Posts by Dana W

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Re: @AC

Hey, I try to do something gay every day. Puts a shine on the day. :)

Designer punked fanbois with asymmetric screw

hah.

Painfully obvious fraud.

Windows 8: Download it, then speak YOUR brains

Re: So many microsoft-phobes

We don't hate Microsoft from lack of experience with them, or out of some idea that its fashionable to hate them. We hate Microsoft from decades of familiarity and use.

Its the old "Familiarity breeds contempt" And another round of being told that that THIS time its going to be different is getting big laughs because they always say it, and its always horrible. We have been down this road before and we know the destination all too well.

Re: STOP SAYING METRO!!!!!!!!

Ah you whacky Metrosexuals.

SHOCK: Poll shows Americans think TSA is highly effective

I know NOBODY who thinks the TSA isn't an evil, corrupt waste of time. Then again none of my friends are religious. Religious people will believe ANYTHING.

Who are they polling?

Google to skew search results to punish PIRATES

Do you know what this means????

Time for a new search engine.

Blizzard pwned: Gamers' email, encrypted passwords slurped

Re: Authenticators

They do NOT charge a second subscription to use a Mobile authenticator, we both use them and I assure you I feel stupid enough giving them $15 a month. There is NOTHING that could induce me to get a second subscription.

And the mobile based one is FREE. What more can you ask?

And BTW you can set your account to require authentication EVERY log in.

Re: Hmmm

Blizzard and Warcraft are Windows based.

Microsoft: It's not Metro, it's Windows 8

Now there is a product referral!

"I will continue to use metro like, I guess, most of us."'

Every time I see a line like this, all I can see is "Stockholm Syndrome" writ large. I'm glad I get to actually ENJOY using my operating systems.

Would you go out of the way to eat in a restaurant where your view was "I'll eat there again I guess?"

Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers

Re: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

And I have 302 downvotes from Winsheep. Your point? Smiles indeed.

Re: Does it matter? @ TheOtherHobbes

Apple extended warranty ALWAYS covers the battery. I always go and get a new one right before the warranty runs out, just for futureproofing.

Deadly pussies kill more often than owners think

The Horror!

Predators hunting animals! How shocking! I thought they were supposed to subsist on apple pie and cabbages!

Who is actually shocked by this? How is this shocking news to ANYONE? The Disneyfication of people who are surprised that cats eat mice and don't befriend them for charming buddy adventures is kind of stupefying.

Its as bad as people who try and raise dogs on Vegetarian dog food.

Success! Curiosity Mars lander arrives precisely on schedule

Re: Troll. was: Obama didn't do it, NASA did it.

There is a standing rule in American politics, Any win that takes place under a Republican, is considered 100% the Presidents victory, any win under a Democrat is considered the win of anybody and everybody else, especially minority party politicians who usually voted against it. Faux News likes to call this "Fair and accurate reporting"

Re: "Hmm... Another indication of which OS is preferred by The Best and the Brightest™"

You actually believe Apple gave ANYTHING away for free?

France's biggest Apple reseller shuts up shop

I prefer the resellers.

I'm lucky that my local reseller is part of a larger store that is too big to be strangled out. At a reseller I usually get a person who knows what the hardware is and can answer technical questions. At the Apple store I usually get gormless cretins who know the software well enough but seem to think the case is full of magic pixies. Tell one of them you not only upgraded your hard drive and ram yourself but that you used non Apple kit, and watch the hysterics. Its hilarious. You find out fast about the iffy content of "Genius" in Genius bars. The last one took almost half an hour to figure out if I violated my warranty. Nobody had ever asked before.

Every Apple store I've dealt with seems to run 10 of these people to one actual knowledgeable technician. And if you NEED the tech you have to con them into dragging him out of the back room.

But on the other had I had to buy my summer 2012 Macbook Pro from an Apple store, as my reseller of choice, "Microcenter" didn't get the new machines at release. I expect this is a trend. When I told the Apple store I usually went to a reseller, I got lectured about why that was a bad idea and "Why would I ever do that?" I should have told him why. I want my coffee from a Barista, not my computers. That's not really fair, at least a Barista knows whats in their product.........

Woz: Cloud computing trend is 'horrendous'

YES!

I'm an Apple fan, and I love the Woz. But there is not coolaid enough trust or use the cloud, no matter who's brand name is on it.

My data, my business.

Microsoft tightens grip on OEM Windows 8 licensing

Re: Even more will migrate to Mac

Nothing at all, and by the way you have to fight through the crushing mobs at the Apple store, I think people are finally figuring this out.

There is nothing on earth that could drive me back to Windows. I love people telling me how "control freak" Apple is. I'm not the one who has to play "mother may I" with a call center in India to get my Mac to start, and one copy works on ALL our machines.

Re: End of the world.

Troll or just stupid?

Re: And if I don't want Windows?

Ever try and BUILD a laptop? :/

DIY is great for a desktop. But these days most people want a laptop. If you look at sales, that's where the market growth is.

Valve: Games run FASTER on Linux than Windows

Oh?

So I can"maybe" lose a few shaders and high end textures that most laptop chips don't support anyway and Run Open GL, and have Linux and OS X, or I or I can have Direct X and be stuck with a Windows only world?

Open GL for me then. A small possible improvement on that front is not worth the misery of Windows and its connected Misery. The way some of you talk, you wound think a computer is just a game machine.

Re: "Linux driver support is way inferior to Windows."

I'm a Mac head and a Linux Dabbler, and I need to say, the last 30 or so Linux Installs I've done, I've NEVER had to hunt for a driver. Not even had to use NDISrapper for a wi-fi card.

The funny thing about most of the anti mac and anti Linux arguments here is they may have been accurate in 2001, but 2001 was a long time ago.

Personally I hope this works out, I'm staying Mac on my desktops, but my next laptop is going to be running Debian. Steam is really the one thing I've been waiting for, a reliable channel of GOOD games. I play Warcraft as well, but its the best supported software in wine after Microsoft office.

Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8

perhaps,

The name now being synonymous with "failed OS" might have something to do with it?

Lenovo iPad-smiting Windows 8 slate slips out

Ok, so a stylus for your tablet/content creation device.

Then they can add a mouse, and a keyboard, "and maybe extra box for a hard drive and peripherals too! " The Future of the tablet! The Mini desktop!

Microsoft leads the way! To 1995!

Seriously.

A STYLUS? Ohh, cutting edge!

Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo

Re: The shop is still up

Not anymore. No anon shirts to be seen. Seems the genius who had this idea found his private life got a bit too public.

Hobbyist builds working assault rifle using 3D printer

Silly.

You can make an all metal Sten gun in a garage, with pretty basic tools. A lot simpler and more reliable than this semi plastic "theoretical exercise".

Back about 15-20 years ago, they were selling de-weaponized Stens for collectors with a chunk cut out of the receiver, and another company sold a tube that could be cut to match. "Sort of a build your own program" Some of people did this as contrary to popular belief it is VERY hard to get a full auto rifle in the US.

What stopped most people is the penalties. The feds have NO sense of humor, when it comes to automatic weapons, and doing this and getting caught meant that you could pretty much kiss legal ownership of anything more than an air rifle goodbye forever. That is after they let you out of Federal prison...............

Surface slab WILL rub our PC-making pals the wrong way – Microsoft

Re: As If

Once its installed they never need to see command line. "I" only need to go to command line ONCE to install it. Try a Linux argument from this century.

This will not end well.

The customers who buy the cheaper Arm box thinking "Its Windows, it HAS to run my legacy software!" are going to feel VERY hoodwinked.

And yes it will be their fault for buying it without knowing what it actually IS. But when they find out they have to play double iPad prices to run non-tablet Windows apps, they will be howling. And when the ones who bought the big pad and can run them find out that not onlly is it thicker, heavier and runs hot, but it also has the battery life of a Sega Nomad, THEY will start howling as well.

The whole thing is still a recipe for failure.

Paying by iPad, sir? Apple buys US security firm for $350m

Re: Oh?

And the iPad was copied from?

Oh please say the Windoze tablet, I need a good laugh.

Oh?

You mean like Microsoft and the Linux "patents?"

Girls tricked by STEAMY message: Webcam spyware student jailed

Re: @LinkOfHyrule

I am am an American, and I drink so much tea that if you cut me I'd bleed Twining's Irish Breakfast.

Amazon crimps free Kindle 3G surfing

Well its Nook for me.

Between this and the fact that Amazon has lost interest in E-ink readers, I don't have to worry about buying another one of their devices. And I won't have to shove all my e-books through Calibre anymore.

Apple Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review

Re: Up To Date

At least you GOT your code. I'm still waiting. I can download it faster than this. That's what I get for being honest.

Mac malware Crisis as Apple lets slip its Mountain Lion

Don't need Java, and don't care.

well then its a good thing I refuse to run Java then isn't it?

Apple misses earnings targets, Street reacts

You think?

I waited an extra half a year for the 4S, "and to avoid the 4" I expect a lot of people are holding off for the next phone. Nobody wants to be locked into a two year contract for last years phone.

With the contract phone system its purely "buy in haste, repent in leisure" I bought in just before a new release ONCE. Never again.

HTC disses Dr Dre by diluting Beats deal

Amazingly enough,

House of Marley headphones are not that bad. They my be the only "celebrity" branded headphones that are not just trading on the name. "I am not Bob Marley fan" I got a pair simply because they had them at the pawnshop and I was short on cash .

They sound a LOT better than Beats and at about half the price in their top of the line. Beats are horrible. If all you want is bass I guess the have a reason to exist. Try listening to anything else but rap and hip-hop with Beats and its just sad. I like art and prog rock, I put a demo pair of Beats through their paces and anything but bass was just a joke, seriously, beats make Apple earbuds look good. Its really that bad.

Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review

Re: "Crazy fast" boot time?

Thank you paulc! Why do no reviewers MENTION this?

Ten... PC games you may have missed

Re: What about...

Its also on Mac via steam.

Apple iOS 6 beta limits number of apps per device

500-1000??

I have had an iPhone since 2007, I think I have ten apps, I paid for three. Who seriously has 500 apps?

Chinese gov splurges £102 MILLION to replace pirated software

I'm not sure I ever knew anybody who paid for a Windows install. "I won't have it for free" Kind of like Photoshop, I think I saw a licensed copy ONCE.

WinPho to eke out 4% of US smartphone biz

Re: Sigh.

Bull, Ive had them replace stuff OUT of warranty and never had a repair that took more than a day. The last time I bright in an iPod, they replaced it because I was not "happy" with the battery despite it bench testing fine. "I even got a newer model, no extra charge" Did the same thing with a 3GS on the complaint that it felt "weak". What does Samsung do if you say "I think I'm not happy with the battery?"

Your experience, if it IS one is man bite dog. Did your friends who needed "new motherboards" by any chance have a fit when they found out that Applecare does not cover spilling your BEER into them? That's the usual phone complaint. "It just stopped working" stories usually fail to mention the whole "dropped it in beer" part of the story.

Re: Sigh.

Apple at least gives people what they want with halfway decent customer satisfaction and not a call center in India. They have the best customer satisfaction in the biz for a reason. And that's part of what you pay for.

To paraphrase and old expression I heard in my misspent youth "If Apple is screwing you then at least they have the common decency to give you a reach around"

Re: Sigh.

Oh they don't wuv Microsoft fans enough anymore! My heat just bleeds for you! Seriously, Apple fans here take loads of of that same junk year after year, but you don't see us running away. What is it with Windows fanbois who can dish it out but not take it?

iPhone 5 poised to trounce Android, devastate BlackBerry?

No drm

Itunes music has not had DRM in YEARS. This old FUD needs to lie down and die once and for all

Apple MacBook Pro 13in

Re: I just bought a Samsung laptop

Enjoy your plastic case and sleeve bearing fan.

Re: This forum stinks of fandroids and M$-gits...

They come pouring in whenever a non Microsoft solution is praised. They thought the 90's were going to go on forever.

Re: sorry apple

Been upgrading my Mac laptops for years, back under your bridge troll.

Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is RUBBISH for enterprise

Re: Still more Microsoft marketing propaganda...

There are several options. I use all of them. I have not touched windows in five years. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Its going to cause yet another huge run on Mac sales, even more than Vista did. And it's going to make Linux look good again to a lot of people who want a real desktop, not just a toybox full of shiny buttons.

Wow, the Microsoft fanbois are thick today.