That's the problem with statistics. Lots of different ways to look at the numbers. Without an in-depth analysis--which we'll never get from Apple nor ATT--all we have is anecdotal data.
Well, to be fair, I cover the back of my phone with my hand, and the front of it with my face. I have a Blackberry Pearl, and all this talk about the iPhone has changed how I hold my BBP, and I drop fewer calls now.
My secret? A headset (wired or bluetooth, and holding the phone by the top, rather than the bottom, where the antenna is.
But then I found everyone, and it's just a bunch of freaking noise. I use the system to allow extended family (and some friends) to see pictures of my kid. Beyond that, I've got no time for the bazillions of status updates from Zynga. I mean, why is my "news feed" full of notices about so-and-so hatching a unicorn egg or some BS?
It turns out that as cool as getting connected is, actually being connected kind of sucks.
It's one thing to charge people more for taking up a second seat, but charging people who naturally way more isn't really appropriate.
I don't know, man, it's a slippery slope here. A second seat is a resource just like added fuel is a resource; if a plane full of 105 pounders costs 75% as much as a plan full of 200 pounders, then there is just as much reason to charge heavier people more, regardless of the cause, as there is to charge people who take up more than one seat. In fact, you might say that charging more by weight is more fair, because the per-seat issue would be a natural extension. Someone who is 400 pounds would take up 2 seats and already be paying for them based on weight.
Don't forget, that 400 pounder might have a genetic glandular problem. Maybe they were born to be larger than you; why should you get off the hook just because you got lucky with your glands?
Where's all the rage about pushing and selling the Kin, and then killing it in six weeks? Are all those Kin purchasers getting free somethings-or-others? I don't know--they might be--but nobody seems to care, because it's not Apple.
I don't buy Sony products because they suck. They're flashy, full of style, but not functional the way they should be. They're plagued with design flaws that never should have made it out the door, and when you buy one of their devices you're locked into their peripherals forever. From batteries to memory cards, everything you need to use a Sony has Sony written on it.
And those stupid Sony Style stores. You can tell people just go there to be seen. Sony is more of a fashion statement than anything else.
Shhh! If you present "facts" that indicate that Jobs *might not* be a Nazi, you're going to be labeled as a fanboi!
That being said, if they're removing threads, they've gotta know it's going to make more of this noise, so they should at least put a replacement page in for the removed threads so that any visitor can (a) see why it was removed and (b) if it's due to redundancy, they can find a link to the thread that Apple's moderators have deemed appropriate.
Anything less than that is just asking for outrage, even from happy fanbois.
And that being said, I'm not sure that any of this really hurts them. People who are going to buy are going to buy. The people who are loudest about the problem were never going to buy an iPhone anyway.
I sometimes say IANALBMWI (I am not a lawyer but my wife is), and it gives me an air of authority, even though I'm still just making shit up that would totally cause my better half to do an extreme facepalm.
Everything I know about the law I learned from Perry Mason.
I have never had a mobile phone that I could use for a normal conversation in my own house. Through multiple phones, multiple houses, apartments and condos over the years, I could have five bars (or four with non-ATT carriers) at the start of a call, and have the conversation jitter and drop pretty reliably.
Ever since my first motorola brick, through a handful of flip phones and a treo, up to my current phone which is a Blackberry Pearl. They all drop; if I'm anywhere near a landline, the first thing I say on any call is, "Can I call you back?"
The hardest part is that it's been inexplicable. One place I lived, my office had windows on three sides, and I could see cell phone towers within 100 yards in two directions. Nothing to blame, so I used to joke that I have unusually iron-rich blood, and that interferes with the calls. I just got a bluetooth speaker phone for my car, and I can finally have a conversation. Even the old earpiece couldn't talk to the phone in my pocket.
So now, the iPhone 4 comes out, and it's got what seems to be the same problem I've had with every phone I've owned over the last 16 years, and the only difference I see is that there's an obvious cause, and thus a solution. Duct tape or no, when my BlackBerry contract runs out, I'm going to think seriously about this hardware.
That is, as long as they fix the proximity sensor thing. That seems like a real issue and to me, that makes the phone worthless.
I learned perl from someone who named all his variables with variations on "foo" and "bar". Back in those days, if I was writing something short and simple enough, it was hard for me to break the habit of naming things $foo, $bar, $boo, $far, $foofoo, etc. I'll bet a lot of our code looked like it was from the same person:)
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Right. Like maybe the famous Prius brakes? Apparently they got them when they purchased on old Audi 5000 factory.
My implementation of that is doTheRightThing().
...unless, of course, they give me a free bumper for my MacBook.
That's the problem with statistics. Lots of different ways to look at the numbers. Without an in-depth analysis--which we'll never get from Apple nor ATT--all we have is anecdotal data.
Well, to be fair, I cover the back of my phone with my hand, and the front of it with my face. I have a Blackberry Pearl, and all this talk about the iPhone has changed how I hold my BBP, and I drop fewer calls now.
My secret? A headset (wired or bluetooth, and holding the phone by the top, rather than the bottom, where the antenna is.
Yup, there's definitely a flaw somewheres. Probally in the most intelligent design, as it were.
have you ever been able to find something...?
Yes. Two words: Ninja Cat.
But then I found everyone, and it's just a bunch of freaking noise. I use the system to allow extended family (and some friends) to see pictures of my kid. Beyond that, I've got no time for the bazillions of status updates from Zynga. I mean, why is my "news feed" full of notices about so-and-so hatching a unicorn egg or some BS?
It turns out that as cool as getting connected is, actually being connected kind of sucks.
I don't know how to link it to Antennagate, but the connection's there, I'm sure.
It's one thing to charge people more for taking up a second seat, but charging people who naturally way more isn't really appropriate.
I don't know, man, it's a slippery slope here. A second seat is a resource just like added fuel is a resource; if a plane full of 105 pounders costs 75% as much as a plan full of 200 pounders, then there is just as much reason to charge heavier people more, regardless of the cause, as there is to charge people who take up more than one seat. In fact, you might say that charging more by weight is more fair, because the per-seat issue would be a natural extension. Someone who is 400 pounds would take up 2 seats and already be paying for them based on weight.
Don't forget, that 400 pounder might have a genetic glandular problem. Maybe they were born to be larger than you; why should you get off the hook just because you got lucky with your glands?
Where's all the rage about pushing and selling the Kin, and then killing it in six weeks? Are all those Kin purchasers getting free somethings-or-others? I don't know--they might be--but nobody seems to care, because it's not Apple.
Well, they did hire James Cameron for some inexplicable reason. Maybe this is that reason...
One of the best plays on words I've *ever* seen on /. Huzzah!
Another feature that Apple will probably copy!
Wait, so is locking down phones OK then? What about that devil Steve Jobs?
Please put the blame where it belongs!
Steve Jobs!
No, the problem with /. is that they still allow AC comments.
I don't buy Sony products because they suck. They're flashy, full of style, but not functional the way they should be. They're plagued with design flaws that never should have made it out the door, and when you buy one of their devices you're locked into their peripherals forever. From batteries to memory cards, everything you need to use a Sony has Sony written on it.
And those stupid Sony Style stores. You can tell people just go there to be seen. Sony is more of a fashion statement than anything else.
No, I for one, prefer Apple products.
Shhh! If you present "facts" that indicate that Jobs *might not* be a Nazi, you're going to be labeled as a fanboi!
That being said, if they're removing threads, they've gotta know it's going to make more of this noise, so they should at least put a replacement page in for the removed threads so that any visitor can (a) see why it was removed and (b) if it's due to redundancy, they can find a link to the thread that Apple's moderators have deemed appropriate.
Anything less than that is just asking for outrage, even from happy fanbois.
And that being said, I'm not sure that any of this really hurts them. People who are going to buy are going to buy. The people who are loudest about the problem were never going to buy an iPhone anyway.
Were you going to name that dictionary, or is it a virtual dictionary, i.e. one in your head?
I sometimes say IANALBMWI (I am not a lawyer but my wife is), and it gives me an air of authority, even though I'm still just making shit up that would totally cause my better half to do an extreme facepalm.
Everything I know about the law I learned from Perry Mason.
The last letter isn't a 'c', it's an 'o' that's missing the last 28%. Actually a very clever, opportunistic visual pun, if you ask me.
I have never had a mobile phone that I could use for a normal conversation in my own house. Through multiple phones, multiple houses, apartments and condos over the years, I could have five bars (or four with non-ATT carriers) at the start of a call, and have the conversation jitter and drop pretty reliably.
Ever since my first motorola brick, through a handful of flip phones and a treo, up to my current phone which is a Blackberry Pearl. They all drop; if I'm anywhere near a landline, the first thing I say on any call is, "Can I call you back?"
The hardest part is that it's been inexplicable. One place I lived, my office had windows on three sides, and I could see cell phone towers within 100 yards in two directions. Nothing to blame, so I used to joke that I have unusually iron-rich blood, and that interferes with the calls. I just got a bluetooth speaker phone for my car, and I can finally have a conversation. Even the old earpiece couldn't talk to the phone in my pocket.
So now, the iPhone 4 comes out, and it's got what seems to be the same problem I've had with every phone I've owned over the last 16 years, and the only difference I see is that there's an obvious cause, and thus a solution. Duct tape or no, when my BlackBerry contract runs out, I'm going to think seriously about this hardware.
That is, as long as they fix the proximity sensor thing. That seems like a real issue and to me, that makes the phone worthless.
I learned perl from someone who named all his variables with variations on "foo" and "bar". Back in those days, if I was writing something short and simple enough, it was hard for me to break the habit of naming things $foo, $bar, $boo, $far, $foofoo, etc. I'll bet a lot of our code looked like it was from the same person :)
Makes you wonder why so much of this data is even written, if it's never going to be read.