I HATE APPLE

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14926601

shame HTC don't believe in remorse eh

so wait his app is a list of jewish people?

Developer Johann Levy, who is Jewish, said the app was "recreational".

The maker of a mobile game highlighting the uglier side of electronics production has seen the game banned from Apple's App Store just hours after its release.

The creators of "Phone Story" describe it as a game that "attempts to provoke a critical reflection on its own technological platform."

According to the developer's website, the game involves a player in cartoon versions of real-world scenarios involving mineral mining in the Congo, the reported suicides of workers at an Apple manufacturer's plant in China, the "planned obsolescence" of tech gadgets and the resulting environmental impact.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/14/tech/mobile/apple-bans-app/index.html

btw congratulate my wife on her new MBP

― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, August 29, 2011 4:06 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

UPDATE: the new MBP is still in its box

MONEY WELL SPENT

― Tal Berkowitz - Vaccine advocate (DJP), Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:10 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My wife's MBA arrived today. She only took it out of the box because I kept hassling her. Her only opinion so far is that she hates how much the W key looks like an upside-down M.

To be fair she was grumpy as hell because (a) she's shit tired and (b) it forced her to enter her name, her address, her email address, her telephone number, her password and her fucking user photo before it would let her anywhere near the desktop.

AA referred to his wife as his wife!

It's a banner day on ilx!

oh I meant to mention, my wife finally set up her MBP on the 9th, while her sister was visiting, after her sister, her sister's partner and I all spent a good 5 minutes teasing her for leaving it in the box for 10 days

obv she now loves it

I had a firmware update the other day for my 4 month old MBP and just let it run like I have dozens of times before on every other Mac and somehow it totally bricked it - just dead, no screen, no anything other than the fan running at top speed. Brought it to the Apple store and they had to send it back to replace the logic board. I've heard that things like this can happen but I never thought they actually did.

women! am i right!

To be fair she was grumpy as hell because (a) she's shit tired and (b) it forced her to enter her name, her address, her email address, her telephone number, her password and her fucking user photo before it would let her anywhere near the desktop.

You can quit out of all the registration crap as soon as you enter your user account name and password. Don't believe that's changed in Lion.

I kept looking for a quit/skip/later option, couldn't find one.

I kept looking for a quit/skip/later option, couldn't find one.

You can just hit cmd-Q there and it'll ask you if you want to quit.

Oh god the magic cmd-Q option. Brilliant. Nice of them to make that obvious to the user.

yeah, there should be more options and UI elements in the first boot experience.

Not HATE APPLE but fuck it. If you buy Office for Mac 2011 Home & Student (1 user) you can't just pay the small difference to upgrade to the 3 user edition, you have to buy the whole fucking thing all over again. Cunce.

My wife's MBA arrived today. She only took it out of the box because I kept hassling her. Her only opinion so far is that she hates how much the W key looks like an upside-down M.

― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:32 (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

IMPORTANT UPDATE: absolutely nothing has happened since

I'll give you a hundred bucks for it.

$105, and I'll write you a fawning thank you note

When I installed the Office update I had to ask her three times just to enter her password. She was just sitting there. She wasn't doing anything. The Macbook was on her lap and I still had to ask her three times. I want a divorce.

women!

Next time she tries to check Facebook on the disintegrating old Ubuntu box and Unity crashes and she's all "waaah it's not woooorking can yoooou fix it" I will set fire to all her shoes.

$108.47 and a gift card to Payless Shoes that probably still has a few bucks on it

sounds like he'd rather have you take his wife....outdoors!!

haaa

in russia wife types password.

This happened. In 45 minutes she went from "it's too thin" to "wow it's so thin".

She stays indoors all the time, she probably has trouble recognizing proper levels of thin?

wheres my iphone5?

Lion. 2010 MBP battery life continues to be fucking disgusting and I could fry an egg on the base. Firefox (Flash?) and Reeder keep forcing it into discrete graphics mode for some reason.

don't use firefox!

If I close absolutely everything I get 10 hours. Ideally then I can't blame Lion BUT this never ever happened on 10.6.

10 hours is.... quite a lot?

... amazin?

Yes but I was getting 3–4 with stuff open.

I barely got 3 from my first MacBook w/nothing open.

seriously!

Yeah, I seriously wouldn't be complaining about 3-4 hours of battery on a MBP! But agreed that Firefox has become a useless piece of crap since the upgrade. I've been using Safari more these days because it's more usable, but I still don't like it very much. (For example I click on the drop-down bookmark folders in the bar and it sometimes takes three or four clicks to activate them.)

chrome is really the shit these days

i hate that it doesn't do password auto-complete, though. You have to type in the username and *then* it adds the passwords. I'm always forgetting my usernames, so I prefer it just to fill as soon as the form laods.

3-4 with 6 or 7 applications open is all ive ever gotten from my mac laptops

chrome does p'word autocomplete for me! on some sites, at least... some times i wont remember the pword no matter what. but yeah chrome is the best--less of a memory hog than safari, plus greater customizability

sometimes it* wont remember the pword or username

the best advantage safari has is the address bar autocomplete

oh, I wonder if this is sites where I have stored multiple passwords? Safari always chooses one in that case.

i dont really hate apple but i have my first date with the genius bar saturday afternoon because new 4s is stuck on the apple logo

AA, I used to get 5-6 hours under normal work, 8-10 just playing music with the screen off on my 2010 MBP. now it's 2011 and i get 3-4. i haven't upgraded to lion (because lol it is a pointless upgrade). that's pretty normal deterioration of battery life. are you sure this is was new with lion and not just because your mbp battery is now > 1 year old?

lion is awesome fuiud

it's worth it for the sandboxed security model alone

are you sure this is was new with lion and not just because your mbp battery is now > 1 year old?

Yeah, it dropped like a stone the day I installed Lion and never came back. I don't use the battery enough for it to have deteriorated that quickly over 15 months.

I'm only sticking with Firefox for a couple of plugins that don't have proper Chrome equivalents.