It does seem that the judge's Britishness has been lost on some people.
"we can't all be as good as you [Apple]"
That's a cuss. It has a double meaning. It reads like praise but it's not.
The judge may as well said "you might be cool, Apple, but you're not as cool as you think you are. In fact, you're annoying. If you're clever enough, you'll know I'm not really praising you. If you're as stupid as we think you are, you'll skip on pass, and we'll laugh at you as you do"
My old mate, back in 1995, used to warm the microwave oven up for five minutes before he 'cooked' his daily pasty. Why wouldn't he? His mother always warmed the oven up before cooking the Sunday dinner.
We had this at our place. I even wrote the software for it.
The funniest thing was it was truely anonymous; not even I could tell who had reviewed who, but the amount of coffee bought for me during those few weeks made me buzz like a jackhammer. People were desperate to know who had said that one snide comment about them.
It was dropped the year after. Probably because the boss had no way of telling who was calling him a cunt.
I bought my daughter an S2 last night (in truth, the day before but it was delievered last night).
Like with all new electronics in this house, I make sure the instruction have been read and all updates applied.
"You're not playing with it until I've upgraded to ICS", I said because, like everyone else, I'd been spun the line that no one uses it.
After signing her up for a Samsung account, I navigated through to the options and tapped update. There were no updates. Strange. Tapped again, being an idiot, expecting a different result. Nothing. No updates.
I've joined the conversation late, as usual, and most people are saying the same thing: I use it for email subjects, which Google only updated recently, RSS feeds, Reader, Latitude, Calendar (very important to me), English Premier League table, Twitter,...
C'mon Google. Get a clue. 5, 6 years of use from power users should tell you something. It's a highly used tool.
Alternatives? 10 tabs on Firefox startup doesn't sound like something I want to do.
It's amazing how slow I can go in my 10-year-old 1.4 litre car. The engine is idling at 800rpm; those sorts of engine speed would have stalled it 20 years ago; but the car doesn't stall, it travels at about 5mph.
I get nearly 50mpg (UK gallons) doing this in traffic.
Even trimming healthy trees makes them grow stronger.
People moan in my street when all the trees are topped at 3m. They grow back each and every year. If they weren't cut, they'd be 10m tall by now, damaging foundations and the like.
NoScript. How can you view the WWW with that installed?
I installed it. Visited a dozen of my favourite sites. Whitelisted half of them, because I trust them. OK so far.
It's the new sites where the problems start. Google says, on the top result, I can convert XYZ online, using forms. Excellent. Only that functionality no longer exists. Maybe the site is broken. Maybe Google is mistaken. Maybe I'll look at the source. Maybe I'll try the next site.
I'm struggling to think of the exact reason I uninstalled it; it all happened so fast. It was missing content; probably forms.
I was writing JS back when it was nasty. I'm fine with the reasons people on Slashdot use NoScript. It does not pass the "Dad check" though. It makes for a crap browing experience. Sites should degrade nicely without JS, but they don't - why would they when 99.9% of people don't know their iFrame object from their multidimensional array?
My closest friend bought the iPhone 4 just over 18 months ago, even after all my efforts. He kept telling me it was an iPhone and that's all that mattered.
He's too cheap to buy the apps, another mate half-jailbroke it, stopping all his banking apps working, iTunes was taking half a day to backup and often failed, the phone wouldn't factory reset, we couldn't even copy his contacts. He's pissed off with the lack of high quality free mapping. No Siri. Dull screen. The list of moans is endless.
He's just bought his daughter one. His wife is getting one in a few weeks time.
I can't understand it. They've seen my S2 connect to their TV via a common USB cable and streaming 1080p. They've seen me wirelessly send files to their laptop. They've seen Google Maps on Android. They've seen the photos it takes. And it's not even the best Android phone any more!
Why do people even need to walk to the polling station and use 'machines'?
I pay my bills online. I do my banking online. I order my shopping online...
Let me vote from my PC/Tablet/Phone/Generic_electronic_device
Deliver my voting slip to my door, just like you deliver my electoral registration form to my door by hand by an official goverment worker. Hell, you let me vote by post, ffs.
Crypto handshakes and hashes and keys and magic - it's all been done before.
UK only. Other countries may have different requirements.:)
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It does seem that the judge's Britishness has been lost on some people.
"we can't all be as good as you [Apple]"
That's a cuss. It has a double meaning. It reads like praise but it's not.
The judge may as well said "you might be cool, Apple, but you're not as cool as you think you are. In fact, you're annoying. If you're clever enough, you'll know I'm not really praising you. If you're as stupid as we think you are, you'll skip on pass, and we'll laugh at you as you do"
I think Apple will skip merrily on their way.
Beginning a word with "But" or "And!"?
And you thought typos were something other people did!
My old mate, back in 1995, used to warm the microwave oven up for five minutes before he 'cooked' his daily pasty. Why wouldn't he? His mother always warmed the oven up before cooking the Sunday dinner.
We never told him. We only laughed.
Oooooooh, now you've gone and upset the cat-huggers.
What is the quickest, safest and risk-free way of culling them?
Serious?
When the TV tax in the UK is £145, and I can watch 30-odd channels 24/7, you still think 1GBP per programme is an OK price?
Hell, I even pay for the sports channels and each football match works out less than that.
Try 10p a programme and no one will think twice about paying.
I can see you've read a blog about girls. Nice one.
I live in a house full of them. None want to talk about Xbox games, PCs, football or anything else manly.
*grumble*wish-i-had-a-son*grumble*
And someone who does the deed is a burglarizer.
Why couldn't they have picked French to bastardize (sic)?
Scotland, just like Wales, is a county in England and that's the way we English like it.
Shhh, be quiet, you all love England, our jobs, our money, our beer, our weather and our football (no, not you Taffy, back to your singing).
Me too. What's so wrong with the second one?
We had this at our place. I even wrote the software for it.
The funniest thing was it was truely anonymous; not even I could tell who had reviewed who, but the amount of coffee bought for me during those few weeks made me buzz like a jackhammer. People were desperate to know who had said that one snide comment about them.
It was dropped the year after. Probably because the boss had no way of telling who was calling him a cunt.
It was me.
The wife duel-boots Android on her Acer Aspire One netbook. (not as geeky as it sounds. it came pre-installed)
I liked it. I could see it fitting many people's requirements.
She mainly boots to W7 on it though. =(
Do not fee... Ah bollocks.
I bought my daughter an S2 last night (in truth, the day before but it was delievered last night).
Like with all new electronics in this house, I make sure the instruction have been read and all updates applied.
"You're not playing with it until I've upgraded to ICS", I said because, like everyone else, I'd been spun the line that no one uses it.
After signing her up for a Samsung account, I navigated through to the options and tapped update. There were no updates. Strange. Tapped again, being an idiot, expecting a different result. Nothing. No updates.
Seems it now ships with 4.0.3. Happy days.
Stop spinning the line.
I saw one of those "your computer has been infected" emails this morning...
We're due 2 months of rain in the next 2 days, here in England.
There's your solution. Fly across the pond and enjoy the cool rain.
WidgetLocker is what he needs.
Not only can you add custom sliders to the lock screen, you can also add widgets. Calendar and battery widgets on the lock screen are nice.
It's even easier if you click the link at the bottom of the Telegraph website that says "answer"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9360022/Worlds-hardest-sudoku-the-answer.html
Me...
I've joined the conversation late, as usual, and most people are saying the same thing: I use it for email subjects, which Google only updated recently, RSS feeds, Reader, Latitude, Calendar (very important to me), English Premier League table, Twitter,...
C'mon Google. Get a clue. 5, 6 years of use from power users should tell you something. It's a highly used tool.
Alternatives? 10 tabs on Firefox startup doesn't sound like something I want to do.
Hopefully they'll make a replacement.
It's all to do with agressive driving and defensive driving.
One it taught, the other is performed by teenage fucknuts.
It's amazing how slow I can go in my 10-year-old 1.4 litre car. The engine is idling at 800rpm; those sorts of engine speed would have stalled it 20 years ago; but the car doesn't stall, it travels at about 5mph.
I get nearly 50mpg (UK gallons) doing this in traffic.
Ever read this?
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/1/3/inside-the-cell-phone-file-sharing-networks-of-western-africa-q-a
Even trimming healthy trees makes them grow stronger.
People moan in my street when all the trees are topped at 3m. They grow back each and every year. If they weren't cut, they'd be 10m tall by now, damaging foundations and the like.
NoScript. How can you view the WWW with that installed?
I installed it. Visited a dozen of my favourite sites. Whitelisted half of them, because I trust them. OK so far.
It's the new sites where the problems start. Google says, on the top result, I can convert XYZ online, using forms. Excellent. Only that functionality no longer exists. Maybe the site is broken. Maybe Google is mistaken. Maybe I'll look at the source. Maybe I'll try the next site.
I'm struggling to think of the exact reason I uninstalled it; it all happened so fast. It was missing content; probably forms.
I was writing JS back when it was nasty. I'm fine with the reasons people on Slashdot use NoScript. It does not pass the "Dad check" though. It makes for a crap browing experience. Sites should degrade nicely without JS, but they don't - why would they when 99.9% of people don't know their iFrame object from their multidimensional array?
Oh yes we do. We have no choice.
First they come over here and steal our jobs. Then they wont stop singing about r-r-r-r-rugby, leeks, daffodils and sheep.
The earplugs do nothing.
It's not very easy. It's very hard.
My closest friend bought the iPhone 4 just over 18 months ago, even after all my efforts. He kept telling me it was an iPhone and that's all that mattered.
He's too cheap to buy the apps, another mate half-jailbroke it, stopping all his banking apps working, iTunes was taking half a day to backup and often failed, the phone wouldn't factory reset, we couldn't even copy his contacts. He's pissed off with the lack of high quality free mapping. No Siri. Dull screen. The list of moans is endless.
He's just bought his daughter one. His wife is getting one in a few weeks time.
I can't understand it. They've seen my S2 connect to their TV via a common USB cable and streaming 1080p. They've seen me wirelessly send files to their laptop. They've seen Google Maps on Android. They've seen the photos it takes. And it's not even the best Android phone any more!
It's not easy at all.
Why do people even need to walk to the polling station and use 'machines'?
:)
I pay my bills online.
I do my banking online.
I order my shopping online...
Let me vote from my PC/Tablet/Phone/Generic_electronic_device
Deliver my voting slip to my door, just like you deliver my electoral registration form to my door by hand by an official goverment worker. Hell, you let me vote by post, ffs.
Crypto handshakes and hashes and keys and magic - it's all been done before.
UK only. Other countries may have different requirements.