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Cold, dead hands of Steve Jobs slip from iPhones: The Cult of Ive is upon us

Re: Apple Invents

You could always post one to Cupertino to see...

Apple at WWDC: Sleek new iOS, death of the big cats, pint-sized Mac Pro

Re: Ah, that takes me back

Jack Tramiel (sp?) will be suing from his grave

Re: Mac Pro is now Mac Pro minus

Because of the mearest Mac store is (say) 20 miles away from your trendy rural-setting studio, then you're gonna be 10 mins disconnecting and packing then thing, 5 mins getting it to the car, 40 mins driving it into town unless you're really lucky with the traffic, at least an hour in the store while they muck about about then reverse all that back again to get back into the office. Which is the best part of three hours assuming it all goes right first time.

Which is also the best part of £300 in time to most studios when they could spend 20 mins just sorting it on the desk in the office there and then.

That's why not.

Re: Let me get this straight...

I thought that was gonna end 'Apple is the new uncool'...

Maybe that was a torch n pitchfork moment too far in case the AC's (Apple Cultists) know where you live!

Tim Cook: Android version fragmentation is 'terrible for developers'

Re: iOS users use their phones 50% more than Android users...

Or Android users work 33% harder than AC's (Apple Cultists) with much less hipster-esque cocking around.

Re: RIght...

AC - Apple Cultist

See?? It's true I tell ya!

Re: CEO of company slags off major competitor

That'll be the Apple Cultists then (usually AC here)

We're losing the battle with a government seduced by surveillance

Re: It's the gagging order that's the problem

Though they could presumably say, legally...

'We are not doing any tapping but please bear in mind that if we were it would be illegal for us to say that were were and would would have to say we were not'

Y'know, just to keep it uppermost in voters' minds...

US spyboss: Yes, we ARE snooping on you, but think of the TERRORISTS

You know your country is f*cked when...

Your government is more concerned about its electorate knowing what it's doing than what it's doing.

YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading

Same as SONY then?

First time I've heard of this from M$, maybe they're back-tracking.

Re: Sony will do exactly the same .....

So far SONY have said they'll leave secondhand game-locking up to the publishers. Eminently sensible, makes the publisher look like a dick instead. They've also tempted folk with the idea of the online streaming of older titles for compatibility, which if they offer sensible access (e.g. original disk = pass to play for free) then excellent.

If these statements are true and this is how the PS4 is going to launch then SONY must be checking the insurance on their execs to see if 'dying from laughter' gets a payout, right about now, as XBOX Vista has pretty much handed the next gen market to PS4 with sparklers, an umbrella and a little cherry on a stick.

Which, incidentally

Also destroys the second hand XBOX One market as now who gives a flying *%&£ if it 'comes with fifty games' cos all those games are now useless unless you pay £35/pop or whatever to activate each individual item.

Which means that in two years' time, unless M$ truly have a cunning plan (let's face it, they've not had one in the last decade), the XBOX One is already kaput. Think about how many people you know who waited a coupla years to buy a new gen console at a lower price and with some thrown in game library, those people have now pretty much been told to go to Playstation, effectively, as there's no legacy compatibility to tie them in to previous gaming purchases either.

They should have called it XBOX Vista. In fact I'll be calling it that now, going forward.

All major UK ISPs prepping network-level porn 'n' violence filters

Re: A parental issue, true

Two thumbs down?

Bet they occurred in the advert break in Jeremy Kyle...

A parental issue, true

But given that around 50% of UK parents these days seem to expect the gubbmint to raise their children for them while they flop on the sofa watching jeremy kyle with 40 B&H and a six pack of carling I fear the only reasonable recourse is to win the lotto and emigrate.

As they say ... good luck with that :o/

Wikimedia edges closer to banishing Wikitext

With any luck

We can all throw away TinyMCE soon, then.

I wish Google or someone would make a replacement for that devilspawn, maybe Wikimedia will achieve it.

Whitehall grants copyright pirates safe haven until 2015

I reckon that, secretly...

The MP's are actually sick and tired of the disingenuous whining and the crocodile tears from the big media lobbies and, while giving them a semblance of compliance, are actually buggering them about until such time as they reckon piracy will be mostly redundant due to offerings like netflix and others. Which probably isn't that far-fetched an idea or that far off, either.

At every step they seem to have capitulated to the corporate wallet-stuffers and yet only enacted the feeblest implementations in policy. I do actually think they might be on the side of common sense (in secret, natch) in this and just stringing the media corps along.

While taking those juicy cash-for-policy backhanders, obviously, and laughing all the way to the bank ;o)

Who should play the next Doctor? Nominations needed!

Re: I vote for ...

PAAAARTYYYY!

Sean Pertwee

Just 'cos

Though he's likely too old for the yoof and probably doesn't want the gig.

Doesn't mean he shouldn't be, though...

There's also David Troughton (on the offspring basis) though Pertwee would make an excellent gritty badass Doctor.

Apple in Big Apple dock: iPhone goliath starts ebook price-fix trial

Pride comes before a fall

Hopefully their is a linear (exponential if we're lucky) relationship between arrogance pride and altitude.

Twitter, Facebook are 'a MENACE to society', says Turkey's PM

The difference is...

Turkey

You can't malign or incite harm to him or his religion-of-the-day online

UK

You can't malign or incite harm to financial interests or politicians' financial interests online

Subtle, but the difference is there ;o)

Doctor Who? 12th incarnation sought after Matt Smith quits

Re: Pertwee

Tom Cruise? _REALLY_?

Bloody hell, are they trying to get everyone to save electricity by turning the box off?

Re: Pertwee

I was gonna post 'Sean Pertwee' but as you beat me to it....

He'd make a superb gritty badass Doctor for sure, though I think he was offered the job around the tennant (maybe smith) selection time and wasn't up for it.

Anyway the bigwigs in production will want someone who can appeal to the yoof and won't want anyone getting duffed up by a gritty Pertwee (Tom Baker was the most physical Doctor IIRC and that was like 30+ years ago).

Grint and Tovey. Not Doctor material. Though nor was Sylvester McCoy...

Re: New Dr.

Too much knees-bent-running-around for Hurt I fear.

Netherlands Supremes squash iPad design patent

@ Apple Cultist

I thought that was Apple's lawyer, actually?

Quantum boffins send data ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

Fear not the paradox is, paradoxically, not going to happen.

I think time paradoxes don't exist - they're just a sci-fi idea... cos, if every decision, even down to the quantum level, creates a new alternate reality then....

Israeli scientist creates time travel.

Mossad think it's fab opportunity to convert the planet to Judaism.

Chap travels back in time and meddles.

BUT

Chap has now create a new 'spur' of reality at the point of devious meddlesomeness which means he's now careened off down another alternate rabbit hole in which he came back from the future to meddle.

Original timeline is secure, he's just now created a new one in which he can move freely back and forth but it's separate and distinct from the timeline he spliced himself from at the point of meddling (likely at the point of his departure in that original 'present' when he pressed the GO button on his time machine).

So the dodgy time-traveller has actually irreversibly left his original timeline/causailty-stream and created a new alternate one by his own actions in which he's now trapped, i.e. he can't 'undo' his own time travel to revert to where he used to be as he can only go back further into the parent of his timeline, creating further splices which may or may not work out more like the original one he left behind.

Hence we don't need to worry about temporal paradoxes, happily.

Sounds to me like

They copied 1 > 2, then 2 > 3 then 3 > 4

So 4, being copied from earlier data naturally exists in the future, just sounds like a quantum bucket brigade.

IANAQP, however.

EFF files objections with W3C decrying addition of DRM to HTML5

I still don't see the problem

If there's a DRM standard then it's widely understood and used, so, when it's cracked then it'll be (again) too late for big meeja to put the cat back in the bag. So a win for the anti-DRM argument?

It depends largely on whether you want flash or silverlight to perpetuate ad infinitum or not, too. I'd rather they went away to be honest. A DRM standard also gives non-silverlight platforms like Linux a chance of being able to use netflix, etc, too.

No-one's forcing anyone to employ DRM in their streams but there's no way the swivel-eyed lunatics in Hollywood are going to license anything to anyone without some form of the stuff so you're gonna need it to consume the output without physical media. Not until they have their right-to-profit mandated into law as some form of blanket media tax, anyway, which would be far, FAR worse and is their ultimate goal.

I'd rather big meeja clawed its way out of the 1950's, personally, but that's not happening any time soon and the customers don't care enough about forcing them into line by e.g. staying away from cinemas for 6 months.

PayPal denies stiffing bug-hunting teen on bounty

"strange behaviour from PayPal"

Nope. Sounds absolutely par for the paypal course to me.

Perhaps the person who _did_ get the bounty could step forward?

Microsoft links Skype to Lync

My sole experience of Lync

You phone only works if your PC is turned on.

Fail. A good match for Skype, then.

I think Cisco have a point though, even if it does sound like a very whiny one.

Kettle 'which looks like HITLER' brews up sturm in a teacup

Re: @ Jake

Whereas Scotland is probably proof that individuals can achieve greatness (have you seen how many legendary inventors are Scots..???)

'Secret Pentagon papers' show China hacked into Patriot missile system

Pretexting

That's what it sounds like to me.

Just like the run up to anything else the USA do. This time the WMD's are digital.

Or maybe their security really _is_ that shit that the Chinese get a bunch of secret stuff then a newspaper gets the subsequent secret guff on it.

When someone tells you something a lot, always question how they stand to benefit from you believing them - we're hearing too much about China attacking the USA, then this charade

Reports: New Xbox could DOOM second-hand games market

New Xbox could DOOM XBOX

Fixed.

SONY must be giggling like dizzy schoolgirls by now, as if the meh-launch of the One wasn't enough of a shot in the arm for them.

Last I read (this week) on PS4 is that SONY are leaving it to the publishers to destroy their own games via secondhand taxes rather than mandate anything themselves in the hardware/firmware. So the same as PS3, really. Wise.

The PS4 will have to have something seriously wrong with it or its feature set for me not to buy it and leave my XBOX experience behind with my dusty unused 360. In fact I know my last XBOX is a 360 already and this means that a cheap secondhand One is also no attraction as the games will be paywalled, even if the thing came with a hundred of them.

Just remains to see what this access to streamed pre-PS4 games thing is like. If SONY get that right and allow a physical disk to be a 'key' to online streaming of PS1, 2, 3 titles they've already won before anyone's even seen the console, IMHO.

Now it gets serious: Fracking could RUIN BEER

Phew, glad I drink the Czech stuff

Budvar, Staropramen, Gambrinus, Koxzel, Urquell FTW!

(Oh and the odd Hoegaarden if I'm having a more Belgian moment)

This round's on me! :oP

Microsoft caves to Google, pulls YouTube app from WinPhone Store

Dear Microsoft,

That's Karma for ya

Judge: Evidence will likely show Apple DID fix ebook prices

POPCOOOOOORN!

Nom

BBC suspends CTO after £100m is wasted on doomed IT system

Ooops

Siemens. Hmmm......

Atos... Hmmmmmmmm (aren't they the rail/public transport timetable people? I seen some of that output...)

Seems to me they shoulda phoned Amazon or Google, I think that'd have been my first idea. Actually it just was... hohum.. £280k/year... I think I could possibly handle that - you don't have to deal with any dumb BBC politics, for that, right?

Woolwich beheading sparks call to REVIVE UK Snoopers' Charter

Re: Nice population, it would be a shame if something happened to it . . .

I refer the honourable gentleman to the Television series House Of Cards starring Ian Richardson...

Right.

Because everyone posts:

Just beheaded an infidel in #Woolwich. Allahu Akhbar! #islam #jihad #PraiseBe

(Or discusses it on the phone/email/etc)

SAP in search of autistic software engineers who 'think different'

Re: Don't expend the effort worrying about it, it's a red herring.

Same here, pretty much, I can't embark on a project until I have sufficient understanding of the high-level view. in fact I think that's how most projects end up buggered up, because people are busy making black boxes with insufficient understanding of the actual system its going into and lack of a good enough spec to make it without that knowledge.

Life is not so dissimilar... I'll not make a promise I'm not 100% certain I can fulfill; I can't be arsed with lying because it's harder work remembering all the lies and maintaining the story; and most importantly, never ask me a question you might not like an honest answer to. Ever. Cos I won't bullshit you to help you deal with your own damned shortcomings, I have enough bother managing my own, thank you! ;o)

Don't expend the effort worrying about it, it's a red herring.

Most normal people don't understand other people either.

That's my Aspie experience and defo not worth worrying about. It's more a case of 'normals' don't bother to (over)think about why other people seem so hard to understand. If you learn to not give a stuff about it and just accept that, actually, everyone else is as confused on that front as you then you realise that actually you're 'normal' in that sense but just reading more into it than others. Free up the brain cycles for more productive endeavours :o)

That what I teach my kids, too (two HFA one Aspie). Just cos you don't 'get it' doesn't mean everyone else somehow does (they don't, watch peoples' interactions with each other, if they're not good friends or close colleagues they'll look like they're trying to 'process input' half the time). They don't get it either, the difference is you're the one bothering to wonder about it cos you have spare brain capacity to help you do your own head in all by yourself.

I also find a healthy dose of sociopathy works wonders ;o)

Microsoft and pals: Save the global economy by NOT ripping us off

So. Linux then.

Natch.

All those licensing savings will be good for the economy, yes?

Prenda lawyers miss sanctions deadline

Sieze everything

They're obviously a (financial) flight risk, being porntrolls

Slim Shady wannabe Zuck's Facebook 'STOLE' MY SONG - Eminem

Substantially similar

All rap/hippittyhoppitty sounds the fecking same to me, too.

Ed Miliband brands Google's UK tax avoidance 'WRONG'

Ed Milliband has made an astonishing discovery

It's called capitalism, Ed.

Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the console that can read your heartbeat

Seriously? Gadget envy isn't a purchasing decision

Have you played an XBOX360 to compare it with your PS3?

I have. My XBOX essentially is never used. The PS3 does everything better imho (though the 360 is very good for just games, though if available on PS3 that's the game version bought leaving only HALO and GOW to the XBOX).

I see they still say 'LIVE subscription' so presumably the insanity that is playing twice for your SKY, Lovefilm and Netflix is still there.

I'd say, pending the PS4 release with an official spec list and features (including that streaming backwards compatibility thing), that MS just handed a large chunk of the gaming market to SONY with this.

It even looks like a 70's alarm clock radio without the clock or radio.

Anonymous threat shutters Gitmo WiFi

Awwww bless, but surely

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear, right?

The iWatch is coming! The iWatch is coming!

Are apple still going?

The only iThings I see all seem to be at least five years old judging by the design...

Why do we care about an iWatch?

Marks & Sparks accused of silently bonking punters over the tills

Don't forget the conspiracy angle

That VISA reckon they can skim a coupla billion to get interest on before being forced to refund/fix it.

So you want to be a contractor? Well, here's how it works

Re: Umbrella

I used 'Contractor Umbrella' for my first couple of years (probably seven years ago now) and would actually recommend them, based on my experience then, they made life easy and hassle-free till I started my Ltd Co., have heard horror stories about others like Giant, though.

Last time CO2 was this high, the world was underwater? No actually

"nobody thus far has taken account of that"

Business as usual, then.

Plus you'd think a 'not since 3M years ago' statement would be a clue that life has evidently thrived since, regardless of the apocalyptic doomsaying...

Give em a gun and they couldn't shoot themselves in the foot without a statistician telling them how to pick one.