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Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 217

Also, jailbroken iphone = horribly unstable

I dunno what deluded andriod fanboy echo chamber you're pulling that info from, but it's certainly not from actual experience. I've run my iphone both jailbroken and with stock firmware at various times and the stability has been consistently flawless either way

Comment Re:Or (Score 1) 217

There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.

out of interest, is there some jailbreak app that will let you back up your iOS app save data? on of the things that's always shitted me was the way there's no way to back up an individual app's data, and that if you remove an app from your device there's no way to save it's user data and use it later when you reinstall the app

Comment Re:Google Policy on Automatic Updates (Score 1) 285

Telstra used to offer a "super fast adsl2+" (about 20mbps) that had only 250mb of quota. i dont know if they still do, I would hope the ACCC reamed their asses for such dodgy practices. 1GB quotas havent been common in many many years, and even back then it was only common on cable (which has always been ruled by shitty monopolies)

Comment Re:Only Apple (Score 1) 624

it's nice to blame apple for everything that's wrong in the world, but those stupid ass glossy laptops had a strong foothold long before the first glare screen macbooks came out.

Comment Re:It doesn't matter that much (Score 1) 736

I find those that are worried about their title are generally those who obtained a degree and think that anything less than the title of their choice is offensive because they take their degree far too seriously or people who, for whatever reason (ie no degree or just stupid) don't feel qualified for the job and want a excellent job title to reaffirm they're doing their job right and it will help when they're caught out and need to be find a job elsewhere.

ok then, would you graciously accept "junior" prepended to your job title? I mean, it's just a title, right?

Comment Re:From the other side (Score 1) 467

I know personally, I dont hear a thing if im concentrating on copying something down from a board correctly. I also write quite slowly and it makes my hand cramp, so if I'm trying to get things written down before they're taken off the board I do not have the opportunity to think about what I'm writing.

take those facts and apply them to your lectures, and all I get out of them is hand written notes that I then have to go back and try to teach to myself. why exactly is this any better than me not showing up and studying of your pre-prepared notes? I'm not advocating not showing up, but what you're forcing upon students like me is no better than what you seem to be so against.

personally, when I go to a lecture I want to listen, think and ask questions. taking notes prevents all of that. by trying to force those with no concentration to learn by ROTE, you're forcing EVERYONE to sit and take notes and you're preventing many students from learning in the manners they find efficient. some people learn by seeing, others by hearing. others by doing. on the scale of learning efficiency, ROTE comes in pretty fucking low.

Comment Re:To Mac or Not (Score 1) 672

But it's really easy for the less tech savvy to forget to unplug stuff and break ports and hardware.

WTF? Just how dumb are the devs you work with, and why hasn't working with them driven you to quit and find a job somewhere not staffed by morons?

Comment Re:Are we surprised? (Score 1) 334

Not noscript, I did that once and I got bollocked for that a bit because 'using the web was too hard as he had to press buttons every site he went on', the guy was a real pleb but nevermind

no, you got bollocked because noscript is shit. Adblock is a blacklist that comes with a nice choice of subscriptions, noscript is a shitty whitelist that comes with no option of preconfiguring commonly required scripts, and to top it off noscript is written by an untrustworthy dipshit who has a history of trying to fuck with users adblock settings for his own gain and spamming his site with the daily updates.

Browsing the web today with no scripts is akin to browsing with no images. Sure, it's possible but the experience is shit. I wish someone would put out a competitor to noscript that worked on the blacklist model, they'd take over in an instant. Can you imagine how much people would hate adblock if it was a whitelist and you had to add exceptions for every site you visited in order to see any content? Try it out, remove your subscriptions, add a block everything rule and start browsing the web. Then come back and claim that guy was a pleb because browsing like that is a pain in the ass. He may have been a pleb for other reasons, but he wasn't wrong about noscript

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