Posts by enzos

@ Ireland : Likewise, but it's not sarcasm, it's irony. Sarcasm is easy to detect, irony can be missed (esp. by Americans, who tend to take things on face value).  -- "Irony must not be confused with sarcasm, which is direct:...

Not my field, though I do use EM-deflected ion-beam technology (mass spectrometers). Sounds like a brilliant idea. Go Apple! 

The things geeks obsess over! Like a bunch of ten-year olds arguing over the merits of marbles in the schoolyard.    Played with one yesterday and the screen is not going to be an issue for most users. Beautiful...

Expecting great things with Jony at the helm of Software as well as Hardware. Consistency, elegance, and ease of use.    Looking at the article, I'm remembering how much I liked Platinum. 

>Cook also panned 7-inch tablets. "We don't think they're good products, and we would never make one." Inches schminches, it's a 20cm iPad. Apple has gone metric: 25 & 20cm iPads and a 10cm iPhone. Now for the rest of the country! As...

Good reply. A Claris Homepage for HTML 5 .. now that'd be great! (Never too keen on iWeb: easy, elegant but very limiting). 

The colorful BG? A Painting application (a la Appleworks) for the (retina optimised) iWork? That'd be nice.. so long as the whole suite gets an upgrade. Little suggests the iPad air (mini?) the Mac Mini. More suggests the iMac and maybe...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  "But the iPhone 5 sucks. I heard it from the Internet. Maps is generically, nonspecifically bad, iOS 6 is stale like a loaf of bread, and Apple is just catching up,...

It's a violet haze (purple isn't a spectral colour, it's a mixture of blue and red) and it's caused by lens flare: reflection and scattering from lens-element surfaces exposed to oblique light. It's the reason real cameras have lens...

David Murray was on the OzBC TV last night commenting on the Reserve Bank cutting its base rate. Impressed me as a genuine heavy hitter in the business world.