The iPhone 4 song video that started the press conf... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKIcaejkpD4&feature=player_embedded
Moderators: I am not joking, the New York Times report from the press conference reported this...
I've tried many binaural beats CDs, including esoteric expensive ones I borrowed from a friend into them. Most of them suck because although they probably (?) have the right difference in frequency between left and right ear, the two frequencies were fairly high up in frequency, and I find it dissonant and irritating pretty quick. My guess is that most CDs do this because they can't assume that you have good headphones that can really do deep bass. If you have both L and R sides at low frequencies, it is **powerful** and it is less irritating, or at least it is for me. Also a bunch on the market have crappy new agey chimes or amateurish music that is lame the first time you hear it, and way more so the 20th time you've heard it.
In contrast, there are TWO CDS THAT ARE AWESOME, which I continue to use, with my big headphones that can do the low bass...
I listen to these two CD repeatedly and enjoy the meditative and sorta head-trippy effect. I find they tend to calm me and focus me. It feels like it is increasing cooperation between my brain hemispheres. Like, when I'm doing very left brain stuff like programming, I feel more creative. And sometimes I feel more grounded, and more social (less shy and less self-involved) afterward so it's easier to do other things in life.
I'll listen to both of these in quite varied settings. Not just meditation, but also cleaning the house, or programming code, or blocking out sounds at work, or running on a treadmill.
As I mentioned, these two CDs require headphones with GOOD BASS RESPONSE. For the record, I'm extremely fond of my Ultrasone 650 headphones, which btw do not need a headphone amp to have deep bass with iPod / iPhone, btw. Ultrasone is a brand not well known outside recording studio / pro audio worlds. Here's a link to more of their headphones.
I strongly recommend these two CDs to geeks and non-geeks alike, and to those who like traditional drugs and for those who are 'straight edge'!
I hope you enjoy them!
I'm not affiliated with the guy who made them, I just like his work.
Real-world tests by Wired, Engadget, etc. all show that you can have 4 bars and great signal. Hold the phone and have zero signal.
What real-world use are you talking about? I'm not even activating my iPhone 4 until I get my bumper in the mail I just ordered.
I also hate this notion that Apple products always just work.
Moderators: parent post is insightful?
1) You haven't even activated it and so you can't even verify the claims yourself, so you are basing your views on self-admitted anger about previous products and other people's reports only. And all that despite the fact that you could choose to gather actual good data simply by activating it and being a good nerd and doing your own tests? To focus on the phrase "real-world tests" and then mock the possibility of you actually doing real-world tests seems to denigrate the scientific method, and the approach of geekiness in general. Unlike you, I actually activated my iPhone 4, have made tons of calls with BETTER reception than my iPhone 3G. And I even downloaded the speedtest.net app and tested with left hand, right hand, and not touching the phone, and didn't see much of a real world difference when holding it **naturally**. I am open to the possibility that there is more of a problem for some people, but everyone I know with an iPhone 4 does not have this problem when they hold the phone naturally. (my experience is consistent with the excellent anantech article based on a fairly thorough and nerdy testing process.
2) I have gotten crappy reception a few times, but as an experiment put the phone down on a non-conductive table and demonstrated that the AT&T crappy reception is independent of any antenna touching issue. I can still say that AT&T sucks ass, but that doesn't mean that it's some touching-the-phone issue.
3) And then you quote WIRED to back up your vitriol. WIRED, like most of the media, for the most part has been reporting about other people's reports, not their own testing, and in summarizing their experience WIRED says "And in our own tests, as well as the reports of many readers, the antenna problem is not especially serious.". That is hardly the indictment you make it out to be in your post. I'd go so far as to say your post is entirely misleading about Wired's assessment.
3) Showing low bars doesn't == more dropped calls. The excellent anantech article has demonstrated this using a fairly thorough testing process.
Your post almost seems like a Poe's Law post in the voice of a Mac Hater.
Dude, RTFA! They clearly state that the iPhone 4 excels in several areas. It just sucks in its primary function as a cellphone and thus they can't recommend it. I don't think Consumer Reports has any vested interest in seeing the iPhone fail or succeed.
I don't get it. Why would they not just say "iPhone 4 is great. We recommend it only if you also get a bumper or a case too. And if so, it does quite well on all counts."
I don't see how this is much different from saying for a PC review.... "We really liked such and such cheap computer for Windows 7 Pro, but with the basic specs it doesn't have enough memory for real-world applications. Thus Consumer Reports recommends it only if you also buy the upgrade from 400Meg RAM to 1gig RAM, which changes the price to the less competitive cost of $____"
If anyone here wants to support journalism in the public interest (not Corporate controlled or all about supporting the status quo) donate to the organization Pro Publica and/or read their stories and forward them to your friends and colleagues.
Pro Publica is "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. Our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories, stories with “moral force.” We do this by producing journalism that shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them." See Pro Publica.
BTW, I just saw on their site a recent award...
[[ProPublica is pleased to be the recipient of the first Edward R. Murrow Award for Media Entrepreneurship from Washington State University’s Murrow College of Communication. ProPublica is being recognized for its work as a "nonprofit provider of hard-hitting online journalism," according to Lawrence Pintak, the founding dean of Murrow College, which is named for the legendary CBS News broadcaster and journalist.
And they are a 501c3 tax-deductible organization. Donate to them here.
(for the record, I'm not affiliated with them, I just think they are groovy.)
That is actually a common misconception in the open source community. All dildos work well in an anus as well as they do in a vagina.
This is misleading. Ideally all butt tools have a FLARE (getting wider on the outside part). That's because objects are, ummmm, how do you say this, more likely to be sucked up and LOST back there.
That's the most important design difference with such equipment.
Stay safe and out of the emergency rooms, everyone!
Speaking of which, C now stands for Citigroup according to Google.
Huh? Your search shows "C programming language" as the first hit. "C is for cookie" comes before the citigroup hits.
Google returns different results for different people.
In fairness to the original poster, when I go to that link, the FIRST THREE links in the google results are in fact for Citigroup for me, as well as link #6. Seriously.
And none of the links are on the first page even mention "C is for cookie", despite my appreciation for tasty cookies of the edible variety.
How long until this is used as a defense in court?
At the very least, for the folks on the TV show "Lost" we could explain away their crazy behavior -- the magnetism is outrageous there and messed with their minds!
"THE SMOKE MONSTER TOLD ME TO DO IT AND IT JUST SEEMED *RIGHT*!"
I don't understand how someone could say that tort reform is a red herring.
In terms of the direct financial impact of malpractice insurance and litigation costs, tort reform doesn't help more than a few percent or so. But in terms of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary treatment because doctors are paralyzed to do anything besides order the extra tests and procedures, tort reform would make a HUGE difference.
The Congressional Budget Office studied this and agrees with you that the savings for "less utilitization of health services" due to tort reform is important... 150% bigger than the direct financial impact. But it disagrees with you about the amount... and says that even combined, it's less than 1 percent of the total cost of health, all things considered.
Also, the Congressional Budget Office says in their analysis that "Those estimates take into account the fact that because many states have already implemented some of the changes in the package, a significant fraction of the potential cost savings [of the federal bill] has already been realized."
I don't understand how someone could say that tort reform is a red herring.
In terms of the direct financial impact of malpractice insurance and litigation costs, tort reform doesn't help more than a few percent or so. But in terms of the hundreds of billions of dollars wasted on unnecessary treatment because doctors are paralyzed to do anything besides order the extra tests and procedures, tort reform would make a HUGE difference.
The Congressional Budget Office studied this and agrees with you that the savings for "less utilitization of health services" due to tort reform is important... 150% bigger than the direct financial impact. But it disagrees with you about the amount... and says that even combined, it's less than 1 percent of the total cost of health, all things considered.
But what's wrong with giving people options?
See the book "The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less" by Barry Schwartz (Author)
I also was more dismissive when I first saw the iPad, to the point where I wondered why it didn't have an add-on keyboard like always innovating's netbook (which this IBM slate seems to have copied in a way), but now I went through Apple's presentation days ago - I have to say this product might have a chance.
People can see the official iPad keyboard dock at the bottom of this page: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
What you, and the rest of the people who can't get past this point forget is that to the user changes of applications without changing application state are equivalent to unlimited multitasking. Background processing? You see, we have these things called "servers" these days...
Surely you must know there are many cases this just doesn't work for. I'd love to be able to use Pandora and NewNewsWire more effectively on iPhone.
On Mac OS X desktop:
# Launch the Pandora app/service.
# switch to Mail app on my Mac to read mail for a long time
# I hear music!
On iPhone:
# Launch the Pandora app/service.
# switch to Mail on my iPhone.
# No music! (Pandora was forced closed)
"having these things called servers" doesn't fix this.
And although I love NetNewsWire on Mac, it's poorly performant on iPhone because it can't do it's "catching up on the news feeds and fetching articles and pictures" in the background like it does on my mac.
What the current government want so far [...] Increased government regulation of aired political opinion through the Fairness Doctrine.
Even Fox News says that President Obama opposes any move to bring back the so-called Fairness Doctrine and even clarified that their stance was "definitive".
Yeah, a couple other legislators including pelosi want it, but let's be clear that even Fox News claims that the Obama Administration definitively opposes it.
"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity." - David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"
