I HATE APPLE

safari doesn't crash all the time like firefox does, for me (ff is seriously completely fucked, if I leave it up for more than an hour it starts eating up all my CPU time). Chrome does too sometimes, I think it's all flash related though.

the "starts eating all CPU time" thing sounds like the Flash plugin

haha, i just tried to type "AYOOOOOOOOOOO" in a chat window and i got the accent-picker

ok i turned off spelling autocorrect but it is still autocorrecting some things? like "reso" turned into "redo"? maybe this is a setting in mail specifically i have to turn off?

(yes)

option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3

― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah this is reversed in England, which has a logic to it, but c'mon the hash symbol is too common a character these days to be hidden behind a control key like that #fml

the uk apple keyboard is the worst thing steve jobs ever did

OK, I just had to look that up and it's hilarious weird. Does the UK need all that Northern European stuff?

anglo-saxon keyboard

what northern european stuff?

the main problems are the 3#£ issue and skinny return key

Oh, never mind, I was looking at what purported to be the full-size UK layout and I think it was not.

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC184B/B?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg

Is this the badness? That lolinverted enter key is hateful.

ja that's it. i do like the tilde key on them but otherwise they are pretty bad.

did everyone switch back from reverse-scrolling? i'm 'trying it out'

i just checked, and my "scroll direction" is set to "natural"

using a magic trackpad

what is natural

the heady rush of young love

what is unnatural

Hate natural scrolling. Maybe it would feel natural if I hadn't been using computers for 20+ years, but I have so it's frustrating as hell

xp: Ugg boots

natural is win

don't have a strong preference, but i got used to natural very quickly

what is supernatural

the heady rush of seance love

are ghosts real

they live in the hearts of the innocent

what is innocence

innocence is an iMac

omg i'm on one right now

fuck imessage

?

flatmate sent "come to the pub" message yesterday, her phone claims it was sent, i haven't seen it yet. this happens all the time.

I texted you a couple of times too, come to think of it.

dude where are you dinner is on the table

This happens to me too. I have had a night long fight started by it, in fact.

exit relationship stat

where is a serious macbook pro which really aims ssd and 15" retina

^^ this man has good ideas

agreed, tho gimme 13" and i'm cool

guessing most osx apps can't render on a retina display, though?

i heard something to the effect that they've built a hi-res mode into lion that just renders w/ 4x as much pixel area, so that things end up at the same relative size

but my understanding of how computer graphics and monitors work is really really weak so maybe i've got that wrong

i mean mountain lion

like can't they just build something in to render each pixel as four pixels?

probably? i dunno, i'm p ignorant of this stuff, too

are there aliasing problems when you do that or is that only going the other way? (from hi-res to low-res)

Aliasing wouldn't happen at 4x pixels, since all the old pixel boundaries on lo-res graphics are also the new pixel boundaries. I tried to explain that better and failed.

This was all easier on iOS cuz the iPhone and the iPad each had a single screen size. Laptops and desktops have all these crazy random numbers of pixels. But you don't hold them six inches from your face so they can cheat a little.

They do have that, it's called Hi-DPI mode or something. I haven't played with it yet, but the Air Display app for iPad -- which basically lets you treat the iPad like a wireless second/third monitor -- has the option to enable that mode. Supposed to be not perfect speed-wise since it's over wireless, though.

haha lukas i understand what you're saying but i can't explain it either!

when is mountain lion due? dude at apple store told me my mbp w/ lion wont work with apple tv. wtf?

i can answer yr first question vaguely: this summer

id also like to point out the obvious and say the design of those stores is so fucking wack

hahaha