- Blast it Spock, this phone keeps cutting out! It's the fool antenna. The reception dies out when I grip it like this.
- Dr. McCoy, the problem you are describing has never been scientifically replicated, despite numerous attempts to do so. The so-called "death grip" problem with the iPhone is merely a rumor, bordering on superstition, based on conjecture from overzealous bloggers, referencing anecdotal evidence, who know nothing at all about antenna design, much less the basic principles of electromagnetism.
- Well your reliance on logic and the scientific method doesn't help explain why my calls keep getting dropped.
- I own an iPhone myself and have never experienced any such problems.
- Huh. Must be those pointy ears of yours, give you better reception.
- (mutters) Case. In. Point.
I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Not some LEO screw or spaceman's glove. Bad sat, 1960s. Three tons of 'im. Geosynchronous 'fore it went driftin'. RTG battery backup. This sat, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your uplinks, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than $300 million, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and graveyard him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, rely on fiber-op. I don't want no salarymen, I don't want no mission specialists, there's just too many captains on this island. One billion dollars for me by myself. For that you get the bus, the payload, the solar panels, the whole damn thing.
I was more thinking of the 70s classic The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Travolta first attends high school using a two-way video link, then wearing a space suit.
Actually if you use "too many" caps/. won't let you post at all. The workaround is to reduce the ratio of upper and lowercase letters in the post. (Like, say, going meta and pasting the error message into the body of the comment.)
The bill lays out some stark clarity on what is meant by Net Neutrality by outright banning ISPs from doing many things including...(7) prioritiz[ing] among or between content, applications, and services, or among or between different types of content, applications, and services unless the end user requests to have such prioritization.
Hopefully the bill will specify that's an opt-in request, not an opt-out.
Deal. I'll need $5MM angel investment to start in exchange for 25% equity. Where can I fax the contract?
Although it does occur that if Facebook wanted to they could simply create "Facebook Pro" and offer an ad-free-guaranteed-privacy version of their own service. Users can choose whether or not they wish to mix with "Facebook Lite" users.
If there was a $5/month social network that had no ads and guaranteed privacy, I'd consider joining it.
If there was an open-sourced not-for-profit social network that had no ads and worked to ensure privacy, I'd consider joining that, and donating to it.
Otherwise, you're at the vendor's mercy. And like they say, there's a zucker born every minute.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
Slashdot Mirror
...I guess he didn't see that coming.
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- Blast it Spock, this phone keeps cutting out! It's the fool antenna. The reception dies out when I grip it like this.
- Dr. McCoy, the problem you are describing has never been scientifically replicated, despite numerous attempts to do so. The so-called "death grip" problem with the iPhone is merely a rumor, bordering on superstition, based on conjecture from overzealous bloggers, referencing anecdotal evidence, who know nothing at all about antenna design, much less the basic principles of electromagnetism.
- Well your reliance on logic and the scientific method doesn't help explain why my calls keep getting dropped.
- I own an iPhone myself and have never experienced any such problems.
- Huh. Must be those pointy ears of yours, give you better reception.
- (mutters) Case. In. Point.
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You can keep your geek card. (The dozen or so ACs who replied "Jaws!" without unfiltering the comments first maybe oughta check their wallets though.)
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I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Not some LEO screw or spaceman's glove. Bad sat, 1960s. Three tons of 'im. Geosynchronous 'fore it went driftin'. RTG battery backup. This sat, swallow you whole. Little shakin', little tenderizin', an' down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your uplinks, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than $300 million, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and graveyard him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, rely on fiber-op. I don't want no salarymen, I don't want no mission specialists, there's just too many captains on this island. One billion dollars for me by myself. For that you get the bus, the payload, the solar panels, the whole damn thing.
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"Speak into microphone. When you hear the beep, confess."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ihD3dTVHcoY#t=134s
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And always there in the nick of time!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYpBoYa4pno
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Just "lication" - it's cleaner.
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Rig it up with a black fedora and trenchcoat - it'll be fine.
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I was more thinking of the 70s classic The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Travolta first attends high school using a two-way video link, then wearing a space suit.
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In the real future, this guy wouldn't even make it past the front door.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/09/found_divebars/
(Ah well. They were wrong about CueCat too. And Apple. And push. And...)
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...you find satellite!
(I hereby apologize to everyone, everywhere.)
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Actually if you use "too many" caps /. won't let you post at all. The workaround is to reduce the ratio of upper and lowercase letters in the post. (Like, say, going meta and pasting the error message into the body of the comment.)
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"ATTENTION ALL OTHER RADIO STATIONS! ... Ha! Caught ya listening! Z-105!"
(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. ftfy.)
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...where this book is up for a Pulitzer, so sticks and stones, ya haters!
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Well, he's still not a member of the Five Timers Club.
Oh, please, call me 'Mister Steve Martin'.
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ditto.
..."Those Endearing Young Charms"
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(testing - this should be in italics)
There's Verizon FiOS and Verizon DSL. Is the measurement for FiOS, DSL, or both?
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The bill lays out some stark clarity on what is meant by Net Neutrality by outright banning ISPs from doing many things including...(7) prioritiz[ing] among or between content, applications, and services, or among or between different types of content, applications, and services unless the end user requests to have such prioritization.
Hopefully the bill will specify that's an opt-in request, not an opt-out.
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Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon in 3-D? I'm there. We're talking $100M box office, easy.
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Deal. I'll need $5MM angel investment to start in exchange for 25% equity. Where can I fax the contract?
Although it does occur that if Facebook wanted to they could simply create "Facebook Pro" and offer an ad-free-guaranteed-privacy version of their own service. Users can choose whether or not they wish to mix with "Facebook Lite" users.
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If there was a $5/month social network that had no ads and guaranteed privacy, I'd consider joining it.
If there was an open-sourced not-for-profit social network that had no ads and worked to ensure privacy, I'd consider joining that, and donating to it.
Otherwise, you're at the vendor's mercy. And like they say, there's a zucker born every minute.
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Anyone? Anyone? (beedle-deet!) Watson!
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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