Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread TJPA
Because it doesn't matter in normal use. It appears that it may matter in some extreme cases. You are insisting that they must design their product for the extreme case and make the rest of us suffer the consequences. You have not explained why they must do such a silly thing. You just insist

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:17 AM, TJPA t...@tjpa.com wrote: Because it doesn't matter in normal use. It appears that it may matter in some extreme cases. You are insisting that they must design their product for the extreme case and make the rest of us suffer the consequences. You have not

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread tjpa
On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:10 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: By extreme cases are you perhaps referring to emergency situations where life or death or serious injury or even just a great inconvenience may be the outcome? Yep, your mommy can't be with you all the time. On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:10 AM,

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
With ATT those extreme cases seem to matter much more than with another carrier. Stewart At 01:17 AM 6/29/2010, you wrote: Because it doesn't matter in normal use. It appears that it may matter in some extreme cases. You are insisting that they must design their product for the extreme case

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:11 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: Well you have a silly notion. It is amazing how you fixate on a tiny 1/8-inch of its surface that causes a problem when the phone is operated at the edge of its range. Your supposition is so extreme that it strongly suggests you have

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread tjpa
I suggest duct tape. Duct tape cures all ills. On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:45 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: Apple could have easily eliminated that 1/8 inch of problematic area by applying an insulating material over it. * **

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-29 Thread mike
Freedom and Liberty is frightening to boot-heeled leftists. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:21 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Google’s mismanagement of the Android Market http://nanocr.eu/2010/06/27/googles-mismanagement-of-the-android-market/ I am sure glad that the Apps Store does not look

Re: [CGUYS] Just How Bad is Google's Mismanagement of the Android Market?

2010-06-29 Thread mike
Paul Thurrott told a story a few days ago on one of the twit shows...apparently his kids had racked up 900 dollars in fake fish with an app called touch fish. Once you've ok'd the 'purchase' of the free app with your pass, the user can buy fish with real money in the game apparently without the

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread mike
Saw the first of waht will probably be many iphone 4 case ads with the tagline 'get better reception, buy an iphone 4 case!' On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:40 AM, tjpa t...@tjpa.com wrote: I suggest duct tape. Duct tape cures all ills. On Jun 29, 2010, at 9:45 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CGUYS] iPhone 4, Engineering thoughts

2010-06-29 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:18 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: Saw the first of waht will probably be many iphone 4 case ads with the tagline 'get better reception, buy an iphone 4 case!' This new iPhone will most likely be the first and last phone made by Apple that uses an antenna of which

[CGUYS] Apple’s iPad: Death knell for traditional Macintos h computers?

2010-06-29 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
Here is something on what I was getting at a short while back about how many, maybe most Macintosh computers may resort to running iOS and dumping OS X. This piece takes it further: When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad he pointed out the obvious—the iPad is targeted between an iPhone and iPod

Re: [CGUYS] Apple's iPad: Death knell for traditional Ma cintos h computers?

2010-06-29 Thread Chris Dunford
How do I know this? Experience. The trend is unmistakable. Computer usage by the masses is going mobile. The Mac as we know it-a full featured personal computer-is slowly going away, to be replaced by ever more mobile and increasingly capable devices. This might very well happen for a lot

Re: [CGUYS] Apple's iPad: Death knell for traditional Ma cintos h computers?

2010-06-29 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Chris Dunford seed...@gmail.com wrote: The Mac as we know it-a full featured personal computer-is slowly going away, to be replaced by ever more mobile and increasingly capable devices. This might very well happen for a lot of casual uses, so I don't