Posts by mraak

Zuck on it, Google: 'Public' Facebook events are dead to you

Re: Christ-on-a-Bike!

Just using that post title places you firmly into FB fanboi category

Bad news: PC slump worse than feared. Good news: It's Friday

Logically

Lots of people never wanted a laptop in the first place but they got one because there was no other device to use Facebook. Now that there is cheaper, lighter and fancier alternative, they got what they wanted. Computers are for working.

Bendy screens are the future, screams maker of bendy screens

Riiiiight

Some things just have to be hard to function properly. How about some bendable spoons?

Black Ops 2 takes HALF A BEELLION DOLLARS in just ONE DAY

Is it again a liner shooter?

Just one path, not able to take different paths, no tactics, no strategy? Previous versions were like a competition how many mosquitos you can smash.

Water, water everywhere on the Moon: But not a drop to drink

What about H?

I thought one of the main reasons for excitement is not to go there to drink water, but use it for electrolysis, so that Hydrogen could be extracted and used as fuel for space missions. Is this still an option now?

Google readying on-device malware scanner for Android

Re: Phone+

I use my paper map for surprisingly enough. Haven't detected any malware on it yet.

iPhone has no malware

Because nobody uses it, so the malware creators don't have any incentives targeting iOS.

Windows 8 ads hit US screens: Death Metal, exploding laptops

This must be finally

Year of Desktop Linux

The tips stop here: Starbucks to take Square Wallet payments

I have a brilliant idea

They could also start selling coffee!

iOS 6 maps can't find Sydney Apple Store

Re: But it's prettier

They designed the previous app also, and the page curl for that. FYIP.

'Programming on Windows 8 just like playing bingo' - Microsoft VP

It's great

All you need is 40GB Visual Studio

HTML5 isn't Facebook's 'biggest mistake'

HTML5 is a whore

And everybody can do to it whatever they want, kick it around like a can, no direction, no ownership. Apple being the prime example of killing the HTML5. After years of bashing Flash and kicking it out of existence, with HTML5 as an excuse, they are now equally trying to stop the development of HTML5. iOS Safari for example blocks the use of multiple sounds at the same time, and only restricts sounds on user interactions, so... no games outside of the app store. Thanks for improving the state of Web multimedia, it worked out great!

iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software

Map wise

In all the 1000s' years of history of the mapping, Google somehow missed to put a scale on their iPhone app, and the names of the rivers.

If Apple's maps only fix that it will be a huge improvement for me.

Maps with no scale? Please. What next, coffee with no coffee? Oh wait... Starbucks...

WiReD surgically removes damaged neurotrash 'expert'

Wired needs to remove design team

Then when all you have are articles to read, I would like to see how many readers will stay.

Sacrebleu! Googleplex insists Bush is still le président américain

This would imply that

Google Translate is dumber than Dumbia himself. No seriously, why is Google full of these half assed products lately? Reminds me of MS more and more.

Hipstamatic axes most of staff to focus on art, creativity

Re: Oh, man

Ok hipster.

YouTube app wrenched from next Apple iPhones, iPads

"cats and warbling hipsters"

Life is beautiful :)

Scrunched Street View spymobile spied in India

Why are idiots throwing stones at a car?

Clearly Apple fanbois.

Well-funded Meteor poised to impact web development

"Meteor applications are written in pure JavaScript"

So much for the *future*. Bye.

Samsung flogs 10 million Galaxy S IIIs in 7 weeks

Re: Hot Cakes

I'm kind of a on his boat. I used iPhone a lot and my plan expires in November. But from what I've seen on Galaxy S, my secondary phone, the UI really is a mess, and the casing becomes terrible after a year, looks like crap really, worn out thin plastic. iPhone case still looks like "Bang and Olufsen" piece after 3 years of usage. I might switch over, but really after a good look at it.

Google makes Opera bloggers an offer they can't refuse: Use Chrome

Re: What was that again, something with standards?

But, but, but ..... HTML5 is *open*

Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER?

They gave me a new device

After sinking it in toilet bowl so I guess the water detection wasn't in iPhone 4 model.

Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL

As Mark Zuckerberg once said

All FB users are dumbf*cks.

Behold: Today marks Year Five of the iPhone Era

Ah the good old days

Cut some jpegs with clouds, puppies, tits and shit, sell through Handango as mobile wallpapers for £3, keep 30% of the revenue and you're done. Since iPhone, you have to bloody develop a whole app to get £0.59 from the market. The Satan himself must have brought this device...

Apple flat-screen TV to ship by holiday season?

Re: Holiday season?

And in SF they don't have summer holidays for two reasons:

1. They don't have "summer"

2. They don't have "holidays", (i.e. Americans work too much)

Ex-Soviet space gunboats to be FOUND ON MOON

Angry Birds Space

Coincidence, or did I just spot some weird looking vehicles in Angry Birds Space?

Adobe feeling drained by new model, but hopes things will improve

People are sick of Adobe

Every year there is an upgrade, every year. No significant no features, just ... an upgrade. They keep on inventing their pricing models and how to squeeze more money from costumers instead of inventing and fixing their products.

Facebook's ONLY failure: Expectations management

Dumb f*cks

Is what Zuckerberg calls FB users for trusting him their data, so why should I treat them any better than utter idiots? That goes for investors too.

source:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/

Microsoft launches its own 'so.cl' network

sign in limited

to fb and win live. coat.

Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China

Very weird then

that the mobile web browsing in China, with WinPho, is practically non-existant.

source:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-CN-weekly-201120-201220

Apple scrubs dirty iCloud data centre with second solar wash

I bet

Apple has less to do with slavery than the manufacturer of the sneakers you're wearing. But hey, why should you care, huh?

Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade

They had to hold the price

artificially. Once it fell back to original price the underwriters were holding the price not letting it go lower. It will be interesting to see how it moves once they won't be able to speculate further.

Yahoo! CEO! didn't! even! read! his! own! CV!

Re: Lets be honest...

Yes, let's be *HONEST*

(about our CV's)

BOFH: Siri, why do users lie?

HTTP Protocol?

Sony blames record $5.7bn loss on everything but Sony

Re: why the hate?

PS3 - no way to decently browse web, no way to decently view youtube videos. So much they could do with that device, but I guess earthquakes are preventing them (not laziness). If it weren't for Blue Ray player I'd sell it long time back.

I guess earthquakes are preventing them to create a workable browser on PS3 for years now.

Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants

Green Card

Love it or hate it, whoever can get one proves that he's willing to go through all kinds of sh** and bureaucracy probably really deserves a stay.

Official: Britain staggers into double-dip recession doom

Re: Austerity?

>>Please highlight which particular cuts caused this, and when they actually took effect.

Maybe 25% of housing and 25% of social expenditure? Was this money available to private sector and individuals buying stuff, things wouldn't be so catastrophic, money would be flowing - i.e. economy growing. Double dip recession, when they promised growth? You gotta be kidding me, are you their shitguard or what?

All this austerity BS is a way to make poor poorer so that "aristocracy" can reclaim their god given rights to riches.

Austerity?

How's that working for you Cameron? Like Spain, Italy? Didn't you say in 2010 we'd be out of the mess with your strategy by now?

Adobe Cloud offers leg up over Creative Suite's price wall

I'd rather buy

Instagram over Photoshop anyway. It only costs 1 billion.

Google shows off Project Glass augmented reality specs

Nausea

I got nauseous just by looking at YT clip.

Prehistoric monster snake crushed prey under 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges

re: 'the pyramids'

And there are those who think "pyramids" and "volcanos" are just airports for lord Xenu.

Groupon bungles figures, slides $65m into the red

Re: Caveat emptor all ye snake oil purchasers

Not greed, I'd say hype, which is sure to attract a lot of stupidity as well. Pinterest anyone?

Adobe can't penetrate punters' tight wallets: Users holding out for CS6

Whaaaaaa????

I just paid for Web Premium 5.5 a month back. Now again?

Apple Store staff outnumber queues as new iPad goes on sale

Come on...

You don't have to be really rich to afford a gadget like iPad.

Windows 8: Sugar coating on Microsoft's hard-to-swallow tablet

Because it's short for computer application. I guess one could also use prog.

Who's adding DRM to HTML5? Microsoft, Google and Netflix

Re: Why does this matter?

Are you calling Flash? The hated, unwanted, evildoer, that's to blame for all bad that happened to his world ever since iPhone was introduced?

Oh, we're totally HTML5

Because it's open.

Rhapsody nabs Napster UK

Anything but Spotify

Erm.. I mean Faceify