* Posts by csumpi

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Apple tears itself away from iThings to squash Mac OS X bugs

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Meh

wake me up

when every application gets it's own menu bar.

eBay: Our paid Google advertising was a total waste of money

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Black Helicopters

Re: sigh

I've been scammed as a seller. Sold an item for $200 (it was worth a lot more), buyer sends me a message that it's not as described (not true). I give him my phone number, never calls me, keeps sending nasty messages. I tell him to send it back. He doesn't want to. He contacts ebay, who investigate. They put a lock on my money on paypal. They tell the buyer to send the item back. He refuses. No way to contact anyone live at ebay. Took two months to release my money.

Google's Wi-Fi sniffing to result in $7 million fine

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Paris Hilton

chunk-a-change

They probably blew a lot more money on getting the right people in office.

Here's the $4.99 utility that might just have saved Windows 8

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Thumb Up

Re: Alternative option...

Bingo.

I have Win8 on my new laptop, use all desktop programs, and it works great. In fact it seems faster than Win7, and looks nicer and cleaner.

In fact I don't mind the removal of the start menu. Gives me more space on the taskbar. And you can use the full screen start menu the same way as the old one: hit the windows key, type the name of the program, hit enter.

Apple 'insider' explains why vid adapter hides ARM computer

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Paris Hilton

the screwing began much before this

"Contrary to the opinions presented in this thread, we didn’t do this to screw the customer. "

No, probably not with the adapter. You screwed the consumer when you made the lightning connector (or whatever hipster name you came up for it). It's a crappy connector (to hard to remove because it's way too tight and the part you hold is too small). It's not compatible with accessories (I know, there's an adapter for that, too, but how do all these adapters jive with the magical design philosophy?).

But the real screwing is that there's a perfectly awesome, widely used connector out there: the micro usb. I have dozens of those cables and chargers around, because all my devices use it. Some firm who never innovates, just copies (sam sung what?), even shoots HDMI over it.

Paris, because she loves what you did to her.

Inside Microsoft's Surface Pro: A fiendishly difficult journey

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Paris Hilton

Uhmmm... so when they break you buy a new one?

Actually this is Apple's game: look at the aluminum body laptops and ipads. The worst material to make a mobile device out of that will be handled and moved a lot. They scratch so easy, people sell them and buy new ones faster than replacing their undies, in fear of scratching the damn thing and losing resale value.

AT LEAST two-thirds mobile traffic will be video by 2017 - Cisco report

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Paris Hilton

Data cap anyone?

Yeah, right. Except for those data caps. Which are not getting better, but worse. Verizon used to have unlimited data (I still have it), but it's not available anymore for new contracts.

LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks

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WTF?

Slowly closing the gap with Microsoft Office?

Maybe the gap with Office about 10 years ago.

What's next, the gimp closing the gap with Photoshop?

Of course, LibreOffice and the gimp might be ok for the casual user. But for real work, not even close.

Shocked Zynga investors get a penny per share

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Mushroom

...all my friends were playing FarmVille...

you meant:

...all my "friends" were playing FarmVille...

right?

Facebook burnout: 61% of users have needed a break

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Pint

Losers.

Facebook users are losers. Losers don't quit losing. They might take a break, but get right back to it.

Sick software nasty uses child abuse pics to extort infected victims

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WTF?

Re: Follow the money?

"which are currently untraceable"

You don't seriously believe what you are saying, right?

You are either young and silly, or you wrote this piece of malware and are wishful thinking. Or both.

Yay for iOS 6.1, grey Wi-Fi iPhone bug is fix- AWW, SNAP

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Paris Hilton

but look at the bright side

at+t and verizon will double the iphone advertising because users will use more mobile data when they can't connect to wifi (and get charged for it).

with all that advertising and new iphone sales, maybe even apple's stock price moves out of the shitter.

Sorry, Apple-haters, but Cupertinian doom not on the horizon

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WTF?

Re: Tablet bubble.

"Working habits haven't changed. People still work in cubicles."

Yes they have. Workers might still be in cubicle, but instead of working they are updating their facebook profile.

"Kids still do their homework sat at a table."

Ummm... wrong again. Kids are not sat at the table because their parents are too busy playing angry birds on their tablets on the couch. The only reason a kids would sit at a table is to play angry birds on their tablets because there's no more space on the couch.

"Teachers invariably still stand at the front of a classroom projecting onto a board while the kids look on."

Well, ok, you might have a point there. But this point is nullified by the above.

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Stop

"The iPad mini is being sold at a lower margin than (e.g.) the iPad,"

Just keep telling yourself that until you believe it. However you could do the math yourself: an iPad mini costs $300, a similar specced non-Apple tablet is half of that. So even if we assume that the non-Apple tablet is sold at cost (which you should also keep telling yourself), then Apple still has 50% margin. But of course the margin is higher than that.

Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs

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Mushroom

Re: What's the point

"The point is that JS is a real dog of a language. "

So is Dart at this point. Just try it. Or if you don't have time for that, just Google "dart non nullable objects" and enjoy the cursing on Google Groups.

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WTF?

Re: All your web are belong to us

"By borrowing from C++ and Java, the idea is Dart is familiar yet even easier and quicker to code in, and should generate fewer bugs – called side effects."

Don't forget about the non nullable objects in Dart. A complete disaster. Just for that, Dart is DOA.

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Megaphone

Re: Phew!

Steve Ballmer! Welcome to the register. But next time, just use your real name, we know who you are ;)

'Doomsday' asteroid Apophis more massive than first thought

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FAIL

Science fail.

The weatherman can't predict weather 24 hours out. The astronomers can't predict an asteroid's path 24 years out. So what the hell are all those supercomputers doing? Crunching numbers to game the stock market? Designing the next generation grow lights?

Victory on mobile belongs to Google in 2013

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Paris Hilton

Re: Apple polish.? Google already have that...

Pick up chicks/dudes with iPhones?

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Paris Hilton

Re: Using Android reminds me why I stick with the iPhone...

This is exactly why I switched back to my first car, a 1975 Fiat 850. It's so much easier than all the buttons, displays, numbers, dials on modern cars.

Want to open the window? no fussing with buttons, just use the crank.

Want to turn on the radio? Just turn the volume dial. Want another station? just fiddle the __only__ other knob on the radio.

The dash is also so much better designed. Shows the speed, engine temperature and how much gas there is. Doesn't overwhelm me with too much information. Helps my inner peace.

And why on earth are they sticking all those controls on the the steering wheels on new cars? Radio volume, change channel, toggle dash display, toggle audio source, cruise control? First of all who needs cruise control? And all those other buttons? Duplicated functionality!?! MAJOR DESIGN FAIL!!!

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Go

Re: hmmph

"How about solving the difficult problem of making a phone that works well as a phone?"

Yeah, I know what you mean. I know exactly when the person on the other end has an iPhone, because I can't hear anything they say. Then they have to call back every 10 minutes because their iPhone dropped the call. It's pretty pathetic. My first cell phone (some Ericson model from mid 90s) had better call quality.

Maybe it's some conspiracy with the providers to push up minute usage. Like:

"Garble garble ten garble."

"What was that?"

"I'll be garble garble garble."

"Come again?"

"Garble there garble garble minutes"

"Oh, you'll be here in 10 minutes?"

-- call dropped --

-- ring ring --

"Garble garble dropped."

"Oh that's ok. So you'll be here in 10?"

"Yeah."

"Ok see you then."

"Garble."

-- hang up phone, and smirk about polish --

But hey, they can play Angry Birds, so what do they care.

Samsung confirms Tizen-based mobes to debut this year

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WTF?

"about the only thing Tizen would seem to have going for it is its pedigree"

"about the only thing Tizen would seem to have going for it is its pedigree"

Seriously, WTF? How about the fact that it would actually be installed on phones from the largest phone manufacturer? Or that doesn't count as "going for it"?

Aw grandad, I asked for an iPad and you got me an iPod

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Holmes

Re: Completely agreee

"My niece and nephew are impossible to buy Christmas and birthday presents for because my sister just buys them things when ever she wants"

This is pretty common today. Solution: ask your sister what to buy. Or give a box of legos, affordable and can't go wrong with it.

Ubuntu for smartphones aims to replace today's mobes, laptops

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Stop

Re: @ frank ly - As a matter of relevant interest ....

"Ever tried a RaspberryPi? Plenty powerful enough for office tasks and a bit of homework and research, even enough for a bit of entertainment. And that is powered by a single core ARM @ 700 MHz."

Yes, I have. It's absolutely useless in a desktop environment, and especially for office work and web browsing. If you said command line python tutorial, maybe.

My cell phone on the other hand, with a decent dual processor and quadruple memory with an OS designed for it can actually run a web browsing. But for office work? Not really.

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Megaphone

sed 's/canonical/microsoft/g' | sed 's/ubuntu/windows 8/g' | sed 's/jane silber/steve ballmer/g'

oh my god! write once, publish twice! the writer should get double pay for this one!

When your squash partner 'endorses' your coding skills on LinkedIn...

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Mushroom

linkedin is for LOSERS

Linkedin is for losers.

If you are on linkedin to find work because you can't find work based on your real life accomplishments, you are a loser.

If you are a manager looking to hire someone from linkedin based on "endorsements", you are a loser.

If you are none of the above and on linkedin just to socialize, then you need to get out more and hence you are a loser.

The LINUX TABLET IS THE FUTURE - and it always will be

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Paris Hilton

Re: Nope,.. but maybe touchscreens just suck?

"all just seem like beefed up media players with a webbrowser. Oh and you can play games on them"

They don't just seem like, they are. You won.

"using a pen"

Saint Jobs didn't like the stylus.

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Paris Hilton

"if they can GET PRODUCTIVE WORK DONE"

They can for most people:

- update facebook

- pin stuff

- play angry birds

- shop on amazon

- read email

What more does 90+% of users need a computer for anyway?

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Facepalm

tablet with keyboard and mouse

I got one of those already. It's called a laptop.

Rampaging gnu crashes Microsoft Store, hands out literature

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Mushroom

"why aren't they pulling this stunt outside Apple store"

Exactly my thoughts. Apple, especially with the lock down on iOS completely disabled creation on their devices. I'm talking about programming for kids, not about some hipster instavomit photo manipulation. In high school we were hacking x86 assembler code and soldering parallel port "sound cards". I have not seen any kid using iDevices for much more than shooting birds to kill pigs. Nor could they do much more, as Apple forbid any sort of scripting in apps. So even if anyone wanted to, you could not make a programming environment.

The worst of then gnus are the ones running around with Apple laptops, supporting Apple's quest to destroy kids brains.

iPhone tops US market, but trounced by Android in world+dog

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Mushroom

Re: Android phones running 2.3 still being sold

Why does it matter? Android 2.3 still has more features than iOS6. Maybe once we get to, I don't know, like iOS10, you can start complaining about Android 2.3.

Cheaper, slimmer Google Nexus 7 rumored for Q1 2013

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Facepalm

"no manual"

Because it just works. What do you need a manual for? How to tap an icon?

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Stop

Re: lets just modify a typical Fandroid commentard on an iPad article

"iPads will hold their value though so when a new one comes out you can still get roughly 60% value on the old one".

60%, maybe in your dreams. But let's play along with the 60% imaginary number. Let's say you paid $500 for your ipad (plus some more for the magical cover, idyllic power supply, fairy dusted usb cable and whatever else). According to you, you can recover $300 (minus all the poetic accessories), so you are out $200. That's the price of a nexus 7, and if you wanted a new one, you could've given it to some poor kid to save you the hassle of dealing with craigslist scammers and actually would've made the poor kid happy.

US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention

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Paris Hilton

Re: Apple=Bastards

"Plan C - Genuine innovation. In other words they are toast :-)"

Not really. At this point Android and Samsung are several years ahead of Apple, so there's plenty stuff Apple can copy, call magical and patent as their own ideas.

Although they are starting to suck at copying, too. All the iphone 5 got was the bigger screen from about 3 years ago, the panorama photo from last year and a second microphone for noise cancelling from at least 10 years back.

Look out, Flash! Phase-change RAM IS HERE ... in Nokia mobiles

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Facepalm

That's not a Nokia phone.

It's from Apple. Only Apple innovates. And not only does Apple innovate, Apple already wrote up a patent application for it.

Samsung mobes pwned by ANY APP, thanks to chip code hole

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Stop

You make it sound like there is any large corporation out there who is in [their respective business] because they love [you | your feelings | your security | your whatever], not because they want to make buckets of money.

Wind, solar could provide 99.9% of ALL POWER by 2030

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Go

Let's do it.

Sounds good, let's do it!

Xamarin tool lets devs build .Net apps for Mac OS X

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FAIL

Re: Mac users will not put up with it.

Exactly. Nobody will use it. So go back and fire up your favorite 3d game on your iDevice... oh wait, most likely that's already using Mono as part of the Unity engine.

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Stop

Re: Just in time...

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about and are linking to an article that was some click bait from someone who has absolutely no idea what he was talking about. Read and learn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br229583.aspx

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Thumb Up

Re: C# is a pleasure to use

C# is amazing. Well thought out language, great libraries. And hats off to Miguel and team: mono is super fast and has been stable for production for a long time.

RIM is really in trouble when even Windows Phone 8 looks great

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Stop

Utter BS. When we had blackerries as employees, IT was always complaining about how dealing with blackberry blowed. Unfortunately IT cries about anything that forces them to pause their warcraft session and get off their fat behinds.

Stallman: Ubuntu spyware makes it JUST AS BAD as Windows

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Linux

Debian

Why use Debian with a bunch of crap added to it when you can just use Debian?

Apple, Samsung patent judge: 'I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day here'

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Paris Hilton

"So long as it's double sided with the samsung logo on both sides I'm all up for that."

So bitter. But you know, you don't need a time machine to have a phone that Apple will have in three years. It's already being made by Samsung. So you can just get it and be happy.

The best tablets for Christmas

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Stop

Re: more than apps

@RegKees: You have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. None. What you are saying is so stupid, it's not even worth correcting.

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Stop

Re: iPads feeling expensive now

"my iPhone 3GS is still going strong after 4+ years and still supported / running the latest OS"

my four year old droid is still running fine, has high resolution screen (you guys like to call it retina), still running a three year old android and still can do more than ios6. but I'm pretty sure in the next couple of years ios will get better and be as functional as a android from 2009.

The best e-readers for Christmas

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Go

Re: Craziest score there: iPad Mini vs Kindle Paperwhite

I agree with everything you said, but I want to add one more point.

Glossy screens suck. They are absolutely useless outside, semi useless inside (unless you are in a completely dark room).

With laptops getting touch screens, it's hard to even find those with matte screens anymore. This world is going insane.

Apple's new 'Assembled in USA' iMac a bear to upgrade, repair

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Paris Hilton

Re: Apple May Have the Job(e)s, but,

You should attach some of what you are consuming to your post, then we might understand and laugh with you.

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Devil

Re: umm, this IS a laptop

" I don't think even Apple fans will buy this, not if they understand anything at all about price:performance. "

Whatcha talking about? Of course they will buy it. It's thinner. (Or at least it's made to look thinner by adding a bevel at the edges. But that's beside the point.)

TomTom for Android with hands-free kit review

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WTF?

TomTom think us DumbDumb?

Fixed resolution? Really? And we should believe that even though your programmers suck at graphics/ui, they can pull off some IQ routing magic?

I mean, really, please tell us, how did your IQ programmers manage to create a drawing view that only supports fixed resolutions?

If you are a programmer for TomTom, you should be ashamed. If you are a manager for TomTom, you are an idiot.

And I haven't even gotten to that cheap-crap looking mount. You guys apparently also suck at product design.

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WTF?

Re: Why Bother?

Nice job making a statement and proving yourself wrong within two sentences.

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