Posts by Tigra 07 2373 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2010
"Apple are absolutely no worse than any other manufacturer of tech products anywhere."
So rather than set a fair example and charge the right price, the same price as in America they charge more for sending their crap to the UK
Just as they tried charging $1000 dollars for an iphone in Pakistan and ended up with hardly anyone buying one
"Penguins have an interesting life cycle; the ones who tough out the antarctic winters could probably do with a little warming, so it will take a while to kill them off."
Penguins will be gone when all the ice is melted and will have no food as the fish move to find the same temperatures.
And Windows 7 sets itself up, you only have to put your name in when it asks and choose which modem is yours for it to connect.
If your customers weren't smart enough to do that then no way could they use linux without help
When the world wants a system that will take a long time to learn how to use and set up and is evil.
Then the take up of apple will really take off.
Microsoft get a lot of stick for problems that aren't always their fault.
Whether they had thousands of unpatched flaws or not, i'd stick with them because of how much they donate to charity (especially when Bill was in charge) and how simple to use they are.
Let's face it, with more old people using the net, it's easier to set up a windows computer and let them use it than sit there explaining how to set up apple drivers and partitions
Not all Macs have had bluetooth for the last 5 years, even the guy posting before me points that out
So by trying to point out criticism in my original statement about losing a usb port you have only shown yourself to be a fanboi incapable of reading or indeed telling the truth.
Do your research next time fanboi
"The only flaw here is Apple's use of Bluetooth technology. Yes, it saves having to lose a USB port to a dongle"
Not if you installed have a bluetooth dongle in the first place to use the pad on an old computer.
What happens when you get caught watching porn because the battery on the pad has gone?
"I'm not aware of any other mainstream product shipping with a security hole engineered into it deliberately but left in only accidentally."
The Sony BMG bebacle with the unremovable rootkit DRM?
That can't have been tested at all or they'd have noticed at least some of the trouble it caused.
I assumed you were talking to the other guy about the security issue, so haven't replied to that
I installed ZoneAlarm Firewall on my Windows 7 laptop friday because so many people rave about it.
Not only did the install not work, but it KOd my laptop and i had to do a system restore.
Apparently it's a common problem involving a driver ZA adds.
Do i blame ZA (who i've never used) or Microsoft (who i've never had trouble with)?
It will never work, for starters computer screens are bad for the skin in a real obvious way.
Aswell as causing migranes, headaches and other skin and eye illnesses, they also make psoriasis and exema unbearable
Getting closer to them for longer will just lead to a a lot more headaches and lawsuits against apple by lots of people.
"Have you not noticed how successful the Apple AppStore is?"
Compared to what exactly?
The android store will catch up and overtake at the speed the phones are selling.
And as a developer, surely you would want your app on as many stores as possible to maximise your revenue?
Dave if someone punches you would you punch them back or run off?
Same thing
If someone attacked your wife, wouldn't you want them to have the same done to them for such an unprovoked attack?
So to me, it's still a brilliant deterrent to rapists and murderers.
And it's proven to work better than locking prisoners up as reoffending rates in Saudi Arabia are testament to
You're just being stupid David, as i can prove:
"Say someone has a coughing fit and runs someone over, or knocks a plant-pot off a windowsill and it hits someone in the street below."
They can get sued now and lose their house and job for those circumstances, accident or not.
Doesn't require an eye for an eye unless the person did those things on purpose.
"What if two people have a minor argument which ends up with them each poking fingers in each other's chests, and one drops dead - does everything depend on making a decision about who started the argument?"
Wouldn't break any laws so how could they sue or go to court?
Assault only works if there's evidence so a poke would have to bruise or cut someone, in which case it's obvious who came off worse.
Killing someone by poking would not equate to murder in any circumstance
"Do you think you could get even half a dozen people to agree what a fair blame threshold is?"
It's called law and more than a dozen people have agreed on that for thousands of years
"What if the guy who then falls into the machine was doing something the manager had told him not to do?"
Then justice was served and that's also a deterrent for other workers not to do it
Use your brain David
Let's suppose they tell you every week how much your rubbish weighed, then all of a sudden it increases and your neighbour's rubbish gets lighter.
You could complain, they can check your rubbish bags for evidence (they already do this and use it to catch flytippers aswell)
And then your neighbour gets a big fine or goes to prison for fraud.
Justice right?
Hopefully bin taxes will get abolished anyway because they're stupid
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