net access isn't necessarily critical to everyone's ability to do their work.
And if it is required to do you job, you've probably already paid a premium for a service of some sort that doesn't rely on the kindness of shop owners/strangers.
Yeah, seems like this should have been a civil case, but I don't know if lives or people's welfare were on the line because of this jerk. If that's the case, then a-slammer he should go!
If the iPhone 4 was a car, when you touched it in the lower left corner it's cellular signal would be attenuated resulting in possible call disconnection, lowered audio quality, cutting out, and severe data speed reduction.
Yeah, but then imagine that you really did shit your britches. Then the first words out of your mouth would be "You're wearing your underwear wrong." Then after three weeks you came out with a bogus video showing how everyone else in the office could shit their britches if they really really squeezed hard in a very unnatural fashion. Then you'd say, "See, everyone shits their britches. This is poopy-britches-gate, but I'll give everyone who asks for it a clothespin, so they don't have to smell the poop that I've been sitting in, and will continue to sit in indefinately, all the while completely denying any deviation from the norm. The clothes pins will be distributed until November, when I'll re-assess whether or not you deserve a clothes pin to spare you from my stinky stinky offal."
I think Nexus One wasn't a failure at all. It may have been unsuccessful in the market, but I'm pretty sure it's purpose was to provide competition so that other phone manufacturers would get off their lazy asses and make phones that didn't just barely cover the minimum spec for Android. When the Nexus One came out, suddenly you had high end hardware coming for Android, instead of just the crappy G1 and Hero. After Nexus One's specs were announced, you had a whole gamut of high performance hardware announced and produced. Left to their own devise the hardware manufacturers seemed happy to relegate Android to the Windows Mobile hell of bare minimum specs.
I think that's iPhone's biggest strength is that its specs are great, and theoretically any machine running their iOS should be have fairly high performance (not necessarily true as anyone who tried iOS 4 on a 3GS will tell you). I think Microsoft is doing the right thing by specifying a very high level minimum spec for WP7. It's clear they're going straight for iOS's jugular and not messing around with low- and mid- level smartphones. I think they've learned a lot spending all that time in Windows Mobile limbo.
That's funny, because every video I saw showed a person touching the phone with a single finger and seeing an instant drop in call clarity and/or data rate. I think you didn't look so hard. Look again.
The only hand yoga I saw was on Apple's farcicle "everyone has antenna issues" video. If you cupped your phone with that death grip I'd understand the signal attenuation; it's believable. Oddly, when I covered my Droid with both of my hands except a slit of screen so I could see the signal indicator, it stayed at a solid 3 bars (not a particularly strong signal, mind you). I guess Steve was lying again?
Well, hell yeah. Apple's products have been average quality at best for a long time, but their users (a diproportionately high percentage of the bloggers on the internet) gloss over that fact all the while snickering and making much ado over nothing when minor issues arise in Microsoft or competing products. This is finally an issue that is so easily quantifiable that even Apple can't sweep it under the rug by pretending that all phones have this egregious design flaw, or by blaming AT&T(or Orange, or one of the myriad of other carriers the world over that the iPhone has had terrible reception on). So, yes, a lot of this hubbub is overblown, but it sure is fun to sit back and watch Steve Jobs squirm like the weasel that he is.
So all of those videos on the Youtube showing calls dropping voice and data rates plummeting when the antenna is touched aren't enough to convince you? How would anyone elses experiment impress you? This isn't Bigfoot we're trying to prove here. This is no extraordinary claim.
Communication != dumbing down. In fact, that's probably one of the worst ways to communicate because it distorts the message. Take a course in communication. There's a lot to learn there. Communication is a two-way street, and if you're not presenting your message in a way that amenable to your audience, you might as well be speaking Swahili (to a non-Swahili speaking audience, that is).
I think attitudes like yours King InuYasha, probably have a lot more to do with the constant miscommunication than anything else. This holier-than-thou, you-children-will-never-get-it, I-don't-need-to-be-understood-by-the-unwashed-masses is at the core of the issue here, IMO. of course there are things the general public could do to be more conducive, but that sort of respect will only come with the trust of the public. Yes, it's not fair. Wah.
I don't have any hard evidence, but I'm pretty sure at least 85% of everybody don't use Twitter, probably more. Of those people, at least half don't use it because the things people say on it are worthless.
It's pretty telling that even though the defendent didn't show up, the judge reduced the damages to $27K from $112M. I'd say that shows a great deal of disdain for e360. I've been in court in the past because of deadbeat customers, and when the defendent didn't show up, the damages were trebled what I asked.
Yeah, I think you'd be better served going through old issues of Phrack than wasting your time with 2600's technical articles. The stuff in Phrack is dated, but at least it's real. And the letters page is way more entertaining than 2600's feeble attempt to copy it.
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net access isn't necessarily critical to everyone's ability to do their work.
And if it is required to do you job, you've probably already paid a premium for a service of some sort that doesn't rely on the kindness of shop owners/strangers.
What's the point of surrounding yourself with toadies, flunkies and yes-men if you can't throw them under the bus when you need to?
Isn't that true of all of Google's "beta" projects (ie everything they do)?
Yeah, seems like this should have been a civil case, but I don't know if lives or people's welfare were on the line because of this jerk. If that's the case, then a-slammer he should go!
I didn't start the fire, man.
What happened to car analogies?
If the iPhone 4 was a car, when you touched it in the lower left corner it's cellular signal would be attenuated resulting in possible call disconnection, lowered audio quality, cutting out, and severe data speed reduction.
Yeah, but then imagine that you really did shit your britches. Then the first words out of your mouth would be "You're wearing your underwear wrong." Then after three weeks you came out with a bogus video showing how everyone else in the office could shit their britches if they really really squeezed hard in a very unnatural fashion. Then you'd say, "See, everyone shits their britches. This is poopy-britches-gate, but I'll give everyone who asks for it a clothespin, so they don't have to smell the poop that I've been sitting in, and will continue to sit in indefinately, all the while completely denying any deviation from the norm. The clothes pins will be distributed until November, when I'll re-assess whether or not you deserve a clothes pin to spare you from my stinky stinky offal."
I think Nexus One wasn't a failure at all. It may have been unsuccessful in the market, but I'm pretty sure it's purpose was to provide competition so that other phone manufacturers would get off their lazy asses and make phones that didn't just barely cover the minimum spec for Android. When the Nexus One came out, suddenly you had high end hardware coming for Android, instead of just the crappy G1 and Hero. After Nexus One's specs were announced, you had a whole gamut of high performance hardware announced and produced. Left to their own devise the hardware manufacturers seemed happy to relegate Android to the Windows Mobile hell of bare minimum specs.
I think that's iPhone's biggest strength is that its specs are great, and theoretically any machine running their iOS should be have fairly high performance (not necessarily true as anyone who tried iOS 4 on a 3GS will tell you). I think Microsoft is doing the right thing by specifying a very high level minimum spec for WP7. It's clear they're going straight for iOS's jugular and not messing around with low- and mid- level smartphones. I think they've learned a lot spending all that time in Windows Mobile limbo.
That's funny, because every video I saw showed a person touching the phone with a single finger and seeing an instant drop in call clarity and/or data rate. I think you didn't look so hard. Look again.
The only hand yoga I saw was on Apple's farcicle "everyone has antenna issues" video. If you cupped your phone with that death grip I'd understand the signal attenuation; it's believable. Oddly, when I covered my Droid with both of my hands except a slit of screen so I could see the signal indicator, it stayed at a solid 3 bars (not a particularly strong signal, mind you). I guess Steve was lying again?
The headers sure did look real. That's an awful lot of unecessary work to fake out the blogosphere. I call BS on the "fake email" theory.
Yeah, and he never wrote the emails where he said that it wasn't a big deal. What a liar.
Well, hell yeah. Apple's products have been average quality at best for a long time, but their users (a diproportionately high percentage of the bloggers on the internet) gloss over that fact all the while snickering and making much ado over nothing when minor issues arise in Microsoft or competing products. This is finally an issue that is so easily quantifiable that even Apple can't sweep it under the rug by pretending that all phones have this egregious design flaw, or by blaming AT&T(or Orange, or one of the myriad of other carriers the world over that the iPhone has had terrible reception on). So, yes, a lot of this hubbub is overblown, but it sure is fun to sit back and watch Steve Jobs squirm like the weasel that he is.
So all of those videos on the Youtube showing calls dropping voice and data rates plummeting when the antenna is touched aren't enough to convince you? How would anyone elses experiment impress you? This isn't Bigfoot we're trying to prove here. This is no extraordinary claim.
According to who?
Anyone who's not an Apple apologist.
Communication != dumbing down. In fact, that's probably one of the worst ways to communicate because it distorts the message. Take a course in communication. There's a lot to learn there. Communication is a two-way street, and if you're not presenting your message in a way that amenable to your audience, you might as well be speaking Swahili (to a non-Swahili speaking audience, that is).
I think attitudes like yours King InuYasha, probably have a lot more to do with the constant miscommunication than anything else. This holier-than-thou, you-children-will-never-get-it, I-don't-need-to-be-understood-by-the-unwashed-masses is at the core of the issue here, IMO. of course there are things the general public could do to be more conducive, but that sort of respect will only come with the trust of the public. Yes, it's not fair. Wah.
It might not be any better without PhD's, but then again, they might actually have a product that's not eternally in Beta, either.
It's far more easy to dodge personal responsibility and look beyond your own misgivings when there's a crowd involved.
I don't have any hard evidence, but I'm pretty sure at least 85% of everybody don't use Twitter, probably more. Of those people, at least half don't use it because the things people say on it are worthless.
Even if the scientists correctly predicted a quake, what were they planning on doing about it?
Well, they correctly predicted that someone would rob a bank. Excelsior!
Isn't being stupid punishment enough for these poort scientists?
It's pretty telling that even though the defendent didn't show up, the judge reduced the damages to $27K from $112M. I'd say that shows a great deal of disdain for e360. I've been in court in the past because of deadbeat customers, and when the defendent didn't show up, the damages were trebled what I asked.
Ukrainian tax dodgers forced to pay for the services they consume on a daily basis like everyone else in that country.
Yeah, I think you'd be better served going through old issues of Phrack than wasting your time with 2600's technical articles. The stuff in Phrack is dated, but at least it's real. And the letters page is way more entertaining than 2600's feeble attempt to copy it.
http://www.phrack.com/
2600 you need to be careful with. A lot of the articles are pure BS.