You are right -- I read the main review and did not catch the "during testing" link.
But at 10 AM tomorrow, we can hear what Apple is going to do. My guess is (1) free bumpers for everyone, and/or (2) a custom cut stick on laminate, for just the half inch around the gap, installed at any retail location or mailed on request.
The worst thing they could do is deny. It might be a marginal effect, irreproducible and unquantifiable, but it is in the public meme and the public will not let go of it. So it needs a fix -- any fix, even a placebo, but a fix has to be made.
Naturally, as soon as I read the Slashdot summary, I read the original at TUAW. The TUAW posting was as represented by the Slashdot summary: Apple is said to have killed all mention of the CR article in its forums. Being an Apple support forum member, I logged in. Yes, the particular posts were indeed labelled "you do not have permission...". EVIL, I thought. But then I poked around -- there are massive threads discussing the antenna in the Apple Support Forum, many dumping vile on the antenna engineering. So what was so offensive to Apple in the handful of posts that they did censor? TUAW helpfully pointed out that Bing had cached the offensive posts. Well, let's have a look there. The deleted posts were less about the antenna issue, and more about the quality and accuracy of CR testing. Expressed in highly emotional fan-boy terms. It would seem that Apple has not touched the real ongoing discussions of the antenna issue, but just taken down the threads that strayed into CR bashing.
BTW, as a CR subscriber, I read the original article there, too. Yes, after giving good marks to most iPhone 4 features, it considers the antenna issue to be a fatal flaw. But it does not discuss the claims that the signal must be marginal in the first place, for the hand grip to make a difference. Nor discusses the possible smokescreen of bar generation algorithms.
My take is that this proves, perhaps to a significant degree if not completely, that Javascript/HTML5 can do anything that a native Flash engine could do . So why build in Flash? Go straight to Javascript/HTML5. I do not think Steve Jobs will be unhappy about this at all.
My take on the original was a little different. I viewed it as an exploration of the Prisoner's own mind by himself. He resigned from an important job, but did not himself understand why he resigned. At his apartment he dreamed of the Village, which was a map of his mind. Only in the first few episodes is he not in control - for most of the episodes to the end he manipulates all Village residents easily, seeking only the answer to "who is number one". He is always told the truth about that - "you are, number six" and "six of one, half dozen of the other". In the over the top finale, where the hallucinogenic nature of the whole experience is laid bare, he finds number one to an aspect of himself.
However, whatever you interpretation, I believe we will find this new mini-series does not get it. The ever changing number two, always replaced by unlikely persons, was integral to the original concept. The fact that no one was ever who they seemed, the lack of high violence (a fair fraction of every episode was just walking and talking), were all part of the fascination of the original series.
I know that many will say that taking the show as having been all in his mind is a cliche, but it was not such a big cliche when this show was produced.
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You are right -- I read the main review and did not catch the "during testing" link. But at 10 AM tomorrow, we can hear what Apple is going to do. My guess is (1) free bumpers for everyone, and/or (2) a custom cut stick on laminate, for just the half inch around the gap, installed at any retail location or mailed on request. The worst thing they could do is deny. It might be a marginal effect, irreproducible and unquantifiable, but it is in the public meme and the public will not let go of it. So it needs a fix -- any fix, even a placebo, but a fix has to be made.
Naturally, as soon as I read the Slashdot summary, I read the original at TUAW. The TUAW posting was as represented by the Slashdot summary: Apple is said to have killed all mention of the CR article in its forums. Being an Apple support forum member, I logged in. Yes, the particular posts were indeed labelled "you do not have permission...". EVIL, I thought. But then I poked around -- there are massive threads discussing the antenna in the Apple Support Forum, many dumping vile on the antenna engineering. So what was so offensive to Apple in the handful of posts that they did censor? TUAW helpfully pointed out that Bing had cached the offensive posts. Well, let's have a look there. The deleted posts were less about the antenna issue, and more about the quality and accuracy of CR testing. Expressed in highly emotional fan-boy terms. It would seem that Apple has not touched the real ongoing discussions of the antenna issue, but just taken down the threads that strayed into CR bashing. BTW, as a CR subscriber, I read the original article there, too. Yes, after giving good marks to most iPhone 4 features, it considers the antenna issue to be a fatal flaw. But it does not discuss the claims that the signal must be marginal in the first place, for the hand grip to make a difference. Nor discusses the possible smokescreen of bar generation algorithms.
My take is that this proves, perhaps to a significant degree if not completely, that Javascript/HTML5 can do anything that a native Flash engine could do . So why build in Flash? Go straight to Javascript/HTML5. I do not think Steve Jobs will be unhappy about this at all.
My take on the original was a little different. I viewed it as an exploration of the Prisoner's own mind by himself. He resigned from an important job, but did not himself understand why he resigned. At his apartment he dreamed of the Village, which was a map of his mind. Only in the first few episodes is he not in control - for most of the episodes to the end he manipulates all Village residents easily, seeking only the answer to "who is number one". He is always told the truth about that - "you are, number six" and "six of one, half dozen of the other". In the over the top finale, where the hallucinogenic nature of the whole experience is laid bare, he finds number one to an aspect of himself. However, whatever you interpretation, I believe we will find this new mini-series does not get it. The ever changing number two, always replaced by unlikely persons, was integral to the original concept. The fact that no one was ever who they seemed, the lack of high violence (a fair fraction of every episode was just walking and talking), were all part of the fascination of the original series. I know that many will say that taking the show as having been all in his mind is a cliche, but it was not such a big cliche when this show was produced.