Posts by gisabsr 33 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2011
You must admit that it would have rather ruined the whole 'plane getting shot down by bad Clara using a MANPAD' part of the plot if the aircraft had been able to avoid the missile by flying at altitude, blanketing the electromagnetic spectrum with noise and popping flares and chaff as if it were going out of fashion.
Although, quite pretty, especially at night. Maybe not the electromagnetic bit.
They did it to this app, but not all of the other ones that do the same thing?
They let the apps onto the App store in the first place, knowing full well what they can do?
They added the ability to add extensions, including adblocking, to Safari, without thinking this through?
It wasn't Apple. Nice try, though.
Biggest IT SNAFU I've been involved with? Put it this way - I used to work for the Office of the e-Envoy, responsible for UKOnline and the Government Gateway.
Microsoft involvement meant that the portal required IE, for 'security' purposes. After a couple of months I think we managed to get it to work, mostly, in other browsers, but initial signup still had to be in IE on Windows.
Later we discovered that the terms of the contract meant that MS got the rights to take away all the things it had learned from working with us to set up the government gateway, and implement the same thing elsewhere, including stuff we'd developed in house.
That whole wretched episode isn't entirely deleted off my CV, but its appearance is brief...
I fixed it by not connecting the TV to t'internet, and using a small form factor computer instead (I'll admit that it's a Mac Mini running Kodi/XBMC and will wear the resulting down votes with pride!), limiting what it can do on the Internet too.
It's much better at doing the things I need it to do than any smart TV, upgradeable, and at least I can control what it does, and doesn't send.
None of those things? That's odd, because with freemium apps on iOS, IAPs require passwords, just as apps do by default. You can't turn that off. You can, however, turn off in app purchases entirely in the settings.
Apple do use 'free' in the store listings, but only where the price normally goes. Seems reasonable and consistent, no? Just like just having 'install' where the price normally goes on the Play store.
Apple identify right under the name, at the top of the listing 'Offers in-app purchases' when the application does. They always have.
Added bonus, no people from those better parts of the country coming down south demanding free dry cleaning services to deal with the nasty grease stains clothes from the huge chips on their shoulders.
There you go, about as funny and clever as your post, i.e., not at all.
A Nissan Juke, even the 'fancy' limited edition, counts as a flash car?
And yes, it is for charity. If I had the money and the will to spend it like this (which I don't, on both counts) I'd rather sit with someone like Tim Cook, Larry Page, Bill Gates or even Larry Ellison than some gormless footballer.
Also, don't drink coffee. Do you reckon I'd get a discount if I asked for a nice cup of cocoa, with extra marshmallows?
When I was at Merrill Lynch in the 90s we were assured by the Bloomberg reps that messaging using the terminals was 100% secure, and we used it for all sorts (work mainly, but also partly, in my case, furthering my 'friendship' with a special friend who was also on the network) knowing that. Nice to know that wasn't the case. Lovely.
This is very true. It's painful. We keep being told we should 'support small businesses', but when the local small business is significantly more expensive that the alternative it is hard.
A small markup I can take for convenience, but 15-20%+, which is what sometimes happens, even between B&M stores. Well, I'm not a charity, and more to the point, neither are they.
I live about five minutes away from the shop in question, and have two friends with coeliac disease (as in actually have it, rather than being fashionable/conned into thinking they have gluten intolerance as so many people seem to). They have refused to shop there in the past due to, and i paraphrase 'customer service issues'.
I rather suspect their opinion will not be swayed by this latest development.
Of course, when the Telefonica/O2 guy said '“moving backward, duopolies are no good for anyone", he really meant to say "moving backward, duopolies are no good for us. Telcos don't want to be the dumb pipes they really are (and the only thing they're any good at), and want a monopoly instead. Also, java applets that look like zx81 games are really cool, and stuff'.
Dear Webcrowd.
I am concerned that your post does not direct a sufficient amount of vitriol, hyperbole and, indeed, any kind of histrionics towards Apple, instead picking on poor Adobe, who are a force for good and awesomeness and, err, open and stuff.
Please correct this oversight to better fit in with the other posters on el Reg. Thank you, and have a nice day
Going back to the matter at hand - if you really want comedy overcharging gold in Australia, check out car pricing over here. And how even 'standard' euro brands like Opel, VW, Peugeot and Citroen are positioned as premium brands, and charge accordingly. It's really quite irritating.
Unless you buy your nexus from one of the many operators that install their own firmware on the things, or Samsung's superspecial Yakjuxw, rather than Google's own Yakju, in which you might still be waiting.
Of course, you could root the thing yourself, unlock the bootloader and change it to Yakju, but that rather defeats the point for 'normal', i.e., the majority of phone purchasers, no?
And idiot? That special condescension app that comes with Android phones seems to be getting a real workout today, eh?
I bet that even if Nokia were to switch to something as succesful as Android they'd manage to screw it up, much like the peeps at Sony Ericsson, who have completely failed to get the whole 'support the user, ideally with upgrades and nice customer support' ever since launching the P series of Symbian phones, and are continuing that fine tradition with the X10. Why would Nokia be any different?
Better they stick with a new OS like WP7 that is being sold to neophytes who see the name 'Microsoft' and think that all good flows out of Redmond. And, of course, the MS vassals who have a vested interest in the Microsoft dominance being extended beyond just the desktop.
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