Given that they cannot make new iPhones fast enough and people are not lining up to return their new iPhones, who can blame Apple for their response?
I know about 20 people with new iPhones and all of them are thrilled. When I ask them about their reception they all tell me that they have never experienced a problem unless they go out of their way to try and reproduce the phenomenon (engineers, so you know they will try)... but even then, no dropped calls. All of these people, BTW, had older iPhones previously and they all say the the new iPhone has far superior call quality - contrary to the Consumer Reports claim.
I don't have an iPhone and have no interests in one (which makes me somewhat like 90% of the people complaining about the iPhone). In fact, I quite dislike the iPhone, for other geeky technical reasons. I'm not an Apple fanboi, though I do own Macintoshes (full disclosure). However, I think I'm pretty objective, so sorry if this sounds like I'm defending something Steve Jobs said... My Samsung also has a death grip where reception is greatly diminished. Similarly, my Blackberry before that had one (maybe two). In fact, as far back as I can remember, every cell phone I've ever used has had reception problems when I held it in certain ways in certain conditions. Usually I can detect this before my call drops and shift my grip. I'm not convinced that the new iPhone is any worse.
Given Apple's marketshare versus Microsoft's marketshare in the computer OS realm, I think you will find a disproportionate number of Apple bashers to Microsoft bashers.
Not to defend Apple's behaviors, but I have to admit, when viewed from a business perspective (if I were a stockholder) I would tend to agree with most of them...
How were the articles about the Consumer Reports article relevant to support?
No one would think twice or make accusations of censorship if it were advertisements that were removed.
These postings were nothing more than negative ads, designed to incite, and had nothing to do with support. If I'm looking for support on a support website, I would expect this kind of non sequitur input to be removed.
BTW, I'm not some Apple fanboi. I loathe the iPhone and have no inkling to buy one. Geek-that-I-am, I have no interest in being pinned in to the walled garden... I just don't see the support value of the posts that were removed and therefore find it appropriate that they were removed.
So you're saying that even if I'm not a Windows user, I still have to bear the burden in my enviroment of all of the overhead of prevention of Windows viruses to protect you because of your choices???
BTW, I am a Windows user... and a Mac user... and linux... and others. My Windows machine is noticeably retarded (pun intended), when it comes to performance, primarily due to all of the malware and other security software. I would hate to see my productivity likewise crippled on the other platforms I use, simply because my Windows OS doesn't know how to practice safe sex...
I think you misunderstood the claim. It doesn't say the climate debate is almost over, only that climategate is almost over. If the investigative panel found no evidence of scientific misconduct, this seems like a reasonable assertion.
I hope you're not stereotyping all Christians. Most Christians do not demand that non-believers kowtow, nor do they attack science, nor do they think liberals are bedeviled...
I think there is a confusion between cause and effect. I don't think being a Christian drives people toward fanaticism. I think fanatics are attracted to Christianity because it provides a seemingly ready-built faction of support and credibility within a large population. A lot of things are done "in the name of God" that their God would most likely not approve of... Only a few Christians are actively participative in these acts, but they all get the blame because we humans have a tendancy to categorize and Christianity makes a nice category...
But in the end, the categories and the stereotypes fall apart and we realize that we are all just people. Not groups, but individuals. Each with our own ideals. Not balck and white, but shades of gray.
> first ever alien planet actually photographed...
Well, technically this is not the first alien planet photographed. That honor would probably go to Venus. However, this is the first exoplanet ever photographed, but it's old news since the first photographs of Fomalhaut's planet were taken in 2008...
That's a little bit like saying that gas milage quotes on new cars are meaningless hype because everyone drives differently... We have to have metrics in order to compare things. These metrics must be based on standards. In the world of optics, retinal resolution and retinal acuity, based on perfect 20/20 vision are two common metric standards... but yes, your milage may vary.
The other day, I got stuck at an intersection and noticed a lot of people talking on their phones while driving. It's a busy intersection on my way home from work, so the next day I counted the number of people I could SEE using talking on their cell phones for the duration of one red light (one direction). Note, this was people holding handsets to their ears. I could not tell if others were talking hands free and one or two might have even been texting, for all I know. Over the next couple of days, I just counted the total number of cars through that same intersection at about the same time of day for one light's duration, just to get an approximate average. Here are the stats:
Average number of cars for one light : 180
Number of people talking on their cell phone handsets : 79
I tried another experiment two Saturday's ago. I was out and about in public and decided to play a little observation game. I observed pedestrians talking on their cell phones. Actually, I watched the people around them. If I observed other people having to maneuver to avoid collision, or navigate around the caller, or make faces, gestures, or other visible signs of frustration because the person on the phone was not being as observant as they needed to be.
I saw 4 or 5 collisions, more than a dozen near misses, one guy nearly tipped over a baby carriage, and many, many hand gestures from hapless near victims.
In nearly every case, not only was the caller oblivious to the event immediately before, most weren't even aware in the aftermath...
So, is my conclusion that most people on cell phones are idiots? Of course not. My conclusion is that most people in general are idiots. Cell phones just happen to be a powerful enabler for idiotic behavior.
I always marvel at those people who are concerned about cell phones and cancer...
These are the same people who insit on driving and carrying on a conference call at the same time. I got news for you. There is a high probability that your cell phone will be a direct cause of your death... but it has nothing to do with radiation.
And you pedestrians, don't act so smug. A few weeks ago I saw a walkin' talkin' fool step out in front of a bus without looking (lucky for him, a conscious observer yanked him back from the clutches of death).
Believe me, radiation is the least of your worries...
I think you're being disingenuous. Even a pressed CD can become unreadable if you leave it unprotected in the sunlight. Every technology has some environmental constraints.
You would have a valid complaint if, to get better than 2 year life out of a CDR, you had to keep it in a dark, temperature controlled, nitrogen atmosphere. However, since photons and heat are what are required to program a CDR in the first place, I don't think it unreasonable to ask you to keep it out of direct sunlight if you want your data preserved.
However, more to the point, the question was what is a reliable, non magnetic backup medium. I don't know about you, but I don't rouitinely drive around with my backups hanging out on the dashboard of my car. In light of this, I think CDRs fit the bill.
I call bullshit. Most CDRs are spec'ed at 50 to 200 years readable life (depending on storage conditions) - reference ISO 18927:2008. I have CDRs that are more than 10 years old and are perfectly readable... in fact, I just used one last night.
Of course, if you leave that CDR you burned of favorite Beach Boys tunes out in direct sunlight on the dashboard of your car... then maybe 2 years is all you can expect.
"The equivalence principle is one of the corner stones of general relativity. Now physicists have used quantum mechanics to show how it fails."
Alternatively, they could choose to look at this equivalent assertion: The wave-particle duality of matter is one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. Now physicists have used general relativity to show how quantum mechanics fails.
Of course, in actuality, they haven't shown anything yet...
Well, I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I believe that the mass of the black hole is irrelevant. The event horizon occurs at that point where gravity overcomes the escape velocity of a photon. For different black holes, there may be a difference in radius that is mass dependent, but once you reach the event horizon we have an even playing field for all black holes. In other words, the gravitational force at all event horizons is equal, by definition, because the speed of light is the same at all event horizons.
... event horizon: a theoretical boundary in space through which light and other objects can pass in one direction but not the other.
Event horizons only refer to light (or rather events or information that could be conveyed by light). Event horizons have nothing to do with other objects (with mass).
Other objects will have their own horizons, at greater distances from the black hole. These horizons are a function of the mass of the object. In scifi stories and thought experiments they like to talk about how some guy gets stretched thin like a noodle as he crosses the even horizon... Well, I have some bad news. You would get noodle-fied long before you crossed the event horizon.
Of course, the good news is that since this happens before you reach the event horizon, the rest of us get to see it!
First of all, starters have a limited lifetime. If you force cars to engage them at nearly every stoplight, they will wear out 10 times faster or more. If a starter wears out at a traffic light, the car can't start and the flow of traffic will stop. This will do wonders for fuel savings, but not much good for transportation, as a whole.
Second, if my engine shut off at a stoplight in the Texas summer, my air conditioning would not work and I would effectively be baking in an oven.
says Physicist Ranjit Pati of Michigan Tech. “We have mimicked how neurons behave in the brain.”
I always love quotes like this... as if this guy (or anyone) knows how neurons actually behave in the brain. So far we're still at the simple model phase... to fire or not to fire, that is the question (apologies to Shakespeare).
Ptolemy thought he understood gravity, then Newton proved him wrong. Newton thought he understood gravity, then Einstein proved him wrong. Einstein thought he understood gravity, but folks like Penrose, Ashtekar, Smolin, and the Loop Quantum Gravity guys are about to overturn Einstein... When it comes to our understanding of how neurons work, we have more in common with Ptolemy than Einstein...
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Funny. I edited out a similar comment about my old StarTac in my previous message...
Given that they cannot make new iPhones fast enough and people are not lining up to return their new iPhones, who can blame Apple for their response?
I know about 20 people with new iPhones and all of them are thrilled. When I ask them about their reception they all tell me that they have never experienced a problem unless they go out of their way to try and reproduce the phenomenon (engineers, so you know they will try)... but even then, no dropped calls. All of these people, BTW, had older iPhones previously and they all say the the new iPhone has far superior call quality - contrary to the Consumer Reports claim.
I don't have an iPhone and have no interests in one (which makes me somewhat like 90% of the people complaining about the iPhone). In fact, I quite dislike the iPhone, for other geeky technical reasons. I'm not an Apple fanboi, though I do own Macintoshes (full disclosure). However, I think I'm pretty objective, so sorry if this sounds like I'm defending something Steve Jobs said... My Samsung also has a death grip where reception is greatly diminished. Similarly, my Blackberry before that had one (maybe two). In fact, as far back as I can remember, every cell phone I've ever used has had reception problems when I held it in certain ways in certain conditions. Usually I can detect this before my call drops and shift my grip. I'm not convinced that the new iPhone is any worse.
Seriously?
Given Apple's marketshare versus Microsoft's marketshare in the computer OS realm, I think you will find a disproportionate number of Apple bashers to Microsoft bashers.
Not to defend Apple's behaviors, but I have to admit, when viewed from a business perspective (if I were a stockholder) I would tend to agree with most of them...
How were the articles about the Consumer Reports article relevant to support?
No one would think twice or make accusations of censorship if it were advertisements that were removed.
These postings were nothing more than negative ads, designed to incite, and had nothing to do with support. If I'm looking for support on a support website, I would expect this kind of non sequitur input to be removed.
BTW, I'm not some Apple fanboi. I loathe the iPhone and have no inkling to buy one. Geek-that-I-am, I have no interest in being pinned in to the walled garden... I just don't see the support value of the posts that were removed and therefore find it appropriate that they were removed.
I'm pretty sure that only Al Gore is authorized to terminate the internet...
So you're saying that even if I'm not a Windows user, I still have to bear the burden in my enviroment of all of the overhead of prevention of Windows viruses to protect you because of your choices???
BTW, I am a Windows user... and a Mac user... and linux... and others. My Windows machine is noticeably retarded (pun intended), when it comes to performance, primarily due to all of the malware and other security software. I would hate to see my productivity likewise crippled on the other platforms I use, simply because my Windows OS doesn't know how to practice safe sex...
I think you misunderstood the claim. It doesn't say the climate debate is almost over, only that climategate is almost over. If the investigative panel found no evidence of scientific misconduct, this seems like a reasonable assertion.
I hope you're not stereotyping all Christians. Most Christians do not demand that non-believers kowtow, nor do they attack science, nor do they think liberals are bedeviled...
I think there is a confusion between cause and effect. I don't think being a Christian drives people toward fanaticism. I think fanatics are attracted to Christianity because it provides a seemingly ready-built faction of support and credibility within a large population. A lot of things are done "in the name of God" that their God would most likely not approve of... Only a few Christians are actively participative in these acts, but they all get the blame because we humans have a tendancy to categorize and Christianity makes a nice category...
But in the end, the categories and the stereotypes fall apart and we realize that we are all just people. Not groups, but individuals. Each with our own ideals. Not balck and white, but shades of gray.
Consumers are not stripped of their right to sue. They voluntarily give up those rights.
Some class action settlements do have significant payouts.
> first ever alien planet actually photographed...
Well, technically this is not the first alien planet photographed. That honor would probably go to Venus. However, this is the first exoplanet ever photographed, but it's old news since the first photographs of Fomalhaut's planet were taken in 2008...
Slow news day or something???
Sheesh... you're just like my kids... How do you know you don't like it if you've never tried it?
That's a little bit like saying that gas milage quotes on new cars are meaningless hype because everyone drives differently... We have to have metrics in order to compare things. These metrics must be based on standards. In the world of optics, retinal resolution and retinal acuity, based on perfect 20/20 vision are two common metric standards... but yes, your milage may vary.
I call them cellular automata...
The other day, I got stuck at an intersection and noticed a lot of people talking on their phones while driving. It's a busy intersection on my way home from work, so the next day I counted the number of people I could SEE using talking on their cell phones for the duration of one red light (one direction). Note, this was people holding handsets to their ears. I could not tell if others were talking hands free and one or two might have even been texting, for all I know. Over the next couple of days, I just counted the total number of cars through that same intersection at about the same time of day for one light's duration, just to get an approximate average. Here are the stats:
Average number of cars for one light : 180
Number of people talking on their cell phone handsets : 79
I tried another experiment two Saturday's ago. I was out and about in public and decided to play a little observation game. I observed pedestrians talking on their cell phones. Actually, I watched the people around them. If I observed other people having to maneuver to avoid collision, or navigate around the caller, or make faces, gestures, or other visible signs of frustration because the person on the phone was not being as observant as they needed to be.
I saw 4 or 5 collisions, more than a dozen near misses, one guy nearly tipped over a baby carriage, and many, many hand gestures from hapless near victims.
In nearly every case, not only was the caller oblivious to the event immediately before, most weren't even aware in the aftermath...
So, is my conclusion that most people on cell phones are idiots? Of course not. My conclusion is that most people in general are idiots. Cell phones just happen to be a powerful enabler for idiotic behavior.
I always marvel at those people who are concerned about cell phones and cancer...
These are the same people who insit on driving and carrying on a conference call at the same time. I got news for you. There is a high probability that your cell phone will be a direct cause of your death... but it has nothing to do with radiation.
And you pedestrians, don't act so smug. A few weeks ago I saw a walkin' talkin' fool step out in front of a bus without looking (lucky for him, a conscious observer yanked him back from the clutches of death).
Believe me, radiation is the least of your worries...
I think you're being disingenuous. Even a pressed CD can become unreadable if you leave it unprotected in the sunlight. Every technology has some environmental constraints.
You would have a valid complaint if, to get better than 2 year life out of a CDR, you had to keep it in a dark, temperature controlled, nitrogen atmosphere. However, since photons and heat are what are required to program a CDR in the first place, I don't think it unreasonable to ask you to keep it out of direct sunlight if you want your data preserved.
However, more to the point, the question was what is a reliable, non magnetic backup medium. I don't know about you, but I don't rouitinely drive around with my backups hanging out on the dashboard of my car. In light of this, I think CDRs fit the bill.
I call bullshit. Most CDRs are spec'ed at 50 to 200 years readable life (depending on storage conditions) - reference ISO 18927:2008. I have CDRs that are more than 10 years old and are perfectly readable... in fact, I just used one last night.
Of course, if you leave that CDR you burned of favorite Beach Boys tunes out in direct sunlight on the dashboard of your car... then maybe 2 years is all you can expect.
"The equivalence principle is one of the corner stones of general relativity. Now physicists have used quantum mechanics to show how it fails."
Alternatively, they could choose to look at this equivalent assertion: The wave-particle duality of matter is one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. Now physicists have used general relativity to show how quantum mechanics fails.
Of course, in actuality, they haven't shown anything yet...
Well, I'm no Stephen Hawking, but I believe that the mass of the black hole is irrelevant. The event horizon occurs at that point where gravity overcomes the escape velocity of a photon. For different black holes, there may be a difference in radius that is mass dependent, but once you reach the event horizon we have an even playing field for all black holes. In other words, the gravitational force at all event horizons is equal, by definition, because the speed of light is the same at all event horizons.
Event horizons only refer to light (or rather events or information that could be conveyed by light). Event horizons have nothing to do with other objects (with mass).
Other objects will have their own horizons, at greater distances from the black hole. These horizons are a function of the mass of the object. In scifi stories and thought experiments they like to talk about how some guy gets stretched thin like a noodle as he crosses the even horizon... Well, I have some bad news. You would get noodle-fied long before you crossed the event horizon.
Of course, the good news is that since this happens before you reach the event horizon, the rest of us get to see it!
and a floor wax
Nice twist on an old geek joke!
First of all, starters have a limited lifetime. If you force cars to engage them at nearly every stoplight, they will wear out 10 times faster or more. If a starter wears out at a traffic light, the car can't start and the flow of traffic will stop. This will do wonders for fuel savings, but not much good for transportation, as a whole.
Second, if my engine shut off at a stoplight in the Texas summer, my air conditioning would not work and I would effectively be baking in an oven.
Well, I would but you're doing such a fine job of putting words in my mouth...
I made no comment about how useful a model might be. My point is that the statement I quoted made it sound like the model is more advanced than it is.
I always love quotes like this... as if this guy (or anyone) knows how neurons actually behave in the brain. So far we're still at the simple model phase... to fire or not to fire, that is the question (apologies to Shakespeare).
Ptolemy thought he understood gravity, then Newton proved him wrong. Newton thought he understood gravity, then Einstein proved him wrong. Einstein thought he understood gravity, but folks like Penrose, Ashtekar, Smolin, and the Loop Quantum Gravity guys are about to overturn Einstein... When it comes to our understanding of how neurons work, we have more in common with Ptolemy than Einstein...