iPhone Hysteria

[Russell]

Smileys predate emojis... And were doing the same job...
Back in the VT100 terminal days...
But yeah sure, them japs invented everything from hot water to the wheel, electricity and the space shuttle...

...and Origami...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Smileys predate emojis... And were doing the same job...
Back in the VT100 terminal days...
But yeah sure, them japs invented everything from hot water to the wheel, electricity and the space shuttle...

...and Origami...

You guys are confusing Japan with worst Korea.

[Coligny]

Smileys predate emojis... And were doing the same job...
Back in the VT100 terminal days...
But yeah sure, them japs invented everything from hot water to the wheel, electricity and the space shuttle...

...and Origami...

You guys are confusing Japan with worst Korea.

Same shit, shorter gooks...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Smileys predate emojis... And were doing the same job...
Back in the VT100 terminal days...
But yeah sure, them japs invented everything from hot water to the wheel, electricity and the space shuttle...

...and Origami...

You guys are confusing Japan with worst Korea.

Same shit, shorter gooks...

You talking penis size or height?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Young Girl Left With iPhone-Shaped Scar After Phone Case Burned Her Skin

It's not hard to doze off while browsing the web on your smartphone, but this careless mistake could potentially be very harmful. A little girl from England, for instance, recently woke up to a horrific sight after she had fallen asleep with her iPhone 5c in her bed.

Nine-year-old Olivia Retter sneaked her iPhone into her room one night (her mother, Karly, told the Mirror that she wasn't supposed to be doing that) and fell asleep with her glittery phone case touching her bare leg.

"She woke up in the middle of the night and came into my room and said her leg was hurting – I just thought she was being silly and sent her back to bed," Karly said. "Then in the morning I saw this awful burn on her leg – I was so shocked a phone case could do that."

When Karly took her daughter to the doctor, they had some unfortunate news for the youngster.

"Doctors have said it is a severe chemical burn and she will be scarred for life," Karly said. "I can't believe it, she will have a scar in the shape of a phone on her leg."

Apparently the clear liquid found inside the glitter-filled phone case contained acid, which had leaked out onto Retter's skin and burned her.

[Coligny]

Unfortunately accurate...

[Grumpy Gramps]

Well, it's Apple. Can't have things that are longlasting, versatile, rock-solid and cheap. Need be proprietary, flimsy, short-lived and expensive. We don't want to disappoint the fanbois, we need them buying and buying and buying more things, because we have to pay this new-fangled thing called "taxes" that we never heard of before

[yanpa]

Well, it's Apple. Can't have things that are longlasting, versatile, rock-solid and cheap.

Getting very good value for money out of my 2011 MacBook. I reckon it's got at least another 2 years of productive life in front of it. You won't catch me buying anything loaded with iOS though. My 2011 iPod is doing fine but the skinflints no longer see fit to provide OS updates, though it still works fine for the MP3 music listening stuff so it will continue until it dies, then I'll switch to a glorified USB stick and/or whatever Androidy thing I have at the time.

[Grumpy Gramps]

My 2011 iPod is doing fine

In those days, I think Apple still had their planned obsolescence periods set to a little longer than now

[wagyl]

http://appleplugs.com/

[kurogane]

Well, it's Apple. Can't have things that are longlasting, versatile, rock-solid and cheap.

Are newer Apple products actually shoddily made or is it more the planned obsolescence and proprietary circle jerk you mentioned? I also hate that crap and won't buy suchnesses. My 1998 Mac Powerbook was military grade solid. That's a shame to hear, even as I cheer on the fanboys and watch my Apple stock disprove Newton's old fashioned theories

[yanpa]

An Apple Newton would be quite old-fashioned.

I think their pocket rocket compact mobile internet bling devices with phone app are subject to higher expectations and a shorter life cycle than the boring staid laptops, which seem to be getting ever less attention. OTOH the 2011 Macbook Pro is holding up much better than its predecessor white plasticky Macbooks/iBooks. One of the little black plastic "feet" on the underside did fall off. The built-in battery is even working suprisingly well.

[kurogane]

When I bought this current thing I looked at a 15 inch Mac Airbook type thingy. It was really well built and incredibly light but the lack of pluggy inny holes bugged me, and this Acer 11" was 30,000 yen at the duty free in Akihabara, so I said good enough. I could see a nice Macbook Pro being a useful device. I get what you mean about laptops seeming to have been passed by judging by the looks I get when I tell people I have neither a tablet nor smartphone, neither of which I need or even want.

[Grumpy Gramps]

I have neither a tablet nor smartphone, neither of which I need or even want.

Tablet/phablet is much more comfy than lappie to read the news, while sitting on the loo. Just for that it's worth it

[Wage Slave]

I have neither a tablet nor smartphone, neither of which I need or even want.

Tablet/phablet is much more comfy than lappie to read the news, while sitting on the loo. Just for that it's worth it

Or for watching cricket in bed.

[legion]

In my humble opinion Apple are no longer the machine of choice for the cretin, sorry, creative professional.
They will go the way of the purple ones (Silicon Graphics).

Their kudos rested on the visibility of their hardware in the creative professions, although the heavy number crunching usually took place elsewhere. Tim has swung his dick at Adobe and anyone who saw this will be opting out of Apple's walled orchid. The iFoney may have legs, the legend of Steve is sacred, but if you are serious about making pretty pictures that move it is time to dump Apple.

[wagyl]

if you are serious about making pretty pictures that move it is time to dump Apple.

Out of interest, who do you choose in its place?

[legion]

if you are serious about making pretty pictures that move it is time to dump Apple.

Out of interest, who do you choose in its place?

What ever platform supports your software and hardware of choice.

Problem with Apple is they make hardware that looks pretty, but if you want functionality your hardware needs lots of unsightly slots. Apple try to get round this by adding in ports which you can stick things in, problem is you can't rely on them to continue to support those ports. The headphone jack shows they are extending this policy to their consumer range. Imagine if you had just invested in a load of Blackmagic gear and Apple stopped making machines with Thunderbolt, which I suspect is about to happen. That is a little more of an issue than having your choice of headphones reduced.

[Coligny]

What ever platform supports your software and hardware of choice.

sooo...

Apple you mean...

[legion]

What ever platform supports your software and hardware of choice.

sooo...

Apple you mean...

I'm talking about the future.

So is Walter

[Yokohammer]

if you are serious about making pretty pictures that move it is time to dump Apple.

Out of interest, who do you choose in its place?

What ever platform supports your software and hardware of choice.

Problem with Apple is they make hardware that looks pretty, but if you want functionality your hardware needs lots of unsightly slots. Apple try to get round this by adding in ports which you can stick things in, problem is you can't rely on them to continue to support those ports. The headphone jack shows they are extending this policy to their consumer range. Imagine if you had just invested in a load of Blackmagic gear and Apple stopped making machines with Thunderbolt, which I suspect is about to happen. That is a little more of an issue than having your choice of headphones reduced.

Sad, but very true. Apple has a nice little consumer ecosystem, but at the professional production/post-production level they are rapidly being left in the dust.

You mention Blackmagic, and it's not just the hardware. Resolve is awesome, but to run it effectively on a Mac you realize that you need to spend 500K yen or more on a 6~8 core Mac Pro with limited connectivity. Then you realize that you can put together a kick-ass Windows based workstation that will do everything you need and more for around 200K yen. You can customize and expand that workstation as much as you like, then recycle and rebuild when the time comes. There is simply no contest at that level.

I've been an Apple user for years (since the Apple IIe, for those of you who are really, really old), but it is clear that not only is their closed-system policy locking them out of some important markets, but that it is probably too late to catch up at this point. Most pros have already moved on, and it will take a major industry revolution of some kind to get them back.

[yanpa]

Yeah, I can see that happening. In my field (UNIX-y IT development) Macbooks in particular became very popular since OS X MacOS matured as they're well-integrated, well-built laptops which happen to run a certified UNIX out of the box (and in my case has excellent built-in multilingual support and a nifty little free video editor, which you pros will snigger at but it works great for tidying up baby videos). That advantage is slipping as it becomes much less hassle to install Linux on laptops.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Apple frantically removing potentially NSFW terms from iMessage GIF search after initial oversight

As Jeff detailed in his massive how-to earlier this week, the biggest changes in iOS 10 came with the all-new Messages app. One of the most highly-anticipated features was support for built-in GIF search, which pulls in GIFs from a variety of outside sources. As with any instance of pulling images in from third-party sources, there are bound to be a few inappropriate ones that slip through the cracks, and iOS 10’s GIF search is no different.

While Apple seemingly banned a variety of obviously NSFW terms from GIF search at the start, a handful of words with double meanings were still resulting in NSFW results. First noticed by Deadspin, Apple neglected to think of how words like “huge” could potentially return inappropriate results when pulling from third-party sources. Other words that still returned results, however, were far more obvious in their NSFW meaning, including “shlong” and “sideboob.”

Now that iOS 10 is available to the public, though, and these NSFW results have become noticed, Apple is frantically blocking any term from being searched that could potentially return an NSFW result. For instance, searching for “huge” no returns any results, while earlier it would return a plethora of images, some NSFW and some not. The more obvious terms such as “nipslip” and “futa” also now return no results.

[...]

Searching for "huge taxbill" on Apple machines no returns any result any shlonger. How comforting...

[wagyl]

One of the most highly-anticipated features was support for built-in GIF search,

An eye on priorities I see. If this quote is true, then the users are just as much to blame as the makers.

[Grumpy Gramps]

GIF seems to be the new thing amongst youngsters nowadays. Discover the world in HD 256 colors

[wagyl]

[Tsuru]

ARE YOU EXCITED YET???

[yanpa]

GIF seems to be the new thing amongst youngsters nowadays. Discover the world in HD 256 colors

One day they'll discover ASCII art...

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[Grumpy Gramps]

Yeah, but ASCII art might still be a little advanced for your general Apple fanboi, they might need another century or so to get there. I think, they have to mature through the wonderful world of CGA first.


Source: Wikipedia

[legion]

You mention Blackmagic, and it's not just the hardware. Resolve is awesome, but to run it effectively on a Mac you realize that you need to spend 500K yen or more on a 6~8 core Mac Pro with limited connectivity. Then you realize that you can put together a kick-ass Windows based workstation that will do everything you need and more for around 200K yen. You can customize and expand that workstation as much as you like, then recycle and rebuild when the time comes. There is simply no contest at that level.

I've been an Apple user for years (since the Apple IIe, for those of you who are really, really old), but it is clear that not only is their closed-system policy locking them out of some important markets, but that it is probably too late to catch up at this point. Most pros have already moved on, and it will take a major industry revolution of some kind to get them back.

Resolve is awesome and also now basically free, thanks Blackmagic I had a fair amount of downtime early this year and spent it learning my way round the software, can't say I'll ever be on the level of a specialist but you can knock out a passable grade in a couple of minutes, then spend all day tweaking it .....................

Looks like colorists are facing a similar problem to translators, they may offer quality, but clients love cheap.