Posts by kiwicmc
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Hard News: Friday Music: Return of the brothers, in reply to JacksonP,
I saw the Cure at the Town Hall many years ago, one of the biggest let downs ever - talk about lack of on stage patter. Every song was prefaced with "This one's called ..." and your own Manc accent.
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Here's another couple - in app purchases being enabled by default - that's evil. Dodgy iTunes song titles and artists with similar names to popular tween crap pop songs fooling dumb dads with superior musical taste... The 12 year old still hasn't forgiven me for paying for a Bruno Mars Piano Tribute
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Hard News: The not-so-Evil Empire, in reply to Kiwiiano,
I base this on my 4 year old MBP, I've upgraded the memory from 4 to 8GB after a couple of years, and recently the hard disk to a 512GB SSD. Both these upgrades (non- Apple h/w incidentally) have meant that I can still use it for my fairly heavy duty needs. The construction of the MBP has meant that it is mostly in good condition, unlike the Dell XPS that literally disintegrated after 3 years.
If you think you'll be happy with Sandy Bridge CPU, 8GB and a 512GB SSD by 2020, then I've got a 8 year old G4 I'll sell you.
Actually I wouldn't sell you that, I love that thing...
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A couple of comments: Firstly those password nags from Apple should be taken notice of. My iTunes account was drained of funds recently, having been protected by a not entirely stupid password, but not the best either. Apple did refund the money after a bit of whinging from me. What that does say to me is that bad folk are targeting iTunes accounts with brute force attacks - fortunately I didn't have a credit card attached (and won't have in the future either).
One thing Apple have disappointed me with is the non-upgradeable (or repairable) Retina Pro Mac book, essentially this beautiful piece of kit is a throw away after 4 years...
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Why are they sending work emails to an xtra account? Sackable offense in some companies I have worked for. Mind you - I've been guilty myself when the 50MB work Exchange account overflows...
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IN another NYT article a few days ago there was this gem of a quote from a former Apple executive when talking about a screen redesign change that occurred late in the iPhone manufacturing process.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
Doesn't that just seem a little off to you. The glee evident in the fact that people can be made to work like that?
The John Stewart piece is amusing as well..
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-16-2012/fear-factory
"Siri informs Stewart that were Foxconn to implement humane conditions, his iPod would cost 23 percent more.
Stewart is aghast: "Wow! I would expect if we were working people to death, we'd be getting like 30 to 35 percent savings," he joked."
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Here's Lote (named after the rugby league player who lives around the corner), Lote likes pulling what we call "dead cat" poses. this is one of his finest. A very affectionate cat, but a problem child after he put one of the neighbours in A&E...
Here's hoping the attachment automagically places the image where we want it...
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to Paul Campbell,
NSW Electoral Commission in Sydney (which is taking NZ ex-pat postal votes) has a lovely view over Sydney harbour...
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Like a disturbingly enjoyable Force-choke to the nuts.
nice line!
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Stephen Judd,
The man himself explains all
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html
which to me took a little of the fun out of it
Was your Lions book a badly photocopied pile of paper? I just googled it it case my memory was failing and there really was a nicely printed version. Turns out Lions was an Aussie!
