Evidence if any were needed not to let people with little grasp of english, badly translate articles and publish them on your site, this article is so incomprehensible and appallingly written.
It looks like the hubpages website is translated into english on the fly by some translation software from chinese ? or just written by people with little grasp of english ? if this is the future of journalism we are in trouble !
link death seems to be occuring more often, or at least so “broken link checker” tells this blog, and sometimes we all so easily rely on linking to things on the net, and the idea they will be there inperpetuity to link to. That when things do dissappear from the net it can catch all those, who have linked to something on the net out. And also mean that none of us have backed that resource up to the extent whereby we can put it back up again. this reliance on linking means that content can very easily be sensored or wiped from existence by removing it from just one heavily linked to location.
beware make backups of the things you link to in case they dissappear and your content suffers link death.
We all know the iphone 4 aerial issue is a real design flaw, something that would normally warrant a recall ?
whats the minimum Apple should do ?
Offer all of the 1.7 million iphone 4 users a free bumper or case delivered free of charge, or $20.00 towards a case of their choice on the apple store, that is the absolute minimum, at the moment they charge theyre customers for their bumpers to fix this ? apples users might as well pay to be ravaged, their evangilism for apple appears absurd, to any mature human organism.
$20 x 1.7 million = 34 millions dollars maximum to solve the issue, for apple thats a drop in the ocean, they have a cash war chest to cover rubbish like this in the 20 billion region. And its only steves arrogance that has prevented him from seeing this as the real issue it is, you cannot sensibly ask your customers to hold your phone a certain way for it to work !
Steve man up and do the right thing, youve already caused allot of damage to your market perception with delay and denial. Not that I dont know the dark secrets of many other previous design flaws youve got away with because people are to slow and thick to assert their rights.
like :
Lombard laptops with motorola G3 CPU’s unable to run macos x
Lombard laptops modem sound issue, patched away.
No cable strain relief on the transparent wired Apple pro mouse, very high failure rate.
solder issues on power chips on white G3 ibook motherboards
failure rate of G3/G4 ibooks in general abnormally high, to the extent of some users having them replaced once a year over a three year warranty period.
Graphics chip failures on some ibook G4′s due to overheating and bad nvidia chips.
the nipple scrollwheel dying very quickly on the mighty mouse. solution was a wierd cleaning regime.
27 inch imac intial release high failure rate and big issues with screens
Sudden power supply fan noise and death on some mirror door mac towers, and G5 mac pros.
Well I can barely remember them all theyre have been so many things Apple has got away with not recalling, by not anouncing the issues and dealing with those who complain quietly on an individual basis or not making much fanfare or apology, until the disquiet has faded with time enduced apathy.
Apple isn’t better quality for its higher price than any other manufacturer, go view a genius bar anywhere in the country for an hour, to see the quantity of returns, and you will realise they are just as badly built design wise and flawed quality wise.
anyone got the link to the iphone 4g keynote video (comment back), with the stuffup or has it been pulled to protect the overly precious about itself image of apple, by getting rid of an onstage fluff by pulling the video, they’ll use that fluff to make a wifi blackout at newer keynotes be sure, theyll probably start confiscating peoples tech or something before steve gets on stage.
What we do have access to video wise ? is a fucking advert on the apple site (obviously thats a unintentional metaphorical karmic joke representative of apple itself) A new advert has been released we can all lapup like the shmucks we are, with ives and steve and the crew all cooing into cameras and calling it another fucking … “revolution”, i’m begining to get serious marketing fatigue from this shit, god these fuckers need some fucking humilty and a lack of ego for gods sake, or theyll stop fitting through doors, the iphone needs some promotion with a small p and for the rest, it can sell itself, but the marketing onslaught ? which is Steve’s true skill is relentless, it makes me sick. Jonathan Ives in particular, being once upon a time a British person, should show some evidence of reserve in his character, but all he can do is blow Apple corporate cock, because his apples shares value must keep growing and giving him a corporate erection. Soon theyll be dancing onto stage like Balmer in “dance monkey boy dance”, because they know that an incremental upward tick in share value means they can all buy a new prius
for theyre dog or some such tech mad rich guru guff. Oh to have a british technology company to show how you could create products without all this endless egotistically framed self congratulation talk. Even the audience don’t necessarily whoop on cue in the keynotes any longer to every point, much no doubt to Steve’s chagrin.
Geesh theyve made the phone better, its not a damn revolution all over again Continue reading »
ok i followed some info from this page to add sort by size functionality to mac os x’s find / search funtion, so all credit to their respective authors as mentioned on the above page, what i have attempted to do on this post is to add the extra information to make the procedure foolproof from my experiencing of doing it. if you follow this information i will not in any way be held responsible if you naff this procedure up.
1: open a new finder window in list mode
2: go to the view menu and Continue reading »
lead free solder has caused more landfill with electronics dying early than lead solder’s pollutative effect.
lead free solder not good enough for military applications, hence there exemptional staus from rohs standards as regards solder, though theyre still worried about of the shelf life of electronics they purchase using lead free solder designs.
tin whiskers being a major problem with lead free solder :
secondarily : stress fractures are more likely with components that get too hot , such as happened on the apple ibook G4 motherboards, pictured below.
stress fracture dry solder joint worse on lead free solder joints:
this 3% lead that is in solder to reduce tin whisker failure and increase longevity of solder joints under heat and expansion stress in general, is probably much less polluting that having lots of electronics fail early and go to landfill because of lead free solder, in reality who knows which has done more harm, I’d probably say the landfill and lifespan / little use issue is a much bigger problem than 3% lead in the solder but maybe im wrong.
Why is a brand new 24″ imac as standard shipped with a non full size keyboard ? its not like they cant afford to give you a full size one in the base price of the damn thing.
what is it that apple, seem to change the mini external display connectors on their computers all the damn time, more often than their damn shirts.
par example, here is a list of the different adapters they sell on the apple site that relate to the dvi standard.
this means your laptop could have one of these :
full size DV connector if your lucky g4 powerbooks and allot of early intel macbook pro laptops.
or possibly pointlessly confusing tiny size dvi standards like the following :
mini dvi
micro dvi
mini display port
and none of the above connectors will come with your machine as standard, and you are only likely to have full size dvi cables kicking around spare in your office, so basically apple is charging you a £20.00 tax to use that port after purchase, this kind of skinflintishness, when they are charging such a premium of say at least £400.00 over the cost of an equal spec pc laptop, is precisely the reason why a company like apple sits ontop a billion dollar cashpile/warchest. its at the loss of your hair and the increase of stress the user has in resolving such issues.
why they couldn’t have stuck with the first mini type of these connector types we will never know.
letter to help@macuser.couk
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Since I couldn’t find a general communique address re : errata:
Dear respected Oakley, clip Hemphill on the ear for me would you, it appears a wire was loose in his brain, or … your spell checker is graphical terminology obsessed, or perhaps the days of magazines, affording proof readers, that are technically literate in the content they are checking, is a thing of publishing pre-history ? Or might the freelancer be blamed (wink) ? Continue reading »
I was kinda lucky to have access to allot of computers as my father ran a business and after hours i got access to his computers at his premises, and used allot of early stuff, as he seemed to buy computers just on the basis that he liked a particular model and indulged in it as an investment whether you actually got value out of the machines was less of interest in those days, in those it was all so new people bought them just for the excitement of exploring what they could do, its a long list but here goes with some of my favourites :
The first computer I laid hands on ? was the Apple II with single external 5.25″ disk II floppy drive with green screen monitor no colour.
I played space invaders on it which was a mean and almost perfect conversion from the arcade, and tried out all the various software. Of which there were some pretty funky demos including one with an interactive room, which was pretty cool , that could have been an early hypercard demo maybe ? I dont think it was “mystery house” as it was more bitmap graphics than vectors, a picture that winked at you, things in the room that did things, but certainly cant find any reference to it on the web. Perhaps a little too early at that stage although i didnt know what software was used to build that room demo. Although I did think it was highly original at the time and not many other computers had done anything like it.
After that, I got my hands on the first portable computer the Osborne 1 Luggable :
for those days the size of a family suitcase was considered portable, it didnt have allot of software but it had cpm and came with mbasic which you could then then run collosal cave adventure from, man I got a kick out of that game late night with that little vector green screen, i can never explain what a revelation is was to play that game, xyzzy, plugh are the magic words dont forget to get the lamp, the egg the bird, the cage the rusty wand, the pirate the maze it was all fantastic. you painted the pictures in your own imagination, a cup of coffee and few custard creams and I was off on an adventure for hours.
After those two memorable and seminal machines there were many others, Apricot xen, viglens, almarcs, sirius’s, pdp11′s, husky portables, IBM’s, I remember using the GEM operating system which was my first experience of a gui and using gempaint, to paint my first artisitic pictures on a computer, all simple blue and black sillhouettes with moonlight, if i’d have left school at the tender age of 11 I would have been an early ZX81 game developer, probably no smarter move could have been made.
My father also was probably the first man in hampshire to buy an original apple laserwriter 1, I remember switching toner cartridges for metallic effect ones etc, interesting stuff.
Also the first I’d heard off to have a Hi-res Hercules graphics card(720×348 in 1bit)
and a winchester drive 30mb in size ? I think it was called a winchester because it was the equivalent of two of the biggest drives at the time and was therefore double, like a double barrel winchester rifle, although maybe i’ve misunderstood this. A few duller ones too the amstrad PC1512 pc clones struck me as particularly meagre ham fisted machines, compared to their genius CPC brethren, Though the PCW’s were probably the most purchased and functionally used business machines of those times to enhance productivity in actual businesses in the UK.
a computer of my own (well to share with my brother :] )
Upto this point id been using the machines in my dads business rather than having my own machine, at about the age of 12, the parents clubbed together a feat considering they broke up before I was 1 way back when. And at considerable expense bought me and my brother a ZX81 to share for christmas.
with cassette tapecorder and ran it off an old B/W television. We laboriously typed in games from listings in magazines and loaded a few cassette games into it, only having 1k of Ram meant you had to be totally ingenious to write games for it, as in the 1K of ram you could probably get 10 long lines of code before the memory ran out, none the less I learned to write in basic on that machine, and to be honest never have I seen a more suitable machine for anyone to learn basic coding on, switch on and away you go no distractions or anything. there wasnt much else to do on computers then except to code, whereas today less people learn to code because computers have so much else you can do. Never bought the ram expansion for it the machine even at £99.00 was only just affordable by familys in those days, hacking hardware to make the most of it existed even then, for instance one of them frigged sound on a machine with no sound, by making you turn the volume on the televison to maximum, they worked out how you could modulate the inteference noise sent to the television from the natural hum of the internal circuitry to create an actual tune without a sound chip anywhere in the machine !
games on the ZX81 :
a 3D maze game on the ZX81 the grandaddy of 1st person shooters :
The precursor of elite > “trader” a 16k game i could only dream of :
The keyboard was as understood a legendary pain to use, but hey Sinclair did make computers personal and affordable, without him there would be no personal computer industry, and to think we once had a silicon valley in the UK, and now we have nought, quite sad really.
they even managed to hack high res graphics onto a ZX81, so the 16k games looked more like spectrum games.
My next machine was a total revelation the only good thing Alan Michael Sugar ever produced in my opinion (unless you consider crass entertainment like the apprentice, interesting), the cpc series is what I will only ever remember him for, as specification wise it was a stroke of genius, the best machine his company ever made the Amstrad CPC6128 :
This machine was like moving into modern day computing in comparison to the ZX81, amazing colour amazing sound, a disk drive, the machine was far superior to its nearest competition, but the machine was expensive, I knew I was very lucking getting one. It had an amazing paint program OCP art studio, the games were amazing it had many graphics modes one even running in 640×200 with 2 colours ? would have been considered hi-def by those days standards, the quality of the games was amazing, later platforms did not have such good games it must have been quite good to program games on, Gauntlett was amazingly close to the arcade version, Zombie by UBI-soft amazing (Amazing intro screen and music blew me away).
Cauldron had fantastic music and was a great if tough game :
As you can see by the following video almost every game genre played today in just an uprated form, was well established on this platform at that time, apart from god sims(actually even little computer person could be considered the precursor of the sims).
Even 3d games such as doom were represented by maze games and elite etc. As a gaming and basic learning computer it had it all.
I also played my first mmo on this computer via my first modem circa 1986-1988 ! 23 years ago ! I think it was 300baud and you used connect to micronet
which was run by prestel part created on post office premises and run by BT which i think was a BBS a bulletin board system, and from that you could telnet ? to “shades” mud
this was a truly stunning experience for the day, so few had been online at that time let alone played in an online game ! it was basically a Multi user text based adventure game where you could see other peoples action and chat. And was the first time I saw online griefing from a character ?(so long ago its almost madness) Each character had a name, and there was this one user who was called Reepicheep aka that mouse from narnia, anyway he used to find a place where people were congregating to go into a castle etc and he used to make allot of futile chat and fill the screen with rubbish, in this game you could kick another character and it would show that action to other users, so everyone took turn to give Reepicheep a liitle kick so the screen instead was full “xxxxx kicks Reepicheep hard” etc to stop him from blathering and filling screens with useless text, eventually he got the message, I got the feeling he was just to excited at being in an online game.
believe or not some genius has ressurected this game in java form presumably no extra players though ?
