Native speakers know that he really meant "it could have", which in verbal English becomes "coulda" or "could've", the latter of which sounds like what he typed.

There's no need to be mean about it. And certainly no need to score the parent post as "Score: 3 Insightful".

I can see it now... the ships land at the UN and...

Alien: Greetings. We come in peace.

UN: Where do you come from?

Alien: A distant galaxy nearly 10 billion light years away.

UN: Why are you here?

Alien: To escape religious persecution! Most of our galaxy are ZYZYZYYZ-ists and we dont' feel safe to practice the Tarvu religion. We came to be baptized on the planet of our many-tentacled prophet. Praise Tarvu!

http://www.tarvu.com/

It's so easy to join!

i'm not a lawyer, but i've been told that you can't sign away your rights to sue for negligence or dangerous products and things like that. so even if someone convinces you to sign, that clause isn't enforceable in the US, or so I've been told. for example, if you rent a parachute and it turns out that they stuffed your parachute with old rags and not a parachute by acident, your survivors can still sue even if you've signed a thing waving your rights.

if someone else knows more about the details about how this is handled in different jurisdictions, please speak up...

I dunno what it would look like, but when they run the sound algorithm on it, it would sound like some awesome song from Guitar Hero.

Yet.

It is prophesied! Or prophesized! Or prophephizizzle! Or whatever that word is!

Someday I'll link back to this post and say we warned you all!!!!

Also...

Blackberry: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/8108

What? Their technology is on multiple platforms and trivially confirmed with google in seconds with queries like: dragon speech mac

WINDOWS: http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/editions/default.asp

MAC: http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/products/macintosh/for-the-mac.asp

iPhone/iPad: time-limited note recording, but impressive accuracy : http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/

Phone via calling like, as a regular phone: http://jott.com/

I call shenanigans. Your numbers are even more suspicious than Apple's! So, you're saying that your prediction based on your data set is that all iPhone 4s have some deadline serious problem that destroys the ability for the phone to work? This is just implausible on the face of it. You're implying that 3 million out of 3 million phones have this issue?

How many of these people you know really had the "issue" of dropped calls, or did some of them just confirm that they can see bars go down when touching some parts? And for the record, that does NOT happen on my iPhone 4, and I've dared other people to try with my phone with their own hands.

I know several people with iPhone 4s, including myself, and NONE of them have *actually* reported more dropped calls in real life or dreadful data rates. My cell reception is surely better now than my iPhone 3G was in my area. And the times I had crappy coverage with the new phone it wasn't because of antenna touching -- i could put it on a table and see i had no reception no matter what! And one time it showed no coverage weirdly at home (while not touching it) and I had to restart the device. Lame, but probably fixable in a software update.

And I did the speedtest.net iPhone app tests and did it 3 or more times with each hand position and found no significant difference between holding the iphone in my left versus right hand (the AT&T network speed was very different each time, but the average was about the same).

Bottom line: the Anantech article seems basically right, and well researched, and matches my tests. YES, there is a loss in signal, but it starts at a higher point and the overall effect is that the iPhone does NOT have a big issue. And why all the fuss when you can get a bumper/case and it fixes even that mild issue in low signal areas if you really want to.

And because people keep posting falsehoods on Slashdot about this, WIRED did not rip them a new one over this. They mostly expounded on other people's complaints. What about their OWN tests at WIRED? Their summary of their own tests was "And in our own tests [...] the antenna problem is not especially serious .

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...

• Awakened Mind System 2.0 by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.
• Gamma Meditation System by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson.

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.