Comment Re:Firmware? (Score 1) 298
Another way to test it might hypothetically be to turn off 3G (thus putting it on 2.5G) and see if it still reproduces?
-fred
Comment Re:Not slashdottish (Score 5, Insightful) 264
That's the kind of things people cannot understand on/. Here you are always "there" or always "here". You are always black or always white. There cannot be middle tones.
Do you realize that you just stated a polarized viewpoint of a polarized viewpoint? You took a web site full of participants of every background and perspective, and reduced them to a single characteristic -- that of bipolarity.
[ponders carefully with an analytic memory, having been a long time slashdotter]
Submission + - Best Buy Confirms 'secret' Website
Iberian writes: Courant.com confirms Best Buy does indeed maintain a second website for what one could only assume is for fraudulent purposes.
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after my column disclosed the website and showed how employees at two Connecticut stores used it to deny customers a $150 discount on a computer advertised on BestBuy.com.
State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ordered the investigation into Best Buy's practices on Feb. 9 after my column disclosed the website and showed how employees at two Connecticut stores used it to deny customers a $150 discount on a computer advertised on BestBuy.com.
Comment Fast forward to 2007 (Score 5, Funny) 555
Doug Morris: Steve, I think we should get $1 for every iPod you sell.
Steve Jobs: No.
Doug Morris: We asked Microsoft for $1 for each Zune sold, and they said "Yes".
Steve Jobs: They were desperate. We're not. By the way, how has the Zune deal been working out for you?
Doug Morris: So far, we've gotten $52.
Steve Jobs: No.
Doug Morris: We asked Microsoft for $1 for each Zune sold, and they said "Yes".
Steve Jobs: They were desperate. We're not. By the way, how has the Zune deal been working out for you?
Doug Morris: So far, we've gotten $52.
