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I’m not exactly sure what you want me to respond to.. I guess I just don’t understand being made angry or “nauseated” by every commercial I see, or by companies in general.

3 days ago on Apple said to consider 5.7-inch iPhone and $99 model in several colors

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Poor excuse, did someone chain you to your chair? Nobody is forcing you to watch ads. Being mad at them is irrational. Mute the ads, leave the room, have a conversation with someone, the options are endless.

5 days ago on Apple said to consider 5.7-inch iPhone and $99 model in several colors 1 reply

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You’re obviously not in the industry, it has nothing to do with laziness.

5 days ago on Apple said to consider 5.7-inch iPhone and $99 model in several colors

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Fortunately, nobody is forcing you to watch their promo material or buy their products.

6 days ago on Apple said to consider 5.7-inch iPhone and $99 model in several colors 1 reply 1 recommend

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All I can think, as someone who works on an iPhone app every day, is please do not fragment. Please please please do not fragment. Android is such a pain in the ass.

6 days ago on Apple said to consider 5.7-inch iPhone and $99 model in several colors 1 reply

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Neat. Well since you’ve never seen it, it must be false. Infallible logic.

But really, I’ve visited forums since the 90s and using @ to direct a response to someone was common even then. Also used daily in my workplace when chatting on campfire.

Fun fact: @ was even used on Twitter before it was officially called a mention, as a way of referencing who a tweet was directed to, because again, it was/is a common internet convention.

6 days ago on iOS 7 still 'a work in progress' alleges The Next Web 5 recommends

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It’s not a big problem for those who don’t care about motion controls. Which, judging from my conversations with friends, is quite a lot of people.

6 days ago on Motion gaming forfeit: PlayStation Camera isn't bundled with the PS4, and that's a big problem

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Common convention, not invented by twitter.

6 days ago on iOS 7 still 'a work in progress' alleges The Next Web 1 reply 8 recommends

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The difference between the Xbox being always connected, and a smartphone being always connected, is that the smartphone uses a cell network, and can, in fact, work offline.

7 days ago on No internet for Xbox One? Get a 360, says Microsoft 2 recommends

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Dude, all you have to do is look at it. They don’t have to state “We made everything flat!” to see that there are almost no shadows, and very few gradients in any of the default Apple-designed apps.

I think they should have been aiming for a middle ground between what they had before, and what they ended up with. Shadows and button definition are not the enemy if used correctly!

8 days ago on The design of iOS 7: simply confusing 1 reply

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I’m not an American. You Americans are willing to sacrifice so much in the way of freedom all for a sense of security that isn’t even real. “These measures are for our protection” Against what? What proof do you have that the program works when the government lied about its existence until it was uncovered. Maybe it’s protecting against the terror plots that the FBI helps to arrange? Maybe they’re just fishing. Whatever they’re doing, it’s a huge privacy invasion, and there should be a lot of real outrage. It’s so strange that a country that clings to guns as a means to protect themselves against a tyrannical government is perfectly fine with that same government having the ability to eavesdrop on any/all conversations. Think about it, nothing but abuse has ever come from that amount of absolute power.

8 days ago on Was a subway terror plot really foiled by the PRISM surveillance program?

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If I buy a game, I want to play it as well. That goes for used games too, that I wouldn’t have played if they were still full price.

8 days ago on PlayStation 4: Sony outmaneuvers Microsoft on price, design, and common sense 2 recommends

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This looks way nicer than the Xbox One, though that’s not saying much.

9 days ago on Microsoft reveals updated Xbox 360 design based on Xbox One, available today

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I fucking hate that attitude so much. Cops use that line all the time to insinuate guilt upon noncompliance. Certain things are private. Private conversations, private texts, private photos, private documents, etc, etc. I have a right to keep these things private when I am not doing anything wrong. Just because I am not doing anything wrong does not mean I want you, or the police, or the government, or a foreign government looking at them to decide for themselves whether I was doing something wrong. How hard is that for some people to understand? Do you not value privacy and freedom at all?

Also, employers don’t have access to my social network activity because I a. filter what I put on social media at all, and b. use privacy settings to my advantage. I don’t have a problem with that at all because I can control it, and if an employer finds a picture of me doing something stupid while I was drunk, it was my own damn fault. Privacy invasions I cannot control.

10 days ago on Was a subway terror plot really foiled by the PRISM surveillance program? 1 reply

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I’m not an American, but if my government had the ability to record all communications and I had to trust that they were only doing so to the “bad guys”, but were not willing to go through due process to provide evidence to obtain that information legally through court orders,I would not trust them one bit, and I would not feel reassured or secure. I am not willing to sacrifice freedom for perceived security.

10 days ago on Was a subway terror plot really foiled by the PRISM surveillance program? 1 recommend

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They’re not willing to give the context, though..

10 days ago on NSA 'Boundless Informant' software leak shows just how much data the government has

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Funny, they seem to be doing that now regardless of the legality.

10 days ago on NSA 'Boundless Informant' software leak shows just how much data the government has 1 reply 5 recommends

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Both suck, but I’d prefer CCTV over having all my digital communications monitored, because I know when I’m being watched, for one, and because they’re in a public place, not my house. Being able to read my facebook messages, emails, listen to/watch my skype calls, etc. is stepping way way way WAY over the line, and not necessary for anyone’s security.

11 days ago on Was a subway terror plot really foiled by the PRISM surveillance program? 1 reply 4 recommends

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Can’t trust Zuck as far as you can throw him.

11 days ago on Facebook, like Apple and Google, 'hadn't even heard of PRISM,' says CEO Mark Zuckerberg 1 reply

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“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”

12 days ago on Secret NSA spying: how can it be stopped? 13 recommends