why is the world still so ugly and uncivilised ?
really we should have execution for cases like this.
I really dont get how these things happen.
why is the world still so ugly and uncivilised ?
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
fatties better at smelling their food
vista shutdown times still not resolved
maybe microsoft is using the shittiness of vista to force people to upgrade ? but why on earth cant they sort the issues that remian with vista for the millions of people around the world using it ?
ie sort the fucking vista shutdown blues : its shuts down at a snails pace and ruins my productivity, and dont say why dont you “just” upgrade to windows seven.
1: I paid for a product and i would like it to work
2: seven doesnt have drivers for this laptop that work properly.
also when you resume form a deep sleep of several days how come no usb sticks seem to mount until ive restarted the machine ?
end of story the vista debacle aint over fix it.
apple unibody macbook pros not very green and heres why ?
Apples unibody macboom pros may sing their own environmental praises from the point of view of materials used, but its actually their design that makes them less environmentally friendly than older laptop as their lifespan will be less because of the following design flaws, and that has to be a good measure of a laptops environmental menace.
PROBLEM A : UNITARY PART DESIGN: The totally unitary design apple has created means the unibodys consist mainly of three replaceable parts when it comes to repair, nearly all of which are three quarters the price of the laptop itself when it comes to replacing them and keeping the laptop running :
part 1:
logic board has its expensive processor and graphics and every other port controller surface mounted on mainly in BGA packages, meaning everything thats expensive about the guts of the computer must be replaced as well when the logic board fails in one hit, 2 years from purchase the cost of this component alone will outweigh having it repaired versus buying a new computer, this shortens its lifespan.
part 2:
the screen casing and lcd are glued together, to such an extent that taking the screen apart is actually quite difficult these units will tend to be replaced as one unit in allot of situations, this part is a little bit less expensive than the logic board, again 2 years down the line most will probably consider buying a new laptop before paying for this parts replacement.
Part 3:
Upper case because it is a unibody and milled from a single peice of aluminium is very expensive, but what makes it more expensive is that the keyboard and other parts are glued and screwed into it, making it cost even more $279.00 from what i could see.
PROBLEM B : THE SEALED IN BATTERY : Battery screwed into place not considered a user replaceable part ? even more un-environmentally friendly, apple have placed the battery behind a 10 screw backplate and then secured in place with 2 tri-wing security screws which are about as non standard as you can get, so if you ever … like one of my clients … spill some liquid onto your laptop, then the combination of sealed in battery and liquid will make sure your laptop is utterly fried and becomes uselless, unless Part 1 above is replaced which will cost 3/4 the price of a new laptop ? In the old days a drink spilt on a laptop keyboard could be remedied with fast action by doing these moves as fast as possible :
Remove Power cable
Remove battery
invert laptop
then mopup all visible liquid, place in a towel in a dry cupboard using gravity to draw any liquid that ingressed out, then you would carefully open the laptop clean out any signs of water ingress, if sticky residue is there (coffee) then remove with 90% alchohol or distilled water, then again wait for 24/48 hours for laptop to be thoroughly dry resting in a dry cupboard, re-assemble and turn on, 80% of the time most laptops could be rescued by this method.
Apples unibody laptop seems to be designed to guarantee that liquid ingress will kill your laptop every time, as getting the source of power out of the equation ie the internal sealed in battery, seems impossible in any timescale that is usefull, therefore these unibody macbook pros are designed to die with the slightest of water ingress.
Its the combination of water and electricity in this situation that kills the logic board, not one or the other, and apples design has guaranteed the presence of electricity at all times.
and then when its taken to those “Genius’s” in the apple store, whats the first button these buggers will press after its brought in ? the power button, oh it doesnt seem to be working sir ? really … well now you given another huge jolt from the battery, by turning it on again with remnant water in it youve certainly guaranteed to have killed it cheers “Apple Genius !”.
etc etc you get the idea .
iphone gripes niggles I wish were sorted :
iphone gripes : not recognising vcf files from dropbox ? and having to spoof email them to myself to get the phone to read them, and also why does vcf export from address book not take notes with it ???
in fact the way the iphone wants to play dumb generally with any file it finds on itself ?
and why does the iphone handle gmail “pop3” based accounts whether google apps domain based address or standard gmail pop addresses so badly, by seeming to download email from years back before getting round to the most recent ? whereas when the same account when set up as imap, works fine first time and downloads the last most recent emails starting with the newest ?! i got allot of accounts some imap some pop i expect the phone to play ball with both ?
a signature for sms messages would be nice, and a way of the pausing before sending a little so as to bunch multi one liners into a single sms ?
And last make mail on the iPhone someday equivalent to desktop version and if it won’t handle pop Accra well them recommend imap use from the off , a mark all email as read feature in a specific account ? Some kind of spam protection ? Or way of reading ISP marked spam and preference not to Download it option ?
A way of picking at contacts for all location based location input.
A biggie : a software based home key or gesture to avoid pressing the home button and another to lock orientation of the phone screen
Intel securing Processor execution at the hardware level
interpret the first part of the speech when talking about mcaffee : this is worrying, ie soon only the software that is deemed legal and safe will run on the CPU, that worrys me.
Apples Using website arrival as a FULL SCREEN PRODUCT ADVERT !
Apples Using website arrival as a FULL SCREEN ADVERT ! LETS SHOUT MACBOOK AIR IN YOUR EAR !!!!!!
is a bit like shouting in CAPS ? it seems american brash and untoward and less than pleasant to observe, but when have Apple ever respected regional cultural or moral differences.
when in reality theyre forcefully trying to programme us with all their advertising, into a CHIAT DAY moulded single global class of benetteon-esque cliche multiculturalist’s, with homegenised amero-english speaking selfish consumer obsessed mentalitys.
Roma immigrants screw benefit system
if sarkozy wants to break up illegal roma camps and export the illegals back to their home country thats fine by me, wish my country actually had some balls when it comes to dealing with illegals.
had enough of this shit, this is why immigrants can in allot of cases be a pain in the arse, because their concept of moral behaviour is permanently warped ! compared to english morality, theres is minimally in operation.
I want to see increasingly harsher sentences for this kind stuff, until we work out what sentence will work to dissuade people from cheating the system this way.
4OD too many adverts
4OD too many adverts or is it just me.
Techupdate iphone app review
Does what is says on the tin, if you want to peruse a volume of tech news from multiple sites in one hit it’s well worth 59p . Obviously you can get individual apps or mobile web shortcuts to cover allot of this, but lets be honest this is a convenience app ie it aggregates under one icon. A thing to be improved would be longer excerpts from certain of the sites , so as to avoid having to go to the site to read the full story especially as there is space avail in some of the sites excerpts, without scrolling the screen even but this prolly more down to some sites rss style etc. And perhaps a mode where it provided a news overview from all the sites combined, trying to weed out stories with an identical gist. But overall this app saves you allot of time staying upto date with the tech news overall. I think well worth it and if supported could get even better. If your tech news orientated I think you can’t regret 59p on this ! ;)
NB : the review and praise above which i laboriously typed into the app store on my iphone, seems not to appear : sorry steven kappler >
I guess apple doesnt like your app being known about ? also my star rating didn’t come up either ?