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Comment on iPhone iOS4 Signal Strength Software Update by R2D2

R2D2 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:06:12 +0000

R2D2 here,

Apple Inc. said Friday that it was “stunned” to find that its iPhones have for years been using a “totally wrong” formula to determine how many bars of signal strength they are getting. Since Job’s first fix “you’re holding it wrong” did not sell well he now has the solution: Use software to pretend that the hardware is working. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Oh, and that new software will also make you weigh ten pounds less and will add 10K to your bank account. Ahhhhhhahahahaha! Oops, help me Obi-Wan! I laughed so hard I fell over and can’t get up.

It’s July and hot on Earth. Better drink up that Kool-Aid.

No such problems with my Droids. The hardware is the best in the galaxy. You earthlings can expect another delivery very soon. The Millennium Falcon has just jumped to hyperspace to get my Droids there without delay.

The Force is with us! R2D2

Comment on iPhone iOS4 Signal Strength Software Update by iPhone iOS4 Signal Strength Software Update – Interweb Ink | Trendy Gossip

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:54:43 +0000

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Comment on Apple iPhone 3gs iOS4 upgrade experience by Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:11:46 +0000

I have twice downloaded fresh copies of IOS4 and tried to restore my iphone 3gs and have twice come up with error codes either (2001) (39) at the end of the install process trying for a third time now….

Comment on Apple iPhone 3gs iOS4 upgrade experience by Savan Thongvanh

Savan Thongvanh — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:44:12 +0000

Hey Niel, yes that happened to me too. I don’t remember that happening before either. I’d *speculate* that some of the code or files had to be ported to ios4 but that’s not confirmed.

Comment on Apple iPhone 3gs iOS4 upgrade experience by Neil Pollock

Neil Pollock — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:17:43 +0000

Why is my ios4 upgrade on my 3g iphone Restoring everything from, Applications to Music and Video. I don’t remember this being done on previous Software Updates. Is this been happening to everyone else??

Comment on Robot Arm Controlled through Monkey Brain Interface by Patocka

Patocka — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:45:45 +0000

Ethical questions aside, there are labs researching human interfaces with machines / software. The most notable being the one that Matt Nagle sports around.

You can read more about the history on the subject here:

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~abehm/class_reports/stuttgart/bci/Behm-Kollotzek-Hueske_BCIs.pdf

There is also work being done at DARPA, and as you can expect robot arms are basically a prosthetic leap forward for soldier amputees.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/mastering-the-braincomputer-interface

And on a final note, Emotive systems is working hard at this as well. The video of AI legend Marvin Minsky moving around a virtual reality box with only his thoughts is pretty awesome.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/tan_le_demos_mind-controller_on_mar.html

Never gets old.

Comment on Robot Arm Controlled through Monkey Brain Interface by Xavier

Xavier — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:12:14 +0000

This is very interesting, although I’m wondering why they don’t have humans doing the same thing?

Comment on Call Of Duty MW2 Stimulus Package to be released to Xbox LIVE by Savan Thongvanh

Savan Thongvanh — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:06:54 +0000

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Memristors to Replace Flash Memory in 2013 | All The Best Products — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:01:33 +0000

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Comment on iPhone 4.0 Leaked: Lost and Found (by gizmodo) by coolfx35

coolfx35 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:49:24 +0000

Well, I've been obsessively checking every day, all day long for news of a 2.1 upgrade for my Hero. To be honest, I didn't think we would see a 4g phone until the end of the year. It may be impetuous and ridiculously optimistic, but I'm planning to buy the Evo for myself and my boyfriend just as soon as it hits the shelf. I've been waiting a long time for this kind of hardware on an Android device. I was an early adopter. I've had a G1, a myTouch and now a Hero. My dad has my boyfriend's old G1, My boyfriend and I both have Sprint Heros now. We had to switch networks when we couldn't get voice or data coverage in our home or offices. We have Clear Networks as an ISP, so I'm super psyched to see Sprint partnering with them. And I'm way excited about the possibility of simultaneous voice/data services. Anyway, glad to find a community like http://www.Evo4Gforum.net with full of people as anxious as I am for the release of the Evo.