Posts by Lallabalalla

Threesome ends in arrest as wife struck by pair of TVs

concluded all three were under the influence of alcohol.

that's it.

Apple was OK to fire man for private Facebook comments

Who?

The one in casualty with the boot stuck up their arse I'm hoping.

Apple admits iPhone battery suckage, promises fix

haha!

I could upvote you for being correct then downvote you for being cynical ;-) so why bother? I think the BS will die down if some of these rabid types ever get a job. Or finish their lunchbreak.

Plus...

this affects the 4 too so you can quadruple that. we are talking way <1% here.

apart from...

the free fixes available from Apple and their resellers and all the helpful people on the forums and anyone else with an aDevice who is usually pleased to help and.....

Nah

Just carry one of them charge-you-up-off-an-AA-battery thingies.

Lovely electric car breaks out of Oz

It's my birthday in about a week.

Just sayin.

Samsung demands iPhone 4S source code in Aussie row

Free publicity?

I think PR is cheaper than lawyers.

Aren't Apple just using Samsung as a cipher to kill Android?

Pete Townshend condemns Apple as 'digital vampire'

Oh but he'd *really* miss the money

It's the difference between a pair of Clarke's and a pair of Churches' after all. Poor him.

Cannot fund a tour???

You *must* be joking - ticket prices for PT types are in the £50 - £250 league - tours are where these people *make* money, not spend it. Not only are tours self-funding, they make the bands about $5mil a head. well, if you're a Townshend or a Jagger or a Van Morrison that is. Everyone else gets scale I bet.

durr

yes, but the end result would not be Dark Side Of The Moon or Blue, etc.

WTF is... Bluetooth 4.0?

How old??

I have a year-old iphone4 and an ancient ipod touch, both of which perform flawlessly with an Ericsson bluetooth/fm radio handsfree dongle thingy. No problem whatever.

blah

because they got them from expansys

Hubble snaps dark matter warping spacetime

Dark Matter?

Phlogiston!

Billion dollar telescope snaps galactic head-on

How does this work then?

In a while our galaxy will collide with Andromeda. I thought that as a result of the big bang everything in the universe was moving away from everything else. So how can anything collide?

iPhone 4S pre-orders obliterate sales records

Dick

Apple = I have better things to do than constantly prove my "technical literacy" by dicking around with my phone settings trying to get the thing to sync/work/get on wifi etc. Like get on with my job/play with my kids.... actually I'd even rather gnaw my own leg off than go back to fighting my OS every day. Is why I ditched the windows box at home.

I bet your car has an aftermarket exhaust and bolt-on go-faster bits, and you're constantly fiddling with the EMS settings (if and when you can get the lappy to boot without demanding an hour of updates).

Apple to execute touch-less iPods

blah

because they got them from expansys

Foxconn churns out '150,000' iPhone 5s a day

22 million?

so plentiful - you'd think they'd be cheaper.

Early Earth’s ‘golden shower’

Golden asteroid, maybe

but someone *has* discovered a planet made almost entirely of diamond. Will that do?

Memo to kid coders: Enterprise software exists

Now, THAT sucks!

The alternative to ad-funded development is - enterprise software that costs a fortune. Up to you which you prefer, but programmers need to be paid at some point...

Experience essential?

Yeah - a "bit" or training and "some" on the job experience. That's the way to skill up your workforce all right.

Apple girds loins for 'obscene iPad sales surge'

competing with the iPhone

...by which time Apple will be way ahead and the same thing will apply. Give up and buy one, you know you want to. And by the way, once you've got the thing you'll find it does way more than browse. Mine is also a handy 8-track recording studio/practice amp/guitar tutor/piano tutor. Among many other things.

Of course people want iPads, dummy

That's why they sell so many of them. Duh!

And for those that can't afford them, there's the cheap-by-comparison knock-offs that are stuffed full of compromises, kludges, workarounds and shite operating systems and "apps".

Can't or won't stump up for the real thing? Get an android looky-likey. It will be to an iPad what a Halfords bike is to a Specialized StumpJumper - which is why the Halfords scaffold-poles-welded-into-the-shape-of-a-bike is £175 and a StumpJumper is £1600. Go figure.

WTF

If you've no use for an iPad, why even think about them? It's a piece of technology that does stuff. If you don't want what it does, get over it. Is the reason I don't wear a watch any more.

You want the moon on a stick

If such a thing were possible it would be on the shelves already. Time to grow up and recognise that perfection doesn't exist in engineering, if it did this month's "must have" would not be out of date by next month. A fact which applies to Apple as much as anybody, but slightly less so. One good thing about Apple stuff is that it continues to perform on-spec for as long as it lasts. All the other gear I own always seems to get slower and creakier as time goes by, eventually giving up the ghost about 18 months - 3 years down the line.

Apple products don't do everything, I'm happy accept that, because what my iPad doesn't do I don't really need, and what it does do, it does very well. Since we got an iPad (iPad 1, about a month before 2 came out, duh) we haven't opened the lid of the laptop to do anything - not once! Absolutley no need. Though we once had a race to see who could google something quicker, my wife on the iPad and me on the laptop. She'd finished and got herself a G&T before the lappy had booted enough to use the web, found the network and become useful. And I got bored installing updates and never got as far as doing anything as useful as actually using it for anything anyway. Gave up and had a G&T of my own :)

The problem with trying to cram every known feature into a product is that you end up with an Inspector Gadget device which is too big, too heavy and if the rest of the world's products are anything to go by, too damn ugly.

Title

Go Orange

You like Flash, you like cache: Put 'em together to form ...

You like Flash, you like cache: Put 'em together to form ...

Crash.

Prototype iPhone 5 lost in bar, right on schedule

right on schedule

Yeaah, this left -in-pub schtick will never do for *another* year. Enough already. Not fooled.

Ten... in-ear headphones

blah

because they got them from expansys

Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction

You can't travel through time

because time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so, I have it on good authority.

Airport screener stuffs stolen iPad into (own) trousers

The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

They might also know that ESN is an abbreviation, not an acronym.

Zuck brushes aside dull 750m Facebook sign-ups metric

Yeah well...

facebook or google+? I hate zuck more but trust Google even less...it's a tough one.

Apple's new Final Cut Pro X 'not actually for pros'

You're lucky then! Or I'm unlucky....

VC6 just randomly crashes out on my win7 box, but then it is a cheapo Dell thing, maybe that has something to do with it.