Apples new ethos to make everything unrepairable and non upgradeable, means that ram decisions have to be made at purchase time so they can rip us off for it.

Non removable upgradeable by design in 2012 :

Batteries
Memory
Storage
Displays

The fundamental design philosophy is to hide the above elements inside objects with impenetrable surfaces for sale, so that the user forgets the idea that it can upgrade or repair anything, meaning the cycle period for them to come back and buy a new product is all the sooner. ;(

Memory

Fixed memory at purchase, the iphone ipad storage con is outrageous and extra 16gb of memory should cost an additional £10 at most apple charge an extra £79.99 when going from a 16gb to a 32gb ios device ? and provide no SD card input … total bastards is all one can say, evil incarnate. And now they’re fixing memory in retina macbook pros at birth, regardless of memory chipset capability … absolute horse shit activity 8gb only unless you buy a 15″ retina but even then memory is only upgradeable to 16gb at purchase time and apple will charge you an extra £160.00 for an extra 8gb of memory … shit shit and double shit.

Batteries

Not externally replaceable, barely internally replaceable – only as a apple service option, not environmentally responsible and so bespoke and weird that the service part is no doubt ridiculously expensive. and probably unjustifiable as an upgrade / replacement expense.

Displays

Why Make it so that the displays inside your products can only display the output from the computer that they are embedded into, since computers are the fruit of turings universal machine, the idea that a display is locked into only displaying s specific computer, seems to go against the grain of the universality of bits, displays what ever they are embedded into should always have an input so a external device can connect to them, in order to remain flexible and be called displays. All peripherals Displays included all need to be connected much more like network devices, ie on a network so that any device on a network can connect to them. The lack of target display mode on 2011 imacs was a mistake.

Storage

storage in the macbook pros is no longer easily replaceable, and the ssd parts used are often bespoke and difficult to source compatible parts. not great

Apples obsession with thin-ness and extra shareholder orientated money making is causing all these problems, that cash mountain they have, is formed from overpriced memory and ssd upgrades, and high pricing on their product line in general in comparison to other manufacturers. The products generally are hard work to repair, meaning ifixit repairability ratings are really low usually around the 2 out of 10 mark.

It creates a dumber consumer who assumes these limitations are somehow normal.

At least serial killer doccumentarys highlight the immorality of these killers ? look at the violent fictional entertainment americans seem to desire and recreate, which often seems externally, to show indifference to the presentation of criminality and aggression, combined with the approval of selfish patterns, extreme financial pressure, agressive socially and divisive … anything goes culture & increasing wealth gap, combined with a population of 300 million, means serial killers I think are inevitable. Also A higher murder rate to me, means more people cross the threshold of murder itself, meaning a higher percentage of people can from that moral situation walk the short path to not caring about murdering more people.

thanks for reading this it highlights so greatly what a comic invention it is.

the bible … ‘and lo, behold ye shall hear the sound of a fountain of shit’ and the madman in the cassock with his business will lead thee far astray from logic and tax you with pointless ceremony instead of working, and will falsely place himself as the very intermediary between you and god and pass off his own invention of words written in an mad book of laws as those of this higher power.

the first premise of the comic, build your masculine body for revenge, man muscles are exploding tits! get it ? oh so f’ing enlightened, thank gawd crummy lummy, I dont enjoy many comics perhaps the furry freak brothers – Sam and Max – larson, my heros are not heros, if flex is “smart comics” I may well live without them. COUGH … kid omega has the same colour hair as you, which is another way of saying people identify with reflections of themselves. when others say of it “Shit, probably one of the best books I’ve ever read. And I read a lot of shit” I think to myself How I try to avoid shit.

interesting video :

my review

its better than gangnam style > had coherence in its form an presentation great sense of dress up, the linguistic diatribe was still pertaining to the archaic rap trinity of money, sex and violence, some nice self aware references to their home audience – “coz we blowing up overseas” i like the highlighting of the fickle mentality of the crowd. Perhaps geting edgier and more politically vigorous and worldly, step up the difficulty level tackle a hard “boner”-fide topic with the same vigour.

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I prefer the green version but your preference

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lets be patent about this(pun intended), apple would patent the sun if they could, they are total idiots and the US patent office is a lackey to overpowered corporate interest, it should not be possible to patent hand movements interacting with screens ? its ridiculous, this is limiting human evolution not enhancing it.

Does the US Patent office grant patents regardless of prior art ? Can anyone post the minority report in 2002 let alone earlier prior art demonstrating things, apple seem to patent freely because of sheer money and legal resource, come up with a patent that just patents all the hand movements shown in said film or does publicly known prior art not count for anything against such patents, lets face it pinch to zoom or rotate, this principle must have been demonstrated many times prior to this patent being applied for by apple in various art forms, yet apple are now claiming they invented something novel enough to warrant patenting it, this is ridiculous, same with the patent for an array of icons in a grid ?!?!?! Apple are beginning to suck harder than a medal winning prostitute. It’s also a further and clear demonstration that legal power and money is what the patent office responds to it is not a system that is open to all.

imagine if a company tried to patent, moving a mouse up and left as a user gesture, and barred all other companies from using it in their product, that effectively is what pinch to zoom and two finger rotate are, their user interactions, you should not be able to patent user interactions like this, what apple are trying to do here is limit the available screen interactions of users on devices other than apple, so that if an android person places their two fingers on a screen it does nothing. yeah that sounds like limiting human evolution to me if ever I heard of it.

likewise any sense would tell you a grid array of icons on a screen should not any longer be patentable.

Screw Apple
Screw the US patent office which are making themselves look farcical, by agreeing to such moronic patents, sooner or later the US patent office is going to cause the whole patent system globally to collapse, whereby everyone will just ignore each others patents completely, embargo’s no doubt ensuing. to be honest I think we should abandon patent and operate on a first to market and popularise principle ? It would work just as well once company’s got used to the idea. As at the moment we are allowing corporations the right to all ideas versus the individual just on the basis of power and money alone.

Screw the system which is quite obviously biased in favour of US corporations who have inordinate amounts of time and money to spend on lawyers and litigation

Lets get back to a system that prizes the pace of human and not corporations.

Yep sounds like Apple, who apparently spend more on patents than R&D ? why dont we copyright scaling Os’s after all nobodys patented that before ? and before you accuse me of being a hater, I’ve been using apple since the Apple II. Bitmap icons at 1024 x 1024 seems highly expensive file size wise, I think I’d prefer vectors at that size, dependant of course on which has the smaller file size, no doubt apple won’t be efficient about it. But Apple dont mind making your hardware unnecessarily redundant, ((take my early intel Quad core Mac pro not running ML) which I can get to boot ML if I hack it with chameleon ?)). We were promised resolution independence two os’s ago, I’ll believe it when I see it. If the menu bar doesn’t scale, and things dont scale harmoniously together it wont cut the mustard for me. Im beginning to lose faith that they can ever fix all the bugs in OS X. Lion and Mountain Lion were both nighmare upgrades for someone who does Tech support for a living & caused me immense grief in collaborative work environments, OS X is turning into the OS where all the fixes are either in the command line, arcane hidden preferences or out of the users control. I think they need to start afresh with a new hardcore GUI based operating system, its feeling too obviously like unix re-skinned.

Review : Southland Tales, director Richard Kelly (of Donnie Darko infamy)
This film try’s to reach with too much scope toward too many themes, too many genres … Sci-fi / Comedy / Drama etc packed in here supposedly, but each seems to defeat the others possible movement, I can see/feel what is being attempted here, but sadly it doesn’t come off in the wash. Any great creative if they’re lucky foolhardy or ambitious enough, will probably attempt something like this film once in their career if they’re worth they’re salt, only to crash land in the wreckage of their own ambition and desires, this is not to say that films like this shouldn’t be made as its important directors and writers reach and stretch themselves, but it must be recognised when they don’t come off. Whether films do or don’t come off as it where is somehow separate from the attempting to make such films, that said what lessons can be learnt ?

The issues:

Casting :
The cast is too diverse seems too much a miscellany or hotch potch, and is peppered with actors who could rarely be taken seriously, and who all come with too much baggage and connotations and known character styles they fail to escape from. Maybe the budget was too large and the choices and options too various and everyone was pulled in ? but none the less it doesn’t seem to work, half the dialog seems to be between actors fearfully wooden and self conscious of their screen presence or ones who’ve misconceived or who have no clue as to what kind of film they’re partaking in. as though at some points the actors think they’re in a comedy an then they alternate to thinking they’re in a serious film with mystical dialogs, in a way this film is self defeating at every turn. This must have been quite painful for Richard Kelly to make as he must have been hoping he could somehow pull it together in editing or something. Previously richard has perhaps been known for lesser known actors starring in his works, which adds to the sense of fresh realism, an alternate but plausible version of our reality, and the choice to use all these mainstream actors somehow kitchify’s and addles the work all but completely. Stops it working as a whole it becomes some kind of pastiche patchwork of parts that could never be made to work with each other and the conflictory enjambment seems almost continuous. In Donnie with its central role and and hungry relatively unknown actor Jake Gyllenhaal who came with little screen baggage … presence wise, things worked believably.

Too many Influences moods elements:
This film lies very uncomfortably somewhere between twin peaks, brazil, the fifth element with some kind of sunny californian cinematographic soap feel of say baz lurhmans ‘romeo and juliet’, and some touched attempts at lebowski esque surrealism, they’re is an underlying theme of media induced societal schizophrenia and a heavy dash of conspiracy and distrust leading overall to the ‘no story effect’ where no discernible gripping parables or human messages maybe discerned, and those plots employed seem somehow throwaway, other story elements that are rammed into this film include – oil crisis, world war 3, post nuclear, terrorism, media control, doppleganger’s, 4th dimensional rifts, alternative energy, new wave drugs, the list goes on like some over engorged list of thematic ideas.

The narration:
Like Bladerunner … if you need to stick narration in, most often it means something is very wrong or the studio don’t understand your film and are worried about it. It certainly doesn’t help the viewers belief in the tangibility of the world presented, although the other flaws in southland tales are such that even without narration it still refuses to work.

obviously richard can write and direct but in this case the film falls over itself.

good bits:
The opening suburban celebration barbecue scene – pre the narration, seems perhaps like the sting the film was sold on, the mood is genuine and interesting up to that point, the barbecue house scene almost seems totally real no doubt documentary no actors involved to balls it up, and develops high expectations of the film to follow post the nuclear explosion, the commencement of the explanation and narration to set the scene for the film seems to be a complete disconnection, and at this point a second film starts riddled with hollywood style over inflated fake knackery.

I’d best end here an say this film will be interesting to those who study film, to see what happens when reaching too far or scope creep occurs with a large budget in the hands of an ambitious creative who both writes and directs a film and has all the options he wants available to him. Often limitations lead to more originality.

Interesting to note the cast are in reverse order of magnitude on the credits, as though to reduce their recognition and identification with the film. perhaps this was a post the rushes choice on they’re part ?