Archive for March 12th, 2009

TECH: iPhone 3.0 software event

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Next Tuesday journalists are being invited to a media event at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif. headquarters. Apparently the invitation reads ‘Get an advance preview of what we’re building’.

Well, here’s three things I’m hoping for…

1. Cut and paste - it’s not rocket science but as the all the cool kids running jail-broken iPhones already have it, it’s not too much to ask for it on the official software is it?

2. MMS - its continued omission is almost embarrassing. Need I say more?

3. Sat Nav application built in - I can only assume the reason we haven’t already seen a proper sat nav application for the iPhone is because Apple is writing its own. I hope so.

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RANT: Sometimes I just want to watch the earth burn…

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Here was today’s blue touch paper: an email from my local multiplex telling me about ‘The Age Of Stupid’ - a new film, based around the premise of a man, one of earth’s surviving humans speaking to us in 2055 and asking why we didn’t do more to avoid the global catastrophe of climate change. OH MY GIDDY AUNT! I don’t know how much more Eco terrorism I can take. You may all believe we’re going to hell in a hand cart just because cows suffer a little more flatulence than in 1972 but some of us don’t buy it so GIVE IT A REST! If you really want to worry about man’s demise, may I kindly point you towards near earth objects or level 4 bio hazards. Please find a new drum to beat.
Now, that said, I’m no advocate for the reckless and insatiable appetite to rid the planet of its resources for material gain, few people are. I’m also happy to see a move from our dependence on oil as a fuel source. A dependence that has arguably stifled propulsion technologies for far too long. But if you think I’m going to swallow the ‘fact’ that it’s going to be ‘Waterworld’ within fifty years you must think everyone is made of cloth. Perhaps they are, as there seems little high profile opposition to the notion. Which leads me to another thing…
This is supposed to be a democracy, where freedom of speech is embraced. Yet I so much of mention I don’t believe in man made global warming and I’m vilified. In one fell swoop it is now possible to become a social and professional leper, merely through a lack of conformity. The level of social compliance with this set of engineered ‘man made global warming’ ideals is truly frightening.
To harbour feelings of doubt about the theory, Lord forbid, to air them, is now unsafe, they are a dangerous secret to be confided in others only after prolonged and guarded probing. I fear we have really have lost our ability to debate this subject anymore without ostracizing people for a differing point of view.

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