If a part in your car fails, do you have the part manufacturer buy you a new car? Or do you talk to your dealer or the car manufacturer. The part manufacturer doesn't have a contract with you, and you shouldn't expect him to provide you with a complete new car.
As I understand it, in these particular laptops, due the way that HP designed the system the NVIDIA part couldn't be replaced. That's an HP issue, not an NVIDIA issue. I also read that NVIDIA was willing to send HP and other manufacturers replacement parts. So everyone trot along to whoever made your system and and let them beat up NVIDIA - just as NVIDIA has to beat up the company that delivered the defective ball contacts that caused the problem.
So some 3 year old HP laptops that cost a lot back then are being replaced by $350 HP laptops now. Normally a 3 year laptop can't even be sold for $350 (unless it's a top of the line Apple model - and these aren't). And what about the specs? Nowhere in TFA is a comparison of the specs of the system being offered with the specs of the original systems.
From TFA, a lawyer and an expert witness for the people suing NVIDIA actually agreed the systems were broadly equivalent. Maybe they needed an expert witness who was either more expert or less honest.
Where exactly is the bait? Or the switch? I guess the article was submitted by one of people who expected his 3 year old system with something that costs the same now, so he could have a substantial improvement in performance.
I'm not a zealot - I actually purchased a Xoom. I do have to agree with the grandfather post that the anti-Apple crowd are just over the top. Far worse than the Anti-Microsoft crowd ever was.
For example, someone points out that Google also stores the same data, apparently for the same reason. The immediate reaction isn't "Oh, maybe there's a valid reason" it's "Just because Google does it, doesn't make Apple anything other than a bunch of liars who are stealing my positional data".
The anti-Apple crowd just aren't interested in facts or a reasoned debate. "If you're not on our side you're an Apple zealot" appears to be a common opinion.
As the parent post demonstrates well, the anti-Apple crowd have no trouble attacking anyone who they feel is not supporting them. No facts needed, just an ad hominem attack combined with name calling.
An Android phone records the same data. Your camera records even more precise data.
I get your point - you don't trust Apple. Possibly you don't understand why both Apple and Google would maintain a list of cell tower locations and the benefits to users of their devices.
This is just your basic anti-Apple rant without evidence, and based entirely on unsubstantiated and paranoid what-ifs. If you don't want to be this data stored, turn it off. Or buy a dumb phone, which on reflection might suit you you quite well.
Putting a file on a phone that contains local cell tower data does not equal "Apple tracks you", much as you seem to wish it did. Android phones store the same data, apparently for the same purpose.
Apple does clearly state that they do gather anonymous data, despite your vehement statements that they don't. And you can turn it off if you want.
Sorry to interrupt you. Feel free to go back to your ranting now.
The first reasonable comment I've seen in this thread. The whole thread seems to be "If Apple is doing [whatever] then wrong, wrong, WRONG." without anyone looking at the data.
Whatever happened to looking at all the facts and then judging on that basis?
I read the NY Times every day - it's one of my main sources of general news, together with the Washington Post, BBC, and a couple of local newspaper sites.
We need a vigorous, active press to control the excesses of government and to shine light into dark places. I would be seriously worried for the USA if our quality national newspapers disappeared.
I'm happy to contribute my $15 a month, and I'd be willing to go higher if they asked. I just wish more people felt the same way.
There are a whole lot of comments here about running Windows on phones and tablets built around the ARM architecture. However, that may not be the only reason Microsoft is porting Windows to ARM.
nVidia has announced they are developing a high performance 64-bit processor based on the ARM architecture. They claim is will be used for personal computers and servers, and scale up to supercomputers. They also claim there will be versions with integrated nVidia graphics also.
Now, announcing a product that revolutionary and actually delivering it are very different beasts. If nVidia actually manage to pull it off, I don't think that Microsoft would be happy if the new processors could only run Linux.
Why do you think Microsoft is only doing this for mobile platforms?
Didn't nVidia announce at CES that they are developing a 64-bit higher performance ARM processor? They claim it will be suitable for "personal computers to servers and supercomputers" with "awesome performance". And have integrated nVidia graphics as well.
If that does indeed come to pass, we will have a whole different ballgame,
I recall that graduation ceremonies at Cambridge University in the UK (and many formal speeches) were in Latin back in the 1960s. Complete with the De Brevitate Vitae for accompanying music.
True, the ink stamp on the documents is 1899, which is likely to be the date they were added to the Harvard library. You will note it is stamped on top of the content on each page and is clearly not part of the original page.
However, at the bottom of each page it gives the date as 1869. This date appears to be part of the original page.
Apparently you failed to read each page completely. One fundamental rule of all examinations: read the questions fully. That hasn't changed.
I don't know what your criteria for A+ talent is, but at the press conference they claimed that "specialist engineers on loan from NASA" were responsible for the tests. I have to disagree on your point that Toyota have a vested interest in not finding the cause, but that doesn't matter as this was run by non-industry engineers.
Strangely, this software problem has been reported by folks in North America only, and overwhelmingly by older drivers. Why are European and Asian drivers not experiencing the same problems?
Also, please note that the insurance industry has not raised their prices for insuring Toyota vehicles - probably a good indication that they don't think there's an ongoing vehicle or software related issue.
Remember back in the mid-'80s when Audi in the US and Canada was totally destroyed by many reports of unexpected acceleration? People couldn't dump their Audi cars quickly enough, 2 out of 3 local Audi dealerships went out of business and the other one downsized. That turned out to be driver error, but others who got into accidents after the reports surfaced found a ready-made scapegoat. Just saying....
The number of Android phones shipped is impressive, but that's spread over a number of hardware companies. On the other hand, all the iOS phone sales have a direct revenue benefit to Apple. I guess it's the same for Nokia sales.
Because I'm lazy I haven't bothered to research how many Android phones each hardware company ships, but I'd be surprised if any have profits from their Android phones close the the profits Apple makes from the iPhone. I'm not aware of any direct revenue that Android contributes to Google although there may well be some indirect revenue.
The only place where Android versus iOS really matters is in the number of developers coding for each platform. If hardware sales are low then software sales will be low, and developers will move to other platforms. If Android fragments too much and developers end up supporting substantially different versions of a product this could have an impact also. If hardware manufacturers don't update their Android systems for at least a couple of years after a phone's introduction that could have an effect also. It's possible, perhaps likely, that Apple will have some advantage in both these last two areas because of the way they can control the full package - hardware, operating system, development tools, the apps store and product marketing.
The guy was just making a joke. It seems obvious from the context. Or do you seriously believe that someone would use twitter to solicit a murder? Especially someone aspiring to public life. And then follow it with a joking comment.
Both the twitter posts cited in the article are jokes in poor taste by frustrated people, but are they evidence of intent to kill someone or blow up a plane? People bent on that sort of act rarely advertise their intent on some public media.
What's next? Being prosecuted for threatening to kill someone's character in World of Warcraft?
When I was a cop there were dozens of times that angry and/or frustrated people made comments (to me or to others) like "I'll kill you" or "You're dead if you do that again" or something similar. You have to make allowances for frustration and understand it's only human nature to make threats. Of course, it's different if you think they might actually do what they say, but that's not the usual case - people who are going to attack you just do it, they don't threaten first.
The difference is that on twitter (indeed, the internet in general) there's a permanent record. That plus a stupid/malicious prosecutor plus a judge who doesn't understand human nature is a recipe for damn stupid legal decisions.
In fact, until 2002 there was no way to give up British citizenship - now you can get a form from the British embassy, fill it in and send it to the UK government. It doesn't even have to be permanent as you can reacquire your UK citizenship by filling in another form and sending that one in.
There is one good reason to become a US citizen - to protect your social security pension. If you have spent (or expect to spend) a significant number of years in the USA, enough to be eligible for a US pension (40 credits = 10 years, as I recall) then you might want to protect your investment in the social security system i.e. the 6.2% of your income you have paid and continue to pay. However, in my view, that's certainly not the only good reason to be a citizen of the USA if you have permanently moved here.
I've been a US citizen for some years now and have never been called for jury duty.
Actually there are a number of similarities. I'm not taking sides here - I don't write Java and don't care about it myself. However, I do care that licenses are upheld as I've personally been bitten by people ripping off my code for their profit.
When Google decided to use Java they had full access to the Java license, and they had full knowledge of the very public lawsuit between Sun and Microsoft. They still chose to do what Microsoft did and ship an incompatible version of Java. I suspect that (like Microsoft) they feel they are above the rules that govern other developers.
Google knew what they were doing. Why they did it, I don't know - did someone decide to ignore the license, or did they forget to involve the legal folks, or maybe they didn't think the license applied to them. The point is that they did use a great deal of the Java code, but then they discarded the bits and pieces that they didn't need. Can't blame them for that - why do work that you don't need to do. One answer: because the license says you must. Same with the executable format - you can come up with a better one, but it clearly breaks the Java license and the whole spirit of Java (as I understand it) if you make it the only way to execute code on your system.
I like Google, I really do. Google has done great things in the last few years, but they are starting to do some really boneheaded stuff also (net neutrality comes to mind immediately). Their corporate attitude seems to be "we're changing the world, get out of our way." Which is fine provided that you don't trample on other people and their rights in the process. I also worry about all the free stuff they give away - Microsoft used to do a bunch of free stuff in the early 80s, and look how that changed - will Google's shareholders eventually demand that they monetize everything?
I suspect this is just a ploy by Oracle to monetize Java by making Google pay for a new and special license for the Android platform. Nobody ever accused Oracle of being a philanthropic institution. I don't think this has any negative sides for FOSS - it's just a case of getting companies to follow the license that goes with the code they use, otherwise they have no license to use the code. It's no different than suing companies who don't follow the terms of the GPL license, and I don't see people up in arms about that.
One difference, Oracle has a pile of money and can afford to the best lawyering around. But so can Google. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
I don't know if this scenario is valid, as I don't have an iPhone that can run iOS4. But here goes anyway.
So someone takes their iPhone and jailbreaks it. The two bugs that allowed this are still present in the jailbroken phones so the phones can also be pwned by anyone who comes up with a different exploit that uses these bugs. Clearly the phones can't be updated to 4.1 (as they are jailbroken) so unless someone produces patches independently of Apple they will remain in these jailbroken phones until they are discarded or reset to the official post 4.1 iOS. I wonder how many non-geeks who are persuaded to jailbreak their phones will realize this.
Here's the root of the issue. When someone decides to use an exploitable bug for their own purposes they are not doing any favors for themselves or their users. Exploitable bugs should be reported so they can be fixed, not used to develop your own products - however popular the products might be in some circles. That might well be an unpopular view in this forum, but there it is.
My first CD writer cost $45,000(!) and came in a rack with its own PC - and the blank disks were $60 each when bought in quantities of at least 100. Clearly this isn't going to catch on.
My first home network connection was a 110 baud acoustic coupler that cost $250. 6 months later I upgraded to a 300 baud modem that cost the same amount. It takes an hour to download a 10KB file from my local BBS. And they call this an improvement?
My first Windows mouse cost $220 including the board that you needed to run it in a PC. Damn, this will NEVER, EVER catch on.
And that double speed NEC CD reader that I bought for $450 was a real bargain.
Oh, and I remember when RAM switched from core to semiconductor memory, and the price came down to a million bucks per megabyte. We thought we were in heaven when our company bought 3 systems with 2 megabytes each.
I can come up with many, many more examples of costs that have dropped incredibly over time. I don't know if electric cars are in that category, but I think there's an excellent chance that they are.
Money spent on R & D is not money wasted. Yes, you have to be certain that there's a real chance of success, but if you wait until that chance is 100% then someone else will have already done it.
Staging systems are specific for each type of cancer but I don't think there are any stage 5 cancers. Overall cancer staging goes from stage 0 to stage IV - some cancers go from stage I to stage IV. In all cancers, stage IV means it has metastasized to distant locations in the body, which generally has a very poor prognosis.
In any case, for the majority of tumors, staging has been replaced by the TNM system (tumor, nodes, metastasis). For example, my colon cancer is staged T3N0M0, meaning a stage 3 tumor that has not spread to lymph nodes and has not spread to other organs.
If you have had no re-occurrence of your cancer after 16 then you are almost certainly free of the disease. Most cancers show up before within 5 years if they are going to reappear. That's why people are classified as cancer survivors if they are disease free after 5 years. There are some exceptions (such as breast cancer) that do have a tendency to reoccur in later life, but even then it's not common.
I suggest that after 12+ years you just accept that you are alive and stop living as if there's a Sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Personally, this cancer survivor does not die a little each day as you suggest - quite the opposite. I try to live life to the full, enjoying my wife and family.
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If a part in your car fails, do you have the part manufacturer buy you a new car? Or do you talk to your dealer or the car manufacturer. The part manufacturer doesn't have a contract with you, and you shouldn't expect him to provide you with a complete new car.
As I understand it, in these particular laptops, due the way that HP designed the system the NVIDIA part couldn't be replaced. That's an HP issue, not an NVIDIA issue. I also read that NVIDIA was willing to send HP and other manufacturers replacement parts. So everyone trot along to whoever made your system and and let them beat up NVIDIA - just as NVIDIA has to beat up the company that delivered the defective ball contacts that caused the problem.
So some 3 year old HP laptops that cost a lot back then are being replaced by $350 HP laptops now. Normally a 3 year laptop can't even be sold for $350 (unless it's a top of the line Apple model - and these aren't). And what about the specs? Nowhere in TFA is a comparison of the specs of the system being offered with the specs of the original systems.
From TFA, a lawyer and an expert witness for the people suing NVIDIA actually agreed the systems were broadly equivalent. Maybe they needed an expert witness who was either more expert or less honest.
Where exactly is the bait? Or the switch? I guess the article was submitted by one of people who expected his 3 year old system with something that costs the same now, so he could have a substantial improvement in performance.
I'm not a zealot - I actually purchased a Xoom. I do have to agree with the grandfather post that the anti-Apple crowd are just over the top. Far worse than the Anti-Microsoft crowd ever was.
For example, someone points out that Google also stores the same data, apparently for the same reason. The immediate reaction isn't "Oh, maybe there's a valid reason" it's "Just because Google does it, doesn't make Apple anything other than a bunch of liars who are stealing my positional data".
The anti-Apple crowd just aren't interested in facts or a reasoned debate. "If you're not on our side you're an Apple zealot" appears to be a common opinion.
As the parent post demonstrates well, the anti-Apple crowd have no trouble attacking anyone who they feel is not supporting them. No facts needed, just an ad hominem attack combined with name calling.
An Android phone records the same data.
Your camera records even more precise data.
I get your point - you don't trust Apple. Possibly you don't understand why both Apple and Google would maintain a list of cell tower locations and the benefits to users of their devices.
This is just your basic anti-Apple rant without evidence, and based entirely on unsubstantiated and paranoid what-ifs. If you don't want to be this data stored, turn it off. Or buy a dumb phone, which on reflection might suit you you quite well.
Putting a file on a phone that contains local cell tower data does not equal "Apple tracks you", much as you seem to wish it did. Android phones store the same data, apparently for the same purpose.
Apple does clearly state that they do gather anonymous data, despite your vehement statements that they don't. And you can turn it off if you want.
Sorry to interrupt you. Feel free to go back to your ranting now.
The first reasonable comment I've seen in this thread. The whole thread seems to be "If Apple is doing [whatever] then wrong, wrong, WRONG." without anyone looking at the data.
Whatever happened to looking at all the facts and then judging on that basis?
I read the NY Times every day - it's one of my main sources of general news, together with the Washington Post, BBC, and a couple of local newspaper sites.
We need a vigorous, active press to control the excesses of government and to shine light into dark places. I would be seriously worried for the USA if our quality national newspapers disappeared.
I'm happy to contribute my $15 a month, and I'd be willing to go higher if they asked. I just wish more people felt the same way.
There are a whole lot of comments here about running Windows on phones and tablets built around the ARM architecture. However, that may not be the only reason Microsoft is porting Windows to ARM.
nVidia has announced they are developing a high performance 64-bit processor based on the ARM architecture. They claim is will be used for personal computers and servers, and scale up to supercomputers. They also claim there will be versions with integrated nVidia graphics also.
Now, announcing a product that revolutionary and actually delivering it are very different beasts. If nVidia actually manage to pull it off, I don't think that Microsoft would be happy if the new processors could only run Linux.
Why do you think Microsoft is only doing this for mobile platforms?
Didn't nVidia announce at CES that they are developing a 64-bit higher performance ARM processor? They claim it will be suitable for "personal computers to servers and supercomputers" with "awesome performance". And have integrated nVidia graphics as well.
If that does indeed come to pass, we will have a whole different ballgame,
I recall that graduation ceremonies at Cambridge University in the UK (and many formal speeches) were in Latin back in the 1960s. Complete with the De Brevitate Vitae for accompanying music.
I wonder if that's changed.
True, the ink stamp on the documents is 1899, which is likely to be the date they were added to the Harvard library. You will note it is stamped on top of the content on each page and is clearly not part of the original page.
However, at the bottom of each page it gives the date as 1869. This date appears to be part of the original page.
Apparently you failed to read each page completely. One fundamental rule of all examinations: read the questions fully. That hasn't changed.
My self-employed neighbor couldn't get health insurance for his daughter because of a preexisting condition. Now she has full coverage.
The hysterical and vitriolic statements by Republicans have definitely had a negative impact on that family.
"[...] where unsuspecting or careless Android smartphones find it, download it and install it."
I really dislike careless phones. Perhaps reviewers can test and report which are careful.
I'd also like to know how to make my phone less naive about unauthorised app stores.
Perhaps I should take away my phone's download privileges...
I don't know what your criteria for A+ talent is, but at the press conference they claimed that "specialist engineers on loan from NASA" were responsible for the tests. I have to disagree on your point that Toyota have a vested interest in not finding the cause, but that doesn't matter as this was run by non-industry engineers.
Strangely, this software problem has been reported by folks in North America only, and overwhelmingly by older drivers. Why are European and Asian drivers not experiencing the same problems?
Also, please note that the insurance industry has not raised their prices for insuring Toyota vehicles - probably a good indication that they don't think there's an ongoing vehicle or software related issue.
Remember back in the mid-'80s when Audi in the US and Canada was totally destroyed by many reports of unexpected acceleration? People couldn't dump their Audi cars quickly enough, 2 out of 3 local Audi dealerships went out of business and the other one downsized. That turned out to be driver error, but others who got into accidents after the reports surfaced found a ready-made scapegoat. Just saying....
The number of Android phones shipped is impressive, but that's spread over a number of hardware companies. On the other hand, all the iOS phone sales have a direct revenue benefit to Apple. I guess it's the same for Nokia sales.
Because I'm lazy I haven't bothered to research how many Android phones each hardware company ships, but I'd be surprised if any have profits from their Android phones close the the profits Apple makes from the iPhone. I'm not aware of any direct revenue that Android contributes to Google although there may well be some indirect revenue.
The only place where Android versus iOS really matters is in the number of developers coding for each platform. If hardware sales are low then software sales will be low, and developers will move to other platforms. If Android fragments too much and developers end up supporting substantially different versions of a product this could have an impact also. If hardware manufacturers don't update their Android systems for at least a couple of years after a phone's introduction that could have an effect also. It's possible, perhaps likely, that Apple will have some advantage in both these last two areas because of the way they can control the full package - hardware, operating system, development tools, the apps store and product marketing.
How sinister of them to remove working code from their browser simply to force people to use their own codec.
On the face of it, it looks like a political move that reduces freedom for users.
The guy was just making a joke. It seems obvious from the context. Or do you seriously believe that someone would use twitter to solicit a murder? Especially someone aspiring to public life. And then follow it with a joking comment.
Why is it that common sense is so uncommon?
Both the twitter posts cited in the article are jokes in poor taste by frustrated people, but are they evidence of intent to kill someone or blow up a plane? People bent on that sort of act rarely advertise their intent on some public media.
What's next? Being prosecuted for threatening to kill someone's character in World of Warcraft?
When I was a cop there were dozens of times that angry and/or frustrated people made comments (to me or to others) like "I'll kill you" or "You're dead if you do that again" or something similar. You have to make allowances for frustration and understand it's only human nature to make threats. Of course, it's different if you think they might actually do what they say, but that's not the usual case - people who are going to attack you just do it, they don't threaten first.
The difference is that on twitter (indeed, the internet in general) there's a permanent record. That plus a stupid/malicious prosecutor plus a judge who doesn't understand human nature is a recipe for damn stupid legal decisions.
Neither the UK nor the USA require that you renounce your UK citizenship when you take US citizenship. See http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html and http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/britishcitizenship/dualnationality.
In fact, until 2002 there was no way to give up British citizenship - now you can get a form from the British embassy, fill it in and send it to the UK government. It doesn't even have to be permanent as you can reacquire your UK citizenship by filling in another form and sending that one in.
There is one good reason to become a US citizen - to protect your social security pension. If you have spent (or expect to spend) a significant number of years in the USA, enough to be eligible for a US pension (40 credits = 10 years, as I recall) then you might want to protect your investment in the social security system i.e. the 6.2% of your income you have paid and continue to pay. However, in my view, that's certainly not the only good reason to be a citizen of the USA if you have permanently moved here.
I've been a US citizen for some years now and have never been called for jury duty.
Actually there are a number of similarities. I'm not taking sides here - I don't write Java and don't care about it myself. However, I do care that licenses are upheld as I've personally been bitten by people ripping off my code for their profit.
When Google decided to use Java they had full access to the Java license, and they had full knowledge of the very public lawsuit between Sun and Microsoft. They still chose to do what Microsoft did and ship an incompatible version of Java. I suspect that (like Microsoft) they feel they are above the rules that govern other developers.
Google knew what they were doing. Why they did it, I don't know - did someone decide to ignore the license, or did they forget to involve the legal folks, or maybe they didn't think the license applied to them. The point is that they did use a great deal of the Java code, but then they discarded the bits and pieces that they didn't need. Can't blame them for that - why do work that you don't need to do. One answer: because the license says you must. Same with the executable format - you can come up with a better one, but it clearly breaks the Java license and the whole spirit of Java (as I understand it) if you make it the only way to execute code on your system.
I like Google, I really do. Google has done great things in the last few years, but they are starting to do some really boneheaded stuff also (net neutrality comes to mind immediately). Their corporate attitude seems to be "we're changing the world, get out of our way." Which is fine provided that you don't trample on other people and their rights in the process. I also worry about all the free stuff they give away - Microsoft used to do a bunch of free stuff in the early 80s, and look how that changed - will Google's shareholders eventually demand that they monetize everything?
I suspect this is just a ploy by Oracle to monetize Java by making Google pay for a new and special license for the Android platform. Nobody ever accused Oracle of being a philanthropic institution. I don't think this has any negative sides for FOSS - it's just a case of getting companies to follow the license that goes with the code they use, otherwise they have no license to use the code. It's no different than suing companies who don't follow the terms of the GPL license, and I don't see people up in arms about that.
One difference, Oracle has a pile of money and can afford to the best lawyering around. But so can Google. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
I don't know if this scenario is valid, as I don't have an iPhone that can run iOS4. But here goes anyway.
So someone takes their iPhone and jailbreaks it. The two bugs that allowed this are still present in the jailbroken phones so the phones can also be pwned by anyone who comes up with a different exploit that uses these bugs. Clearly the phones can't be updated to 4.1 (as they are jailbroken) so unless someone produces patches independently of Apple they will remain in these jailbroken phones until they are discarded or reset to the official post 4.1 iOS. I wonder how many non-geeks who are persuaded to jailbreak their phones will realize this.
Here's the root of the issue. When someone decides to use an exploitable bug for their own purposes they are not doing any favors for themselves or their users. Exploitable bugs should be reported so they can be fixed, not used to develop your own products - however popular the products might be in some circles. That might well be an unpopular view in this forum, but there it is.
My first CD writer cost $45,000(!) and came in a rack with its own PC - and the blank disks were $60 each when bought in quantities of at least 100. Clearly this isn't going to catch on.
My first home network connection was a 110 baud acoustic coupler that cost $250. 6 months later I upgraded to a 300 baud modem that cost the same amount. It takes an hour to download a 10KB file from my local BBS. And they call this an improvement?
My first Windows mouse cost $220 including the board that you needed to run it in a PC. Damn, this will NEVER, EVER catch on.
And that double speed NEC CD reader that I bought for $450 was a real bargain.
Oh, and I remember when RAM switched from core to semiconductor memory, and the price came down to a million bucks per megabyte. We thought we were in heaven when our company bought 3 systems with 2 megabytes each.
I can come up with many, many more examples of costs that have dropped incredibly over time. I don't know if electric cars are in that category, but I think there's an excellent chance that they are.
Money spent on R & D is not money wasted. Yes, you have to be certain that there's a real chance of success, but if you wait until that chance is 100% then someone else will have already done it.
It seems it's the same phone - Engadget is quoting Gizmodo as the source of the story.
There is a third possibility - according to John Gruber it was stolen from Apple, not lost in a bar as stated by Gizmodo.
Oops, sorry a typo on my part
s/administration/administrations/
Somebody seems to be a little defensive there :)
Staging systems are specific for each type of cancer but I don't think there are any stage 5 cancers. Overall cancer staging goes from stage 0 to stage IV - some cancers go from stage I to stage IV. In all cancers, stage IV means it has metastasized to distant locations in the body, which generally has a very poor prognosis.
In any case, for the majority of tumors, staging has been replaced by the TNM system (tumor, nodes, metastasis). For example, my colon cancer is staged T3N0M0, meaning a stage 3 tumor that has not spread to lymph nodes and has not spread to other organs.
If you have had no re-occurrence of your cancer after 16 then you are almost certainly free of the disease. Most cancers show up before within 5 years if they are going to reappear. That's why people are classified as cancer survivors if they are disease free after 5 years. There are some exceptions (such as breast cancer) that do have a tendency to reoccur in later life, but even then it's not common.
I suggest that after 12+ years you just accept that you are alive and stop living as if there's a Sword of Damocles hanging over your head.
Personally, this cancer survivor does not die a little each day as you suggest - quite the opposite. I try to live life to the full, enjoying my wife and family.