I'm amused that it took them so long to fix problems with Google's Flagship, but I can't say I'm suprised.
Bought a G1 last March. Couldn't have been happier with it, until the 1.6 update. Afterward everything got slower, I would not recieve calls despite having full signal, be unable to place calls either. Rebooting the phone would fix the problem, but only very temporarily.
2 Replacement Phones with the same problem later they were still insisting the problem wasn't with the firmware. I wound up having to file an FCC and BBB Complaint to get released without an ETF, T-Mobile's 'solution' was to charge me the contract price on a new phone.
This is all relavant, because, well, As soon as I saw the first story on the Nexus one problems, I was not one bit suprised. Call it a matter of opinion but based on what I've seen I get the feeling something got whacked somewhere in the baseband package's firmware/drivers.
This problem gets difficult to detect, however, when the end users are so incompetent that they don't understand that their phone shouldn't be freezing up the way it is. I'm still waiting to see if Samsung screws up the moment yet. (It still seems to be functional, albiet running on 1.5. If it survives the 2.x update I'll trust it.) But as it stands my experience with Android led me to hope for the best as far as WinMo 7. If there's one feeling I got from Android, it was that it was 'beta,' and to be blunt you shouln't play beta with phones you're selling to people.
Is Michaelangelo's Creation Painting not Art, then? It is a derivitave work, in the fullest sense of the word, but I am fairly certain it is also art in the truest sense of the word.
Fortunately, in his case we do have the choice of another gaming system. Just like I have a quite dandy for the money Epson printer that I can use whomever's cartridges I'd like on it, I can choose a different system, like my PSP which.... wait...
Maybe we are starting to have a problem.
Yeah, because if you read it on a blog it -must- be true! Next time please try quoting REAL news sources before you open your mouth... Oh wait, you're on the internet, you can keep spouting garbage all you want:
Saturn S series sales dropped when the L-Series was introduced... primarly due to poor marketing; an L series sale usualy meant a lost S-Series.
Mazda = japaford in alot of ways, sometimes down to clutch plates. As for Nissans, the ones I've dealt with were all the proof I needed that Japa cars aren't any better than US cars.
Ouch, that would actually have hurt if it wasn't for the fact my 98 SC2 -HAS- been the most reliable small car I've ever dealt with.
Polymer got dropped because people percieved the gaps (Necessary due to the polymers different expansion-contraction rates.)
Saturn had profitable years, actually, so to say that it 'never turned a profit' isn't totally accurate.
As for it going in the toilet, I -do- blame GM for that. Vue/L-series were far too late out the door, and early ION models marred the companies reputation.
If you're buying a car to actually -drive- it, you don't care about resale value; I know from the experiences my faimly has had, that when I bought my S-series with 87k miles on it, there's probably a 50-75% chance I won't get rid of the car till it hits 200k. (And will be quite trouble free for most fo that time.)
My Ion rides like any other delta platform, quite nice and 3 years into it. The S-series rides about like any small car of it's era.
Also, the S-Series did quite nicely as far as sales went, going over 10 years without a major redesign is pretty damn good for any make/model of car. (Yes, they had minor interior/engine/panel changes, but not nearly as substantial as say, the diference between a Gen 1 and Gen 2 Neon, another small car that -didn't- last as long...)
By the way, since I didn't ask it as a question, I will now. Would you rather drive the Prizm or the Corolla?
Obvioust Troll is Obvious.
My Saturn is plenty Reliable, thank you very much.
Me thinks you're the sort of person who would drive a Corolla over a same model year Prizm...
By the way, one reason it's so expensive to do cell service in the US, is the amount of difficulty involved in placing up newer DAS systems in the target markets.
Crackheads don't pay the bills, Rich people do. Unfortunately, Rich pepople in the US also freak out about their neighborhoods looking spotless... I've heard cases where someone in an HOA have literally called cell phone companies "Assholes" for wanting to put antennas on a pole in their HOA....
I do CATV Outside Plant Design for a living and thus have a very good understanding of the technologies involved.
1: Motorola has a corner on the cable box market. That said, many companies make cable boxes. I know Scientific Atlanta does (Although they are a bit finicky,) and I'd bet C-Cor/Arris does. I've never seen one myself but I'd not be suprised to see one. The motorolas are in use because they DO work well.
2: Cablecard's biggest issue, is a cablecard device must be certified by CableLabs. Due to the Cable provider's vested interests in protecting their profitable markets (DVR rentals, On demand, etc) they have a tendency to not approve devices unless they impose some pretty stiff restrictions on what you can do with the data stream. Hence why while there are a couple of Tuner cards finally out there with cablecard support, they respect the broadcast flag and require Vista.
In defence of Comcast (and MSOs in general,) I am fairly certain that the lease price for the cable box is controlled by the FCC, it is a percentage of the cost of the device itself. Also, Comcast is the one who is liable for any failiures of said device, barring physical damage. if a power surge, flood, etc nukes the box you can return it to them for a replacement.
Telecos have historically been far far more monopolistic than any other organization that I an think of. I always find it amusing that people complain about the CATV industry when in reality the Telecos are far far worse about upgrading infrastructure and providing a reasonable level of service. The primary reason that DSL service is so much cheaper in cable is because it is piggybacked on lines that are very very old that somehow manage to do the job (My parents can't think of the last time someone from SBC/Ameritech/Whoever the hell it is now called has ran around in their backyard and the voice quality on their lines shows it; Some CATV systems have been upgraded twice in the past decade.)
Anyway, +1 for revocation of corporate charters of dishonest companies that do not work in the interest of the public.
Remember, Andrew Jackson Dissolved the farging BANKS. Why? (As taken from Wikipedia, but pretty dang accurate:)
"The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a twenty year period during James Madison's tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In Jackson's veto message (written by George Bancroft), the bank needed to be abolished because:
It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single institution. It exposed the government to control by foreign interests. It served mainly to make the rich richer. It exercised too much control over members of Congress. It favored northeastern states over southern and western states. "
What's even better is when they tell people that what they do know is wrong... they once did an episode where they "Disproved" that a CD can explode in a CD Rom Drive... Which many tech peoples know can happen in certain circumstances... But hey, what's wrong with a sample size of 1, right?
I'd urge anyone even thinking about trusting Africa with something like Interwebs to read up on a project called "Biketown Africa."
Basically, Some companies tried to give African governments bikes in order, ideally, to help people like medical workers. Alas, after taking the bikes, they'd keep them locked up oftentimes, except for wonderfully beneficial purposes such as physical training for armies...
Yeah, I'm worried about more scammers coming onto the internet. Because these people, if they scam even 100$ off a US person, that is a substantial amount of money for them, so of course they're going to consider doing such full time.
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I'm amused that it took them so long to fix problems with Google's Flagship, but I can't say I'm suprised.
Bought a G1 last March. Couldn't have been happier with it, until the 1.6 update. Afterward everything got slower, I would not recieve calls despite having full signal, be unable to place calls either. Rebooting the phone would fix the problem, but only very temporarily.
2 Replacement Phones with the same problem later they were still insisting the problem wasn't with the firmware. I wound up having to file an FCC and BBB Complaint to get released without an ETF, T-Mobile's 'solution' was to charge me the contract price on a new phone.
This is all relavant, because, well, As soon as I saw the first story on the Nexus one problems, I was not one bit suprised. Call it a matter of opinion but based on what I've seen I get the feeling something got whacked somewhere in the baseband package's firmware/drivers.
This problem gets difficult to detect, however, when the end users are so incompetent that they don't understand that their phone shouldn't be freezing up the way it is. I'm still waiting to see if Samsung screws up the moment yet. (It still seems to be functional, albiet running on 1.5. If it survives the 2.x update I'll trust it.) But as it stands my experience with Android led me to hope for the best as far as WinMo 7. If there's one feeling I got from Android, it was that it was 'beta,' and to be blunt you shouln't play beta with phones you're selling to people.
Is Michaelangelo's Creation Painting not Art, then? It is a derivitave work, in the fullest sense of the word, but I am fairly certain it is also art in the truest sense of the word.
Fortunately, in his case we do have the choice of another gaming system. Just like I have a quite dandy for the money Epson printer that I can use whomever's cartridges I'd like on it, I can choose a different system, like my PSP which.... wait... Maybe we are starting to have a problem.
I feel there is a much larger, larger issue at hand that needs to be brought up. Toyota sucks.
Your firearms are useless against them!
Yeah, because if you read it on a blog it -must- be true! Next time please try quoting REAL news sources before you open your mouth... Oh wait, you're on the internet, you can keep spouting garbage all you want:
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/26/business/saturn-returns-to-full-output-of-cars.html
Saturn S series sales dropped when the L-Series was introduced... primarly due to poor marketing; an L series sale usualy meant a lost S-Series. Mazda = japaford in alot of ways, sometimes down to clutch plates. As for Nissans, the ones I've dealt with were all the proof I needed that Japa cars aren't any better than US cars.
You Fail, please try again!
Ouch, that would actually have hurt if it wasn't for the fact my 98 SC2 -HAS- been the most reliable small car I've ever dealt with.
Polymer got dropped because people percieved the gaps (Necessary due to the polymers different expansion-contraction rates.)
Saturn had profitable years, actually, so to say that it 'never turned a profit' isn't totally accurate.
As for it going in the toilet, I -do- blame GM for that. Vue/L-series were far too late out the door, and early ION models marred the companies reputation.
If you're buying a car to actually -drive- it, you don't care about resale value; I know from the experiences my faimly has had, that when I bought my S-series with 87k miles on it, there's probably a 50-75% chance I won't get rid of the car till it hits 200k. (And will be quite trouble free for most fo that time.)
My Ion rides like any other delta platform, quite nice and 3 years into it. The S-series rides about like any small car of it's era.
Also, the S-Series did quite nicely as far as sales went, going over 10 years without a major redesign is pretty damn good for any make/model of car. (Yes, they had minor interior/engine/panel changes, but not nearly as substantial as say, the diference between a Gen 1 and Gen 2 Neon, another small car that -didn't- last as long...)
By the way, since I didn't ask it as a question, I will now. Would you rather drive the Prizm or the Corolla?
Obvioust Troll is Obvious. My Saturn is plenty Reliable, thank you very much. Me thinks you're the sort of person who would drive a Corolla over a same model year Prizm... By the way, one reason it's so expensive to do cell service in the US, is the amount of difficulty involved in placing up newer DAS systems in the target markets. Crackheads don't pay the bills, Rich people do. Unfortunately, Rich pepople in the US also freak out about their neighborhoods looking spotless... I've heard cases where someone in an HOA have literally called cell phone companies "Assholes" for wanting to put antennas on a pole in their HOA....
I'm glad I'm not THAT guy... Resume: 2009 - Brokeded Google.
I do CATV Outside Plant Design for a living and thus have a very good understanding of the technologies involved. 1: Motorola has a corner on the cable box market. That said, many companies make cable boxes. I know Scientific Atlanta does (Although they are a bit finicky,) and I'd bet C-Cor/Arris does. I've never seen one myself but I'd not be suprised to see one. The motorolas are in use because they DO work well. 2: Cablecard's biggest issue, is a cablecard device must be certified by CableLabs. Due to the Cable provider's vested interests in protecting their profitable markets (DVR rentals, On demand, etc) they have a tendency to not approve devices unless they impose some pretty stiff restrictions on what you can do with the data stream. Hence why while there are a couple of Tuner cards finally out there with cablecard support, they respect the broadcast flag and require Vista. In defence of Comcast (and MSOs in general,) I am fairly certain that the lease price for the cable box is controlled by the FCC, it is a percentage of the cost of the device itself. Also, Comcast is the one who is liable for any failiures of said device, barring physical damage. if a power surge, flood, etc nukes the box you can return it to them for a replacement.
Telecos have historically been far far more monopolistic than any other organization that I an think of. I always find it amusing that people complain about the CATV industry when in reality the Telecos are far far worse about upgrading infrastructure and providing a reasonable level of service. The primary reason that DSL service is so much cheaper in cable is because it is piggybacked on lines that are very very old that somehow manage to do the job (My parents can't think of the last time someone from SBC/Ameritech/Whoever the hell it is now called has ran around in their backyard and the voice quality on their lines shows it; Some CATV systems have been upgraded twice in the past decade.)
Anyway, +1 for revocation of corporate charters of dishonest companies that do not work in the interest of the public.
Remember, Andrew Jackson Dissolved the farging BANKS. Why? (As taken from Wikipedia, but pretty dang accurate:)
"The Second Bank of the United States was authorized for a twenty year period during James Madison's tenure in 1816. As President, Jackson worked to rescind the bank's federal charter. In Jackson's veto message (written by George Bancroft), the bank needed to be abolished because:
It concentrated the nation's financial strength in a single institution.
It exposed the government to control by foreign interests.
It served mainly to make the rich richer.
It exercised too much control over members of Congress.
It favored northeastern states over southern and western states. "
Sound Familiar to anyone?
Will this Gemini Division tell me all the good things about Lightspeed Briefs?
Yeah, but there's such a thing as Bad Faith on the part of the Consumer...
What's even better is when they tell people that what they do know is wrong... they once did an episode where they "Disproved" that a CD can explode in a CD Rom Drive... Which many tech peoples know can happen in certain circumstances... But hey, what's wrong with a sample size of 1, right?
In Michigan, at least, even if the Repair shop doesn't return the part to the consumer, they are reqired to let the consumer at least inspect it.
I'd urge anyone even thinking about trusting Africa with something like Interwebs to read up on a project called "Biketown Africa." Basically, Some companies tried to give African governments bikes in order, ideally, to help people like medical workers. Alas, after taking the bikes, they'd keep them locked up oftentimes, except for wonderfully beneficial purposes such as physical training for armies... Yeah, I'm worried about more scammers coming onto the internet. Because these people, if they scam even 100$ off a US person, that is a substantial amount of money for them, so of course they're going to consider doing such full time.