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    Image of Gordonium Gordonium
    07:05 PM

    In reply to Steve Wozniak Stars in Local Car Commercial With "Punker, the Boss's Dog"
    I'm down with this. Woz probably thought, "Ah, what the hell, I'll bet it'll be fun," and that's the right attitude to take. Hell, Quentin Tarantino did nearly the same thing, for probably the exact same reason, which is cool, too.
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    Image of TerryinSt.Paul TerryinSt.Paul
    07:57 PM

    @Gordonium: Speaker Dog?
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    cardboredbox promoted this comment TerryinSt.Paul was starred TerryinSt.Paul was unstarred
    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    03:28 PM

    In reply to Get 'Em While They're Young
    I'd be skeptical of that. I think there are a lot of people (like me) who may use the iPod Touch as a dedicated media player, but who use a different phone for dedicated personal/business usage.
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    Twisk promoted this comment Go Like Hell Machine was starred Go Like Hell Machine was unstarred
    Image of Twisk Twisk
    03:29 PM

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Same here. I LOVE my 1st gen iPod Touch. ...but I have no desire to get an iPhone.

    I want my phone and my media player to be separate devices [shrugs].
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    03:32 PM

    @Twisk: I know there are a lot of people who like them combined, but I prefer being able to keep everything separate, not least of the reason being that I have a lot of damn music.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    05:42 PM

    @Go Like Hell Machine: I do. "Smart gadgets, dumb phones" is my way... (my way of not spamming all my contacts or selling them out to spammers the first time I get a virus or trojan, that is...)

    As time goes on, it only gets easier to find a public wifi AP too. I guess I'd probably get an iPhone if I worked outside of the city in the middle of nowhere.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    05:55 PM

    @fuchikoma: Yeah, I didn't mention that, but also, keeping my devices separate is a good way to make sure I don't send something like, "You're a dick" to my boss accidentally.
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    02:57 PM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    I had AT&T for two years. I'll tell you right now, it would save time to mark the spots that DO get reception, at least around my area.
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    02:52 PM

    In reply to Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled
    I'm actually a robot commenter here on Giz and no one has even noticed.

    How about those clowns in congress? And what's with this weather?
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    Image of lpranal lpranal
    04:53 PM

    @Navin R Johnson: So, what you're saying is c1al!s engorged giving pleasurative erecteness? And how about that local sports team!
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    02:08 PM

    In reply to Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled
    Actually you can pay companies to write positive reviews about your products on places like Amazon etc so I'm not surprised at all that this was happening on the App Store too.

    I'm convinced that 25%+ of the reviews on Amazon are fake.
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    02:20 PM

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: one note, I notice is that people use the reviews as a "comment board". Often they will rate 0/1, and ask a question, and then follow it up with another 0/1 "reviewed" question. It doesn't seem like the proper forum for that type of interaction. Apple should have a built-in feedback/question in the app store, and also let them know that the review section is only for reviews.

    It seems to have tainted many apps. I myself click through, even if an app has a bad rating, and notice, that the negatives, are often as I illustrated below, badly informed customers, that have no idea how an app works.

    Perfect example is of an app like Boxee, where people have no clue what Boxee is, they download it thinking it will allow them to do something (who knows what they think), and then they realize that they have to do A, B, and C, and then get pissed, or start asking questions, because "it doesn't work".

    IDIOTS!
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    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    02:49 PM

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: 80% of statistics are made up.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03:36 PM

    @Navin R Johnson: Yeah, that would be partly amusing if it weren't 83.73212% of statistics were pulled out of your ass.

    Considering I worked for a company that paid companies to do this for their products, I was being very serious. And secondly, I stated an opinion of mine, not some percentage fact.

    When I read reviews I make sure to hunt out the really bad ones and read what they have to say.
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    Image of boulderburner boulderburner
    04:00 PM

    @beekerstudios: that sounds something like the Netflix reviewers who rate a movie 1 out of 5 stars because the disc they got was scratched. There needs to be a way to reach out through the ether and smack those types of people.
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    Nathan Obbards promoted this comment boulderburner was starred boulderburner was unstarred
    Image of Scotland Scotland
    05:48 PM

    @Navin R Johnson: Statistically... every 20 out of 10 Iranians voted for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    01:43 PM

    In reply to Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled
    So when is this going to apply to more apps in the store as it is apparent that there is many a paid shill rigging the ratings.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01:43 PM

    In reply to Ratings Scam Gets Almost 1% of App Store Pulled
    There's a jewelry company in Montreal that sells a lot of their items in Overstock.com, and one thing they like to do is have a few people log an extra hour or two to write phony positive reviews to boost the image of the things they sell. Of course, these reviews are generally written better and don't seem to have any specific pattern, so are not suspicious at first glance. I imagine a lot of people do these sorts of things and we don't know about it.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    01:58 PM

    @Kaiser-Machead: So you're saying that everything written by people with an anonymous internet account isn't true?

    Uh Oh.
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    Edited by NorwoodIsMyHero at 12/07/09 1:58 PM NorwoodIsMyHero was starred NorwoodIsMyHero was unstarred
    Image of given given
    02:01 PM

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: Don't believe everything you read on the internet. That's how WWI got started.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    02:02 PM

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: I know. Gut-wrenching, isn't it?
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    02:16 PM

    @Kaiser-Machead: I did initially think it was gut-wrenching, but now that an anonymous interweb person said it was gut-wrenching, was it really gut-wrenching? Do you see the problem here?
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    Image of Perk-i Perk-i
    02:25 PM

    @given: Franz Ferdinand were members of the Austrian Pirate Party - close allies of the Pirate Bay Founders. Their legal execution by the judicial wing of the RIAA caused public demonstrations against works for hire. The supression of those riots by Benito Mussolini's secret police (the MPAA) led directly to the illegal rebellion now known as WWI.

    The bloodiest conflict in human history was the direct result of torrenting music.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    02:50 PM

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: Welcome to hyperreality.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    02:52 PM

    @Perk-i: I can't believe I'm going to say this.

    Per Miss Swann: "PIRATES!!!!"
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    Image of redman042 redman042
    01:27 PM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    I'm actually very impressed with this app. What they DO with the data remains to be seen, but the impression I get from the app is that they are serious about collecting good data. It's well designed with several reporting options, and the ability to pick a location on the map is top notch. I just submitted two reports for areas I know are poor (but overall I'm happy with AT&T coverage in the Sacramento Metro area, and it has recently gotten a LOT better in the SF Bay Area, where I frequent).

    On a side note, this is also a handy tool for quickly picking the coordinates or street address from a location on Google Maps.

    In a way, this almost seems like a tool for network techs, not the average dumb consumer. It's nice that AT&T is giving its customers the credit to use the tool properly.
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    Image of jhuang jhuang
    02:14 PM

    @redman042: Agreed -- I saw this app coincidentally this morning and downloaded it immediately for when I get back to San Jose in a week. I used to have such great service and AT&T was the only thing that worked in my house (and I live in a pretty populated part of town) but now it has all gone to shit. What happened?
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    Image of phor11 phor11
    03:14 PM

    @jhuang: 3g happened. Switch back to 2g and you'll probably be fine. It's just their 3g service that is a giant piece of dump.
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    redman042 promoted this comment phor11 was starred phor11 was unstarred
    Image of redman042 redman042
    04:36 PM

    @phor11: Or you have a 2g phone and they swapped 2g 850 mhz service for 3g 850 service, putting you on the lousy frequency. If that is the case, get a 3g phone.

    Or they are just adjusting the network. Sometimes it does more harm than good for certain people, at least for a while. Let them know about it.
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    12:04 PM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    Oh hey, I was just at Town Center yesterday swapping out a last-minute Christmas gift.
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    11:20 AM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    I'm still waiting for them to fix a dead spot in Minneapolis that I've reported and they have acknowledged they know about.

    The wife's call will be dropped if she's on the phone when going through that particular intersection.

    (26th and Nicollet, btw.)
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    Image of BeyondtheTech BeyondtheTech
    11:04 AM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    We should be getting a $5 credit for reporting each of their failures. I'd likely end up with a $2,000 credit on my next month's bill, along with my 8,000 remaining rollover minutes.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    11:00 AM

    In reply to Pixel Qi Magic Screens Coming in Multitouch Tablets in 2010
    Hmm, I hope that means that Microsoft is debuting their Courier at CES in January. From it's looks, the Courier is a sexy device. With that screen, I'd have yet another reason to snap one up when it comes out.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    11:09 AM

    @Nathan Obbards: I agree. While I'm not entirely sure if an e-ink screen would quite fit in with what the Courier could do, it probably couldn't hurt. Unless these screens aren't as great at registering multitouch input as other screens. Just have to wait and see I guess.
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    02:31 PM

    @OCEntertainment: This isn't e-ink. It's a "transflective" LCD. They call it ePaper which is a general term for all sorts of reflective screens. I agree that e-ink would be too slow for the Courier UI but this screen is just as fast as any other LCD. You need the backlight on for good color but the cool thing is you can turn the backlight off and have a grayscale screen that is readable in any light paper would be. This gives you a display that's easy on the eyes, daylight readable and power conservative.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    02:38 PM

    @FigNinja: I suppose that's a little better. I'm still not sure, though, what benefit it brings to the Courier beyond what a regular screen would. I mean, it's not entirely implausible, but I see low-power, not-backlit screens as being for extended reading periods, whereas the Courier seems to be about active research, brainstorming, and designing. Maybe it could work, maybe not. I just hope that however they implement/pitch this it justifies the new complexity of having a screen with multiple screen modes.

    Let's not piss Occam off, after all. ;-)
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    02:45 PM

    @OCEntertainment: Well, the last demo I saw of this screen claimed they were getting 20 hours of battery life while using a netbook. That's pretty compelling. If you're mostly reading, you may not need color. It was a quick button press to turn it on when you needed it. The nifty thing is you don't have to use that feature but if you're having a day when you can't plug in or you want to read outside in daylight, you can do it. Since this screen can be manufactured in existing LCD factories, they can offer this feature with hardly any price increase over normal LCDs. There are so many promising screen technologies but they all require new manufacturing methods meaning they will be expensive for quite some time. Look at how overpriced ebook readers still are. That's the e-ink.
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2
    10:30 AM

    In reply to Pixel Qi Magic Screens Coming in Multitouch Tablets in 2010
    Still no color?
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    Image of Awax Awax
    10:57 AM

    @BergenCountyJC : B&W with backlight off, Color with backlight on.
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    BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2 promoted this comment Awax was starred Awax was unstarred
    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    10:58 AM

    @BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: It's a hybrid screen. The LCD displays color as does the e-ink screen.

    [www.pixelqi.com]
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    Edited by Nathan Obbards at 12/07/09 11:05 AM Nathan Obbards was starred Nathan Obbards was unstarred
    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11:00 AM

    @BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: I can't find any of the relevant stories, but if memory serves me this is a color screen that manages to have full sunlight readability, high refresh rate, low power consumption and low price. It's been touted (here) as the reason not to bother buying a Kindle or whatever because this screen is going make all the old ebook readers obsolete, but it just sounds a little too good to be true to me.
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    02:36 PM

    @Nathan Obbards: There's no e-ink here. What we have is an LCD screen with a reflective layer allowing you to be able to read it in direct sunlight with the backlight off. Color doesn't work too well without the backlight, though.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    02:45 PM

    @FigNinja: Je m'excuse. You're right, it is a highly specialized LCD screen that they describe as, in essence, ASIC. I've heard that color works fairly well and the videos I've seen on Engadget make it appear to work pretty well.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10:24 AM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    Problems with our network? Use our data network to report it!
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    10:10 AM

    In reply to Mark the Spot iPhone App Tells AT&T Where They Suck
    I've had a lot of problems with AT&T over the last few months, and one of my biggest frustrations has been that when I call AT&T about it, they act like they've never heard of anyone having a problem before. A couple of times I've berated them into giving me a substantial discount on my bill (as much as a whole month) but generally they have just said "we can give you a pro-rated discount for this service problem" which means they'll refund like $1.50 because that's a day's worth of service or something. And then I get really steamed because of course I don't pay as much as I do to have intermittent service, I pay for constant access.

    Now this app provides a way of logging, for legal purposes if necessary, every service problem and for anyone who wants to get a discount off their bill, they should be able to get a days worth of service for every documented problem. And for those looking to leave AT&T early, this app may very well be the ticket, since if they aren't holding up their end of the contract, you aren't obligated to stay with them for 2 years.
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    Edited by weatherman at 12/07/09 10:12 AM weatherman was starred weatherman was unstarred
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