New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

maybe those 80s giant phones? but i'm happy enough using Siri alone

I don't think people look anymore twattish using Siri in public than e.g. texting in public

texting is silent, plus you can doing all sorts of stupid ass things imperceptibly; talking to an inanimate objects always looks insane

as much as a i love to say "computer; tea; earl grey"

using siri in public is particularly twattish because after asking a question there's always 10 seconds of silence followed by 'NO, FUCK'

second most egregious thing about siri is it still taking 10 secs even when you're asking it system-level qns like what's the time

word. especially compared to the Google search app, it's really sad

Do any PC makers come close to the Macbook Pro trackpad in use?

does the magic trackpad work with PCs?

word. especially compared to the Google search app, it's really sad

this. I've actually lost count of the number of times I've said something into siri and it's offered to search the web for 'cretaceous teaspoon'

or similar

were you looking for cretaceous teaspoon to cretaceous tblspoon conversions?

i saw a blog post recently (possibly one of the nerdy iphone dev blogs i read, but i have a horrible feeling it might have been gruber or sth) where the guy was saying the one thing that keeps him awake at night as someone who has invested his career in apple, and should be keeping apple awake at night, is the fact that they clearly have no one who understands sync

― caek, Friday, February 8, 2013 12:10 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://barebones.com/support/yojimbo/icloud.html

lol

it's too bad drew houston proved impervious to jobs' reality distortion field

I heard Jobs offered him something insulting like $100k

iCloud has been almost totally useless for me.

Dropbox is the centerpiece of my life, my bread and butter, how I do just about all my business and non-business. It is maybe the best thing that has ever happened to me.

when is google drive going to consume Dropbox I wonder

i don't think Google even wants to be in that business, their opinion is that local storage is dead and everything should live in the ... well, on their servers.

plus it's for-pay, has a tightly focused mission ... just not a cultural fit.

nah, Google is trying to compete w/ dropbox. They've got this whole thing where Google drive appears on your desktop and all your files are represented as physical files, but it's not that useful since all the google docs are of course just aliases to the website anyway. But it lets you drop other files into the folder and they upload like Dropbox.

but my logic was impeccable

yeah that post kind of confused me. google does think local storage is dead and wants your files on their servers, but google drive is their way of getting them there.

dropbox have a good chance of surviving because of their cross platform obsession, they reverse engineered the mac file system to get their shit to work there.

read somewhere that google fiber + google drive gives read/write speeds roughly equivalent to most HDDs, which makes their whole schtick a lot more reasonable. when ppl talk about the need for powerful local computing, they're really talking about drive speeds vs Internet speed I think.

but if yr on a regular stupid American connection, the dream is a ways off

Wow I just learned about google fiber and I now I want to move to Missouri/Kansas.

we were working with some contract developers in KC, but all the ones I talked to lived in areas that we're in the google fiber trial

can i haz gigabit download

when ppl talk about the need for powerful local computing, they're really talking about drive speeds vs Internet speed I think

reading from a hard drive is a bottleneck even in local computing, heavy duty processing operations rely more on memory/CPU. for example, the best way to improve performance on a machine is to load up on RAM and get rid of the swapfile (disk-based memory management).

the current issue with cloud computing is having complex software completely rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of a throughput technology that is still in a nascent stage.

SSDs

I love SSDs

love me some of that SATA III

i don't think Google even wants to be in that business, their opinion is that local storage is dead and everything should live in the ... well, on their servers.

tbh i think google's less concerned about changing consumers' behaviour than mining the shit out of everything they currently do

SSD in all things

IDE rules

SCSI rules

SCSI 4 lyfe

hail eSATA

BREAKING NEWS YOU GUYS: jonathan ive was interested in watches 11 years ago

My instinct is that this watch is totally fictional. It just seems like a hilarious false flag.

MY wife got a Pebble and it's pretty cool. I'd at least check out an Apple one since they should be able to pull some OS tricks an outside developer isn't allowed.

I've better make it look as cool as my Braun watch.

I've don't have to do anything. IVE BETTER you get the rest.

i have a braun watch too :D

They're hot.

the band broke tho :(

creative differences

i saw a blog post recently (possibly one of the nerdy iphone dev blogs i read, but i have a horrible feeling it might have been gruber or sth) where the guy was saying the one thing that keeps him awake at night as someone who has invested his career in apple, and should be keeping apple awake at night, is the fact that they clearly have no one who understands sync

― caek, Friday, February 8, 2013 12:10 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://barebones.com/support/yojimbo/icloud.html

lol

― caek, Thursday, February 28, 2013 8:13 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://storify.com/Jury/the-trials-of-icloud

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/26/4148628/why-doesnt-icloud-just-work

has anyone done this?

http://www.macstories.net/news/how-to-enable-two-step-verification-for-your-apple-id/

i did it it takes al ong time

i havent actuall done anything since that required me to login to apple so i cant tell u how good it is

please note: the code # they send u is only 4 numbers long.... doesn't seem as secure as google???????????????? just a warning!!!!!