Posts by Tippis

Don't give them ideas.

Instead, the philosophy should be: if you want to sell me a funky-feature party-trick machine, I will have to spend time and effort and possibly some sort of software license to turn it into a functional and workable computer. How do you intend to compensate me for that extra work? My time and effort is not cheap. The price proposition needs to be the exact opposite of what they're going for now, and by a pretty large margin.

It's as if the industry has forgotten how loss leaders work and how you use them to build a long-term customer base that you can then slowly turn up the heat on.

I had to go the cancel-subscription route as well, except it flaked out and didn't offer me any alternative subscriptions.

The tech I contacted was very helpful and only marginally confused as to why it wasn't doing what was expected. However, the speed and precisions of the way alternate solutions were offered indicate that this was not his first rodeo as far as dealing with this kind of request and problem. I'm guessing they have a lot of cancellation feedback to redirect to /dev/null pass on upwards.

Re: Any mention of 'bug-out-bags'?

They're not really a thing here, and definitely not in official material, since the whole thing ties into the "Total defence" concept which essentially states that, if shit hits the fan, just keep plugging along. Go to work, fulfil your role, continue as best you can. Bugging out means shirking your societal duties to keep everything else going. Also, bugging out means you will not receive any aid from official sources, from the community, or indeed from anyone - you're on your own and that is the best way to get yourself killed even when there was little chance of that before.

It's telling that one of their best models — soon to become tricky to come by — was named “Mini”.

In fact, it's kind of funny how they roll out all these amazing numbers except the one that really makes a difference: a <5.5" size.

Re: What's wrong with adding a passwords app?

Also, what are they actually adding that distinguishes this new app from ye olde Keychain, recently changed to optionally direct you to the Passwords settings?

Quite so. It has a better form factor than any of the subsequent models and infinitely more clever and elegant security system than any of the modern ones. Of course they had to cut it loose.

Re: Acronym fun

Other euphemisms from the same source include “hardware-rich combustion” and “litho-braking” (as opposed to, say, aero-braking).

So what you're saying is that were given a computer for free? After all, the cost of the computer here is $0, and you claim you paid half of that, which makes no sense whatsoever.

So you didn't really buy it, now did you? Someone gave you a workstation for free. That's very nice of them but it also makes it completely useless as a point of comparison if you want to talk about cost.

The difference is that no-one uses the launch pad in OSX since you have the much more useful dock and the vastly more useful Spotlight bar at your disposal.

The reason for this is that the transition is massively jarring, offers no useful advantage and, in fact, serves absolutely no purpose at all that can't be done in far better ways by not splattering them all over the screen.

Re: Chrome is bad

"you can't even block ads with Google chrome, so it's perfect for THEIR business, I'm not anti-google, just can't stand their privacy politics."

Neither does Firefox, unless you get Adblock or some similar extension. Now, as it happens, Chrome has this: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom?hl=en

E71 here...

...and I tried to duplicate this when the whole "oh, but it happens with every smartphone" spin first got out. And indeed, I *did* manage to get it to drop bars...

...by more or less sitting on it. If I made sure that the only thing not covered in me (ok, just using my hands worked as well) was the part of the screen that showed the connectivity, I could indeed see how it would sloooowly start losing bars, but open up just a little bit and they'd start coming back.

Sure, I suppose other phones could exhibit the same kind of sensitivity as the iPhone 4, but that doesn't mean that the iPhone is any good, only that a number of other phones are just as horrid as the iPhone is.

re: what's in it for opera?

My guess is it's the same as on all other platforms: brand <-> moving (and integrating with) more desktop versions <-> search referral $$$