Carl Simpson

Well if that’s your threshold for black humour, you would not fit in, in the country I live in.

Not that you actually have a right not to be offended- and I regret nothing!- but genuinely, I’m sorry that you were offended.

The literalist answer to your question is “because Zuck is not a rockstar.” ;)

In general, though, the answer is the same for pretty much all people who are treated like rock stars (i.e. sportsmen, pop singers, actual rock stars): because what he has contributed to our world really isn’t that important compared to what most other people do (like, say, nurses or rubbish collectors, without whom we would live in squalor and die).

Facebook/pop music/fashion, etc. just makes us excited in some trivial sense, and suddenly we start drooling all over CEOs, singers, and so on, even though they really lack any of the qualities we should aim for in figures of admiration and respect (i.e. exemplifying the best of our virtues).

Does a TV count as “face to face”, or is that just “talking to you whilst looking at a picture of a face that is probably, though not necessarily, also your face”?

Also, I don’t know about you, but I can read FAR quicker that anyone normal can talk, and I can write far more succinctly than I can talk. So I don’t think the written word is going anywhere.

Hurr, only the extended extract is free. And with that one omission of detail, I have ruined my own joke. And edit button would fix this mess.

And edit button. :(

If nothing is ever free, then why does this book appear to be free in the UK Kindle store?

Yeah. Gotcha now, Keen.

I dunno, man. I don’t think Jobs is all that charismatic, these days…

In the original 2006 keynote, when unveiling the iPhone, Steve Jobs claimed that the software the phone runs is based on OS X.

I really enjoyed reading this. You are quite possibly the most fun person on the Internet.

I haven’t tried Windows 8 yet, because apparently it doesn’t work brilliantly on a Macbook Air (alas). Many of the features I love about OS X are there in W8 in an even more aggressive form, though.

Currently I use almost all of my programs in OS X Lion fullscreen- can’t wait to do W8 “fullscreen” browser/video with my chat window sat next to it- that’s a major “fiddling around resizing windows instead of doing what I want to do” issue for me right now.

I also love how well OS X’s Mail works, simply because it is integrated into Address Book and iCal and a bunch of other things. Can’t wait to see how Contracts take that sort of behaviour to a brand new level in W8.

I am perfectly happy with Calendar’s (previously “iCal”) stitched leather. It’s just the application’s visual identity. The first time you see it, it seems stupid, but quickly you just forget it. I now actually appreciate the splash of colour.

Where I think it goes overboard is in skeuomorphisms that imply functionality that isn’t there. For example, Calendar shows a bit of torn paper under the leather, but you can’t tear pages off. Indeed, previous weeks and months are still perfectly available.

Contacts (previously “Address Book”) is an abomination because it doesn’t behave in ANY way like a book- nor should it behave like a book, since traditional address books have many inefficiencies that are addessed by computer versions. It’s bizarre that it should look like one.

What is it with young men thinking that every problem relates to and can be solved by their cocks?

It’s not magical, you know.

Either you people are releasing details in little drops to build excitement, or you really are pushing your organisation of this thing right up to the last minute.

Ironic use. You know who ruins memes for everyone?

Fortuners that think they own meme use. Rrrrrrr.

The home screen also includes a button to display your own phone number in a pinch

As if that’s a feature for only the elderly!

I dunno, I “hate Apple” because I want to be able to tap phone numbers to call, along with any number of great little features, and they are using litigation to make sure they are the only ones legally capable of making me a product to fill that need.

Of course, I don’t really hate Apple. That’s far too emotionally strong, and would be confusing to me as an owner of multiple Apple products (three) :/. I just feel disappointed as a tech enthusiast that tech companies are being litigated out of making good products.

Stuff like lock screen interaction I can even support- it’s a big chunk of UX. And the positive connotations are obvious: Without the “slide-to-unlock” debacle, we probably wouldn’t have “unlock straight to camera” because there wouldn’t have been a rush to make new lock screens. But tapping on a phone number to get the option to call it? That seems like kind of thing anyone would want any touchscreen phone to do.

Well, the idea behind onscreen buttons is that the screen should extend down into the area that would be occupied by buttons, resulting in the same amount of screen dedicated to content as is the case with the same phone had it used hardware buttons in most cases, and less wasted space on the front of the phone in total in special circumstances, like video playback.

Whether or not this has ever worked out to be the case in practice is a different question, but it’s what people who like onscreen buttons are after.

I’m very happy to stand corrected- I just did some Googling around. I certainly don’t have knowledge as specific as this.

University student, here. I jut use Pages. All I need is text laid out out in a row and the occasional graph, so I see no point in running Word. I’ve never had a problem viewing doc and docx files, but it won’t show you the fonts they’re written in if you don’t have ’em installed.

Upsides are: versions, price, simplicity
Downsides are: probably there if you need anything more than plain old words; the need to Google things occasionally because you’re so used to Word, perhaps.

Oh, I’ve not been aware. I have a Nokia phone, but frankly, you wouldn’t want to access the Internet on it.

Well that’s a FAR more encouraging story, if ever four phones with blurred lines of distinctiveness could be considered “encouraging”.

Well that explains a lot.

Although, there’s already a lot to account for when you claim something is “double zero” anyway, whether or not you’re using "W"s.