Posts by Lindsay

Apple vs Microsoft pricing

Microsoft has to gouge on its software because it has nothing else. Apple doesn't need to gouge on its software because it's already done so on the hardware.

Re: Well Duh...

Are we thinking about the same Apple?

Re: Excellent comments

If I see another coffee spraying/snorting reference anywhere on the internet I'm going to go postal.

IMO The Boss needs to be a bit smarter than a box of dead kittens or the things they do to him are too cheap.

Awesome!

Let's allow a private entity to track everyone's whereabouts every minute of the day. It's for our own safety!

Unfortunate names

Numonyx and Virident are two of the most unfortunate company names I've heard for a while.

Nork rocket?

I had to think about that one for a bit.

Site-wise Classification

"Conroy said: "What I am looking at at the moment is a system whereby the Classification Board can have a role in making that final determination." So if a complaint about a website was made, ACMA would pass that site onto the Classifcation Board."

Excellent, that'll bog 'em down for a few millennia.

Hmm

Wouldn't a TV that replaces baby laughter with swearing be more interesting?

Re: Weird...

I was going to say "Mybook World Edition" but a quick check of WD's website reveals that this product is no longer a RAID drive. That's pretty disappointing.

No doubt they've done this to protect sales of "Sharespace," which costs twice as much.

Re: Good to see

The fact that iiNet saw fit to involve themselves in the process in the first place is cause for concern. They knew what they were doing, so they deserve no applause for having realised what bad PR it was and abandoning it.

Why would you continue to give them your custom as opposed to, for example, an ISP that refused to be involved and made its position clear from the outset?

Never fear

"Imagine what a determined government agency can do."

...Waste millions of dollars on failed contracts and public enquires?

Blinky Bill

"a good Koala knows how to see the wood for the trees, even when her head is in the clouds"

I'm sure someone's head's in the clouds, but I'm not so sure it's the Koala...

RE: @Lee Dowling "WHY?"

And of NiMH?

Keyboard and Mouse

"Finally, after looking at these and more photos on the IFixIt website, we gotta say that we agree with their conclusion that Apple's white-plastic Mighty Mouse looks mighty cheesy next to the aluminum iMac and Apple Keyboard."

You're worried about the mouse? That keyboard is an absolute joke.

Autofocus? That's for wimps.

In answer to those for whom these new fangled features are too complicated, I have a novel suggestion: don't use them (or simply RTFM.)

In addition, (HD) video capture on DSLRs opens up creative possibilities that have until now only been possible with professional cinema quality equipment, due to the characteristics of the image formats and lenses used in DSLRs.

New features may not be useful to every owner of a particular camera, but they rarely detract from the quality of output or versatility of the system, and to equate "not useful to me" with "useless" is nonsense.

Gee

Everyone clicking on that option was entirely unpredictable...

Thanks Sony

You can continue to watch TV while using the menu? That's incredible.

I tried to use that interface on the PS3 and came out of the experience with a brand new nervous twitch.

The police, abusing their powers?

Never!

Re: 55 Miles.

You actually believe that test was scientific?

Also: Top Gear fabricating test results? Never!

Saving passwords?

"...users would be stupid to save passwords for any websites."

I fixed it for you.

Re: Plot?

Where were you when they got voted out a year ago Kate?

This trailer does not bode well...