Stormbringer
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True story: today I went down to the local $non_profit and helped out one of the guys get his new Apple laptop hooked up to the network and the network printer. The network worked immediately after entering the WEP password. The printer didn't work first time, so I deleted it and tried with new settings. It worked the second time. I also tried to persuade him of the virtues of buying a 1-2TB drive and using Time Machine.
It was so easy it was embarrassing.
I contrast that with some work I did with a startup last year. I bought one of their own Windows laptops into their HQ, and trying to get onto their own wireless network was a nightmare, even though I had a room full of techies to help. I strongly suspect that in the end the tech support guy just turned off the wireless router and left it off because it was too much trouble.
I'll do Apple support for love (ie free support for friends and family) , but you couldn't pay me enough to do Windows support. I fully appreciate the guys that do take on that...
"I've been a Google fanboi for years and defended them in the public square when they've been accused of nefariousness. But these revelations of intentionally ignoring users' privacy settings have shaken me. Maybe it's…
Is "Google does evil shit and violates users privacy" even news-worthy anymore? Isn't that the default? Yeah you heard me Google-tards. Down-vote me like you always do, I got karma to burn baby burn.
Waiting for the inevitable DuckDuckBro spin-off
Frankly I think that spending half the intro talking about how sexy they are and then essentially giving an update on what the person in question has been doing lately with their genitalia is just wrong. Are they in the…
It's okay, the risk of being massacred by the horrible Australian wildlife probably exceeds the reward anyway.
Well, the good news is that even if you're a big company, the Apple App approval process is just as annoying for you as for everyone else. The bad news? That's where the herpes comes into the picture...
Quick! Alert the people selling software that it's just pixels! It's pixels all the way down!
I have a new favourite word
he suffers from Gruber-syndrome. Which is to say, that he will argue till the cows come home that market share is udderly (sic) irrelevant... ...right up until Apple gets a market share lead in something, when he will…
Man up, move to Australia, and sue the bastards.
If you think Google wouldn't spend some considerable time with a lawyer in preparation alone, then I have a contract to sell you..
Technically it mioght not be theft, but Google certainly has a clear fiduciary repsonsibility in this case, and violating that is generally a lot more serious than mere theft.
It seems like the equivalent would be to go to small claims court. In any case, the likely legal fees involved in Google fighting it vastly outweigh the actual benefit of screwing him over. Of course, if more people…
You did read the bit about how Google was arbitrarily with-holding the advertising revenue his site had generated? Sounds illegal to me. If my bank decided they didn't want me as a customer anymore I'm pretty sure I'd…
Yes, but they're much happier making budget hardware, handing over the majority of their profit to Microsoft and fighting tooth and nail over bread crumbs than they would be otherwise. Gotta pursue your dream dont'cha…
Oh noes! I almost cared about the virtual thumbs up! Call me when I can spend karma on caffeine and maybe I'll start caring. ;-p It's a quote about war - in a thread about war. The rest is left as an exercise to the…
Today I remembered what was the most tantalisingly interesting thing about XCode back then - the distributed compilation. The idea that you could have a team of people and my computer would steal spare cycles from yours…
The Americans will always do the right thing - after they have exhausted all other options. - Churchill
Universities also teach philosophy, and it isn't science either. Of course, as we can see from the Philosophy of Science courses, that philosophy is actually more important than science, because philosophy is more meta.…
A simple but sad explanation would be that it is dependent on the reviewer, or more likely reviewers, over at Apple. E.g. if Sandeep finishes reviewing faster than Nikolai, then those lectures will go up faster. The…
I believe there's a free (as in freedom) version of Objective-C out there, I think it runs on Windows and Linux. Check out the book by Stephen G. Kochan The caveat of course, is that Cocoa (an Objective-C API used for…
Focus on gameplay rather than graphics. Which is to say; make a game with compelling and interesting rules that doesn't rely on performance
The claim has been made that it is easier to move from a formal education in maths to functional programs. E.g. if you've been dealing with things like f(x)->g(x) in math class for a couple of years, then a…
Of course it makes sense, Baseball and Football are both sports, why not compare them? Because as different sports it isn't really relevant. Are you going to say that cricket is better than tennis because they can hit…
No, the better way to rebut this claim of ineffectiveness in the market would have been to say "which Lisp?" The fact is that Lisp has spawned a great number of descendants. So to compare modern Java to some ancient…