AC, that is your opinion. You and my parent poster seem to have a dismal view of our individual existences. I have learned, ''differently''. That it's not a 'dark, dismal world', that it's a ''what you make of it'' world, depending on your attitude towards it. To believe that our lives are totally left up to 'excessive chance' is somewhat naive. Science is cool and all, it has many answers, though not all of them, imo. Try to start venturing onto a different, but an also 'plausible' path. There is room for both the science and the spiritual.
FTFY: Are we not all spinning on a beautiful blue marble that has little reason for being except by proxy of an ultimate teacher? And that we are all 'placed' here in order to determine if we are each individually 'worthy'' of this and the 'next' life? Think harder...
First, it doesn't cost $800, unless you get it contract free & 64GB, and that's a specific choice you make.
Second, it doesn't get "easily bent". You can bend any phone with enough force. If you're applying the kind of force that will bend a cell phone, then you're being careless and deserve what you get.
You're disaster hyping like Fox News.
1) "Free" - That is the subsidized cost over a 2 year contract, which actually costs more than buying it outright.
2) - Forcibly bending it is stupid to do. Having it in a pocket and it warps out of shape from normal body bending is just poor design. I have expectations that such an expensive device would be strong enough to endure 'normal usage'.
3 - Fox News is well known for creating hype-stories out of nowhere that fit their own agenda, not the case here. I didn't start the fire.
I'd love to see Apple put out a more rugged version of the 6/6+. Thicker, stronger, largest possible battery, and throw in an SD card/2 gigabytes of RAM on top of it all. This won't happen, of course (sigh).
Apple released an inferior product, plain and simple. $800 for a device that gets easily bent is just unacceptable.
It should have been thicker, or at least made of a stronger material such as (gasp!) polycarbonate plastic. Profit over reliability, I suppose. Expect to hear more about this issue as time goes by.
The sidebutton cutout area seems to be the weakest part. Sure, put enough force to any device it'll bend/break. If I was a buyer of Apple products, I'd be upset that this was released. If they didn't know this would happen, then it's incompetence on the part of their engineers. If they knew how prone it is to warping/bending and released it anyway, then it's just a big 'f-u' to customerw.
I've read the new iPhones cost Apple $200 to make. Why wasn't it made a few millimeters thicker to compensate for the aluminum body? A larger battery life and strength should be a priority on high end devices made by Apple. Instead they went for thin chic.
A work of tech-art, perhaps. Useful in real life, not so much.
Perhaps Apple had planned to have the stronger SapphireGlass for their large phones, which would have mitigated this problem. But to release a high end phone with this obvious engineering deficiency is like a smack in the face to loyal Apple consumers.
Mars has welcomed a new robotic visitor from Earth.
After a 10-month journey through deep space, NASA's MAVEN probe arrived in Mars orbit late Sunday (Sept. 21), on a mission to help scientists figure out why the Red Planet changed from a relatively warm and wet place in the ancient past to the cold, arid world it is today.
MAVEN, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, fired its engines in a crucial 30-minute braking burn Sunday night, slowing down enough to be captured by the planet's gravity around 10:24 p.m. EDT (0224 GMT Monday, Sept. 22).
More importantly, the fact that the majority of the value in the car is in a perishable resource. That battery will NOT last forever, and when it needs a new one you'd be better off scrapping the entire car and buying a new one. How good is that for the environment?
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FWIW, Stephen Colbert recently said that he doesn't deny that the climate is changing. His opinion is that we shouldn't do anything about it.
If Ebola takes a foothold in the U.S., will it's citizens react compassionately?
That it's not a 'dark, dismal world', that it's a ''what you make of it'' world, depending on your attitude towards it.
The important question we need to ask is if we want to live in a world of single quotes or double quotes.
Double apostrophes 'are' ''quotation marks''!
AC, that is your opinion. You and my parent poster seem to have a dismal view of our individual existences. I have learned, ''differently''. That it's not a 'dark, dismal world', that it's a ''what you make of it'' world, depending on your attitude towards it. To believe that our lives are totally left up to 'excessive chance' is somewhat naive. Science is cool and all, it has many answers, though not all of them, imo. Try to start venturing onto a different, but an also 'plausible' path. There is room for both the science and the spiritual.
FTFY: Are we not all spinning on a beautiful blue marble that has little reason for being except by proxy of an ultimate teacher? And that we are all 'placed' here in order to determine if we are each individually 'worthy'' of this and the 'next' life? Think harder...
So let me get this straight.. what WAS going to be "Windows 9" is NOW "Windows 10"????
Seven Eight Nine.
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/ap...
(ducks!)
Direct link if you want to try to fix an iPhone 6 through iTunes. http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS8...
Here is for the 6+ http://appldnld.apple.com/iOS8...
Bah! Nonsense. Ridiculous nonsense.
First, it doesn't cost $800, unless you get it contract free & 64GB, and that's a specific choice you make.
Second, it doesn't get "easily bent". You can bend any phone with enough force. If you're applying the kind of force that will bend a cell phone, then you're being careless and deserve what you get.
You're disaster hyping like Fox News.
1) "Free" - That is the subsidized cost over a 2 year contract, which actually costs more than buying it outright.
2) - Forcibly bending it is stupid to do. Having it in a pocket and it warps out of shape from normal body bending is just poor design. I have expectations that such an expensive device would be strong enough to endure 'normal usage'.
3 - Fox News is well known for creating hype-stories out of nowhere that fit their own agenda, not the case here. I didn't start the fire.
I'd love to see Apple put out a more rugged version of the 6/6+. Thicker, stronger, largest possible battery, and throw in an SD card/2 gigabytes of RAM on top of it all. This won't happen, of course (sigh).
It should have been thicker, or at least made of a stronger material such as (gasp!) polycarbonate plastic. Profit over reliability, I suppose. Expect to hear more about this issue as time goes by.
I've read the new iPhones cost Apple $200 to make. Why wasn't it made a few millimeters thicker to compensate for the aluminum body? A larger battery life and strength should be a priority on high end devices made by Apple. Instead they went for thin chic.
A work of tech-art, perhaps. Useful in real life, not so much.
Perhaps Apple had planned to have the stronger SapphireGlass for their large phones, which would have mitigated this problem. But to release a high end phone with this obvious engineering deficiency is like a smack in the face to loyal Apple consumers.
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After a 10-month journey through deep space, NASA's MAVEN probe arrived in Mars orbit late Sunday (Sept. 21), on a mission to help scientists figure out why the Red Planet changed from a relatively warm and wet place in the ancient past to the cold, arid world it is today.
MAVEN, whose name is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, fired its engines in a crucial 30-minute braking burn Sunday night, slowing down enough to be captured by the planet's gravity around 10:24 p.m. EDT (0224 GMT Monday, Sept. 22).
http://www.space.com/27217-nas...
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More importantly, the fact that the majority of the value in the car is in a perishable resource. That battery will NOT last forever, and when it needs a new one you'd be better off scrapping the entire car and buying a new one. How good is that for the environment?
Even if the battery is easily swapped out?