Um, I mean the torches. Whatever. Let's cap 'em all. Hang 'em high. Blow em...away. Yea! Outrage!!!!! (That WAS the point of this inane article, right?)
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SHIT. If you treat your phone like a football, you're going to have scratches and cracks. If you put a decent case on it and take care of it, chances are you won't end up destroying it.
Of course Jobs cherry-picked the phones that would most-illustrate a similar effect. I have an iPhone 4 and I love it -- never had any signal issues (but I use a Belkin Vue Grip case). I was a bit annoyed at the photos Apple showed, though -- if you look at the pictures, you can clearly see that they're squeezing the *SHIT* out of the phone to get the analogous effect (seriously, look at the guy's thumb who's squeezing the Blackberry -- he's pressing so hard, most of his thumb is WHITE). I'm a huge Apple fan, but I really don't appreciate attempts at manipulating results like that. NO ONE is going to squeeze their phone that hard. If they do, they deserve the signal loss.
Oh, and that September 30th date? I bet they're actively working on an antenna redesign and that's when they'll be rolling it out in new iPhones delivered starting on that date -- it will be very interesting to dissect an iPhone made in October to see if this theory hold water.
Speaking from experience, I've used a spreadsheet to track inventory, but it's a pain to update. If money is no object, an inventory system that autodecrements the count after you pull the parts is the only way to go. Realistically, you're not going to do that, so just do the best you can with a spreadsheet.
I cannot *WAIT* for the iPhone to be available on Verizon so all the whiny bitches who've been complaining about AT&T's crappy service can see how horrificaly slow Verizon's network is going to get with that kind of load.
If you put ANY network-intensive smartphone on a carrier's network, you're going to see the same kinds of capacity issues as you've seen with AT&T...only Verizon's network is MUCH poorer provisions with respect to bandwidth compared to AT&T's. You'll see. Mark my words. Beware the Idles of March, AT&T haters:).
They have a horrible return policy, combined with this, why would anyone buy stuff there (seriously)? Just get yourself an Amazon Prime membership and order stuff from Amazon!
Because they need a new patent so that when their MP3 patent expires, they won't be penniless. This is similar to what the drug companies do -- change dosages and companion medications, compress into a new tablet and you can patent and charge for it as if it were a new medication.
I've looked at the DSDT on that system the this is clearly a bug that unfortunately is manifesting on Linux systems. The Acquire statement was stupidly placed there with a timeout of 1000 ms -- it should not have any timeout. It's there to protect the PCI config space access ports. The funny thing is that those functions don't appear to be called from any other AML in the DSDT. The only thing that's used is the OSVR variable, which is used to make several decisions surrounding the suspend functionality. Another interesting thing is that since Linux has been reporting its os version as "Windows NT" for a long time now, the bug will affect any os that reports itself as "Windows NT" also.
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Um, I mean the torches. Whatever. Let's cap 'em all. Hang 'em high. Blow em...away. Yea! Outrage!!!!! (That WAS the point of this inane article, right?)
MOD PARENT UP!
That's gotta be it. I mean, 7x the volume of previous leaks? You'd need the hoover dam to hold back that much bullshit.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SHIT. If you treat your phone like a football, you're going to have scratches and cracks. If you put a decent case on it and take care of it, chances are you won't end up destroying it.
...long live DRM.
Amen! :).
Dammit. That was supposed to read "I say".
I saw we seal each board in latex before we ship it to customers. That should take care of the problem!
It's gotta be, right?
Mod parent up, kindly :).
LOL. I would think it would depend if you had some rectal surgery with some sort of Faraday cage-like construct.
Of course Jobs cherry-picked the phones that would most-illustrate a similar effect. I have an iPhone 4 and I love it -- never had any signal issues (but I use a Belkin Vue Grip case). I was a bit annoyed at the photos Apple showed, though -- if you look at the pictures, you can clearly see that they're squeezing the *SHIT* out of the phone to get the analogous effect (seriously, look at the guy's thumb who's squeezing the Blackberry -- he's pressing so hard, most of his thumb is WHITE). I'm a huge Apple fan, but I really don't appreciate attempts at manipulating results like that. NO ONE is going to squeeze their phone that hard. If they do, they deserve the signal loss. Oh, and that September 30th date? I bet they're actively working on an antenna redesign and that's when they'll be rolling it out in new iPhones delivered starting on that date -- it will be very interesting to dissect an iPhone made in October to see if this theory hold water.
Speaking from experience, I've used a spreadsheet to track inventory, but it's a pain to update. If money is no object, an inventory system that autodecrements the count after you pull the parts is the only way to go. Realistically, you're not going to do that, so just do the best you can with a spreadsheet.
Those who DID buy it thought that they were getting a reader for eBooks.
I cannot *WAIT* for the iPhone to be available on Verizon so all the whiny bitches who've been complaining about AT&T's crappy service can see how horrificaly slow Verizon's network is going to get with that kind of load. If you put ANY network-intensive smartphone on a carrier's network, you're going to see the same kinds of capacity issues as you've seen with AT&T...only Verizon's network is MUCH poorer provisions with respect to bandwidth compared to AT&T's. You'll see. Mark my words. Beware the Idles of March, AT&T haters :).
That name is "Schmuck". Putz works, too, but Schmuck fits better.
Dude, it's like Brewster's Millions, but this time he had years to spend it all. If Monty can do it, Bernie can, too.
...just as every single other set of shareholders sue to block acquisitions. No biggie. I'm sure it'll go through.
They have a horrible return policy, combined with this, why would anyone buy stuff there (seriously)? Just get yourself an Amazon Prime membership and order stuff from Amazon!
Because they need a new patent so that when their MP3 patent expires, they won't be penniless. This is similar to what the drug companies do -- change dosages and companion medications, compress into a new tablet and you can patent and charge for it as if it were a new medication.
Cleanliness is next to Truthiness.
Excellent post -- that's exactly what I was thinking. Of course, I'll probably get modded down for agreeing with you.
Is that a new McDonald's menu item? We don't have that here in the US, yet.
Damn -- you beat me to this. +1!! :)
I've looked at the DSDT on that system the this is clearly a bug that unfortunately is manifesting on Linux systems. The Acquire statement was stupidly placed there with a timeout of 1000 ms -- it should not have any timeout. It's there to protect the PCI config space access ports. The funny thing is that those functions don't appear to be called from any other AML in the DSDT. The only thing that's used is the OSVR variable, which is used to make several decisions surrounding the suspend functionality. Another interesting thing is that since Linux has been reporting its os version as "Windows NT" for a long time now, the bug will affect any os that reports itself as "Windows NT" also.