree with me?
Have you taken a poll as to how many people think you have a good attitude toward others' opinions? Or show a measured response to criticism? These are the only opinions I have offered in this thread.
I believe you are attributing opinions to me that I have not authored. Funnily enough it is you here that is displaying prejudice and preconception. Especially when I take another look at your rant - how much of that is actually a direct response to my initial post?
Kindly do not put words into my mouth and then berate me for them.
To be honest I am not going to dignify the rest of your remark with a reply, you are consistently rude and react badly to criticism so I'm just going to leave it there.
Or to put it in parlance you might understand: Zero fucks given. Moving on.
Bizarre how many people care enough about this to write posts slagging it off. Don't like it? Vote with your feet... Don't buy it.
I also find it odd that people are moaning about stuff like the lack of an optical drive or the reduced storage that comes with SSDs rather than spinning disks. The standard Macbook Pro line has been updated as well, so if these are your requirements then just buy one of them. It'll save you a good few quid in the process. Unless, you want all this plus the high res display. Well... as has been stated elsewhere... hopefully the market will respond to this, in the same way that it has to the Macbook Air, and this kind of screen will become the norm over the next couple of years. Kudos to Apple for pushing the envelope.
Personally I'm hoping they release a 13" version next year... Until then I'm going with the MBA update. I like portability in my laptops and even at approx 2kg, the 15" form factor is a touch on the large side for me.
Of course, it's not all about Apple. I am looking forward to the Zenbook UX21A when that comes out...
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