2010-06-26, 14:51 | Link #7982 | |
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New iPhone 4 loses reception if held 'wrongly'
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2010-06-26, 16:48 | Link #7983 |
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And that, of course, is why I always find it tough to take Apple seriously over the years.... "you're holding it wrong" .... sheesh, Quality Testing by snotty nimrods. I'd be firing someone on the antenna/design team.
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It all depends actually on the economic outlook for me. If all ahead is a recession, I don't mind if the government takes away a few civil rights temporarily so everyone pulls through. One has to stand on the line between pragmatism and idealism depending on outlook - though I do admit that censorship is a major problem here - reading the same things on the same newspaper all the time with no criticality is bloody damn boring, and fine arts is almost non-existent. Quote:
It is supposed to be treated as a two way mutual treaty to benefit both the government and the people. As I have written, Quote:
Honestly speaking, it is personal preference really for what you like and where you like to live. If you live in places like N.K or certain parts of M.E (where you shouldn't be even on this forum due to lack of internet access), you can have my sympathy because these are places where the government is FUBAR. However most of us here are in second or first world countries (obviously seen from our access to the internet), so why don't we compare ourselves to the lower end and feel better off for those who have none of such riches? P.S Before anyone else thinks I am brainwashed, here is something I always tell others : I am NOT PROUD of being a Singaporean due to things like the government handling of the education system and lack of work opportunities in the creative media and arts as well as aerospace industry, but I am GLAD I am one due to the political and economic stability. Quote:
I think you put forward the point better than what I want to mean from the proposition side. I wanted to say "If you have done nothing wrong, what are you scared of?", but that would invite lashing and lambasting. However, that line is supposed to work for both sides. There is a Chinese saying that "If you didn't do anything contrary to your conscience, at night you wouldn't fear anyone knocking on your door". If the police and the ordinary civilian have nothing to fear from each other, they can carry on with their duties as per normal each day without any clash. Quote:
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Seriously. Northern Ireland is a stupid topic to put into the syllabus, China topic is heavily diluted, and from what browsing I have seen in the syllabus, it is decadent. Germany and Swiss topics are fine, though it would be better if they focused the transition from the Weimar Republic to Nazism, then to East-West politics, then to post-unification Germany. This is the reason I don't like to take part in political arguments and always argue on the basics of "quality of life" should it be unavoidable, like in this case. Freedom of speech and rights are subjective issues which almost everyone has a different opinion of. That is one way of thinking. As long as you don't fear them, it would be less likely to get into trouble. People tend to act suspiciously out of fear, thus culminating in their "arrests".
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2010-06-26, 17:32 | Link #7985 | ||
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2010-06-26, 17:53 | Link #7986 | ||
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The police here (or in most countries with established judicial and legal systems) HAVE to, by law and standard accountable SOPs, to provide a FULL report to the court of all the questions asked. The last I heard, the defense counsel will be given a piece of this, or can acquire one no-holds barred (serious Internal Security cases will require him/her to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement). I am not sure how is it after the MSK or 9/11 case. Since my legal system is an amalgamation of the British one with a few others, which the US also originate its from, such similarities should have been in place. Not sure if it did.
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2010-06-26, 17:55 | Link #7987 |
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Cops are usually overworked and looking to charge *somebody* for a crime to get it off their inbox -- not to catch the *right* guy. Often they'll catch someone who's guilty of *something* and they figure "got a bad guy one way or another". This sometimes catches someone who actually hasn't done anything wrong at all (although the US system is so screwed up that the average American may commit 3 felonies a day without realizing it).
The Supreme Court in the US recently ruled that citizens who haven't been read their Miranda rights may have anything they say be used against them up to that point. The potential for abuse just screams out and warrants even law-abiding citizens to keep their mouths shut unless to say "not without a lawyer present". The ruling has actually made it tougher for cops to get cooperation from the citizens they should be working together with.
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2010-06-26, 18:01 | Link #7988 | ||
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If I am not wrong in my interpretation, our "indefinite detention without trial" applies to high-probability suspects, but in the case of insufficient evidence, the suspect may be released with the passport impounded and regular reporting to a police station. On the other hand, if suspects cannot be traced, potential or not, the case will be dropped and shelved due to insufficient evidence. Quote:
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2010-06-26, 18:21 | Link #7990 | |
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There should be something to counter the Miranda rights hole. It is common knowledge to people in the legal entity that whatever you make to use against others, can be used against you, thus the presence of loopholes to ensure that you come up at the top.
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2010-06-26, 18:44 | Link #7991 |
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I've had phones where you could cover an element and cause the phone to completely lose its signal. To say "avoid touching the phone there" is acceptable to me, because I accept that there may be things that we have to work around in order for a product to function properly. The thing is, on those phones the "off-limits" buts were usually at the top of the phone, where you wouldn't normally be touching anyway. I'd say that this was an extremely poor design choice on Apple's part, but I'd stop short of calling it a flaw (which is what some people rant, along with a demand that Apple fix it and get them the newly redesigned, "fixed" phone for free and ASAP).
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2010-06-26, 19:08 | Link #7992 | |
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If you want to see the guy who benefits from your taxes look in a mirror (that applies only for half way decent democracies though). Now you could say: But the government is funded with tax payer money. Then I would answer: You rather want to be ruled by people who have to earn their money from lobyists? (If the politicians get decent money they are less vulnerable (not immune) to lobbyism/bribes... which certainly is to the greater benefit of the people in general, because lobbyism/bribes usually benefits only a selected few).
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2010-06-26, 19:18 | Link #7993 | ||
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What I presented is a case where lobbying isn't taken into account. I guess you had presented the clearer but uglier picture where lobbying trumps the benefits the taxpayers should be getting. Otherwise, in a largely taxpayer funded government, things shouldn't work that way. Thanks for the clarification. Quote:
Apple on iPhone complaints: You're holding it wrong It isn't as big as the issue of the tinted yellow screen - like they have add some sort of chlorine compound during its treating process and it got stuck and yellowed.
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2010-06-26, 21:45 | Link #7995 | |
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If you hold it the way you are meant to, you lose all signal. If you hold it in an eccentric manner, you keep the signal. It personally sounds discomforting. I wouldn't be surprised if they lost sales because of this tidbit. |
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2010-06-27, 04:31 | Link #7996 | ||
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2010-06-27, 16:19 | Link #7998 | |
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Though some people do have common sense, albeit a select few. It won't matter though, since this has already caused problems for each party in the long run. |
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2010-06-27, 16:34 | Link #7999 | |
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I wonder, as we continue to manufacture smaller and smaller items if problems like this will become more frequent. Basically the amount of material in this product was reduced to the point that human contact generates interference with the antenna. We keep reducing the size of electronic components to the point that it is almost impossible to shield them from interference by adjacent components, or in this case nearby humans. Pretty soon we'll be making components that only work in environmentally controlled chambers. |
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2010-06-27, 21:25 | Link #8000 | |
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Cuts both ways. If you know your stuff, why be afraid of answering questions? Of course, I'm presuming the system itself is fair. Judging from some comments I've read, the amount of injustice in some systems is interestingly high. Bottom line: Know your local system well, and play according to it. As long as you're ok, it works.
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