Tag: Apple
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Computer programming centre-right lovers of Swedish meatballs
According to YouGov (the UK’s largest polling company) that is what typical lovers of Linux are – though it’s based on just 272 individual profiles (out of 200,000 or so members of YouGov’s panel). Oh, and they are blokes. More at https://yougov.co.uk/profiler#/Linux/demographics (YouGov made at least some of their profiling data available online this morning […]
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Lousy wireless on OS X Mavericks
To be honest I have not noticed any improvement on upgrading to OS X Mavericks on this laptop, but I have noticed a significant degradation in the performance of the wireless networking – notably dropped connections and long re-connect times. Not impressed. And, of course, it is proprietary software so there is little chance of […]
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Microsoft versus Linux: did we win after all?
At the end of John Le Carre’s Smiley’s People George Smiley is congratulated for having triumphed in his life’s struggle with Karla, the eminence grise of the KGB and told “George, you won”, to which the British spymaster, perhaps shamed by his need to adopt his opponent’s tactics of threat to the innocent replies “Did […]
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We lost more than our record shops because of the MP3
Today HMV, once His Master’s Voice and still one of the UK’s leading retailers of CDs and DVDs, went into administration (one step away from going bust). Hopes are high that at least some of the shops can be saved – not least because the record labels and the DVD manufacturers want something that will […]
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The year of Linux on the desktop?
For many who work or research in the industry, desktop computers have an “end of history” feel about them. The improvements in technology that allow chip makers to double the number of transistors in a given area of silicon every 18 – 24 months are still there but “Moore’s Law” as we understand it – […]
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Stopping the patent madness
The BBC’s lead story in Britain today is about a decision of a US court which no direct or immediate applicability in Britain at all – over Apple’s victory over Samsung in a US patent case. The fact that the case, at least in theory, matters not a jot to Britain seems to have rather […]
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Why do people hate Apple redux
The Guardian has an interesting piece called “why do people hate Apple“, which makes some telling points but I do not think really gets there. I suppose I should begin by saying I don’t “hate Apple” – in fact I think their products are quite nice if hideously over-priced. But I do have a bit […]
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Apple II
I know in recalling Steve Jobs most people are likely to focus on the iPhone and the iPad, the two devices which made Apple world leaders. The iMac – the machine which saved Apple from destruction – and even the revolutionary Macintosh are not going to get much of a show. But my favourite Apple […]
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